I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 124

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#Chapter 124.
There was no doubt about it.
This was the sound of collapse.
Similar to what happened at Arzka’s Altar, but not quite the same situation.
Back then, a quest completion message had appeared, so I only needed to escape as planned.
But now, for some reason, no message had appeared.
In other words, if I didn’t escape quickly, I could very well be buried alive in this place.
“Both of you, get inside!”
Jung Han-sung quickly stored Golem in his inventory and dismissed Akasha.
Combat was one thing, but for rapid movement, neither would be of much help.
Crackle!
Jung Han-sung circulated his lightning energy through his body and crouched low.
Boom—!
Then, detonating the lightning energy, he burst forward along the path he’d come from.
His body shot forward like a bolt of lightning itself.
Crash!
Though debris occasionally fell from the ceiling, Jung Han-sung nimbly dodged it all and pressed onward.
Within mere minutes, he had reached the Upper Floors.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
The collapse seemed to be progressing from even higher up, as debris continuously rained down from above.
Jung Han-sung opened the Upper Floors’ door and immediately entered the spiral passage.
Boom, boom, boom—!
The entire spiral passage seemed to roar like some colossal beast.
Steel beams screamed endlessly, and the floor trembled beyond mere vibrations—it was now clearly undulating.
Crash!
Soon after, the walls and floor behind him began to crumble away.
‘This reminds me of what happened during that trial.’
Back then, I had continuously climbed the ever-crumbling Staircase.
The difference now was that this was unmistakably reality, not some illusion. And there was no way to escape midway.
Crack!
As I continued running, a mechanical arm severed from the ceiling and blocked my path ahead.
Rather than waste time drawing my blade, I kicked off the ground and began running along the wall.
A brilliant blue light traced the path of my movement.
—At this rate, I’ll escape without issue.
Onyx spoke in an oddly serene tone, unfitting for the situation. Well, he wasn’t wrong.
The collapse was indeed tremendous, but not fast enough to catch up with Jung Han-sung moving at full speed.
At this pace, I would easily reach the surface before the collapse caught me.
“Something’s coming—!”
“Just keep running!”
But then, a shout echoed from ahead.
Even as Jung Han-sung ran, he didn’t miss that sound, and soon he could see a group rushing along the corridor.
They too belatedly spotted Jung Han-sung and let out a shriek.
‘What are these things?’
Jung Han-sung hesitated briefly before deciding to simply pass through them.
Whatever they were doing, they also appeared to be fleeing upward to escape the collapse.
Thus, Jung Han-sung didn’t slow his pace at all, charging through their ranks like a speeding tank.
“Ugh!”
“I-is that a person?”
He heard their voices from behind, but Jung Han-sung paid them no mind.
Given the collapse’s speed, they wouldn’t have a chance to do anything from back there.
They’d need to run like madmen just to barely escape.
As Jung Han-sung ascended, he encountered several more people.
At this point, even Jung Han-sung couldn’t help but notice something was amiss.
‘Escaping this place won’t be the end of it.’
The fact that there were over a dozen people in a place where humans rarely ventured.
The fact that a location that had stood firm for years was suddenly beginning to collapse. It didn’t seem like this was happening for no reason.
Jung Han-sung gripped his blade tightly as he looked at the exit ahead.
If his suspicion was correct, the moment after escaping would be the most dangerous.
Crackle!
Rather than slowing down, Jung Han-sung circulated his Neuro-force even more powerfully, accelerating further.
Boom—!
Thus, Jung Han-sung burst through the exit and shot upward.
“What?!”
“Someone’s come out!”
“Above!”
As expected.
As Jung Han-sung shot upward, he spotted people gathered near the exit he’d burst through.
They were all fully armed, and he could see bipedal robots and heavily equipped vehicles scattered about.
Thud!
Landing in an arc on the ground, Jung Han-sung immediately began running toward the city.
“Seize him!”
They soon came to their senses and began unleashing attacks toward Jung Han-sung.
Moreover, enemies weren’t only behind him.
‘Those look like a different group.’
There was another group in different attire standing ahead. They appeared to belong to an entirely different faction.
Rather than evading them, Jung Han-sung charged directly through their ranks.
“Argh!”
As Jung Han-sung rushed forward, unleashing electricity, they couldn’t react properly and were electrocuted, sent flying.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
And with those positioned at the exit now opening fire, chaos erupted in an instant.
They spared Jung Han-sung a glance, but their attention was far more consumed by those raining bullets upon them.
“They’re attacking!”
“Return fire!”
Thanks to the chaos, Jung Han-sung managed to slip through their ranks and open up considerable distance.
Behind him, gunfire and shouts tangled together in pandemonium, soon followed by violent explosions and screams.
But they weren’t entirely foolish either.
“He’s fleeing toward the Futuristic City!”
“Redirect the blockade to sector A-4! He’s getting away!”
Even as the two forces clashed with each other, they refused to let Jung Han-sung escape.
‘Of course—the entire reason for their firefight is me.’
At first glance, they seemed to be firing blindly without understanding, but their follow-up actions revealed they grasped the situation perfectly.
The engagement itself was merely a tactic to prevent the other side from capturing me.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud!
As expected, military drones soon ascended into the air and began pursuing him relentlessly.
They unleashed volleys of gunfire from above while continuously tracking Jung Han-sung, providing visual intelligence to the others.
―We need to bring those down, Master.
At Onyx’s words, Jung Han-sung nodded and replied.
“That’s what I was planning anyway.”
Fortunately, I had just the technique to deal with these annoying flies.
I gathered the electrical energy that had been circulating and accumulating throughout my body into a single point, then detonated it.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle!
The electrical energy radiated outward from my center, and the drones in the sky lost their bearings and began falling.
New drones soon appeared, but I repeated the same technique several more times, eliminating every last one.
‘Reaching the Futuristic City directly won’t be easy.’
However, I still hadn’t broken through the enemy’s encirclement.
Based on the voices I’d heard earlier, there was certainly a blockade positioned toward the Futuristic City.
‘That direction would be better.’
After a moment’s deliberation, I moved toward a location I’d spotted when escaping the Futuristic City earlier.
Soon after, an expanse of railroad tracks came into view.
My original plan had been to cross those tracks and flee toward the Mountain beyond.
I didn’t know the exact number of enemies, but a direct confrontation wasn’t a wise choice.
In a world this vast, previous actions often influenced subsequent missions.
‘And those people are surely minions of Corporations and massive organizations.’
If I wiped them out, every mission related to this world would become troublesome going forward.
But just as I was about to cross the tracks.
‘Huh?’
I heard a sound and turned my head. What caught my eye was a train thundering toward me.
The moment I saw it, I immediately changed my plan.
I dashed straight toward the train, and when I’d closed enough distance, I leaped up and landed on top of it.
Whoooosh!
A few new drones appeared in the distance moments later, but as Jung Han-sung unleashed another wave of neural energy, they plummeted helplessly from the sky.
The Futuristic City began receding rapidly behind us.
I couldn’t pinpoint exactly where the blockade had been installed, but it seemed absent from our current trajectory.
Still, taking no chances, Jung Han-sung maintained his grip on his blade and waited vigilantly for some time.
“Is it over?”
Only after nearly thirty minutes had elapsed did he finally relax, collapsing onto the train’s roof with a heavy sigh.
That was when it happened.
Messages suddenly cascaded across his vision.
[You have completed the objective of Floor 65’s Hidden Floor ‘City of Tombs’]
[You receive ‘Atlas Frame Blueprints’ as a reward]
[Beyond merely achieving the objective, you have perfectly secured the blueprints]
[You have achieved a Clear Rank of ‘SSS’]
[You receive ‘Core Blueprints’ as an additional reward]
Jung Han-sung stared at the messages with a dazed expression before muttering to himself.
“So the mission included escaping safely with the blueprints.”
The timing of the completion message suggested as much.
Otherwise, it would have appeared the moment I obtained the blueprints.
Jung Han-sung scratched his chin thoughtfully.
‘I was starting to worry I’d grabbed the wrong thing.’
After all, well past the time when the completion message should have appeared, there had been nothing—leaving me to wonder if something had gone wrong.
But seeing the completion message now put my mind at ease.
―Good thing.
“Tell me about it.”
At Onyx’s words, Jung Han-sung nodded before stretching out flat on the train’s roof.
“Hmm. But where is this thing headed anyway?”
―Does it matter? We’re heading back eventually regardless.
“Actually, I was planning to gather a few things this time. There’s quite a bit I need to sell.”
Jung Han-sung spoke while thinking of the cores stored in his inventory.
They would vanish the moment I left this floor. This world restricted the external export of items.
In other words, unless I wanted to simply abandon them, I had to dispose of everything before leaving.
Credits, however, could be carried out.
―Then wouldn’t it be better to head back now?
At Onyx’s suggestion, Jung Han-sung pondered briefly before gazing upward and responding.
“If I go back now, those bastards will just come after me again. Let’s see where this goes first. How far does this train actually travel?”
The train surely wasn’t running aimlessly without a destination. Jung Han-sung decided to follow it and see where it led.
If it took too long, he could always reconsider.
For now, though, I simply wanted to rest.
Jung Han-sung closed his eyes, remaining sprawled across the roof.
* * *
A day and a half later.
The train came to a halt at a fairly spacious station. From the rearmost car of the stopped train, someone disembarked discreetly.
He glanced around, muttering to himself.
“This place is quite large, isn’t it?”
―It seems smaller than the original city, though.
“True enough. Still, this should be more than sufficient to dispose of goods and acquire what I need.”
It was Jung Han-sung.
Originally, he had anticipated waiting two to four days, but fortunately, he had arrived at another city in just one day.
Jung Han-sung surveyed the surroundings once more before departing the station.
Several hours later.
Jung Han-sung had discovered several facts.
That this place was a mid-sized city called Etris.
“Where did you obtain such precious items? Or perhaps… do you have more?”
“I have this much.”
“Gasp! So… so many!”
The cores he had extracted from the Erosion Spiral were extraordinarily, exceptionally valuable commodities in Etris.

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