However, the longer we got along, the more we could feel a unique and charming charm from this man.
Combined with Galen's own uncommon strength, even Ivo, who was of noble origin, couldn't help but want to explore the story behind this man.
"Me, I'm just an uncle who had no choice but to return to his old profession in order to earn milk powder money for his child."
Galen retracted his gaze from the mountain scenery outside the window, the early morning sunlight poured through the car window, casting a golden veil over the man's handsome side face.
Galen said, "I haven't had an adventure in ten years, and the whole industry is changing so fast that it's all feeling a little strange to me."
Diana, who had just finished a cycle of meditation practice, sniffed and agreed, "Yes uncle, just from the fact that all you've mastered are basic skills, I can tell that you're an old-timer who's out of step with the times."
The so-called basic skills refer to the skills that human beings can learn and master through teaching and practicing.
For example, "Shield Throw" and "Shield Block" were skills that Galen had finally mastered after countless days and nights of study and practice.
Another example was "Meditation" amongst the clerics.
As the basic skill of a mage to peer into the spirit of the self and sense the elements of magic from the outside, "Meditation" was also mastered and practiced through the ancient method of teachers and disciples teaching each other ten years ago.
In addition to the basic skills, it was the rapid development during this decade.
The major invention that ultimately affected the entire adventuring world, and even rewrote the power system of the human world - the Skill Scroll.
This is a kind of magical props that can harbor extraordinary power.
From the Moonlight Butterfly's Illumination, to the Flame Kobold's Fireball, and even the Dragon's Breath and the Witch Demon's Frost Nova, all of them could be held in the Skill Scrolls and mastered by humans!
And according to the strength of the transcendent power that was housed, skill scrolls were categorized into several grades such as beginner, intermediate, advanced, and master.
The ratings of the adventurers were also divided based on this.
Those who possessed at least one primary skill were called lower level adventurers.
Those who mastered intermediate skills were called intermediate adventurers.
And so on and so forth, until after the master adventurer, the rating standards changed.
Galen was no stranger to this knowledge.
To the extent that he was once a leisurely manor owner, his favorite newspaper news to read was these new and cutting-edge progressive inventions.
It was just that when Galen stepped back into the adventurer's profession, the sense of being cut off from the times could not help but make him feel a little unfamiliar.
It seemed that he could see Galen's desire to integrate into the new era.
Ivo said, "Elder O'Shield, you should know that all skills, including basic skills, can be upgraded to master level, right?"
Since Galen O'Shield was rated as a lower level adventurer by the Adventurer's Guild.
It meant that although his skill proficiency was ridiculously high, he hadn't mastered any of the intermediate skills.
After all, the Adventurer's Guild's detection spell array had never been a problem.
Nodding his head, Galen replied, "By fusing five primary scrolls of the same domain, you can raise one of the skills you have mastered to intermediate level."
Since he had decided to return to his old profession to earn milk powder money for his child, Galen naturally had a new understanding of this familiar yet unfamiliar industry.
Ivo said, "Beginner scrolls that are in the same field as basic skills are not rare and often have a price. If Elder Ao Dun is not comfortable collecting them, when we return to town, I will find a way to raise them for Elder."
Upon hearing this, a warm smile appeared on Galen's face, and his eyes became much more amiable as he looked at Ivo.
There was a price or something he hadn't really considered.
It was mainly the selling price of a scroll of no less than 500 silver coins that was the most important thing for Galen, the downtrodden manor owner, to consider.
Just as Galen was thinking about how a nobleman's son's thanks to his savior should be 600 or 700 silver coins.
Behind the carriage, there was the sound of horse hooves again.
At this time, the carriage had already entered a mountain road near the cliff.
Although this path is not flat and easy to navigate, it is a necessary road for adventurers to travel between the outpost camp and Byron Town.
When the sound of horses' hooves approached, Galen looked sideways and saw another lady in adventurer's costume steering her horse.
"Good morning, everyone."
The female adventurer had long brown hair, bright features, and was slightly older than Diana.
She greeted and steered her horse to lean over towards the car window.
"May I ask which way to go to Lake Wynnor? This map of mine seems to mark the wrong route ..."
Saying that, the female adventurer put her hand into her traveling bag, as if she wanted to take out the map and ask Galen's men to help point out the way.
There was some scrutiny in Galen's gaze, his eyes never leaving the other party's hand that was poking into her traveling bag.
"Your voice sounds a bit familiar. Ma'am, haven't we met somewhere recently?"
Diana inside the carriage couldn't help but roll her eyes.
A dog would have to shake its head to hear such a cheesy pickup line.
"I don't think so, right? If I've seen a face as handsome as yours, I'm sure I'd be very impressed."
With a soft smile on her face, the female adventurer pulled a rolled up map out of her traveling bag and handed it distantly to the car window.
"If you don't mind, we can get acquainted now, my name is Flan."