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.

time passes, the more I realize just what I've lost

they were just a part of

can't even fly unless I use Magic or

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

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

did

could indeed copy Skills from anyone an infinite amount of times, your

a sigh as he sat on

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

lot of SS Tier Skills, he figured it was possible to create

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

But…

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

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

about

won't ever be able to use the

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

fumbled with the

could allow his frustration to get the better of

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

leave then. There's no use sticking around

disappointed. He managed to lose all three

Exclusive Skill that belonged to Alicia.

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

binding vow? Don't you want to

an eyebrow and stared at Ater's confused

see that the usually sharp

do that

"Oh? Why?"

do that

"Oh? Why?"

mean… I kept the purple egg in my Inventory, remember? All the items inside are gone, so… it's pretty much lost to me forever." Rey felt a little annoyed that he