I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 219

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#Chapter 219.
Everything around me was white.
I suspected the door might function as some kind of portal, but something felt different.
When traveling through a portal, your body typically gets sucked into a vortex, followed swiftly by dizziness.
But now, I felt none of that.
Rather, those sensations were fading away bit by bit.
It was as if everything was receding into the distance. My body felt weightless, divorced from reality itself.
There was no distinction between up and down.
I couldn’t even tell if my body was moving or standing still.
Is this what it feels like when existence dissolves?―Such thoughts crossed my mind when.
Thud.
I felt something brush against my feet.
At that same moment, my vision slowly darkened, and the white expanse gradually regained its color.
“Hmm.”
I blinked and looked ahead.
Before me stretched an entirely different landscape.
The Earthland was composed entirely of earth and stone, and the mountain ranges in the distance rose in undulating waves of towering peaks.
The scenery was rugged, yet it carried a peculiar warmth.
The scent of ochre soil mingled with the wind, tickling my nostrils, while the breeze sweeping across the stone mountains resonated with a low, mournful cry.
I drew in a sharp breath.
The air was heavy and viscous.
Exhaling slowly, I murmured to myself.
“Where is this place?”
I’d expected some extraordinary location to await me, but I hadn’t anticipated it would be this barren.
Before, there had been at least a conspicuous structure, but now there was only endless Earthland stretching outward.
“Onyx. Do you sense anything?”
―Hiss, nothing in particular, Master.
Onyx poked his head out and looked around, but nothing seemed to catch his attention.
I scratched the back of my neck.
Without something visible to investigate, I had nowhere to start.
After a moment’s deliberation, I decided to do what I did best.
“Thunder Wolf.”
Sometimes the best approach was to charge forward and see what happened.
At my call, Thunder Wolf immediately appeared, and I mounted him.
“Let’s search the area for anything that stands out.”
Thunder Wolf acknowledged and immediately kicked off the ground, beginning to gallop.
Whoosh―!
The surrounding landscape blurred past at tremendous speed.
Even as we raced forward, I scanned the surroundings carefully, my mind working all the while.
‘Gaining the Earthland’s approval is the objective of this floor.’
And the likelihood that this acknowledgment was connected to this place was extremely high. So Jung Han-sung had assumed he would be given some kind of trial or ordeal.
Perhaps dangerous monsters would attack, something along those lines.
‘Well, receiving acknowledgment doesn’t necessarily have to come through combat.’
Then what else could it be?
―Perhaps I need to find something?
Onyx offered one possibility.
Jung Han-sung nodded. Well, that was certainly plausible. Since he had no clues to work with at the moment, the possibilities were endless.
Turning over various possibilities in his mind, Jung Han-sung continued moving forward. And as time flowed on, evening arrived before he knew it.
“In the end, I found nothing.”
Until sunset, Jung Han-sung discovered nothing. Despite having covered quite an extensive area.
Thunder Wolf had also been running at full speed for nearly half a day and now lay exhausted on the ground.
Tomorrow, once recovered, he would rise again. But if tomorrow also yielded nothing?
‘I refuse to keep wandering aimlessly like this.’
While Jung Han-sung was thinking such thoughts, Onyx poked his head forward and spoke.
―Simply wandering about may not be the answer.
“I was already thinking the same thing.”
Onyx’s words were something Jung Han-sung had already been considering.
This place was presumed to be a space created by a god or divine entity. And the purpose was to overcome the trial imposed by such a being.
If that were the case, then the solution might not be something ordinary either.
“The Earthland, the trial of the Earthland. And acknowledgment.”
Jung Han-sung murmured the words related to this matter while pondering deeply. Then, at some point.
His gaze shifted to the ground beneath him where he sat.
“Hmm.”
Come to think of it, the Earthland had been beneath his feet ever since arriving here, yet he had never examined it carefully.
He had assumed that if some trial existed, it would be somewhere conspicuous and obvious.
Crunch―.
Jung Han-sung grasped a handful of soil, then let it fall again as he continued his contemplation.
‘What if the Earthland itself is connected to the trial?’
Once he thought of it, it seemed reasonably plausible.
But even so, he couldn’t immediately arrive at the answer. If it were related to the Earthland, in what form would that connection take?
‘Is there something beneath the ground?’
It was an easy thought to arrive at, but it felt too simple.
Besides, Jung Han-sung’s mana could easily detect what lay beneath the earth. Yet as he moved, he had swept through with his mana the entire time without detecting anything unusual.
He could dig deeper into the ground beyond his mana detection range, but….
‘That doesn’t seem right either.’
A strong sense told him that wasn’t it.
“Mmm.”
Jung Han-sung, after much deliberation, infused mana into the soil he held in his hand.
It wasn’t an action taken with any particular intention. Yet something responded.
Rumble―.
Jung Han-sung narrowed his eyes, observing the soil clutched in his palm.
―Didn’t the soil just move?
“I felt it too.”
Responding to Onyx’s words, Jung Han-sung infused the soil with mana once more.
This time, there was a definite reaction.
The soil shifted smoothly in his hand, moving in a single direction.
Jung Han-sung opened his palm fully and poured a stronger surge of mana into it.
Shhhhh―.
The soil rolled across his hand, clearly pointing toward one direction.
Jung Han-sung lifted his gaze toward that location.
―Is it pointing that way?
“I should investigate this.”
After wandering aimlessly without a single clue, I had finally discovered something.
No matter how trivial, I couldn’t afford to ignore it.
“Thunder Wolf, go rest inside for now.”
―Woof!
Thunder Wolf insisted he could run further, but seeing the exhaustion in his eyes, Jung Han-sung sent him back.
Then, gripping the soil firmly in his hand, I walked in the direction it indicated.
Shhh―.
Of course, I didn’t forget to infuse the soil with mana intermittently.
At first it pointed steadily in one direction, but occasionally the direction shifted slightly.
Jung Han-sung pondered briefly, then moved in whatever direction the soil indicated each time.
After walking for quite some time.
“Ah.”
Finally, Jung Han-sung discovered a structure bearing artificial traces for the first time across the vast Earthland.
It had the exact same appearance as what Jung Han-sung had seen hours earlier.
It was the Temple of Earth.
‘Somehow, this one feels like the original.’
Jung Han-sung scanned the structure with his eyes, contemplating.
The shape was identical, but this one bore unmistakable marks of age—it appeared far more ancient.
“Hmm?”
As I walked toward the temple, something felt wrong.
Despite moving forward, the temple wasn’t drawing closer—it was receding instead.
Startled, Jung Han-sung suddenly recalled something and looked at his palm.
Whoosh!
Infusing mana into the soil, it pointed in one direction.
Strangely, that direction differed from the temple’s location.
Jung Han-sung furrowed his brow in thought, then began walking in the direction the soil indicated.
―It’s getting closer.
Remarkably, the distance to the temple began to narrow.
Jung Han-sung was walking in nearly the opposite direction from the Temple of Earth.
“Must I follow this earth’s guidance?”
Only then did I understand why the earth occasionally pointed in different directions.
This wasn’t a structure that indicated a fixed direction—it was one that revealed the path I needed to take in real time.
Jung Han-sung let out a hollow laugh and continued following the earth for now.
After roughly ten minutes had passed, Jung Han-sung arrived before the Temple of Earth.
Whoosh—
The moment I reached the temple’s entrance, the earth in my hand fell away on its own.
I tried to catch it belatedly, but to no avail.
The earth scattered of its own accord, as though its role was already complete.
—Why not enter and see, Master?
At Onyx’s words, I stopped pursuing the impossible and nodded.
As I walked into the temple, an even heavier atmosphere greeted me.
‘It’s not simply that the air feels heavy.’
Rather, it felt as though something was pouring down from above, pressing against my body.
I pondered what that sensation could be, and a single word came to mind.
‘Oppressive presence.’
Yes.
The moment my feet crossed into this temple, it was precisely that oppressive presence that began to weigh upon my shoulders.
I wore an increasingly intrigued expression as I ventured deeper into the temple.
‘It’s far more spacious than I expected.’
From outside, the temple’s interior seemed no different in size from what I’d observed externally.
But once inside, that difference became starkly apparent—a gap of two to three times the expected size.
Moreover, as I progressed inward, the structure itself gradually transformed.
‘Stone.’
What had appeared like an ordinary building increasingly gave way to rock and stone. At some point, it had entirely become a structure carved from within the bedrock itself.
It was clearly not a normal sight.
I continued onward, absorbing every detail.
By the time I reached the temple’s center—
Whoosh—
A sound reached my ears from somewhere.
A sound like earth moving of its own accord.
I turned my head toward the source of that sound and soon discovered something.
It was a figure made entirely of earth.
“Hmm.”
I narrowed my brow upon seeing it, as a memory from the past surfaced.
A vast desert. The sand figures that Evil God Sargon had molded there.
At first glance, this bore a striking resemblance to those.
But as I examined it more carefully, I shook my head.
There was none of that malevolent sensation from back then. Quite the opposite, in fact.
There was something oddly sacred about its presence.
Thud.
Then, the Earth Golem raised the spear it held vertically and slowly leveled its blade toward Jung Han-sung.
No words were spoken, but the meaning was unmistakable.
“So. You want to fight.”
Jung Han-sung’s lips curved upward.
For him, this was far simpler than overthinking matters.
As he lifted the sword in his hand, the Earth Golem began to radiate power while maintaining its spear stance.
It was quite formidable.
The oppressive aura he’d felt since entering this place seemed to have multiplied several times over.
As if the very space itself had turned hostile toward him.
Yet Jung Han-sung’s spirit remained unshaken—in fact, his smile deepened.
He’d fought powerful adversaries so many times that counting them had become tedious.
Crack!
Without hesitation, Jung Han-sung charged straight at the Earth Golem.
The golem responded by thrusting its spear lightly toward the charging Jung Han-sung.
Boom!
Simultaneously, earth erupted from the ground in all directions, hurtling toward Jung Han-sung.
Faced with that threatening assault, Jung Han-sung spun his body with ease.
Crash!
Clumps of earth scattered in all directions.
Within the chaos, Jung Han-sung’s eyes gleamed like those of a beast.

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