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.

more I realize just what

a part

Magic or change the physical properties of my

Skill, and applying it to a lot of

power… it prevents you from copying the same Skill from a target twice, am I correct?" Ater asked, staring at

did you

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

heaved a sigh as he sat on the

getting Merger was to see if he could

Tier Skills, he figured it was possible

he could easily sacrifice multiple Skills to create powerful variants of Skills—especially since he could always copy them

But…

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

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

understood about his power; hence, its

is a lot graver than that, though. Based on the terms, I won't ever be able to use the

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

I can no longer use those Skills, then I really fumbled with the

allow his frustration to get the better of him,

simmer a little, he gave a big sigh and rose to his

There's no use

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

Alicia. It was practically impossible for anyone

with only Ater. It's not a bad deal, but… I

What about the binding vow? Don't you want to tame

raised an eyebrow and stared at Ater's

was a surprise to see that the usually sharp and competent

can't do that

"Oh? Why?"

can't do that

"Oh? Why?"

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