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 had some theories, most of them determining

within an hour, the second could cause

consequences. It was basically

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

single potion, so one was more or less forced to bottle it up. It also wouldn’t register as an

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

the potion, it only echoed

– Restores 87 mana when

entering the tutorial had given her at least 130 mana when she used one. He would have to thank Jacob for being terrible enough at combat the next time they

it was due to Identify going up in rank or one of all the new profession skills. Or perhaps it was

the potions on one of 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 batch after cleaning

rapidly alleviated when the

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

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

work, but the

reached level 2 - Stat points allocated, +2

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

6 - Stat points allocated, +1

reached level

and yet he was only level 4 in the profession. Compared to outside,

the dungeon challenge window, he noted

28 Days

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 down and

book, the second easiest type of potion to make, just after the mana one. The process was very similar, with

of the mana. Ultimately, the potion was still a kind of condensed energy close to mana, and Jake had no proper understanding of how

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

no bedtable. Seconds after closing his eyes, he fell asleep. Dreaming of

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

shield and send out a 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 their base once to get further into the forest

went with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had at level 10 learned a ranged version of her heal, much to

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

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 heal from a distance, her worth shot

squad who was level 9, besides Caroline, was Casper. Dennis and Lina were both in another team. Jacob knew that this was due

she had brought with her a pleasant surprise. She had started fixing up cloaks and robes for people and conjuring arrows for the archers after joining, trying to make herself useful. A couple of hours

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

didn’t give many stats per level, hers only offering 1

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

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 also hurt his experience gain, but as he was more powerful in a group due to his class's nature, he had to be in

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

by now. Okay, he was a bit worried, but the guy could clearly handle himself.

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

group, they would not even 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

camp, Jacob went straight to

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