Chapter 5: New Recovery Traits

"Let's start with jogging." What Jayven will do here is do a rotation of sprints and jogs. The reason for this is to save mana with every usage.

Mana usage is a problem with Jayven's Skill. He can only recover one point of mana every 30 minutes. Which is normal for everyone in this world.

So every time he dashes, he must break the limit of his speed to increase his agility.

"Let's go. With that, he started running. "The goal is the park. By pacing himself, Jayven can gain the strength and stamina he needs.

First, he reduced his agility by 10% more than it normally is, and once he dashed, he recognized a popping sound signaling that he had broken his skill effect.

[Agility +0.008] goes along with the increase in his strength. Then he tried to

reduce it by 20%.

[Agility +0.01] breathing, Jayven again received another notification. He increased it again. Until he found the right percentage to use.

After half an hour of experimenting and running, he sat down on the bench at the park.

"Huff, huff. Damn, that was exhausting. But it was worth it."

He looked at the stats and saw an overall increase of 0.3 points in his agility. And looking at his stamina, it also increased his total capacity by 0.1 point.

Although small, it will be bigger in the long run. Also, he noticed that his attributes had different types of increases. Depending on the percentage, it is reduced.

99%-90 is around 1 point, 89%-80% is 0.8 points, 79%-70% is 0.5, 69%-60% is 0.3, 59%-50% is 0.1, 49%-40% is 0.08, 39%-30% is 0.05, 29%-20% is 0.03, 19%-10% is 0.01, And 10%-1% is 0.008.

He sprints and runs during this time and notices that it takes too much stamina to break the 20% restraint of his current strength, but it is better than nothing.

So after running for half an hour, he received 0.3 points. But now he only has half of his mana and a quarter of his stamina.

He needs to rest a bit to recover after all; during his usage of it, he also noticed that his stats lowered as his stamina lowered, making his performance plummet.

But it wasn't an exaggerated lowering of stats; it was still there, but after it was less than fifty percent of the original state, his stats would plummet to 0.1% for every point lowered.

Kind of like how debuffs work. Not only stamina, but mana can also have side effects when overused.

"No wonder hunters needed an average of over thirty attribute points in their stats. Because once their stamina plummets, they will still have strength to fight against the average number of monsters out there."

He sighed as he thought of this, and he was exactly right: on average, the strength of the monsters outside every stronghold of the city is 15–25 points, and that is only in areas near every city stronghold.

But once they get deeper, the strength will increase by huge amounts, increasing by one and a half or twice their original strength.

So having a leeway of strength is important because if an accident happens, they can leave the place with strength to spare even with the lower stamina debuff.

"If only I could increase my recovery rate." As he thought of that, a sudden rush of eureka woke his mind. Wait, recovery rate?

He then looked at his stats and thought

"I thought of increasing my stamina, but I can't touch it, and for my mana, the only way is to increase their recovery rate."

And to do that, he had to sacrifice a lot of his credits. What should I do?

Currently, he has an idea to increase his stats, but it may not seem possible. But still, after thinking it through, he made a decision.

"Let's buy stamina potion and mana potion."

This was a grueling idea, but it is worthwhile in the long run if he thinks about it carefully.

Since he wants to have a fast mana recovery and stamina recovery rate, he has more reason to buy those potions.

"Once I took advantage of its effect, I wouldn't need to carry more of those potions and could save most of my resources for better use. Not to mention, it could also hasten his training progress.

Also, unlike Health potions, which cost a lot of mana, stamina potions actually cost less.

The lowest price for a health potion's lowest grade is 10,000 ACC per bottle, which will dry up his wallet before he can increase his normal recovery rate.

But for mana, he just has to do some meditation to recover it little by little or sleep. Not to mention the stamina potion.

And it still costs a lot. A mana potion of the lowest grade costs about 1,000 ACC, and a stamina potion costs even less, at 100 ACC.

There is also another reason for its low grade. The more a person drinks it, the lesser its effect, prompting them to use higher-grade potions.

"My plan here is to get my mana and stamina recovery to increase by 1 point per minute or more."

Thinking so, he planned to buy all the needed equipment and resources for his growth.

"It's a good thing I noticed this earlier; if not, I would have been doing this for nothing."

As long as the threshold of the effect of the mana and stamina potion is breached when intaking it, their effects will naturally rise.

With the plan already forming in his head, he continued his workout and thought of buying his needs this afternoon after taking some rest.

---------District XX, Ambrosia Market--------

After training, he took some rest and prepared to leave the house. Afterwards, he rode his bicycle, arriving at the busy market area called the Ambrosia Market.

Well, the name should be fancy since the city he lived in is called Blossom City.

The reason for it is the amazing number of Flower gardens on the outskirts of the city, which is the main hunting ground for hunters.

It is filled with Blooming flowers all year round and has a variety of colors every season. But like the saying goes, in every beautiful flower there are thorns, and this place really does have one.

One that people like to call a disaster-class Monster. But as long as no one goes deep in the sea of the Flower Garden, you will be safe.

Anyway, the market place is like the Ambosia of the city, holding goods that the general populace wants, especially the hunters.

"Where was that place again? I think it's right inside this alley."

Looking around as he dragged his bicycle, Jayven looked around and saw a huge number of stores and vendors, but he passed by them and arrived at the corner alley and entered such a secluded place.

And after a few minutes of walking, he found the store he was looking for.

"Yup, just as I remembered it. I really want to tell the owner to change the location of the store at the front of the street. It's so secluded that he doesn't have that many customers."

"Well, I am still living alright, though."

"Woah!" Jayven jumped back as an old man who quietly stood beside him spoke.

"How rude! We haven't seen each other for more than a year, and that is how you greet me?"

"Ehehehe, sorry owner." He awkwardly smiled as he faced the person in front of him.

"Go in for now." The old man then invited Jayven in as he got inside the store.

"Then can I hear the reason you're here? Oh, wait, let me guess."

As he was about to ask, he stopped himself and said the next word.

"You came back here to become my official apprentice this time, right?"

"No."

"Tch, so you are still going for that dream. if you worked here with your ability, you could become a top-notch alchemist even with that skill."

'Well, this skill is now my ticket to success. But let's not say that I need to finish

what I came here for and not waste any time.'

"I am here to buy some potions."

"What? Have you been injured? You do know the market price for one health potion is 10K ACC, right?"

"No, I am not injured, and I am not here for health potions. I need 50 low-grade mana potions and 50 medium-grade stamina potions."

"Hmm, although those requests are quite weird, are you going to train your skill or a technique?"

'He is indeed an experienced alchemist; he knows what its use is, but I am not going to tell him. Even though I worked here for a few months, we really didn't interact much other than at work.'

Jayven worked part time at a lot of establishments concerning hunters, but there is one job he hasn't been able to apply for yet, and that is an establishment that focuses on special weapon making specifically for hunters.

"Something along those lines."

"You can make these potions just fine, though."

But even as he said that, he collected some potions and handed them to Jayven.

"Well, the equipment costs a lot, and my dream is to become a hunter, so carrying heavy stuff like this will just hold me down."

"Unless you have a storage bag,"

"But those are extremely expensive, especially if you're going to carry those tools. They still won't reduce weights to nothing; at least I will have to carry 20% of the maximum weight in the bag."

"Well, whatever the case, you can still work here again if you want to."

"Yeah, I'll think about it some other time."

He said this as he left with the potions in hand after paying for them.