I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 155

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#Chapter 155.
Floors with shared missions naturally attracted more climbers due to their structural design.
Floor 76 was no exception, and currently, a considerable number of people were stationed there.
Then, simultaneously, a message materialized before all their eyes.
[The Twisted Ancient Tree Ruins Occupation Zone has been liberated!]
It was a message announcing the complete liberation of one occupation zone.
Those who witnessed it widened their eyes in shock or gaped their mouths before hastily exchanging glances with others.
“The Ancient Tree Ruins? You mean that place?”
“Isn’t that where the monsters are most abundant and there’s an incredibly powerful boss?”
“What on earth….”
Those who were quite far away tackling other occupation zones, unaware of the exact situation, conversed in bewilderment.
However, those positioned relatively close to the Twisted Ancient Tree Ruins Occupation Zone were different.
They were those who had entered relatively late or were wandering without deciding which occupation zone to target.
They had witnessed firsthand the tremendous roar and lightning that erupted the moment Jung Han-sung conquered the Ancient Tree Ruins.
In particular, the sight of the Ancient Tree Spirit—visibly powerful at first glance—shrieking and vanishing was an unforgettable spectacle.
“That was….”
Yet one person among them was astonished for a different reason.
Unable to decide which occupation zone to target, he had set up camp on a relatively high hill, and just moments ago, he witnessed someone wielding a single sword and charging at a colossal spirit.
And the instant that person swung the blade, tremendous lightning descended.
Because of this, he remembered.
“It matches exactly what that person described.”
That someone was searching for precisely such an existence. That they had even promised a modest reward upon discovery.
Thus, without hesitation, the Male Ranker retrieved a disposable communication device from his pocket and contacted someone.
The message was quite simple.
―Floor 76, person matching the described characteristics found.
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“You’re a monster.”
“What?”
“A monster, I say. How on earth did you defeat that thing so easily?”
Berka spoke to Jung Han-sung with lingering astonishment etched across his face.
Jung Han-sung answered simply.
“It’s not an attack I can deploy frequently. That’s why I’m resting now.”
True to his words, the single strike that felled the spirit was not an attack Jung Han-sung could unleash indefinitely.
It required drawing forth a massive amount of mana at once and expending it without reservation—such was the power required.
Berka shook his head even at Jung Han-sung’s explanation.
“You’ve deployed it twice and you’re still perfectly fine! To unleash such an attack without any preparation—if it were me, I’d collapse from exhaustion immediately. Or lose consciousness.”
Jung Han-sung merely shrugged this time. And simultaneously, he mulled over Berka’s words.
‘If he’s prepared to collapse, does he have confidence in unleashing comparable power?’
The statement didn’t sound like mere bravado.
After all, when they had conquered The Tower together previously, he had witnessed Berka deploy considerable power after lengthy preparation.
Berka certainly didn’t fit the mold of an ordinary Climber.
If Berka had been merely mediocre, I wouldn’t have formed even a temporary team with him.
Jung Han-sung considered this much, then closed his eyes and spoke.
“Let’s rest for ten minutes, then move on.”
“Fine. I’ll keep watch.”
Berka said this and tapped his staff against the ground with a rhythmic thud.
Thanks to this, Jung Han-sung was able to rest deeply for ten minutes and recover a fair amount of mana.
Exactly ten minutes later, Jung Han-sung rose to his feet and spoke.
“Let’s go.”
“You don’t need more rest?”
“No. We still have two more to clear.”
“Wait, isn’t this supposed to be a seven-day mission…?”
Berka answered with an exasperated tone while tapping his staff against the ground to recover his mana.
The two then retraced their steps and began moving forward. As they traveled, Berka glanced around and spoke.
“This doesn’t seem like an ordinary occupation territory conquest.”
“Why?”
“Well, it’s a shared mission, isn’t it? Shared missions typically don’t feature quests like this.”
“That’s true. Shared missions are designed so you can clear them regardless of when you enter.”
“Exactly. So if you need to clear three occupation territories no matter when you enter…that would require an enormous number of territories, wouldn’t it?”
“Hmm. Or perhaps when someone else clears a territory, it counts as conquered?”
“In a normal mission, yes. But there’s no guarantee that’s the case here.”
Berka stroked his chin and continued.
“Shared missions with this kind of scale are rare in the first place…Usually they’re more like ‘defeat a few monsters’ or ‘collect something,’ that sort of thing.”
“Hmm. Well, this one might just happen to be unusually large in scale. There could be an enormous number of territories.”
“True. Or…the mission itself could change.”
Berka paused at Jung Han-sung’s words, then shook his head and spoke.
“Right. The Tower being capricious happens all the time. Anyway, let’s hurry and clear the next territory. Ah, I’ll handle the next one myself.”
“You’re going to do it alone?”
“Yeah. We’re clearing this together, so I should put in some effort too.”
The confident way he spoke suggested Berka had already formulated a plan.
Jung Han-sung nodded in agreement.
He was curious to see just how far Berka could go if he truly exerted his full power.
The two soon began moving at high speed while expending mana, and before long they arrived at the second occupation territory.
“This place is in pretty rough shape too.”
Jung Han-sung spoke as he surveyed the second occupation territory.
True to his words, this place was in no better condition than the first territory.
Most of the buildings were completely destroyed, and between them rose metal spikes like pointed stakes.
Monsters roamed about in the surrounding area without question.
But what drew the eye most was the metallic structure positioned directly in the center.
It looked as though dozens of metal spikes had been forcibly driven into a single point.
From the surface of the chaotic structure, metallic mana flowed ceaselessly, and the monsters beneath it absorbed it greedily.
“So that’s the heart of this occupation zone.”
Berka murmured while grasping his staff with both hands.
Jung Han-sung nodded and spoke.
“They seem to be struggling quite a bit with liberation.”
In this second occupation zone, there were other Awakeners present.
Nearly twenty Awakeners were already attempting to conquer the occupation zone.
However, their progress didn’t appear particularly swift.
They couldn’t even approach the central structure, instead engaging in fierce combat with the monsters on the periphery.
“They’re probably taking it step by step. With a full week to work with, there’s no need to rush recklessly.”
Certainly, even if the Awakeners fell short of Jung Han-sung and Berka, they weren’t entirely incompetent.
Their slow progress now was simply a matter of prioritizing safety.
Had they pursued the conquest more aggressively, their pace would have been considerably faster.
But as Berka said, there was no reason to do so.
With a full week granted and multiple occupation zones to conquer, there was no justification for exhausting all their strength here.
“Well, that’s their concern, after all.”
But it mattered little to Jung Han-sung and Berka.
They had no intention of wasting much time.
“Hah.”
Berka exhaled deeply and drove his staff into the ground.
A low hum resonated.
Mana pulsed through the staff and spread across the earth, carving crimson lines into the ground.
Jung Han-sung stood behind, observing the spectacle.
I could feel mana churning around Berka as its epicenter.
The air grew increasingly hot, and crimson light blazed forth from the lines etched upon the ground.
“Ether. Behel. Redea. Kanan.”
Berka continued chanting in a low voice without pause.
Soon, golden light emanated from beneath Berka’s feet, beginning to trace another pattern.
Followed by gold, violet, cyan…
Magic circles stacked upon one another, constructing increasingly intricate formations.
Jung Han-sung watched and contemplated.
‘Certainly, with this level of power…’
I had conquered several floors alongside Berka before, but never had he employed grand magic of this caliber.
There simply hadn’t been an opponent worthy of it.
“Ehetel. Beren.”
Before long, Berka’s voice grew increasingly intense as he chanted, raising his staff high.
In that moment, thin threads of mana like capillaries extended from Berka’s body and touched the magic circle on the ground.
The magic circle then erupted with light several times more brilliant, and a pillar of radiance shot skyward.
A thunderous boom echoed.
It was immediately after that Berka’s staff came crashing down upon the ground.
Brilliant mana light blazed from Berka’s eyes as he completed the incantation.
“Meteor Strike.”
Immediately after.
A magic circle identical to the one inscribed on the ground materialized above the metal structure at the center.
However, its size dwarfed the ground-level magic circle by several hundred times.
Uuuuuuuuuung!
The magic circle blazed with brilliant light.
In that moment, even Jung Han-sung forgot everything else and gazed upward at the magic circle.
Soon, a sound of something shattering emanated from the magic circle, and a different landscape began to materialize within it.
Dense darkness.
Within it, countless points of light glimmered.
They resembled small stars at first, but as time passed, I realized that my perception of them as “small” had been an illusion.
Those points were growing larger.
Or rather, to be precise, they were originally massive. They simply appeared to grow larger as the distance between us closed.
Fuuuuuuuuung!
Red flames trailed behind them, and at the end of those tails, pale smoke streamed in long, billowing waves.
“What… what is that?”
“Fall back!”
The climbers, who had been gazing blankly upward at the sudden appearance of the magic circle, belatedly sensed the danger and scrambled backward in panic.
The monsters, however, reacted too slowly.
A few perceptive ones sensed the threat to their lives and swiftly retreated from the center, but most simply stared vacantly upward.
And then―.
Kwaaaaaaang―!
With a deafening roar, a burning meteorite plummeted directly onto the metal structure.
The moment it struck, an explosion erupted, the ground heaved upward, and a shockwave rippled outward from the epicenter like a tidal wave.
Red fragments and molten metal shot skyward, and the surrounding buildings shattered completely under the impact.
Yet the metal structure at the center remained intact, as if declaring that such force could not touch it.
Kwaaaaaaang―!
Another meteorite crashed down upon that structure. And it was far from over.
Boom, boom, kwaaaang―!
Deafening roars echoed repeatedly, and with each impact, the structure crumpled pathetically and melted away.
Berka, sweat pouring down his face, never ceased channeling mana into his staff.
Kwaaaaaaang―!
Finally, when the seventh meteorite completely obliterated the structure.
[Metal Spike Occupation Zone Liberation Complete]
[Remaining Occupation Zones: 1]
A message materialized before their eyes.
Only then did Berka lower his staff and wipe away the sweat. He turned to Jung Han-sung and spoke.
“How was that? My attacks are pretty useful, wouldn’t you say?”
To that question, Jung Han-sung answered with a slight smile.
“Yeah. Quite impressive.”
“What, that’s it? You should be more amazed.”
Berka said this in a playful tone, then exhaled a long breath.
It seemed that the spell I had just cast was quite taxing for Berka as well.
Jung Han-sung asked him a question.
“Will ten minutes be enough?”
At that question, Berka let out a hollow laugh, shook his head, and spoke.
“Not everyone is a monster like you. I need at least thirty minutes to rest.”
But that was only for a moment—he soon spoke to Jung Han-sung again.
“Still, we can rest after we finish anyway. Let’s rest for ten minutes first and then head to the third occupation zone.”
“Sounds good.”
The moment the conversation ended, Berka promptly collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
But then.
“Huh?”
My communication device began to gleam and sparkle with light.

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