I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 224

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Episode 224
Ep. 224
“Phew, I’m so full. I can’t eat anymore.”
“Yeah, looks like it.”
“?”
“Oh, never mind….”
Because of that, the table laden with dishes emptied in an instant.
“This champagne is really wonderful. The timing is a bit late, but shall we make a toast?”
“Oh, sounds good!”
Glug, glug, glug—
The toast, which normally should have come at the beginning, had been pushed to the end of the meal.
Deokhuun filled everyone’s glasses with champagne.
“…What? Why do I get juice?”
“Oh, I apologize. It just seemed like the right thing to do….”
Elsie had orange juice, but she only grumbled briefly and didn’t seem particularly upset.
Ching—!
Crystal glasses clinked together, producing a clear, bright sound.
The refreshing carbonation flowed down my throat, washing away the greasy esophagus, while a sweet taste lingered subtly in my mouth for a long time.
As I was pleasantly savoring that aftertaste, Suyeon suddenly spoke to Ihyeon as if she’d just remembered something.
“I almost forgot. Congratulations on clearing the 85th floor!”
“You sent me a message about it before. Thanks anyway.”
“Still, the 85th floor!”
Certainly, the 85th floor deserved repeated congratulations.
Ihyeon and the Spirits still shuddered when they recalled facing the Dokkaebi.
Even after pouring out virtually all of my power, I’d barely managed to finish it.
And Ihyeon also had something he wanted to ask Suyeon about it.
“Suyeon, how did you defeat the Dokkaebi?”
“Huh? Me… Like I said before, I was just lucky.”
I could tell just from Suyeon’s expression.
She too must have experienced a fierce battle that could only be described as truly ‘lucky’.
Ihyeon nodded, expressing a sense of kinship.
“Right, since you use a bow too. It has eight clones, and hitting the real body among them is really just a matter of luck….”
“Huh? Eight? Clones?”
“…?”
Suyeon interrupted my words, her large eyes sparkling as she looked at me with a puzzled expression.
From her appearance, I felt an inexplicable unease, anxiety, and tension.
“Yeah. Phase 2 clones—there were eight of them, right?”
Gulp—
The Spirits also tensed up for no reason and swallowed hard along with Ihyeon.
Could it be…?
“Yeah. I had three of them?”
“….”
My anxiety had become reality.
‘Why does she have three?’
The question rose to the tip of my tongue, but I couldn’t bring myself to voice it to Suyeon, fearing it would be rude.
Meanwhile, Suyeon seemed to sense that something had gone wrong.
“Eight clones appeared? You said there were three, and the main body didn’t have ornate decorations?”
Cold sweat trickled down my temples.
Now that I thought about it, I seemed to recall hearing such an explanation before.
At the time, the situation had been so urgent that I hadn’t even thought, “Wait? Why did eight clones come out when you said there were three?”
“Ugh…!”
“Hey, Elsie, hold on!”
After hearing Suyeon’s words, Elsie could no longer contain herself and shot up from her seat.
Seeing what looked like a torrent of profanities about to pour from that small mouth, I hastily covered it.
“Mmmph—!! Mmmph mmmph!! Mmmph mmmph mmmph!!!!”
‘If I hadn’t covered her mouth, this would’ve been bad.’
Just from the vibrations I felt in my hand, I could somehow sense what she was trying to say.
Of course, the people here wouldn’t mind whatever Elsie said, but you never know.
“Mmmph! Mph! Mmmph!”
“There, there, Elsie, I understand how you feel.”
Poof—! Poof—!
“I can’t breathe, Master!”
“Oh, sorry.”
I didn’t know spirits could suffocate.
Elsie briefly retreated into my inventory to escape my hand, then was summoned again.
Still not entirely calmed down, she grumbled as she returned to her spot.
I spoke to Suyeon with a serious expression.
“We had eight of them. And the main body was indistinguishable from the clones. As for those ornate decorations you mentioned… now that I think about it, they all seemed to have them.”
“What? Then how did you even clear floor 85, Ihyeon? Even with the spirits’ help. The main body with decorations was much stronger than the clones….”
Exactly my point!
It wasn’t just the spirits—I summoned all the Knights of the Evil God as well.
I was thinking that if I had to climb the Tower feeling this wronged, I might as well.
Jia, who had been listening quietly, finally spoke.
“Master, do you remember the past encounters with the Avatar Troll Warrior and Pulisto?”
“…Sigh. Yeah. It’s probably the same principle as back then.”
I nodded in agreement.
In fact, there was no other way to explain it.
Unlike others, I had to hunt down three Avatar Trolls.
It was the same when I had to face the Mountain King Pulisto instead of an ordinary Lava Giant.
Right now, on floor 84, didn’t a Volcano Worm with “Giant” in its name appear?
It wasn’t difficult to understand if I assumed a similar penalty had been applied to this Dokkaebi as well.
Not every mid-boss or Floor Master received such a judgment.
For me, Ihyeon, who held a clear superiority in power compared to others, it was something to be grateful for.
‘Though it does become somewhat more dangerous, that’s true.’
Unlike the previous floors where I at least had information, from now on I would have to push forward through thick, murky fog with no sense of direction.
When clearing ordinary bosses was already difficult, it would be problematic if only I had to face these special creatures.
As I was thinking such thoughts.
Jia continued speaking with an expression even more grave than usual.
“This is something I haven’t been able to tell you until now, but at this level, I believe you should understand that you’ve already been identified by the Overlord.”
“Huh?”
“Damn it, that’s probably the case.”
Elsie, who had been listening, agreed with a frustrated expression.
The Overlord suddenly appearing?
“Now that you’ve cleared the 85th floor, I can tell you this. Honestly, given your abilities, it’s not strange at all.”
“You already have a vague sense of it, don’t you? That feeling of understanding?”
“Well….”
I fell silent for a moment, listening to the Spirits’ words.
Identified by the Overlord.
Was that really strange?
‘I’ve already met the Watchman anyway….’
Yet it was a peculiar sensation.
The Watchman, the Overlord—these were all things I’d only heard about in ghost stories.
Before I climbed the Tower, I couldn’t even imagine these beings were real.
And now, hearing such things, I wasn’t doubting them at all.
As if it had already been confirmed as fact.
Even if I had met the Watchman once before, wasn’t I accepting that encounter far too naturally?
‘But it is real.’
It was something like this.
“The Overlord… the Watchman?”
Suyeon murmured those words upon hearing them.
“You know about it too?”
“Well… I guess I do know. There was something like that before, wasn’t there? That whoever sees the end of the Tower will become the Watchman. Then what’s the Overlord?”
Two names that fit together as naturally as a pair.
I spoke.
“The Overlord is probably at the end of the Tower right now.”
“Ah, that might be it….”
Elsie nodded.
“Even without someone telling us like we do, any Hunter who reaches a certain level, a certain floor or higher, naturally comes to know certain information. Like something seen in a dream.”
“That’s exactly what it feels like, Elsie. Like something seen in a dream….”
“It’s possible because you’re a Hunter inside the Tower.”
“I see.”
Ihyeon finally understood.
It was a kind of suggestion, in a manner of speaking.
A suggestion that progresses the moment one awakens as a Hunter and enters the Tower.
So the higher one climbs in the Tower, the more power from the system one receives, the more information one obtains.
“A Watchman? An Overlord? I’m not sure what you mean. I’ve heard rumors about it, but…”
It made sense that Deokhuun, who hadn’t climbed the Tower as much, knew less.
The stories about the Watchman that had circulated like urban legends at first must have gone through this same process.
And now, having reached the 85th floor, I had learned that I had been marked by the Overlord.
“There were signs, but it seems a bit late. The Watchman probably tried to hide you, Master.”
“I think so too.”
“So going forward, I might have to break through special floors to climb, and that’s because the Overlord has marked me and is interfering?”
“It would be difficult to call it purely interference. The Tower’s principle is that appropriate achievements receive appropriate rewards. That cannot be changed, no matter who reaches the end of the Tower.”
“Hmm.”
In any case, it was certain that I was receiving special attention from the Overlord.
It was the kind of story that might make someone despair and give up.
Pfft—
I laughed.
“If they’re going to give me such special treatment, I have to climb even more.”
It was almost as if they were advertising me not to come up.
I had endured a year in the military, treated like any other place in the world, ostracized by everyone.
And how long had I been in the Tower?
Not even half a year yet.
Besides, if it was just the Overlord alone causing all this fuss, it only further stimulated my competitive spirit.
“Master.”
“Yeah, that’s exactly it! Master is the best!”
The Spirits were grinning from ear to ear hearing my words.
I turned my head toward Suyeon and asked.
I was well aware that the Dokkaebi I’d encountered was the Overlord’s special consideration.
So then.
“What did you get as a clear reward?”
“A clear reward?”
Appropriate achievements receive appropriate rewards.
I needed to check whether the Tower was properly upholding that principle.
Suyeon answered as if it were obvious.
“Twenty B-grade Magic Stones?”
“Ugh.”
“M-Master, even if you’re receiving special treatment, you should be patient, right?”
Hearing Suyeon’s words, I let out an exclamation of disappointment without realizing it.
Elsie seemed to share the sentiment, shaking her head and patting Suyeon’s shoulder sympathetically.
“Why, why are you like this? Why, sister?”
“It’s nothing, Suyeon. You’ve worked so hard.”
Wasn’t twenty B-grade magic stones a tremendous reward?
Suyeon genuinely believed that.
And truthfully, she was right!
They were the highest grade of magic stones humanity had ever discovered.
The approximate price was over 50 million won per stone, but honestly, they were so rare that their value was whatever people would pay for them.
For such precious items to suddenly appear in quantities of twenty was certainly remarkable.
However…
‘If I catch that Dokkaebi and get twenty B-grade magic stones, I should go on strike.’
To Ihyeon, who had climbed all this way monopolizing every special and extraordinary reward, it felt far too mundane.
Ihyeon’s brain, thoroughly soaked in what one might call reward dopamine!
At this rate, I’d have to beg that Overlord to please keep deploying all sorts of bizarre bosses in the future.
“???”
Suyeon still wore an expression of complete bewilderment, but neither Ihyeon nor the Spirits offered her any satisfying answers.
What if the world’s kindest Suyeon heard that Ihyeon had claimed an S-grade item and a random skill ticket—rewards that defied all logic—and declared a strike? What then?
It would truly be a grave threat to the entire Republic of Korea.
To change the subject, Ihyeon called out to Deokhuun.
“Deokhuun, did you apply any of the Branding Skills I left with you?”
“Ah, hyung. I was actually planning to give it to you anyway. Just give me a moment.”
Deokhuun grinned widely as if his turn had finally come, then rushed to a corner of the warehouse.
He returned carrying what looked like a small jewel case.
Among the items Ihyeon had entrusted to him, there was only one that would fit in such a case.
Tak—!
“A ring?”
As the case lid opened, a black ring emerged.
The Knights Guild Leader’s Ring of the Evil God.
“This is for Jia to wear.”
Ihyeon removed the ring from the case and checked its information.
「Ilgyeok’s Knights Guild Leader’s Ring of the Evil God (S)
An item obtained by a very special Hunter.
This is the ring of the Knights Guild Leader, a powerful subordinate of the Overlord.
Upon use, you can summon the Knights of the Evil God.
Strength and Stamina increase dramatically.
The number of summoned Knights is proportional to the user’s total stats.
You can use the exclusive skill, ‘Knights Guild Leader’s Command’.」
It was similar to the effects of the Branding Skills I had seen so far.
The existing increases to Strength and Stamina stats had grown even larger.
A new exclusive skill had been added.
When Ihyeon handed the ring to Jia, she rose from her seat, knelt formally on one knee, and accepted it respectfully.
“I am deeply grateful for your boundless grace, Master—a kindness that rivals the entire universe itself.”
“No, Jia, I exhausted all my mana to cast that Branding Skill.”
“Yes, and I am equally grateful to you, Deokhuun.”
“Haha, yes. Please use it well.”
Deokhuun truly was quick-witted.
In any case, now that I had obtained a strengthened item, there was something I needed to do.
Ihyeon rose from his seat and spoke.
“Suyeon, would you like to come see something?”
“Huh? See what?”
“There are some team members I haven’t introduced you to yet.”
Quite a few of them, actually.
“???”
Watching Suyeon tilt her head in confusion, Ihyeon opened the door leading into the makeshift shooting range.

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