I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 279

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Episode 279
Ep. 279
In any case, Ihyeon now spoke to Deokhuun with a serious expression.
“So now… you’re saying we can actually compete with Topsanryeon in terms of volume?”
“Exactly right, sir.”
Deokhuun nodded deeply, as if to say that was indeed Ihyeon for you.
That was precisely why the Wholesale Merchant skill felt so welcome in this situation.
Handling the inventory received from frontline Hunters or the newly contracted guilds wasn’t a difficult task.
Even without the Wholesale Merchant skill, I could simply pass it on to auction houses or other businesses.
However, the greatest weakness that One-Strike Commerce currently had compared to Topsanryeon was ultimately ‘scale’.
If I could fulfill that scale through the Wholesale Merchant skill, Deokhuun would gain one major weapon to use against Ungdo.
“Moreover, don’t we have the most decisive advantage?”
“What’s that?”
“Price competitiveness.”
Usually, when a new business drops prices like a bomb into the market, it gets criticized as a chicken game.
But One-Strike Commerce was never a profit-driven enterprise to begin with.
The lower the prices we sold at, the more we’d hear cheers for price stability rather than criticism.
“Plus, we have the slogan of coexistence with local regions. At this point…”
“That’s a free pass, a free pass.”
“Yes, these days people speak like Elsie does.”
“Isn’t that a pretty outdated slang term?”
Ihyeon tilted his head with an uncertain expression.
Since he wasn’t the type to spend much time online, it wasn’t really his place to comment.
“Anyway, as the saying goes, you should row when the water comes in. I have a favor to ask of you, hyung.”
“Yeah, what is it?”
Ihyeon had already made up his mind to support whatever Deokhuun wanted to do wholeheartedly.
After all, what he was trying to do didn’t deviate much from Ihyeon’s own thinking.
There were many businesses under Topsanryeon, but in reality, Topsanryeon currently had a monopoly on the byproduct market.
If one catfish like this entered the market, there would certainly be some chaos, but there would be an even greater positive cycle.
Deokhuun whispered his secret plan into Ihyeon’s ear.
“Huh? You’re going to do something like that?”
Ihyeon stared at Deokhuun with a bewildered expression.
Would something like that actually be popular?
That evening.
A post appeared on the Hanbangs Café under the name of One-Strike Commerce that was shocking enough to turn the entire café upside down.
[Title: (Event) You can actually meet the One-Strike Knight Order in person?!
Author: Bong Jangseondal
Content: Thanks to your enthusiastic support, One-Strike Commerce has specially prepared an event!
Remember the One-Strike Black Knight Order that became the talk of the town during the Centaur Gate incident?
I, Bong Jangseondal, have obtained permission from Master Ihyeon to arrange this. For one week starting tomorrow, if you buy or sell items through the One-Strike Commerce bulletin board on Hanbangs Café, you’ll be entered into a drawing where 300 lucky winners will have the One-Strike Knight Order come directly to you as delivery personnel!
#One-Strike#Knight Order#Undead Warning#One-Hit Man#Event ]
The prospect of meeting the One-Strike Knight Order in person sent the community into an absolute frenzy.
[└ Is this real??????
└ Yes! Now THIS is an event!
└ Will Jia participate too? So excited;;
└ No way lol
Ah, so that’s why I was hoarding all those byproducts lol
└ Let’s go raid the 40s floors for loot~~~
└ From today on, any attack on One-Strike’s goods is an attack on me… ]
The response had reached explosive levels.
Less than an hour after midnight on the application deadline mentioned in the notice, the event’s massive portal server was buckling under the strain!
People who hadn’t yet heard the news were genuinely wondering if a war had broken out somewhere.
‘…Does an event like this really work?’
Even Ihyeon, who had been skeptical of Deokhuun’s proposal, felt quite bewildered seeing this response.
The One-Strike Knight Order spotted during the last gate had already been confirmed to be Undead.
So people were going this crazy just to meet Undead?
‘The One-Strike Knight Order doesn’t even drop loot.’
Ihyeon was even harboring such doubts.
In any case, since Deokhuun had spoken so confidently that the event would definitely succeed, I had agreed to provide about thirty people, but I could have easily expanded the scale further.
‘Wait, what if I tried it this way…?’
* * *
Cheoljun’s mouth had gone completely dry.
‘Will they come? Won’t they?’
300 people selected, One-Strike goods event.
If chosen, the One-Strike Knight Order would visit in person.
Cheoljun had barely managed to submit an application with just one troll hide he’d obtained from the main tower.
With the massive portal server exploding like it was under bombardment, breaking through that chaos to submit was truly an achievement.
Except for the fact that this achievement had a competition ratio of 1,000 to 1.
Considering the already minuscule number of Hunters, it was safe to say virtually everyone who could participate had applied.
‘Man, I wasn’t even this nervous during my guild’s final interview.’
In any case, I had been waiting endlessly at the location where the goods man had promised to visit.
“Shouldn’t it be about time now?”
Cheoljun tilted his head.
One-Strike goods—or the so-called One-Hit Man—was famous for keeping time appointments precisely.
Since it was a system that automatically matched nearby volunteers anyway, it was harder for it not to be kept.
Yet even after three minutes had passed, no suitable person appeared nearby.
However.
Whoosh— Boom—!
“Ugh XX! What, what is this?!”
The moment Cheoljun wondered, two large black shapes crashed down behind him with a thunderous sound.
Cheoljun staggered backward in shock, even mixing in curses he rarely used.
Though this was reality and not the Tower, Cheoljun was still a Hunter skilled enough to take down Trolls.
With superhuman reaction speed, dynamic vision, and senses beyond human limits, he could calmly evade a vehicle suddenly charging at high speed around a corner.
Yet he hadn’t noticed two people falling right behind him?
The reason was quite simple.
Either a Hunter with superior skills to his own, or a Gate suddenly opening with a monster bursting out.
Either way, it was the worst possible situation for a Hunter.
Cheoljun’s entire body went rigid with dread, cold sweat pouring down his face.
Only then could he properly make out the two figures that had landed before him.
Two Mysterious Assailants clad in black armor.
Their unnaturally pale faces bore a pair of blue eyes that blazed like flames.
“Huh?”
Cheoljun let out a bewildered sound without thinking.
He’d never seen them in person, but that appearance was somehow….
“The One-Strike Knight Order?”
They were identical to the One-Strike Knight Order he’d seen in photographs.
Clang— Clang—
The two Knights, who had been kneeling on one knee to absorb the impact, rose to their feet.
The oppressive aura and momentum they exuded was extraordinary.
‘These… these are just summoned creatures…!’
It was now almost certain that the One-Strike Knight Order were the elite summoned creatures of someone presumed to be a Dark Mage named Ilgyeok.
But no matter how skilled a Dark Mage might be, there were limits to the caliber of summoned creatures.
America’s top-ranked Dark Mage, ID ‘TheDeadMan’, could supposedly summon Death Knights, but only three of them.
And even those were said to be somewhat inferior to actual Death Knights that appeared as monsters.
Yet the two Knights standing before Cheoljun now were overwhelming by comparison.
Thud— Thud— Thud——
With each step the Members took toward him, it felt as though blood rather than saliva was draining from Cheoljun’s body in handfuls.
“The… the Troll hide I was trying to sell is here…”
To any observer, it would look like Cheoljun was being extorted rather than making a transaction!
Cheoljun wasn’t small himself, but the Knights were giants a full head taller than him.
Cheoljun respectfully extended the Troll hide with both hands as he spoke.
If he’d known it would come to this, he never would have gone through all that trouble to post the request on the One-Strike Cafe!
Cheoljun felt self-loathing and despair wash over him as he wondered why he’d posted that request after breaking through all that chaos.
Rattle-rattle-rattle—— Chatter-chatter-chatter——
His limbs trembled, his teeth chattering uncontrollably in this moment of absolute crisis.
Clang—!
“Huh?”
Cheoljun tilted his head in confusion as one of the Knights suddenly knelt on one knee right in front of him again.
Why was this terrifying summoned creature doing this all of a sudden?
But an even more shocking event was unfolding with the other Knight.
“Now, let me take a commemorative photo for you~ If you have a phone or camera, please hand them over!”
“????”
“Inma! Watch your language! ‘Hand them over’? Are you trying to extort money?”
“Ah, my apologies… It’s become a habit. Would you be willing to provide them?”
“Ah, yes, yes….”
The moment he opened his mouth, the atmosphere shifted dramatically, and Cheoljun, bewildered, retrieved the phone he’d kept in his pocket and handed it over.
One of the Knights assumed a posture as if receiving troll hide as a reward.
“Now, let’s take it. A more solemn expression, please~ And wipe away that sweat. It’s not even that hot. Yes, yes, that’s good. Now we’re really taking it. One, two, three, cheese~”
Click— Click— Click— Click—!
The other Knight, standing several paces away, enthusiastically began capturing the commemorative photos.
‘Wait, aren’t these people Undead?’
Even as Cheoljun unconsciously struck the poses the Knights instructed, he remained uncertain.
At this level, they could easily pass for costumed performers.
The summoned creatures of the renowned Dark Mages that appeared online typically just wandered around groaning, “Uuuughhhh….”
So what exactly was this One-Strike Knight Order that communicated so normally like actual people and even skillfully operated smartphones?!
Of course, there was a hidden reason for this.
– Now, pay attention.
– Squad Leader, your attention please!
– A smartphone, you see, has icons like this one here, and when you tap it, the camera opens.
– Ooh! Fascinating!
– And when you press this white button here, it takes a photo.
– Wow! That’s incredible, Squad Leader!
– Now, this is the advanced course. You need to learn composition, ISO, exposure time, and the differences in camera apps depending on each phone model and manufacturer. Remember it all well.
– ?????
It was thanks to the rigorous training provided by Elsie, the Knight squad’s swordmaster and digital IT specialist!
As a result, the output was.
“Well, the commemorative photos are all done!”
“G-good heavens, you took these with just a smartphone?”
“Yes, if you’d like, I could even reenact a knighting ceremony for you.”
“????”
It was practically professional photographer quality.
Originally, I had planned to support one Knight per ten event winners, for a total of thirty Knights.
But seeing the massive aftermath of the event, Ihyeon specially allocated an additional squad and organized them into pairs of two.
Since it was an event anyway, wouldn’t it be better to take proper photos that would be remembered for a long time?
[ (Verification) One-Strike Commerce Event Verification.
(Photo)
I honestly had no idea I would win ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
The One-Strike Knights were really scary at first, but they were genuinely fun and nice. But do Undead normally touch smartphones like this?
└ Wow, this is seriously amazing;;;
└ The Knights are really cool!
└ Undead operating a cell phone?
└ Just shout it out, Ilgyeok!
└ Ilgyeok! ]
“I’m glad everyone’s enjoying this.”
Ihyeon smiled contentedly as he watched the One-Strike Knight Order authentication posts flooding into the Hankak Cafe.
Those who knew anything about Undead were shocked by the Knight Order’s impossible intelligence, but that too was something Ihyeon had anticipated.
‘Right now, I need to demonstrate my power in any way I can.’
Park Wungdo was still applying multidirectional pressure on One-Strike Commerce and Deokhuun.
Ihyeon intended to make it clear to not just Ungdo, but to everyone, that he stood firmly as their backing.
Besides, even if he demonstrated his power, the One-Strike Knight Order was merely an infinitesimal fraction of what Ihyeon possessed.
That level of exposure posed no real burden to him.
“I’m delighted that my subordinates are being welcomed by the people, Master.”
“Yeah, thanks for lending me the kids, Jia.”
“You’re too kind.”
“Going forward, we could expose the One-Strike Knight Order a bit more, right? They don’t seem to be causing any real problems.”
Ihyeon’s mind naturally began sketching out various events utilizing the Knight Order.
Villain subjugation with the One-Strike Service Corps and One-Strike Knight Order.
One-Strike Knight Order photo zones.
One-Strike Knight Order volunteer work, and so on.
‘I actually enjoy this kind of thing.’
Surprisingly, Ihyeon himself found considerable interest in doing things people would appreciate, as long as he didn’t directly reveal himself.
No, truthfully, Ihyeon had always enjoyed good deeds.
It was just that circumstances currently forced him to conceal Ilgyeok’s identity, preventing him from acting freely.
“I should discuss this more with Deokhuun later.”

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