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

a part of his life, but now he was beginning

even fly unless I use Magic or change the physical properties of

the slight difference in this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of

prevents you from copying the same Skill from a target

How did you

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

heaved a sigh as he sat

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

a lot of SS Tier Skills, he figured it was possible

Skills to create powerful variants of Skills—especially since he could always copy them from his classmates and those around him

But…

myself. I can't copy the same Skill from someone I already

[Fire] Skill, he could copy 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 came about, he could copy from them and get three

Rey understood about his

ever be

could know for sure, since he would need to find a new target who had

I really fumbled with the Immortality and Resistance Skills. Damnit… what was I

his frustration to get the better of him, he calmed

a big sigh and rose to his feet. As

leave then. There's no

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

Skill that belonged to Alicia. It was practically impossible for anyone in this

stuck with only Ater. It's not a

binding vow? Don't you want

an eyebrow and stared at

sharp and competent guy didn't take the hint

can't do

"Oh? Why?"

do that

"Oh? Why?"

are gone, so… it's pretty much lost to