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

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

his imagination, but he felt like his perception was still increasing as he stood there, venting down. Either the new stats only applied their bonus gradually, or perhaps

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

to write it off as system-magic, he dismissed the status screen, finally noticing that

him. Turning to the rest of them

passive smile and glint in his eyes as before. The tension after the fight had left everyone by now. On a side-note, Jake had entirely ‘ruined’ their carefully made plan

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

water, Jake checked his quiver and took note that he was

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

said to himself… only to figure out four seconds later that injecting something with mana was way easier than he had anticipated. He just had to hold it in his hands, and then think really hard about doing it. It was almost

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

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

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

be to recollect the

beside Bertram. Bertram seemed to hesitate about something, but eventually

the military or something? Or maybe you went hunting from time to time?”

bit taken aback, not expecting that kind of question. “No to both. But I did a lot of archery when I was younger, and still practice when

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

back there, nothing more,” Bertram said, not pressing further. Though he didn’t

turned his 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

mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could easily see their entire group being wiped out without even knowing how they

which made knowing what was 10 meters ahead of you an uphill task. This made them move

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

As the seconds passed, everyone seemed to start relaxing. Everyone but

used Archer’s Eye, observing the bush very closely. He spotted light being

their knees. After stumbling for

[Boar-Beast – lvl 1] – Experience earned.

the dead pig. Jacob opened his mouth to say something but

“SQUEEEEAL!”

by the sound of stomping, causing

“RUN!”

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

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

boar had come from earlier was torn apart. A massive boar, taller than even

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

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

9 preparing to engage, instead kept smashing its head into the tree while making loud squeals. A bad

a lone arrow shot into the boar’s side, finally making it take proper notice of the other humans. The mana bolts made small explosions as they smashed into

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