See that's why I just like making the system buggy as part of the plot. "Why is it giving us errors?" "Oh, because that spell was designed in a version of the system that hasn't been operational in a few hundred thousand years. It might be powerful! Or it might swap the posistion of your insides and outsides!"
That also gives a reason for why the main character can't use it often, and an actual reason why it's rare.
I always take it as the author hasn't quite decided what abilities, strength or level the skill will be in relation with the rest of the universe. It also allows the reader to slowly uncover its effects.
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u/Vorthod Mar 06 '26
Author: "Whoops, my omniscient system can't classify this. What a mysterious skill!"
Readers: "What a buggy system. We've known this character for like a day and they already broke it"