I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 105

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Episode 105
Ep. 105
“Tsk, tsk, just because I dragged my blade along the ground a bit, confiscating my ice cream seems excessive, doesn’t it? This thing doesn’t wear down that easily.”
“What if it does wear down?”
“I’m telling you it won’t wear down?”
“What if it does wear down?”
“It won’t wear down, I’m saying….”
“Ice cream—.”
“S-sorry! I can just carry it instead!”
Ihyeon and Elsie bickered in hushed voices for quite some time before we finally entered the true maze.
And simultaneously.
“Sniff sniff.”
Elsie’s nose twitched as she caught a scent.
What that gesture conveyed was simple.
“It’s here.”
And ahead, Jia came to a halt.
Immediately, a message from Jia reached Ihyeon.
「Jia: Enemy Race detected ahead.
Ilgyeok: Confirmed. Remain in position and stand by.」
Though Jia was visible in the mirror’s reflection, the path twisted and turned so much that her actual location was far more distant than what appeared.
For a sniper like Ihyeon, who typically needed direct line of sight, this space was extraordinarily disadvantageous.
But Ihyeon had already prepared for such circumstances.
‘Distorted Snipe Range.’
An absurdly broken skill that allowed him to fire from any point his vision could reach.
Yet this skill harbored one more secret that even Ihyeon hadn’t fully grasped.
It was the ‘securing of sight lines.’
A discovery he’d made while training in various ways to prepare for the 60th Floor.
「Ilgyeok: Have the Race assume a defensive stance.
Jia: Understood.」
It worked like this.
If an opponent’s reflection appeared in a mirror, it counted as ‘sight line secured.’
And if there were multiple such mirrors?
Ihyeon pulled back the charging handle of his sniper rifle with satisfaction.
Click-clack— click—!
‘Breath held. Fire.’
Boom——!
Without hesitation, I pulled the trigger.
But the mana wasn’t discharged from my gun barrel.
The frontmost mirror reflecting Jia’s back.
I’d aimed for the moment a faint spectral form materialized in its reflection.
Right now, I’d only fired once, but if I wanted to, I could simultaneously fire from every mirror within my line of sight.
In fact, if I fired more than ten shots simultaneously, the efficiency per shot would increase beyond what it normally was—a miraculous space indeed!
Thanks to this, even as Ihyeon entered the 60th Floor, he harbored no great concerns.
Kyieeeee———!
Meanwhile, the Race that took a direct hit from a mana bullet suddenly bursting from the mirror let out a bone-chilling scream before dissipating.
‘So you’re not the only ones who can use mirrors.’
Ihyeon chuckled softly and holstered his gun again.
He was being cautious because firing once would dispel the effect of the concealing cloak.
「Jia: Race dissipation confirmed.
Ilgyeok: Right. Let’s advance again.
Jia: But….」
“?”
Ihyeon tilted his head in confusion.
It was strange for Jia, who usually understood immediately, to trail off like that.
‘What’s wrong?’
But Jia wasn’t the only one showing an odd reaction.
Swish swish—
Elsie, who had been standing beside Ihyeon, blinked her eyes several times before raising her arms and rubbing them vigorously.
Then she spoke to Ihyeon.
“Master, I think it’s time for me to go. Things are looking blurry.”
“Why would….”
Ihyeon looked ahead, wondering why the spirits were acting this way.
Soon enough, he understood the reason himself.
Ihyeon asked Elsie in a troubled voice.
“That’s not supposed to break, right?”
Directly in front of the mirror that Ihyeon had fired upon.
“It shouldn’t be broken….”
Not only was the mirror shattered to pieces, but the wall beyond it gaped open hideously through the hole.
‘Did I fire too hard? No, the distorted sniper range should reduce firepower instead….’
Ihyeon felt a sinking suspicion that he’d caused another major disaster.
He quickened his pace and stood beside Jia in an instant.
“It really went through?”
Ihyeon’s expression showed disbelief even as his own eyes confirmed it.
When he reached out and waved his hand, instead of mirrors filling all directions, there was genuinely a hole punched straight through.
Elsie was muttering beside him, “This can’t be right, this can’t be right,” and similar things.
This time, Ihyeon asked Jia.
“Jia, have you ever seen anything like this before?”
“No, sir.”
A sharp, immediate response.
Well, it would have been strange if she had seen it before.
If I had known Jia’s personality beforehand, there would have been no reason not to tell her in advance.
“However, I believe this result stems primarily from your master’s overwhelming destructive power rather than other factors.”
“That would be the case.”
Ihyeon alternated his gaze between the path where I originally stood and the path leading through the gaping hole, then called out to Elsie.
“Elsie, which way should we go?”
“Uh, huh?”
“Since it’s already open. Which direction should we take?”
Elsie wore an expression suggesting she’d heard every strange question imaginable, but reluctantly sniffed the air and pointed toward the hole.
“That way.”
“Perfect.”
Ihyeon smiled faintly and moved forward.
His gunfire had pierced not just one wall, but two.
“Ah, master. There’s a Race corpse here.”
“Perfect.”
At the second wall, they discovered the body of a dead Race.
Either way, they’d eliminated one fewer monster to deal with in the maze—a win-win situation.
‘Sniper rifles are the best. Always exhilarating.’
Ihyeon trembled anew as he recalled the sniper rifle dormant in his inventory.
To think he could bypass the infamous walls of the 60th Floor using such a method.
Without a sniper rifle, how would this even be possible?
But Ihyeon, the cold-blooded marksman, naturally thought rationally.
‘Still, there’s a high probability someone already knows about this. If it were possible simply due to high destructive power, higher-floor Hunters coming down would have discovered it. Which floor would it work up to? 70th? 80th?’
Knowing that alone would allow him to roughly estimate how far his current firepower could penetrate.
But there was no one to ask who would answer.
Organizations like the government or Frontier might possess such information, but would they willingly share it?
Besides, it wasn’t information critical enough to warrant contacting them.
The moment Ihyeon finished passing through the hole he’d created, he asked Elsie.
“Which way?”
“Huh?”
Elsie tilted her head, as if questioning why he’d ask when the path only extended in one direction.
Ihyeon answered with a sinister smile.
“We can just blast through.”
Upon hearing those words, Elsie’s expression grew weary.
“You really are….”
“So, it is easier when we blast through, isn’t it?”
That much was a fact neither Elsie nor Jia could deny.
Elsie eventually pointed in one direction.
Normally, within the twisted and convoluted maze, a sense of direction would be useless—yet he’d found a way to circumvent it like this.
Or rather, did this even fall within the scope of circumvention?
Thump— Boom——!
Oblivious to Elsie’s concerns, Ihyeon’s gun pierced another gaping hole through the wall.
Elsie didn’t know the details, but this time he’d used Black Bullet, so the noise was considerably quieter than before.
Unlike the distorted sniper range that penalized firepower, Black Bullet was a skill that could unleash its original destructive power intact.
The hole tore through far more decisively than the last one.
‘Well, I suppose this could be called a change in the Tower too….’
Elsie exchanged glances with Jia, then resumed walking with a half-resigned expression.
That impassive armored fox showed nothing in her eyes but loyalty toward her master, yet she surely thought similarly to herself.
“Master, you truly are remarkable. I doubt anyone else could dismantle the Maze in such a manner on a first clear.”
“Haha, too much praise becomes poison.”
“Indeed, you are the master.”
‘That sycophant!’
Elsie glared at Ihyeon and Jia with sharp eyes as they conversed with smiles.
A combination of a flatterer who knew nothing but flattery and a tyrant who knew nothing but ice cream confiscation!
Then the tyrant casually passed through the hole and asked this.
“Elsie, this wall won’t stay broken, will it?”
Elsie’s face flushed as she snapped back.
“How would I know!”
“Quite particular today.”
Ihyeon thought Elsie was being especially difficult and devised a special countermeasure.
“I’ll reduce the ice cream confiscation to three days.”
“Hehe, master. I’m not sure either.”
“I see.”
That should do it.
Ihyeon thought for a moment.
‘It will probably repair itself.’
Surely in twenty years, more than one person has broken through this wall.
If it didn’t repair, the fact that the wall could be broken would have been discovered by now.
‘What if it doesn’t repair?’
Well, rumors would spread.
The suspicious cave in the 61st Floor Maze discovered the moment One Strike entered.
Naturally, rumors would circulate widely that One Strike had broken through it.
‘But that’s the truth, isn’t it?’
….
Ihyeon realized that whether discovered or not made little difference.
After all, this wasn’t the first or second time such things had happened.
“Let’s just go.”
“Yes, master.”
“Don’t you need to check if it repairs?”
“I thought about it, and it doesn’t seem to matter much.”
“What do you….”
Still, the Spirits followed Ihyeon without any objection.
After Ihyeon disappeared once more, leading Jia at the front.
“?????”
The Hunters who had been moved with emotion upon first meeting Jia finally reached that same point of realization.
Of course, their reactions were worth seeing.
*Rub rub—*
“Ugh, meeting Ilgyeok must’ve messed with my eyes a bit.”
“Who wouldn’t say that?”
“The wall is broken through and everything, right?”
Who could have possibly imagined that the walls of the 60th Floor, famous for being nothing but mirrors, would be gaping open like this?
“Ah, so this must be that famous illusion. Everyone, be careful not to fall for it.”
“U-uh, yeah.”
They were so shaken that they even began to suspect they might be under a mental attack!
With such thoughts in mind, the Hunters grew even more trusting of one another, huddled together, and waited for the illusion to dissipate.
*Whoosh——*
Before long, the broken wall restored itself to its gleaming mirror surface as if nothing had ever happened.
The Hunters looked at each other’s faces and soon let out sighs of relief, smiling.
“Haha, see? It really was an illusion?”
“Yeah, it was fake.”
“There’s no way the Maze’s walls could actually be broken through~”
“Right, no matter how strong Ilgyeok is, if he just went around breaking through the Tower’s walls, why would the Tower even exist, and why would Hunters?”
“Hahahaha!”
And so the Hunters burst into hearty laughter and began advancing once more toward the heart of the Maze.

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