I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 224

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#Chapter 224.
When something burst forth from the Sun Orb, Jung Han-sung thought to himself, “Well, of course.”
It was the 100th Floor, after all.
Though many said the 100th Floor was easier than the 99th, he had still expected it to be formidable.
Whoooosh―!
And so, when the luminous soldiers rushed forward in unison, weapons raised.
Jung Han-sung observed that their attacks were far faster and more coordinated than he’d anticipated, yet instead of being startled, he prepared his response.
Crackle, crackle, crackle―!
First, as was his habit, I drew upon the power of lightning to dominate the space around me.
The soldiers rushing toward me faltered visibly.
From their perspective, there was no reason to charge into my attack range, so they naturally slowed their advance—exactly what I wanted.
Whoosh!
I seized the moment of their hesitation and launched myself forward with all my strength.
Though the soldiers moved with considerable speed, they couldn’t match my full power.
Crack―!
As my blade descended like lightning, the armor of the soldier before me shattered into fragments.
And those fragments transformed into light, scattering in all directions.
‘As I thought. They’re nothing but concentrated mana.’
Just as I suspected, these soldiers were merely mana constructs born from the Sun Orb’s rampage.
The soldier tried to resist even as my blade tore through its form, but ultimately it couldn’t endure and crumbled into dispersing light.
But then, the scattered light began moving back toward the Sun Orb.
The moment I read that trajectory, I instinctively swung my blade.
Crackle, crackle, crackle!
My lightning-infused sword severed the light heading toward the orb.
Only then did the light lose its direction and scatter uselessly.
Had I done nothing and let it be, that light would have been absorbed back into the orb and been reborn as a soldier.
Whoooooosh―!
While I finished off the soldier, the remaining ones encircled me.
Of course, I was already aware of their encirclement.
“Come on then. Bring it.”
Rather than immediately break through their formation, I drew several additional weapons.
Then, as they charged at me simultaneously, I hurled my weapons at them indiscriminately.
Boom, boom, bang―!
The soldiers’ bodies erupted in multiple places.
Yet even as they were struck, they pressed forward without hesitation, thrusting their spears toward me.
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
But those attacks didn’t require my intervention—Onyx intercepted them.
Onyx extended his body directly from within his armor, deflecting the strikes.
―Gaaaah! That hurts!
“Stop your whining.”
―Nonsense! Their power is fundamentally opposed to mine!
I dismissed Onyx’s words lightly. Even so, I had more than enough capacity to endure.
What mattered was bringing them down swiftly.
‘If I defeat them, I can diminish the Solar Orb’s power.’
As I’d observed earlier, once they sustained damage beyond a certain threshold, they attempted to revert to the Solar Orb.
A truly troublesome characteristic.
But if I scattered them completely in that state, the Solar Orb couldn’t recover.
I could permanently erode the Solar Orb’s strength.
That’s why I was determined to eliminate every last soldier surrounding me without exception.
If the Solar Orb realized the situation was turning against it and recalled all its soldiers, I’d lose that opportunity to inflict damage.
Crash―!
Spear and blade collided once more, erupting in brilliant flashes.
Even as the luminous soldiers surged forward, I crouched low and struck with surgical precision at their vital points.
Crackle!
Lightning arced from my blade, shattering the soldiers’ weapons like fireworks, scattering fragments of light in all directions.
“Onyx.”
―Got it!
Onyx twisted his form and extended along my arm like a living blade.
Crunch crunch crunch crunch!
Onyx’s razor teeth tore through the soldiers.
Earlier, Onyx had claimed their attacks were fundamentally opposed to him, but more precisely, Onyx and these soldiers were mutually lethal to one another.
‘And Onyx has the superior weight class.’
In other words, when they clashed, the soldiers sustained greater damage.
Three soldiers were instantly neutralized by the unexpected assault.
Boom!
I seized the opening and relentlessly pursued the remaining ones.
Whoooooosh―!
But then.
A shockwave from the Solar Orb erupted in the distance once more.
I instinctively shielded myself behind nearby debris to minimize the impact.
Meanwhile, the luminous soldiers spread their arms wide and absorbed the shockwave with their entire bodies.
“Damn.”
I watched their bodies regenerate.
It appeared the shockwave carried some force that restored these soldiers.
“I need to eliminate them faster.”
Watching half-destroyed soldiers recover was deeply frustrating.
Looking more closely, they weren’t merely recovering—they’d become even more resilient than before.
It seemed the Solar Orb had decided to invest greater resources.
“Hah.”
I exhaled sharply and drew upon my power.
I wielded my sword to make the flow my own.
Rotating with my body, I dominated all directions with enhanced lightning.
And one more thing.
Kuguguguung!
I gathered all the surrounding debris using the power of the Earthland.
Because I moved so naturally, it wasn’t immediately obvious, but there was no ground to speak of in the place where I was fighting.
I was leaping between the debris continuously falling from above, engaging in combat.
Naturally, my combat power had to diminish compared to before.
Taaht―!
That’s why I used my newly acquired power of the Earthland to gather the surrounding debris and create a stage.
Of course, it wasn’t fixed in one place.
But since the enemy rushed at me anyway, it wasn’t a major problem.
Kwarararing!
Thus, I began throwing lightning spears in earnest to intercept the enemies, while moving the debris to travel at speeds several times faster than before.
Kwaaang!
A soldier who had been reeling from multiple lightning spear hits was torn apart by my swinging blade.
Almost simultaneously, I appeared behind another soldier and swung my sword.
It felt as though my body had multiplied into three or four.
Even though the soldiers had become sturdier than before, it made little difference to me.
I just had to swing my sword one more time.
Bang, bang, bang―!
Thus, the soldiers burst apart like fireworks, rendering the Orb’s additional power meaningless.
Each time, the energy that flowed out was scattered completely by me.
The power contained within the Orb only diminished with each passing moment.
‘Now, what will it do?’
Even as I thoroughly trampled the soldiers, I never stopped observing the Orb.
The energy it still possessed was immense.
Moreover, judging by the responses it had shown so far, it clearly possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
There was no way such an Orb would simply accept this situation. It would surely attempt to reverse the situation in some manner.
And my thoughts proved precisely correct.
Thump, thump, thump―.
At some point, a vibration like a heartbeat began emanating from the Sun Orb.
That pulse spread outward, and soon the debris that had been falling to the ground began gathering in one place.
Toward the direction where the Sun Orb was located.
The moment I saw that, I reflexively began scraping together the debris around me.
Uuuuung!
For a moment, a contest of strength between the Orb and me ensued.
Considering the difference in power we originally possessed, the Orb should have held the advantage.
In such a simple test of strength, the difference in weight class exerted a greater effect.
Kwaddeuk!
However, the power that Jung Han-sung wielded was the power of the Earthland.
It was a far more transcendent force than the artificial sun’s crude gravitational pull.
Thus, the Solar Orb had to settle for less than half of what it had originally aimed to absorb.
Yet even that half was far from negligible.
Kuuuuuuuung—!
The debris converged around the Orb, coalescing into a single colossal form.
It was a giant that gleamed with golden radiance.
The Solar Orb, having recalled all its soldiers from outside, now wielded a spear itself.
“Impressive.”
Jung Han-sung let out a final exclamation of admiration at the sight.
Its entire body was bathed in gold, and from the disc hovering upon its back emanated an aura as brilliant as the sun itself.
The colossal entity appeared almost divine.
―Annihilation.
A voice resonated in my mind at that very moment.
A voice laden with fierce hostility.
“Try if you can.”
Jung Han-sung curved his lips upward and manipulated the debris he had gathered.
Then, using the Solar Orb as reference, he wrapped it around his body like armor.
Of course, while it was called armor, it was actually dozens of times larger than Jung Han-sung’s body.
It was nearly indistinguishable from the form the Solar Orb had newly created.
However, there was one drawback.
Fuuuuuuung!
There was no ground beneath them.
In other words, he couldn’t freely control the giant.
So Jung Han-sung used the giant he had created in the simplest way possible.
He formed it directly above the Orb and simply dropped it onto its head.
Kwaaaaaang—!
The collision of the two giants unleashed a tremendous roar.
Of course, this alone wasn’t enough to shatter the Orb into pieces.
So Jung Han-sung immediately manipulated the giant to tear away the debris surrounding the Solar Orb.
Bang! Bang!
Of course, the Solar Orb also thrashed about to shake off the giant clinging to it. And in terms of pure power, the Orb was clearly superior.
It wielded the debris as if it were its own body, so its movements operated on an entirely different level.
Yet if one had to say which side was at a disadvantage, it was overwhelmingly the Orb.
This was because the Orb poured all its strength into the debris and used it as its body, whereas Jung Han-sung merely gathered the debris loosely and controlled it.
“That’s it! Tear it apart with all you’ve got!”
Jung Han-sung cheered on the giant as it attacked the Orb relentlessly, and he too began striking the Orb directly whenever an opening presented itself.
Kwaaang!
Needless to say, his attacks were equally devastating to the Orb.
And with Onyx joining in to maul the Orb’s body as well.
The Sun Orb’s power began to crumble away in chunks.
Naturally, the creature deployed every conceivable tactic to break free from this predicament.
It unleashed shockwaves without warning, fired beams of pure light, and more besides.
Befitting a 100th Floor boss, its attacks were formidable, yet they posed no real threat to Jung Han-sung.
“Too slow.”
The creature’s strikes were simply too sluggish to land a blow on him.
The colossal form he commanded continued to accumulate damage, but since it had been hastily assembled with the intention of being used only once, the mounting injuries held little consequence.
―Grraaaaaaaaaagh!
As the one-sided onslaught persisted, the Sun Orb shrieked in agony, thrashing wildly.
The creature was beginning to panic.
Boom―!
Of course, Jung Han-sung showed no mercy upon hearing its cries.
Instead, he accelerated further, pushing himself to finish the battle with even greater speed.
Boom!
In an instant, the middle section of the debris surrounding the Sun Orb’s body ruptured outward, exposing its interior.
There, gleaming within, lay the golden Sun Orb itself.
Without hesitation, Jung Han-sung swung his blade, striking with precision at the exact opening in the creature’s rhythm that he had discerned.
Shhhhwaaaash―!
And there was light.

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