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.

drank an additional potion during the cooldown period. He and his colleagues had some theories, most of

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

basically just water. Of course, this

honestly 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 how

only have the effect of the single potion, so one

of only three bottles, something that, according to the books, was considered quite terrible. Not that Jake cared much, he

potion, it only

Restores 87 mana

mana 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

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 profession skills. Or

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

he failed the next two batches. Still, it was rapidly alleviated when the third batch of mana potions succeeded - another three potions, with exactly the

had made and felt his mana fill up to nearly full once more. He planned on

consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted once more, and his last two batches had failed due to him not

work, but the results spoke for

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

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 3

6 - Stat points allocated, +1

Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat points allocated, +2 free

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,

dungeon challenge window, he noted

28 Days –

He had decided to try and make

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

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 worked, so he just left that up

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

concocting poisons was also primarily about injecting mana properly and

no bedtable. Seconds after

Bertram, 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

him to bash with his shield and send out a shockwave, knocking down anyone in its path. With it and

only one from their 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

was 26 people excluding them. Well, 20 people with the six that Jake had killed. After joining, they shot up to 29, and after

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

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

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

been into stitching and sewing before the tutorial,

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

also level 3 in her class, she leveled her race too. This instantly reignited his interest. Every single race-level gave +1 to all

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

was up to. It had been close to two days since he left, and they had neither seen nor heard anything from him. He and Richard had a tacit understanding never to mention

was a bit worried, but the guy could clearly handle himself. At least he hoped he could, as Jacob had

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 their size but because of the

been in the 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

Jacob went straight to Richard, reporting how their

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