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

of the New

he hadn’t opened the window since the introduction. Not even 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

his perception was still increasing as he stood there, venting down. Either the new stats only applied their bonus gradually, or perhaps one simply needed time to get used

truly a weird thing. During the fight, he had moved faster and been stronger than ever before at the level of an athlete in peak form, at least. Yet it had all felt so

screen, finally noticing that everyone was either staring at him or the dead

away from him. Turning

their carefully made plan by killing half of the beasts before the fight even began. The only beneficial part of the plan still applicable being what to do with the corpses after. They needed a source of food, so…

a complete mess, filled with holes. They ended up only taking the two killed by Jake at the start of the fight, as they were the most whole. The carrying went to Ahmed, who felt

took note that he was down to 54 arrows, having fired 6 in the previous fight. Focusing on the quiver, he once again identified

(Common)] – A quiver enchanted with the ability to conjure [common] quality arrows when injected

to inject something with mana, he said to himself… only to figure out four seconds later that injecting something with mana was way easier than he had anticipated.

appear, seemingly growing out of the sides of it. After half a minute or so, there were once again 60 arrows in the quiver. Trying to

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

the arrows, but there were several reasons not to. First of all, he would have to clean the arrows somehow before they were useful again. Secondly, their penetrative power would be reduced if already used once, if only

how time-consuming it would be to recollect the arrows when

walking beside Bertram. Bertram seemed to hesitate

maybe you went hunting from time

of archery when I was

himself, he did decently in the last

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

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 size of

to have mutated, or perhaps become something else entirely. Imagining mutated mosquitoes,

10 meters ahead of you

also seeing the rustling bush. Bertram lifted his arm, motioning the rest of the group to stop. Jake took the bow off his shoulder and took an

once more. As the seconds passed, everyone seemed to start relaxing. Everyone but Jake. His

spotted light being reflected between the leaves, and without any hesitation,

came a small boar, no taller than up to their knees. After stumbling for a

– lvl 1] – Experience earned.

as they stared at the dead pig. Jacob opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by an

“SQUEEEEAL!”

sound of

“RUN!”

he didn’t need to think twice before following the advice. He ran back and found his way around

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

climbing up the tree, the bush where the small boar had come from earlier

making it shake excessively. The impact made him lose his grip on the arrow, but he managed to

frozen gathered around another tree nearby with everyone just gawking at the huge beast. Finally, Jacob got his shit together and called for the

tree while making loud

the other humans. The mana

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