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.

what would happen if one drank an additional potion during the cooldown period. He and his colleagues had some theories, most of

potions within an hour, the second could

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

frustrating how none of the books even bothered to talk about it. They were all just like: “So yeah, the

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 actual item before being in a bottle

on back to the present, Jake ended up with a total of only three bottles, something that, according to the books, was considered quite

on the potion, it

Restores 87 mana

entering the tutorial had given her at least 130 mana when she

fact that Jake could see the exact amount restored was also something new. He was unsure if it was due to Identify going up in rank or one of all the new

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

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

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,

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

hard work, but the results

[Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 2

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 3 - Stat points

[Human (G)] has reached level 6 -

[Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat points allocated, +2 free

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, where he in less time than that reached level 9. If he had been more efficient

challenge

28 Days –

read before taking another nap. He had decided to try and make them the

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 difference, and quite a lot harder than with mana

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

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 his practice

poisons was also primarily about injecting mana properly and controlling

book on health potions, Jake put it on the floor as there was no bedtable. Seconds after closing his eyes, he fell asleep. Dreaming of potions and alchemy, genuinely looking forward to waking up

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

knocking down anyone in its path. With it and his increased stats, he had hunted many beasts over level 10, and

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

six that Jake had killed. After joining, they

enough to keep a

the only one in their squad who was level 9, besides Caroline, was Casper. Dennis and Lina were both in another team. Jacob knew

robes for people and conjuring arrows for the archers after joining, trying to make herself

stitching and sewing before the tutorial, which had likely helped

many stats per level, hers only offering 1 wisdom, 1 willpower, 1 agility, and 1 free point per

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

was further amplified after he experienced that leveling only got harder and harder, and level 10 seemed to be one of those difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a team

about what Jake was up to. It had been close to two days since he left, and they had neither seen nor heard

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 he hoped he could, as Jacob had encountered

final fight 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 double-digits. Not only because of

they got severely poisoned from just a few minor scratches. The potions they drank only

to Richard, reporting how

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