An Extra’s POV

A Skill was essentially something one earned, or it came as a privilege from the world.

In both cases, they represented a special ability that a person possessed. Usually, Skills were meant to evolve, not disappear from a person. Since Skills were an intrinsic part of a person—especially those earned—they were a permanent addition to the individual.

Skills, in a sense, could not be created nor destroyed.

… But Rey was an exception.

By using [Merger], he essentially bent the rules a little. He broke down Skills and used them to mold new ones, or more advanced versions of one.

This, in a way, was still following the rules… but teetering on the edge.

However, the complete breaker was [Sacrifice], which caused the permanent loss of Skills, changing them to Stat Points.

In this case, the nature of the Skill was changed into another kind of power—Stats.

It was possible that Skill essence could be lost in the process, but ultimately, Skills would be converted to something else—never fully destroyed in a sense.

Still, according to the rules of the world… Rey could no longer use any of the Skills he had fed to sacrifice. He also couldn't use the Skills that were combined using [Divine Merger] to make his current Skill-set.

"Tch. This sucks…"

Once again, Rey found himself listening to Ater's lectures as they discussed the current problem.

All of this started when Rey asked Ater about what happened to his Inventory, going further to explain the whole [Divine Merger] and [Sacrifice] bit.

The short version of Ater's answer was:

"Your inventory and everything inside it is gone forever."

In essence… all of Rey's money, resources, and everything that he had kept within that space were completely lost to him.

It was beyond devastating to hear.

just what I've lost by

taken so many things for granted, as they were just a part of his life,

unless I use Magic or change

difference in this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of others, showed

you from copying the same Skill from a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked, staring at Rey's anguished

How did you

Skills from anyone an infinite amount of times, your

as he sat on the dark

tried after getting Merger was to see if he could combine two [Divine Beast Summon] or multiple [Divine Sword Summon] to develop an incredibly OP

combine a lot of SS Tier Skills, he figured

Skills—especially since he

But…

can't copy my own Skills from myself.

However, he couldn't ever repeat the process on either of them.

what Rey understood about his power; hence, its

be able to use the Skill I sacrifice. That probably means

no way Rey could know for sure, since he would need to find a new target who had at least one of the

fumbled with the Immortality and Resistance Skills. Damnit…

could allow his frustration to get the better

rose to his feet. As he dusted his

no use sticking around

he said he wasn't disappointed. He managed to lose all three of his Beast Summons,

them was also incredibly rare—an Exclusive Skill that belonged to Alicia. It was practically impossible

Ater. It's not a bad deal, but… I wanted

Master? What about the binding vow? Don't you want to

raised an eyebrow and stared at Ater's

see that the usually sharp and competent guy didn't take

do

"Oh? Why?"

can't do

"Oh? Why?"

mean… I kept the purple egg in my Inventory, remember? All the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much