I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 334

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Episode 334
Ep. 334
The Saedos.
Black veins etched across their faces and eyes dark as night.
They revealed themselves accompanied by a sinister, cackling mockery.
“Kekeke, so Ilgyeok and the Goddess are supposedly so formidable, yet there’s nothing impressive here?”
“Look at them strutting about without even realizing they’ve fallen into our trap!”
I had encountered more than one or two Saedos on the way here.
Since the Saedos always spoke in such a manner, neither Ihyeon nor Elsie paid them much mind.
Well, they seemed to possess slightly more reason than ordinary Saedos, perhaps because they were the Bishop’s direct subordinates.
But when Ihyeon and Elsie said nothing in response, the Saedos interpreted this as they would, and their mockery and ridicule continued unabated.
“Before long, you’ll be blubbering and running away, won’t you?”
“Kekeke, you’ll have to kiss our backsides before we let you leave~”
“I’ll make you crawl between my legs!”
“Krahaha! I can already picture you begging and wailing as your skin slowly peels away!”
“If you’re going to soil yourself, go home and do it~”
They hurled insults with such fervent enthusiasm.
‘…At this point, I’m getting a bit angry.’
Ihyeon, who had initially intended to simply ignore them, was beginning to feel irritated.
The content of their mockery mattered little, but their voices were simply excessively loud and vicious.
Ihyeon stepped forward and spoke.
“So this place is a trap you’ve laid?”
“That’s right! It’s the very grave where you’ll be buried!”
“Buried? Your flesh and bones will be devoured whole by those Duogsini bastards.”
“That’s true enough!”
The Saedos’ mockery resumed.
Then it happened.
Boom—!
Someone sprang from the wall and landed in the center of the plaza.
Ihyeon narrowed his eyes slightly, studying him intently.
An aura distinctly more powerful than the other Saedos.
‘A mutant?’
Or perhaps one of the Saedos who stood closer to the Bishop.
Ihyeon did not know it, but this was the very Sado who had gained his strength after surviving the Bishop’s repeated interrogations and slaughter.
He smiled with a bloodstained grin and spoke.
“Kekek… I was the one who lured you here.”
“Lured?”
Ihyeon tilted his head in confusion.
There had been no moment that could be called a lure.
“Do you truly believe finding the Goddess in this vast plain was your own ability?”
“Ah.”
Ihyeon nodded as if he roughly understood what was being said.
As for Ihyeon, it seemed to suggest that he had drawn Elsie into where the expedition was located.
However.
“Luring is only used when one’s attention is diverted to a place they cannot handle.”
Ihyeon and Elsie had not been lured.
The Duogsinis whose numbers were unknowable, and the Saedos that filled the walls of the plaza.
And perhaps the Prairie Demon sleeping somewhere in this place, and the Bishop who manipulated the Assailant.
Standing before them, the thought of an “unmanageable crisis” never crossed my mind.
At Ihyeon’s words, the Saedos’ mockery suddenly diminished greatly.
The Sado who had descended into the plaza also appeared quite flustered.
But his bewilderment soon transformed into great rage.
“This bastard has a loose mouth!”
The Sado shrieked and lunged toward Ihyeon.
Until just moments ago, he had maintained human form, but no longer.
Shwooooosh——!!
A pair of black arms and legs jutting from his waist and back.
Grotesquely proportioned and jointed limbs, unmistakably crafted by the Earthspider.
Half human, half Duobuxini, one might say.
A horrifying transformation.
Ihyeon observed the form calmly.
Elsie, positioned slightly behind Ihyeon, did the same.
‘I should show why this is not a lure.’
Ihyeon shouldered his sniper rifle and aimed at the charging Sado.
Click-clack— Click—!
“Is that his staff?”
“But why is he holding the staff like that?”
The Saedos had never seen Ihyeon’s sniper rifle before.
Ihyeon was not kind enough to explain their confusion aloud.
After all.
‘Breath held, fire.’
Bang—!
They would soon see with their own eyes.
Splurt—!
“???!?!?!”
What had just occurred?
Save for Ihyeon and Elsie, none in this plaza seemed capable of explaining it.
The Sado who had charged at Ihyeon with tremendous momentum could do so no longer.
His head to move, and the upper body attached beneath it, had vanished without a trace.
Thud— Plop— Plop—
The powerless lower body and the grotesquely extended limbs of the earth spider rolled hideously across the floor.
It was an overwhelmingly brutal display of force.
An Enhanced Sado could certainly lose his life.
The opponent was Ilgyeok, who occupied the western grasslands, and the Goddess who had endured for countless years in their domain.
Rather, had the Enhanced Sado been defeated, the other Saedos would have burned with even greater killing intent and prepared their next assault.
But this was not the case.
No matter how formidable Ilgyeok and the Goddess were, how could an Enhanced Sado who had absorbed earth spiders from several people transform into such a pitiful state in a single blow?
The Enhanced Sado was so ferocious and powerful that even fellow Saedos trembled at the sight, making the shock all the more intense.
Ihyeon’s strike had robbed the Saedos of their reason in a different sense entirely.
“All-out assault! All-out assault!”
“How many Duogsinis remain?”
“About half…”
“You’ve already expended that much?!”
“The plan was to conserve strength on the way here!”
“W-wait… so you’re saying they swept through half the Duogsinis and arrived here in that time?”
Confused shouts echoed shrilly across the entire plaza.
Though they seemed to have suffered considerable shock, the Saedos’ response was simple.
Now that Ihyeon and Elsie had reached this place, the only option left was a full assault.
Not to mention the corridor behind where Ihyeon had come through.
Grrrrumble—
The iron gates embedded in the plaza’s walls began to rise in unison.
Kyaaaah—! Keeeee——!!
The Duogsinis’ distinctive screams were tremendous.
Since Ihyeon and Elsie had captured half the Duogsinis until now, it seemed they intended to unleash the remaining half all at once.
“I think I may have really stirred things up?”
Ihyeon asked Elsie, and she answered with a composed expression.
“It was an unavoidable path.”
It was an answer befitting the changed Elsie.
Ihyeon chuckled and spoke.
“Should I help with Dotan? Or will you handle it?”
Elsie’s answer was simple.
Whoooosh——!!
Elsie’s exclusive skill obtained from capturing the Dokkaebi—Spirit Fire Awakening.
The red color typically associated with Elsie was nowhere to be found.
White hair and golden irises.
Dokkaebi flames rippled across Elsie’s entire body.
She cast the exclusive skill that could only be used once per week without a moment’s hesitation.
It was also the resolve of this one to handle everything below on her own somehow.
“Master, you must do what a master must do.”
“If you put it that way.”
Ihyeon chuckled and shrugged his shoulders as if our minds were perfectly aligned.
Without exchanging a single word, Ihyeon and Elsie had instantly divided their roles between them.
Naturally, Elsie had to sweep away all the Duogsinis pouring into the plaza.
As for Ihyeon’s part….
“Wait, Ilgyeok disappeared?”
“Where did he go!”
“He has to be around here somewhere! Search for him!”
‘I need to do what a sniper should do.’
I immediately activated Sniper Point Conversion.
I had deliberately not been wearing the Shadow Robe and black suit to avoid arousing suspicion among the Nomads, but now I equipped both.
‘Now I can finally move properly.’
The Nomads’ clothing emphasized mobility, so it wasn’t uncomfortable.
But compared to these two items I’d grown so accustomed to they felt like extensions of my body, there was a noticeable difference.
Ihyeon shouted from behind the Saedos, who still hadn’t noticed him.
“Over there! The other direction! I saw Ilgyeok over there!”
“What, the other direction?”
“Damn it, when did he get all the way over there?”
“Whoever you are, you did great!”
The confused Saedos, unable to properly identify the source of the voice, had their attention completely diverted by Ihyeon’s words.
‘It feels like it’s been a while since I’ve done something like this, but I haven’t lost my touch.’
Ihyeon felt the exhilaration return—the thrill he’d experienced when he first entered the Public Floor and single-handedly manipulated public opinion.
The Saedos were no different in that regard.
If anything, they fell for it even more easily than ordinary people.
In any case, the Saedos ended up turning their backs to Ihyeon, completely defenseless.
A fatal mistake.
Ihyeon pulled the bolt and chambered a round.
Then he fired at the nearest Sado.
Thwip—!
“Gack?!”
Thud—!
My sniper rifle had already been switched to healing mode.
As for the enhanced Sado from earlier, I’d killed him to shock the others and because he was too heavily influenced by the Twilight anyway, but the other Saedos were different.
The Sado hit by the healing rifle let out a final cry before losing consciousness and collapsing.
Ihyeon didn’t stop there and pulled the trigger repeatedly.
Only after several more Saedos lost consciousness and fell did the Saedos realize Ihyeon’s actions.
“Y-you cowardly bastard! You were targeting our backs!”
“Then who was that idiot shouting about the other direction?!”
But that didn’t mean Ihyeon would fall to the Saedos’ hands.
Whoosh—
“What, what? Where did he disappear to again?”
“Damn it!”
This time, shadow movement.
Ihyeon’s body transformed into shadow before vanishing once more.
Countless torches flickered across the plaza’s walls.
There were plenty of shadows to move through.
Before long, another cry erupted—Ilgyeok had been spotted again.
“Over there!”
“Where? Where?!”
“Go! Catch Ilgyeok!”
The Saedos rushed forward in a mob.
Thwack—! Thwack—!
Several more fell unconscious, struck by the healing gun.
Naturally, the initial cry had come from Ihyeon.
‘…If they fall for it this many times, they have no reason to resent me.’
Ihyeon found it almost pitiful how easily the Saedos believed each false rumor he spread.
Despite using the same tactic repeatedly, their shocked reactions each time were quite impressive.
However, the Saedos’ situation was actually better off.
After all, being hit by the healing gun meant they wouldn’t lose their lives—rather, it was liberation from the relentless twilight that gnawed at their bodies and minds.
Meanwhile, in the plaza, Elsie and the Duogsinis had already begun their battle.
Shrieeeeek———!!!!
Scritch— scritch— scritch—!
It was a warzone.
Or rather, it resembled a kind of hell.
The Duogsinis, with their grotesque forms that seemed to crawl forth from the depths of hell itself, were one thing.
But Elsie, her body ablaze with white flames, elegantly cleaving through the Duogsinis, resembled a punisher from hell meting out retribution upon the damned.
The Dokkaebi flames scattered across the plaza served as both her weapon and her means of movement.
Her exclusive skill: Dokkaebi Blade Dance.
Whenever the Duogsinis threatened to overwhelm her in one spot, Elsie would deftly utilize the Dokkaebi flames to escape, then mercilessly shatter them from behind with her blade.
By coincidence, Ihyeon and Elsie’s tactics shared a similar framework.
‘I wondered if she could handle all those Duogsinis alone, but it seems my concern was unnecessary.’
Elsie’s performance was dazzling.
Perhaps being separated from Ihyeon was more beneficial to her growth than staying together—he found himself thinking this unconsciously.
Yet the difficulty seemed too low for a place connected to the main objective of conquering the 94th Floor.
…Considering the number of Duogsinis and Saedos they’d defeated thus far, no one could say such a thing, but at least that was how Ihyeon perceived it.
In the 90s floors, frankly speaking, difficulty couldn’t be measured by the count of mere “trash mobs.”
Moreover, this was the lair of a demon called Erkastrula.
There was no way this would end like this.
“Ilgyeok is disguised as that big brute over there!”
“What?!”
“Such a wicked creature!”
‘Who’s calling whom wicked….’
Ihyeon drove the Saedos back once more, his gaze sweeping sharply across his surroundings.
In the end, that judgment proved correct.

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