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.

I didn’t contribute much, so I’m leaving now,” she said, getting the attention of the two bickering

making me feel bad, lass,” the elemental mage said, scratching

make his own position known. “I am fine with giving the staff and mask to you two, and I assume you are

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

and of course, all Soulbound items were lost. But he had

cube, take this,” Jake said as he tossed

affixed with a gem 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 around the wearer.

in any humanoid

and didn’t appear to have any storage. She probably had a skill for her smithing-related stuff, but not for everyday one. Jake was also fully aware that spatial storage items were quite hard to get for those unaffiliated with larger cities or factions

could do it, 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 a feeling that if he really tried, he could get it offered to become able

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

prioritized themselves 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 handed it off to

take this,” she said after looking it over

it’s yours now,” Jake

can take

storage. As for the shadow assassin, Jake had seen

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

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

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 of all items will be frozen within, and mana leakage will be severely alleviated. Mana leakage is nullified entirely for lower-value goods. The difficulty of the password is determined by the

had to admit he wasn’t entirely sure what to use it for personally. It was a spatial storage no doubt better 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

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

and be easily accessible at all times if someone needed anything. To put it simply, it was highly impractical. One could say that the way Haven did things currently, with Lillian acting as the bank most of the time, they were conducting themselves in a highly

a puzzle of some sort 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

fifteen by fifteen by fifteen as he held it, he felt that he could change it. Not just through some subtle manipulation, either. For when he poured a bit of mana in, a screen appeared

the default menu of

Options available:

a

2. Choose cube composition.

3: Choose password layout.

Claim Administrator role (once an Administrator is set, only the Administrator can assign others with the role. If the Administrator dies, a new one can be assigned after (please set time) amount

ones directly given by the item. It was also a message only he could see based on no one else reacting. So, without further ado,

Jake just looked it over a bit more before tossing it into the Hunter Insignia. He knew he could play around with the box a lot but now wasn’t the time or place. Also, he kind of wanted Miranda and Lillian present. Based on how the cube worked,

put away the staff somewhere, with the shadow assassin now wearing his mask. Jake looked at the guy and saw he now looked exactly

squinted his eyes a bit as he saw the flaws in the illusion, courtesy of his high perception. Well, he also had his sphere and instincts telling him the guy was faking it, so he really wasn’t gonna fool

neva figure it out!” the assassin yelled, trying

by flinging a fireball after the

eh? Come in,

bit beneath his mask as the assassin dropped the illusion and laughed