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.

if one drank an additional potion during the cooldown period. He and his colleagues had some theories, most of them determining it would end badly if one

it was a big shocker. If one consumed two potions within an hour, the second

basically just water. Of course, this raised

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

so one

a total of only three bottles, something that, according to the

it only

(Inferior)] – Restores

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

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

the other tables in 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 proven himself able to make something, he started mixing a second

next two batches. Still, it was rapidly alleviated when the

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

finally started to get exhausted once more, and his last two batches had failed due to him

hard work, but the results spoke for

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

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

reached level 6 - Stat

of the Malefic Viper] has reached

it was, without a doubt, slower 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 and gone solo earlier, he would, without a

challenge window, he noted

28

He had decided to try and make them the next day, as the mana potion's experience had started

were, according to the Alchemy for Novices book, the 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

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

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

poisons was also primarily about

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

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

his shield and send out a shockwave, knocking down anyone in its path. With it and his increased stats, he had hunted

original group at level 10 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 to the delight of

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.

only gotten one more healer, but he was only 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

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

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

a profession that they knew of. Joanna had been into stitching and

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

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,

seemed to be one of those difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a

been close to two days since he left, and they had neither seen nor heard anything from him. He and

not afraid for Jake's well-being, more so curious as to what level he had reached by now. Okay, he was a bit worried, but the guy could clearly

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

people to one of the beasts, as they got severely

in camp, Jacob went straight to Richard, reporting how their little hunt

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