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)]
the Malefic Viper
Skills: [Endless Tongues of the Myriad Races (Unique)], [Identify (Common)], [Meditate (Common)],
the Primal Hunter
could still remember when it barely contained anything and even had a few
get a skill to make better use of the high perception at level 70. His Mark already did so as well as his Moment of the Primal Hunter, but that was about it. Of course, the stat did still help passively, but most of his skills did scale
that was for when he reached
tunnel leading into the volcano-like mountain. He ran through it
one was relatively simple. It was all made of stone with pillars of rock everywhere. Overall he saw nothing of note but
didn’t waste any time as he rushed to it, placed his hand,
the dungeon: Valley
the
found himself in a deep valley made of only rock and soil. Curved jagged spikes poked out from all sides of the cliffside around
was a gorge rather than a valley. It was only twenty or so meters across, after all, with vertical
the dungeon was not how it looked, but how it felt. After the sewer dungeon, he had begun to focus on the
dense, just solid, like it had weight to it. 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
any adverse effect on his mana regenerations; it had increased ever 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. And with the timer
ahead, obstructing his vision. The left side was blocked off, leaving only the right direction open. The dungeon appeared relatively linear, which was totally fine with Jake.
had entered from; his sphere instantly
looked up and saw a shimmering wall of mana with yellow and brown colors. This was the first time he had experienced
*CRASH*
the gorge as Jake whipped his head around to see what
hulking figures - thick skin and two huge tusks, with far too much muscle, running on all fours. Jake didn’t need to
wasn’t the issue. The issue was the fact that they were all
turned tail and ran as fast as he could. Fighting dozens of the hulking monstrosities at once
beasts. Unluckily they had other means of attack than trampling. The gorge’s rocky walls seemed to come alive as spikes of rock
felt more and more head towards him. Soon it wasn’t just massive pillars, but small shards of rock, pebbles, and even a freaking
most of it, he did get hit by many smaller attacks. To his pleasant surprise, none of the shards managed to draw blood as the combined defense of his cloak and armor blocked most
running and dodging for several minutes. It did curve slightly, but all that did was
his bow and attempted to retaliate. He didn’t even manage to nock an arrow before he was forced to jump out of the way, making him quickly shelve that
as he kept running. It improved as he got further and further away, and the larger attacks no
properly. And a horde it was. He estimated at least 60 boars in the stampede, all large and bulky, each and every one
had encountered them before, but never in this number and never
– lvl
them all to be roughly equal to the Alpha Badgers,
he couldn’t take potshots with the increased distance. With a leap forward, he used Shadow Vault and increased the distance between himself and the
Splitting Arrow behind him. He wanted to use Infused Powershot but using it while moving was inadvisable. His goal was to sow chaos among the beasts
boars’ own charge, resulted in them not
making it stumble slightly. While it 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
had also poisoned the arrows with a bit of his blood, but he honestly didn’t expect it to do much damage. However, it slowed down the entire horde
he kept running and firing arrows until he could only hear and not see the stampede behind him. He had hoped that they would trample each other to death, but it appeared they were simply too bulky to do so effectively. After the first few shots, they had also started to defend themselves a bit, making his attacks
out as he saw the entire area opening up before him. A vast valley appeared before him, nearly utterly flat with nothing of
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