I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 121

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#Chapter 121.
A rather eerie sight, to say the least.
Yet I showed no particular alarm, calmly raising my blade to aim forward.
I had experienced similar situations countless times before.
“I’ll engage them.”
Akasha, positioned at the front, stepped forward without hesitation. In that instant, the luminous eyes gleaming from the darkness snapped toward her.
Simultaneously, some of them kicked off the walls and ceiling, rushing toward Akasha.
Screech—clang, clang!
Sharp metal collided, sending sparks flying upward.
In that brief moment, the attackers’ forms became starkly visible.
They were damaged androids.
Left abandoned for so long, their exteriors were corroded with rust, and internal components protruded nakedly from various points across their bodies.
Dozens of such androids stood before me now.
Clang, clang!
Yet Akasha faced the charging androids without panic.
No matter how numerous the enemy, there was always a limit to how many could be engaged simultaneously.
Moreover, the androids’ coordinated attacks lacked sophistication.
They simply rushed forward mindlessly—no sense of timing, no concept of synchronized strikes.
‘An ordinary intruder would’ve been suffocated by sheer numbers, I suppose.’
According to intelligence, they were resistant to gunfire too, so by local standards, they would’ve been formidable opponents.
But that didn’t apply to Akasha.
With merely the two blades in her hands, she effortlessly parried the androids’ attacks while delivering lethal counterstrikes whenever an opening appeared.
Thud!
Some androids slipped past Akasha and charged directly toward me.
But that was a meaningless gesture.
Crack!
In terms of raw power, even accounting for Golem, I was the strongest.
With a casual swing of my blade, the android’s body split in half, crashing to the ground.
―These seem weaker than the ones we faced last time?
‘Seems that way. Though the difference isn’t enormous.’
My ease in dispatching them stemmed partly from my own skill, but Arzka’s influence was significant as well.
Beyond his special abilities, Arzka was an exceptional blade.
Sharp enough to cleave through most metals with ease.
And I didn’t need to worry about the edge dulling—minor damage repaired itself automatically.
Screech—clang, clang!
Most of the androids were handled by Akasha anyway, so I barely had opportunities to intervene.
Crack!
When I raised my head after dispatching the last android to charge forward.
Dozens of android corpses lay scattered across the floor.
I had only defeated four of them.
The rest had all been handled by Akasha.
‘Excellent.’
I thought to myself.
Originally, Akasha wasn’t particularly impressive compared to other undead in terms of combat prowess, but that had changed now.
Even with a different fighting style, she was easily comparable to Karon.
It was likely because the Demon’s horn had granted Akasha power beyond anything she’d possessed before.
“Then, shall we go?”
“Master.”
“Hmm?”
As I turned to advance past the broken androids, Akasha called me to a stop.
“Wouldn’t it be wise to collect the cores from these androids? They should fetch a decent price.”
“Oh, really?”
That was something I hadn’t thought of.
I nodded and instructed Akasha to recover the cores.
She then swiftly wielded her blade, extracting fist-sized cores from the androids’ bodies.
Of course, I watched carefully and eventually helped extract the cores as well.
After completing that task, my inventory held thirty-four android cores.
‘Nice.’
According to Akasha, android cores were worth a fair amount regardless of their condition, so it seemed I wouldn’t need to worry about money for a while in this world.
“Let’s go.”
We resumed our advance only after finishing the task.
Since we’d already swept away all the androids that had rushed at us before, our progress afterward was smooth.
Akasha, the Golem, and I descended slowly along the spiraling corridor.
The facility was silent, as if time had stopped.
The smell of corroded metal, traces of charred circuits, broken warning lights on the walls.
I couldn’t guess what accident had occurred here in the past, but it was clear the place had been abandoned for a long time.
―So far, it’s been peaceful. At this rate, we should reach the core without trouble.
At Onyx’s words, I frowned and spoke.
“Are you cursing us right now?”
―What are you talking about?
“Don’t you know that saying things like that always jinxes us?”
At my rebuke, Onyx showed an aggrieved expression but kept his mouth shut.
Fortunately, right after Onyx finished speaking, nothing like an ambush occurred.
After walking a bit further, we arrived at the end of the passage.
Akasha and I soon reached the end of the corridor.
“There’s a door. Shall I open it?”
To be precise, a massive metal door blocked our path, and I shook my head at Akasha’s question.
“I’ll do it. It’s probably a structure that’s difficult to open by force alone.”
This door was mentioned in the information Herman had provided.
It was the entrance that separated the exterior and interior of the Erosion Spiral.
‘The areas I’ve passed through so far held nothing of particular importance.’
The truly vital facilities within this complex lay beyond the door. That was precisely why this barrier couldn’t be breached through brute force alone.
Crack!
Jung Han-sung summoned electricity to his fingertips and slowly grasped the door’s handle.
Fzzzt—.
The electrical current surged from his hand across the entire door.
Jung Han-sung closed his eyes momentarily, sensing the electricity spreading outward.
Mana in the form of electrical current seeped into every crevice, tracing the circuitry embedded within the metal.
‘Quite intricate, isn’t it.’
Simple structures could be grasped in a single attempt, but this defied such ease.
So Jung Han-sung had to discharge electricity twice more before he could grasp the approximate layout.
Superficially, it appeared to be nothing more than an old, heavy metal door, yet within lay a labyrinth of mechanical systems and multilayered security circuits.
Even with all power and mana severed, it was designed to draw ambient mana from its surroundings and continue functioning.
‘The importance of what lies within must be considerable.’
Most intruders likely broke through the androids only to reach this point, unable to breach the door, and retreated in defeat.
But Jung Han-sung pressed forward without hesitation.
As he maintained his focus, he soon sensed the flow converging at several points within the circuitry.
‘Found it.’
The power control core.
The essential module governing the door’s opening and closing—a critical nexus point serving as a kind of hub.
Jung Han-sung unhesitatingly concentrated the electricity he’d poured into the door upon that location.
Zzzzzt—!
Mana refined to extreme precision stimulated the interior of the circuit.
A low vibration resonated from within the door, and somewhere a faint ‘click—!’ echoed out.
Exactly as intended.
Grrrr—.
The massive metal door began to open slowly, sliding outward on both sides.
Jung Han-sung stepped back and observed the sight before him.
The air flowing from within carried the scent of oil, rust, and something like fermented decay.
Though Jung Han-sung wore a gas mask, preventing him from properly detecting the odor.
“We proceed with caution.”
“Understood.”
In any case, Jung Han-sung carefully advanced into the interior.
The space beyond the door was wider and darker than the corridor he’d traversed.
At its center lay intricately entangled mechanical devices and computer equipment more than half corroded and shattered.
Cables and glass tubes suspended from the ceiling, along with a massive monitor devoid of light, hinted at what this facility had once been.
‘So this was the Upper Control Zone.’
A quick survey revealed multiple doors lining the walls of the vast circular chamber.
They likely led to other facilities.
He hoped to find what he sought somewhere here, but unfortunately, according to the intelligence, he still needed to descend further.
‘I’d been told that below the Erosion Spiral, the Upper Control Zone and Lower Section were divided.’
The target lay precisely in the Lower Section.
Scrape—, scrape—.
As I reached that thought,
an odd sound echoed from somewhere else. A noise like metal being dragged across the floor.
I surveyed my surroundings and quickly located the source, turning toward it.
I discovered an android—larger and far more grotesquely twisted than the ones I’d seen in the corridor earlier.
―It’s a complete mess. I’m starting to question the creator’s taste.
“It probably wasn’t originally like that. It must have been deformed by some accident.”
―An accident?
“I don’t know what kind of accident it was, but apparently it affected the androids too.”
Screech—!
Even as I spoke, the androids closed the distance.
I addressed Akasha and Golem.
“Let’s move faster from here on.”
I could have methodically searched the interior while engaging the charging androids, but that simply wasn’t my nature.
“Akasha, check that corridor over there. Golem, you take that one.”
I pointed out two nearby doors and had Akasha and Golem investigate them respectively, then advanced directly toward the androids myself.
The place they’d emerged from seemed most suspicious.
Screech—!
The androids accelerated upon seeing Akasha and Golem heading in different directions.
Their determination to let no intruder escape was evident, but it was a foolish move.
I stood directly in their path.
Whoosh!
I kicked off the ground and rushed at them, beginning to swing Arzka. This time, I didn’t even need to employ my technique.
Crash!
Simply swinging Arzka with the flow tore through the androids like paper.
As I dispatched several androids in an instant, the remaining ones belatedly showed caution and focused on me.
Tap!
But I didn’t mind. I simply continued moving with the flow, swinging my blade.
The androids charged and shattered in endless repetition.
Boom, boom, boom, boom—!
Among them were androids far more powerful than the others.
Units with bodies at least twice as large and output that appeared considerably higher.
Crash!
Yet even such an android was split clean in half by a single stroke of my blade, crashing into the wall and sparking violently.
Whoooosh!
Leaping among the androids, I executed a wide spinning slash, and two more units fell simultaneously along the blade’s arc.
‘Slow.’
Without employing my technique, every movement of my enemies was crystal clear to me.
Screech!
As the android’s steel arm flew toward me like a weapon, I twisted my blade slightly to deflect it, then drove it deep into the joint.
Crack!
With another twist, the arm tore clean away, and I kicked it along with another android that had been rushing at me from behind, sending them both flying.
In the past, reading the flow of combat and keeping pace with it demanded every ounce of my concentration, but now it was different.
It no longer felt like I was barely following the flow—rather, the flow itself seemed to form in response to my movements.
It was the kind of sight that would have deeply satisfied any true Sword Master.
Crash!
When the last android slammed against the wall, its head bursting open, and it ceased all movement.
I caught my breath and surveyed what lay ahead.
There was the passage the androids had torn through.
The opening gaped like a beast’s maw, bearing peculiar marks of its passage.
The metal walls were warped like taffy, and the surrounding area bore the scars of intense heat.
Thump, thump.
“There’s nothing in the passage you mentioned, sir.”
Just then, Golem and Akasha returned with their report. Those other passages appeared to be dead ends.
“Then it must be this one.”
I studied the passage extending downward, nodded, and spoke.
“We go down immediately.”

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