I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 151

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Episode 151
Ep. 151
Four figures suddenly appeared before the reporters and cameras.
Naturally, they were Claude, Minjeong, Jack, and Roel—the ones who had entered the Tower.
Despite the fact that the people they’d been waiting for had emerged, the reporters were so flustered they couldn’t even manage to flash their cameras.
How could they possibly have come out so quickly?
But the reporters, professionals that they were, soon began turning their cameras toward them.
Click—click—!
They examined the appearance of the Frontier Members.
“You look so clean, though?”
“Right… Could it be…?”
Their appearance was far too pristine to suggest a proper battle had taken place.
Of course, there were traces of combat.
However, when Hunters typically cleared an Instant Tower, they would emerge bearing various injuries, large and small, along with heavily damaged equipment.
While such things might seem embarrassing at first glance, wasn’t it true that in soccer, one doesn’t win simply by kicking the ball beautifully?
Hunters had come to regard such marks as if they were honorable medals, standing proudly before the cameras.
Well, considering Frontier’s power exceeded expectations, they could have cleared this Instant Tower—the one Samhwa Guild had abandoned—to this degree.
Yet what seemed strange was their expressions.
Their faces appeared vacant, as though their souls had departed.
As if they couldn’t believe what they had witnessed inside.
Combining these two observations, the reporters’ minds naturally arrived at this conclusion.
‘They failed!’
Frontier had ultimately failed as well.
It was the worst possible scenario.
If they had at least reached the fifth floor after an intense battle and encountered the boss—the Tower Master—there would still be hope.
The fact that Frontier, veterans who had conquered countless Towers across the world, had given up and emerged in such a short time meant the Tower’s interior boasted an incomprehensibly difficult level.
Gulp—!
One reporter, swallowing hard without realizing it, cautiously asked Claude.
“Claude… Did you perhaps fail?”
“Pardon?”
Claude tilted his head as if he hadn’t properly heard the question, asking for clarification.
The reporters’ expressions grew even worse.
“Then did you perhaps identify what monster could be inferred as the Tower Master?”
Experienced Hunters could supposedly identify what the boss was just by observing the Tower’s interior.
Claude then nodded and answered.
“Ah, it was a Lich.”
“!!!?!?!?!?!!!”
Utter shock.
Since the broadcast was live, the expressions of the reporters holding the microphone toward Claude were transmitted directly to viewers.
“A, a Lich!”
“Aaaahhhhh!”
“It’s a catastrophe!”
“A Lich in Korea!”
The screams of the reporters behind the cameras were captured with vivid clarity, and truthfully, the anchors and experts in the studio were little different.
It was simply that no one had the presence of mind to point that out.
To such an extent that an employee at the management office posed this question to Seongnyun, who was watching the live broadcast.
“Manager, isn’t this going to result in a national emergency declaration?”
A Lich was certainly sufficient cause for that.
There had been several instances of Liches appearing before, but aside from the American case, most had been captured through siege warfare via gates.
France had suffered the most severe damage.
Naturally, if a Lich were the boss, handling it according to the employee’s question would be the correct procedure.
However, Seongnyun answered with a composed expression.
“Let’s wait a bit longer, shall we?”
“Pardon?”
“They haven’t said it failed yet, have they?”
“But that’s…!”
Just as the employee was about to offer a rebuttal, a notification window appeared before those who could see the system.
「The Hosung Instant Tower (B+) in the Republic of Korea has been conquered.
Location: Hosung City, Republic of Korea
Outstanding Contributor ID: Ilgyeok
Rank: S+」
“Wh-what?”
The expressions of those who confirmed the contents were mostly identical.
Only then did people recall what Frontier had said.
This conquest would be accompanied by a ‘powerful’ reinforcement.
‘Su-surely I didn’t think they’d be this powerful…!’
It exceeded imagination.
Ilgyeok.
In some respects, even more mysterious than Frontier, and the source of all manner of rampant rumors and fiction-like speculation.
And an absurd, unidentifiable figure who accomplishes deeds that surpass even those fictional speculations.
So he had entered this tower alongside Frontier!
Whoooooooosh————!!!!
“Claude, what’s with the announcement just now?!”
“Did you really conquer it together with Ilgyeok?”
“So you defeated the Lich as well?!”
“Oh my goodness?!”
“That’s not even a question?”
From that moment on began the true start of the press conference.
Moreover, as the notification appeared, the geometric tower visible in the background behind Claude and Frontier slowly began to fade away, making the scene absolutely perfect.
“Ugh, my eyes!”
Unaccustomed to press conferences, Minjeong shielded her eyes from the barrage of spotlights and let out a cry of alarm.
“Allow me to explain each point in detail.”
Claude, as if finally recovering the sense of reality he had lost, began answering methodically with a gentle smile.
The reinforcements they mentioned were indeed Ilgyeok.
Through a miraculous connection, we decided to conduct a joint conquest together, and this is the result of that effort.
The Lich that was the boss of this Tower?
“We’ve captured it. You needn’t worry.”
“Wow….”
The reporters gasped at Claude’s affirmation.
Not just any monster—a Lich.
A Lich, known to be impossible to capture inside the Tower unless you’re a superpower like the United States.
It would be praiseworthy enough to draw it outside and capture it without casualties, but to capture it inside the Tower?
At this point, the reporters’ curiosity naturally shifted to the next question.
Was Ilgyeok remarkable, or was Frontier remarkable?
Ilgyeok had achieved S+ rank by handling every possible section solo up until now.
But there was doubt—wouldn’t it be somewhat difficult for Ilgyeok to conquer even the Lich alone without Frontier’s assistance?
However, they couldn’t afford to offend Claude, who represented Frontier.
Eventually, one reporter asked with extreme caution.
“What was Ilgyeok like when you witnessed him directly… ? I’m especially curious about the final battle with the Lich….”
At that, Claude wore an expression similar to when he had just emerged from the Tower.
As if dreaming while existing in reality.
Then he smiled faintly and spoke thus.
“In truth, we did nothing after entering the Tower. It would be fair to say the Lich was captured almost entirely by Ilgyeok alone.”
“!!!!”
The reporters scrutinized Claude’s complexion carefully.
They were trying to discern whether this was merely lip service to boost morale or the truth, and there was not a trace of falsehood in Claude’s expression.
“I understand what you’re all thinking, but this is absolutely not lip service. Wouldn’t you know if you saw the MVP award?”
“Ah….”
It was such a shocking statement that it left even the reporters at a loss for their next question.
So Ilgyeok, who had now reached the 74th floor, was truly a powerhouse capable of crushing the Lich independently?
This was news significant enough to overturn the world once more.
As the atmosphere of the press conference cooled in a positive sense, Claude chuckled and threw out the next topic.
“But someone was supposed to come here.”
“Someone, you say…?”
“W-Wait, surely not!”
The reporters gasped once more.
Who else could possibly come in this situation?
It had to be Ilgyeok, who was with Frontier.
Claude glanced to one side for a moment, then spoke with a radiant smile.
“Allow me to introduce you. This is the very person you all know as Ilgyeok.”
At the same moment, the reporters and cameras—careful not to make a sound—turned toward the direction Claude indicated.
Thud— thud—
Someone was walking toward them.
Black armor, a helmet, a shield.
And a warrior wielding a long silver spear.
The reporters erupted in excitement at the silhouette they had only heard about through drawings and testimonies, never a single photograph until now.
“It’s Ilgyeok!”
“Ilgyeok!”
“It’s Ilgyeok!”
With no precedent of Frontier publicly clearing the Tower, Ilgyeok’s appearance in the real world was a historic moment in every sense.
In an instant, every camera that had been focused on Claude swung toward the black warrior.
Thud— thud—
Yet the warrior simply walked forward with unwavering purpose.
Though only a single person, the reporters found themselves unconsciously tensing, shrinking back.
A moment where even the air seemed to hold its breath.
Finally, Jia stepped beside Claude and removed the helmet that had obscured her face.
“Ah…!”
An involuntary gasp escaped from the crowd.
Unlike the image of Ilgyeok—slaughtering countless monsters within the Tower and climbing madly upward—Jia’s revealed face was breathtakingly beautiful.
An overwhelming presence so striking that even the most common questions died on their lips.
Jia bowed her head slightly and spoke.
“I am Jia.”
“Pardon?”
“Jia?”
“Not Ilgyeok?”
“Is that your real name…?”
A moment of confusion rippled through the press corps.
Claude stepped forward to elaborate.
“This is Jia, who has been acting as Ilgyeok’s representative until now.”
“A representative…?”
Even so, the people’s confusion persisted.
The concept of a “representative” was not common among Hunters.
Well, legal representatives certainly existed when lawsuits were involved, but Jia had become widely known—or so people believed—as Ilgyeok, operating within the Tower.
“Then… are you saying Ilgyeok has been conducting separate activities this entire time?”
“They have always participated in the clearings alongside me.”
Jia’s voice was calm and measured.
In other words, Ilgyeok had always conducted the clearings directly—you simply failed to notice.
Those who grasped the implication gasped once more.
Jia’s prowess displayed within the Tower was already extraordinary, so what could Ilgyeok themselves possibly be?
And before their amazement could fully settle, Claude dropped another bombshell.
“And here, I announce on behalf of Frontier the existence of S+ rank items.”
“Pardon?”
“What do you mean?”
“Excuse me?!?!?!”
The shock came a beat too late.
S+ rank items?
Until now, the highest known rank for items was S.
Even those were treated as national treasures or strategic assets, and except for an extremely select few, they were kept classified or their very existence was hidden.
But there existed S+ rank items that surpassed even that?
‘W-well, Ilgyeok cleared S+ rank dungeons from the beginning, so….’
Still, that much was understandable.
With Ilgyeok’s emergence, the existence of S+ rank in the clearance system had already been made public.
If it existed as a clearance rank but not as items, that would actually be stranger.
But the crucial point about S+ rank items was naturally not their mere existence.
“And this person, Jia, is a Spirit—a characteristic feature of S+ rank items.”
“?? A Spirit, you say?”
“Yes. S+ rank items each have a unique Spirit bound to them. Roel here is one such Spirit.”
“There is… no need to introduce me to these humans….”
Though introduced by Claude, Roel merely pulled his hood down low and spoke in a desolate voice.
The reporters transmitting news to broadcasting stations had now stopped typing altogether.
There was so much new and shocking information that they couldn’t even grasp how to convey it.
Even while hearing and seeing it directly, writing that ‘S+ rank items exist, and each comes with a Spirit’ felt absurdly preposterous.
It was information that shattered all previous common sense and conventions.
Yet it was undeniably fact.
A fact easily proven by Minjeong authenticating it through the Cursed Ashes’ Staff.
This news was being transmitted urgently not just throughout Korea but across the entire world, to the point where even major portals couldn’t handle the traffic and crashed.
Naturally, government agencies worldwide, completely unaware of S+ rank items, scrambled as if their feet were on fire, but found nothing to learn.
Because none of them, nor anyone else, possessed S+ items.
Except for Korea’s Ilgyeok and Tarakdwaeji Minjoo.
Perhaps the outside world was experiencing more violent tremors than the press conference venue itself, which could be called the eye of the storm.
Ironically, the most composed atmosphere in the world was the press conference hall.
Jia opened her mouth.
“I will convey Ilgyeok’s message.”
“….”
At those words, the reporters focused without even flashing their cameras.
It was only natural.
To be clear, Ilgyeok had never made public statements in this manner before.
It was the first moment they could directly confirm Ilgyeok’s will.

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