I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 184

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Episode 184
Ep. 184
Though Hanryeol’s slip of the tongue had caused problems before the confrontation even began, he was confident in his match against Ilgyeok.
‘The 80s floors are on a different dimension from before. The terrain itself is a threat. If I hadn’t spent time here, I’d have taken a serious fall on this treacherous land.’
Moreover, the 80s floors weren’t simply about hunting monsters—they came with unique missions.
「81st Floor Mission.
Defeat a minimum of 30 Lava Lava monsters.
Position the Frost Stone correctly.」
Only by placing the Frost Stone—whose location was unknown—in its correct position could the surrounding terrain be calmed, and only then would the floor be truly conquered.
Navigating around monsters that could emerge at any moment and any place, along with lava and steam, to position the Frost Stone was not something even Ilgyeok—a hunter who had only just entered the 80s floors—could accomplish.
So from the start, Hanryeol observed Ihyeon and the surrounding terrain with ease.
To Hanryeol’s eyes, now somewhat accustomed to the 80s floors, the likely points where lava and steam would erupt were visible, and
‘They’re hiding over there.’
he could also see where the Lava Lava monsters lurked beneath the ground, waiting for prey to pass by.
Now it was time to flatten Ilgyeok’s lofty pride.
A hunter arriving here for the first time would, nine times out of ten, advance thoughtlessly and face a grave crisis.
‘When I save Ilgyeok from that danger, I’ll clearly prove who’s superior in skill. Haha! Isn’t this too easy!’
In Hanryeol’s mind, he could already picture Ihyeon shedding tears of gratitude, saying, “Thank you so much, brother!”
…Though Ihyeon was a couple of years older than Hanryeol, what did that matter?
Inside the Tower, the stronger one was the senior.
In any case, since it was now certain that Ilgyeok was an Assassin, he would surely search for monsters first.
‘Go ahead and try! Come on!’
Hanryeol struggled with all his might to suppress the grin that kept breaking through his lips.
‘Come on!’
It felt like excited snorts could burst from his nose at any moment.
‘Come on, come on!’
But contrary to Hanryeol’s expectations, Ihyeon didn’t move immediately.
‘…Come on!’
He simply stood at the starting point with the spirits, perfectly still.
Elsie, meanwhile, closed her eyes and sniffed the air.
‘Does he need to take a dump or something! Move already!’
Hanryeol couldn’t understand what was going on.
This was completely different from his plan.
‘Why isn’t he moving?’
Eventually, Hanryeol wondered if Ihyeon had lost his mind from overwhelming pressure, and he tried to approach and say something to him.
That was when it happened.
“Yeah, Master, see that pile of rocks jutting out about 100 meters ahead? It’s about 10 meters beneath that.”
“As expected of Elsiya.”
“Hehehehe.”
Whoosh—
“???!?!!?”
Ihyeon and Elsie seemed to be exchanging incomprehensible words, and from Hanryeol’s perspective, something dreamlike unfolded that he couldn’t believe his own eyes.
“A, a, gun?!”
Suddenly, Ihyeon pulled a handgun from behind his waist!
It was an object Hanryeol could never have imagined seeing inside the tower, so he was shocked beyond measure.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
Shuuuuk—!
“It, it got bigger?!?!?!”
The handgun, which had been small enough to operate with one hand, suddenly stretched out and transformed into a long sniper rifle!
Moreover, it looked completely different from the Maesek Gun that Hanryeol had seen frequently during Gate raids.
If it were a Maesek Gun, he could at least understand it, but what Ihyeon was holding looked like an old sniper rifle pulled from some museum.
“No, how is a sniper rifle inside the tower…???”
Hanryeol’s mind fell into chaos.
Soon after, he found a plausible hypothesis.
‘Ah, so that Ilgyeok bastard, the Dark Mage, must have bewitched me at some point!’
…Though it seemed plausible, it was entirely untrue.
But who was Hanryeol?
None other than BlackDragonKing!
Superior trait, Dragon’s Assassin!
Korea’s greatest Assassin Hunter!
‘Hahaha! But Ilgyeok, you underestimated me far too much. Showing me such an unrealistic illusion—isn’t that rather amateurish?’
He knew very well how to counter illusion-type dark magic.
“O White Dragon who illuminates all the world, grant me the light to not be deceived by falsehood!”
Without any effect whatsoever, he simply drew out a single dagger with a sharp edge and shouted thus, and white light gleamed along the blade.
Originally a power to counter spirit-type monsters like Specters or Ghosts, but from experience, it was quite effective against illusion magic as well.
Thunk—!
And with that, he stabbed his own thigh.
An assassin of outstanding skill must naturally know all of the human body’s vital points, nerves, and muscle structures.
The spot Hanryeol had just pierced was a secret technique that would leave no aftereffects yet deliver maximum pain, allowing one to escape most illusion magic.
Hanryeol smiled despite the considerable pain and looked toward where Ihyeon stood.
‘Kekeke, how about that, Ilgyeok. You never expected me to have such resolve… Your shallow tricks have all been seen through…?’
But unlike Hanryeol’s confidence.
Click-clack— Click-clang—!
The illusion(?) did not break.
Ihyeon, holding the long sniper rifle, calmly and casually worked the bolt, chambered a round, shouldered the weapon, and aimed at the point Elsie had indicated.
‘Hmm, the temperature is slightly different. Good hint.’
The ground of the 80th floors, which appeared fiery red due to the lava, showed a particularly elevated heat at the spot Elsie had pointed out.
Looking closely, it seemed to writhe slightly as well.
For now, I would need Elsie’s help, but with a bit more experience, searching on my own would pose no problem.
In any case, that was a matter for later.
Ihyeon aligned his sights precisely at the location where he estimated the Lava Lava to be.
Crack——!!!
With a light squeeze of the trigger, he took his first shot on the 80s floors.
“??????”
Of course, for Hanryeol, it was nothing but a series of shocks.
Setting aside the illusion magic that he couldn’t escape even after forcefully striking his secret technique, the ‘Illusion Breaking Acupoint’—
The aura of the mana bullet flying from that decrepit gun was far from ordinary.
No, to be honest, it was far beyond merely unusual.
‘At that level… it rivals a full-power skill from the master himself…! Even if it’s an illusion, isn’t this a bit much?’
He could sense an absolutely tremendous force concentrated at a single point—one that could be compared to his secret technique combination and terrifying ultimate assassination art, the ‘Black Flame Dragon Ascension Assassination Chaos Destruction’.
Considering that his secret technique combination could only be used twice a day due to its extreme limitations, it was even more absurd.
Perhaps for Ilgyeok, this was merely his ‘normal attack’!
Somehow, reality felt even more fantastical than before he stabbed his thigh.
‘Could that also be a bluff…? No, more importantly, what exactly was Ilgyeok looking at when he fired?’
Hanryeol’s mind was filled with incomprehension.
He pinpointed the monster’s location from just a few words of conversation with Elsie?
But as Ihyeon always said—
Boom-crack-crack——!!!
Seeing was believing.
The bullet Ihyeon fired didn’t merely scratch the scorching earth that had heated up like a massive beast’s claw—it burrowed deep into the ground.
As a deep scar was carved into the earth—
Splash—!
The Lava Lava hiding underground took a direct hit.
No additional attack was necessary.
The characteristic of the Lava Lava’s death—lava spouting up like a fountain—confirmed its demise.
“…Oh, what a dragon you are.”
Rather, it was precisely because Hanryeol had accumulated sufficient experience on the 80s floors that he could confirm this fact clearly.
After confirming the Lava Lava’s death, Ihyeon lowered his gun and turned to look at Hanryeol.
“I believe I’ve taken down the first one.”
Hanryeol had probably been trying to probe Ihyeon’s abilities and combat style to see how he would perform.
From Ihyeon’s perspective, there was nothing to hide, so he simply demonstrated openly.
There were still many skills remaining, but there was no need to use them all against mere common monsters.
But setting aside Hanryeol’s dumbfounded expression, Ihyeon wore a peculiar look as he spoke to him.
“Why did you stab your thigh?”
“? Huh? Ah, that was… well.”
When he was sniping earlier, he had been so focused entirely on the target that he hadn’t paid attention to anything else.
‘He seemed to be making quite a fuss on his own, but I never imagined he’d actually stab his own thigh.’
Elsie shook her head beside him.
“Master, didn’t I tell you? Dealing with people like that only exhausts us.”
…This time, even Ihyeon didn’t particularly try to stop Elsie.
Well, being that kind of person(?), he was waiting while bringing up traditions that didn’t even exist.
But Ihyeon soon came up with a plausible hypothesis.
“Ah, so you possess a skill that grows stronger by sacrificing your own blood…?”
Hanryeol was an Assassin Hunter with the superior trait of Dragon’s Servant.
What skills superior traits possessed—in truth, no one knew except those who held the trait themselves.
So it wouldn’t be strange if there was a skill that strengthened one’s power by sacrificing blood.
Of course, it was entirely false, but Hanryeol nodded his head hurriedly as if the words were correct.
“Y-yes, precisely correct. Haha, truthfully, I possess a skill where the more blood I see, the stronger I become…”
Even as he spoke, tears threatened to spill from the pain, but Hanryeol endured it with the composure befitting his status.
Of course, there was no such skill as growing stronger from seeing blood.
Hanryeol was an Assassin Hunter, not a Berserker, after all.
Dragon’s Servant uniquely grew stronger as reverence for the ‘Dragon’ increased, a trait that borrowed the diverse powers of dragons.
That’s why Hanryeol even included the word ‘Dragon’ in his ID from the start.
In any case, stabbing the thigh had nothing to do with combat whatsoever.
Rather, having sustained a wound meant extreme damage.
But Ihyeon spoke as if to say, “Well, it could happen,” with a regretful tone.
“I was going to heal you, but if you stabbed yourself intentionally because of a skill, then there’s nothing I can do.”
“…? You can heal?”
Hanryeol asked with an expression of disbelief.
He had just witnessed with his own eyes that destructive power that killed Lava Lava in a single strike.
So what’s going on?
You’re going to heal me?
Ihyeon shrugged as if to ask what was strange about that.
“Yes. It’s not an unusual matter.”
‘It’s definitely unusual!’
If he had intended to give a healing potion, he would have said so from the beginning.
Hanryeol eventually hesitated before speaking to Ihyeon.
“W-well then, let me see you try.”
“Yes? But didn’t you say it was a skill?”
“Now that I think about it, isn’t it too harsh for me to do this to a newcomer who just climbed to the 80s floors? My blood truly possesses incredible destructive power, you see.”
“…I see.”
Ihyeon switched to healing mode with a “Well, I suppose so” and aimed at Hanryeol.
“T-this is cowardly!”
“?”
“How is shooting a person with a gun the way of the martial world!”
Hanryeol suddenly jumped in place, startled when Ihyeon abruptly aimed a gun at him.
He had confidently said he would heal him, but was this really how he meant to do it(?)!
If he died, he wouldn’t feel the pain anyway.
Ihyeon pondered for a moment before speaking.
“When the gun is this white color, it possesses healing power. You can rest assured.”
“What kind of ridiculous nonsense is this!”
Hanryeol suddenly recalled a rumor he had forgotten.
– Have you heard? Ilgyeok is supposedly a terrifying criminal.
– Really? He didn’t seem like that.
– They say he’s killed dozens in the tower and refuses to reveal his identity to hide his crimson skull.
‘Could that rumor actually be true? But there’s no crimson skull…’
Hanryeol found it slightly odd that no skull floated above Ihyeon’s head, but he had no time to dwell on it.
After taking that devastating attack, no one would take responsibility for thinking “Oh, I let my guard down.”
Hanryeol activated the dragon assassin’s movement technique, “Black Dragon’s Footwork.”
Crackle—
In an instant, Hanryeol melted into darkness and vanished from sight.
“Sniff sniff. Master, over there.”
“Ah, right. Thanks.”
“?!”
Whoosh—!
But evading Ihyeon’s eyes while accompanied by Elsie was no easy feat.
Above all, Hanryeol’s form was clearly captured on the thermal scope.
“Ugh—! Oh no, I’m dead!”
Struck by the brilliant white beam, Hanryeol rolled across the ground.
“…Huh?”
Far from dying, even the burning pain he had felt in his thigh vanished without a trace.
When Hanryeol cautiously opened his eyes, he saw Ihyeon, Jia, and Elsie looking down at him from a distance with expressions of contempt.

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