I Just Subscribed and It’s the Best Hunter of All Time - Chapter 254

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#Chapter 254
When I declared that I would enter The Tower.
Jung Han-sung expected the familiar sensation to wash over me as it always did.
But it did not.
Whoooosh—!
I watched as brilliant light erupted before my eyes.
Rather than spreading in all directions, the light hummed and resonated, gathering itself into a single point.
When the luminescence faded, a door stood in its place.
“Hmm.”
Narrowing my eyes as I studied it, I turned to Onyx with a question.
“What is that?”
—How should I know?
Onyx flicked his tongue, then quickly added as I looked down at him.
—I truly don’t know. My memories are fragmented. You’re aware my recollection isn’t complete.
“I see.”
Since I was already aware of that, I simply nodded and turned my attention forward again.
Well, I had no intention of retreating simply because something was unknown.
Layer 199—surely something extraordinary awaited here?
With that thought, I walked slowly forward and grasped the door handle.
Swish—.
As I pulled the handle, the door slid open silently.
Beyond lay a thick darkness. I regarded it carefully, then stepped forward.
I expected that entering the darkness would produce the usual sensation of spatial displacement.
But my expectations proved wrong once more.
I felt as though I were passing through a thin membrane, and then it was over.
After traversing the black veil, I found myself in an entirely different place.
“This is…”
I narrowed my eyes.
The location where I had arrived was a vast plain.
Beneath my feet, verdant grass swayed with the wind, and scattered trees and stones dotted the landscape.
A profoundly peaceful scene.
And then, a message materialized before me.
[Objective: Face the Origin]
I narrowed my eyes.
This time, no time limit appeared. The objective itself was equally vague.
I suppressed the urge to sigh and began walking slowly forward.
Then I drew upon the new sense I had awakened when I subscribed to Cassandra’s intuition before.
Closing one eye in that state, a new vision unfolded.
A vision that revealed not surfaces, but their true essence.
“Mm.”
Nothing immediately caught my eye.
In truth, not every location harbored some hidden essence.
Only spaces like the Pantheon or Purgatory possessed such peculiarity.
Still, unwilling to leave anything to chance, Jung Han-sung continued forward with one eye closed.
About thirty minutes had passed when it happened.
Boom, boom, boom, boom―!
Suddenly, the sound of something thundering toward me echoed from the distance.
I narrowed my eyes and peered in that direction, quickly discerning the source of the commotion.
“Giants?”
Indeed, they were giants.
Wielding massive weapons in their hands, the giants charged toward me with ferocious intent.
―They seem to be targeting the master.
“That’s what it looks like to me as well.”
I couldn’t fathom why the giants were attacking, but standing idle was not an option.
Their hostility toward me was unmistakable.
Boom, boom, boom―!
As the giants closed the distance, they swung their colossal clubs with all their might.
The assault was formidable, yet to me it moved with such sluggish lethargy that I nearly yawned.
Boom!
I evaded the attack, leaping skyward and slashing my blade across the air.
Slash!
My sword bit deep into the giant’s neck. With that single stroke, it collapsed, clutching at its throat. Without pause, I turned my blade toward the adjacent giant.
Slash!
This time the giant twisted its body to avoid instant death, but it could not escape my follow-up strike.
Two giants fell in mere moments.
Boom, boom, boom―!
Then five more giants emerged.
I exhaled deeply and dispatched them as well.
This time, ten giants appeared.
At that point, I realized that mindlessly cutting down giants was not the solution.
I decided to leave the giants behind and begin searching the surroundings.
Crash―!
Of course, the giants did not simply stand by.
They chased after me, and when they couldn’t keep pace, they hurled boulders from afar.
With ten giants doing this, the chaos was utterly maddening.
As I continued to evade, their numbers swelled to twenty, then doubled again to forty.
While this relentless pursuit raged on.
At last, I discovered something.
“A building?”
―It has the feel of a temple.
Jung Han-sung nodded in agreement with Onyx’s words.
As they drew closer, the building’s form became increasingly distinct.
It was essentially a ruin. Pillars stood scattered throughout and fragments of the roof remained, but the damaged sections far outnumbered the intact ones.
Yet something peculiar existed within it.
A door.
A perfectly intact and pristine door stood alone amid the ruins.
What made it even stranger was that the door’s design matched exactly the one Jung Han-sung had passed through when he first arrived here.
―Something’s there.
Onyx spoke upon seeing it.
Jung Han-sung didn’t bother responding. It was obvious just by looking.
Extraordinarily suspicious, but he couldn’t simply ignore it and pass by.
The probability that it was connected to this floor’s objective was extremely high.
Boom, boom, boom, boom―!
Besides, the giants were still pursuing him, which added urgency to the matter.
Jung Han-sung didn’t deliberate long and opened the door, encountering the black veil once more.
Clicking his tongue at the sight, Jung Han-sung hurled himself toward the black veil.
Whoosh!
His vision shifted dramatically as he passed through the thin membrane once again.
“A cyberpunk city?”
Vrooooooom―!
Jung Han-sung had arrived at a cyberpunk city.
He frowned at the car whizzing past him, then realized he was standing in the middle of the road and quickly threw himself to safety.
Fortunately, Jung Han-sung was agile enough to avoid being struck.
‘This is cyberpunk.’
Jung Han-sung observed his surroundings thoughtfully. It certainly seemed that way.
The buildings were far too tall to be modern-era architecture, and mechanical implants protruded from the bodies of the passersby.
For now, Jung Han-sung walked along the road, surveying the area.
If the same situation as before occurred on this floor, something would likely target him.
“There he is!”
Unfortunately, Jung Han-sung’s prediction proved accurate.
About ten minutes after he began walking, some figures spotted him and shouted.
Immediately after, they drew blue swords and rushed toward him.
‘I wonder if defeating them will increase the count.’
Jung Han-sung considered this as he started to evade, then hesitated and charged toward them instead.
Slash!
He swiftly eliminated one and interrogated the survivor.
“Why are you chasing me?”
Naturally, no answer came immediately. So Jung Han-sung made the situation more conducive to a response.
“Ugh, gah. The… Atlas Frame…. The blueprints….”
“I see.”
Jung Han-sung let out a hollow laugh.
The moment I heard those words, the situation became clear.
‘Are the enemies I faced in the past coming after me again?’
On the previous floor, giants had attacked. On this floor, it was those seeking the blueprints of the Atlas Frame.
These were people I had encountered while climbing through the layers.
With only two samples so far, I couldn’t be certain, but it didn’t seem like a coincidence.
Jung Han-sung threw the one who had answered his question honestly to the side and began to run.
‘If it’s like before, there should be a door here too.’
Of course, the pursuers might be the same, but there might not be a door this time.
But the only way to know is to search for it first. I can only confirm by checking.
“Find the door, all of you.”
Instead of searching for it alone, Jung Han-sung summoned all his undead and sent them in every direction.
“Kyaaaah!”
As the undead I had summoned scattered in all directions, passersby screamed in shock, but I paid them no mind.
By then, new pursuers were already chasing after me.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
The new pursuers opened fire without hesitation the moment they spotted Jung Han-sung.
I moved swiftly to evade while my eyes constantly scanned the surroundings.
Boom―!
In the midst of this, something massive burst out from a building.
It was a man equipped with an exoskeleton.
The moment he saw me, his eyes blazed with fervor as he charged forward.
Boom―!
The opponent closed the distance in an instant, and his descending fist shook the ground.
But Jung Han-sung leaped high and swiftly disabled him by slashing his blade across the exoskeleton’s back.
Exoskeletons are useful devices, but they break easily if their core mechanisms are damaged.
Of course, they were thoroughly protected, but not enough to withstand my blade.
‘Where could the door be.’
I instantly erased the fallen exoskeleton user from my mind and continued to think and observe relentlessly.
‘The Temple.’
The first thing that came to mind was the Temple where the door had been.
If this was similar, the door would likely be in a specific building again.
Either the same shape. Or the same purpose.
Or perhaps it had the specific characteristic of being a ‘ruined Temple’.
As I thought this, I continued moving relentlessly.
And at some point.
“Found it.”
Jung Han-sung discovered something.
It was a small, shabby building—one that existed in my memory.
I had passed in front of it before, when I visited the Cyberpunk Floor long ago.
‘The Temple.’
I had never actually entered it, but I remembered seeing volunteers distributing meals to the homeless outside its doors, speaking the name of some god as they did.
Recalling that memory, Jung Han-sung rushed toward it without hesitation.
Soon enough, I realized my instinct had been correct.
There was a door inside the Temple.
Crash!
At that very moment, those pursuing me burst through the Temple’s main gate and charged inside.
Without hesitation, I unleashed lightning behind me and wrenched the door open.
The instant I passed through the black veil once more.
―Shrieeeeeeeek!
Spectral forms materialized from the haze, shrieking as they lunged toward me.
Reflexively, I swung my blade, cleaving through the phantoms as I surveyed my surroundings.
And I realized I stood atop a mountain bathed in ashen gray light.
A place I had visited once on the 167th Floor. Ghost Mountain, they called it—a perilous realm teeming with all manner of spectral monsters.
“Hah.”
Exhaling sharply, I swung my blade, instantly cutting down the spirits that began converging on me.
Then I began sprinting forward at terrifying speed.
I had no idea how long this would continue, but I had no intention of surrendering.
‘The Source.’
I repeated the word written in my objective as I ran without stopping.
I did not yet understand what my current actions had to do with confronting the Source.
But if this floor was like the ones before it, the meaning would eventually reveal itself naturally.
At least, if I did not give up.
Crash―!
And so I pressed forward without pause.
Just as I always had.

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