Talk:Day 111-120/@comment-26574369-20150808201618/@comment-4784862-20150808230554

He doesn't lose them...but I think what the author said in his ability list is that they are deprecated.

There's probably stacking issues with the new synthesis ability and the abilities that made it up. Either that...or activating the new ability automatically activates the other abilities.

Synthesizing does increase the power of his abilities I believe, since he gets things like Death Voice from abilities that just have to do with his voice in general, with no mention of death in them.

I think it's a combination of putting activation under one ability (and thus, they don't stack with the ability)...and improving the overall effect of the abilities it's synthesized with by means of the stacking. A good example to show what happens is the fiend summons he learns later.

These are the descriptions the author gives for the abilities:


 * Lesser Summoning: Fiend - Gives the user the ability to summon demons that are of a lower rank than the summoner. They can be summoned continuously as long as the user has magic.


 * Intermediate Summoning: Fiend - Gives the user the ability to summon demons that are of a lower rank than the summoner. They can be summoned continuously as long as the user has magic. Some intelligence remains in these and the ways they can be used has increased as a result.


 * Greater Summoning: Fiend - Gives the user the ability to summon demons that are of a lower rank than the summoner. They can be summoned continuously as long as the user has magic. Since they are of a high rank, they have magic items for weapons. Also, they're able to act on their own even if they aren't given orders because they possess high intelligence.

Hope that example helps explain it. ^^
 * Summon Archfiend  (Synthesized ability) - Makes it possible for the user to summon almost all demons that are of a lower rank than themselves. There are some exceptions, but it's possible to remove these restrictions when the summoner is superior in rank to them. This ability is very strong and has many advantages, such as a low summoning cost, among other things.