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 giving up all those Skills

so many things for granted, as they were just a part of his life, but now he was beginning to understand their

unless I use Magic or change the physical properties of my body

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

from copying the same Skill from a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked, staring at

How did

an

a sigh as he sat

getting Merger was to see if he could combine two [Divine Beast Summon] or multiple [Divine

Skills, he figured it was

multiple Skills to create powerful variants of Skills—especially since he could always copy them from his

But…

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

people had the [Fire] Skill, he could copy the Skill only once per person. Hence, he would have two [Fire] Skills. However, he couldn't ever

understood about his power; hence,

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

who had at least one of the exact Skills he sacrificed and see if he

can no longer use those Skills, then I really fumbled with the Immortality and Resistance Skills.

could allow his frustration to get

big sigh and rose to his feet. As he dusted his butt, despite there being no real need to, he prepared Spatial

There's no use sticking around

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

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

It's not a bad deal, but…

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

raised an eyebrow and stared at Ater's

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

do

"Oh? Why?"

do

"Oh? Why?"

pretty much lost to me forever." Rey felt a little annoyed that he had