"Wow, this is more serious than I thought..." Ryuk thought to himself, his heartbeat unconsciously increasing by a few beats.
[Yes, Host. It is a serious issue.]
[A normal cultivator only has so many skills—at most, seven.]
[To increase this, they need tools: Armors, weapons, artifacts, and other similar objects that allow them to activate preinstalled skills within them.]
The realization dawned on Ryuk.
When he had fought Zar'kul, the Knull Calamity, the creature wielded a staff that activated his abilities. Being able to unleash so many techniques likely had something to do with the artifact.
The same could be said for High Scholar Emeris, who had both a brush and a grimoire to summon various abilities.
Even the Ruin Guardian possessed a staff for his techniques, and Antares, too, had an axe along with gauntlets.
Only now was it occurring to him—he was the only one who never needed a weapon or an artifact and still faced each of them head-on with no problem.
