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

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 per archer level, it had grown

his perception was still increasing as he stood there, venting down. Either the new stats only applied their

truly a weird 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 off as system-magic, he dismissed the status screen, finally noticing that everyone was either staring

the now blushing Caroline away from him. Turning to the rest of

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 only beneficial part of the plan still applicable being what to do with the corpses after. They needed

ended up only taking the two killed by Jake at the start of the fight, as they were the most whole. The carrying

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

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

injecting something with mana was way easier than he had

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 saw that he

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

somehow before they were useful again. Secondly, their penetrative power would be reduced if already used once, if only by a little. Third... he

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

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

Or maybe you went hunting from

that kind of question. “No to both. But I did a lot of archery when I was younger, and still practice

If he had to say so himself, he did decently in the last

just thought you handled yourself so well back there, nothing more,” Bertram said, not pressing further. Though he didn’t seem like the answer satisfied him

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

Normal animals seem to have mutated, or perhaps become something else entirely. Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could easily see their entire group being wiped out without even

extremely dense and full of hills, fallen trees, and giant bushes, which made knowing what was 10 meters ahead of you an uphill task. This made them move rather slowly, barely keeping

instantly poked Bertram in the side, who followed his line of sight, also seeing the rustling bush. Bertram lifted his arm, motioning

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

spotted light being reflected between

out came a small boar, no taller than up to their knees. After stumbling

lvl 1] – Experience earned. 1 TP

again silent as they stared at the dead pig. Jacob opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by an even louder

“SQUEEEEAL!”

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

“RUN!”

idea who had yelled, and he didn’t need 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 his knife and another arrow from his quiver and slammed

of his group, all running to hide behind the trees. Bertram was the only one still out in the open holding the rear.

was making rapid progress climbing up the tree, the bush where the small boar had come from earlier was torn apart.

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 knife and avoid falling to what would most

the group just stood frozen gathered around another tree nearby with everyone

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

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,

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