As he jumped up the cliff and began running the final stretch to the dungeon, he checked through his full status.

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

Race: [Human (E) – lvl 58]

Class: [Ambitious Hunter – lvl 65]

Profession: [Prodigious Alchemist of the Malefic Viper – lvl 51]

Health Points (HP): 5429/5460

Mana Points (MP): 5111/5320

Stamina: 3629/3820

Stats

Strength: 403

Agility: 534

Endurance: 382

Vitality: 546

Toughness: 390

Wisdom: 532

Intelligence: 260

Perception: 1053

Willpower: 326

Free points: 0

Titles:[Forerunner of the New World],[Bloodline Patriarch], [Holder of a Primordial’s True Blessing], [Dungeoneer IV], [Dungeon Pioneer IV], [Legendary Prodigy]

Class Skills: [Basic One-Handed Weapons (Inferior], [Advanced Stealth (Common)], [Advanced Archery (Common)], [Hunter’s Sight (Uncommon)], [Basic Twin Fang Style (Uncommon)], [Basic Shadow Vault of Umbra (Uncommon)], [Splitting Arrow (Uncommon)] [Big Game Hunter (Rare)], [Infused Powershot (Rare)], [Mark of the Ambitious Hunter (Rare)], [Descending Dark Fang (Rare)], [Moment of the Primal Hunter (Legendary)]

Profession Skills: [Herbology (Common)], [Brew Potion (Common)], [Concoct Poison (Common)], [Alchemist’s Purification (Common)], [Alchemical Flame (Common)], [Toxicology (Uncommon)], [Cultivate Toxin (Uncommon)], [Malefic Viper’s Poison (Rare)], [Palate of the Malefic Viper (Rare)], [Touch of the Malefic Viper (Rare)],[Sense of the Malefic Viper (Rare)], [Blood of the Malefic Viper (Epic)], [Scales of the Malefic Viper (Ancient)]

of the Malefic

the Myriad Races (Unique)], [Identify (Common)], [Meditate

the Primal Hunter (Bloodline Ability -

could still remember when it barely contained anything and even had a few N/A’s in there. His stats had

Moment of the Primal Hunter, but that was about it. Of course, the stat did still

was for when he reached

tunnel leading into the volcano-like mountain.

simple. It was all made of stone with pillars of rock everywhere. Overall he saw nothing of note but

door, and he didn’t waste any time as he rushed to it, placed his hand, and accepted the prompt. His vision went black for a few seconds before

the dungeon:

Defeat the Horde

of only rock and soil. Curved jagged spikes poked out from all sides of the cliffside around him, making it

meters across, after all, with vertical cliffs to each side. They extended upwards farther than his eyes could see, with

first thing he noticed when he entered the dungeon was not how it looked, but how it felt. After the sewer dungeon, he had begun to focus on the mana in the air far

If Jake had to take a guess, he would say it had to be that a lot of mana in the area carried an affinity. Perhaps earth,

so slightly if nothing else. He couldn’t tell if it was due to his incompatibility with the mana outside or his compatibility with the mana inside, though.

only the right direction open. The dungeon appeared relatively linear, which was totally fine with Jake. Most certainly better than another damn

cave on the side of the gorge he had entered from; his sphere instantly picked up a

colors. This was

*CRASH*

and rubble erupted from the left side of the gorge as Jake whipped his head around to see what was

huge hulking figures - thick skin and two huge tusks, with far too much muscle, running on all

The issue was the fact that they were all

fast as he could. Fighting dozens of the hulking monstrosities at once didn’t

gorge’s rocky walls seemed to come alive as spikes

dodge as he felt more and more head towards him. Soon it wasn’t just massive pillars, but small shards of rock, pebbles, and even a freaking

of it, he did get hit by many smaller attacks. To his pleasant surprise, none of the shards managed to draw

to continue endlessly as he kept running and dodging for several minutes. It did curve slightly, but all that did was

didn’t even manage to nock an arrow before he was forced to jump out of the way,

him from behind as he kept running. It improved as he got further and further away, and the larger attacks no longer reached him. While pebbles and shards of

assess the horde of boars following him properly. And a horde it was. He estimated at least 60 boars in the stampede, all large and bulky, each and every one of them easily the

in this number and never at

was higher than he had expected. They were nearly at the Ratman Swarm Controller’s level, and if he had to estimate their strength, he believed them all to be roughly equal to the Alpha Badgers, which is to

increased distance. With a leap forward, he used Shadow Vault and increased the distance between

he took out his bow once more and, in a spinning motion, fired a Splitting Arrow behind him. He wanted to use Infused Powershot but using it while moving was inadvisable. His goal was

boars’ own charge, resulted in

would hardly matter usually, the charging boars behind made it a massive problem for the beast. The slight slowdown made the one behind it bump into it, and soon a boar traffic jam resulted in several of the beasts smashing into and tumbling over each

opportunity to once more Shadow Vault and shoot yet another Splitting Arrow behind him. He had also poisoned the arrows with a bit of his blood, but he honestly didn’t expect

until he could only hear and not see the stampede behind him. He had hoped that they would trample each other to death, but

up before him. A vast valley appeared before him, nearly utterly flat with nothing of interest in sight. The only

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