The Primal Hunter

”I want the staff.”

The moment the kind people who gave them stuff were gone, the elemental mage spoke up.

”Didn’t you already swipe the loot from that asshole earlier?” the shadow assassin said with an accusatory tone, adding on. ”Also, could I perhaps see that mask one more time?”

”The guy didn’t have much, man, just a big fucking rock collection. Shiny rocks, sure, but ya ain’t gonna take an old man’s rocks, are ya?” the elemental mage guilt-tripped the rogue. ”Unless ya really want it?”

The last part was spoken towards Jake. He just shrugged. ”Keep it. But… can you even use the staff?”

Jake summoned it from his inventory to check himself and saw the level requirement on the staff as well as giving it one more look-over.

[Staff of Elemental Confluence (Ancient)] – A wooden staff with a mounted gem at its head. The gem is a merged product of the orbs of powerful earth, air, fire, and water elementals, condensed into a single gem amplifying all elemental magic. The wood is likewise a merging of different elemental-affinity woods and is enchanted to be durable and further amplify the user’s mental abilities and casting capabilities. The gem passively absorbs fire, water, earth, and air-affinity mana, and this stored mana can either be used as a supplementary mana reserve or released all at once as a quad-elemental blast. Enchantments: Elemental Confluence. Quad-element blast.

Requirements: lvl 125+ in any humanoid race.

Jake didn’t have any need for it himself. Could he possibly find a use for it? Probably. As far he knew, every single human was bound to have at least one of the four elemental affinities, if not several of them. However, Jake had his arcane magic, and that was good enough.

He then compared the staff’s level requirement to the elemental mage who was standing there and admiring it.

[Human – lvl 118]

”Dude, he’s right; you can’t even use it,” the shadow assassin very accurately pointed out.

“So? I will be able to soon. Why do you want it or what? You know what, you can have it, but only if I can shove it up your arse,” the elemental mage shot back.

“Fuck off, I’m just saying,” the assassin shrugged dismissively.

“Ya lucky I’m not as petty. I fully support giving this bastard the mask to cover up his ugly mug,” the mage said.

“Oh yeah, real mature. At least I can actually put it on. What do you plan on using the staff for? A walking stick?” the rogue fired back.

Jake had also summoned the mask and checked that again too.

[Mask of Shifting Faces (Epic)] – A mask created to change the wearer’s appearance. Allows the user to store a set number of humanoid appearances that can be freely changed between. This is an illusionary technique and not actual morphing. Changing appearance will also hide the user’s mana signature and aura. This effect can also be applied without changing appearance. The mask itself is incredibly durable. Enchantments: Appearance Change. Presence Masking.

Requirements: lvl 115+ in any humanoid race

Both the staff and mask were interesting, and especially the mask surely played with some interesting concepts to allow someone to change the appearance and even hide or change their presence. Not that Jake wanted it. His mask was already infinitely better, even if it did probably have a Unique Lifeform slumbering within that may or may not cause issues in the future.

Jake just stood back, ignoring the two men who kept acting rather childish as he checked out the stuff. He exchanged a glance with the rogue woman, who just sighed. The two mature men kept arguing for a while before she finally cut in.

much, so I’m leaving now,” she said, getting

lass,” the elemental mage said, scratching his

fine with giving the staff and mask to you two, and I assume you are fine with me keeping

from both

as he took out an item. It was a ring he had previously held in his normal storage on his neck. Newly acquired from the healer guy and not something from the Treasure Hunt. One had to remember that while he got the stuff from the Insignia from all those who fled,

was broken, and of course, all Soulbound

the cube, take this,” Jake said as he tossed

with powerful space-affinity mana that has been transformed into a spatial storage. All items within the storage are frozen in time. Latent space-affinity energy not consumed by the storage can be activated to create a temporary barrier of space-affinity mana

lvl 110+ in

smithing-related stuff, but not for everyday one. Jake was also fully aware

despite not being very talented at creating equipment. The system was very happy offering skills specifically made to create those storages and gave it out left and right. Heck, Jake had

ingredients weren’t that easily acquired, and even with the System Store, the demand simply outweighed the supply by magnitudes. Who wouldn’t

first. As an example, the first spatial storage Neil crafted was given to Miranda because she was the City Lord, so for the healer-guy to also have a spatial storage only made sense. Naturally, Jake didn’t need it, hence why he

said after looking it over and realizing it wasn’t even from the Treasure

because it’s yours now,” Jake waved her

want it, I can take it?” the

a skill and not a storage. As for the shadow assassin, Jake had seen him summon a chair at one point, so he had one for sure, which again only made sense as he was from

She bound the item and put her two swords in it, happily seeing it work. After that, they distributed the staff and mask to the elemental mage and shadow assassin, respectively. As for the seven rare items, they also distributed those evenly. Jake, the shadow assassin, and the elemental mage got two each,

also known as the space-magic box. He identified it again as the three

A cube containing a spatial storage within, specially made to store items of high value safely. The cube can be manipulated and a password set. Due to the construction of the cube, it is near-indestructible by anyone below S-grade, and if the item is destroyed, a space storm will be released. The time

than anything else he had and was nearly indestructible. The thing is, Jake’s necklace already did all he wanted… but that didn’t mean the cube would be useless because items like this did

necklace over the cube? The reason for that was actually simple: all of those were bound to the user. The thing about spatial tools was that things always got a bit dicey when it came to sharing stuff. Personal spatial storages were incredibly hard to switch around, and often the only way to get it off someone would be to kill them as Jake had done with the healer. Unbinding them wasn’t like usual magic tools, but it often took a long time - way too

a single person acting as a bank. The person acting as the bank had to be powerful and able to keep things safe and be easily accessible at all times if someone needed

and not through owning the item. This meant several people could unlock it and use it at the same time. At the same time, Jake had a feeling the actual password one could set would be borderline impossible to solve for most anyone. Because when Jake twisted the cube in his hand, he saw that it

could change it. Not just through some subtle manipulation, either. For when he poured a bit of mana in, a

default menu of

Options available:

Choose a compartment

2. Choose cube composition.

3: Choose password layout.

role. If the Administrator dies, a new one can be assigned after (please set

It wasn’t a system message, but ones directly given by the item. It was also a message only he could see based on no one else reacting.

but now wasn’t the time or place. Also, he kind of wanted Miranda and Lillian present. Based on how the cube worked, it likely wouldn’t be Jake using it

elemental mage had put away the staff somewhere, with the shadow assassin now wearing his mask.

the shadow assassin and squinted his eyes a bit as he saw the flaws in

the assassin yelled, trying to sound like

mage responded by flinging a fireball

the daft cunt now, eh? Come in, little shadow boy, use

a bit beneath his mask as the assassin dropped the illusion