I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 348

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Episode 348
Ep. 348
Ihyeon’s gun, now transformed into an Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle, erupted with fire.
In truth, it mattered little what distinguished this Eodukshin from the previous one.
Whether his true form was a demon or an angel, I was the reaper of the battlefield—a sniper.
The bullets I fired always.
BOOM——!!!!
Eliminated the target in a single shot.
A massive hole tore through the Eodukshin’s colossal body.
The Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle infused with silver rounds did not betray my expectations, nor those of my subordinates, dispatching the enemy with a single strike.
“What in the—?!?!”
The Bishop watching with eyes wide as saucers seemed to have black blood surge backward through him, and indeed he was suffering tremendous backlash from the forceful destruction of such immense sorcery.
Yet even so, he possessed no means to revive a demon that had been pierced through and felled without opportunity for resistance.
My mana bullet had not merely killed the Eodukshin.
CRACKLE——
“Huzzah!”
“The Lord has carved a path for us!”
“Charge! Charge!”
“Hey, you beast! Why aren’t you listening?! Going off on your own like that?! When we get back, it’s a spanking and PT exercises!”
“Eeeek! That’s not what you said before!”
The mana bullet, still brimming with power after piercing the Eodukshin, swept away all the Duogsinis beyond it, creating a highway through which the Vice Captain and the One-Strike Knight Order could advance at speed.
This was precisely why my command flag had been given to the central knights under the Vice Captain’s leadership.
“I may not lead from the front, but as long as I carve the path, that’s what matters, isn’t it?”
“Yes, precisely correct, Lord.”
After all, it fell to me to annihilate the central enemy forces.
The central knights, who had initially appeared somewhat behind compared to the left and right flanks, rapidly closed the gap following my single shot, and before long achieved a narrow overtaking.
Spoken charitably, it was the result of perfect synchronization and tactical mastery.
Spoken harshly….
‘I said it that way, but truthfully, unlike Jia and Elsie who could independently breach a single direction, I added my strength because I couldn’t entirely trust them.’
It was a deployment that made excellent use of my tremendous power.
Yet the resistance of the three Bishops did not end there.
BOOM—! CRASH—! KABOOM—!
“Argh!”
“Magic, it’s magic!”
“If we take that, only the Lord’s healing rounds will help!”
“Then I’ll! I’ll take it!”
“???”
Though I had broken the trump cards each Bishop had prepared, the Bishops themselves remained standing.
Moreover, each Bishop, their fury reaching a boiling point, was sacrificing even the retainers who had been attending them, hurling forth powerful magic in waves.
Several Knights who had not yet grasped the situation were instantly summoned away.
“Advance.”
“The Captain orders us forward!”
“Hehehehe! Did you think we’d be frightened by this?!”
“We can’t lose to the Armor Fox! I’ll carve a path—run!”
“The Sword Infantry Captain charges ahead!”
“Th-that’s far too fast!”
The Spirits fought valiantly on both flanks, yet their momentum had undeniably slowed.
The Bishops smiled with bloodthirsty glee.
No matter how formidable Ilgyeok’s subordinates were, they amounted to nothing more than a small detachment of elite forces.
Their strategy was to pierce through our defenses with a surprise assault and end the war in a single stroke—a tactic that proved devastatingly effective, yet.
“Insolent wretches! Did you truly believe a mere handful could reach us here?!”
Fwoom—! Crack—!
“Ugh! Bishop, have mercy….”
If only we could halt their advance, they would be nothing but moths hurling themselves into flame—reckless and doomed.
Moreover, Ilgyeok was unleashing devastating ranged attacks from the rocky peaks through mysterious means.
“While the partial eclipse persists, we are invincible! None can slay us!”
Crack—Crack—!
This was why the Bishops boldly revealed their positions, hurling spells and making sacrifices without hesitation.
The partial eclipse was the Bishops’ life vessel.
So long as the sun remained obscured by shadow, the Bishops could not perish, no matter how devastating the assault.
They would merely decompose into shadow and be reborn anew.
Though Ilgyeok had once slain a Bishop who summoned a partial eclipse, that eclipse had not even reached half its power.
This time, the Bishops had gathered a force of an entirely different magnitude, so even Ilgyeok….
Kwaaaaaaaang———!!!!!
“?!?!?!!!?!!”
Then, from the mountain peak, a colossal pillar of radiance erupted.
Aimed directly at the partial eclipse that had draped shadow across the earth.
“No, that cannot be…. The partial eclipse cannot shatter. This is the sacred power of the High Priest and shadow….”
All the Bishops watched that radiance and muttered their confidence in victory, yet their voices trembled with dread.
They had heard tales of Ilgyeok shattering a partial eclipse with such an attack.
But there exists an immeasurable chasm between hearing words and witnessing it with one’s own eyes.
Crack—
It seemed one could hear the sound of the Bishops’ unwavering faith in shadow’s power fracturing, piece by piece.
And it did not take long for that broken faith to manifest upon the world.
Crackle—Crackle crackle——
Ihyeon and the Nomadic Warrior, alongside the One-Strike Knight Order charging across the battlefield and Jia, Elsie—
All of them witnessed it with their own eyes.
Ilgyeok’s legend—the arrow that pierces the sun.
That myth had descended upon this earth once more.
Crackle crackle crackle———
The eclipse that had covered roughly three-quarters of the sun fractured like a spider’s web, and then—
Clang—!
With a crisp sound, the black veil shattered completely.
The Bishops had believed there was an enormous gap between their power and that of the Bishop who had summoned Eodukshin in the past, but there was something they had failed to account for.
Namely.
‘I haven’t just been sitting idle all this time.’
The fact was that Ihyeon had achieved growth far more tremendous than the power gap they had imagined, and had come to this place.
Of course, Ihyeon lacked the ability to actually shoot down the sun itself.
‘…I probably can’t do that, right? Should I test it even inside the tower before leaving? What if later….’
Though he harbored some uncertainty, in any case, this was no natural phenomenon—it was sorcery artificially created by the Bishops, and he could break through it with his power as he pleased.
If there was something that couldn’t be solved by force, one should not rack their brains, but rather examine whether their own strength was insufficient.
It was not a sentiment Ihyeon particularly agreed with, but in any case, since he had devoted himself steadily to growth, he had yet to encounter an existence that could evade this logic.
In any case, he had cleanly shattered the partial eclipse, which could be called the Bishops’ life vessel.
“Krraaaaaahhhhh!!!!!”
What remained was the tremendous backlash inflicted upon the Bishops.
Now that the partial eclipse had been forcibly broken, they would either die as they were, or be forced to live as cripples without recovering their original power.
The first Bishop he had encountered had actually completely melted away before, had he not?
But Ihyeon had no intention of even granting them that time.
「Ilgyeok: I’ve done everything I needed to do. Now you all must finish what you need to finish.
Jia: I await your command.
Elsie: We’re almost there!」
Though no one had realized it, from the moment the battle began until now, Ihyeon had—
Ended everything without moving a single step from the rocky mountain peak where he had first taken his position.
Ihyeon gave a nod to Oiant beside him, signaling him.
Flutter—!
A massive flag rippled atop the mountain peak, and soon responses came back from three directions of the gorge.
“Uwaaaaa!!!”
“Sweep them! Sweep them all away!”
The ten thousand Nomadic Warriors who had been hiding behind the fortress and the Knights, seeking safety, now surged forth all at once and began mercilessly slaughtering the Duogsinis scattered across the plain.
With the partial eclipse shattered, the Bishops suffering irreversible fatal wounds, and the trump cards that should have led the battle situation annihilated long ago, there was nothing the ordinary Duogsinis and Saedos could do.
Against the handful of Nomadic Warriors they had once regarded as mere prey or playthings, they could only scatter in terror like a disorganized rabble.
The sight from the rocky mountain peak was truly magnificent.
A gray mass was rapidly breaking through a sea of black monsters.
Swoosh—
Confirming that the three divisions of Knights who had been running ahead and achieving great deeds were nearly closing in on each Bishop’s main camp, Ihyeon rose from his seat.
Those infested by the twilight moved by blind survival instinct and the logic of slaughter.
Though they might serve the Bishop out of submission to his power, they lacked the loyalty to support a Bishop who had lost all his strength to the very end.
The formation of the main camp, where only the Bishop’s closest retainers had gathered, was now completely scattered beyond recognition.
「Elsie: Got one! I caught one first! I was faster than the Armor Fox, wasn’t I?
Jia: I have already apprehended mine, Master.
Elsie: Hmph, so what are you going to do? You’re not going to do this properly? So…
Ilgyeok: That’s enough. Now that we’ve captured him, handle the disposal yourselves. I’m leaving too.
Jia: Please exercise particular caution for your safety.」
Before I’d even finished descending the rocky mountain, word arrived from the Spirits managing the flanks that they’d secured a Bishop.
Ihyeon’s pace quickened slightly.
To put an end to the long 95th floor.
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“Uuughhhh…”
The sun hadn’t yet passed its zenith.
A barren field drenched in scorching sunlight.
Amid the scattered corpses of Duogsinis and Saedos that hadn’t yet been cleared away, several Knights held down a Bishop who couldn’t support his own body, forcing him to his knees as he groaned.
The Bishop, once emblazoned as an object of terror in the Saedos’ minds, bore no trace of dignity anymore.
Completely unconscious, he swayed with unfocused eyes.
At least he hadn’t completely melted away—perhaps that deserved praise.
Then, someone approached them through the field of corpses.
The Knights nearby all fell to one knee in salute.
“My Lord!”
“My Lord!”
It was Ihyeon, descending from the rocky mountain after ending the war.
Ihyeon walked forward at a leisurely pace, Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle in hand.
“Uuugh… I, Ilgy-y-yeok…”
Even the Bishop, seemingly completely out of his mind, fixed his gaze upon him and spoke with a voice tinged with hatred.
It was the sort of enmity one might suspect was carved into his very instincts.
Ihyeon didn’t even glance at the Bishop as he first helped the Squad Members to their feet.
“You can get up. Why are you kneeling like that?”
The loyal Knights declined their Lord’s consideration.
“No, my Lord!”
“How could we possibly do such a thing!”
“…But at home, you just nod your head and pass by, so why are you suddenly doing this?”
“Ah, that’s right, isn’t it?”
“Hehe, being in this place, my heart just swells without my knowing it, you see.”
“Ah~ it reminds me of the old days, yeah.”
Only then did the Squad Members rise awkwardly with sheepish smiles.
“What…?”
Witnessing this, the Bishop, even in his delirium, let out a groan as if he’d seen every absurdity imaginable, but unfortunately, no one understood him.
And there was one more fact he remained unaware of.
“Now, let’s bring this to an end.”
His own demise.
At the muzzle of the Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle, a single crude, dark-colored short sword materialized.
Ihyeon wore a bitter expression for a moment before raising the Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle properly.
Thunk—
I drove the blade cleanly into the Bishop’s chest.
The recoil that traveled through my wrist was heavy in a different way than when I fired a Mana Bullet.
‘Come to think of it, this might be the first time I’ve killed something so… human-like.’
I’d killed humanoid monsters before, but few and far between, and never had I driven a sword directly into a body without using a gun.
Even though the human had already been irreversibly consumed by the Eodukshin, leaving no possibility of recovery, a part of my heart remained unsettled.
“Tsk.”
I clicked my tongue once to shake off that bitterness and turned away.
Squelch—
As I withdrew the bayonet, I heard the helpless sound of the Bishop collapsing.
“My Lord…”
The Squad Members watching from nearby called out to me with regret in their voices.
They too, now serving as my retainers, understood such human concerns…
“To let such a wretched creature pass so peacefully.”
“At minimum, we should have thrown him into a fire pit and healed him with the white gun for three days and four nights before tearing his limbs apart…”
“Kekeke, we should’ve made him do PT eight times in the fire pit.”
“Hey, you’re still alive?”
“I’m dead…”
‘These bastards.’
That wasn’t the case at all.

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