Talk:Day 161-170/@comment-26898460-20150824062651/@comment-4784862-20150824230336

Technically speaking, when he synthesizes one synthesized ability with another, he's synthesizing ALL the abilities that make up both of them together (or a synthesized ability with a non-synthesized one).

This is made evident in the description for the body strength ability he synthesizes on 121 (Unreasonable Adamantine Strength)...which has the description that says it's composed of 11 abilities, which makes it the strongest ability in the Body Reinforcement System (at that time, at least, heh...it's considered "Obsolete" so it's been synthesized with something else at some point).

Also, yeah, I imagine they fail if they aren't compatible and he can get a pretty good idea of what can be combined together.

I imagine he's probably tried to combine the spirit stone abilities every time he's gotten a new one, until they finally did. Also...I still think "Lord of the Universe" is wrong for that synthesized ability's name, since the kanji translates to "Shinrabanshou"...which is more along the lines of "All Creation"...which I also think sounds MUCH better, personally. XD

Also, to the person before Orthanos...he actually  does  keep all the abilities that have been synthesized into new abilities. He confirms this by testing it out with abilities that he wouldn't care if he lost (Weakness to Sunlight, etc.).

Just...there's no point in using them under normal circumstances, since they're under an "umbrella" ability. I think it's probably better to think of Synthesis like a ability linking system of sorts.

For example, normally you'd have to activate abilities 1-9 independently, but 1-4, 7 and 9 are actually from the same system and can be synthesized together. By doing so, 1-4, 7 and 9 can be activated with just one command...and then you just have to activate 5 6 and 8 individually.

Also...the non-physical scale ability you're talking about...are you talking about the "Scaled Armor Charge"? Because if so...that's actually an ability that only matters when the user has scaled, which is why he went ahead and synthesized it with Armored Dragon Scale Formation, since there's no reason  not  to use it when that ability is in use.

If you're talking about when it's combined with Wyvern Scale Formation, Shell of Hard Dense Chitin, and Sharpened Shark Skin, then there's are a couple of easy reasons why he did this. The first of them is that he can still use them individually if he wants.

The other one is that they will reinforce those abilities properly (Shell of Hard Dense Chitin increases the skin's defense and Shark Skin lets the user whittle away at things with their skin, as well as reduces their water resistance, making it easier for them to swim).

Technically speaking, he combined the scale forming abilities with the abilities that modify the toughness of his skin and hair (which in turn should also modify his scale formation abilities)...so...there shouldn't be any surprise that he does eventually synthesize them together. They're all listed under the same category in the author's ability listing, as well (Self-Defense Capability Increasing System), so...yeah. ^^

Plus, in doing so, he created "Black Demon King's Laminated Dragon Armor" ...so...I mean...it was a win/win, no?