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.

the more I realize just what I've lost by giving up all those

just a part of his life, but

or change the physical properties

this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of others, showed just how frustrating all of this

copying the same Skill from a target twice,

did you

If you could indeed copy Skills from anyone an infinite amount of times, your problems wouldn't be that difficult

as he sat on the dark

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

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

easily sacrifice multiple Skills to create powerful variants of 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

the Skill only once per person. Hence, he would have two [Fire] Skills. However, he couldn't ever repeat the process on either of them. If a third person with the same Skill

understood about his power; hence, its

a 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 never be able to copy

he would need to find a new target who had at least one of the exact Skills he sacrificed and see if he could

those Skills, then I really fumbled with

to get the better of him, he

to his feet. As he dusted

leave then. There's no use sticking

wasn't disappointed. He managed to lose all three of his Beast Summons, with no prospect of ever getting them

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

not a bad deal, but… I

leaving, Master? What about the binding vow? Don't

and stared at Ater's

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

do

"Oh? Why?"

can't do

"Oh? Why?"

purple egg in my Inventory, remember? All the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much lost to me forever." Rey