The Primal Hunter

The people in the room stared at Jake, who inhabited the body of the guard, seemingly wanting him to elaborate. Something he gladly did.

Whenever Jake took control and spoke, his body morphed into his own, but nobody around seemed to notice at all. That made things much easier as he shared his thoughts on the matter, with everyone thinking it was the guard talking.

Jake began to explain his plan of attacking the Beast King with a squad of elites before it could get the chance to attack the city to not allow it to build up power.

Based on everything Jake had heard, this Beast King was just a newly evolved D-grade. Sure, it was stronger than everyone in the city individually… but it was just one D-grade. The gap between E-grades and D-grades was pretty big but far from as prominent as, say, the difference between a D and a C-grade.

The true danger lay in a Beast King’s ability to unite other beasts under its banner. As a being of a higher grade, other monsters would instinctually want to follow it and be submissive, allowing a single D-grade to create an army that could easily take the Beast King down several times over if they turned on it.

So, with that in mind, if this Beast King was allowed to gather an army, the city would truly be in trouble. Moreover, if they attacked the beast within its own domain, there was a good chance they wouldn’t even have to battle the army at all. It was the same concept as how armies of beasts would not interfere if two Beast Kings battled to become the new leader; as a general rule, they just often didn’t interfere if the Beast King was fighting. Its death would only mean a stronger alpha would take the position of leader, after all. At least, this non-interference of the army was what Jake gambled on.

Finally, if they managed to defeat the beast, there was a chance someone like the guard captain could finally overcome his limits and become a D-grade himself. If that happened, the city would be a lot safer in the future.

This was all sound logic that Jake shared with the room.

There was a lot of opposition, but Jake pointed out how shitty all the other plans were. Evacuation would result in most dying anyway, as why wouldn’t this army just chase them down? Moreover, the majority of the beast army was of horse-like beasts who could move far faster than a bunch of humans trying to run away. Defending meant facing the entire army, so that was definitely out of the question. What was also dumb was evacuating the elite, as that was just the strategy of a bunch of cowards and something Jake could never get behind.

In the end, the group relented. Jake did think everything went a bit too smoothly when it came to getting approval, but he chalked that up to the Challenge Dungeon mechanics helping him out. It reminded him a bit of how, for some reason, the opinion of the main character in a game would always dictate the plot. With everyone in agreement, plans were quickly made.

The operation included fourteen late E-grades between levels 70 and 95, one guard captain at level 99, and finally, the personal bodyguard of the governor, who was also level 99. Moreover, they made many preparations and prepared tools to make the fight easier. Casters got catalysts that would help amplify the power of their spells, and the best equipment was given out to everyone in the group.

With conviction, they moved out to strike down the threat before it had a chance to destroy their home.

The sixteen humans successfully snuck into its domain using magic to hide them before they got close enough. The D-grade beast in question looked like a large, nearly five-meter-long, six-legged horse with scales covering many parts of its body. Jake quickly confirmed it was indeed a pretty weak variant, and it didn’t even look like it was level 110 yet. Moreover, there were no other beasts close to it, as the beast lay resting on the ground, fully exposed.

Going along with their plan, the bodyguard and guard captain would make the first move. Both of them attacked simultaneously, startling the Beast King. The rest of the group followed up rapidly after a solid blow was landed by the two of them as they joined the fight, and… well…

Everyone kind of died?

shit. Even the two “strongest” humans in the group sucked ass, and not just stat and skill-wise. Their movements were also beyond horrible, and Jake

and while it was true the horse bit off the bodyguard’s head, he managed to blow up the inside of the Beast King’s mouth right before

spear deep into the Beast King’s body before death. As the final human died, it was

had seen the battle from afar run back to report to the city. At the same time, all the

slack, and a grand funeral was held for the fallen. As time fast-forwarded, the

sure what to think or what

that the way he wanted to guide these stories was to influence his character to do what he would have done if he were in their situation. If he genuinely didn’t know what to do, he would just let the characters decide themselves. It was a simple approach, but honestly, considering he had no fucking idea what he was supposed to do in this dungeon, it

his vision turned dark as he still wondered how his “character” was

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controlled a massive area with several cities. Okay, Jake called it massive,

different craftsman guilds. All of them had sent their representatives to speak their case, and Jake, as the advisor, was brought along to each guild to

crafters, Jake spent most of his time in this six-day-long story just focusing on his recovery as his senses still improved by the day. By the end of the tour of the different guilds, and when the Warlord called Jake in to give his advice on which guild to

and he honestly believed his opinion didn’t matter for shit in this situation. That is

lot more construction with their new resources, even erecting a large statue in honor of the Warlord, making

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to some old duke or something. The duke apparently liked younger men and women, and while Jake’s character’s family felt terrible about the whole ordeal as they

up ripping off the head of the duke after a particularly nasty scene was about to play out. From there, Jake was forced to take some actions of his own and ended up just acting like his character had actually been temporarily possessed by a divine being and was now an apostle or some shit. Jake was winging it hard and fully improvising at that point. Seeing as the

Jake’s character being recognized as a semi-divine being and his entire family uplifted by the royal family, who ended up purging the duke-faction entirely, using the young man’s emergence as an excuse to wipe out political opponents. In the final part of the epilogue it showed the young man going on a journey to explore the world, with the words that even now, he felt the presence of the god who had used

actions he took molded the personality of the character he was inhabiting, even after he relented control. The young man truly believed he had been possessed by a god. Though remembering the first story, the guard had also fully tried to carry out Jake’s plan, even after he gave up control, so it probably shouldn’t have come as

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