I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 217

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Episode 217
Ep. 217
“Jia, does that phrase really exist?”
“Yes, it does. Though it is not a language I am familiar with.”
I asked just to be sure, and Jia confirmed it was real.
Ihyeon nodded as if to say there was nothing to be done about it, and Elsie grumbled with a disgruntled expression.
“What? You thought I just made something up and slapped it on the sword’s name?”
“Ah, no—I just don’t understand your language.”
Well, that was fair enough.
There were also those I had momentarily forgotten about.
Undeniable contributors to this conquest.
The Knights of the Evil God.
“You all worked hard too. I won’t need your help for a while.”
The squad members who had been unsummoned had somehow returned by the time I and the Spirits were occupied with various tasks.
The Vice Captain answered with a resolute expression.
“No, my lord. We are your knights. It brings us joy whenever you summon us.”
The Vice Captain spoke with great loyalty, at least.
Glance—
But he seemed to look back and gauge the situation behind him.
Then—
“Ah, ahhhhh~~”
“I’m dying, I’m done for!”
“The wounds from the Dokkaebi flames! Ahhhhh!”
The knights behind him began to cry out dramatically, clutching at their various large and small wounds.
‘They were quiet just a moment ago—why suddenly…?’
When I looked at the Vice Captain with a questioning gaze, he answered somewhat sheepishly.
“Well… these fellows witnessed you heal the Captain instantly earlier, and they were quite moved by it.”
“Ah, I see.”
I wondered what was going on, but then I broke into a bright smile.
Despite their large, imposing frames and fierce, bear-like appearances, they were too shy to ask for treatment.
This was rather amusing.
I clapped my hands together and called out.
“Line up in a single file. Let’s finish this quickly.”
“Oh, yes!”
“We’re lining up!”
“Maintain order!”
Death to enemies, terror to heretics.
The Knights of the Evil God, whose infamy was second to none, began to gather in a single line before me like students arriving at a cafeteria…
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“Skills. Let me check the skills.”
After providing the hardworking Knights of the Evil God with appropriate compensation(?),
Ihyeon returned home and, as always, sat in a circle with the Spirits in his room.
In the center of their gathering lay the skill ticket he had just received.
This time, Elsie had also obtained quite a few exclusive skills thanks to the Dokkaebi flame’s soul, and after confirming Ihyeon’s new skill, they had all decided to head to the Makeshift Shooting Range together to test it out.
“Puhaha! With my Ackmashpayereh alone, Master has already gained ten thousand troops, so don’t worry and let’s go~”
“Yeah, but that name is way too hard to say. I’m just going to call it the Dokkaebi Flame Greatsword.”
“What?! You, you don’t have even a speck of aesthetic sense…!”
“Elsie.”
Armor Fox, don’t blame me just because it’s not your item!”
Elsie, who wanted to voice her complaint to Ihyeon, and Jia, who tried to stop her, bickered with their eyes.
Regardless of their squabbling, Ihyeon
—ripped—
“Huh! What if you just tear it without us?!”
casually picked up the ticket and tore it straight away.
“Anyway, building suspense doesn’t guarantee good results, and tearing it carelessly doesn’t guarantee bad ones either, so what’s the difference?”
“Still….”
“Okay, here we go.”
A roulette wheel packed densely with skills, visible only to Ihyeon’s eyes.
The roulette, making a whirring sound, eventually came to a stop at a certain section.
“….”
“Why, why are you like that? Is it bad?”
Even though enough time had passed for a skill to be selected, Ihyeon said nothing, so Elsie asked with a visibly tense expression.
Seeing how she never tired of asking again each time this happened, Elsie really did have a simple personality.
Ihyeon chuckled and spoke.
“No, it seems pretty decent?”
Truth be told, ever since the soul destruction, he felt little excitement seeing most skills, but there were almost no useless skills among those he possessed.
And hadn’t he used Dodangtoh quite effectively after that?
Ihyeon quietly examined the description window of the new skill that appeared before him.
「Secret Hideout Creation (A)
Creates a secret hideout at the location where the skill is cast.
The secret hideout’s interior is equipped with basic survival facilities and can detect nearby enemies.
The detection range is affected by distance, and the detection effect is affected by Precision.
The secret hideout’s concealment is greatly increased and applied.
You can designate a specific space as a secret hideout.
The size of the secret hideout and the level of internal facilities are affected by Stability.
Up to 3 secret hideouts can be created simultaneously, and if exceeded, existing hideouts must be deleted.」
‘It’s complicated, but is this really A-rank?’
Secret Hideout, also known as Bit.
Though it was A-rank from the start, it was truly a useful skill for a sniper.
Moreover, it even came with a detection effect, as if compensating for what had been lacking in this Dokkaebi battle.
I wouldn’t know how useful it would be without testing it, but even if finding the Dokkaebi’s clone proved impossible, the other effects alone were sufficient.
“You can designate a specific space as a secret base?”
But what puzzled Ihyeon was precisely this.
For instance, if I designated my apartment as my secret base?
Ihyeon decided to test it out while the thought was fresh, activating the skill.
Simultaneously, a virtual blueprint of his room and the surrounding structure unfolded before his eyes.
“Oho?”
My current stability stat was 70.
At this level, I could see that it was barely possible to set the entire apartment as the range.
Fortunately, the apartment I lived in wasn’t particularly spacious, so that worked out.
「Would you like to designate the set range as a secret base?」
“Yes.”
Ihyeon nodded, curious to see what a secret base actually was.
Simultaneously, strange waves rippled outward in concentric circles from the blueprint floating before his eyes.
Whooom—! Whooom—!
“Huh?”
“W-what’s happening, Master?”
“There’s a strange aura….”
The Spirits, who didn’t yet understand what was happening, startled and looked around, as did Ihyeon.
Not long after.
「Secret base configuration complete.
Would you like to set a name for the base?」
“Uh, our home?”
「Base List
1. Our Home」
My apartment had become a proper base with a name.
Yet outwardly, it didn’t seem to have changed much.
No, the structure itself was identical.
However.
‘…At this rate, I could live off this for the rest of my life even if war broke out.’
The contents inside had transformed completely.
Camouflage netting hung in bunches along the walls, and the bookshelves and shelves that once held books were now crammed full of canned goods and preserved rations.
「Automatic air purification system within base activated.
Self-generation system activated.
Sewage treatment facility activated.」
“Wow, wow….”
And that wasn’t all.
My apartment had essentially become a fully self-sufficient military fortress.
…Even actual military bases rarely possessed facilities of this caliber.
Moreover, there was some kind of map system window that appeared before my eyes.
The map of the surrounding area unfolded around the house’s layout I had observed earlier, and small white dots marked throughout suggested this was indeed that detection function.
‘I’ll need to use it more to fully understand, but this detection function is quite convenient as it is.’
The more I examined it, the more I appreciated this skill.
“Master, are you going to eat this?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh, it looks interesting?”
Elsie picked up a can from the shelf and examined it with curiosity.
Jia also seemed interested, her gaze fixed on the can.
I chuckled and opened the can, handing it to her.
Originally, it was emergency rations, but a can or two wouldn’t hurt.
「Supplies will be replenished after a certain amount of time.」
They’d be restocked later anyway.
‘This is easily worth an A-rank.’
By my personal standards, it wouldn’t even be wasteful to call it S-rank.
To think I could create three of these hideouts.
For some, it might be the ultimate fantasy.
I wasn’t quite at that level, but having such a reliable skill was definitely not a bad thing.
Meanwhile, Jia and Elsie sniffed the can I’d opened, then cautiously took a spoonful each.
“Ugh, it doesn’t taste very good.”
Naturally, Elsie’s palate, accustomed to ice cream and all manner of home-cooked meals, couldn’t appreciate it.
The seasoning was probably intensified for preservation purposes.
“You’ll understand later when there’s nothing to eat. In desperate times, people strip tree bark to survive.”
“Yeah~ I’m a spirit, so I don’t need to eat anyway~”
Right, that’s true.
I recalled my days in special forces training.
A hellish week-long training where they gave us nothing to eat, and we had to secretly scavenge for insects and edible plants in the forest.
The instant ramen and combat rations I received after that training tasted absolutely divine.
But as Elsie said, it would be difficult for a spirit like her to truly appreciate the value of such rations.
It was a shame, really.
“Jia, what about you?”
“I find it quite palatable.”
Jia, surprisingly, seemed to enjoy it and took another spoonful, while Elsie stared at her as if she were utterly bizarre.
“Yeah, that’s our Jia.”
I nodded with satisfaction.
Seeing my reaction, Elsie glanced between the can and me, testing the waters to see if she should try another spoonful, but ultimately sighed and shook her head, deciding it was too much to endure.
Meanwhile, I stepped outside the room and took a thorough look around the house.
“This might actually be quite nice.”
The interior theme had changed somewhat(?), but what did that matter?
All the appliances had electricity running through them normally, and the water pressure was even stronger than before.
According to the system’s guidance, all of this was the house’s self-sufficient infrastructure, meaning I was now free from electricity and water bills.
To Minjeong and Donghoo, who had lived their entire lives pinching every penny, even a home like this seemed more than satisfactory.
“Besides, Mother should be arriving soon for lunch. I should ask her about it.”
Ihyeon, pleased to have finally acquired a skill that could benefit the household, settled onto the sofa to wait for Minjeong.
Yet even after the usual time she should have arrived, Minjeong did not appear.
“Has Mother not yet arrived?”
“That’s strange. She’s a bit late today.”
Ihyeon and Jia exchanged puzzled glances at the clock.
Then Ihyeon’s phone rang.
The caller was none other than Minjeong.
Ihyeon answered immediately.
“Yes, Mother. Why haven’t you come home? Is something wrong?”
But from the speaker came a voice utterly unlike Minjeong’s—one trembling with panic.
– Oh, my son… Mother wants to come home, but… the house has disappeared…
“W-what?”
– I’ve been forgetting names and numbers lately, and Mother is wondering if perhaps…
Minjeong’s voice wavered, on the verge of tears.
Ihyeon suddenly understood why Minjeong couldn’t find the house.
‘The secret hideout applies based on my greatly increased Concealment stat!’
The house was currently in a state of being a secret hideout.
If Hunters and monsters couldn’t even locate Ihyeon, it would be far stranger if an ordinary person like Minjeong could find and enter such a hideout.
Ihyeon had just realized the most critical reason why he couldn’t maintain his home as a secret hideout.
‘The people actually living inside can’t get in…’

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