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.

in the very essence of your being. A unique, innate ability awakened in the bloodline of the newly

as to what the whole bloodline business was about. His family background was nothing extraordinary, as average as one can be, and yet he apparently possessed an

to complain just because he was a 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 have. More amazing was that the description even included

the at times supernatural reaction time he possessed. His ability to react was way beyond what his stats should allow him, and the reason why he at times felt like

of the ability was the one to perceive his surroundings. The 360 degrees 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 it worked; he just ‘knew’

the air. He ‘knew’ of the log beneath him, how it had a small part of it inside that was hollow, and every single blade of grass around it. His understanding

to be a few meters. He could not sense the others, as they were still at the corpses 10 or so meters away. He estimated the range to be perhaps five or six meters. Too

on the list was the perception of danger. That part was rather self-explanatory, honestly. It was the prickling sensation he felt whenever something dangerous was heading his way,

His perception of the area around him allowed him to perceive the nature of

fourth and final part was a 5% stat bonus to perception. While certainly valuable, he saw it as rather inconsequential compared to the other effects. He didn’t doubt

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

awesome, it

power found in the origin of your Records are yours, and yours alone

one was… massive. In a few different

his only other title, which was just a matter-of-fact statement that he was now part of the multiverse

alone. Did this mean that the rest of his family didn’t possess it too? Was he just the first one to unlock it? The

by the title indicated the system's desire for him to survive and thereby allow the bloodline to live on... and oh boy the stats. A

through quite a development from the level-ups,

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

(G)

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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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