The Primal Hunter

Jake felt the influx of knowledge as his class evolved. For a moment, Jake felt as if he sitting within an endless void with only darkness all around him, except for a single horizontal line of light impossibly far away. He blinked, and it was gone, making Jake certain he had not actually been transported anywhere… it was just a vision.

It lingered for a while before Jake shook it off and returned his attention to what the evolution had brought with it.

Checking it out, he saw that he got one skill upgraded and another new skill, mirroring what had happened in D-grade. The skill that had upgraded was once more Big Game Hunter, with a name that was now just getting silly with how long it was.

[Big Game Arcane Hunter (Epic)] – A true hunter seeks not the easy prey but a true challenge. Your hunt has taken you further than ever before as your methods improve, and you have embraced the Arcane. The Avaricious Arcane Hunter has, through his many hunts, become more accustomed to facing higher-level enemies. Increases the user’s resistance to auras and gives a small increase to Strength, Agility, Intelligence and Willpower while facing enemies above your class or race level. The bonus is based on the disparity between the level of your prey and you. Limit of 1.25x your level or 50 levels, whichever is highest. May your hunt be fruitful and your Avarice sated.

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[Horizon-Chasing Big Game Arcane Hunter (Ancient)] – A true hunter seeks not the easy prey but a true challenge. Your hunt has taken you further than ever before as your methods improve, and you have embraced the Arcane. As you forever chase the horizon, you have become more accustomed to facing higher-level enemies. Increases the user’s resistance to auras and gives a small increase to Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Willpower, and a substantial increase to Perception while facing enemies above your class or race level. The bonus is based on the disparity between the level of your prey and you. Limit of 1.30x your level or 75 levels, whichever is highest. May your hunt take you toward the horizon.

A bit of change to the flavor text, with substantial changes coming in the later part. It had upgraded all current functionalities and increased the level cap of when he would get extra bonus stats, but more importantly than all that, it had finally added Perception to the list of bonus stats.

More than that, it had done so that the skill boosted Perception more than the others. Jake touched on it before, but together with Malefic Viper’s Poison, this was one of those unsung heroes that he never really thought about. It was just there, always in the background, always making him stronger. Looking at it also made Jake more determined to hunt higher-leveled enemies more often. He had fought a lot of powerful variants lately, making them not above his level by much but still powerful. Of course, there was also the fact he was right at the end of a grade before, while he had now just entered C-grade, giving him 150 levels before the next evolution.

Jake was more than satisfied with the upgrade and looked forward to feeling and mentally noting the effect of the skill for two fights before forgetting it existed until his next evolution.

Moving on, Jake had only gotten one skill this time around. Another passive skill, from the looks of it, and a pretty weird one at that.

[Unblemished Arrows of the Horizon (Ancient)] – To allow your arrows to reach the horizon unblemished and unobstructed is nothing but a given for a hunter of the Horizon’s Edge. Allows your arrows to gain significant resistance to all environmental factors and far more easily destroy any environmental energy or material. Grants a slight increase in penetrative power against energy-based defensive barriers and magical interference that may obstruct the arrow. The potency of the Unblemished Arrows of the Horizon skill is determined by the inherent power of the arrow. The maximum and minimum potency of Unblemished Arrows of the Horizon is determined by Perception.

He called it a weird one, but it was still pretty simple in concept. Just not what he had expected.

The skill would effectively allow Jake’s arrows to have less trouble when in flight, and with how he understood it – and the instinctual knowledge granted from the skill confirmed – he could now ignore things like wind resistance in most cases. More than that, he would now be able to far more easily shoot through obstacles that were considered environmental. That meant he could be able to shoot through rocks or soil, while something like the trees would still prove difficult as they were living beings.

To add on, the skill even helped a bit against magical barriers and what the system called “magical interference,” which Jake was not 100% on what that meant. Maybe it meant domains or something like that? Such as the flames around the Fireheart Bears he had killed? Yeah, that seemed probable.

In the end, this was the kind of skill Jake would have to test out in the field to fully understand. Something he sure planned on doing in not that long.

Done with all the evolutions and now firmly in C-grade, Jake pulled up his full status.

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

Race: [Human (C) – lvl 200]

Class: [Arcane Hunter of Horizon’s Edge – lvl 200]

Profession: [Heretic-Chosen Alchemist of the Malefic Viper – lvl 200]

Health Points (HP): 81070/81070

Mana Points (MP): 151421/151421

Stamina: 83881/83890

Stats

Strength: 6649

Agility: 11568

Endurance: 8389

Vitality: 8107

Toughness: 6393

Wisdom: 9691

Intelligence: 8207

Perception: 19251

Willpower: 8193

Free Points: 130

[Dungeoneer IX], [Dungeon Pioneer VI], [Prodigious Slayer of the Mighty], [Kingslayer], [Nobility: Marquess], [Progenitor of the 93rd Universe], [Prodigious Arcanist], [Perfect

[Superior Stealth Attack (Rare)], [Splitting Arrow Rain (Rare)], [Arrow of the Ambitious Hunter (Rare)], [Descending Dark Arcane Fang (Rare)], [Archery of Expanding Horizons (Epic)], [Mark of the Avaricious Arcane Hunter (Epic)], [Avaricious Arcane Hunter’s Arrows (Epic)], [Arcane Powershot (Epic)], [Steady Aim of the Apex Hunter (Ancient)], [Arcane Awakening (Ancient)], [One Step, Thousand Miles (Ancient)], [Fangs of Man (Ancient)], [Horizon-Chasing Big Game Arcane Hunter (Ancient)], [Unblemished Arrows of the Horizon (Ancient)], [Moment of the Primal Hunter (Legendary)], [Gaze of the Apex Hunter (Legendary)], [Relentness Hunt

of the Heretic-Chosen (Unique)], [Grimoire of the Heretic-Chosen (Unique)], [Alchemist’s Purification (Inferior)], [Alchemical Flame (Common)], [Cultivate Toxin (Common)], [Brew Potion (Common)], [Craft Elixir (Uncommon)], [Concoct Poison (Rare)], [Soul Ritualism of the Heretic-Chosen Alchemist (Epic)], [Advanced Core Manipulation (Epic)], [Malefic Viper’s Poison (Ancient)], [Blood of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)], [Sagacity of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)], [Sense of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)], [Wings of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)], [Touch of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)], [Legacy Teachings of the Heretic-Chosen Alchemist (Legendary)], [Palate of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)], [Pride

[True Blessing of the Malefic Viper

the Myriad Races (Unique)], [Wisdom of the Hunter (Unique)], [Legacy of Man (Unique)], [Identify (Rare)], [Serene Soul Meditation (Epic)], [Shroud of

Primal Hunter (Bloodline Ability -

the last time he checked, only adding a few new skills. One in each category, to be more exact. Some changes were better than others, of course. Seeing so many of his skills reduced in rarity was painful on a fundamental level, but this was sadly just how the system worked. At least he could now upgrade them all again and hopefully come back

status was naturally his

Agility was quite a disparity, one far bigger than before he had evolved. The primary offender was the extra 550 Agility from the Path of the Hunter during his race evolution and the 10% extra stats in it too. Jake now had an

left him with an issue here and now. He knew it would begin to negatively impact his combat potential if the stat fell too much behind, even if he didn’t

I can decide later.

lot of Free Points. 50 for every class level was quite insane alone, which should allow him to shore up any weaknesses. He also had room for more elixirs now, and he saw that the cap of stats one could get from elixirs was

12000 if he had good enough stuff. That was over 5500 missing stats just from not wearing C-grade equipment. Effectively, these stats were not as good as the usual ones as they didn’t scale with his percentage amplifiers, and some skills didn’t amplify them either, but it was still

More elixirs, new gear, looking into making grimoires, getting the Bee Queen ritual properly started, exploring his new skills, getting some levels, upgrading some skills, getting levels... so many things, with even more he had

that, he had to consider his upcoming trip off-world. Nevermore was calling, and Jake needed to be ready for

already had a few in mind. One of which he

talkative, though it often just said weird stuff that didn’t make any sense. But that was okay; the wind wasn’t really a person, so it wouldn’t make sense

boring right now. Finding baddies to beat up had gotten super hard after she had done another growing up, and now everything was either not grown up like her or didn’t wanna fight her. The wind did tell her

just been visiting mom and dad, who were both busy hunting the weak baddies, and had told her not

be really super silly sometimes. Sylphie was definitely sure of that. Most people were actually super silly a lot of the time when Sylphie really thought about it… or maybe Sylphie was just the smartest? Definitely possible. For sure, she was smarter than Uncle, as anyone smart would have thrown away that smelly pot a long time ago or at least

said Sylphie was now nearly grown and had to be more serious, but that didn’t make any sense at all. Sylphie was always super serious; that was why she was so good and

that growing up was “overrated” or something. The other kind of growing up, Sylphie came to learn, not the kind of growing up that made her wind windier. Sylphie agreed on that one;

was smart, she had to learn how to use it. She had heard about many not-humans using the skill to change how

out of the lodge and jumped upwards to get above the trees, allowing him

was not the only one who had reached C-grade, and from the looks of it, the little bird had evolved quite a bit before