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

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 per archer level, it had grown by an entire 8 points. And he could feel it. Sounds were clearer, his vision sharper than

venting down. Either the new stats only applied their

at least. Yet it had all felt so natural that he

screen, finally noticing that everyone was

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

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 before the fight even began. The

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,

quiver and took note that he was down to 54 arrows, having fired 6

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

half a minute or so, there were once again 60 arrows in the quiver. Trying to inject

he thought to himself while admiring the magical quiver, before adding, or not,

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

of that was ignoring how time-consuming it would be to recollect the

they kept walking, Jake quickly ended up at the front, walking beside Bertram. Bertram seemed to

were you in the military or something? Or maybe you

did a lot of archery when I was younger, and still practice when I visit the old folks back

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

thought you handled yourself so well back there, nothing more,” Bertram said, not pressing further. Though he didn’t

at him and 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,

become something else entirely. Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could

knowing what was 10 meters ahead of you an uphill task. This

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 rest of the group to stop. Jake took the

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

Archer’s Eye, observing the bush very closely. He spotted light being reflected between the leaves,

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

have slain [Boar-Beast – lvl 1]

dead pig. Jacob opened his mouth to say something but

“SQUEEEEAL!”

sound of stomping, causing

“RUN!”

around one of the larger trees. Without hesitation, he took out his knife and another arrow from his quiver and slammed them into

the trees. Bertram was the only one still out in the open holding the rear. His shield aimed towards

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 member of

excessively. The impact made him lose his grip on the arrow,

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

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

bolts 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 even penetrate the

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