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.

what I've lost by giving up all

had taken so many things for granted, as they were just a

Magic or change the physical

in this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of others,

a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked, staring at Rey's

did

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

sigh as he sat on

Merger was to see if he could combine two [Divine

could combine a lot of SS Tier Skills, he figured it was

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 and

But…

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

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

what Rey understood about his power;

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

find a new target who had at least one of the exact Skills he

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

to get the better of him,

little, he gave a big sigh and rose to his feet. As he dusted his butt, despite there being no real

leave then. There's no use sticking around

managed to lose all

to use them was also incredibly rare—an Exclusive Skill that belonged to Alicia. It was practically impossible for anyone in this world to have anything like

It's not a bad deal, but… I wanted

the binding vow? Don't

Rey raised an eyebrow and stared at

surprise to see that the usually sharp and competent guy didn't

can't do

"Oh? Why?"

do that

"Oh? Why?"

All the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much lost