All Chapters of Primal Hunter Volume 7: Chapter 1
- Chapter 10
11 chapters
Previously on the Primal Hunter…
It’s with great sadness that I must recap this final book in the great Nevermore arc. Alas, all good things must come to an end, and at least we can all reminisce about the good old days for one last time, starting with Jake’s final Challenge Dungeon.This last Challenge Dungeon, known as the Endless Journey (or Neverending Journey as it was also called a few times where I forgot what I’d named it in the first place) allowed Jake to experience the woes and adventures of being a delivery worker—better known as a Courier within the Challenge Dungeon itself.In the beginning, Jake tackled minor, mundane tasks, and after doing a few, he unlocked his first Special Courier Job, which set him on a quest chain throughout the world within the Challenge Dungeon and forced him to get involved in—quite frankly—a stupid story filled with politics and plot twists that honestly didn’t make a lot of sense.However, this line of Special Courier Jobs also forced Jake into interacting with people he cou
To The Moon!
Who hadn’t, at one point or another, dreamed of visiting the moon? Or maybe Jake was just weird, but he sure had wanted to at least try going there at least once to see the world from an entirely new perspective and, more importantly, finally confirm that Earth wasn’t flat like a pancake.Setting off from Skyggen with Sandy, Jake was naturally eaten and entered one of the space worm’s many stomachs. At this point, Jake had no idea how many Sandy had, but he was sure he would figure that out eventually, as he expected the two of them to spend quite a lot of time traveling together over the next few months.Looking around the stomach he had entered, it was more just one large room. The floors were rock-like, with the walls also reminiscent of being inside of a cave, and the rectangular shape made it hard to imagine he was currently inside of a creature.Within this room, he spotted a bunch of furniture. The place was set up like an apartment, and when he looked toward the end of the rec
Dark(?) Side of the Moon
Jake truthfully had never expected to encounter a B-grade on the moon. Further away from Earth around Jupiter or something? Maybe, but not so close to Earth that it was practically within striking distance. It didn’t make much sense to him how a B-grade had appeared on the moon of all places, either.He was ninety-nine-point-nine percent certain there wasn’t a single B-grade on Earth. The World Council had spent years hunting down or making contact with all sorts of beasts, and Arnold had sent drones out to scout and scan much of the underground world, with satellites covering much of what was above ground.More than that, though… Jake didn’t feel like there were any B-grades, and if he trusted one thing, it was his own intuition.By all accounts, the moon was far more barren and less energy-dense, but it did have some things going for it. Due to the thin exosphere, it got a lot of energy from space, and generally, high-level concepts tended to propagate since many of the usual ones,
Lunewood Forest
“Good luck, have fun!” Sandy said before disappearing, leaving Jake with the Meteorite Fragment floating in front of him.He didn’t even bother putting it in his inventory or anything. Instead, he quickly nocked an arrow and turned his attention to the many charging Lunewood Stalkers.Seeing no need to hold back, he activated Arcane Awakening at the stable 30%. Jake felt his body brimming with power as he released the first arrow rain down upon the many charging creatures, all of which were roughly the same level as the first Stalker. Another thing they had in common with the first Lunewood Stalker was that they didn’t even try to dodge; they simply tanked the blows as parts of their bodies were torn off. However, with around thirty of them, this reckless strategy was far more viable, explaining why the first one had acted as it did.These creatures were indeed just parts of a whole. They were individual limbs of a greater lifeform and simply had no sense of self-preservation. For the
Vipers & Hunters
It was quiet.Too quiet.No forest was meant to be like this, in Jake’s opinion. There was no wind to rustle the leaves, no movements whatsoever anywhere to cause even the slightest song. No sign of any small wildlife hiding in the bushes or on top of the trees, or the occasional sound of a bird chirping. It was just silence and stillness, as if the forest was frozen over.Jake walked through the blue forest, taking in the environment and feeling just how corrupted the mana all around him was. No D-grade would be able to exist within the forest, and even weaker C-grades would find themselves negatively affected as the energy seeped into their bodies, corrupting them. Perhaps one would even turn into some kind of Lunewood creature if one spent too long here. He would almost compare it to an area hit by nuclear fallout, and he could only begin to imagine the devastation a Wood Meteor could cause if it ever struck down on Earth and remained unattended.Then again, Jake wasn’t even sure a
Ghostvine
For a moment, Jake and the Lunewood Hunter made eye contact. Jake immediately knew it could see him through his stealth, and he prepared himself mentally for what was to come. However, even after a solid second, the Hunter just kept observing him without making any aggressive moves.Frowning, Jake tried to step to the side, and its gaze followed him. Was it looking for an opening or something? Its actions didn’t make any sense at all. Even when Jake began walking, it just kept looking at him.When he tried to pick up speed, the Hunter finally moved but still did not attack him. It just followed Jake as he made his way further into the forest, confused as hell. The Hunter even kept the same distance from Jake, its eye never leaving his body for a split second as it ran after him. He had already cut off his conversation with Villy, but now he seriously considered asking if this Hunter was broken.Something definitely felt off, and Jake released a Pulse of Perception to scan his immediat
Not An Egg
Jake’s mind went blank for a moment as the realization sank in. Yet what he had expected to follow next never came. There was no anger or desire for revenge… just a belief that he had to get the fuck away from the moon as fast as humanly possible.Anything capable of killing Sandy wasn’t something Jake was confident in facing, and just feeling the aura from the thousands of vines extending up from the surface of the moon, Jake knew that this wasn’t just some weak, low-tier B-grade. It was already quite a few levels into B-grade, and a powerful variant on top of that. The mere fact it had a range extending all the way from the center of the moon to the surface was proof enough of that.Luckily, it didn’t seem to attack him as he flew away. The eye had also faded away, and all the vines began to retract back into the ground, leaving a battered Lunewood Forest behind. Many rotting spots were left where the vines had shot up from, and hundreds of Lunewood creatures had died. For some reas
The Sword of a Hero
As things in Nevermore were still fully ongoing, even after the initial batch of geniuses were done, the rest of the multiverse had fallen into a bit of a lull. Even if plans were still in motion, many factions focused on the mega-dungeon first and foremost, as there wasn’t much else to deal with. Yet having barely gotten over the appearance of an extinct True Royal, the return of the Malefic Viper, and the Chosen of the newly returned Primordial becoming the new top record holder on the Nevermore Leaderboards, another event soon shook the many intelligence agencies of the multiverse. The culprit this time around was another known figure, but what he had done, few had seen coming:A clash with another Primordial… the Starseizing Titan.The Cosmic Forge, the exclusive forge of the Starseizing Titan, ceaselessly sent waves of energy echoing through the multiverse, yet that day, it had stilled. The many factions housed nearby instantly noticed, as whenever the Titan stopped working, it w
Back in the Laboratory
Flying on the Sandy Express was definitely faster than riding the Jake Carriage, even if Sandy wasn’t in top form. After only about a day, they returned to Earth, where Sandy dropped off Jake at Skyggen before heading back to the Order. Jake did end up asking how Sandy even traveled back and forth, as he usually had to use his connection to Villy when teleporting, and the answer was as obvious as it could be. The teleportation circle made by those snakes had just been altered a bit to allow Snappy to do the same thing the Viper did.With Jake and Sandy split up once more, Jake made a quick visit to his family, who were all surprised to see him back so soon. Luckily, the moon being haunted was a universally good explanation for why he hadn’t wanted to stick around there. It did have the slight downside of Adam being very suspicious of the pretty rock Jake had brought back, and it took a lot of effort to convince him that particular rock wasn’t haunted.Jake ended up staying in Skyggen
Holiday is Over
Time marched on, and even if Jake and the others had returned to Earth, not much had changed besides stability returning to a lot of factions. Arnold’s workshop was once again running nonstop—though, to be fair, it had nearly already been that way during his absence, too—while factions such as the Court of Shadows finally had their Judge and a few elite members back.Funnily enough, the Court was one of the factions that suffered the most from this stability on the planet. They were, in the end, an assassination organization, so if there was no one hiring assassins, business wasn’t going well. Alas, they were getting by focusing on training and doing hunting jobs of beasts and whatnot, with the occasional job here and there, though it was often nothing consequential, and more often than not, they were hired by the World Council or people related to the Council.Quite a number of religious leaders and such had been nipped in the bud, but most of them hadn’t been targets worth talking a