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  Among the various passive skills out there, some of them can grant an extra "gauge", additional points, to one's HP, MP, or SP values. This acts as an extender for how many points of these status values one can have at once.

  The most famous (or "infamous") example of these skills is the [Overeating] skill, which allows the user to obtain extra SP, albeit with the risk of growing fatter if one does not have any skills to counteract the extra weight, or if one does not have a body type that does not grow fat.

  One would think that the undead would be the perfect user of a skill such as [Overeating], but unfortunately for the dead souls, they are completely incapable of obtaining these types of skills. The reason for this is due to the undead operating on negative lifeforce, even their mana and stamina, while the "extra gauge" skills function around positive lifeforce.

  To compensate, 3 new skills, unique for only the undead, can be obtained instead. Those are the "Inverted" series, consisting of [Inverted Lifeforce], [Inverted Mana], and [Inverted Stamina].

  As one might guess from the name, [Inverted Lifeforce] is the skill that allows the undead to gain an extra gauge of HP to their name. In the same manner, [Inverted Mana] and [Inverted Stamina] do the same for MP and SP respectively. While restricted to the undead species, these skills are not of the Undead attribute. Not yet, at least.

  Garami's comment: That explains why the undead species all want to use the Undead attribute.

  Mira's comment: As if the attribute's name wasn't obvious enough already.