Just like with the Master Tool Identification, this skill was instantly absorbed and merged into Higher Identification.

  That was a little bit unexpected, but when Daz recalled how this skill had first levelled up after fusing with the Lesser Crafting Identification skill, he figured that this made sense.

  "System, pause showing me the rest of my class skills and show me Higher identification for a moment, please," the young reaper requested.

  "Hmm..." He held his chin to think. "The master-ranked identifications clearly have more authority than the overall skill, otherwise they wouldn't get dedicated abilities, would they?"

  He sat and thought for a short while longer. "Rose definitely has the Master Identification skill, right? The one that costs, what, just over a billion points in the shop? I guess she got it as her god-ranked skill... maybe. It could be a personalised version of the skill from the God of Information..."

  He tapped his cheek a few times as he held his chin. "Well, no use thinking over this much longer. System, show me the rest of my class skills, please."

  "Wait... scales off of luck and/or fate? Why are my instincts telling me that I badly need to experiment with this skill? Well, I guess logically because it'll lead to some success, huh?" Daz joked as he looked at the next skill.

  "This sounds incredibly strong. So, basically, if I know enough about, let's say diamonds, then I can change my entire body into one made of diamonds for ten minutes? Will Regeneration actively heal any damage to my crystalised form? Also, Rimmy can generate gems, so I can study them personally. And can't I farm this to make different types of crystal and gem shovels to feed to Hamson? Surely he'd gain something from eating something so weird, right? I just need to buy a book or two on minerals, then I'm good to go. This skill was made for me," Daz said to himself.

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  "Fuck yes!" Daz yelled in excitement.

  Reika was startled. Her master spoke to himself often enough, but shout to himself? This was new. 'Did something good happen?'

  "You bet it did! Rimmy just regained his immortality!" Daz explained in a loud voice.

  'Regained? Does that not mean that he lost it? When?' Reika put one of her hands on her hip and the other on her forehead as she strained her mind.

  Daz just smiled at her antics. "He lost it when he evolved. He hasn't completely regained it, to be fair, but he now has three renewable lives."

  'Hmmpf. Then we are better. We cannot be killed like he can unless Hamson is destroyed! Even though we are a soul, soul-based attacks will only cripple us, but not kill us! Praise us, Insolent Fool!' Reika demanded as she hovered in front of Daz's face.

  He sighed softly. "Yes, yes. You're amazing. You keep getting new skills, huh? You should tell me whenever you get a new one instead of saying it randomly. Like how you mentioned that you can stabilise my mind should it destabilise during my conversation with Rose a couple of nights ago."

  Reika puffed out her cheeks. 'Why? You can identify us whenever you wish. Why do we need to tell you when we earn a new skill? By the way, we earn them from consuming more souls.'

  Daz shook his head. "I refuse to identify my friends without permission nor my potential enemies which my instincts warn me are strong."

  'We are your friend?' Reika asked with genuine surprise in her tone.

  The reaper gave her a funny look. "Of course you are. Sure, you're bound to Hamson, but I consider you as much of a friend as I do Crusher or Sandy or Dorian or Ellie."

  'We see... In that case, you have permission to identify us whenever you please!' the tiny spectral demon princess announced.

  Daz grinned. "I will, but for now... Summon Rimmy McShineston."

  Rimmy's lumbering thirty-foot tall main body filled up a good chunk of the training room's space, so Daz imagined it being a bit larger to give the massive crystal man some breathing room.

  As he was doing that, the humanoid core of Rimmy popped out of his main body's chest and rushed to Daz before hugging him. After that, the cyan man pulled back and petted the reaper on his head. "Rimmy."

  "Yeah, yeah. You're welcome. I missed you too, and thanks again for the help against Larry," Daz said as he smiled from ear to ear. "Gimme a sec while I check your stats, okay? I wanna see how much you changed from your skill ranking up twice."

  "Rimmy!" Rimmy answered excitedly.

  Daz's smile just continued to stretch across his face as he checked both Rimmy's main body and his core.

  "Holy shit. Not only are your stats insane, but you can even self-heal automatically, and for such a cheap price... I should have upgraded your summoning skill this whole time, Rimmy, not your personal features and stats," Daz claimed.

  Rimmy controlled his main body and made it slam its chest pridefully with one hand and salute with its other. "Rimmy!" he shouted excitedly. Satisfaction spread throughout the crystal man's core at the thought of being able to protect Daz and Fort Skip for far longer now that his energy capacity had sky-rocketed and thanks to the fact that he had a regeneration-based skill.

  "Hahaha," Daz laughed earnestly at Rimmy's amusing show of loyalty.

  "Wow, you're fast. Aren't you way stronger than me now?" Daz's question had an uncertain answer. Uncertain, yes, at least until he got a new system notification, that is.

  The very next moment, Rimmy's core and his lumbering main body hummed with power as a new kind of strength entered their very beings.

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