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

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

stats only applied their bonus gradually, or perhaps one simply needed time to

least. Yet it had all felt so natural that he hadn't even questioned it for a second. It was almost scary how easy it was to adapt to your body’s performance going through such

dismissed the status screen, finally noticing that everyone was either

Caroline away from him. Turning to the rest of them as he praised them. “Good job, everyone. Especially you,

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

hassle, as no one wanted to pick up the dead and bloody animals. Especially not the one killed by Bertram and Theodore as it was 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

walked forward, still looking for any source of water, Jake checked his quiver and took note that he was down to 54 arrows, having fired 6 in

A quiver enchanted with the ability to conjure [common] quality arrows when injected

something with mana was way easier than he had

left him, it felt a little weird, but not really uncomfortable. In the quiver, he saw arrows slowly appear, seemingly growing out of the sides of it. After half a minute or so, there were once again

Damn, this 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 have

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 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 since

would be to recollect the arrows

walking beside Bertram. Bertram seemed to hesitate about something, but eventually opened his

were you in the military or something? Or maybe

a lot of

honestly confused. If he had to say so himself, he did decently in the last fight, but that was

nothing more,” Bertram said, not pressing further. Though he didn’t seem like the answer satisfied him

thing he had noticed was the complete absence of insects or grubs or any of the

Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders,

made knowing what was 10 meters ahead of you an uphill task. This made them move rather slowly, barely keeping up

of walking, Jake finally spotted some movement 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 bush stopped rustling, and everything went silent once more. As the seconds passed, everyone seemed to start relaxing. Everyone

very closely. He spotted light being reflected between the leaves, and without any hesitation, he loosed an

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

– lvl 1] – Experience earned. 1 TP

the dead pig. Jacob opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by an even louder

“SQUEEEEAL!”

followed by the sound of stomping, causing

“RUN!”

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

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

boar had come from earlier was torn apart. A massive

the others and charged straight at the tree Jake 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 the

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 and Casper to start shooting

the tree while making loud squeals. A bad move by it in retrospect, as it allowed

the boar’s side, finally making it take proper notice of the other humans. The mana bolts made small explosions as they smashed into it, leaving small holes and

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