I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 294

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Episode 294
Ep. 294
“Would you like to designate the configured area as a secret hideout?”
The configured area was naturally the entire campsite.
Ihyeon, whose absolute stats had advanced not merely through the five-point ability increase per level but through genuine progression, barely managed to designate the campsite as a hideout.
Srrrrk——
The campsite vanished from the prairie in a manner so mysterious that it could only be explained by the skill’s effect.
Unless one possessed far greater mastery than Ihyeon, there would be no way to explain why the campsite had disappeared.
Ihyeon then retrieved the Shadow Robe from his inventory after a long time and equipped it.
He too vanished from the prairie in an instant….
Keeeee—— Kyiiiii——!!!
The Duogsinis, as if embodying rage itself, descended upon the location where the campsite had been not long after.
But the target of their fury had already vanished.
———????
The Duogsinis displayed unmistakable confusion.
They attacked their own kind beside them without reason and clawed at the ground.
Yet no matter what they did, the disappeared target would not reappear.
That confusion naturally transmitted to those observing from a distance.
“What in blazes!”
A voice, parched and cracked, tore across the prairie.
Beneath a black hood concealing the face were eyes filled entirely with black, devoid of whites, and grotesque black veins crawling upward.
These were humans afflicted by the Earthspider—those called “Saedos.”
They had been monitoring Kaez’s tribe from the beginning.
Their purpose was to eliminate these upstarts riding on the coattails of the young “Ilgyeok” before they could establish themselves.
After all, these people should have been eradicated fifteen years ago, so one could say their demise had merely been postponed.
Yet what was this?
They had gathered the Duogsinis and sent them charging in an encirclement, only for that campsite to vanish without a trace.
Did it rise into the sky?
Did it sink into the earth?
An inexplicable event had occurred despite their watching with their own eyes.
“Is this some kind of illusion technique??”
“Damn it all! It’s because of that bastard!”
The Saedos could not contain their rage, grasping each other by the collar and assigning blame.
Creatures afflicted by the Earthspider are governed by uncontrollable hatred and hostility.
An ordinary person would have felt shock and confusion, but such emotions were impossible for them.
Since the target for their negative emotions had disappeared, they naturally turned upon each other.
It was then.
Thud thud thud thud thud———
A horse so enormous it was almost embarrassing to call it such suddenly appeared and galloped across the prairie, passing through the Duogsinis who were venting their frustration on nothing.
Upon it sat a young boy, tiny as a toy compared to the beast.
The Saedos who had been grabbing collars immediately stopped fighting and screamed.
“It’s Ilgyeok!!!”
“That bastard obtained Zifang and is wielding a Squad Leader!!!”
The Saedos spat out their fury in voices cracked with rage.
So it was true—this one possessed the skill to capture both a Thunderbird and a Manticore in an instant?
“Seize Kaez!!!”
With one Sado’s cry, the Duogsinis gathered at the campsite responded immediately.
They began chasing after Purung and Kaez, each thrashing their various limbs and legs with ferocious intensity.
It was fair to say that this tribe’s miraculous survival was entirely due to the arrival of that young boy.
Though they regretted failing to assault the campsite, if they could just kill Kaez, everything else would fall apart on its own afterward.
With so many outsiders joining recently, those fractures would run even deeper and more fatally.
The Duogsinis, following the Sado’s orders, caught up to Purung with uncannily swift speed.
In the very moment whip-like limbs were about to lash out.
Neigh—!
Purung used his pillar-like hind legs to kick the nearest Duobuxini squarely away.
Rather than being knocked backward, the Duobuxini simply had a massive hole torn clean through it and collapsed.
Neigh—!
Purung didn’t stop there, unleashing a barrage of hind leg kicks.
With each strike, Duogsinis were pierced and torn apart, dying helplessly one after another.
“That, that’s impossible!!!”
“What manner of beast is this!!!”
Even the fury-filled Saedos were left slack-jawed at Purung’s power, which defied all comprehension.
The horses they had seen before would panic in terror the moment a Duobuxini drew near.
Of course, Purung hardly looked like an ordinary horse at first glance, but still—such power made no sense!
“But it matters not!!!”
“Can numbers not overwhelm it?!”
Yet the shock was brief; seeing the Duogsinis encircle Purung, the Saedos let out sinister laughter.
They would acknowledge its valor, but what could it do when surrounded by Duogsinis?
The Saedos were already trembling with excitement at the thought of turning Purung itself into a Duobuxini.
It was merely a matter of time, they chuckled with glee.
Then a voice came from behind them.
“I have a question for you.”
“We’re busy now, come back later, hehehehe.”
The Saedos initially dismissed it carelessly, but soon realized the gravity of the situation.
“?!”
In this vast prairie, where the only gathering of people—the campsite—had vanished like a mirage, who could possibly be speaking to them?
Moreover, it was strange that someone had approached without being detected, moving silently like a shadow.
The three Saedos turned their heads sharply, their eyes gleaming with suspicion.
There stood a nomadic man, somewhere between youth and adulthood, draped in robes and smiling.
A pistol rested in his hand, though the Saedos, who had lived only on the prairie, could not have recognized it.
It was Ihyeon.
He had created a perfect target, mounted it on Purung to make her rampage wildly, completely diverting the attention of the Duogsinis and Saedos, and then headed to this location.
The Saedos had hidden their bodies as best they could, but they could not escape the eyes of Ihyeon, who possessed a Thermal Scope.
Even though their body temperature was lower than ordinary people, it was not enough to avoid detection in the vast grassland.
“Wheeere aaarreee youuuu!!!”
The Saedos cried out in rough voices that were barely distinguishable from a monster’s screech.
Naturally, it was not just their voices.
The Saedos sprang to their feet, drew rusty, chipped swords from their bosoms, and rushed at Ihyeon.
They too would have received weapons after undergoing a coming-of-age ceremony, but they had failed to maintain them since their condition had deteriorated.
However, their physical movements were incomparably different from when they were ordinary humans.
They possessed the skill level of a typical 60th Floor-tier monster.
One could gauge just how potent the Earthspider’s influence was.
But even so.
Crack—!
“???????”
They were no match for Ihyeon.
Seeing the Saedos rush at him, Ihyeon showed no surprise and immediately pulled the trigger of his pistol.
A warning shot aimed at no one in particular.
Yet the sharp, vivid power that passed precariously between their heads and carved a deep scar into the ground behind them was enough to make even the Saedos, who had lost their reason to the Earthspider, feel their blood run cold.
The Saedos, who had been on the verge of tearing open Ihyeon’s belly and spilling his entrails, froze in place, maintaining their exact posture.
Ihyeon smiled again and spoke.
“I would like to ask you something.”
One of the Saedos, staring blankly at Ihyeon, answered.
“Yesss… Whaaaat isss it youuu wisssh tooo assk?”
‘Now we’re getting somewhere.’
If they had completely lost their reason and become monsters no different from the Duogsinis, he would have shot them without hesitation.
But from observing from behind, Ihyeon had found that they used human speech to some degree, so he had tried a warning shot, and it had been effective.
Above all, the characteristic of the 90th Floor.
With tremendous freedom, one must create a remarkable Achievement at each floor somehow.
Ihyeon believed that simply wiping out all the Saedos and Duogsinis would be impossible, so he was determined to find some clue no matter what.
In any case, the Saedos had become quite docile and seemed ready to converse with Ihyeon.
‘Their condition seems somewhat better than anger management disorder. …Then perhaps?’
Ihyeon transformed the pistol he was holding.
Shwoooosh——
“Uh, uhhh?”
“Riiifle?”
The Saedos were startled by the suddenly lengthening shape of the gun.
Only then did they seem to grasp Ihyeon’s true identity.
“Youuu baaastaaaard, it’s Ilgyeok!!!”
“Dieee…!”
Click-clack— Click-clack—
“The Duogsinis… they don’t fear us…”
When I pulled the trigger once in front of the Saedos who were about to charge again with their eyes rolled back, they became docile once more.
Everyone had witnessed the terrifying projectile fired from that small pistol earlier, and they couldn’t even begin to imagine what might emerge from this far larger, elongated gun.
“First, please quiet down those Duogsinis.”
“Yes…”
The Saedos subdued the Duogsinis that had surrounded Purung.
Since the original purpose was to draw attention, Purung wouldn’t have fallen so easily anyway, but it seemed the creature had accumulated quite a bit of frustration.
Screech—! Screech—!
Purung, thoroughly enraged, vented its fury by blasting off the heads of several Duogsinis before agreeing to a ceasefire.
And Ihyeon also made clear the conditions of the ceasefire.
Thwip—!
Not with words, but through action.
A pristine healing dart struck three Saedos with perfect accuracy in the blink of an eye.
“Ugh!”
The Saedos, believing they were done for, let out a single scream and collapsed.
“Huh?”
“We’re alive?”
Soon they stirred, touching their chests and raising their upper bodies.
But something remarkable had occurred.
The whites of their eyes, which had turned pitch black since being afflicted by Earthshadow, had regained their color, and their complexions had improved considerably.
The changes weren’t limited to their appearance alone.
“My mind feels clear…”
“What… what have we been doing all this time?”
As delayed headaches struck them, they each clutched their heads and grimaced.
‘I had a hunch, and it works on them too.’
Watching their reactions, Ihyeon asked them a question.
“Are you lucid now?”
“What? Ah, are you Ilgyeok?”
“That’s what I’m called.”
The Saedos, confirming their counterpart’s identity, barely steadied their trembling bodies before kneeling and apologizing.
They had been ordinary nomads before becoming Saedos not long ago, and they said that a dark shadow had suddenly descended upon them before things became like this.
“Now that I think about it, they must have been fellow Saedos. We spread Earthshadow the same way, after all.”
It seemed the Saedos not only attacked campsites using Duogsinis, but also frequently kidnapped those who had strayed away and converted them into comrades.
Now that they had regained their senses, they were valuable sources of information for me.
I didn’t miss the opportunity and questioned them.
“Is there someone who leads you?”
I knew they belonged to a religious sect, but I still didn’t know much about the organization itself.
I needed to extract information from them, being insiders as they were.
One of the Saedos, his expression troubled in thought for a moment, nodded.
“Yes, we had a Bishop. All the Saedos in the vicinity moved under his command.”
“A Bishop?”
As expected, there was one.
According to the Saedos’ account, there wasn’t just a single Bishop.
While they oversaw vast territories, there were quite a few Bishops scattered across the even broader grasslands.
And above them existed a High Priest who commanded all these Bishops.
That being must be the enemy of the 60th Floor range—the one leading this cult.
‘I have to capture that assailant.’

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