I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 242

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Episode 242
Ep. 242
At first, Minjeong and Donghoo had stammered nervously, unsure how they could possibly speak casually to Shin Gung. But watching Suyeon interact so naturally with Ihyeon and the Spirit, they gradually began to do the same.
However, upon hearing Minjeong’s words, Suyeon’s mouth fell open in confusion.
‘W-what do you mean? Come live in the annex with my brother? A-are you saying it would be nice to live close since we’re on the same team? Or is there another meaning? Are you just saying it without thinking because you’re fond of me like a daughter? If it’s not that… then…!’
Boom—!
Her confusion was so profound that her face turned red to the point where it seemed she might collapse at any moment.
Normally, everyone would have simply accepted that the perpetually anxious Suyeon was overthinking again. But this time, even Ihyeon stepped in to scold Minjeong.
“Mom, how could Suyeon come live here? She has a house provided by the government too. And these days, if you say things like that carelessly, people misunderstand.”
“Oh, ah ha ha… You’re right, ma’am. I just… I just really liked the h-house so much…”
Only then did Suyeon, realizing she’d misunderstood again just as Ihyeon said, offer an awkward smile while fidgeting with her hands.
Then Minjeong tilted her head and spoke.
“It’s not a misunderstanding though?”
“?!”
Whoooosh——!!
“Oh no, Suyeon’s fainting! Honey, it’s because of you!”
Korea’s number one ranked Spirit, Shin Gung, stumbled backward with vertigo at Minjeong’s spicy joke that emerged after so long!
Ihyeon swiftly caught Suyeon’s back and clicked his tongue.
‘Tsk tsk, our mom is accomplishing what no monster has managed to do yet.’
Ihyeon, thinking this might escalate into something worse, suggested to Minjeong and Donghoo that they focus on organizing the remaining miscellaneous items.
“Why do you make jokes like that? Our son already has no friends, and now you’re trying to take away his one remaining female friend.”
‘Dad…! You’re right, but your son is listening to all of this!’
“No, I really wasn’t joking… She’s just so diligent and pretty…”
‘Mom…!’
In any case, his parents were normally so grateful and devoted, but moments like these showed they were no different from children.
Ihyeon had Suyeon sit in a dining chair for a moment and told her to rest well before heading outside.
Jia and Elsie were still outside anyway, and he wanted to check how much progress the Knights had made in this short time.
The Vice Captain, who had been waiting outside, approached Ihyeon.
“My lord, have you finished with matters inside?”
“Finished is a strong word… How are things progressing outside?”
“Ha ha ha! Just trust us! As you can see for yourself!”
The Vice Captain’s confidence had good reason behind it.
“We won’t even need three days at this rate?”
Already, about half of the visible land had been completely tilled.
The Knights’ enthusiasm seemed even greater than expected.
“A-Armor Fox! Is it really okay to make a young thing like me do such grueling work? I’m about to collapse!”
“I don’t think our age qualifies as a young child, Elsie.”
“Tch, tch, this stubborn Armor Fox.”
In one corner, Jia and Elsie were also helping with the work.
Elsie held the small farm tools Jia had made and scraped away at the earth, turning it over bit by bit.
While it couldn’t compare to the Knights’ refined techniques, it was still better than I’d expected.
“The weather will warm up soon. I’ll make sure to complete the planting preparations without delay.”
“No, I should ask my parents what crops they want to plant first….”
“Yes? I’ve already prepared all the seeds.”
How?
I turned to look at the Vice Captain with a dubious expression.
The Vice Captain silently smiled and pointed quite far into the distance.
There stood a simple warehouse — though I couldn’t even begin to guess how it had been constructed.
It had no walls, just pillars and a roof to keep out the rain, but the problem was that it was already completely filled with dark sacks stacked inside.
“…What is all that?”
“Ha! These are the crops we primarily cultivate. They grow sturdy without worry of pests or diseases, and the yields are excellent.”
In other words, to put it more simply, these weren’t crops from Earth — they were from another world.
‘Is it even okay to grow things like that?’
I thought with a deeply suspicious expression.
Just thinking about it immediately, there would be the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs permits, quarantine issues, and more.
Even if those institutional problems could be smoothly resolved with Deokhuun’s and the administrative office’s help, that wouldn’t be the end of it.
After all, isn’t there a common trope in movies about fighting aliens?
Disasters nearly occurring because of bacteria and microorganisms never encountered before….
However, the Vice Captain struck his chest confidently, as if telling me not to worry at all.
“We’ve tested cultivation in several places over time, and there have been no problems whatsoever. Since these were harvested from Inside the Tower in the first place, you yourself haven’t experienced any issues, have you, my lord?”
“Well, that’s true.”
I nodded at his quite plausible argument and reasoning.
When I thought about it, the Tower itself was a structure with numerous other worlds layered upon it.
Hunters had been coming and going from such a Tower for 20 years, yet there haven’t been any problems.
In fact, the Arc Reindeer horns I’d hunted from the 30s floors back then were being treated as a new type of deer antler that revolutionized the herbal medicine paradigm.
Still, just to be safe, I should request verification, but it didn’t seem like it would become a major issue.
“From the perspective of someone skilled in farming.”
“…Isn’t that something you shouldn’t be skilled at?”
“Yes, of course I’m also a skilled Goblin Warrior. In any case, with a climate like this, even triple cropping seems possible.”
Just hearing it, there was nothing to worry about.
Before I knew it, I’d been nodding along to the Vice Captain’s explanation and now tried to resolve my greatest question.
“But Vice Captain.”
“Yes, my lord.”
“You’re Undead, so why are you so good at farming?”
“That’s….”
The Vice Captain’s expression grew somber at my question.
Was there some untold circumstance?
Perhaps an Overlord or evil deity had forced him into labor….
But the Vice Captain quickly shook off his gloom and answered cheerfully, as if to say there was nothing he couldn’t speak of now.
“Of course, as you say, my lord, we’re now in a state where we can’t even eat, so there’s no need for us to farm like this.”
“Hmm…”
“The thing is, our Knights during my lifetime operated under a military farm system. Because of that, I developed an even stronger passion for agriculture.”
“Ah.”
I nodded with understanding and sympathy at last.
Good heavens, even the Knights had to farm under such a system!
Of course, there were plenty of historical precedents for this on Earth, but as someone who had been a soldier in South Korea, I couldn’t help but feel a certain poignancy and regret.
And what of this heartbreaking tale—that only after losing their lives did they come to understand the preciousness of life itself?
Pat, pat—
I tapped the Vice Captain’s shoulder encouragingly and sent him a silent look of understanding.
A wordless exchange of eyes where hearts speak to hearts!
Zing—
“I shall dedicate myself to your service, my lord!”
Moved by my sincere encouragement, the Vice Captain knelt on one knee and pledged his loyalty once more.
“Right, I’ll discuss the crop issue with Deokhuun, so for now…”
I looked around at the area that had already transformed into a state ready for immediate farming.
“Pursue your dreams freely.”
“Khhhhhhh!!!”
“Ugh, why are my eyes getting wet?”
“Let’s spread this beautiful story to the entire platoon!”
The Vice Captain, shedding blue tears, and the Knights who heard him and were moved alongside him, began running off in all directions.
‘…But their dream is really farming? Doesn’t that seem a bit odd?’
After hearing their story, I’d encouraged them out of pity, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that things had gotten reversed somehow.
In any case, I returned inside the house and confirmed that Suyeon had regained her spirits, then called my parents and Deokhuun.
“So basically, the Knights want to cultivate those kinds of seeds.”
“So you mean, not carrots or onions, but things we brought from the Tower?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm…”
Minjeong and Donghoo fell into contemplation after hearing my explanation.
Of course, the two of them had planned to have a small vegetable garden in the space in front of the house, so they probably had no intention of interfering too deeply.
Deokhuun nodded as if he understood their concerns.
“There are certainly various licensing and regulatory issues involved. I’ve never even heard of something like this before. Still, I’ll do my best to handle everything smoothly without any problems.”
“My, Deokhuun, you can do things like that?”
“Haha! Well, I’m Jang Deokhuun, twenty-three years old this year!”
‘…What does that have to do with anything?’
“Well, that is impressive!”
“Haha!”
“Hahaha!”
I didn’t quite understand, but well, if everyone’s happy.
Watching Deokhuun, Minjeong, and Donghoo laugh heartily, I quietly called out to Suyeon.
“Yeah, oppa.”
“Now that the move is done, I should head back into the Tower soon.”
“Ah, sounds good!”
“Start preparing.”
“Preparing for what…?”
Suyeon’s eyes sparkled with a mysterious sense of anticipation as she gazed at me.
I nodded, meeting her expectations.
“Let’s go for Floor 87.”
It was a bit sooner than expected, but I’d leveled up considerably.
There seemed to be no reason to delay challenging Floor 87.
Suyeon nodded with a bright smile.
“Yes! I’ll tell Manager Baek!”
Minjeong, who had stopped laughing and was watching me and Suyeon, asked with a subtle smile.
“Suyeon, don’t you really want to move here?”
“Ah, I don’t want to! Not yet!”
“Is that so?”
“Mom.”
“Alright, alright. I won’t say anything more. But you have to visit often, okay? I’ll make you lots of delicious food.”
“Yes, yes, if it’s just visiting….”
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In response to my and Suyeon’s proposal to challenge Floor 87, Seongnyun made a counter-proposal.
Since things had come to this, why not complete fifty days and then challenge it?
With the move taking up time, there wasn’t much left anyway, and since I would gain a new skill with just one more level, I readily accepted the proposal.
– Yes, and while I don’t assess the possibility as particularly high… I hope you won’t be too surprised if you meet an unexpected person inside the Tower. Based on what we’ve determined so far, there appears to be no cause for concern regarding safety.
– Who are you referring to?
– As I mentioned before, it’s classified information for us as well.
Who could it possibly be to warrant such a fuss?
‘No, how could the management agency overlook someone who’s climbed to the 80s? Is it one of the retired Superhumans?’
It seemed to be someone more significant than I’d anticipated, but since there was no cause for concern regarding safety, I didn’t worry too much.
From my experience, it was like something out of a novel for someone to pick a fight in a public floor where combat was impossible.
In any case, I’d finished discussing the strategy for Floor 87.
Suyeon and I resumed clearing Floor 86.
“Just up to exactly level 45. Exactly.”
“Yes, exactly level 45.”
Combining it with the explosive skill made clearing even easier.
Boom——!!!
With such terrifying explosive power, it demonstrated force comparable to an Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle when striking the Lava Slimes.
Boom—!! Boom—! Boom—!
Above all, it excelled at dealing with the mountain-like pile of Lava Slimes.
“Ugh! My lord, we’ll get caught up in it too!”
“Don’t exaggerate. It won’t touch you at all.”
The Knights leading the charge and hunting the Lava Slime were feeling threatened to such a degree.
Of course, thanks to the multi-functional scope’s effect, I was calculating the explosion radius of the high-explosive rounds precisely and firing accordingly, so there was no risk of problems occurring.
By the time I had conducted three such assaults.
「Item, ‘Choi Ihyeon’s Sniper Rifle’ leveled up.
Please check your status window.」
Along with achieving level 45, my target.
「Item, ‘Choi Ihyeon’s Sniper Rifle’ reached level 45.
Please select a skill.」
The skill selection options appeared without fail.

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