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.

passes, the more I realize just what I've lost by

a part of his life, but now he was beginning to understand

fly unless I use Magic or change

so natural to him, so looking at the slight difference in this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of others, showed just

from a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked,

How did

tell. If you could indeed copy Skills from anyone an infinite

as he sat

first things he tried after getting Merger was to see if he could combine two [Divine Beast Summon]

he could combine a lot of SS Tier Skills, he figured it was possible to create an SSS-Tier

Skills—especially since he could always copy them from his classmates and

But…

I can't copy my own Skills from myself. I can't copy the same Skill

couldn't ever repeat the process on either of them. If a third person with the same Skill came about, he could

Rey understood about his

lot graver than that, though. Based on the terms, I won't ever be able to use the Skill I sacrifice. That probably means I might

had

really fumbled with the Immortality and Resistance Skills.

to get the

he gave a big sigh and rose to his feet. As he dusted his butt, despite there being

There's no use sticking around

disappointed. He managed to lose all three of his

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

I'm stuck with only Ater. It's not a bad deal,

we leaving, Master? What about the binding vow? Don't you want to tame your

eyebrow and stared

usually sharp and competent guy

do that

"Oh? Why?"

do

"Oh? Why?"

gone, so… it's pretty much lost to me forever." Rey felt a little annoyed