I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 244

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Episode 244
Ep. 244
I wondered what he could possibly mean right before a dungeon conquest, only to discover he was seriously suggesting we raise cattle.
This was truly a complete reversal of roles.
‘Sigh… just bear with it, bear with it.’
But thinking about it, there was no real reason to be angry.
The Vice Captain was simply doing his job diligently in his own way, wasn’t he?
After all, I’d entrusted him with managing this place and protecting my parents while I was away.
“Cattle? What would we even do with raising cattle?”
Meanwhile, Elsie, who knew nothing of this, asked with her eyes wide open.
As Ihyeon glanced down at her, a sudden thought flashed through his mind.
“We could get milk from them, apparently?”
“Yes! According to my research, dairy cattle on Earth produce approximately 10 tons of milk per year, but our cattle easily produce double that!”
I had no idea how he’d even conducted such research.
The information was suspiciously comprehensive, but hearing it, it didn’t sound entirely unreasonable.
…As long as we could get approval from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, that is.
‘I never thought I’d be more worried about the Ministry of Agriculture than the Ministry of Defense.’
Ihyeon let out a small sigh and nodded.
“Don’t overdo it. We won’t consume that much milk at home anyway… I think just enough to make ice cream for Jia and Elsie would be fine.”
“?!?!?!?!?!!!”
The Spirits’ reaction to Ihyeon’s words was worth seeing.
Their eyes went wide, their hair fluttered, and their bodies bounced off the ground.
“Is… is that truly the case, Master?”
“You can make ice cream from milk?!??!”
“Yeah. Ice cream’s cream is made from milk in the first place.”
“Start raising them right now!”
“I shall assist as well.”
The Spirits, who had been lukewarm just moments ago, instantly became enthusiastic supporters.
Having anticipated roughly this reaction, Ihyeon chuckled softly.
“I’m telling you again—don’t overdo it. Just enough for what we need.”
“Yes, my Lord! Your generosity knows no bounds!”
“Generosity, my foot.”
It was land we wouldn’t have been able to use at all without the Knights.
My family gets to put idle land to use, and the Knights achieve their lifelong wish(?).
Since it was mutually beneficial, I figured there was no harm in letting them use it freely as long as it didn’t cause problems.
“Come on, you two. Let’s head inside. If we’re conquering the 87th Floor tomorrow, we need proper rest today.”
“? But you do fine without rest, don’t you?”
“No cattle if you don’t rest.”
“Caaaaaattle! Yes!”
“…What was that supposed to be?”
“Sorry, you don’t know?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
* * *
The next day, a solemn atmosphere hung over Ihyeon, Suyeon, Jia, Elsie, and the Vice Captain as they gathered early at Deokhun’s Warehouse to enter the 87th Floor.
Was it to establish a strategy in preparation for conquering a new floor?
Of course, that was part of it.
“…The 87th Floor is also Lava Slimes, apparently.”
“Nooooooo!!!”
“Elsie, you’ve been using English a lot lately, haven’t you?”
“Hehe, studying English is fun. You know that chant? The green alien sings it.”
‘When on earth did she see a textbook? …And weren’t Spirits supposed to have automatic translation anyway?’
I was certainly worried about Elsie, who was transforming like a ghost of the internet, but regardless.
My anxiety about potentially facing Lava Slimes on the 87th Floor became reality.
While Ihyeon and Suyeon formed a team to repeatedly conquer the 86th Floor, Hwi-yeong was attempting the 87th Floor in advance, and that’s where this information came from.
Sure enough, the condition for failure—when the space fills up due to their relentless proliferation—was identical.
“Looking at it that way, finding the Origin Lava Slime seems to be the key this time too.”
Hwi-yeong lacked the skills to uncover such hidden mechanics and hadn’t achieved clear results, but things were different with Ihyeon and Suyeon.
「Ilgyeok: Will Hunter Hwi-yeong also participate in conquering the 87th Floor?
Hwi-yeong: No. I am currently testing my martial prowess on my own.
Ilgyeok: …Ah, yes. That is admirable.
Hwi-yeong: Mm.」
Even after sharing information, I made a proposal to conquer the 87th Floor together, but he rejected it outright.
It seemed his competitive spirit had been ignited by the endlessly spawning Lava Slimes.
…But as Ihyeon, I didn’t quite understand it.
By the way, he had even typed the Chinese character in parentheses directly.
In any case, Hwi-yeong said he would enter earlier than Ihyeon today and attempt to conquer the 87th Floor.
“The strategy is the same as before. While I’m holed up in the hideout, Suyeon handles the wide-area attack. Then we find the Origin and achieve S+. Familiar flow, right?”
“Too familiar, that’s the problem….”
“Leave it to me, Master.”
“Let’s make sure we succeed today too!”
My briefing.
Elsie’s response, slumping over the table with a groan, contrasted with Jia nodding energetically and Suyeon’s reaction.
That said, we couldn’t postpone the scheduled plan.
If Elsie was tired of Lava Slimes, she agreed it was better to strike as quickly as possible and escape this place.
“By the way, where did Deokhun go?”
“He’s been busy moving the warehouse lately. He’s probably sorting through things and went to see a real estate agent by now.”
“I see….”
Without Deokhun’s send-off, entering the Public Floor felt a bit empty.
Ihyeon checked the dimly lit space as usual and headed straight for the stairs.
‘Hwi-yeong is probably attempting the conquest right now… but he probably won’t achieve much.’
Korea’s 80th Floor range had so few people that it was eerily silent.
“Vice Captain, have your subordinates summoned after we enter.”
“Understood, Master.”
Though I knew nothing would go wrong, entering a new floor always demanded considerable tension.
Thud—
“Let’s go.”
Still, Ihyeon didn’t hesitate and took the lead, opening the path to the 87th Floor.
* * *
The landscape of the 87th Floor was as expected.
A space that seemed even wider than the 86th Floor.
And certainly a greater mountain of Lava Slimes.
“Deploy!”
At Ihyeon’s command, the Knights of three platoons deployed.
They were tasked with surrounding the Slime mountain to prevent the Lava Slimes from proliferating excessively.
It was Ihyeon’s optimized strategy refined through countless repeated clears.
Simultaneously, Ihyeon created a hideout.
“Suyeon, I’m counting on you.”
“Leave it to me!”
Suyeon also prepared for a wide-area attack.
She nocked three arrows and channeled tremendous power into the bowstring.
The two of them worked remarkably well together.
If Suyeon didn’t scrape the wall, the Origin Lava Slime’s location wouldn’t be revealed, and she couldn’t find it on her own either.
“Archer squad leader’s arrows incoming!”
“Everyone, brace yourselves!”
The Knights, already knowing how powerful Suyeon’s arrows were as an area-of-effect skill, prepared not only for the Slimes in front but also for the storm that would sweep from behind.
Boom—!!
Soon after, three prepared storms swept through the cavern.
Ihyeon focused on the monitors inside the hideout.
The difference between the 87th and 86th Floors was, naturally, not just the size of the cavern and the number of Slimes.
‘Two Origins. This is well within my expectations.’
I already knew of the Origin Lava Slimes hidden within the walls.
With a higher floor, it was natural to predict their numbers would increase.
Ihyeon burned the locations of the Lava Slimes into his mind before exiting the hideout.
“Found their positions.”
“Really?”
“Two as expected. I’ll handle them.”
Before the combination of Ihyeon and Suyeon, how many people in the entire world knew the secret of Origin Lava Slimes?
It seemed like no one, but the world was vast and strong Hunters were numerous, so perhaps a few had already seen through it.
But there was one thing Ihyeon could be certain of.
‘Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle, multi-target.’
Even if someone had learned that secret before Ihyeon.
Click—! Click—!!
‘Breath held. And….’
Trigger pulled.
Boom——!!
Crash—! Crash—!
That Hunter could never have eliminated two Origin Lava Slimes simultaneously the way I could.
With multi-target precision aimed at two exact points, I pulled the trigger as lightly as always.
Aim heavy, trigger light.
Pulling the trigger meant nothing less than absolute certainty of a perfect hit.
Once my resolve was set, there was no reason for the execution to be anything but smooth.
Just as my path had always been.
Two heavy mana rounds raked across the slimes’ forms and lodged themselves in the wall.
The result was simple.
Two streams of lava cascading down from the wall.
The remnants of the Origin Lava Slimes torn apart by my Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle.
「2 Origin Lava Slimes eliminated.
Lava Slime reproduction rate significantly reduced.」
Naturally, the Lava Slimes’ reproduction rate plummeted sharply.
“Uwaaa!!”
“Hold! The Master shall handle this personally.”
“Ah, this was our first attempt anyway.”
The Knights, whose excitement had just peaked, received the Vice Captain’s command and calmed themselves, maintaining their position.
Eliminating the remaining slimes for an S+ rank clear was my responsibility as well.
Just as I was about to use ricochet rounds to deal with the slimes like last time.
‘Wait… can ricochet and explosive rounds be mixed?’
A thought suddenly crossed my mind.
A mixture of ricochet and explosive rounds.
Come to think of it, skills could be stacked on top of each other.
Distorted sniper range, pace control, multi-target, ricochet, and so on.
Without going far, Suyeon herself stacks multiple skills at once all the time.
Considering that, mixing ricochet and explosive rounds should be possible too.
There was no harm in trying.
The number of slimes on the 87th Floor was quite substantial to handle with ricochet alone.
‘While I’m at it, let me try multi-target as well.’
I switched my Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle back to standard bolt-action mode.
This mode felt most natural in my hands, and the Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle became less efficient as targets grew smaller.
Click— Click—!
After completing the conversion, I worked the bolt to chamber a round and simultaneously channeled three skills.
Using three skills at once was a first, and a notification window appeared before my eyes.
“Simultaneous casting of three skills is restricted.
The effectiveness of each skill is reduced.
Mana consumption for each skill is applied through multiplicative calculation.”
‘So it’s possible, but I won’t be able to use it at full power.’
Ihyeon’s brow furrowed slightly at the considerable penalty.
The multiplicative mana consumption was already the case, but how much each skill’s effectiveness would decrease was entirely at the system’s discretion.
However, Ihyeon suspected that if each skill performed properly, the power output would be excessive relative to the mana consumed.
“Brother, is something wrong?”
When Ihyeon paused unusually, Suyeon asked.
Ihyeon answered her question with a question of his own.
“Suyeon, do you get a penalty when you use multiple skills at once?”
“A penalty? I’ve never heard of anything like that.”
‘There it is—I’m being singled out again!’
Ihyeon deepened the furrow between his brows as he looked at Suyeon’s innocent eyes, as if she were hearing about this for the first time.
…Others would probably say that wasn’t discrimination but rather special treatment, but unfortunately, he couldn’t bring himself to say it.
‘Even with considerable reduction, clearing should be within safe margins. If only I’m subject to these restrictions, there must be a reason for it.’
Separate from the penalty that seemed to apply only to him, his confidence remained unwavering.
Multi-target, ricochet, and explosive rounds combined.
The power of that combination would surely be.
BOOOOOM———!!!!
“??????”
Beyond imagination.

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