Chapter 99: Try Not to Ravage Your Soul

Julius wanted someone to explain to him why the others were staring at him like that. All he had mentioned was removing skills from one of the skill slots. He didn’t see why they would be reacting like this.

“Can someone please explain why you are all looking at me like that?” Julius asked pleadingly.

Edgar gently placed an arm on Julius’s shoulder. “You really don’t know?”

“Know what?”

Edgar looked at Julius seriously. “Removing skills is a very dangerous thing to do. There have been times when someone was removing one of their skills and their soul literally collapsed from the trauma.”

Huh? What are they talking about? I removed a skill before and I was just fine.

“I’ve removed a skill in the past though and I was fine,” he openly confessed.

Aubrey slapped her forehead in disbelief, then closed her eyes and shook her head. “Of course you did.”

The others had similar reactions. “Why the hell would you take a risk like that? Do you know what could have happened to you?” Lily angrily asked.

“I’m sorry! I didn’t know at the time. No one explained that part to me,” Julius tried to explain to the irate woman.

Honestly, nobody had told Julius about that part. He thought that Edwin or Lukas would have told him, it seemed awfully important. Edwin had only mentioned that there would be extreme pain, not the debilitating injury like the others were making it out to be.

“I was told that skill removal was painful not something that dangerous,” he told the others.

“It is painful, but it is also a very stupid thing to do,” Aubrey reprimanded him.

“How many times?” Kyle asked quietly.

“Sorry?”

“How many times did you remove a skill?” He repeated.

“Only once, and it was years ago,” Julius answered.

The others sighed in relief. “Okay, you will be fine but do not remove any of your skills that you have had for a long time or if they are at rare,” Kyle calmly explained to him.

“Okay, I won’t. But why is that?” Julius asked curiously.

“Skills become an intrinsic part of your soul, and after a while of using them and progressing them, they get tied together so tightly with your soul, that they practically become one. Hence, if you remove one, it is similar to tearing out a piece of your soul,” Kyle told him.

Okay, so no more skill removal. I am very glad that I found that out before I tried to remove a skill that I didn’t like.

He was very grateful that he had dodged that bullet.

“Okay, okay, I won’t remove any more skills. I promise,” he swore to them.

He looked around at the others and every one of them was skeptical. It was like they didn’t believe him and thought that he would most definitely try to remove a skill in the future regardless. To be fair, they had a point. Julius had a habit of doing stupid things, and they didn’t even know how bad it sometimes gets.

“Okay, we got taken off track. We were talking about you trying to acquire an epic skill right?” Aubrey asked.

Julius nodded his head.

“Right, so why do you want one so bad?”

“Isn’t that obvious? I want to get stronger,” he said.

Edgar interrupted. “There are easier ways to get stronger than gaining an epic-rank skill you know.”

“I don’t know about that. I just reached Tier 2 and to be honest I was a little disappointed at the increase in power I got. Sure I can use mana more efficiently and everything got a slight increase, but I am looking for something a little more drastic,” Julius explained.

“How many rare skills do you have currently?” Derek asked from the side.

Julius turned to him. “I have seven and a half.”

“Seven?” Aubrey exclaimed.

“Seven and a half?” Derek had a very confused look on his face.

“Yeah, what do you mean by half?” Edgar asked him.

“I have one skill that I haven’t chosen the evolution to yet. So technically it is still an uncommon skill…”

“What kind of- “