I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 114

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Episode 114
Ep. 114
A daily life that was, in some ways, chaotic within, yet in others, peaceful.
The day Ihyeon entered the 68th Floor was no exception.
「Ilgyeok: Jia, continue straight down that path. Elsie and I will catch up later.
Jia: Yes, understood.」
From time to time, Ihyeon would take a different route from Jia within the maze.
Since he could break through walls anyway, regrouping wasn’t particularly difficult, and both Jia and Ihyeon wanted to maintain their combat instincts.
Jia would naturally hunt monsters with her spear and shield.
‘I need to practice handgun shooting whenever I get the chance.’
Ihyeon had taken to hunting directly with a handgun instead of his distorted sniper range skill.
Of course, he still needed Elsie’s assistance.
“Over there, past that corner there’s one Cursed Armor.”
“Yeah, I see it.”
Ihyeon pressed himself against the wall and advanced with quick steps.
Cursed Armor typically stands motionless like an ordinary suit of armor decoration, but the moment a Hunter tries to pass, it suddenly swings down its sword or thrusts its spear.
In fact, beyond the 65th Floor, the maze contained many empty suits of armor indistinguishable from Cursed Armor, so one had to remain constantly vigilant.
Simply by having Elsie point these things out, Ihyeon gained a considerable advantage.
Ihyeon muffled his footsteps and crept up right beside the Cursed Armor.
‘The mirrors probably mean it already knows I’m approaching anyway, but sometimes I need to move like this.’
And after preparing to fire at any moment, he turned the corner.
As he rounded the corner, a massive suit of armor a full head taller than Ihyeon stood motionless before him.
Even if it were merely a decoration, the oppressive presence was unmistakable.
But Ihyeon quickly dove beneath it.
The weakness of Cursed Armor was that, being a monster designed for ambushes, its reaction time lagged by a beat if its identity was exposed beforehand.
Whoosh—
Though a beat slower was merely a fleeting instant in combat.
‘But I can handle that much now.’
Ihyeon, as the soul-bound partner of the Sniper Gun, shared some of its stats.
Though the percentage was still only 40%, the Sniper Gun’s stats were so high that it was quite meaningful.
While he couldn’t match the opponent in one-on-one combat, with his trained instincts, he could succeed at preemptive strikes like this.
Click—
Ihyeon aimed his handgun at nearly his own head height before the Cursed Armor could draw its sword.
Precisely at the location of its chest plate.
‘The recoil is severe, so accounting for that, fire calmly.’
BANG——!
A battle finished in a single breath.
The Cursed Armor’s chest plate burst open, and black smoke poured out from within before dissipating.
Unlike Duran, this level of armor could be pierced easily enough with a handgun.
And the shot didn’t stop there—it even shattered the mirror beyond it halfway.
“Whew, my master is quite skilled in close combat too.”
“This much is just standard.”
Elsie, who had been watching the entire exchange, approached while clicking her tongue in admiration.
By now, Elsie had heard roughly what kind of life Ihyeon had lived before becoming a Hunter.
Though he hadn’t yet explained the accident from a year ago in detail, there were plenty of photographs of him in military uniform scattered throughout his room and living room, so it was only natural for Elsie to be curious.
According to Ihyeon’s explanation, he had originally been a soldier who wielded a weapon called a “gun” — Elsie still believed guns were a type of staff — as his tool.
But contrary to Elsie’s common sense, soldiers in this world trained rigorously in close combat even while using staffs, and seeing him in action made it believable.
Though his swordplay differed greatly from Elsie’s technique, Ihyeon’s movements were precise and remarkably efficient.
‘He’s far better than that Minjeong fool. If only that gun fox didn’t exist, I could have taught him proper swordsmanship!’
That Ihyeon’s sniper rifle had sparked such unfounded jealousy was merely a bonus.
Even to Elsie, the Legendary Sword herself, Ihyeon was far more formidable with his gun than with a blade.
Moreover, as his weapon, Elsie wasn’t particularly pleased about him taking the dangerous front lines himself.
Then what about Minjeong, who told him to use a sword instead of dark magic the moment she saw him?
That was….
Regardless, after collecting the byproducts from the Cursed Armor, Ihyeon asked Elsie a question.
“If I break through this wall, can we reach Jia’s side?”
“Yeah, seems like it.”
Clang——!
Since the wall was already cracked, Ihyeon figured he might as well and fired another shot from his pistol.
Once the maze wall was breached, it revealed a space large enough for a person to pass through.
After Ihyeon and Elsie crossed through the hole to the other side, the wall would return to its original state as if by magic after some time passed.
Up to this point, it was Ilgyeok’s usual strategy, nothing different from normal.
But at a considerable distance from where Ihyeon and Elsie were, yet visible through the dizzying reflections of the mirrors at an ambiguous angle.
Whoosh—
“…What did I just see?”
An Assassin Hunter, whose concealment skill had been deactivated by his own involuntary words, was rubbing his eyes in disbelief.
Not long after, a notification window appeared before his eyes.
「The 68th Floor clear record has been updated.
Location: Tower of South Korea
ID: Ilgyeok
Rank: S+」
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“Now if I just clear the 69th floor, the 70th floor… I’m finally seeing the end of these tedious 60s floors.”
Meanwhile, Ihyeon had returned home after clearing the 68th floor.
No matter how quickly Ihyeon had breached the 60s floors using his cheat-like strategy of breaking through walls.
The maze surrounded on all sides by mirrors that dizzied the eyes was something he wanted to escape from even a day sooner.
And there was one more issue that had caught Ihyeon’s attention.
[ Title: I saw something weird on the 68th floor today;;
Content: First of all, I’m an Assassin living in the 70s floors.
I cleared the 60s floors too, and I came down to the 68th floor to try meeting Ilgyeok. But I’m not sure if I saw it wrong, but someone shot at the wall with what looked like a pistol and the wall broke through;; Is that even possible? I tried hitting the wall with my skill, but it didn’t budge at all? ]
It was an eyewitness account of Ihyeon breaking through a wall, observed from a distance!
Knowing this story was about him, Ihyeon felt a chill run down his spine as cold sweat dripped from his back.
“Um, Elsie. Was there someone near us on the 68th Floor?”
“What? What are you talking about, Master?”
“Look at this.”
When Ihyeon showed her the post he’d seen, Elsie frowned as she read it, then spoke with an awkward expression.
“I have no idea?”
“…I told you to stop going on Hunter Now.”
Lately, every night she’d been borrowing Minjeong’s phone and giggling at something.
Anyway, Elsie’s explanation was this.
No matter how S+ grade an item is, there are limits to how much one’s abilities can grow.
Both Elsie and Jia have a highest record of the 85th Floor.
Even that varied quite a bit depending on the masters she’d met so far.
So while things were still manageable now, if she climbed much higher, she’d need to be more cautious.
“If a 70s-tier Hunter, especially an Assassin, used concealment skills or something like that, honestly it would be pretty hard for me to detect them….”
“I see….”
Now that he thought about it, Ihyeon’s head nodded at such a reasonable explanation.
He had a premonition that the time was coming when he’d need to reveal Ilgyeok’s identity to some extent.
As he’d thought before, higher floors were their own league anyway.
If a new face appeared in that space, it was natural for their identity to be questioned.
Ihyeon didn’t think it was Elsie’s fault — and since Elsie was making a sad face, he comforted her with ice cream, saying it was fine — then he read down to the comments section.
[ └ Tsk tsk, if he’s a 70s-tier Assassin, he’s a pretty solid young man, but in the end he lost consciousness in the 60s
└ In the Tower lol, a gun lol lol lol lol, if you go bang bang with a gun at an Orc, I’m sure it’ll die
└ Just say Ilgyeok confessed to you lol
└ I’m a Hunter clearing the 103rd Floor, but here I’m just running around with a tank lol for real lol ]
“….”
Ihyeon was at a loss for words.
You can definitely fire a gun in the Tower!
And if you actually go bang bang, not just Orcs but Trolls die too.
Of course, this was half a joke.
‘I mean, who would believe a story about firing guns in the Tower?’
Since it was an absurd story to begin with, he fully understood why people reacted that way.
Plus, the environmental characteristics of the 60s tier probably played a part too.
After surveying the overall reactions, Ihyeon thought.
‘Anyway, I’ll say I handle the Floor Master alone, and on the 69th Floor….’
Ihyeon is a sniper.
Not just because he’s Ilgyeok, but he’d been trained to hide his identity as much as possible.
But if the situation was like this.
“I could be more open about it?”
Rather, even if he showed something, the other side would probably just sink deeper into confusion.
Jia and Elsie tilted their heads simultaneously upon hearing Ihyeon speak in a manner unlike his usual self.
Then Jia asked with an expression of considerable worry.
“Have you finally decided to confront them?”
“Huh? Oh, not continuously or anything.”
Ihyeon responded awkwardly, having planned to move cautiously again once entering the 70s floors.
Jia nodded with a stern expression.
“I shall accompany you as well, Master. I will participate in this war against the Ministry of Defense.”
“Ugh… They say they’re frightening people, but there’s no helping it. Me too!”
“?”
What were these two saying that would cause such a catastrophe?
Ihyeon stared at the spirits with his mouth agape.
If we’re talking about the Ministry of Defense, that’s literally war!
However, what Ihyeon meant was gradually revealing his true identity.
No, not even that—it wasn’t about publicly disclosing that he was Ilgyeok.
He simply intended to gradually begin activities as Ilgyeok.
‘After hiding this long, I can’t let it slip away pathetically, no way.’
Even living in silence, I might barely escape capture, but starting a war would have me dragged away as a prisoner of war.
Then it wouldn’t be five years but a lifetime…
Ihyeon’s body trembled once as that thought reached him.
Seeing this, Elsie asked Jia with a frightened expression.
“Armored fox, just how terrifying are these Ministry of Defense people that Master reacts like that?”
In Elsie’s mind, Ihyeon was nearly absolute.
Whatever monster stood in the way—one strike.
He even effortlessly pierced through the walls of the 60s floor maze that seemed like natural terrain, and grotesquely warped that sturdy Duran’s armor.
According to Jia, he had collapsed the Immortal Fortress on the 45th Floor with a terrifying skill.
Yet it seemed the Ministry of Defense was something even Master should fear.
Jia shook her head upon hearing Elsie’s words.
“They probably have a fortress built from extremely rare stone, powerful magic, and dragons flying about, Elsie.”
“W-what?!”
Elsie trembled like a child who had heard a frightening story.
Certainly, if that were the case, Master’s reaction was understandable.
‘I should search for information about the Ministry of Defense tonight.’

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