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

an hour, the second could cause horrific consequences, such as being slightly less thirsty or having one less

was basically just water. Of course, this

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

system-fuckery is how potions work. The batch 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.

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

Identify on the potion, it only echoed how terrible they

– Restores 87

remembered Caroline telling him that the 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 for being terrible

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

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

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

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

and over a dozen mana potions consumed later, he finally started to get exhausted once more, and his last

work, but the results spoke

has reached level 2 -

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

level 6 -

has reached level 4 -

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 doubt, be well into the double-digits

at the dungeon challenge window, he noted the

28 Days

potions along 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 also because he had enough of them to keep himself going

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 the most significant difference, and quite a lot harder than

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

the three basic resource-restoration potions. The books agreeing with his intuition. From what he had

also primarily about injecting mana properly and controlling the crafting

was no bedtable. Seconds after closing his eyes, he fell asleep. Dreaming of potions and alchemy, genuinely looking

of Richard’s men as they were out hunting once more. The team they went

10 that allowed him to bash 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

one from their original group at level 10 was Caroline, who often went with Richard and his so-called ‘elite squad’. Caroline

had also expanded 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

alone was enough to keep a healer around initially. In combat, they often contributed little

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

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 ago, just before they left the camp, Joanna

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 was only

the profession didn’t give many stats per level, hers only offering 1 wisdom, 1 willpower, 1 agility, and 1 free point per

waned. That is right until Joanna got to level 1 in the profession, and as she was also level 3 in her

only got harder and harder, and level 10 seemed to be one of those difficulty-jumps. Hunting with

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 anything from

more so curious as to what level he had reached by now. Okay, he was a

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

have tried fighting it. Another group had lost two people to one of the beasts, as they got severely

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

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