The Primal Hunter

Chapter 5

As Jake was still basking in the feeling of his level-ups and post-battle euphoria, he opened his status window. The reverie of his colleagues was of little interest to him, as while he enjoyed the victory, he didn’t exactly view it as some monumental achievement. They were overgrown rodents… badgers are rodents, right? Probably not. Moving on.

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

Race: [Human (G) – lvl 1]

Class: [Archer – lvl 2]

Profession: N/A

Health Points (HP): 130/130

Mana Points (MP): 120/120

Stamina: 111/130

Stats

Strength: 13

Agility: 14

Endurance: 13

Vitality: 13

Toughness: 11

Wisdom: 12

Intelligence: 12

Perception: 18

Willpower: 10

Free points: 3

Titles

the New

to confirm his class or title. And it sure had grown. His agility alone had nearly doubled with the title and levels added together, going from 8 to 14. With Perception being the stat increased by 2 points per archer level, it had grown by an entire 8 points. And he could feel it. Sounds

the new stats only applied their bonus gradually, or perhaps one simply needed time to get used to them. Got to

at the level of an athlete in peak form, at least. Yet it had

dismissed the status screen, finally noticing that everyone was either

gently pushed the now blushing Caroline away from him. Turning

as before. The tension after the fight had left everyone by now. On a side-note, Jake had entirely ‘ruined’ their carefully made plan by killing half of the

with holes. They ended up only taking the two killed by Jake at the start of the fight, as they were the most

forward, still looking for any source of water, Jake checked his quiver and took note that he was down to 54 arrows,

– A quiver enchanted with the ability to conjure [common]

out four seconds later that injecting something with mana was way easier than he had anticipated. He just had to hold

After half a minute or so, there were once again 60 arrows in the quiver. Trying to inject any more mana seemed to have

would have been useful back in the day, he thought to himself while admiring the magical quiver, before adding, or not, as I didn’t

if only by a little. Third... he could just magically conjure them. And if he started getting low on mana himself, he could just have one of the warriors fill it back up

was ignoring how time-consuming it would be to recollect the arrows when it only took

walking, Jake quickly ended up at the front, walking beside Bertram. Bertram seemed to hesitate about something, but

were you in the military or something? Or maybe you went

both. But I did a lot of archery when I was younger, and still practice when I visit the old folks

himself, he did decently in the last fight, but that was

just thought you handled yourself so well back there, nothing more,” Bertram said, not pressing

head forwards again, scanning the foliage. One thing he had noticed was the complete absence of insects or grubs or any of the smaller animals, really. There were birds up in the trees, but even they were all roughly the

mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could easily

which made knowing what was 10 meters

off to his left. He instantly poked Bertram in the side, who followed his line of sight, also seeing the rustling bush. Bertram lifted his arm, motioning the rest of the

rustling, and everything went silent once more. As the seconds passed, everyone seemed to start relaxing. Everyone but Jake. His intuition told him there

He spotted light

stumbling out came a small boar, no taller than up to their knees. After stumbling for a few steps, It fell on the ground,

lvl 1] – Experience earned. 1 TP

Jacob opened his

“SQUEEEEAL!”

out, followed by the sound of stomping, causing

“RUN!”

had yelled, and he didn’t need to think twice before following the advice. He ran back and found his way around one of the larger trees. Without hesitation, he took out his knife and another arrow from his quiver and slammed them into the tree,

the rest of his group, all running to hide behind the trees. Bertram was the only one still out in the open holding

boar had come from earlier was torn apart. A massive boar, taller than even Bertram, the tallest member

was climbing. It smashed tusk-first into the tree, making it shake excessively. The impact made him lose his grip on the arrow, but he managed to hang on to

Jake stabilized himself by taking out another arrow and plunging it into the bark, the rest of the group just stood frozen gathered around another tree nearby with everyone just gawking at the huge beast. Finally, Jacob got his shit together and called for the casters

preparing to engage, instead kept smashing its head into the tree while making loud squeals. A bad move by it in retrospect, as it allowed enough time

proper notice of the other humans. The mana bolts made small explosions as they smashed into it, leaving small holes

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