The ones hunting up ahead were a hunting party led by I Shoot You Innocent.
The party had two Strength Class players, two Agility Class players, and one Constitution Class player.
Their target was a black bear that stood over two meters tall!
The Constitution Class player, whose ID was Immovable King, stood at the front with a crude wooden shield, drawing the black bear's attacks.
He had made the shield himself.
As a veteran online gamer, he always chose a tank-type class in every game he played.
After entering Savage World, he had chosen Constitution Class without hesitation and continued down the tank route.
What kind of tank went without a shield?
He had searched the valley for a long time before finally finding a tree with exceptionally hard wood. It took him a whole day to cut a piece from the trunk and make it into a shield.
He had become the only powerful MT among the Constitution Class players to own a shield.
With Immovable King holding the front line, two Strength Class teammates and one Agility Class teammate circled the black bear, waiting for a chance to attack.
But I Shoot You Innocent, their captain, stood thirty meters away with a longbow made by Liubai Dianmo.
As the tribe's number-one archer and the only man to hit a Jackalman in the last battle, he naturally wasn't going to charge into melee like everyone else.
A bow and arrow were his calling!
He stood firm as a pine tree, gripping the bow in his left hand and drawing the string taut with his right.
"Hit the mark!"
He let out a sharp shout and loosed an arrow.
The arrow became a blur as it shot toward the black bear.
Whoosh...
It skimmed past Immovable King's cheek, leaving him drenched in a cold sweat.
"Damn it, can't you aim any better?"
Immovable King shouted angrily.
I've got to withstand the black bear's attacks and watch out for my teammate's arrows too. This is freaking exhausting!
"My bad, my bad!"
I Shoot You Innocent apologized, but showed no trace of guilt.
In other games, an archer's basic attacks locked onto their targets. They couldn't miss. But this game aimed for realism: you had to aim your arrows yourself, and there wasn't even an auto-targeting feature.
Wasn't missing perfectly normal?
He nocked another arrow and let it fly.
Whoosh...
I Am A Fish, a Strength Class player attacking the black bear, suddenly took an arrow to the knee and stumbled, nearly falling over.
"Holy crap! Can you even shoot? If not, quit firing!"
I Am A Fish yanked the arrow from his knee, cursing as he did.
It didn't hurt, but it messed up his movement!
In the party, he and I Shoot You Innocent, the Strength Class player Borrow Five Hundred Yuan From The Sky Again, and the Agility Class player Close Door And Beat Dog were all roommates.
Immovable King was their classmate too, though he lived in a different dorm.
They didn't hold back when cursing each other.
"Trust me one more time. I'll definitely hit this time!"
I Shoot You Innocent promised confidently.
"Miss again and I'll snap your bow!"
A Fish threatened him.
I Shoot You Innocent took a deep breath, held it, and carefully aimed.
His focus and the arrow in his hand became one.
He couldn't miss again this time!
"Hit the mark!"
He shouted to pump himself up, then let the arrow fly.
This arrow flew faster than the first two and traveled farther!
It turned into a black blur, passed by the black bear, flew over A Fish's head, and shot toward the grass in the distance.
The arrow whistled past A Fish's scalp. He broke into a cold sweat and was about to start cursing when a piercing scream from afar cut him off.
"Ah... I've been hit!"
"They've spotted us! Charge!"
At the shouts, a group of Jackalmen burst from the distant grass and charged toward them.
"Kill every last one of them! Especially that archer—don't let him get away!"
Bear Hunter looked at the arrow stuck in his shoulder and shouted angrily.
He had worried that the few humans would be scared off if his group charged straight at them, so he had led his brothers through the grass to sneak around and flank them. They had planned to surround the five humans before attacking.
He hadn't expected the human archer to be so perceptive. He'd spotted them from far away and even hit Bear Hunter in the shoulder with an arrow!
Bear Hunter was both shocked and furious.
He was shocked by the human archer's skill, and furious that he'd been wounded before the fight had even begun.
It was humiliating!
He had to wash away the shame with human blood!
With his order, thirty Jackalmen charged toward the five members of I Shoot You Innocent's party like wolves and tigers.
"Haha, I hit one! See? I hit one!"
I Shoot You Innocent looked at Bear Hunter in the distance, an arrow sticking out of his shoulder and a furious glare fixed on him, and shouted excitedly.
Let's see who still dares say I can't shoot!
A direct hit! Who else could do that?
Especially since the Jackalman he'd hit was obviously a head taller and bulkier than the others. He had to be an Elite Monster at least.
Maybe even a mini-boss!
While he was shouting excitedly, the Jackalmen had already surrounded them.
Immovable King, who had been holding off the black bear, was the first to take the brunt of it. Several Jackalmen rushed up behind him and swung their Wolf Tooth Clubs in a wild flurry of blows.
With an angry black bear in front and vicious Jackalmen behind, the level-three Immovable King had no chance to resist. In moments, they had beaten him to the ground.
His connection was severed. All he could do was helplessly take off his helmet and leave the game.
Now he'd have to wait another twenty-four hours before he could log in again. What a pain!
Watching the Jackalmen surround and kill Immovable King, I Shoot You Innocent finally realized how serious the situation was. His excitement at hitting an enemy vanished.
"Hold them off! I'm going back to report to the chief!"
With that, I Shoot You Innocent took off running.
If I didn't run now, I wouldn't get the chance!
"Hold them off my ass!"
A Fish cursed, dropped his Wolf Tooth Club, and turned to run as well.
In this situation, the more of them who escaped, the better.
All four of them started running. The two Strength Class players, A Fish and Borrow Five Hundred Yuan From The Sky Again, were obviously much slower than the two Agility Class players, I Shoot You Innocent and Close Door And Beat Dog.
Before long, the Jackalmen caught up with the two and surrounded them.
"Let's fight them!"
"We'll be heroes again in twenty-four hours!"
The two gritted their teeth and charged at the Jackalmen.
The outcome went without saying.
"These two humans have guts. They didn't even beg for mercy."
Bear Hunter looked at the two who had been torn to pieces, and a trace of admiration flashed through his eyes.
Even if they had begged, he wouldn't have spared them. Still, despite being outnumbered several times over, the two humans had never shown the slightest intention of begging. They had fought bravely to the very end.
They were enemies, but that kind of courage—facing death without hesitation—was truly admirable.
Elsewhere, I Shoot You Innocent and Close Door And Beat Dog ran for their lives, with several Jackalmen hot on their heels.
Both were level-three Agility Class players, with an Agility stat of thirteen. They were naturally fast.
But the Jackalmen ran on all fours, low to the ground, and they weren't slow either.
The two just couldn't shake their pursuers.
"Close Door, hold them off for a bit and let me get away first!" I Shoot You Innocent shouted as he sprinted alongside Close Door And Beat Dog.
"Get lost! Why don't you hold them off while I run?"
Close Door And Beat Dog naturally refused to sacrifice himself for I Shoot You Innocent.
"I've already died once. You haven't died yet, have you? Don't you want to try dying in the game? I'm telling you, it feels great!"
"Heh. If it feels so great, you can go die. I'm not interested."
Close Door And Beat Dog sneered.
Who did he think he was fooling?
Being unable to log in for twenty-four hours after dying was torture!
"How about this? You die, and I'll cover your meals for the whole week!"
I Shoot You Innocent gritted his teeth and offered.
"Get lost. It's Sunday already. Why would I need you to cover my meals?"
Close Door And Beat Dog wasn't falling for it.
"Next week, then! Next week!"
Seeing that Close Door And Beat Dog wasn't taking the bait, I Shoot You Innocent gritted his teeth and raised the offer.
"You said it. Don't go back on your word!"
Close Door And Beat Dog's eyes lit up.
I'm going to eat him out of house and home!
"Don't worry. I won't go back on my word. If I do, I'm a little dog!"
I Shoot You Innocent swore to the heavens.
"Deal!"
Close Door And Beat Dog stopped, turned around, and charged at the Jackalmen who were catching up.
The Jackalmen showed him no mercy. Several of them pounced on him at once and tackled him to the ground.
I Shoot You Innocent glanced behind him and saw that Close Door And Beat Dog had held up the pursuing Jackalmen. He let out a long breath of relief.
At least I won't die!
The last time he died, having to wait twenty-four hours before he could log in again had driven him crazy.
As he was congratulating himself, a dark figure suddenly burst from the grass beside him and pounced.
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