The Primal Hunter

Sylphie had once more been a bit mad when Jake had sent her away to spend some time with her parents, but today was one of those days where having a bird sitting around just wasn’t feasible. The reason for this was simple… today would be the day he would craft his first uncommon-rarity Necrotic Poison. He could feel it. At least that’s what he kept telling himself as he felt the same the day before.

Another two weeks had passed, and it had now been nearly a month since the World Congress ended, aka two months away from the Treasure Hunt. He had gotten another profession-level in the bag, bringing it to 105, and with it, a race level had also naturally come. Yet his stats had grown quite a bit more than one would expect. The reason for this was simple.

Jake had begun a new diet called: ”SHIT, I GOTTA HURRY UP AND EAT THAT FUCKING BANANA BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS! DAMN YOU, TIME TREE THAT ISN’T ACTUALLY A TREE!”

It was a very healthy diet, naturally consisting of magical time bananas.

[Celerita Banana (Rare)] – As a banana from the Ancient Celerita Musa, this fruit contains intense amounts of Celerita-affinity mana with agility-enhancing effects. This fruit can be used in many different creations and is especially suited for flasks and elixirs. Due to this banana’s origin, it will be returned to the rivers of time if it is removed too far from the tree. Consuming or transforming the fruit will anchor the energies in time, removing this effect. +3 Agility upon consumption.

Jake constantly kept watch of the tree with his sphere, and whenever he saw a ripe banana appear, he stopped whatever he was doing to rush in and pick it off the tree. He had discovered the bananas could disappear and no longer be recognized as items in as little as a minute, while at other times, they remained on the tree for hours on end.

He suddenly understood far better why the Prima never left the temple. It didn’t want to miss out on bananas.

He had also tried not heeding the warning and taking the banana away and out of the time-distortion area surrounding the tree. That hadn’t gone well as it instantly began rotting and turned to dust in his hand within seconds. Jake still had no idea how to anchor the banana either besides eating it, but he did have one way of finding out.

Swallowing one. No, not eating it, but swallow a banana with Palate of the Malefic Viper. Sadly, he could only have one item stored at a time, and currently, he still had the Lifecore within there. He could switch it up but didn’t really feel the need to. Eating the bananas normally was fine, too, as they were super tasty.

Also, while he made it sound like he ate a lot, he had only actually eaten 13 more during this month, giving him an extra 39 agility. He knew there was a cap of stats and all that, but he had decided that since agility was one of his best stats, it was fine. Besides… it allowed him to do something he really wanted: throw every single free point into perception again. Perception for the win.

Overall, his status had experienced quite the growth, especially in agility and the stats his class gave. Not to talk badly of the 10 race levels. That in itself was more than 100 to all stats due to his titles. Of course, Perception was still the one that had grown most – as it should be.

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

Race: [Human (D) – lvl 110]

Class: [Avaricious Arcane Hunter – lvl 115]

Profession: [Heretic-Chosen Alchemist of the Malefic Viper – lvl 105]

Health Points (HP): 20070/20070

Mana Points (MP): 25941/26975

Stamina: 14571/16880

Stats

Strength: 1439

Agility: 2376

Endurance: 1688

Vitality: 2007

Toughness: 1392

Wisdom: 2158

Intelligence: 1709

Perception: 3902

Willpower: 1722

Free points: 0

upgrades here and there, such as Enhanced

hunt than during this month, but that was just the disparity between professions and classes. Jake liked both, and that’s

he began his preparations. The first and most important ingredient he needed was, of course,

A poisonous blue mushroom that emits blue light. The Aged Blue Mushroom has grown to a point where simply being touched by its light can bring you harm, and the juices

blue light. It was only a bit, though, and he quickly got “capped” on knowledge from doing that. Pretty much all he learned was that it

to have moss as a side dish to their mushrooms. It was the butter to the bread or the rum to the coke. Of course, with a stronger mushroom, one needs more potent

of the must-buys of the system store came in. Another item that Jake

the Green moss found in places with absolutely no sunlight and a high level of death-affinity mana. This moss is extremely dangerous

an almost unnaturally dark color, and he even felt a bit of dark-mana mixed into the overpowering death-affinity energy. Jake

that and quite a few failed crafting attempts under his belt, he was

his blood. It replaced most of the water and was quite frankly instrumental to him making as much progress as he did. It just made everything far easier, and the synergy with all of his Malefic Viper skills just amplified it even more. Sense of the Malefic

all of that

also added a bit of Purified Water to not have his blood be too overpowering

up was the

a few mana strings, and let all the small fragments enter the mix. The

doing this outside and in a relatively open area. He did see that he was still a bit too close to a few trees as he saw some leaves turn black and wither, but what can

moss energy, he noticed that the entire concoction was still a bit too weak, so he used Touch of the Malefic Viper and infused a bit more necrotic energy into it, just slightly topping it up. The moss-fragments absorbed the energy, and it gave them a second wind of sorts, allowing

he took out one of the mushrooms. Its blue light seemed all-encompassing, and the entire area he was sitting in had already been cleared of grass

it straight into the mix. The reason for this was simple: it would allow him to not only squeeze out the juices but also absorb all

Jake wanted to get that out before he fully ripped the mushroom apart and began directly integrating

part was one he could speed up significantly, but currently, that would only be a shortcut to having the entire concoction explode in his face.

before he willed it to speed up just a little

his own arcane-affinity to make the protective constructs stable to not interfere with the other energies of the concoction. That was the good thing about his own stable version of arcane mana: it didn’t