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.

one drank an additional potion during the cooldown period. He and his colleagues had some

consumed two potions within an hour, the second could cause horrific consequences, such as being slightly less thirsty or

one could pour down mana potions for days without suffering any adverse consequences. It was basically just water.

even bothered to talk about it. They were all just like: “So yeah, the second one doesn’t work because that’s

have the effect of the single potion, so one was more or less forced to bottle it up. It also wouldn’t register

something that, according to the books, was considered quite terrible. Not that Jake cared much, he

it only echoed how terrible

Potion (Inferior)] – Restores 87 mana when

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

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

smile. He planned on drinking them later, but he still had enough mana not to make full use of them. Having proven himself able to make something, he started

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

his mana had gotten a little low, he drank one of the 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

started to get exhausted once more, and his last two batches had failed due to him not being able

hard work, but the results

of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 2 -

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 3 - Stat points

[Human (G)] has reached level 6 -

Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level

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 more efficient and gone solo earlier, he would,

the dungeon challenge window, he noted

remaining: 28 Days

and make them the next day, as the mana potion's experience had started going

the mana one. The process was very similar, with

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 energy close

but he 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

primarily about injecting

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

with a group of Richard’s men as they were out hunting once more. The team they went with

bash with his shield and send out a shockwave, knocking down anyone in its

was Caroline, who often went with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had at level 10 learned a ranged version of her heal, much

had also 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

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 around initially. In combat, they often contributed little to nothing as their healing was touch-based, but with her now being able to heal from

Caroline, was Casper. Dennis and Lina were both in another team. Jacob knew that this was due to Richard not wanting their group

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

of. Joanna had been into stitching and sewing before the tutorial, which had likely helped her unlock it, to begin with. This was only

Joanna, the profession didn’t give many stats per level, hers only offering 1 wisdom, 1 willpower, 1 agility,

level 3 in

difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a team also hurt his experience gain, but as he was more

days since he left, and they had neither seen nor heard anything from him. He and Richard had a tacit understanding never to mention him,

what level he had reached by now. Okay, he was a bit worried,

of the badgers, those things turned out to get a lot more dangerous when they reached the double-digits.

got severely poisoned from just a few minor scratches. The potions they drank only functioned to extend the suffering as they died. The importance

camp, Jacob went straight to Richard, reporting how

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