The Primal Hunter

Landing on the cloud island with Hawkie at his side, Jake sat down in meditation instantly. He felt like it was far too long since he had gotten a skill in his class and hoped for something useful to add to his repertoire. He especially desired to see his magic progress reflected and maybe even get some sweet new skill related to it.

First on his notifications were the kill messages, and that, of course, was as expected.

*You have slain [Lightning Roc – lvl 98] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level*

*You have slain [Cloud Elemental – lvl 97] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level*

What he cared more about was the ones right below it.

*’DING!’ Class: [Ambitious Hunter] has reached level 90 - Stat points allocated, +4 free points*

*Ambitious Hunter class skills available*

With great anticipation, he accepted the prompt. He nearly didn’t dare look, but of course, he had to. He still vividly remembered his disappointment at 80. His first reaction was a sigh of relief as he saw five new options available he could choose from. The maximum. So far, so good.

Without further ado, he dove straight into it. Doing as you do, he started from the first option. Instantly getting a bit miffed at the common rarity.

[Weak Telekinesis (Common)] – Move the world only with your mind. Grants the hunter basic telekinetic powers, able to move objects within a certain range using only mana. The cost of the skill is dependent on the weight and resistance of the entity you attempt to move. The weight limit and power of Weak Telekinesis is based on Intelligence and Wisdom.

Okay, at least telekinesis is cool, he thought to himself. The common-rarity tag being a bit sore on his eyes. The name alone pretty much described the skill entirely. It was just telekinesis and apparently a weak version of it.

It was one of the many things he could already do without a skill. Albeit not as elegantly as a skill would likely make it, but he could do it, nonetheless. Which was without a doubt the reason why he had unlocked it. No way it was a skill related to his class after all. Telekinesis and a hunter aiming for strong prey didn’t exactly go hand in hand.

So while it was a skill he liked and even wanted due to pure vanity, every reasonable part of him made him skip over it. Better to just train himself to be able to do telekinesis without a skill. If one day he was offered a legendary super-telekinesis skill, he may pick it, but weak telekinesis was just too… well, weak. Hence he moved on.

[Superior Mana Bolt (Uncommon)] – Sometimes, the simplest applications of mana can be the most effective. A philosophy you have followed as you refined the most basic of spells. Allows the hunter to summon bolts of mana to defeat your foes. Adds a small bonus to the effect of Intelligence when using Superior Mana Bolt.

The mana bolt. But far from as simple as the ones he had seen during his first days of the tutorial. The basic mana bolt skill was only inferior-rarity, making it truly the lowest of offensive magic skills. And now he had upgraded it twice over at least, it appeared.

actually chosen to be a caster back during the tutorial, he would have likely improved it even further. It always felt good to get some positive affirmation that his work had

next skill was very much the

impact. Note that not all spells can be bound, and the effect varies based on the spell used and the arrow infused.

While it had turned out to be less effective than just throwing mana bolts repeatably, he had learned

of course, the skill was, in good old English, absolutely worthless. That limit of only spell constructs of uncommon-rarity and below sitting there ruining everything. But

into arrows as it was his limit. Or maybe it was his limit because it was based on his practice of using the mana bolt as the base. When he tried it with Touch of the Malefic Viper, however, it failed every time. Touch being a skill of epic-rarity, of course, so he hoped that with practice, he

coated poison and death on

something for the future, though. Moving on, Jake went to the second-to-last skill. Yet another result of his

constructs in your immediate vicinity by overloading them with mana. Higher consumption of mana based

the lackeys of Hayden and Richard and was looking death in the eye. At

practicing mana, he thought back on that feeling and managed to replicate it. He did wonder why he hadn’t unlocked it earlier, but perhaps it had to do with him not actually understanding at all what he had done back then. Now he knew that it was a bit more than

mana. The same type Jake used to make his mana bolts. He still wasn’t quite sure what the difference between the destructive mana and normal mana was, besides the moniker of destructive

he had finally been offered it as a skill. But it fell into the exact same category as many of the prior skills. He knew it was still a simple technique, and

wasn’t sure if he felt disappointed or happy with his skill choices. Clearly, his

part of the multiverse for a few months in realtime. Some of the time had been spent in a time-chamber with Villy and Duskleaf, and while that time

quite a lot of his discouragement, he moved on to the final skill, immediately noticing the epic-rarity, making his lips curl

strike down a fated foe in a single shot. Grants the skill to summon a powerful arrow designed to strike down a specific foe. The Hunter must envision his foe and, with great focus, channel all of his desire to slay it to summon the arrow. The arrow summoned deals significantly greater damage to the envisioned target while ineffective on anything else. Damage increased further based on level disparity. Adds a small bonus to the effects of Agility,

the last many levels, and while he couldn’t say he was disappointed in them, he wasn’t exactly over the

Hunter were the only ones really worth mentioning. Infused Powershot was from Powershot he got as a regular archer, and his other powerful skills weren’t really

than the class. It had been a rare skill that was likely quite okay, but

both classified as class skills but were both gained as tutorial rewards, so he couldn’t really credit his class with those either. He felt like getting the Gaze had more to do with his bloodline

classes on average gave more stats than professions, but his case was entirely lopsided. His profession gave him insane

appear like it had the potential to. It was also something Jake felt like he needed right now. He saw no

course, he picked

became aware of how to use it intuitively. It didn’t come with any explicit understanding of how strong it was or potential limitations, but that is what testing is for. Something he was sure the dear elementals

hit for sure, but many heroes would rise in a time of crisis. In several

But it wasn’t an impossible challenge -

was indeed an outlier. While the final bosses of these tutorial zones were indeed all D-grade, they were only just

late, and peak was the most often used terms. For an E-grade like Jake, being between level 25-50 was the early stage, 50-75 mid, 75-95 late, and 95-99 peak.