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

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

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 one simply needed time to get used to them.

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 adapt to your

system-magic, he dismissed the status screen, finally noticing that everyone was either staring at him or

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

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 only beneficial part of the plan

two killed by Jake at the start of the fight, as they were the most whole.

walked forward, still looking for any source of water, Jake checked his quiver and took note that he was down to 54 arrows, having fired 6 in the previous fight. Focusing on the quiver, he

with the ability to

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

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

been useful back in the day, he

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

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

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

or something? Or maybe you went hunting

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 I visit the old folks back home. Why are you

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

there, nothing more,” Bertram said, not pressing further.

had noticed was the complete absence of insects or grubs or any of

mutated, or perhaps become something else entirely. Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could easily see their entire group being

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 up a

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 bow off his shoulder and took an arrow

everything went silent once more. As the seconds passed,

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

than up to their knees. After stumbling for a few steps,

lvl 1] – Experience earned.

pig. Jacob opened

“SQUEEEEAL!”

sounded out, followed by the sound of stomping, causing the ground to

“RUN!”

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

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

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

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 he managed to hang on to the knife

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

while making loud squeals. A bad move by it in retrospect, as

the boar’s side, finally making it take proper notice of the other humans. The mana bolts made small explosions

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