I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 155

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Episode 155
Ep. 155
The Instant Tower in Hosung City, conquered jointly by Ilgyeok and Frontier.
With the shocking revelation of the Tower Master’s identity as a Lich, the tower had come to be called the Lich Instant Tower more often.
The mere fact that Ilgyeok participated in the conquest would have set the world ablaze, but this time it created shockwaves on an entirely different scale.
[ S+ Grade Item Existence Revealed. Nations Worldwide in Uproar ]
[ Who Are the Spirits? Experts Believe the Tower’s Secrets May Be Known… ]
[ Ilgyeok’s Representative Jia, Red-Haired Child Receives Belated Reevaluation… How Many S+ Items Does Ilgyeok Possess? ]
First came the revelation of S+ Grade Items and Spirits.
As nations worldwide issued statements claiming they possessed no such items and that Ilgyeok likely discovered them first.
Jia, Ilgyeok’s representative, and Elsie were impossible to locate anyway, so they were set aside.
Instead, attention concentrated on Roel of Frontier, whose location had been revealed.
However, Frontier firmly stated that Roel was the personal item of Korea’s Number One Agent Minjeong, and they could not disclose it arbitrarily.
Minjeong consequently rose to prominence as a hot potato rivaling Ilgyeok himself and felt considerable burden, but thanks to Frontier’s excellent information control, no major issues arose.
[ Claude: Ilgyeok’s conquest was fantastic. I didn’t even realize the conquest was complete. ]
[ Ilgyeok fires a gun, testimony. Experts dismiss this as absurd nonsense. Believing figurative expressions is foolish. ]
[ Cleared a 5-Floor Tower with a Lich as boss in just 1.5 hours. Is that even possible? ]
[ Ilgyeok Saves Korea from Catastrophe Once Again! ]
Second came discussions about the Lich boss itself and Ilgyeok’s characteristics.
Claude’s mention of a gun was simply buried as gossip and passed over.
People would write things like “Does Ilgyeok actually fire a real gun?” in jest for amusement, but it remained firmly in the realm of memes.
Common sense held that firing a gun inside a tower was nonsensical.
The most plausible hypothesis circulating was that he was “a Mage who fires projectiles as powerfully as if shooting a gun.”
This theory most closely resembled Ilgyeok’s combat encounters, which had been captured only a few times, and since Claude was also a Mage, there was reason to believe he gave more praise for that reason.
[ Title: Why Ilgyeok Can’t Be a Mage
Content: The monster Ilgyeok caught this time was a Lich. But a Lich is considered among the highest peaks not just in dark magic but in magic itself. Honestly, the current top-ranked Mage is either the Chinese Toryeoksa or the American Psychomancer, but could they even catch a Lich in a 1v1? The fact that Ilgyeok caught a Lich means he has superior pure magical ability to the Lich itself… [continued]
└ Give me a three-line summary;;
└ So you’re saying Ilgyeok shouldn’t have caught the Lich? Guys like you are why Korea is in this mess.
└ Ilgyeok catching the Lich is just a fact;; It’s already done, so insisting it shouldn’t have happened is legendary stubbornness ]
That theory too had its share of opinions that it made no logical sense, but what could be done?
It had already happened.
Except for the opinions of a tiny minority, it was accurate to say Korea was in a festival atmosphere.
[ Ministry of Economy and Finance Raises This Year’s Economic Growth Rate to 5.3%… “Ilgyeok Effect” Officially Emerges. Highest in 18 Years ]
[ White House Expresses Deep Relief Over Korea’s Lich Being Captured Without Damage, Plans Additional 3% Tariff Reduction for Korea
└ Wait, is Ilgyeok alone reducing tariffs by several percent?
└ Ilgyeok for Congress!
└ We’d need to know who he is first before sending him to Congress;; ]
It wasn’t merely tower-related talk; as the Hero Ilgyeok became firmly established, the morale of the entire nation rose and the economy improved—a literal miracle was actually occurring.
And naturally, people’s attention turned to.
[ Will he enter Floor 75 today?
└ Wouldn’t they? But those creatures appear on the 75th floor.
└ Even for Ilgyeok, this one seems like it’ll take some time.
└ Ugh, I’m so sick of this. You unbelievers, always saying he can’t break through here, saying it’s impossible here~
└ lol Ilgyeok has proven it every time with S+ clears, right?
└ But this one is seriously brutal. Wouldn’t the 80th floor actually be more suited to Ilgyeok?
Hahahahaha, I can’t do anything but laugh. Do you know what comes out on the 80th floor?
└ The Lich had favorable matchups so he cleared it in an instant? People who don’t even know Ilgyeok’s abilities sure talk a lot
└ Yeah, Claude testified—Ilgyeok shoots a gun~
Haha, it’s probably a joke, but it really doesn’t make sense any other way.
The focus was shifting to the 75th floor that Ihyeon would conquer next.
In truth, it wasn’t particularly unusual.
Just as the people’s reactions showed, negative assessments always emerged whenever Ilgyeok challenged the mid-bosses and Floor Masters.
This stemmed partly from the uncertainty surrounding Ilgyeok’s unrevealed abilities and skills.
But it was also because the bosses of each floor genuinely acted as symbols of terror for other Hunters.
Of course, Ilgyeok had responded each time with the unprecedented S+ rating.
While the outside world remained abuzz as always, Ihyeon and the Spirits were
“…So this is the entrance to the 75th floor?”
“Yes, Master.”
unswayed by that atmosphere, calmly entering the tower as they always did to begin the conquest.
The 75th floor featured a mid-boss.
Perhaps because of this characteristic,
unlike the previous floors where I simply climbed and hunted monsters, I had to enter through a temple entrance carved into a cliff face to conquer it.
Though the backdrop differed—a desert and snowy mountains—the entrance to the 75th floor was constructed as grandly and mysteriously as an Egyptian temple.
Upon stepping through here, a notification window would appear.
「Do you wish to enter the 75th floor of the Main Tower of South Korea?」
Accepting this would grant entry in an instant dungeon format.
Ihyeon nodded.
The scenery before my eyes shifted, and I and the Spirits found ourselves in a completely different space from before.
Elsie wrinkled her nose and spoke.
“The temple of the Evil God. The stench is always unbearable no matter when you come.”
“Is it?”
The 75th floor was said to be a temple devoted to an evil god whose name had long been forgotten.
According to Elsie, the stench was overwhelming, but I didn’t perceive any particular odor.
If anything, it was the distinctive musty scent peculiar to regions gripped by extreme cold.
Or perhaps the inevitable stale smell of an ancient building.
I surveyed my surroundings once more.
After my eyes adjusted to the darkness, the surroundings became visible despite the absence of any obvious light source.
An enormous rectangular hall.
I stood at the far end of one of the shorter sides.
The hall itself boasted a solemn atmosphere, yet its interior was quite grotesque.
Nearly a hundred suits of armor in a blood-red hue that could easily be mistaken for simple black at first glance were arranged before us.
Yet they were not scattered haphazardly—instead, they were positioned with meticulous precision, as if arranged in perfect military formation.
And the reality was not much different from that appearance.
The moment Ihyeon examined the armor suits more closely.
A flash of light—
Sinister crimson eyes blazed forth from the face plates of the armors.
“It’s begun, master.”
Elsie tensed her body as she spoke.
These creatures were in fact Undead.
A type of monster known as Death Knights.
Once they were holy knights of a cult that followed the Evil God, but after dying here under certain circumstances, their lingering resentment became trapped within the temple, and they have continued to deny entry ever since.
Some of them had their helmets knocked off, revealing grotesquely desiccated mummy-like faces within.
Due to the extreme cold, they were not completely decomposed skeletons, but rather preserved enough that one could discern their appearance in life—making them all the more grotesque.
And those creatures that had been arranged like ornaments.
Click—click—
Slowly began to move and form ranks.
One might easily think, “Are these really the mid-bosses of the 70s floors?”
Honestly, similar-looking creatures had appeared countless times in the previous floors.
But these were different.
Undead, yet hardly deserving of the name.
Possessing both spirit and flesh of the dead, they absurdly employed the tactical formations of knight orders from their living days—an impossible characteristic.
Some say the difference between an army and a mob lies in the ability to march in unison.
The mere act of synchronized footsteps creates such a vast difference, but to employ actual tactics?
This was why facing the knight order of the 75th floor was tens, hundreds of times more difficult than confronting the masses of Undead that poured forth from the 40s floors.
The Death Knight formation, led by those wielding massive tower shields, began advancing slowly but inexorably.
Between the shields, spear tips jutted forth, corroded with rust, yet bearing an even more sinister spectral aura.
Should one allow an attack to land, it was evident that the wound would be far more than a mere puncture from a rusted spear.
But the knight order’s assault did not end there.
Ratatatat—!!!
With the sound of taut bowstrings releasing, a volley of crossbow bolts rained down from beyond the shield wall.
The opponent was a knight order.
Not crudely composed of a single unit type, but rather a diverse formation including shield bearers, spearmen, archers, and even Priests of the Evil God.
This sudden barrage of crossbow fire, following their solid defensive formation, was an extremely troublesome obstacle for Hunters attempting to pass this floor.
In a battle where each individual’s strength already created exponential differences in overall power, facing an enemy employing well-coordinated tactics and composed of Undead who feared no death—they possessed every conceivable disadvantageous element.
However, viewed from another perspective.
“Jia.”
Whoosh—!!!
This was a situation that already fell within my expectations.
A brief call.
Yet Jia had already prepared to intercept the first volley even before Ihyeon had spoken her name.
The shield that Jia carried had grown considerably larger than usual.
Her armor and shield were all manifestations created from her own energy in the first place.
Unlike ordinary items with fixed forms, they could be transformed in any way according to her will.
The bolts enhanced by the Evil God’s sacred law fell to the ground like raindrops blocked by an umbrella, pattering down.
However, their power was far from weak.
As evidenced by the fact that Jia was pushed back half a step.
‘No, if she can withstand that much force and only get pushed back half a step, she still has room to spare.’
I truly felt the extent of Jia’s power anew.
In any case, since I had already taken one attack from their side.
“Now it’s their turn to receive one.”
Whoosh—
I was no longer behind Jia.
Like a shadow sinking into the ground, I emerged silently from behind the Knights without a trace.
‘Shadow Movement’ attached to the Dark Shadow Robe.
It was a skill similar to Snipe Point Conversion, but the difference was that it moved through shadows and allowed for more covert movement.
The shield-bearers, standing firm like a wall, were now defending the wrong direction.
Click—
I shouldered my sniper rifle.
Allowing them one attack was sufficient—their first crossbow volley.
They operated with three rows of firing squads in an attempt to eliminate gaps between shots, displaying tactics unbecoming of monsters, but I had no intention of allowing even their second volley.
Clack-clack— Click—!
No matter how much they narrowed the firing interval of their crossbows, it couldn’t compare to a sniper rifle where a single bolt cycle completed the firing preparation.
Moreover, I had a newly acquired skill this time.
‘Ricochet. Piercing. Multi-target as well.’
I had ricochet.
I intended to annihilate them all at once.
Diverse troop types? Knight-class tactics?
Before the overwhelming weapons of the modern era, the relics of the past were due to disappear.
‘…Actually, it’s more the power of the system than modern weapons, but what’s the difference.’
I aimed at the Knights who had exposed their backs so completely to me.
With the upgraded Multi-target effect, I could target up to three of them.
Since they had chosen a dense formation in the first place, there was no problem simultaneously aiming at three.
Unite and live, scatter and die.
A noble sentiment, but reality often differed.
‘Since I’m doing this, I should do it thoroughly.’
Rather than targeting the three closest, I divided the depth for each target separately.
One shot at the first row, another deeper than that, and the last one even deeper still….
Preparations were complete.
What remained was.
‘Hold breath. Fire.’
Taaang——!!!
Nothing but the projection of overwhelming firepower.

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