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

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

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. Got to experiment with 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 that everyone was either staring at him or the

blushing Caroline away from him. Turning to the rest

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

with holes. They ended up only taking the two killed by Jake at the

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

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

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

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 been useful back in the day, he thought to himself while admiring the magical quiver, before adding, or not, as I

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 if he started getting low on mana himself, he could just have one

time-consuming it would be to recollect the arrows

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

maybe you went hunting

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

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

nothing more,” Bertram said, not

One thing he had noticed was the complete absence of insects or grubs

or perhaps become something else entirely. Imagining mutated mosquitoes, ticks, or spiders, he could easily see their entire group being wiped out without even knowing how

was 10 meters ahead of you an uphill

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.

the bush stopped rustling, and everything went silent once more. As the seconds passed, everyone

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

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]

they stared at the dead pig. Jacob opened

“SQUEEEEAL!”

sound of stomping, causing the ground to

“RUN!”

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 them into the tree,

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 the

Jake was making rapid progress climbing up the tree, the bush where the small boar had come

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

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

into the tree while

take proper notice of the other humans. The mana bolts

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