The Primal Hunter, #4
The Primal Hunter 4
by Zogarth
Contents
75. Bow & Blade
Overview
Jake pauses his bow plans to visit the Fort, where he helps Arnold by reproducing microscopic patterns from the golem and receives an upgraded Rare Nanoblade. Returning home, Jake brews Perception elixirs and performs a lengthy transmutation, converting the Embered Bow into the Epic Bow of Scorched Arcane.
The upgrade aligns the weapon with Jake’s arcane affinity, adds powerful synergistic features, grants a profession level, and cements his gear preparations ahead of the Treasure Hunt.
Summary
Waiting for his Embered Bow to recover mana, Jake heads to the Fort to check on Arnold’s work on his Nanoblade. He notes expansion projects and an assembly-line setup before finding Arnold analyzing a golem shard with an underperforming microscope. Using superior Perception, Jake identifies vein-like micro-patterns and recreates them with mana strings for Arnold to record.
Arnold reveals the Nanoblade is complete. He coated it with a new aluabsorbant composite, improving conductivity and upgrading it to Rare, though he could not attune it to Jake’s unique mana. Jake accepts the blade but sidesteps Arnold’s request to help map more shards, departing for his valley.
Back home, Jake checks his expanding underground lab project led by Hank, then returns to his porch to brew. While the bow recharges—possibly aided by the Pylon—he crafts and drinks six Perception elixirs for a +18 boost, then begins the planned transmutation to convert the bow’s fire focus to arcane and tie its function to Arcane Hunter’s Arrows.
Jake targets the bow’s gems to split stable and unstable arcane aspects, replacing the dual fire profiles, and confronts the embedded Ember Arrows skill. With Touch of the Malefic Viper, Pride-enhanced pressure, high regeneration, and sustained focus, he slowly overwrites the fire-aligned structures over thirteen and a half hours.
He succeeds, creating the Bow of Scorched Arcane (Epic). The bow now amplifies Arcane Hunter’s Arrows, passively generates stable/unstable arcane through its gems, and can unleash an Arcane-Scorched Plains burst. Jake gains a profession level, admires the pink–purple changes, and resumes alchemical grinding, planning further incremental upgrades before the Treasure Hunt.
Who Appears
- JakeProtagonist; aids Arnold by reproducing micro-patterns, receives an upgraded Nanoblade, brews Perception elixirs, and transmutes his bow into the Epic Bow of Scorched Arcane, gaining a level.
- ArnoldEngineer-smith at the Fort; studies golem shards, struggles with post-System optics, records Jake’s mana model, and delivers the improved Rare Nanoblade.
- HankBuilder expanding Jake’s underground lab into a larger complex; progress noted during Jake’s brief inspection.