The Primal Hunter

Chapter 23

Feeling the warm glow run through his body from the level-ups was as comfortable as ever. He was equally as pleased to see that profession-experience also helped with his race level.

Looking at his stats, he noticed that he now had 6 unspent free points. Jake still felt very unsure of how to distribute them best. Was there some way to make an optimal build? Ultimately, he decided this wasn’t the time to try and meta-game the system. You know, with his life on the line and all that.

So, having decided not to hoard the points any longer, he threw them in the stat best for alchemy according to all the books: Wisdom. He felt the warm glow once more before opening his status menu to confirm the changes.

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

Race: [Human (G) – lvl 5]

Class: [Archer – lvl 9]

Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper – lvl 1]

Health Points (HP): 380/380

Mana Points (MP): 192/240

Stamina: 235/250

Stats

Strength: 28

Agility: 31

Endurance: 25

Vitality: 38

Toughness: 16

Wisdom: 24

Intelligence: 16

Perception: 44

Willpower: 25

Free points: 0

Not much had changed with his stats besides wisdom getting a considerable bump upwards from the levels and free points. Nodding to himself, he closed the menu once more and turned his attention to the mixing bowl in front of him.

Looking at the completed batch of mana potions, he felt very satisfied with himself. Walking to the cabinet, he took out a handful of bottles and began putting the concoction into them. The bottles were perfectly sized to get the full benefit one could from each potion.

He and his colleagues had some theories, most of them determining

happen. And it was a big shocker. If one consumed two potions within an hour, the second could cause horrific consequences, such as being slightly less thirsty or having

without suffering any adverse consequences. It was basically just water. Of course, this raised countless more questions as to where

even bothered to talk about it. They were all just like: “So yeah,

one was more or less forced

three bottles, something that, according to the books, was considered quite

on the potion, it only

Restores 87 mana when

at least 130 mana when she used one. He would have to thank Jacob for being terrible enough at combat the next

new. He was unsure if it was due to Identify going up in rank or one of all the new profession skills. Or perhaps it was the

them later, but he still had enough mana not to make full use of them.

mood quickly died down as he failed the next two batches. Still, it was rapidly alleviated

and felt his mana fill up to nearly full once more. He planned on drinking a potion

to get exhausted once

was hard work, but the results spoke

Malefic Viper] has reached level 2 - Stat points allocated,

Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached

[Human (G)] has reached level 6 - Stat points allocated, +1 free

of the Malefic Viper] has reached

but it was, without a doubt, slower than leveling his class. He had spent more than 24 hours on the challenge already, and yet he was only level 4 in the profession. Compared to outside, where he in less time than that reached level 9. If he had been

the dungeon challenge window, he noted the

remaining: 28

more, he brought the book on health potions along for a quick read before taking another nap. He had decided to try and

the second easiest type of potion to make, just after the mana one. The process was very similar, with only slight variations. The pattern and method of injecting

not need to change the properties of the mana injected; you just had to purify and inject it. With health potions, you had to change the nature of the mana. Ultimately, the potion was still a kind of condensed

felt it would be slightly more challenging than the three basic resource-restoration potions. The books agreeing with his intuition. From what he had briefly read, concocting poisons had many of the same methods as potions, so there was a lot of overlap,

poisons was also primarily about injecting mana properly and controlling the crafting

put it on the floor as there was no bedtable. Seconds after closing his eyes, he fell

a group of Richard’s men as they were out hunting once more. The team they went with was the usual except for Caroline, who could join

with his shield and send out a shockwave, knocking down anyone in its path. With it and his increased stats, he had hunted many beasts over level 10, and they had even relocated their base once to get further into the

who often went with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had

Jake had killed. After joining, they shot up to 29, and after recruiting some more, the group was now a bit over 50. Richard still in charge, of

shown herself to be competent, so Richard kept her around in his squad. The passive regeneration aura alone was enough to keep a healer around initially. In combat, they often

was Casper. Dennis and Lina were both in another team. Jacob knew that this was due to Richard not wanting their group to all be together even if you considered Joanna,

she had brought with her a pleasant surprise. She had started fixing up cloaks and robes for people and conjuring arrows for the archers after joining, trying to

been into stitching and sewing before the tutorial, which had likely

many stats per level, hers only offering 1 wisdom, 1 willpower, 1 agility,

level 1 in the profession, and as she was also level 3 in her class,

leveling only got harder and harder, and level 10 seemed to be one of those difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a team also

about what Jake was up to. It had been close to two days since he left, and they had neither seen nor heard anything from him. He

was not afraid for Jake's well-being, more so curious as to what level he had reached by now. Okay, he was a bit worried, but the guy could clearly handle himself. At

with a small group of badgers, one of them being above level 10, they finally made it back. Talking of the badgers, those things turned out to get a lot more dangerous

group, they would not even have tried fighting it. Another group had lost two people to one of the beasts, as they got severely poisoned from just a few minor

in camp, Jacob went straight to Richard, reporting

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