I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 122

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Episode 122
Ep. 122
“But weren’t you already hitting your mark perfectly?”
“….”
Ihyeon found himself at a loss for words.
Right, wasn’t I?
Ihyeon slowly turned his head to look at Jia, his neck creaking slightly.
Jia didn’t speak, but her expression clearly conveyed that Elsie’s question was valid.
Ihyeon eventually slumped his shoulders and spoke.
“Let’s just check the next one.”
It felt like hearing someone say, “Dad’s already a good driver, so why does he need a better car?” I never expected to feel this way before even getting married, let alone having children.
Well, regardless of that.
「Would you like to use the item ‘Random Skill Ticket’?」
‘Yeah, let’s get this over with.’
As Ihyeon tore the skill ticket, a massive slot machine began spinning rapidly, just like before.
Without much expectation, he immediately pressed the selection button.
If I don’t need a better car, why would I need a better skill?
If Elsie said, “But master, you climb the tower just fine without any of that anyway,” I’d have nothing to say.
“Master, I didn’t think you were like this, but you seem pretty petty.”
“Elsie, you shouldn’t say things like that to master.”
The spirits whispered among themselves, watching Ihyeon’s thoroughly deflated expression.
Whether they did or not.
The spinning slot gradually slowed down and finally came to a stop on a single tile.
“!!!!!”
“Why, why are you like that, master?”
“Is something wrong?!”
But then Ihyeon’s face turned pale, draining of all color.
The two spirits rushed to him in alarm.
He had only torn a skill ticket—could there be some kind of side effect?
He’d never heard of such a thing.
Stagger—!
Ihyeon’s legs gave out beneath him, and he had to lean on Jia for support.
The spirits’ worry deepened even further.
Ihyeon spoke in a trembling voice.
“It’s too good….”
“Pardon?”
“The skill is too good….”
“….”
At the same moment, the spirits’ expressions turned cold.
At the same time, the spirits’ expressions turned cold.
Earlier, he had spilled out secrets only he knew, but this time he’d made the Spirit’s liver tremble.
Still, Ihyeon had something to say about this as well.
「Soul Destruction (S)
Destroys the soul of the target hit, ignoring their defense.
No traces remain upon use.
Affected by firepower.
Limited to once per day.
Requires maintaining a precise aim state.」
‘How could my legs not give out seeing something like this?!’
It was a slot I’d spun without much expectation, but an S-rank skill had appeared.
Though it was limited to once per day, and since it was already S-rank, there was no room for the number of uses to increase.
But none of that mattered.
Defense ignored.
Soul destroyed.
No traces left behind.
It was truly the dream shot for every sniper in the world.
Ihyeon declared boldly.
With this, Ilgyeok was complete.
‘Ah, is this the grace of the Watchman?’
I decided to test this as well while I was at it.
Ihyeon began to transform the interior of the Makeshift Shooting Range.
“Huh? The ocean?”
Ihyeon, Jia, and Elsie found themselves standing on a small boat above the vast sea.
And in the distance, a single rock island appeared above the water’s surface.
Elsie sniffed the air, narrowing her eyes as she gazed at the rock island.
“…That’s not a monster, is it?”
Jia nodded.
She had seen this monster before.
Amogratl.
The colossal turtle that Ihyeon had hunted in the Instant Tower in the past.
Amogratl was swimming toward them at an abnormally fast speed for its massive body.
The water parting before it was nothing short of a tidal wave.
“Y-you’re saying the master caught something like that?!”
Elsie jumped in astonishment.
No matter what, wasn’t that far too enormous?
Of course, Elsie now knew very well the destructive power of Ihyeon’s sniper rifle, but there had to be limits!
The Spirits grew noisy, but Ihyeon paid them no mind and aimed his sniper rifle at Amogratl.
Amogratl was a monster I’d caught long ago.
It might have been close then, but now I could catch it easily with ordinary shots.
‘But this time, Soul Destruction. If the description is true….’
The monster’s sheer size meant that vital points held no sway whatsoever.
When I brought my eye to the refreshed scope, a distance exceeding 5 kilometers displayed itself.
Though it seemed I’d soon close to the 4-kilometer range, I had no intention of waiting that long.
‘Soul Destruction.’
I prepared the skill.
Ziiing—
With that strange sound, the sniper rifle vibrated once.
Simultaneously, the color within the scope shifted.
The red dot that should have remained near the crosshairs began expanding rapidly.
‘…The visuals alone are rather violent.’
Soon the entire lens of the scope was drenched in crimson.
「Distance: Irrelevant
Wind Direction: Irrelevant
Wind Speed: Irrelevant
Temperature: Irrelevant」
The minor information displayed on the scope resonated with the Soul Destruction skill, displaying these very words.
It likely meant that any ‘target’ caught in the scope would hit without fail.
Of course, maintaining a proper sight picture was the bare minimum condition for using this absurdly broken skill.
I thought this was indeed a skill worthy of S-rank status.
Click—
I pulled the trigger.
There was no other sound.
No muzzle report, nothing ejecting from the barrel.
The same silence as when using armor-piercing rounds.
Fwoooosh——
Amogratl continued approaching the boat carrying me and the spirits, still churning up violent sprays of water.
Elsie furrowed her brow.
“Did it work? That thing keeps getting closer?”
But I didn’t answer her question, simply lowering the rifle’s barrel.
A sniper stands paradoxically both furthest and closest to death.
Therefore, one’s intuition regarding death is unparalleled.
My lowering the barrel meant I was certain no further shots were necessary.
Fwoooosh——….
As if to prove it, Amogratl’s speed gradually diminished.
In truth, from the moment I pulled the trigger, Amogratl was already dead.
It was merely coasting through the water by inertia.
Soon even that inertia faded, and it came to a complete halt.
By then, we’d reached a distance where I could confirm Amogratl’s death with the naked eye.
Splash—!
Of course, by that point the Makeshift Shooting Range’s system had already converted it to light and made it vanish.
“….”
Jia, of course, and even Elsie, who had been chattering away incessantly, clamped her mouth shut at that moment.
That colossal monster had simply ceased to exist from a mere flick of a finger.
For two spirits who had survived through fierce close-quarters combat until now, it was a scene devoid of reality.
Ihyeon’s marksmanship itself had always possessed such qualities, but this skill transcended that by an entire dimension—truly overwhelming.
While the spirits remained speechless, the Makeshift Shooting Range returned to its original form.
Ihyeon exhaled a long, heavy sigh.
“Sigh….”
Within that breath lay anguish and conflict.
“Master.”
“Master….”
The spirits gazed upon him, and sorrow settled into their eyes.
This was surely a concern they could not comprehend.
For instance, even if it were a monster, wasn’t it still a living being—could it be right to end it so effortlessly?
Wasn’t combat itself the minimum courtesy shown when taking another’s life? Something along those lines.
Meanwhile, Ihyeon, having exhaled his sigh, spoke.
“Even if I obtain a skill like this, Elsie will surely say, ‘I was already managing to climb just fine on my own—what’s the point of something like this?’….”
“….”
The spirits’ expressions became worth watching.
Elsie vented her frustrations to Jia with an extremely irritated expression.
“Master really does hold grudges for far too long!”
Jia said nothing this time either.
‘Phew, I was actually about to ask if this skill was even necessary when one shot would’ve done it anyway—good restraint, Legendary Sword Elsie! You protected the ice cream!’
…It was truly heaven’s fortune that Ihyeon did not hear Elsie’s true thoughts.
Next came the item.
‘If I use it nonchalantly this time, perhaps…?’
Ihyeon held the item ticket in his hand and swallowed hard.
What if another S-rank item actually appeared?
If that truly happened, Ihyeon was prepared to bow repeatedly to the heavens, the earth, the spirits of his ancestors, and his parents.
Of course, to his former squad members as well.
“This time I’m really not expecting anything.”
Ihyeon said this for no particular reason, then tore the ticket with a rip—
“No matter how I look at it, you seem to be expecting something.”
Elsie clicked her tongue as she observed the greed glimmering in Ihyeon’s eyes.
Ihyeon glanced sideways to confirm the result.
Unlike skills, items displayed their results without slots—just the outcome appeared.
「You have obtained the item ‘Excellent Holster (D)’.
Please check your inventory.」
“….”
Ihyeon was left speechless.
I hadn’t expected to be this pleased, even so.
‘The Watchman’s blessing, my foot. I was just lucky.’
Even the system has feelings, doesn’t it? Getting only a D-grade item after destroying a soul with the scope seemed rather stingy.
Besides, a pistol holster didn’t seem particularly practical.
‘More importantly, would I get arrested for illegal weapon possession if I carried a pistol holster around in South Korea?’
It seemed even less necessary for Ihyeon, who tried to keep the gun itself as inconspicuous as possible.
“You said you weren’t expecting much?”
“Ice cream….”
“But! I’m a loyal spirit, so of course I’m always hoping good items come to my master!”
Ihyeon sighed deeply and pulled the pistol holster from his inventory to check its description.
The holster itself was quite appealing.
Beautifully treated leather with a comfortable feel that fit snugly in the hand.
Even the practicality of wearing it at the waist without any sense of incongruity.
「Excellent Pistol Holster (D)
Allows you to carry a gun.
You can freely set the appearance of the gun while carrying it.」
“Huh?”
Ihyeon tilted his head in confusion.
Freely set the appearance? What did that mean?
‘Wait, wait. This…?’
Ihyeon tried converting his sniper rifle into a pistol and placing it in the holster, just to see.
It slid in perfectly, as if custom-made.
And as Ihyeon imagined a certain form.
Whoosh—
“Oh? It changed?”
Just as the item description stated, the pistol and holster transformed according to Ihyeon’s thoughts.
Plastic instead of leather and metal.
It had become a common walkie-talkie you’d see anywhere.
A wallet, glasses case, cell phone….
The holster’s form shifted smoothly with each thought Ihyeon had.
An exclamation burst from Ihyeon’s lips.
“Perfect!”
For a D-grade item, this was truly excellent.
Shouldn’t it be worth at least a B-grade?
With this kind of versatility, no one would ever suspect it was a gun, even if I carried it outside.
Ihyeon continued to marvel as he changed the holster’s appearance this way and that.
It wasn’t like I’d have frequent reason to carry a gun outside anyway.
‘Did I go to Gates and Instant Towers all this time thinking I might need to? Preparation for contingencies is always important.’
Thinking this way, it was quite satisfying.
“Is that really so impressive, master?”
Of course, Elsie, who had been watching from beside me, asked why I was making such a fuss over it.
Ihyeon chuckled subtly and transformed the shape of the holster once more.
Whoosh—
“Oh, ice cream!”
Elsie’s eyes immediately gleamed with desire.
The moment I transformed it into her favorite strawberry-flavored hard ice cream, her eyes rolled back in pure longing.
“Still don’t think that’s impressive?”
Poof—
When I tore open the ice cream wrapper, an actual ice cream-shaped object emerged from within!
“Amazing! Amazing! Absolutely amazing!”
Snap—!
Elsie immediately leaped up and bit into the ice cream in my hand like a dog snapping at a frisbee in mid-air.
The result was.
“…It hurts….”
“Of course it does. It’s a gun, after all.”
Truly tragic.

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