The Primal Hunter

Chapter 975

Chapter 973: A Tough Job To Do Chapter 973: A Tough Job To Do

Jake seriously sucked at doing his current job. He kept trying to avoid it, only to get hit by the realization that he didn’t really have much of a choice in the matter. As for what his job was that Jake was so god damn horrible at?

To do nothing.

He was not good at doing nothing.

After sleeping for nearly a full day after returning to his lodge, Jake had woken up with his resources mostly restored and his headache not as bad as before. He was still super weak, but he at least felt like he could do some minor tasks. Maybe he could even do a bit of light alchemy experimentation?

Nope.

Jake had tried and was struck by a headache that made it impossible to focus whenever he tried to do anything straining. Next up, he tried his Puzzle Box of the Seeker, and while it wasn’t as straining due to not really using much mana, it still took full concentration and a calm mind to properly work with, and getting intermittent headaches while trying to beat levels wasn’t very productive. Quite the opposite, as failing a level due to a sudden bout of pain after spending a long time progressing only led to frustration, which led to more headaches, which led to more frustration.

Not that he could find anything actually productive to do. His body was weak, so he couldn’t do much with that, and using resources hurt and broke concentration, making any task that took intense concentration borderline impossible.

In the end, he did settle on doing what little he could: read books. Not as fast as he usually could, and he had to stay away from the too-complicated stuff, but at least it made him feel like he wasn’t completely wasting his time and being useless.

After a bit of reading and relaxing, Jake began to feel better. He also got an idea on the second day as he went down to his laboratory beneath the lodge and into the reservoir. There, he found a potential help to his current ailment: the Dewstone of Serenity and the Serene Water.

If anything could help him, it had to be this, right? The Dewstone had even been made to heal someone in the first place, as per the description:

…A small stone created by the combined effort of a group of water nymphs to help heal a close friend…

This was even further echoed by the water the Dewstone helped create:

…This water calms the mind of anyone who consumes it, allowing them to more easily focus while suppressing the effects of most mental afflictions. Continued consumption will help heal minor soul injuries…

Jake definitely didn’t expect this to be some kind of cure, but he did hope it would at least help with the pain. Testing it out, he did discover that the water had a soothing effect, which, even if it wasn’t actually helping him heal faster, would at least make the process more comfortable. In other words, it was pain meds water.

That’s how Jake ended up chilling in a makeshift hot tub of Serene Water he had poured while occasionally drinking a bit from a second container. Being down in the laboratory for a good portion of the day also helped sell one of the many lies Miranda had spread that Jake was busy doing alchemy and was working on some big project.

Days passed with Jake doing nothing productive outside of slowly recovering and reading low-level books. While he despised not being able to do more, it was at least comforting he could see the healing progressing. Quite literally so, as it was shown on his status.

Status

Mana Points (MP): 139,556/199,441 (442,484)

His limited mana poll had gone from a maximum of 198,367 to 199,441, which wasn’t a lot, but it was something. As the worst period of weakness began to wear off, the recovery should also accelerate somewhat. At least, that’s what Eron told him when he talked with Jake over the phone. The healer wanted to go in person, but Miranda believed that would be a bad idea as it would give credence to any rumors that Jake was seriously injured.

In fact, Miranda wanted to limit Jake’s contact with anyone. This was to tell the story that he was too busy, and Jake’s existing reputation as a loner who didn’t like to be disturbed helped him out here. All this was only temporary until Sylphie, Vesperia, and the Fallen King returned to Earth, as there was little doubt the three of them would visit, and the plan was still to have at least one of them remain around Jake for protection during his recovery.

Vesperia had returned. To keep up appearances, they would first stop by Miranda before going over to Jake’s place. Sylphie

sitting by the pond looking at the eels swimming around when he felt the two of them enter the valley. He barely had time to turn to look at them as a green ball of feathers flew over

Sylphie screeched, stopping right in front of Jake, still kicking up a lot of dust and

too,” Jake smiled as he reached out and gave her some scratches, the bird quickly getting comfortable sitting

asked, getting straight to the point while walking over with hurried steps, clearly trying to keep her usual calm and collected persona up. Spoiler: she wasn’t doing a

it’s the soul that’s the

“Ree?”

the week I hope, while the rest will take a lot longer,” Jake explained. “But, hey, in a week, I shouldn’t be

to be done?” Vesperia asked. “The Endless Empire has

knowledge of the Endless

him he should just wait, but sharing that he

and support the author

is the best, and I would

man has a Bloodline and it quite competent in his own right, but he is still only C-grade,”

in mind, I’m not going to outright reject it, but seeing as we’re cut off from the rest of the multiverse during this system event, we don’t have anyone besides C-grades

moments before just nodding. “Alright… but if you

down his spine, so much so that he didn’t even want her to fully vocalize it. Alright, he didn’t expect to fix Palate, but his soul

a message back and ask for ideas,” Vesperia still insisted, Jake eventually just agreeing

had really snuggled herself into

should stay around and waste their time here with me doing fuck-all just because I fucked

it really wasn’t needed, so he

best for me to remain by your side,” Vesperia said instantly, even raising a hand. “There are no more planets that need my immediate attention, and as a True Royal, it was never expected of me to be someone taking the frontlines in the first place. My only true connection to this planet is also only Sire, so it would logically make sense that I choose

at Vesperia, who had just gotten done spewing off all

necessary,” Vesperia argued against

“Ree.”

“Hm…”

“Ree.”

the weakness lingering in your body lessens. Once there is only the long-term damage left to deal with, I will remain on my lonesome. At that time, should an emergency arise, you should be fully capable of defending yourself,

massive fan of not even

said in a satisfied

you two?” Jake

and affected him

always fully supported the King’s intentions of entirely splitting off from Jake, but before, he hadn’t really seen it as anything with urgency. Now, he hoped the Fallen King would figure out a method sooner rather than later so this wouldn’t even happen again… because Jake was definitely going

would always be intertwined due to how Records and the system worked, and as Villy had said, Jake shouldn’t stop experimenting and taking risks just because of one setback. He should just have

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