I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 273

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Episode 273
Ep. 273
[ One-Strike Foundation Officially Confirms Entry into By-Product Business! New CEO Jang Deokhun Appointed ]
[ CEO Jang Deokhun Revealed to be ‘One-Strike’s Man’ Bong Jang Seondal, Who Made Auction Houses Buzz! ]
[ Han Seongcheol, Director of One-Strike Foundation: One-Strike Spirit is Love for Society. Trimming the Fat from By-Product Industry. Pioneering Half-Price Markets! ]
[ CEO Jang Deokhun Revealed to be 23 Years Old… Shocking!
└ Reporter, there’s a typo in the headline and body.
└ This is the most surprising part though.
└ 23 years old? What on earth happened? ]
Deokhun’s strategy was to target the low-price market.
Since he was leveraging the One-Strike Foundation, a non-profit volunteer organization, it aligned perfectly with its original image.
It also matched the public’s almost unconditional goodwill toward anything bearing the One-Strike name.
[ One-Strike Goods Established Under One-Strike Foundation. CEO Jang Deokhun Manages Directly. ]
[ CEO Jang Deokhun: One-Strike Goods Will Remain Non-Profit Forever. Prices Drop as Much as Your Support. ]
[ CEO Jang Deokhun Was Originally a Special Hunter? Superior Trait ‘Merchant’ Revealed. The Secret Behind Insanely Low Prices! ]
In the process, Deokhun made a bold move by revealing his own trait.
He leveraged the image of being a Hunter optimized for by-product sales while securing the plausibility for prices differentiated from other profit-driven businesses.
However, some voiced concerns about the One-Strike Foundation’s somewhat aggressive business expansion.
While the One-Strike Foundation had grown through its volunteer corps, the truth was that it lacked sufficient preparation for full-scale business operations.
There were no corporate partnerships in place, and no channels to purchase and sell by-products.
But there was nothing to worry about.
[ Hanbangs Café, One-Strike Goods Board Opened! Sell Your By-Products Conveniently! ]
[ One-Strike Service Corps Branches Nationwide Operate One-Strike Goods Counters. Direct Delivery Service Also Available. ]
[ (Now Recruiting) One-Strike Goods is Recruiting Hanbang Men. Collect and deliver by-products—compensation provided per job.
└ Apparently you can donate the compensation as a contribution instead;
└ Wow, he connected it like this. CEO Jang Deokhun seemed questionable at first, but he’s a legend for real… ]
Online through Hanbangs Café, offline through the One-Strike Service Corps!
Since these were organizations people had joined of their own volition, the groundbreaking project of purchasing by-products from Hunters at higher prices and selling them at lower prices was nothing short of revolutionary.
[ Hanbang Men Surpass 50,000 Nationwide! One-Strike Goods, No Need to Wait Anymore ]
Less than a week after One-Strike Goods was properly launched, all preparations for running the business were essentially complete.
User reviews praising the distinctly differentiated prices compared to other businesses poured into Hanbangs Café like mushrooms after rain, and popularity soared naturally!
That impossible momentum spread like wildfire, so much so that even Ungdo couldn’t effectively counter it.
But Ungdo didn’t just sit back and take it.
Soon, multi-directional pressure began mounting against the One-Strike Foundation.
[ One-Strike Goods Shows Rapid Growth in Retail Sector… Guilds Say ‘We’ll See’ ]
[ Mass Exodus of One-Strike Foundation Volunteers: ‘Didn’t Know They’d Do Business Like This’ ]
[ Tower Industry Association Warns of One-Strike Goods Offensive: ‘Typical Market Disruption—Killing Competitors with Low-Price Assault Then Raising Prices. Absolutely Not a Sustainable Business Model’ ]
Guilds with close ties to Park Wungdo hesitated and couldn’t easily extend their hands to Deokhun.
Hunters influenced by those guilds also began withdrawing from the One-Strike Foundation.
Of course, the articles conveyed the news in a tone far more exaggerated than reality, making the intent to plant negative perceptions crystal clear.
Chairman Park Wungdo stepped forward and began openly criticizing the Foundation’s actions, which meant that One-Strike Commerce, which had been experiencing rapid growth in its early stages, had no choice but to stall for now.
To properly venture into the byproduct business, establishing trade relationships with the guilds was crucial, but that avenue had been blocked.
However, Deokhuun’s outlook remained optimistic.
It was merely a matter of time, he said.
[ Title: One-Strike Commerce was truly overreaching. ]
Author: Fair World
Content: Pushing discount byproducts and sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong. Who knows where that old-faced merchant crawled out from? I actually enjoyed watching the One-Strike Service Corps, but now I know they’re all the same trash, so I’m out.
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└ Hahaha aren’t you embarrassed with 1 view and 1 post?
└ Obviously they can’t post on the One-Strike Commerce board due to posting restrictions, so they’re writing on the general board lol so obvious
But that’s not wrong, is it? Even if they say it’s a low-price strategy or whatever now, they’re going to raise prices later anyway ㅠ
└ Yeah 10 views 1 comment~ ]
Suspicious(?) members had posted malicious comments on the Hunter café as well, but they didn’t seem to be gaining much sympathy.
Regardless of what people were saying, this was the first time One-Strike had taken action unrelated to the Tower or Gates.
[ One-Strike Commerce Launches, but One-Strike Remains Silent… What is he doing right now? ]
Interest in Ilgyeok himself was gradually increasing.
Expectations were also rising that he might come out and settle things once and for all.
So what was Ihyeon doing in such a situation?
“Alright, everyone ready?”
“Okay!”
“Of course, Master.”
I watched Elsie, brimming with confidence as she bumped her small fists together.
And I looked at Jia with reassurance as she nodded with her usual loyal expression.
“Beep beep beep. Victory probability is calculated at approximately 99.9999%.”
“What about the 0.0001%?”
“The probability that you suddenly need to use the restroom urgently and abandon the strategy, Master.”
“What kind of calculation is that… And a sniper has to handle all that stuff on the spot anyway.”
Of course, Blue was participating as well.
Finally, it was time to escape from this tedious Slime Mountain.
The outside world was buzzing with conflict between One-Strike Commerce and the Tower Association, but people had forgotten something.
‘Hunters speak through their clears.’
Though an unexpected war with Chairman Park Wungdo had begun, nothing would change.
I reached out my hand between my two Spirits and one Golem and shouted.
“Let’s go clear a floor for the first time in a while!”
Click— click—
Each of their hands stacked on top of mine one by one.
“Yes, sir!”
I intended to show people One-Strike’s resolve in my own way.
Along with the spectacular gift of clearing the 90th floor.
* * *
The Main Tower always provides hints from previous floors that the theme will change.
In this case, the shift from Lava Slime to Sand Slime was precisely such a hint.
According to Erubein, the 90s floors would proceed against a grassland backdrop, if not quite a desert.
「South Korea, will you enter Floor 90 of the Main Tower?」
This dark stone tower interior, likely the shared floor of the 80s, would probably be the last.
Though I had entered with momentum, Floor 90 was undoubtedly a Floor Master as well.
Ihyeon turned with a solemn expression to look at Jia, Elsie, and Blue standing behind me.
“Everyone ready?”
“Yes, Master.”
“I’m always fully prepared!”
“Chirp chirp chirp.”
“…That chirping sound, really.”
Likely, something far more formidable than that terrifying Dokkaebi from Floor 85 awaited me.
As Ihyeon nodded, the landscape before my eyes transformed in an instant.
A desert of scorching hot sand, blazing down with cruel ferocity.
The acrid stench of sand dust rising from every corner irritated my nostrils.
Ihyeon lowered his stance alongside his subordinates and spoke.
“…At least without the slimes, I feel like I might actually survive.”
“Agreed.”
The environment was as harsh as the lava region, unbearable for Hunters.
Ihyeon could rely on the Dark Robe’s aid regardless, and Spirits and Golems were far less sensitive than humans.
Simply having the grotesquely accumulated mountains of writhing slimes cleared from sight made the sense of happiness in clearing this floor feel several times higher.
“By the way, lowering our stance delays things slightly, but it’s not a major concern, right, Master?”
“Right. That’s what I heard.”
“Then by now….”
Elsie looked around with a somewhat tense expression.
Erubein had repeatedly warned about the Floor Master of Floor 90.
No matter how devastating One-Strike’s destructive power was, a single moment of carelessness could lead to grave consequences with this dangerous creature.
The ruler of Floor 90, which even Erubein had cleared with merely a B-grade rating.
Not long after, a subtle disturbance arose in the vast expanse of hot sand.
Whoosh— Whoosh—
It resembled the sound of wind sweeping across the sand.
But its danger was incomparable to mere wind.
“Master, danger!”
Elsie issued a warning cry toward Ihyeon.
Slash—
An attack similar to a thrust from an ultimate assassin tore through the empty air.
Ihyeon had already evaded using Snipe Point Conversion.
Only then did a monster come into view for all to see.
Six legs, a body segmented at each joint.
A pair of thick, developed pincers.
And finally, a tail that pierced straight down into the spot where I had just been sitting in a lowered position.
‘That’s an Assassin Scorpion.’
Its body color, perfectly camouflaged with the surrounding sand, remained difficult to discern clearly even after evading the attack.
At least at my level and the Spirits’ level, we could detect it by employing senses beyond mere sight.
Compared to any assassination-type monster I had encountered thus far, this ambush was on an entirely different level.
‘There was a reason Erubein warned me so carefully.’
Yet there was no way the Hero would be so concerned over merely this.
Crackle— Crackle— Crackle—
The Spirits and I looked around our surroundings.
Assassin Scorpions suddenly emerged from the slopes of the sand dunes encircling us and began to stretch their bodies.
Elsie laughed savagely.
“This is getting fun for the first time in a while, isn’t it?”
* * *
Before entering the Tower, I had shared something with my subordinates.
The faster we eliminate the Assassin Scorpions, the better!
They are not the Floor Master of the 90th floor.
They are merely well-trained guards of a Floor Master, nothing more.
Moreover, only by eliminating them will the true boss reveal itself.
“Jia.”
“Yes, Master.”
Jia had already moved to my side and assumed a defensive stance.
Though Blue joined in, the operation’s form remained largely the same.
Jia providing close defense of me, while Elsie and Blue eliminated the Assassins as quickly as possible.
The moment the Assassin Scorpions began their assault in earnest, the desert’s previous silence, broken only by hot winds, vanished without a trace.
An intense battle with minimal noise took its place.
Each attack capable of dealing a fatal blow to the other—literally a ‘one-strike combat’.
The Knights would certainly suffer in such unconventional warfare, so I hadn’t summoned them from the start.
Whoooosh——
Elsie summoned the Dokkaebi Fire early on.
Even with the stats gained from leveling up endlessly in the 80s floors, she instinctively sensed these opponents were formidable.
“Heh, Golem Fox! I’ll show you this time that I outrank you!”
“Beep beep beep. My calculations show Elsie’s combat ability is 39.28% superior to mine.”
“That blasted 39.28% again!”
Elsie wielded the Dokkaebi Fire in the form of a blade, as if unwilling to hear another word.
Slash— Whoooosh—!
An Assassin Scorpion that had been charging straight at Elsie’s back collided with the Dokkaebi Fire and was sent flying, engulfed in flames.
Body fluid spurted from its half-split carapace, only to evaporate immediately.
Such an attack was possible because the Dokkaebi Fire possessed both flame attribute damage and considerable physical force.
It’s unfortunate that I couldn’t sever it completely, but that also means the Assassin Scorpion’s defensive capabilities are far from negligible.
“One down!”
With that cry, Elsie spiraled through the air several times before intercepting the Assassin Scorpion directly.
This time, she cleanly bisected the scorpion, separating its tail from its body.
“That’s two!”
Elsie watched the Assassin Scorpion thrashing on the ground, its four pairs of legs flailing in death, and turned to Blue with a triumphant gaze.
Thwack—! Screech—! Thwack—! Screech—! Thwack—!
…There, Blue was already pummeling three Assassin Scorpions into submission with just three punches.

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