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.

(D-grade)] – A Beastcore left behind by a D-grade Thunder Roc, containing remnants of its Records within. Can be used as an alchemical

what’s this?” he asked both himself and Hawkie. The bird looked at him like he was an idiot for not already knowing, while

he dove into what was provided by Sagacity of the Malefic Viper. A flood of information came forth as he

“Neat.”

core in his spatial storage as he

at D-grade or above had a chance to generate upon death. When beasts, or any creature for that matter, died, a part of their

them into high-rarity items. Maybe even

body, its Records condensed into a Beastcore for Jake to use. Thinking

Fallen King being a prime example. Instead of the King forming a ‘core’ upon death, it instead

but on second thought, he likely hadn’t. Cloud Elementals turned into those small bead things that Hawkie collected, the dungeon bosses had all turned

flew up and returned to their usual cloud island. Not a single beast in their surroundings dared to

BANG

One of its legs got hit, making it stumble slightly, but it was far from enough to make the D-grade beast

from its backside that fell like a blanket over the entire area the bullet had come from. Upon making contact with the concrete building, it

hit it. It stumbled once more, and before it could get up, a figure emerged from one of the shadows nearby, zoomed past him, and cut its side with a

with the power of a strong curse, the same proving true for the bullet in its leg. The fight

down by bullets and sneak attacks

it had called its home was now a danger it wanted to avoid. And the worst of

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 erupted

back nearly a hundred meters, impacting a wall. The attack itself had done little damage, but it was the sheer quantity of it

flash of thunder from the sky, the beast fell

of figures emerged from the surrounding buildings’ shadows and gathered around the corpse - the cloaked man with

cookie, but we made it,” Caleb Thayne said as

we found a mid-tier Pylon defender. It would have been easier if we got one of the low-tier ones to beat,” Matteo said,

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

the Pylon that had spawned only a few meters from the corpse of the spider. “Go get the others while

cloaked figures nodded as they left to find the rest of their group. Only the elite had participated in 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 the end. Its magic had taken

it was empty, he could keep it empty. As long as they never allowed it to rest, they could eventually whittle it down. Which they had. They had prepared the arena and kited it around

had quite a few other spiders with it, but over the last

on the Pylon. “6th, huh. Still in the top

a bit to himself as he claimed it and changed his profession. The new one gave 16 free points per level, still a

of the Court of Shadows on Earth, Caleb felt quite a lot of pressure on him. They were already closing in on six digits in their entire group, so it was high time that they claimed a Pylon

Caleb had claimed the 6th one, meaning quite a few more needed to

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