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.

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

knew what would happen. And it was a big shocker. If one consumed two potions within an hour, the second could cause horrific consequences, such as being slightly less

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

bothered to talk about it. They

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

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

potion, it

Potion (Inferior)] – Restores 87 mana when

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 for being terrible enough at combat the next

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

planned on drinking them later, but he still had enough mana not to make full use of them. Having proven himself able

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

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

dozen mana potions consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted once more, and his last two batches had

hard work, but

the Malefic Viper] has reached level 2 - Stat

Viper] has reached level 3 -

Race: [Human (G)] has reached level 6 - Stat points

[Alchemist of the Malefic Viper] has reached level 4 - Stat points

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

challenge window, he noted

remaining: 28 Days –

He had decided to try and make them the next day, as

was very similar, with

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

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

the end, concocting poisons was also primarily about

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

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

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

so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had at level 10 learned a ranged version of her heal, much

significantly. When they had 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

had 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

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 in

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

instance of anyone obtaining a profession that they knew of. Joanna had been into stitching and sewing before the

to Joanna, the profession didn’t give many stats per level, hers only offering

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

difficulty-jumps. Hunting with a team also hurt his experience gain, but as he was more

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

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

finally made it back. Talking of the badgers, those things turned out to get a lot

not 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

straight to Richard, reporting how their little hunt

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