The Primal Hunter

Jake practically flew through the terrain as he ran across the valley, scanning it with his sphere wherever he went. He didn’t really encounter any enemies on the way, something he very much appreciated.

William had done an outstanding job of clearing out a lot of beasts in the inner area. Not that it particularly mattered as all the beasts he came across avoided him like the plague - all except for a single buffalo that had chosen to stand up to him, which netted it a quick Infused Powershot to the face.

He was currently scanning the valleys for those sweet lockboxes. It was clean-up time.

His rationale was that he still required a few critical pieces of loot, and if he were stronger, he would be able to clear the final dungeon more easily. Likely even take some more risks to do it faster, or compromise on how he liked to fight.

The Malefic Viper had told him about equipment, and he had done the math on how much more he could get. As he could have a maximum of 20% in any given stat, but only 15% of his total stats could be from gear, he saw that he had ample space to grow.

Currently, he had a total of 353 stats from equipment. It felt like a lot, but the total amount he could get was 603, meaning he was only a little over half of what he could at maximum have. A quick calculation of his stats showed how much he could get in each:

Strength: 18/71

Agility: 60/90

Endurance: 45/67

Vitality: 75/94

Toughness: 50/68

Wisdom: 35/101

Intelligence: 45/45

Perception: 20/202

Willpower: 5/64

Total: 353/603

The only stat he had maxed out on was intelligence, and it appeared that it had been maxed out the moment he got his gloves. The ring he had taken off the Ice Witch what felt like ages ago together with the gloves did indeed provide precisely 45.

None of the other stats were capped at all. Where Jake really wanted to find some equipment was to get some more strength and agility. He felt like those two would have the most immediate value. Not that he would complain about getting some more perception either…

His perception was already at a ridiculous level, having reached over 1000 with all his titles and his bloodline. 1033 to be exact. Yet he had kept investing all his free points into it as it just seemed efficient. He had to admit that he was starting to feel the lack of value in it, besides the raw number just going up.

While it did increase his reaction speed and his senses, his body could no longer keep up. For a while, it had been like that, actually. His agility and strength were simply not able to follow the commands he issued it.

Having gotten the Mark of the Ambitious Hunter was quite fortunate. The damage increase it was meant to provide was likely meant to be far less than what his version of the Mark provided. But as it scaled with perception, Jake’s increased the damage done by quite a bit, especially coupled with his primary damage source being through poisons.

terrible level. And he often made up for his lack of raw power in stats through his Infused

higher-leveled foes, meaning it was pretty much always active during fights. The bonus wasn’t that big, but it did help him to close

going to ignore it. Getting only 100 stats more would be the same as several levels. If he got lucky, he could even find some more unique items and, if he got really

it - the wind blowing through his hair, the feeling of freedom and

to earlier. He had pushed himself both physically and mentally with his

sorted all the useless stuff. He had a bunch of gear clearly suitable for heavier classes, such as breastplates, greaves, steel

50 things in total, of which only five held any value or

token (Uncommon)] – Upgrade any common rarity

on his bow right away the moment he found it but had held off in case he actually found a better

found interesting but had

he fought for his family and fell for his home. The axe is made of simple wood with an iron head. Grants the wielder a small part of the once-great man’s bravery. Enchantments: Grants the skill: [Halfdan’s

Lvl 50+ in

to see what the skill was but found himself unable to bind it. It was weird because he didn’t feel like it was related

of loot was one he would actually use, an upgrade to an item he already

A ring created by embedding the crystalized eye of a Ruby-eye Tiger into a band. The Records of the tiger powers the enchant, granting some of the beast's

in any humanoid

it would be more than a worthy trade-off. He also found it

into a band. The Records of the tiger powers

Lvl 30 in any

maybe the system had just selected that archetype for some reason. Nevertheless, it was just the kind of ring he had wanted. He did get two other rings too, but neither of those were of any

only have two rings on for some reason. Well, he could technically have as many on as he could fit on his fingers, but he would only get the benefits of two of them. Whenever he tried to bind the third ring, it wouldn’t work before he ‘let go’ of one of the

was weird that he had to put

had found was one of those special items he had hoped to find, one that could hopefully prove useful against

with mana and throw it to the ground for

would be unable to use it due to lack of

used Cultivate Poison to make it fester and work its way through the item, he could

of value he found... it was a weapon rumored and foretold of for ages, one he had only dreamed

A bow made from a tree inhabited by wind elementals. The string made from the sinew of the beast that dared destroy their home. Now restored to a form made for hunting down the beasts hated by the young elementals. The elementals’ spirit and mana have left their mark upon the wood, making it light

50+ in any

the back of his mind. Could he use it? He still remembered the nature affinity-blade and the light-affinity staff that had both been unusable. Heck, even the axe

something like that. Heck, it clearly had both a mana-affinity and a history attached to it. Jake knew he had dark-affinity, but

than a little internal fear, he had grabbed the bow in his hand and injected mana

slip into the bow with no resistance and instantly felt the connection with it - a major success, to say the least. It had also inadvertently confirmed that he had the wind-affinity as well

was. Unnaturally so, as it felt practically weightless. Luckily it didn’t affect the bow

pull strength was magically altered somehow, making him struggle to

one big difference from his old bow, however. While the arrow’s

the air, it was as if the wind gave way to it. Like it gently

would say his standard shot was around 10-15% stronger with the new bow. It wasn’t as much as

his bow. He knew that if he pushed more mana into it than he currently