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

granted, as they were just a part of his life, but now he

Magic or change the physical properties

slight difference in this one Skill, and applying

from a

did you

anyone an

Haaa…" Rey heaved a sigh as he sat

after getting Merger was to see if he could combine

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

that, but he could easily sacrifice multiple Skills to create powerful variants of Skills—especially since he could always copy them from his classmates and those around him over

But…

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

two [Fire] Skills. However, he couldn't ever repeat the process on either of them. If a third person with the same Skill came

was what Rey understood about his power;

is 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

for sure, since he would need to find a new target who had at least one of the

longer use those Skills, then I really fumbled with the Immortality and Resistance Skills. Damnit…

allow his frustration to get the

his thoughts simmer a little, he gave a big sigh and rose to his feet. As he dusted

There's no use sticking around

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

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

with only Ater. It's not a bad

leaving, Master? What about the binding vow?

and stared

a surprise to see that the usually sharp and

can't do

"Oh? Why?"

can't do that

"Oh? Why?"

the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much lost to me forever." Rey felt a little annoyed that he