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

title and levels added together, going from 8 to 14. With

venting down. Either the new stats only applied their bonus gradually, or perhaps one simply needed

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 adapt to your body’s performance

screen, finally noticing that everyone

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

normal again, the same 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 by killing half of the beasts

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

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

ability to conjure [common] quality

out how 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. He just had to hold it in his hands, and then think really

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 60 arrows in the quiver. Trying to inject any more mana seemed to have no effect at all. Looking at his mana, he

mana per arrow. Got it. Damn, this would have been useful back in the day, he thought to himself while admiring the magical quiver, before adding, or

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

to recollect

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

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 practice when

had to say so 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 further. Though he didn’t seem like

or grubs or any of the smaller animals, really. There were birds up in the trees, but even they were all roughly the size

Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could easily see their entire

fallen trees, and giant bushes, which made knowing what was 10 meters ahead of you an uphill task. This

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

stopped rustling, and everything went silent once more. As the seconds passed, everyone seemed to start relaxing. Everyone

observing the bush very closely. He spotted light

a 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] –

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

“SQUEEEEAL!”

out, followed by the sound

“RUN!”

before following the advice. He ran back and found his way around

the rest of his group, all running to hide behind the trees. Bertram was the only one still out in the open holding the rear. His shield aimed towards the direction of

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

completely ignored Bertram and 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

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

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

finally making it take proper notice of the other humans. The mana bolts made

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