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.

drank an additional potion during the cooldown period. He and his colleagues had some theories, most of them determining

would happen. And it was a big shocker. If one consumed two potions within an

was basically just water. Of course, this raised countless more

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

made could be consumed as is, but would only have the effect of the single potion, so one was more

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

the potion, it

– Restores

given her at least 130 mana when she used one. He

restored was also something new. He was unsure if it was due to Identify going

the laboratory with a smile. He planned on drinking them later, but he still had enough mana not to make full use of them. Having

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

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 his

dozen mana potions consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted

but the

[Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level

Viper] has reached level

has reached level 6 - Stat points allocated,

Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat points allocated, +2

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

challenge window,

remaining: 28

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 had started going

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 mana into the mixture was the most significant

it. With health potions, you had to change the nature of the mana. Ultimately, the potion was still a kind of condensed energy close to mana, and Jake

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

concocting poisons was also primarily about

there was no bedtable. Seconds after closing his eyes, he fell

Richard’s men as they were out hunting once more. The team they went with was the usual except for Caroline, who could join them as Richard was taking a rest back at

in its path.

so-called ‘elite

the six that Jake had killed. After joining, they shot up to 29, and after recruiting some

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

one in their squad 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

up cloaks and robes for people and conjuring arrows for the archers after joining, trying to make herself useful. A couple of hours ago, just before they left the camp, Joanna had unlocked a

obtaining a profession that they knew of. Joanna had been into stitching and sewing before the tutorial, which had likely helped her unlock

give many stats per level, hers only offering 1 wisdom,

level 3 in her class, she leveled her race too. This instantly reignited his interest. Every single race-level gave +1 to all stats and an extra free point, making them even more valuable than both

those difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a team also hurt his

up to. It had been close to two days since he left, and they had neither seen nor heard anything from him. He and Richard had a tacit understanding never to

reached by now. Okay, he was a bit worried, but

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

of the beasts, as they got severely poisoned from just a few minor scratches. The potions they drank only functioned to extend the suffering as they died. The importance of a healer was once

Jacob went straight to

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