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.

his colleagues had some theories, most of them determining it would end badly if one

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

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

to talk about it. They were all just like: “So yeah, the second one doesn’t

but would only have the effect of the single potion, so one was more or less forced to bottle it

Jake ended up with a total of only three bottles, something that, according to the books, was considered quite terrible. Not

Identify on the potion, it only

Potion (Inferior)] – Restores 87

had given her at least 130 mana when she

He was unsure if it was due to Identify going up in rank or one of all the new

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 mixing a second

Still, it was rapidly alleviated when the third batch of mana potions succeeded - another three potions, with

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 mental

A day and over a dozen mana potions consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted once more, and his last two batches had failed due to him

but the results spoke for

reached level 2 - Stat points allocated,

of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 3 - Stat points allocated, +2

level 6 - Stat points allocated,

Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat points allocated,

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,

at the dungeon challenge window, he noted

28

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

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 difference, and quite a

were quite natural to make. You did 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

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 his practice on potions was

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

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

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

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

with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had at level 10 learned

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 now a bit over 50. Richard still in

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

usually had to go without a healer. He was level 8, and the only 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 their group to all be together even if you considered Joanna, who was stuck back

cloaks and robes for people and conjuring arrows for the archers after joining, trying to make herself useful. A couple

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

level, hers only offering 1 wisdom, 1 willpower, 1 agility, and 1 free

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

that leveling only got harder 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

to two days since he left, and they

now. Okay, he was a

back. Talking of the badgers, those things turned out to get a lot more dangerous when they reached the double-digits. Not only because of their size but

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 scratches. The potions they drank only functioned to extend the suffering

went straight to Richard, reporting how

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