I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 147

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#Chapter 147.
Onyx surged forward through the Darkness, his colossal form cleaving through the shadows.
Jung Han-sung stood upon his back, sword raised. The distance to the monster collapsed in an instant.
The massive creature bore a grotesque form, its contours maddeningly indistinct.
It resembled hundreds of enormous shadows tangled together in chaotic profusion.
From what appeared to be its head, countless eyes opened and closed in endless repetition.
I narrowed my eyes, contemplating the sight.
‘There’s no blind spot whatsoever.’
No matter how I examined it, those eyes were far from mere decoration.
I abandoned my initial plan to leap upward and strike at a weakness, instead pressing myself flat against Onyx’s back.
Kwaaaaaaang―!
In the next instant, Onyx’s body collided with the monster, unleashing a thunderous boom.
The creature made no attempt to evade despite Onyx’s obvious approach, accepting the full force of the impact and hurtling backward.
While such effortless acceptance of the attack might seem strange, I quickly grasped why the monster had been caught off guard.
‘It never anticipated the attack would land.’
Clearly, ordinary attacks posed no threat to it whatsoever.
Given its very form, physical assaults were never meant to be effective against it.
Onyx prepared to deliver another strike, his jaws gaping wide, but the creature refused to remain passive.
―Goooooooh!
As Onyx moved to close in again, the monster’s body rippled like dawn mist, and a colossal scythe materialized, descending toward Onyx with lethal intent.
The scythe, impossibly massive, fell with terrifying velocity toward its target.
Uuuuuuung!
Onyx twisted his body desperately upon seeing it.
Evasion seemed impossible with that maneuver alone, yet remarkably, the scythe dissolved back into thick mist mere inches before contact.
Shwaaaack!
Still, fragments of the dissipating weapon grazed across several of Onyx’s scales as they scattered.
Onyx’s eyes blazed with fury as he fixed his gaze upon the creature.
I observed this and understood.
‘It attacks with Darkness attribute, then disperses it.’
The scythe that had just materialized was formed by condensing Darkness energy. That explained its abnormal speed and trajectory.
Since Onyx could also manipulate Darkness energy, he dispersed it in response.
The reason he still took damage was because the creature had concealed a portion of its own body within the scythe like a core.
‘This is similar to how Onyx manipulates energy.’
Currently, Onyx himself had wrapped his body in energy to magnify his size.
The monster likely employed the same method to enlarge itself and launch attacks.
Fuuuuuung!
Then Onyx lashed his tail, and dozens of colossal spears materialized in the empty air, formed from condensed energy.
The spears spun rapidly in place before rocketing toward the monster at terrifying speed.
―Kroooooh!
The creature swung its energy-wreathed body in an attempt to block the assault, but it could not intercept every attack, and soon it released a agonized shriek.
Just from that alone, it was clear which of the two handled their energy more skillfully.
‘Onyx’s mastery over energy is unmistakably superior.’
While Onyx dispersed his energy effortlessly, the monster showed no such capability whatsoever.
The gap in their abilities was vast.
However, that didn’t mean Onyx was overwhelmingly stronger.
‘But the difference in weight class seems too significant.’
Onyx was outmatched in terms of raw power. Of course, I wasn’t referring to physical size alone.
Onyx had recovered considerable strength since our first meeting, but he still fell short of his prime.
If Onyx’s power compared to the monster was about 10, then the monster was 100—nearly a tenfold difference.
Yet the monster couldn’t overwhelm Onyx precisely because the gap in energy manipulation skill was so pronounced.
Whoooooosh!
Knowing this, Onyx unleashed ranged attacks relentlessly, pressing the creature back with unceasing assaults.
Meanwhile, the monster began targeting Onyx, relying on its colossal frame.
Crash!
The nearby wall crumbled with a thunderous roar under the monster’s assault.
It was an attack devoid of finesse, yet somehow far more menacing because of it.
Onyx had limits to how much energy he could handle at once.
With the monster brazenly leveraging its superior weight class, Onyx couldn’t completely disperse the impact.
―Such a brute!
Yet Onyx scoffed at the creature, launching himself skyward before whipping his tail with a sharp crack.
A thin, thread-like strand of energy rippled from his tail, grazing across the monster’s body.
Shhhk!
At first glance, the attack seemed utterly ineffectual.
But the monster’s body instantly went rigid where it was struck.
The reason was simple.
In that moment of contact, the energy transformed into razor-sharp thorns, burrowing deep into its internal structure.
A truly admirable display of precision and refinement.
Crash!
Onyx seized the opening while the creature was paralyzed, unleashing a barrage of frenzied attacks.
I watched as the monster’s massive body was carved away in real time.
―Graaaagh!
But finally breaking free from the paralysis, the monster raised both arms and brought them crashing down.
Boom!
A tremendous shockwave erupted, hurling both Onyx and Jung Han-sung, who rode upon him, backward.
Jung Han-sung observed the entire space rippling and let out a soft murmur of appreciation before speaking to Onyx.
“I think I understand how to approach this now.”
―What? Already?
Onyx asked in surprise. In truth, he was growing increasingly frustrated.
The monster was far more durable than he’d anticipated.
He was confident he could finish it given enough time, but dragging this out would defeat the purpose.
Despite this, Onyx felt a pang of disappointment that Jung Han-sung had stepped forward instead.
“That said, you’ll need to help me out.”
―Is that so? What should I do?
But hearing that Jung Han-sung needed his assistance lifted Onyx’s spirits immediately, and he asked eagerly.
Jung Han-sung explained the strategy to Onyx simply.
“Absorb as much of the energy around this area as you can. Scatter it if you need to. When the moment comes, I’ll land one decisive blow.”
―I’ll need to control nearly all the energy in this vicinity.
“Exactly. Can you do it?”
To that question, Onyx answered this time with a voice brimming with confidence.
―That much is entirely possible.
There were limits to how much I could manipulate freely, but temporarily controlling it was well within my capabilities.
The darkness-attributed energy filling this space wasn’t infinite either.
―Grrrraaaaaahhh!
Throughout all this, the monster continued its relentless assault.
It was simply attacking without pause, yet somehow to Jung Han-sung’s eyes, it appeared to be thrashing about with increasing desperation, as if sensing something ominous.
“Let’s go now.”
Jung Han-sung spoke as he raised his sword.
Many attacks weren’t necessary.
I had perfectly read the flow while watching Onyx’s battle with the monster.
If I landed just one proper strike, I could finish the creature immediately.
Whoooooosh!
Onyx shot upward into the air at Jung Han-sung’s word.
Crash!
The monster’s attack barely grazed past and drove straight into the ground instead.
The sight of the floor cracking from a single blow was enough to send shivers down one’s spine, but an attack only mattered if it connected.
―Beginning now!
Onyx, hovering high above, shouted while positioning himself directly over the monster.
Shhhhwooooosh―!
Simultaneously, energy spread from Onyx’s body like a spider’s web.
Having poured out even the energy that had been wrapping around his own body, Onyx’s previously enlarged form shrank back to its original size in an instant.
By then, Jung Han-sung had also leaped away from the creature’s body.
Uuuuuuuuuuh―!
The energy spreading like a spider’s web from Onyx began drawing in the darkness-attributed energy from the surroundings.
Though I had shown the ability to manipulate surrounding energy before, this was incomparable to that.
The energy filling the entire space was being sucked toward him with the force of a tidal wave.
―Grrrraaaaaahhh!
The monster, which had been about to launch an attack at Jung Han-sung and Onyx, let out a panicked cry and staggered for a moment.
It couldn’t help but do so.
All the energy around it was being sucked into Onyx.
It was like a fish that had spent its entire life swimming in water suddenly being thrown onto dry land.
‘Thinking about the current situation, it might be more accurate to say the sea suddenly transformed into land.’
Well, either way doesn’t really matter.
What mattered was that all the energy continuously flowing into the monster had been pulled upward in its entirety.
Even some of the energy the monster itself wielded was sucked away, leaving its body visibly emaciated.
And then Jung Han-sung fell down upon that monster.
Crack!
Jung Han-sung gazed downward with mana-infused eyes.
Reading the flow had become as natural to him as breathing.
To him, a straight path connecting himself and the monster became visible.
All he had to do was follow that path.
Crackling!
And pour the mana from his body into his blade at full power.
The monster, which had been thrashing about, belatedly sensed the threat and attempted to block the attack.
But by then, it was already too late.
Thunderous boom―!
Accompanied by a deafening sound, tremendous lightning energy erupted from the tip of Jung Han-sung’s blade.
He brought it down directly toward the giant’s torso.
Crackling crash!
The blade cut through the massive monster’s body without hesitation.
The monster naturally thrashed about, attempting to attack Jung Han-sung.
Whoosh!
But Onyx, floating in the sky above, controlled the surrounding energy and even suppressed the monster’s final desperate struggles.
Thus, Jung Han-sung’s blade pierced deep into the monster’s body without any obstruction.
The moment that blade touched the monster’s core.
Thunderous boom!
Countless branches of lightning spread in all directions, shattering the monster’s body from within.
And after a moment of silence.
Explosive roar―!
The monster’s body burst apart and collapsed. It couldn’t withstand the force that had exploded from within.
Thud―.
And Jung Han-sung landed lightly upon the monster’s corpse.
Still gripping his blade, which still contained blue lightning, Jung Han-sung looked upward and spoke.
“It’s over.”
At those words, Onyx released the energy he’d been holding tightly, breathing heavily.
Whoooosh―.
Then the space that had brightened in an instant was once again engulfed in darkness. But the shattered monster did not rise again.
―Sigh. My head is throbbing.
Onyx slowly returned to Jung Han-sung’s side, seeping into his armor as he spoke.
Jung Han-sung asked him a question.
“Why your head?”
―It’s because I’m controlling too much energy at once. I’ll be fine after resting a bit.
“Alright. Then I’ll rest for now. It seems like we’re done anyway.”
Jung Han-sung said this while gazing into empty space.
There, as always, clear messages floated in succession.
But then, Onyx spoke.
―Wait. What’s that?
“Huh? What?”
Onyx pointed toward the shattered remains of the monster’s corpse.
―Go closer to that spot, Master. I sense something.
At those words, Jung Han-sung set aside checking the messages for a moment and walked toward where Onyx was pointing.
As I arrived at the indicated location, Onyx spoke with an excited voice.
―Just as I thought! Look there! See that!
“See what?”
―That sphere!
Upon hearing this, Jung Han-sung looked carefully at where Onyx was pointing and belatedly discovered something.
It was a black sphere.
It resembled the crystals I’d obtained after defeating the Hunting Spirits before, but it carried a far denser aura of darkness attribute.
The reason I hadn’t recognized it at first glance was because of this.
It bore the same attribute as the surrounding energy, making it difficult to distinguish.
But Onyx’s excitement wasn’t due to the vast darkness-attribute energy the sphere contained.
Onyx cried out again.
―There’s divinity dwelling within it!

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