Chapter 15: Beary Strong
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Chapter 15: Beary Strong
Name: Jack Rust
Species: Human, Earth-387
Faction: -
Grade: F
Class: Pugilist (Elite)
Level: 15
Strength: 38
Dexterity: 48
Constitution: 38
Mental: 9
Will: 7
Skills: Fist Fighting (II), Drill (I)
What? This is impossible!
There were so many high numbers. When his Physical broke into three sub-stats, he expected his 38 points to be divided, not tripled.
What does this mean? Did I become three times stronger? And this Dexterity
He didnt feel three times stronger than before. A bit, sure, but not to such a degree. What does this mean?
Thankfully, Jack was a scientisthe almost had a PhD, too.
Maybe a point in Physical always meant a point in each of the stats. Its the same thing. Nothing changed; I just saw a simplified version so far.
This hypothesis was based on little, but it made sense. The System wouldnt just triple his power for no reason.
Still, why is Dexterity so much higher? Is it because of the High Speed Bush?
Unlike his other stats, he did feel faster than before, more flexible, more in command of his body. It had to have been the bush, unless the ice ponds bonuses were skewed towards Dexterity, which shouldnt be the case; he hadnt noticed an imbalance before, but he could feel it now.
Huh. Then, why did my Physical remain at 38 after the bush bonus? Maybe its not the average, but the minimum? Or some other, more complicated function?
In any case, he could see the utility of breaking down the stats. Keeping things simple at first was nice, but a stat imbalance would be hard to depict in a single number. Plus, if Jacks suspicions were correct, this would allow for greater customization of himself.
There was a question mark on how exactly his points would be distributed now. Would he still get two per Level, or six? And if it was six, did that mean he could put six into Mental, for example?
I probably still get two points as I did before, but if I want to put one point into the physical substats, it becomes three subpoints to allocate however I want.
Only that made sense, so it had to be true.
In the end, he didnt intend to scrutinize the Systems choices. It was seemingly omniscient and omnipotent. It should have its reasons for everything. Still, he wouldnt be surprised if the professor had already released a peer-reviewed publication criticizing the Systems procedures by the time he returned to civilization.
He chuckled.
She can handle herselfprobably.
It was a grim thought. Not all people were as equipped as him to handle a global overhaulbut then again, neither was he. The professor was a genius. Shed pull through.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.
Jack snapped out of his thoughts, and the clearing was as quiet and empty as ever. That was lucky; hed overstayed his welcome while high. He didnt know how long the vision took in real time, but he must have been idling here for at least twenty minutes.
Minutes
Another sobering realization. He hadnt considered time in minutes fora while. The suns position had been enough.
Done reminiscing, Jack decided it was time to get going. Hed already taken everything he could from the bush, and there was nothing else in the clearing anymore.
His feet took him into the bushes and up a hill, heading in the familiar direction of his cave. He still had to go into the pond again to see if he could take any extra stepsor rather, how many.
Midway to the cave, he stopped. Yes, he had to try the ice pondbut he really wanted to see the effects of Drill. He was far enough from the clearing now. Nothing was following him.
Clenching his fist, he shot it at a random tree trunk.
The moment they made impact, he sensed the change. His punch was so straight and controlled that no energy escaped the point of impact; instead, its entire momentum bypassed the trees surface and exploded slightly deeper, not mitigated at all by the hard bark.
The entire tree shook; leaves fell from its branches, and the trunk itself groaned and cracked from the inside.
Jack stared at his fist in surprise, then grinned. Its next target would be an earth bear and its stupidly hard magic fur.
Due to his job, Jack had visited this reserve many times, enough to know its general layout by heart. He understood the size of the bear area. Assuming all chunks were similar in size, he estimated there were thirteen to sixteen earth bears. That wasnt much; it also meant hed probably run out of low-level bears and have to dive deeper soon.
He still hadnt seen the bear boss or any stronger variant than the earth bear, but all in due time. Jack was finally ahead of the curve, and hed take full advantage of it.
The clock was still running. He wasnt going to search the entire area for a slightly weaker bear. Level 15 would do.
He climbed a tree and held his stone hammer at the ready. The bear didnt come by, of course, and Jack scowled as he rushed to another branch, keeping tabs of the bears location by its growls and other sounds.
Two hours later, after failing yet another branch ambush, his patience was growing thin.
Why wait for hours when I can just kick its ass?
Because I might lose, he replied, quickly regaining himself. He wasnt rash or stupid; and, even if on the clock, rushing things would bring ugly consequences. He was nowhere near the king of the forest.
Another hour later, as the sun had reached its peak, Jack suddenly heard the bear approach. He tensed up in joy. Its happening!
A brown shape with yellow splotches came under his branch, its wide ass swerving from side to side as it walked. Jack fell.
Bonk.
He stood over its headless corpse for a bit, frowning. This felt quite anti-climactic
Not even a level-up... Fine. Ill find a Level 14 or less and try to fight it.
Since he now understood how their territories worked, he could start from the ones at the edge of the bear area, which, according to game logic, would have the weakest bears.
It worked! Only half an hour later, Jack parted the leaves of a bush to spy on a Level 14 behemoth. It was busy stomping a bunnys corpse to death.
At least eat it, you fat prick.
Coincidentally, this was the same bear that had chased him down beforehe would recognize it everywhere. Jack felt his spirit burn at the thought of finally taking revenge.
He set the stone hammer aside and cracked his neck, then his knuckles as he prepared himself for a good fight. Ambushes were easy but time-consuming, and he didnt want to waste hours on each bear. With some luck, he could take one down without major injuriesand, if not, he was confident in escaping. Hed done it with half the stats.
Now ready, Jack bumped his fists together one more time, then calmly walked towards the bear. When he stepped on dry wood, it turned to look, yellow eyes scanning the forest and easily spotting him. It growled. Jack held its gaze and grinned.
The bear was confused, now. It recognized this creature, but last time, it had run away. Everything tried to escape when it growled. What was this?
Jack stepped between the trees and approached the bear. They werent in any sort of clearing, so the terrain would only help him.
The bear growled again and charged. Jack charged right back, releasing a roar of his own.
Jack saw an enraged behemoth charge right at him, fangs wide and claws racing to tear him apart. For a moment, he reconsidered all his life choices; then, he realized that the bear was slow. Too slow.
It lunged at him, but he jumped to its side. The bear rose on two feet to rip him apart.
He ducked under a hairy arm, then another. Jaws snapped shut before his face but couldnt touch him. He swerved aside, dodging a blow before stabbing two quick jabs into the bears fur. Like last time, a yellow patch rose to meet him.
This time, however, the yellow patch was ineffective. Jack felt the difference. His fist slammed into protected fur and sent the impact through it, directly onto the bears skin. He couldnt go deeper yet, unfortunately, but this was already a massive improvement.
The bear growled as it stepped back, falling on all fours. It eyed him warily; the impact had clearly hurt it.
Jack didnt eye anything warily; he only attacked harder.
This time, he was on the offensive. Blow after blow rained on the bear. Each of his attacks couldnt hurt it too much, but when they stockpiled, the weight became unbearable.
The bear frothed at the mouth as it fought back. Claws, jaws, even the back of paws and body slams came his way, but Jack dodged it all. After consuming the High Speed Bush, speed was his specialty, and it was also this bears weakness.
He grinned as he realized what was happening.
In game terminology, this bear was a slow tank, and he had both the speed to dodge everything and the skills to decimate it gradually. Thanks to Drill and the High Speed Bush, he countered the bears completely.
Thats not to say it was easy. Each of the bears strikes were cataclysmic, and though they were slow to Jacks eyes, a pre-System human couldnt even see them coming. For Jack, dodging one attack was easy, but the more the bear attacked, the higher his chance of making a mistake.
He kept his cool. He danced around the bear, gracefully weaving between attacks as he landed his own. His brain was honed and at maximum capacity the entire time.
The fight took place at great speed but still lasted more than three minutes. Jack didnt make a single mistake.
Eventually, the bear slowed down. Jacks punches increased in strength and volume, and slowly, the large beast was taken down. Its head finally slammed against the ground, leaving Jack panting, sweaty, and victorious.
He raised a fist into the air and roared his triumph.
Fuck yeah!
He had finally defeated an earth bear, these devils, for the first time!
No level-up yet, but they would come. Now that he knew he could handle it, Jacks hunting speed would increase by many times. The fight required his full focus, but it wasnt too difficult. He hadnt even come close to getting hit. He could easily be consistent for that long.
Grinning and leaving his stone hammer in that random bush, Jack went on with his hunting. The earth bears of the Greenway natural reserve were quickly whittled down, from the weakest to the strongest. Over the next twenty-four hours, eight more monster bears lost their lives to the forests rising star.
Until, on the ninth bear, the rising star met the king.
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Chapter 15: Beary Strong
Name: Jack Rust
Species: Human, Earth-387
Faction: -
Grade: F
Class: Pugilist (Elite)
Level: 15
Strength: 38
Dexterity: 48
Constitution: 38
Mental: 9
Will: 7
Skills: Fist Fighting (II), Drill (I)
What? This is impossible!
There were so many high numbers. When his Physical broke into three sub-stats, he expected his 38 points to be divided, not tripled.
What does this mean? Did I become three times stronger? And this Dexterity
He didnt feel three times stronger than before. A bit, sure, but not to such a degree. What does this mean?
Thankfully, Jack was a scientisthe almost had a PhD, too.
Maybe a point in Physical always meant a point in each of the stats. Its the same thing. Nothing changed; I just saw a simplified version so far.
This hypothesis was based on little, but it made sense. The System wouldnt just triple his power for no reason.
Still, why is Dexterity so much higher? Is it because of the High Speed Bush?
Unlike his other stats, he did feel faster than before, more flexible, more in command of his body. It had to have been the bush, unless the ice ponds bonuses were skewed towards Dexterity, which shouldnt be the case; he hadnt noticed an imbalance before, but he could feel it now.
Huh. Then, why did my Physical remain at 38 after the bush bonus? Maybe its not the average, but the minimum? Or some other, more complicated function?
In any case, he could see the utility of breaking down the stats. Keeping things simple at first was nice, but a stat imbalance would be hard to depict in a single number. Plus, if Jacks suspicions were correct, this would allow for greater customization of himself.
There was a question mark on how exactly his points would be distributed now. Would he still get two per Level, or six? And if it was six, did that mean he could put six into Mental, for example?
I probably still get two points as I did before, but if I want to put one point into the physical substats, it becomes three subpoints to allocate however I want.
Only that made sense, so it had to be true.
In the end, he didnt intend to scrutinize the Systems choices. It was seemingly omniscient and omnipotent. It should have its reasons for everything. Still, he wouldnt be surprised if the professor had already released a peer-reviewed publication criticizing the Systems procedures by the time he returned to civilization.
He chuckled.
She can handle herselfprobably.
It was a grim thought. Not all people were as equipped as him to handle a global overhaulbut then again, neither was he. The professor was a genius. Shed pull through.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.
Jack snapped out of his thoughts, and the clearing was as quiet and empty as ever. That was lucky; hed overstayed his welcome while high. He didnt know how long the vision took in real time, but he must have been idling here for at least twenty minutes.
Minutes
Another sobering realization. He hadnt considered time in minutes fora while. The suns position had been enough.
Done reminiscing, Jack decided it was time to get going. Hed already taken everything he could from the bush, and there was nothing else in the clearing anymore.
His feet took him into the bushes and up a hill, heading in the familiar direction of his cave. He still had to go into the pond again to see if he could take any extra stepsor rather, how many.
Midway to the cave, he stopped. Yes, he had to try the ice pondbut he really wanted to see the effects of Drill. He was far enough from the clearing now. Nothing was following him.
Clenching his fist, he shot it at a random tree trunk.
The moment they made impact, he sensed the change. His punch was so straight and controlled that no energy escaped the point of impact; instead, its entire momentum bypassed the trees surface and exploded slightly deeper, not mitigated at all by the hard bark.
The entire tree shook; leaves fell from its branches, and the trunk itself groaned and cracked from the inside.
Jack stared at his fist in surprise, then grinned. Its next target would be an earth bear and its stupidly hard magic fur.
Due to his job, Jack had visited this reserve many times, enough to know its general layout by heart. He understood the size of the bear area. Assuming all chunks were similar in size, he estimated there were thirteen to sixteen earth bears. That wasnt much; it also meant hed probably run out of low-level bears and have to dive deeper soon.
He still hadnt seen the bear boss or any stronger variant than the earth bear, but all in due time. Jack was finally ahead of the curve, and hed take full advantage of it.
The clock was still running. He wasnt going to search the entire area for a slightly weaker bear. Level 15 would do.
He climbed a tree and held his stone hammer at the ready. The bear didnt come by, of course, and Jack scowled as he rushed to another branch, keeping tabs of the bears location by its growls and other sounds.
Two hours later, after failing yet another branch ambush, his patience was growing thin.
Why wait for hours when I can just kick its ass?
Because I might lose, he replied, quickly regaining himself. He wasnt rash or stupid; and, even if on the clock, rushing things would bring ugly consequences. He was nowhere near the king of the forest.
Another hour later, as the sun had reached its peak, Jack suddenly heard the bear approach. He tensed up in joy. Its happening!
A brown shape with yellow splotches came under his branch, its wide ass swerving from side to side as it walked. Jack fell.
Bonk.
He stood over its headless corpse for a bit, frowning. This felt quite anti-climactic
Not even a level-up... Fine. Ill find a Level 14 or less and try to fight it.
Since he now understood how their territories worked, he could start from the ones at the edge of the bear area, which, according to game logic, would have the weakest bears.
It worked! Only half an hour later, Jack parted the leaves of a bush to spy on a Level 14 behemoth. It was busy stomping a bunnys corpse to death.
At least eat it, you fat prick.
Coincidentally, this was the same bear that had chased him down beforehe would recognize it everywhere. Jack felt his spirit burn at the thought of finally taking revenge.
He set the stone hammer aside and cracked his neck, then his knuckles as he prepared himself for a good fight. Ambushes were easy but time-consuming, and he didnt want to waste hours on each bear. With some luck, he could take one down without major injuriesand, if not, he was confident in escaping. Hed done it with half the stats.
Now ready, Jack bumped his fists together one more time, then calmly walked towards the bear. When he stepped on dry wood, it turned to look, yellow eyes scanning the forest and easily spotting him. It growled. Jack held its gaze and grinned.
The bear was confused, now. It recognized this creature, but last time, it had run away. Everything tried to escape when it growled. What was this?
Jack stepped between the trees and approached the bear. They werent in any sort of clearing, so the terrain would only help him.
The bear growled again and charged. Jack charged right back, releasing a roar of his own.
Jack saw an enraged behemoth charge right at him, fangs wide and claws racing to tear him apart. For a moment, he reconsidered all his life choices; then, he realized that the bear was slow. Too slow.
It lunged at him, but he jumped to its side. The bear rose on two feet to rip him apart.
He ducked under a hairy arm, then another. Jaws snapped shut before his face but couldnt touch him. He swerved aside, dodging a blow before stabbing two quick jabs into the bears fur. Like last time, a yellow patch rose to meet him.
This time, however, the yellow patch was ineffective. Jack felt the difference. His fist slammed into protected fur and sent the impact through it, directly onto the bears skin. He couldnt go deeper yet, unfortunately, but this was already a massive improvement.
The bear growled as it stepped back, falling on all fours. It eyed him warily; the impact had clearly hurt it.
Jack didnt eye anything warily; he only attacked harder.
This time, he was on the offensive. Blow after blow rained on the bear. Each of his attacks couldnt hurt it too much, but when they stockpiled, the weight became unbearable.
The bear frothed at the mouth as it fought back. Claws, jaws, even the back of paws and body slams came his way, but Jack dodged it all. After consuming the High Speed Bush, speed was his specialty, and it was also this bears weakness.
He grinned as he realized what was happening.
In game terminology, this bear was a slow tank, and he had both the speed to dodge everything and the skills to decimate it gradually. Thanks to Drill and the High Speed Bush, he countered the bears completely.
Thats not to say it was easy. Each of the bears strikes were cataclysmic, and though they were slow to Jacks eyes, a pre-System human couldnt even see them coming. For Jack, dodging one attack was easy, but the more the bear attacked, the higher his chance of making a mistake.
He kept his cool. He danced around the bear, gracefully weaving between attacks as he landed his own. His brain was honed and at maximum capacity the entire time.
The fight took place at great speed but still lasted more than three minutes. Jack didnt make a single mistake.
Eventually, the bear slowed down. Jacks punches increased in strength and volume, and slowly, the large beast was taken down. Its head finally slammed against the ground, leaving Jack panting, sweaty, and victorious.
He raised a fist into the air and roared his triumph.
Fuck yeah!
He had finally defeated an earth bear, these devils, for the first time!
No level-up yet, but they would come. Now that he knew he could handle it, Jacks hunting speed would increase by many times. The fight required his full focus, but it wasnt too difficult. He hadnt even come close to getting hit. He could easily be consistent for that long.
Grinning and leaving his stone hammer in that random bush, Jack went on with his hunting. The earth bears of the Greenway natural reserve were quickly whittled down, from the weakest to the strongest. Over the next twenty-four hours, eight more monster bears lost their lives to the forests rising star.
Until, on the ninth bear, the rising star met the king.
Chapter 15: Beary StrongName: Jack RustSpecies: Human, Earth-387Faction: -Grade: FClass: Pugilist EliteLevel: 15Strength: 38Dexterity: 48Constitution: 38Mental: 9Will: 7Skills: Fist Fighting II, Drill IWhat? This is impossible!There were so many high numbers. When his Physical broke into three sub-stats, he expected his 38 points to be divided, not tripled.What does this mean? Did I become three times stronger? And this DexterityHe didnt feel three times stronger than before. A bit, sure, but not to such a degree. What does this mean?Thankfully, Jack was a scientisthe almost had a PhD, too.Maybe a point in Physical always meant a point in each of the stats. Its the same thing. Nothing changed; I just saw a simplified version so far.This hypothesis was based on little, but it made sense. The System wouldnt just triple his power for no reason.Still, why is Dexterity so much higher? Is it because of the High Speed Bush?Unlike his other stats, he did feel faster than before, more flexible, more in command of his body. It had to have been the bush, unless the ice ponds bonuses were skewed towards Dexterity, which shouldnt be the case; he hadnt noticed an imbalance before, but he could feel it now.Huh. Then, why did my Physical remain at 38 after the bush bonus? Maybe its not the average, but the minimum? Or some other, more complicated function?In any case, he could see the utility of breaking down the stats. Keeping things simple at first was nice, but a stat imbalance would be hard to depict in a single number. Plus, if Jacks suspicions were correct, this would allow for greater customization of himself.There was a question mark on how exactly his points would be distributed now. Would he still get two per Level, or six? And if it was six, did that mean he could put six into Mental, for example?I probably still get two points as I did before, but if I want to put one point into the physical substats, it becomes three subpoints to allocate however I want.Only that made sense, so it had to be true.In the end, he didnt intend to scrutinize the Systems choices. It was seemingly omniscient and omnipotent. It should have its reasons for everything. Still, he wouldnt be surprised if the professor had already released a peer-reviewed publication criticizing the Systems procedures by the time he returned to civilization.He chuckled.She can handle herselfprobably.It was a grim thought. Not all people were as equipped as him to handle a global overhaulbut then again, neither was he. The professor was a genius. Shed pull through.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.Jack snapped out of his thoughts, and the clearing was as quiet and empty as ever. That was lucky; hed overstayed his welcome while high. He didnt know how long the vision took in real time, but he must have been idling here for at least twenty minutes.MinutesAnother sobering realization. He hadnt considered time in minutes fora while. The suns position had been enough.Done reminiscing, Jack decided it was time to get going. Hed already taken everything he could from the bush, and there was nothing else in the clearing anymore.His feet took him into the bushes and up a hill, heading in the familiar direction of his cave. He still had to go into the pond again to see if he could take any extra stepsor rather, how many.Midway to the cave, he stopped. Yes, he had to try the ice pondbut he really wanted to see the effects of Drill. He was far enough from the clearing now. Nothing was following him.Clenching his fist, he shot it at a random tree trunk.The moment they made impact, he sensed the change. His punch was so straight and controlled that no energy escaped the point of impact; instead, its entire momentum bypassed the trees surface and exploded slightly deeper, not mitigated at all by the hard bark.The entire tree shook; leaves fell from its branches, and the trunk itself groaned and cracked from the inside.Jack stared at his fist in surprise, then grinned. Its next target would be an earth bear and its stupidly hard magic fur.Due to his job, Jack had visited this reserve many times, enough to know its general layout by heart. He understood the size of the bear area. Assuming all chunks were similar in size, he estimated there were thirteen to sixteen earth bears. That wasnt much; it also meant hed probably run out of low-level bears and have to dive deeper soon.He still hadnt seen the bear boss or any stronger variant than the earth bear, but all in due time. Jack was finally ahead of the curve, and hed take full advantage of it.The clock was still running. He wasnt going to search the entire area for a slightly weaker bear. Level 15 would do.He climbed a tree and held his stone hammer at the ready. The bear didnt come by, of course, and Jack scowled as he rushed to another branch, keeping tabs of the bears location by its growls and other sounds.Two hours later, after failing yet another branch ambush, his patience was growing thin.Why wait for hours when I can just kick its ass?Because I might lose, he replied, quickly regaining himself. He wasnt rash or stupid; and, even if on the clock, rushing things would bring ugly consequences. He was nowhere near the king of the forest.Another hour later, as the sun had reached its peak, Jack suddenly heard the bear approach. He tensed up in joy. Its happening!A brown shape with yellow splotches came under his branch, its wide ass swerving from side to side as it walked. Jack fell.Bonk.He stood over its headless corpse for a bit, frowning. This felt quite anti-climacticNot even a level-up... Fine. Ill find a Level 14 or less and try to fight it.Since he now understood how their territories worked, he could start from the ones at the edge of the bear area, which, according to game logic, would have the weakest bears.It worked! Only half an hour later, Jack parted the leaves of a bush to spy on a Level 14 behemoth. It was busy stomping a bunnys corpse to death.At least eat it, you fat prick.Coincidentally, this was the same bear that had chased him down beforehe would recognize it everywhere. Jack felt his spirit burn at the thought of finally taking revenge.He set the stone hammer aside and cracked his neck, then his knuckles as he prepared himself for a good fight. Ambushes were easy but time-consuming, and he didnt want to waste hours on each bear. With some luck, he could take one down without major injuriesand, if not, he was confident in escaping. Hed done it with half the stats.Now ready, Jack bumped his fists together one more time, then calmly walked towards the bear. When he stepped on dry wood, it turned to look, yellow eyes scanning the forest and easily spotting him. It growled. Jack held its gaze and grinned.The bear was confused, now. It recognized this creature, but last time, it had run away. Everything tried to escape when it growled. What was this?Jack stepped between the trees and approached the bear. They werent in any sort of clearing, so the terrain would only help him.The bear growled again and charged. Jack charged right back, releasing a roar of his own.Jack saw an enraged behemoth charge right at him, fangs wide and claws racing to tear him apart. For a moment, he reconsidered all his life choices; then, he realized that the bear was slow. Too slow.It lunged at him, but he jumped to its side. The bear rose on two feet to rip him apart.He ducked under a hairy arm, then another. Jaws snapped shut before his face but couldnt touch him. He swerved aside, dodging a blow before stabbing two quick jabs into the bears fur. Like last time, a yellow patch rose to meet him.This time, however, the yellow patch was ineffective. Jack felt the difference. His fist slammed into protected fur and sent the impact through it, directly onto the bears skin. He couldnt go deeper yet, unfortunately, but this was already a massive improvement.The bear growled as it stepped back, falling on all fours. It eyed him warily; the impact had clearly hurt it.Jack didnt eye anything warily; he only attacked harder.This time, he was on the offensive. Blow after blow rained on the bear. Each of his attacks couldnt hurt it too much, but when they stockpiled, the weight became unbearable.The bear frothed at the mouth as it fought back. Claws, jaws, even the back of paws and body slams came his way, but Jack dodged it all. After consuming the High Speed Bush, speed was his specialty, and it was also this bears weakness.He grinned as he realized what was happening.In game terminology, this bear was a slow tank, and he had both the speed to dodge everything and the skills to decimate it gradually. Thanks to Drill and the High Speed Bush, he countered the bears completely.Thats not to say it was easy. Each of the bears strikes were cataclysmic, and though they were slow to Jacks eyes, a pre-System human couldnt even see them coming. For Jack, dodging one attack was easy, but the more the bear attacked, the higher his chance of making a mistake.He kept his cool. He danced around the bear, gracefully weaving between attacks as he landed his own. His brain was honed and at maximum capacity the entire time.The fight took place at great speed but still lasted more than three minutes. Jack didnt make a single mistake.Eventually, the bear slowed down. Jacks punches increased in strength and volume, and slowly, the large beast was taken down. Its head finally slammed against the ground, leaving Jack panting, sweaty, and victorious.He raised a fist into the air and roared his triumph.Fuck yeah!He had finally defeated an earth bear, these devils, for the first time!No level-up yet, but they would come. Now that he knew he could handle it, Jacks hunting speed would increase by many times. The fight required his full focus, but it wasnt too difficult. He hadnt even come close to getting hit. He could easily be consistent for that long.Grinning and leaving his stone hammer in that random bush, Jack went on with his hunting. The earth bears of the Greenway natural reserve were quickly whittled down, from the weakest to the strongest. Over the next twenty-four hours, eight more monster bears lost their lives to the forests rising star.Until, on the ninth bear, the rising star met the king.
