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.

an additional potion during the cooldown period. He and his colleagues

within an hour, the second could cause horrific consequences, such as being slightly less

mana potions for days without suffering any adverse consequences. It was basically just water. Of course, this raised countless

frustrating how none of the books even bothered to talk about it. They were all just like: “So yeah, the second one doesn’t work because that’s

potions work. The batch he had just 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 wouldn’t register as an

back to the present, Jake ended up with a total of only three bottles, something that, according

Identify on the potion, it only echoed

Potion (Inferior)] – Restores

potions that the system had given them upon entering the tutorial had given her at least 130 mana when she used one. He would have to thank Jacob for being

something 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 presence of the profession

still had enough mana not to make full use of them. Having proven himself able to make something, he started mixing a second batch after cleaning

was rapidly alleviated when the third batch of

to nearly full once

mana potions consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted

work, but the results spoke

Profession: [Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 2 - Stat points

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 3 - Stat points allocated,

[Human (G)] has reached level 6

Malefic Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat

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,

challenge window, he noted

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and make them the next day, as the mana potion's experience had started going down and also because he had enough

was very similar, with only slight variations. The pattern and method of injecting mana

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 energy close to mana, and Jake had no proper understanding of how exactly it all

wanted to start making poisons soon, 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 potions, so there was a lot of overlap, though, so it wasn’t like

end, concocting poisons was also primarily about injecting mana properly and

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

Bertram, Casper, Ahmed, and Theodore were all walking with a group of Richard’s men as they were out hunting once more. The team

in its path. With it and his

and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline

Jake had killed. After joining, they

squad. The passive regeneration aura alone was enough to keep a healer around initially. In combat, they often contributed little to nothing as their

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,

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

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

level, hers only offering 1 wisdom, 1 willpower,

stat gains were so low compared to the time investment, Richard’s interest significantly waned. That is right until Joanna got to level 1 in the profession, and as she was also 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

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

about what Jake was up to. It had been close to two days since he left, and they

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

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

have tried fighting it. Another group had lost two people to one of the beasts, as they got severely poisoned from just a

Jacob went straight to Richard, reporting

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