Chapter 15: Intermediate Scroll
After the butler left, Galen always felt that something was wrong.
After trying to recall for a while, he still couldn't remember that face.
Without realizing it, he had arrived on the second floor.
Ivo, who was deliberating with the family members in the study, obviously did not expect Galen to visit at this time either.
And still, Galen found the study by himself, and there was not even an underling responsible for passing the message.
Although he was puzzled, Ivo still greeted him warmly, "Elder Ao Dun, why are you coming over at this moment? Is there something wrong?"
Everyone in the study looked over curiously.
Galen was also too embarrassed to say that he was here to find you to fulfill your promise.
With a bright idea, he said, "Little brother Ivo, that steward of yours, how did he hurt his hand?"
Ivo shook his head and said, "I usually seldom stay here, and I'm not familiar with the underlings of the public house, why? Is there something wrong with that butler?"
Hearing Ivo's answer, the suspicion in Galen's heart grew even more.
He gently tapped his chest with his hand.
The lips that were not too thin and not too thick opened and closed slightly.
It seemed to be inquiring something in a low, inaudible voice.
The pup in the dragon egg had not yet broken its shell.
However, it was able to sense changes in the outside world in ways other than vision.
The egg shook slightly, conveying a strong "food protection" idea to Galen.
"Protecting food? That guy even robbed you of your food before?"
Galen raised his eyebrows and suddenly remembered the two looters he encountered in the underground palace.
The spellcaster named Flan had already been killed on the way back to the city.
The accomplice that was still left, could it be the steward from before?
Galen told Ivo his guess.
The latter's face instantly turned serious and instructed towards the several guards guarding outside the study:
"Go and bring the steward that Elder Ao Dun said."
The entire escort force of the public house immediately went into motion.
Not long after, one of the guards returned to the study and reported bad news.
The body of the butler was found under the bed in his bedroom.
The time of death was about two hours ago.
That meant that the butler Galen had encountered before was indeed someone else's fake.
"The skills nowadays can actually even do things like change appearance?"
Galen, who was somewhat out of touch with the current adventuring world, did feel a hint of surprise.
A Lazar family member explained:
"This kind of skill extracted from the Thousand Faces of Grievance is also only this year that there are scrolls circulating, and it's one of the rather rare kinds."
Ivo, on the other hand, clasped Galen's hands and said gratefully, "Senior O'Shield, thank you for yet another helping hand! Without you recognizing it, the consequences would have been unimaginable."
Galen said, "Actually, I came here this trip, besides discovering the butler's abnormality, there is another small matter that I need to ask you for."
Ivo patted his chest and said, "If there's anything I can command, Elder Ao Dun just ask."
Waiting for Galen to reveal his true reason for coming.
Ivo directly ordered his subordinates to bring over all the skill scrolls he could find in the public house.
"Elder Orton just pick, even if there isn't a scroll you need, you can still take away an intermediate scroll from it as a token of my appreciation."
Ivo's generosity once again earned Galen's favor.
Such a noble little brother who had something to do and loved to send things out.
Who would not want to be friends with him?
The real owner of this public house, Ivo's uncle, opened his mouth but didn't speak out to stop him after all.
He already had a preliminary understanding of his nephew's series of experiences from the adventure, to the attack, from Ivo.
There was also a rough guess about Galen's strength.
In terms of the current era's adventurer class division.
Galen might just be a mediocre lower level adventurer.
But this uncle of Ivo's had actually experienced that adventuring era back then.
In that era when skill scrolls were not yet available.
The adventurers who practiced in the old ways had a solid foundation that was far superior to that of today's adventurers.
As long as those old generation adventurers were allowed to level up their skills.
Their strength would then reach a considerable level.
For example, Ivo's father, the current patriarch of the Lazar family.
He had gone through the basics of the previous era and had adapted perfectly to the skill scrolls.
Only then did he finally become a master adventurer.
However, if Ivo's uncle had seen Galen strike with his own eyes.
He would be shocked to find that this guy's basic skill proficiency is more than just "solid".
Picking through a bunch of skill scrolls.
Galen finally found a skill scroll that met his requirements.
[Name: Shield Bash]
[Rank: Intermediate]
[Domain: Basic, Offense]
[Source: A certain shield master who used offense instead of defense]
"An intermediate skill scroll? Can it be used for the promotion of low-level skills?"
It was the first time that Galen had encountered an intermediate scroll for a basic domain.
If it wasn't for the fact that behind every skill scroll meant the passing of a life.
Galen really wanted to get to know this, fellow expert in attacking with shields.
The public hall master said, ''Theoretically, it is possible, and if successful, only one scroll is needed to promote a low-level skill.
However, in documented cases, there are only a very few adventurers that can reverse the promotion of a skill by virtue of their ultra-high skill proficiency."
"Oh! Related to skill proficiency? Then there's no problem."
Galen was still confident in his own proficiency.
"Do you have a Spiritual Altar here? I'm going to try to advance now."
The existence of the Spiritual Altar was inseparable from the Skill Scroll.
Through the spirituality altar, the transcendent spirituality contained in the scrolls could be extracted.
It allowed the adventurer's own skills to be promoted.
It was also possible to sacrifice a certain number of skill scrolls and remake the spiritual mix in them to obtain a completely random skill scroll.
In a place like Byron Town where adventurers gathered.
The amount of demand for spiritual altars from adventurers determined the popularity of such a facility.
Not only was it in the Adventurer's Guild, with the major scroll stores.
Even the inn that Galen rented existed such an altar.
This public house of the Lazar family, naturally, also had a spiritual altar.
Under Ivo's leadership, Galen arrived on the third floor of the public house.
In an empty room, he saw the Spiritual Altar.
It was a triangular altar made of stones.
The material of the altar itself was not special.
It was the magical patterns engraved on the surface of the altar that stretched out several meters along the floor.
It was the core key of the spiritual altar.
Removing his boots, Galen stood barefoot in the center of the altar.
The "Shield Bash" skill was placed in a ring-shaped magic pattern.
When everything was ready, Galen bit his finger and dripped blood onto the core of the altar.
Buzz..!
An air ripple spread out to all parts of the room with the altar as the core.
The skill scrolls that were placed in the ring-shaped magic pattern floated up on their own.
Dark blue flames ignited from the scroll, instantly burning the valuable scroll to ashes.
A spiritual point of light floated out from the ashes.
It converged towards Galen in the center of the altar.
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