The Primal Hunter

Chapter 159

Jake stood on top of the massive corpse of the Thunder Roc. He felt the gazes of hundreds of beasts upon him. They had all observed the battle before and looked at the human with a mix of confusion and fear.

The innate suppression of rank was something they all knew. Of course, the power difference was genuine, but the deterrence was as much instinctual as it was based on pure power disparity. So to see an E-grade like them slay a D-grade juggernaut seemed impossible. Even more unbelievable was how quickly and easily the human had done so.

All of their fear was transferred to the man who just stood there.

Jake sighed as he dropped his Limit Break from 20% and let the weakness overtake him. He had learned long ago that while the weakness sucked, he could circumvent it by reactivating Limit Break at 20% again. It would make the next period more severe, but it was a way to avoid getting ganged up on when he dropped it.

But he had a strong feeling none of the beasts would dare approach him even in his weakened state - all except one that came, albeit still far more cautiously than before.

Hawkie flew over and flew around the corpse for a bit. Jake threw it a glance, indicating for it just to land on the corpse already. It seemed hesitant to do so, even with the beast dead.

Jake just sighed and instead just looked at his notification.

*You have slain [Thunder Roc – lvl 102] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level*

*’DING!’ Class: [Ambitious Hunter] has reached level 92 - Stat points allocated, +4 free points*

*’DING!’ Class: [Ambitious Hunter] has reached level 93 - Stat points allocated, +4 free points*

*’DING!’ Race: [Human (E)] has reached level 82 - Stat points allocated, +5 free points*

Two levels for that? he asked himself internally. It felt unearned as he rolled his shoulders a bit, feeling the stiffness that remained from the electricity.

He had lost more than a third of his health pool just from the constant bombardment of thunder that occasionally hit. The entire fight could have turned on a dime if he made the slightest mistake… but Jake didn’t make any mistakes. He tended not to make significant mistakes in combat, as if he did, he would have died a long time ago.

Hawkie had at this point stopped just floating above and had built up the courage to land on the giant Roc.

Jake just looked at it and smiled, but that smile quickly turned to a frown when he saw what it did next. It gave him a quick look before it began channeling wind around its beak. It formed a drill of sorts as it began digging into the giant Roc’s body, much to the surprise of Jake.

He had never liked to desecrate the bodies of those he killed if he didn’t have a reason to. The Den Mother he had done so with because he felt the poison gland within, but others he had just left be. He didn’t know how to properly handle the ingredients left behind anyway.

Hawkie kept digging as the blood and guts flew up from the hole it made. The body had significantly weakened after its death; if not, Hawkie wouldn’t be able to drill into it as it did now. It took the bird a few minutes before it came out of the bloody hole with a weird stone in its mouth.

Jake looked at it as he saw Hawkie place it in front of him.

its Records within. Can

both himself and Hawkie. The bird looked at him like he was an

dove into what was provided by Sagacity of the Malefic Viper. A flood

“Neat.”

spatial storage as he considered what to do with

upon death. When beasts, or any creature for that

the Records of Gaze of the Apex Hunter, turning them into high-rarity items. Maybe even Ancient or Legendary-rarity ones. This didn’t mean he could pluck out his

Thunder Roc. Instead of entering a specific part of its body, its Records condensed into a Beastcore for Jake to use. Thinking back, this Records transfer was likely where most, if not all, drops from creatures he

prime example. Instead of the King forming a ‘core’ upon death, it instead created the mask from the Records. The fact that it made a legendary item upon death was proof of how

on second thought, he likely hadn’t. Cloud Elementals turned into those small bead things that Hawkie collected, the dungeon bosses had all turned into or created items he used to kill the King or other dungeon bosses, and none

returned to their usual cloud island. Not a single beast in their surroundings dared to get in

BANG

got hit, making it stumble slightly, but it was far from enough

a blanket over the entire area the bullet had come from. Upon making contact with the concrete building, it began being devoured by the acidic

the sniper was long gone, as another stream of bullets hit it. It stumbled once more, and before it could get up, a figure emerged

as the wound began burning with the power of a strong curse, the same proving true for the bullet in its leg. The fight had been

and sneak attacks over the last few days, making it never able to rest and fully recover. All of the attacks that

its home was now a danger it wanted to

him – a metal staff in his hand that already had an attack charged up in the orbs floating around him. It hissed again and charged the accursed human, but after only taking a few steps, the ground below it

The attack itself had done little damage, but it was

with a flash of thunder from

gathered around the corpse - the cloaked

but we made it,” Caleb Thayne said

easier if we got one of the low-tier ones to beat,” Matteo

could even do it. Good thing it couldn’t heal,” Nadia said, as she wiped her rifle with a cloth as

over to the Pylon that had spawned only a few meters from the corpse of the spider. “Go get the others while I figure this

battle, yet they still lost tens of people to the spider. It was lucky that it was out of mana and could only shoot its web towards

it to rest, they could eventually whittle it down. Which they had. They had prepared the arena and kited it around into mines, ambushes, pitfalls, and

beginning, it had quite a few other spiders with it, but over

pressed his hand on the Pylon. “6th, huh. Still in the top 10,

level, still a rare variant of City Lord for being one of the first 10 to claim one. Umbra should

the Court of Shadows on Earth, Caleb felt quite a lot of pressure on him. They were already closing in on six

more needed to be claimed for the next stage to begin. But from now, it would likely get

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