[Name: Instinctive Defense]
[Rank: Intermediate]
[Domain: Basic, Defense]
[Origin: The result of a genius shield guard's painstaking training]
Promoted Instinctive Defense.
Allows Galen, passively, to gain a faster nerve reaction speed.
At the same time the success rate of swinging the shield to block is significantly increased.
When consciousness returned.
Galen took out another intermediate skill scroll.
In the phalanx that spread out across the room.
Finding a fixed position, he placed the scroll.
With everything ready.
The wind of spirituality began to drum in the room.
The intermediate skill scroll floated in the air on its own.
Invisible flames ignited from one corner of the scroll, burning it to ashes in the blink of an eye.
Countless spiritual points of light surged out from the flying ashes, as if they were elves reborn from the fire.
Scrambling, they crashed towards Galen in the center of the altar.
Galen's consciousness sank once again.
This time, his consciousness directly touched the light that represented "Shield Block".
As the spiritual points of light converged, the originally pure white light changed.
The light emitted gradually shifted towards the color of emerald green.
When the white light cluster, which symbolized the primary level, completely changed to emerald green.
The skill promotion was considered successful.
There was also a probability of failure in skill promotion.
However, with Galen's proficiency in Shield Block, there was almost no possibility of failure in promotion.
However, just as the Spiritual Light Cluster was about to completely transform into an emerald green color.
That emerald green actually began to fade and transformed towards a golden yellow color.
"Hmm? Is this a promotion failure?"
Galen, who could only observe from the sidelines and could not interfere, could not help but feel doubt in his heart.
Whether it was the pure white representing beginners, or the emerald green symbolizing intermediates.
Or the aquamarine that represented the advanced level, and the ethereal purple that represented the master level.
All of them had nothing to do with the golden yellow in front of him.
As he thought about this, Galen's consciousness began to return.
When he opened his eyes.
A piece of cognition appeared in his mind out of nowhere.
[Skill Alienation Successful]
[Name: Shield Counter-Injury]
[Rank: Intermediate]
[Domain: Defense]
[Source: Exclusive Skill after integrating Shield Upanishad with Shield Block]
"What's going on here? How come even the name of the skill has changed for me?"
Carefully feeling the extra piece of cognition in his brain.
Galen realized that this skill after the upgrade.
There wasn't much difference from the previous Shield Block.
The only extra special effect.
Was that every time Galen successfully blocked.
He was able to rebound a portion of the damage from that attack, to his opponent.
The rebound damage, ignoring the limitations of spatial distance.
And is not affected by physical forms.
In other words, when someone casts Fireball on Galen again.
Galen didn't need to cast a true Shield Counter, and only needed to successfully block the Fireball Spell.
The attacker himself, will then receive burns, as well as blast damage out of thin air.
The only prerequisite was that it needed to be blocked with a shield.
"Skill Alienation? Is it because I've already comprehended the Shield Counter Upanishad? Being able to ignore distance and physical forms of rebound damage, that's beyond the scope of the basic domain, isn't it?"
If anything, the phenomenon of skill fusion was rare.
But there were adventurers who were lucky enough to trigger it from time to time.
Then this so-called Skill Alteration, Galen had never heard of it at all.
After all, from the birth of the Skill Scrolls until now, it was only about ten years old.
There were still too many blind spots for humans regarding the nature and understanding of transcendent power.
"All in all it's good not bad, the damage I can bounce back now is about thirty percent. Although the damage isn't much, when facing some enemies with high offense and low defense, just the rebound damage is enough for the opposite side to suffer well."
Galen, who was in a good mood, still didn't leave the altar.
He took out the last Intermediate Scroll.
This one book of Thousand Faces Illusion skill, he planned to learn it directly.
"This is already out of my area of expertise, and it's still an intermediate skill, so I hope I can succeed at once."
Adventurers also needed to follow certain rules when learning skill scrolls.
Take for example a lower level adventurer.
Going directly to learn an intermediate skill scroll, failure would be the doomed end.
The only way to have at least one intermediate skill was through skill advancement.
After causing the spirit world to be spiritually expanded.
Only then would the adventurer be considered to have the qualifications to directly learn intermediate scrolls.
But that was only having the qualification, the corresponding probability of failure still existed.
When an adventurer has four skills of the same level.
Then he can launch to the higher level skills.
This is also the adventurer's guild.
This is also the basis and origin of the Adventurer Guild's classification of adventurers.
...
The blood from before had already been absorbed by the altar.
Galen once again bit his finger and dropped a drop of crimson blood in the center of the altar.
As with the previous two times, the Thousand Faces Illusion Scroll flew up on its own and burned to ashes in midair.
The scattered points of light were affected by the altar formation and swarmed into Galen's body.
And attempted to converge into a brand new spiritual light mass within his spiritual world.
During this process, Galen only felt a swelling sensation that came from the depths of his brain.
His spiritual world was like a small pocket.
It was being forced into a large iron ball.
The tearing pain caused Galen's forehead to be drenched in cold sweat.
Even if his spiritual world, which had already undergone three rounds of spiritual light point expansion.
There was still a risk of a spiritual collapse at this moment.
Right at this moment, the dragon egg, which was hung close to Galen, moved.
The excess spiritual light points were temporarily absorbed by this dragon egg.
After Galen initially stabilized the spiritual light points in his body.
The dragon egg emitted a dark red light again.
It returned the temporarily stored light points back to Galen.
The dark red light reflected the outline of the young dragon curled up inside the shell.
Compared to a few days ago, the silhouette of the young dragon in the shell seemed to be thinner and smaller.
The cub in the shell could not even eat.
It also had to help the useless old dad solve troubles one after another.
The dragon cub moved its slender tail, seeming to feel a bit aggrieved.
Several minutes later.
Galen finally left that brand new spiritual light mass.
It truly stayed in his spiritual world.
As physically strong as Galen was, he also felt a wave of dislocation at this moment, and his feet staggered as he walked down the altar.
"Still haven't raised you for nothing."
Galen lightly patted the dragon egg.
"When tomorrow comes, let's go to the buffet."
...
Compared to ten years ago, the adventuring world that thrived on grueling workouts and sharpening the flesh.
The current adventurers were traveling a different path with a different direction, but one that was equally full of hardships.
The current generation of adventurers use their own will as a rope.
Between the abyss called danger, and the peak of metamorphosis, they climbed with difficulty.
"The consumption of mental energy is a bit too much, let's try the effect of this skill later."
Galen walked out of the room, his pale face instantly attracted the attention of several people outside the door.
"How is it? Successfully promoted a few skills?"
Sean, who still had bandages on his shoulders and thighs, was the first to ask.
He was the same intermediate level adventurer as Galen, and thus cared the most.