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.

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

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

or change

looking at the slight difference in this one Skill, and applying it to a lot of others,

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

did

you could indeed copy Skills from anyone an infinite amount of

heaved a sigh as

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

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

Skills to create powerful variants of Skills—especially since he could always copy them from his classmates and those around him over and over

But…

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

essence, if two 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 repeat the process on either of them. If a third person with the same Skill came about,

about his power;

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

could know for sure, since he would need to find a new target who had at least one of the exact Skills he sacrificed and see if he could use [Doppel]

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

get the better of him, he calmed

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

leave then. There's no use

to lose all three of his Beast Summons, with

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

Ater. It's not a bad

about the binding vow? Don't

eyebrow and stared at Ater's confused

surprise to see that the usually sharp

can't do that

"Oh? Why?"

can't do that

"Oh? Why?"

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