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

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 being the stat increased by 2 points

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

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 natural that he hadn't even questioned it for a second. It was almost scary how easy it was to

screen, finally noticing

Jacob said, as he gently pushed the now blushing Caroline away from him. Turning to

by now. On a side-note, Jake had entirely ‘ruined’ their carefully made plan by killing half of the beasts before the fight even began. The only beneficial

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 felt bad for not contributing in the battle, and Dennis, who just seemed eager to help.

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

ability to conjure [common] quality arrows

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. He just had to hold it in his hands, and then think really hard about doing it. It was almost

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

Got it. Damn, this would have been useful back in the day, he thought to himself while admiring the magical

had considered recollecting 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 by a little. Third... he could just magically conjure them. And

time-consuming it would be to recollect the arrows when it only took seconds to

up at the front, walking beside Bertram. Bertram seemed to hesitate

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

to both. But I did a lot of archery when I was younger, and still

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

Bertram said, not pressing further. Though

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

Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he

10 meters ahead

also seeing the rustling bush. Bertram lifted his arm, motioning the rest of the group to

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

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

knees. After stumbling for a few steps, It fell on

– lvl 1] – Experience

pig. Jacob opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by

“SQUEEEEAL!”

loud squeal sounded out, followed by the sound of stomping,

“RUN!”

and found his way around one of the larger trees. Without

running to hide behind the trees. Bertram was the only one still out in the open holding the rear. His shield

Jake was making rapid progress climbing up the tree, the bush where the small boar had come from earlier was torn apart. A massive boar, taller than even Bertram, the tallest

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

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 and Casper to start shooting spells

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

of mana, followed by 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 it, leaving small holes and burnings its hide, while the arrow seemed unable to

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