Jake walked beside the teenage caster as he happily chatted away. Jake had been taken aback by learning about two massive camps that, combined, held nearly all the remaining survivors in them. He had come here looking for the source of mana before, but instead, he’d found a caster, and from his aura, it didn’t feel like it was him. Oh well, this is fine too.The archer was able to remain relatively relaxed as he walked. He had naturally inspected the young man when they first met.[Human – lvl 24]He was happy to see that it now finally worked on humans. It only showed race level, giving Jake no idea about the teenager's class or profession details. He knew he was a caster based solely on his clothes.Jake didn’t feel like sharing any personal information either, despite the other party's subtle, and not so subtle, probes. The caster called himself William, or Will for short. He had stressed the last part quite a bit. Being friendly was all well and good, but Jake seriously didn’t lik

Jake sauntered before the mighty beast. It easily towered over him, reaching the size of a small van. It hadn’t grown massively compared to its prior evolution, but Jake could feel the power hidden within its porky body. The boar was built like a tank, with a hide perhaps comparable to one.As he got closer, the beast seemed to wake from its stupor as it turned toward him, glaring. Perhaps the system was doing its magic since it was night, but it didn’t immediately attack. It just stared at him. He instinctively felt that if he moved just a couple of steps closer, the beast would charge with abandon.The logical move would be to take out his bow and use Powershot with the maximum charge to do massive damage or even kill it with a single attack, but where was the fun in that? Where was the challenge? He didn’t even use any poison either.Instead, he took a step forward and entered its range, and as predicted, the beast squealed as it made its way toward him, a charge he gladly met with

In a small corner of the tutorial forest, a very peculiar thing was happening. A man was repeatedly jumping around, more times than not finding himself smashing face-first into a tree. He seemed to turn into something resembling a shadow, quickly moving forward and then turning back to his normal tangible form with every jump.This weird man was, naturally, Jake testing out his newly acquired Basic Shadow Vault of Umbra. The skill took quite a bit getting used to, which was the reason why he needed to practice it as much as he did.The skill was quite simple, actually. With little to no warning or preparation, Jake could speed up his movement in any direction he was currently moving, turning into a shadow-like substance, and then appear once more whenever he reached his designated target, or when the uptime of the skill ran out.When he was a shadow, no physical object could touch him, instantly making Jake want to try phasing through walls. Sadly, that hope was quickly squashed. Whil

If simply taken as an archer, Jake wasn’t anything overly impressive. He was relatively strong and fast due to his many levels in his race, but he was still a bit behind those with evolved classes. He still got an edge during combat due to his lack of hesitation and powerful Bloodline, though. But overall, fighting an entire team with class levels higher than his own wouldn’t end well. If one disregarded his other primary source of power, that is.However, if one added his profession, the equation changed. The pure stat amount of Toughness and Vitality it had provided made him far more robust than nearly everyone else, especially in prolonged fights. But without a doubt, his greatest strength currently was his potent toxins. A single arrow or a single cut transformed from a minor wound to almost certain death.And now he had applied his poison. He hadn’t done it from the beginning of the fight for many reasons. First of all, he wasn’t sure it would turn into a battle. Secondly, he wan

The room was filled with tension as both sides sat staring at each other. As always, it was a contest of who would speak first and break the silence. Both sides seemed to see it was a weakness to be the first to make their thoughts known, which was why Jacob reluctantly ended up taking that role."Ahem, gentlemen," he started as both Hayden and Richard turned their eyes to him. "As we discussed yesterday, Hayden, we did a thorough check of the people you presumed us to have killed, and after a lot of searching, we were still unable to have anyone take credit. In fact, the majority of the fights have no surviving members from our camp, and maybe… we were never the party fighting your men to begin with."Hayden didn’t react, just sitting there stoically. The man was nearly as tall as Richard and as strongly built. No way anyone would think the man was a caster just based on his build. The spear on his back certainly didn’t help either.The only thing really giving away his original clas