The Primal Hunter

Jake breathed out a sigh of relief when he saw the last option.

Ambitious Hunter – The Ambitious Hunter is always seeking out true challenges and the most powerful of prey. To you, the hunt is not only about the question of gaining power or death, but to enjoy the journey itself. It is not something that can be taught but is a part of who you are. A class focused on ranged combat, mainly using bow and arrow, coupled with light options for melee such as short-swords and daggers. The class is fast and flexible, focusing on agility over strength. The Ambitious Hunter's path to power may be more complicated than many others due to their endless thirst for worthy enemies, but power is inevitable if one survives. Stat bonuses per level: +5 Per, +4 Agi, +3 End, +2 Str, +4 Free points

From the description… it wasn’t incredibly awesome. But the name alone stood out to him more than anything in any of the others. Hunter. The word seemed to resonate with him. Unsurprising, considering his bloodline was called “of the Primal Hunter”.

He also felt like the description, well… described him. Described his goals. He hadn’t seen himself as an incredibly ambitious person for many years, not after his archery incident. His plans were simply to… exist. Of course, he enjoyed himself in his free time, but it wasn’t like becoming a financial consultant was his dream.

But now he felt driven. He had a goal, had ambition, and was more than willing to hunt for it.

Closely reading the description, there seemed to be little difference between it and the regular archer class, besides the number of stats and types of skills it would likely offer. But the essence of the class and its purpose seemed to be very much the same.

The stats had the same total as Bowman of Decay. 18 stats in total per level. Which is still less than his Prodigious Alchemist of the Malefic Viper. Which showed that the class wasn’t that special or that he had really lucked out with his profession. One had to remember that professions tended to give fewer stats than classes, after all.

Jake remembered the Viper's words of staying true to himself... and while maybe the Bowman of Decay was more powerful here and now, this class was far more 'him' than anything offered beforehand.

It likely wouldn't make him that much stronger immediately, but he was still satisfied as he unhesitantly accepted the class and felt the familiar warm flow of information entering his mind along with the pleasant sound of the level-up.

*Congratulation, you have successfully evolved your Class*

*’DING!’ Class: [Ambitious Hunter] has reached level 25 - Stat points allocated, +4 free points*

*’DING!’ Race: [Human (E)] has reached level 35 - Stat points allocated, +5 free points*

What followed was naturally the skills, the first one being an upgrade to his Archer’s Eye, a skill he had since the tutorial's very beginning.

Skill Transformation: [Archer’s Eye (Common)] Has been upgraded to [Hunter’s Sight (Uncommon)]

[Hunter’s Sight (Uncommon)] - The hunter's eyes are trained to track down and kill their prey. Allows the ambitious hunter to spot prey more easily as well as their weaknesses. Passively gives a small increase to the effect of perception on visual organs.

The skill was a straight-up upgrade, and he even felt a slight increase to his eye-sight if he tried looking intensely at his surroundings. The change was very minor, however. Overall it didn’t change much besides the “easier to spot weaknesses”-part that was new. He would have to test that in combat.

The last skill was where the real juice was at.

[Big Game Hunter (Rare)] – A true hunter seeks not the easy prey but a true challenge. Having hunted bigger and stronger prey than most, the Ambitious Hunter has become more accustomed to facing higher-level enemies. Increases the user’s resistance to auras and gives a small increase to strength and agility while facing enemies above your highest level class or race. The bonus is based on the disparity between the level of your prey and you. Limit of 1.25x your level or 50 levels, whichever is highest. May your hunt be fruitful, and your ambitions reached.

The skill seemed extremely good, especially for what he was planning. The limiter on the bonus was a bit annoying, though, as his race was currently at 35 and his class only at 25, making him lose 10 levels worth of bonuses.

It would take him until he reached level 44 or so in his class for it to be the highest one. And that was assuming he didn’t level his profession at all, which he sure as hell planned on.

closer to being in fighting-condition. Soon, he should be able to drink another health potion and with

lost both of his melee weapons in the brawl earlier, and he currently only had a few unranked daggers in his spatial storage. He felt quite sad about losing the bone dagger, mostly. It had served him well and synergized well with his fighting style, so he would have to rely on his bow for now.

were beasts everywhere, and high-level beasts at that. Wandering sources of experience, just waiting to

in here. First, he needed to get as much experience as possible, and second, he wasn’t looking for another fight right now considering

two factions would

the tutorial screen, he noted the number of survivors still

Tutorial Panel

days &

Total Survivors Remaining: 341/1200

days to hunt down everything worth killing in

she ran after the man who quite clearly ignored her on purpose. “I did what I thought was the best for everyone! None of us knew if he did it or not, and

have to tell you that I fucking knew. But you would rather kill an innocent man. You know the

told you I am sorry!” Caroline said, genuinely distressed. “Just

I need to think,” Jacob answered as he kept walking away, leaving Caroline

as Caroline planned when it came to Jacob. Jake had been allowed to talk for way too long and made

top of that, they even failed to kill him. How he had managed to survive all those attacks was still a wonder

even managed to chain him down with a string of control skills. That should have been that, but somehow, he had managed to cause

in it was insane. What was even more insane was it being Jake who caused it. He was an archer, for god's

intense, combined with his speed making him far faster

even more surprising was how he disappeared as he ran away. The Scout had been chasing the near-dead man but failed to return with anything. He had lost him

it improbable that Jake entered there. And even if

things over with Jacob, but her first attempt had backfired hard when she tried to play innocent, acting like she didn’t know the plan. Jacob wasn’t stupid and saw

how she had fought and clearly coordinated with the others. Her small attempt to

even moved into Bertram’s cabin for now. It was a small one the man had built for himself with his profession and was

still believed everything could be smoothed over. Their relationship wasn’t going to break because of one person coming between them. They were going

troublesome former colleague of hers had managed to poison him before he escaped leaving the man in quite the

fallen quite easily. Poisoned and in a weakened state after using that ridiculously powerful spear attack of his,

the one who had managed to turn them all invisible for the ambush,

but this time it was different. Hayden was dead, and the leadership structure of the other base was in disarray. They even had quite a few people switch sides since the

to end the other faction once and for all, giving him full control of the only camp left in the tutorial. The attack would be sooner rather than later, not giving the other side enough time to reorganize, but just enough time for those who wanted to defect to do

protest much either. Most of them didn’t exactly speak up

who had refused to participate in the fight because he wanted to focus on crafting. With him was another one who

where, and after complaining a bit about missing the fight, had started

asked William, he wouldn’t describe himself as only “a bit mad”. He was fuming. How unlucky had he been? By mere hours he had missed the fight. To make it worse, they had even failed in killing him, which meant that he

was also aware by now that he didn’t need to wear his mask much anymore. Jacob had given him dirty looks, clearly showing he knew, and of course, his new partner Richard knew. He had already asked William to join him in the assault on the

a few hours, their assault would begin. The entire tutorial would be

everyone up. The whole “with us or against us” mentality had done wonders to force any lone survivors or smaller groups into choosing a side or getting caught

did his work at the forge, the Smith