The Primal Hunter

Chapter 9

Jake felt good. Incredibly good, in fact. The sensations that come from facing down certain death and coming out on top was wonderful. He didn’t notice the weird look Jacob was giving him as he just enjoyed how he felt. He didn’t take notice that the other people in his group had made their way over either, though some of them quickly turned right back around when they saw the scene.

Among the new arrivals, Caroline looked at Jake with a mix of concern and fear.

“Are you hurt? There is so much blood…” she asked in a quiet voice. She felt slightly sick, looking at the frightening image of Jake standing beside a man full of arrows, the blood gleaming as it reflected the moonlight.

“I’m good. None of it is mine,” Jake answered casually with a light smile. He was hoping to finish up any potential conversations so he could move on to more important things. He had gotten several system notifications that he was more than eager to get to.

“Oh… okay,” she answered tentatively.

Caroline didn’t seem inclined to ask any more questions, while Jacob looked like he had something to say, but he chose not to. Jake gladly took the opportunity to extricate himself when no one else spoke up.

“I’m gonna go sit down and check my status messages. There are no more enemies as far as I can tell, so relax everyone,” Jake said, considering if he should tell them they could go back to sleep. He decided not to, as he had serious doubts anyone felt like sleeping right now. He sure as hell didn’t, his spirit way too high.

Jake walked to the bonfire that was still burning bright as ever, sat down on the same log he had used as a lookout earlier in the night, and finally opened his notifications window to a slew of messages.

*You have slain [Human (G) -lvl 3 / Warrior (Medium) - lvl 7] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level. 478 TP earned*

*You have slain [Human (G) -lvl 2 / Warrior (Heavy) - lvl 5] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level. 340 TP earned*

*You have slain [Human (G) -lvl 2 / Archer - lvl 4] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level. 294 TP earned*

*’DING!’ Class: [Archer] has reached level 4 - Stat points allocated, +1 free point*

*’DING!’ Race: [Human (G)] has reached level 2 - Stat points allocated, +1 free point*

*’DING!’ Class: [Archer] has reached level 5 - Stat points allocated, +1 free point*

He had won, not because of his stats, but purely due to how he fought. They were amateurs, Jake even doubting they used all their skills during the fight. Besides the medium warrior using that glowing sword, he didn’t notice anything else… then again, they were all low level, and it wasn’t like skills actually had any real visual prompt from what he had seen so far. In fact, he should instead maybe be surprised that the guy had a skill to make his sword glow like that, to begin with.

Looking at his gains from the fight, the stats and levels were nice, but the real gains came in the next few notifications. Though they were a bit different from any earlier ones.

*Bloodline Detected*

Processing…

…

Bloodline analyzed.

A unique, innate ability awakened in the bloodline of the newly initiated human, Jake Thayne. Enhances innate instincts. Enhances the ability to perceive your surroundings. Enhances perception of danger. +5% to

had been unlocked, or was it an ability? He was clueless as to what the whole bloodline business was about. His family background was nothing extraordinary, as average as one

bit confused. The effects of the ability were, in Jakes's honest opinion, awesome. It also explained why he had these weird senses that none of the others seemed to

the explanation behind his performance in combat and the at times supernatural reaction time he possessed. His ability

perception he had experienced during the fight made him act as if he had eyes in his back. He could not explain at all how

particle of smoke that entered the air. He ‘knew’ of the log beneath him, how it had a small part of it inside

they were still at the

was rather self-explanatory, honestly. It was the prickling sensation he felt whenever something dangerous was heading his way, the feeling in

was the synergy with the two other effects. His perception of the area around him allowed him to perceive the nature of the danger, and his enhanced instincts allowed him to make a split-second

While certainly valuable, he saw it as rather inconsequential compared to the other effects. He didn’t

skill seemed far stronger than anything else. Archer’s Eye was also a perception-based skill, but compared to his Bloodline of the Primal

being so awesome, it didn’t come alone, bringing

power found in the origin of your Records are yours, and yours alone to wield and pass down throughout the multiverse. May your bloodline prevail. +15 Vitality, +10% to

massive. In a

something in itself. Especially compared to his only other title, which was just a matter-of-fact statement that he was now part of the multiverse and new to it. This one instead talked about something

he was the forefather of the bloodline and that it was his alone. Did this mean that the rest of his family didn’t possess it too? Was he just the first one

survive and thereby allow the bloodline to live on... and oh

they had gone through quite a development from the level-ups, ability,

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

(G) – lvl

– lvl

Profession: N/A

Health Points (HP): 302/310

Mana Points (MP): 123/130

Stamina: 144/170

Stats

Strength: 18

Agility: 19

Endurance: 17

Vitality: 31

Toughness: 12

Wisdom: 13

Intelligence: 13

Perception: 28

Willpower: 11

Free points: 3

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