I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 208

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#Chapter 208
The blade sliced through the old man’s neck and passed clean through. He clutched at his throat with eyes full of disbelief. Then came a gurgling sound before he opened his mouth.
“So there exists someone more ruthless than I.”
He spoke with an unsettling calm.
The moment the old man with his severed throat uttered those words so composedly.
Cecilia immediately leveled her blade at him, while Jung Han-sung swung his sword without hesitation in the opposite direction.
Clang clang clang clang!
But this time, his opponent did not permit the attack so easily.
A shield materialized in that instant, blocking every strike.
“To cut down a child and an old man so unhesitatingly—don’t you have a problem with your character?”
Throughout it all, the old man continued speaking without pause.
Jung Han-sung answered simply.
“I only cut you.”
“What?”
The old man’s eyes rolled with confusion. Surely, when he swung his blade at the end, the child had clearly been within the trajectory.
But when his gaze turned in that direction, there stood the child, perfectly unharmed.
To be precise, the child was trembling from the shock of the moment, but there was not a single wound visible.
“An illusion spell?”
The old man, Delcadu, tried to make sense of the situation from what he had witnessed.
Jung Han-sung answered briefly once more.
“No. I simply didn’t cut them.”
“What are you…? Then I really was the only one cut?”
Delcadu said this while slowly lifting his body into the air.
Jung Han-sung’s expression remained blank as he swung his blade, closing the distance with Delcadu.
With each step forward, the surrounding shields shattered one after another.
Yet each time, a new barrier materialized. Truly, his magical prowess was far from ordinary.
“Your appearance didn’t suggest anything suspicious at all.”
“Your eyes followed the blade until the very end.”
“My eyes?”
“Yes. An ordinary human couldn’t possibly track a swung blade with their gaze.”
At Jung Han-sung’s words, Delcadu fell silent for a moment before letting out a hollow laugh.
“So you had no certainty from the start?”
“Of course. I was testing your reaction.”
No matter what, I had no intention of killing a child and an old man in a single stroke.
I merely wanted to observe their reaction when pushed to the brink.
But when I sensed the old man’s abnormal response and magical aura, I didn’t stop the blade.
I was confident enough to stop the blade a hair’s breadth away, but my opponent couldn’t have known that, so they thought I truly meant to kill them.
Had my opponent not deployed every spell to mitigate the damage at that final moment, they would truly have died from that single strike.
“But attacking me here was a mistake.”
Delcadu seemed to have composed himself, his eyes now cold and sharp as he glared at Jung Han-sung and spoke.
Currently, there were far too many eyes watching this place.
In other words, if a battle broke out here, the likelihood of those onlookers getting caught in the crossfire was extremely high.
However, Jung Han-sung answered with a different question instead.
“So, you’re Delcadu, right?”
“Ha, yeah. That’s right.”
Delcadu let out a hollow laugh at Jung Han-sung’s question at this late stage, and flicked one hand.
He had completed his spell while they conversed.
Whoooooosh!
The result was astounding.
Massive flames began falling from the sky above.
The moment Jung Han-sung saw it, he understood exactly how it would take effect.
Once those flames reached a certain distance, they would spread in all directions and engulf everything around them.
Delcadu wore a sinister smile the instant he unleashed his spell.
A human warrior would never stand by and watch others get hurt. He would surely strain himself trying to block it and end up injured.
Or so he thought.
Crack!
Jung Han-sung struck the ground.
Delcadu’s reasoning wasn’t entirely wrong. However, there was one thing he hadn’t anticipated.
That was how effortlessly Jung Han-sung had severed the spell.
Crackle!
A flash of firelight flickered, and the massive flames that had been descending with terrifying momentum vanished without a trace.
While others might not have understood, Delcadu, the one who had cast the spell, immediately grasped what had happened.
“What…! He severed the spell?”
By leaping up and swinging his sword, the magic had simply dispersed.
It was a natural outcome, but it was absolutely not an easy feat.
One could only perform such a technique by precisely understanding the structure of the spell and targeting its core.
But Delcadu’s shock was far from over.
Boom!
The moment Jung Han-sung landed on a nearby building’s roof, he leaped again and charged directly at the airborne Delcadu.
Delcadu immediately erected dozens of layers of shields while beginning to cast a new spell.
However, this time his judgment was off.
Crash!
Jung Han-sung shattered all the shields in one blow.
It couldn’t be entirely attributed to Delcadu’s mistake.
Until now, Jung Han-sung had never broken more than ten shields in a single strike.
Delcadu had continuously assessed his opponent’s capabilities and deployed shields in precisely optimized numbers.
He had never imagined that Jung Han-sung was deliberately hiding his true strength, intentionally not breaking all the shields to turn the tables on him.
Boom!
“Ugh!”
Delcadu was sent flying by Jung Han-sung’s blade strike and crashed to the ground. Jung Han-sung landed right in front of him.
Before long, the two of them had stepped beyond the Outer City.
“At least it’ll be less troublesome now.”
It was a natural enough sentiment, but in the area where they’d landed, it was difficult to spot a single person.
“Kekeke, truly, you’re not like other people at all.”
Delcadu spoke while observing Jung Han-sung.
“So then. Are you a Hero?”
Jung Han-sung’s eyebrows twitched at that question before he countered.
“What makes you think that?”
“Because I’ve memorized the faces of everyone in the Kingdom worth using. There’s no way someone this powerful would have been hidden away until now.”
“So that leaves only one conclusion.”
“Exactly.”
Delcadu staggered to his feet and gripped his staff with both hands.
“At least I’ve obtained one useful piece of information.”
Jung Han-sung regarded Delcadu with a steady gaze.
From the mere tone of his words, I could tell. This creature had no intention of fighting to the end.
It seemed he was planning to withdraw his body entirely.
Judging by the fact that he still hadn’t lost his composure, it appeared he possessed some means of escape.
It took less than a second to reach that conclusion.
My decision was simple.
Kwang―!
I pushed my Divine Power to its absolute limit in an instant and rushed forward, slashing at the opponent’s neck with my blade.
Delcadu attempted to deploy magic in that brief moment to block the attack.
Clanging―!
But this time, I didn’t stop.
If Delcadu escaped like this?
I’d have to search for him again and wander for quite some time. That was absolutely unacceptable.
“Gaaaah!”
As Jung Han-sung began to exert his full power, Delcadu writhed in agony.
Certainly, Delcadu possessed a means of escape.
If he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have infiltrated the Capital in the first place.
The problem was that activating that escape method required approximately five seconds.
Delcadu believed that with his level of skill, he could easily buy five seconds against anyone.
Even after witnessing Jung Han-sung’s abilities with his own eyes, that belief remained unchanged.
Clanging―!
However, the moment Jung Han-sung began to truly unleash that ‘speed’, Delcadu’s judgment shattered into pieces.
“Ugh, cough!”
All Delcadu could do was emit painful groans.
Activating the pre-prepared incantation within three seconds was impossible.
It wasn’t that he lacked instantly-castable magic, but such spells were of no use in this situation.
Slash!
When Jung Han-sung struck Delcadu while simultaneously swinging his sword, such magic would inevitably scatter and dissipate.
Since all of this had occurred while Delcadu indulged himself with a few extra words, he now bitterly regretted his choice from mere seconds ago.
Crack!
Of course, Jung Han-sung had no interest in what Delcadu was thinking.
Having experienced similar situations when facing Vagadur before, Jung Han-sung gave his opponent not even the briefest opening, pressing forward with relentless intensity.
Naturally, Delcadu also possessed several trump cards prepared for contingencies.
Yet all he could do now was continuously cast shields without respite.
Should he stop casting shields for even a moment, his entire body would be torn to shreds.
Even now, he couldn’t fully keep pace with Jung Han-sung’s speed, his entire body being slashed repeatedly.
He was barely managing to protect his vital points.
“Ah.”
And Cecilia witnessed the spectacle from afar.
After Jung Han-sung struck Delcadu and shifted their position to the Outer City, she had sprinted at full speed to reach this place.
But there was nothing she could do.
It was abundantly clear that any attempt to help would only hinder Jung Han-sung.
So Cecilia could only watch blankly as Jung Han-sung unilaterally overwhelmed Delcadu.
Crack!
After some time had passed, Delcadu’s shield protecting his vital point shattered for the first time.
Naturally, another shield was immediately layered over it, but Jung Han-sung’s blade had already pierced through to his vital point.
Even as this happened, Delcadu wrung out his own blood infused with mana, attempting to unfold something.
Sizzle!
But Jung Han-sung immediately unleashed holy lightning, incinerating it.
Delcadu’s blood, struck by the holy-infused electricity, evaporated before it could produce any meaningful effect.
Thus, Delcadu—one of the Four Heavenly Kings and known to command a thousand different spells—died.
“This can’t be real….”
Witnessing this, Cecilia murmured at Delcadu’s anticlimactic end, but only after confirming his corpse fall limply to the ground did she accept the reality.
“H-Hero.”
Just as Cecilia belatedly tried to approach Jung Han-sung.
Flash!
Jung Han-sung confirmed Delcadu’s complete death and the reward notification, then simply returned.
In the end, Cecilia was left standing alone, blinking helplessly.
* * *
“Phew.”
After returning to the Unique Space.
Jung Han-sung sat in a chair for a moment, catching his breath.
He too had expended considerable stamina pouring his full power in such a short time.
But after resting for approximately ten minutes, his condition recovered quickly.
He hadn’t suffered any significant injuries after all.
―A monster indeed.
Onyx offered his usual interjection upon witnessing this.
Jung Han-sung dismissed it lightly, rising from his chair to gaze into the empty air.
‘To the Territory.’
The moment the thought crossed his mind, his body shifted seamlessly to the Territory.
Jung Han-sung confirmed the transformed surroundings through the familiar vertigo of the transition.
The Territory bustled with people in the bright midday light, and it seemed the crowds had grown even denser than before.
It was hardly surprising.
The Territory transformed visibly with each passing day.
Even comparing just a few weeks ago to now revealed a transformation so dramatic it bordered on the miraculous.
“Master!”
Not long after, Baek-seol came bounding over, her tail wagging with excitement.
Her eyes gleamed as she spoke.
“Your timing is perfect!”
“Hmm? Why?”
“I was just about to conduct the operational tests on the Golems!”
Baek-seol gestured with her tail toward one side as she spoke.
There, nearly twenty Golems stood in perfect formation.

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