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

an

It was basically just water. Of course, this

it. They were

made could be consumed as is, but would only have the effect of the single potion, so one was more or less forced to bottle it up. It also

total of only three bottles, something that, according to the books, was considered quite terrible. Not

it

(Inferior)] – Restores 87 mana when

telling him that the mana potions that the system had given them upon entering the tutorial had given her at least 130 mana when she used

Identify going up in rank or one of

potions on one of the other tables in the laboratory with a smile. He planned on drinking them later, but he still had enough mana not to make full

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

potions he had made and felt his mana fill up to nearly full once more. He planned on drinking a potion every hour with the internal cooldown to keep working, with the only limit being his

and over a dozen mana potions consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted once more,

work, but the results spoke

[Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 2 - Stat points allocated,

reached

6

of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat points

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,

the dungeon challenge window, he noted the

remaining: 28 Days –

back to the bed once more, he brought the book on health potions along for a quick read before taking another nap. He had decided to try and make them the next day, as the mana potion's experience

similar, with only

of the mana. Ultimately, the potion was still a kind of condensed energy close to mana, and Jake had no proper understanding of how exactly it

The books agreeing with his intuition. From what he had

the end, concocting poisons was also primarily about injecting

there was no bedtable. Seconds after closing his eyes, he fell asleep. Dreaming of potions and alchemy, genuinely

were out hunting once more. The team they went with was the usual except for Caroline, who could join them as Richard was taking

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 forest and find

their original group at level 10 was Caroline, who often went with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had at level 10 learned a ranged

expanded significantly. When they had joined, Richard’s group was 26 people excluding them. Well, 20 people with the six that Jake had killed. After joining, they shot up to 29, and after recruiting some more, the group was

was only level 6, and Caroline had shown herself to be competent, so Richard kept her around in his squad. The passive regeneration aura alone was enough to keep a healer

who was level 9, besides Caroline, 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, who was stuck back in

conjuring arrows for the archers after joining, trying to make herself useful. A couple of hours ago, just before they left

of. Joanna had been into stitching and sewing before the

stats per level, hers only offering 1 wisdom,

as she was also level 3 in her class, she leveled her race too. This instantly reignited his interest.

and harder, and level 10 seemed to be one of those difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a team also hurt his experience gain, but as he was more powerful in a group due to his class's nature,

was up to. It had been close to two days since he left, and they had neither seen

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 least

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 when they reached the

had not been in the 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

straight to Richard, reporting how their

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