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 them determining it would

big shocker. If one consumed two potions within an hour, the second could cause horrific consequences,

one could pour down mana potions for days without suffering any adverse consequences. It was basically just water. Of course, this raised countless

none of the books even bothered to talk about it. They were all just like: “So yeah, the second one doesn’t work because

effect of the single potion, so one was more or less

that, according to the books, was considered quite terrible. Not that Jake cared much, he was just

potion, it

– Restores 87 mana when

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

amount restored was also something new. He was unsure if it was due to Identify going up in rank or

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

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

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 working, with the only limit being his mental

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

work, but the

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

Viper] has reached level 3 - Stat

has reached level 6

reached level 4 - Stat points allocated, +2 free

levels were impressive, but 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

dungeon challenge window, he

remaining: 28 Days –

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

Potions 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

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 all worked, so

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

was also primarily about injecting mana properly and controlling the

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

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

with his 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

10 was Caroline, who often went with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline had at level 10

had killed. After joining, they shot up to 29, and after

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 initially. In combat, they often contributed little to nothing as their healing was touch-based, but with her now being

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 knew that this was due to Richard not wanting their group to all

arrows for the archers after joining,

stitching and sewing before the tutorial, which had likely helped her unlock it, to begin

per level, hers only offering 1

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 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 also hurt his experience gain, but as he was more powerful in a group due to

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

was 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

the badgers, those things turned out to get a lot more dangerous when they reached the double-digits. Not only because of their

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 drank only functioned to extend the suffering as they died. The importance of a healer was

Jacob went straight to Richard, reporting

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