I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 354

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Episode 354
Ep. 354
An aura distinctly more powerful than any other Duobuxini.
“Hmm?”
Ihyeon narrowed his eyes, gazing upward at the Great Tiger Duobuxini.
The Great Tiger was so massive that it was difficult to see clearly, but atop it sat a man of considerable bulk.
Unlike the Saedos, who typically wore the garments of their nomadic days, this man was dressed in robes befitting the high monks of Earth, his head completely shaved.
He glared at Ihyeon’s position with fierce eyes before bellowing in a thunderous voice.
“How dare you set foot in this place, Ilgyeok!”
It was hardly surprising that he recognized Ihyeon’s identity at a glance.
In truth, only two could command such forces across the great steppe—Ihyeon and the High Priest.
Just as Ihyeon, mounted upon Purung, was about to respond, Elsie stepped forward instead.
“Hey! Reveal yourself first before you speak, chrome dome!”
“….”
The man fell silent for a moment at Elsie’s audacious outburst.
“Ugh….”
“Your words are far too harsh, Sword Infantry Captain.”
The Knights standing behind them began to stir uneasily at Elsie’s crude tirade.
Yet the man himself seemed no ordinary figure.
“I am! A Lawkeeper serving the High Priest! I am also the messenger of death who shall shatter the skulls of you wretches who dared invade the High Priest’s domain!”
Lawkeeper.
Upon hearing this title, the Vice Captain recalled something and informed Ihyeon.
“According to rumors, the High Priest has two Lawkeepers among his inner circle—twins, they say. Yet there is only one here. Well, as the High Priest’s bodyguards, both cannot be absent from their posts.”
Ihyeon nodded.
“Then perhaps our objective on this level is to capture these so-called Lawkeepers.”
“Yes, but you must be cautious. The Lawkeepers are those who command the martial strength of the Cult Leader Faction.”
“What if I simply shoot him with a gun?”
“….”
The Vice Captain was left speechless, unable to open his mouth.
In truth, Ihyeon’s logic was sound.
Meanwhile, Elsie continued to engage the Lawkeeper in a verbal confrontation at the forefront.
“You’re a Lawkeeper, so why are you riding a tiger!”
“….”
Or rather, it was less a debate and more Elsie speaking once before the Lawkeeper would take considerable time to respond or ignore her entirely.
“Elsie, that ‘keeper’ in Lawkeeper doesn’t refer to an animal—”
“A brat who should still be nursing! Tell Ilgyeok to come out himself!”
“What?! Did you just insult our mother?!”
“Uh, uh, Mother’s milk or—”
‘Has this fellow abandoned everything else in his focus on martial prowess?’
Even so, as the High Priest’s closest retainer who commanded the steppe, watching him be so thoroughly overwhelmed by Elsie was rather absurd.
“I’ll crush that tiny head of yours soon enough, so stay put and wait right there!”
“Hah! Your bald head would be much easier to crush than mine with all that hair!”
“You infuriating wretch! Why do you keep bringing up my hair?!”
“Low intelligence and yet something else that refuses to grow—how fitting!”
“What? What are you suddenly—ARGH!!!!”
“What? Charging at me in anger? Admitting defeat? Aww, the little one lost a war of words and got mad? Want to settle this face-to-face?!”
Boom—! Boom—! Boom—!
In that moment, Elsie’s eloquence, honed through sparring with Seonggwangdong Pibaraggi, truly shone.
Her provocations, refined in the harsh crucible of Korean internet culture, proved even more effective than Jia’s taunting skills in certain respects.
“You have certainly surpassed me, Master.”
Even Jia acknowledged it.
The Lawkeeper, fury rising to the crown of his head, began to rage.
Sensing his master’s agitation, the Great Tiger leaped about, growling fiercely.
Shuuuuu——
And it didn’t end there—the Lawkeeper even fashioned a colossal weapon using shadow magic.
Its basic form resembled a war hammer, yet its size was as though he’d uprooted the foundation pillar of a massive building.
Naturally, as their leader descended into such frenzy, the Apostles and Duogsinis behind him fell into a state bordering on collective madness.
Whoooosh——!!!
As the Lawkeeper casually swung the hammer overhead, the mere wind pressure sent those nearby flying—a bonus effect.
“…That beast is genuinely strong?”
“I did mention he handles their military might, did I not?”
In fact, measured purely by raw strength, he was comparable even to Erkastrula.
He hadn’t even struck with the hammer—merely blown them away with wind.
“Elsiya.”
“Yeah, Master. I’ve set the stage, so now you just need to finish him, right?”
Confronted with the Lawkeeper’s unexpectedly formidable presence, Ihyeon called out to Elsie, and she responded with a bright smile.
“If I was just going to capture him, there’d be no need for trash talk—I could simply shoot.”
“…Oh.”
Elsie’s expression went rigid as she belatedly realized her mistake.
Well, Elsie’s words weren’t entirely wrong either.
If Ihyeon charged forward with fury consuming him, paying no mind to what attack was coming, a sniper shot would be just as easy.
Click—
Since he had no intention of sending subordinates against such a rampaging foe, the moment Ihyeon drew a sniper rifle from his inventory.
Crackle——!!
An extraordinary bolt of lightning suddenly struck the mountainside.
After passing a certain point, thunder ceased falling—a lightning strike that immediately caught the eye.
But it wasn’t only Ihyeon and the expedition that noticed.
“Did it, did it appear?!”
“Where? Where is it?!”
The Apostles stationed in camp grew flustered, beginning to look around the area where the lightning had struck.
Though her expression was clearly filled with anger, there was an ironic undercurrent of something akin to reverence beneath it all.
“Find her!”
The Lawkeeper, too, had by now somewhat suppressed her fury and was barking orders at the Saedos and Duogsinis.
Ihyeon and the expedition had been clearly pushed to the background.
‘We were never the reason they came here in the first place.’
Ihyeon observed the scene and reflected on this.
Regardless of our original purpose, we ourselves numbered a hundred thousand strong.
Moreover, considering the caliber of those leading us—myself and the Spirits—it would have made sense for us to focus on this situation regardless of our initial intentions.
Yet what their reactions revealed was remarkably simple.
The reason they had come here was perhaps.
‘A target worthy of deploying such forces.’
Beyond the rhetorical expression of one against a hundred, there existed a target that truly warranted the phrase one against a hundred thousand in practical terms.
And Ihyeon’s question was not left unanswered for long.
“She appears!!!”
“Over there!!!”
The Saedos’ frantic cries echoed across the entire rocky mountain.
The direction of their voices was unmistakable.
With his keen eyesight, Ihyeon could also discern what they were making such a fuss about.
Kwaaabooom——!!!
Regardless of distance, the fact that the mountainside suddenly exploded outward made it impossible to ignore.
“Ugh!”
“Cough!”
Kyiiik——!
The gathered Saedos and Duogsinis scattered in all directions.
Those who could even manage to scream were fortunate enough to be far from the blast center.
Most had simply become fragments of flesh without even uttering a final cry.
As the dust that had lingered despite the wind and rain finally cleared somewhat, from within it emerged.
“The, the Celestial One….”
The legendary ‘Celestial One’ from the rumors revealed herself.
And as everyone had anticipated, the Celestial One possessed a form that was deeply familiar to Ihyeon and the Spirits.
“Blue.”
“Golem Fox!”
Her towering frame visible even from a distance, skin like white jade.
Hair the color of the deep sea.
A gaze that looked down upon all existence.
And finally, the dark leather tunic that Ihyeon had given her, insisting she wear something.
“She was alive…??”
She appeared exactly as Ihyeon’s last memory of Blue, yet somehow he could not bring himself to be entirely pleased.
“Master, that one seems somewhat changed?”
“I concur.”
“Hmm… it’s not so much that she’s changed, but rather…”
Ihyeon tilted his head at that subtle, hard-to-define transformation.
It didn’t seem like she’d suffered the same fate as Jia with the twilight curse, nor did she appear to have undergone the dramatic personality shift that Elsie had.
In truth, I grasped the nature of that sense of incongruity the moment I laid eyes on her.
It was simply too grotesque to voice aloud.
‘Has Blue become a savage in the time I haven’t seen her?’
Especially with my transcendent vision, there was no need to look any further.
I had given Blue that night-dark leather tunic myself.
But the things dangling from her neck, torso, and limbs like accessories were none other than…
“Ugh! That Golem Fox is hanging fingers and—blegh—Duogsini tentacles all over herself!”
Like a savage straight out of a film, she was adorned from head to toe with severed body parts—human and Duogsini alike—strung together and draped across her frame.
The Lawkeeper locked in confrontation with Ihyeon roared with a bestial voice.
“You wretches deserve to have your guts ripped out and used as clotheslines! Are you acquainted with that celestial being?”
“Ah, well…”
It was rather awkward to simply admit we knew each other!
Ihyeon shot a fierce, questioning glance at the Vice Captain.
The Vice Captain denied it, beads of blue sweat dripping down his face.
“S-sir, the reports contained nothing of this nature.”
‘But why in the first place does a celestial being dress in such a menacing manner?’
Usually, when one thinks of a celestial being, doesn’t the image conjure something noble and elegant?
…Though, come to think of it, the nomads revere the Manticore—a creature with a human head and bird’s body—as a messenger of the heavens, so calling someone with such an appearance a celestial being wasn’t particularly strange.
After all, unlike in paintings or written descriptions, the Harpy was genuinely grotesque in appearance when seen in person.
In any case, Blue’s appearance had resolved nearly all my lingering questions.
‘The Lawkeeper established her encampment on this mountain to capture Blue.’
And Ihyeon’s expedition had arrived late to the scene.
However, I would need to ask later what exactly Blue had been doing in the Stormlands that warranted the High Priest’s own Retainer, the Lawkeeper, to take the field and relegate the expedition to secondary importance.
Ihyeon issued orders immediately.
“It seems they’re not paying attention to us anyway. Ignore the Lawkeeper for now and sever her limbs first.”
“Yes, Lord!”
The Lawkeeper was undoubtedly powerful.
But with a force of this magnitude assembled, she was ultimately just one individual.
At Ihyeon’s command, the expedition began moving as a single body.
The flanks spread wider to encircle the rocky mountain, while the main force advanced steadily forward.
“You wretches…!”
The Lawkeeper atop the Great Tiger realized she was in a considerably dire situation.
Her options were limited indeed.
“Strike down that celestial being first! Kill every last one of those Ihyeon dogs!”
“Kyiiieeeow!!!”
“Forward!”
Keeeeegh——!!
His choice was to dispatch Blue as swiftly as possible, then pour all his strength into the full-scale battle.
It was not necessarily a poor tactic.
Had the opponent been anyone other than Ihyeon and Blue.
Ihyeon decided to observe the situation with a rather leisurely demeanor.
If the Lawkeeper rushed toward him, Ihyeon intended to respond directly, but if he chose to engage Blue first, the situation would be entirely different.
The Saedos and Duogsinis from the rocky mountain side, acting under the Lawkeeper’s command, moved with frantic urgency.
Like a colossal black wave crashing from all directions, the masses surged toward Blue.
But.
Boom—boom boom boom—— boom boom boom——!!!!
“????”
Blue’s might.
Crash—— bang bang——
Effortlessly shattered the expectations of everyone present.
“W-what in the world is that?!”
One could say it was lightly surpassed.

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