The other druids had almost the same thoughts as Jack. On the Holy Origin Continent, half-bloods usually inherit the shortcomings of both races, becoming useless people with no potential for development. But there are a very few half-bloods who can inherit the strengths of both races and become so-called geniuses.

Half-bloods with elven bloodlines possess a talent for magical perception that surpasses ordinary people, which is quite normal.

It must be like this! Otherwise, someone so young could not possibly possess the strength of a human-level fifth-rank grand mage!

Why did he come to Paradise Forest? To train himself? To pursue higher levels of martial arts or magic?

“You are…? An expert…?” Jack asked tentatively.

Brian Carter also noticed the rapid changes in these people’s eyes. For a moment, he couldn’t figure out what they were thinking. Glancing at the dozen or so gray wolves ready to pounce, he tried his best to put on an inscrutable smile and said, “Can I leave now?”

Chapter 12: Battle Skill Inheritance

On the way to the druid village, Brian Carter kept chatting with Jack and discovered that these druids, perhaps unintentionally, always showed him a certain respect, and would occasionally probe in their words, asking if he was a master hiding his true strength. To such probing, Brian Carter always maintained a mysterious smile.

Faced with this response, the dozen or so druids became even more convinced that Brian Carter was deliberately concealing his strength.

During the conversation, Brian Carter also learned that he was in a world called the Holy Origin Continent.

This forest was called Paradise Forest by the various races living within it, while outsiders called it the Forest of Death. As for its size, few people on the continent could say for sure.

Several thousand years ago, Jack’s village migrated into Paradise Forest. Since then, unless absolutely necessary, very few people from their village would leave Paradise Forest to enter human society.

Except for a few races, the other villages, like Jack’s, rarely left Paradise Forest to deal with the cunning, despicable, and shameless humans.

So, after asking around for a long time, Brian Carter still couldn’t find out much about the outside world. What little he did learn was that the outside continent didn’t sound very safe.

There were four or five, maybe five or six major nations occupying vast lands, and some smaller countries occupying the rest. As for their relationships, it was still unclear, but it was known that wars often broke out among humans, so it was far from peaceful.

Brian Carter recalled what the human he killed in the woods last time had said, and asked about the ranks of warriors and mages outside.

Although Jack was puzzled as to why Brian Carter, a human from the outside, would ask him such questions, he still told him what he knew.

In the outside world ruled by humans, the main types of battle skills were generally divided into two categories: warriors and mages.

Because of differences in weapons and nations, each country had its own titles for the ranks. But for the sake of comparing strength across the continent, a common ranking system was devised.

Heaven, Earth, Human, and Unranked! Four levels: Heaven is the strongest, followed by Earth, then Human, and Unranked is divided into grades one to ten, with tenth grade being the strongest and first grade the weakest. When one breaks through the tenth grade, they are promoted to Human-level first rank!

The three levels of Heaven, Earth, and Human are each divided into five ranks. On the continent, as long as one reaches Human-level, they are considered a true expert. If there is no war, Human-level experts usually live very comfortably.

After inquiring about the outside world, Brian Carter planned to subtly ask about the druids, so he could better understand his patient’s situation. Unexpectedly, Jack had no reservations about the matter of capturing Katherine, and directly explained why it was necessary to bring Katherine back.

It turned out that near Jack’s druid village, there was also a barbarian village. Several hundred years ago, the two villages had a conflict.

Since then, there had been no peace between the two villages. Whenever they were well fed and had time, the two villages would go to war.

As time went on, the casualties on both sides increased, and the conflict deepened.

Originally, neither village was a large one among their respective races, and the battle skills they could cultivate were limited. Over the past few hundred years, neither side had been able to completely defeat the other.

However, in recent years, a natural-born warrior appeared in the barbarian village—Boar! Without any advanced barbarian battle skill manuals, he relied on extraordinary talent to comprehend “Battle Rage” and successfully broke through the tenth grade, entering the ranks of true experts, Human-level first rank! He also became the number one expert in the barbarian village!

The number one expert in the druid village, Megan Parker, was only a tenth-grade druid. Although he could skillfully perform the werewolf transformation, because the village’s status among the druids was not high, they had few inherited druid battle skills. Coupled with the loss of some inheritances due to accidents, he was unable to learn the werewolf-exclusive “Wild Fury” and could never break through again, thus failing to become a Human-level first rank druid to confront Boar.