I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 365

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Episode 365
Ep. 365
Behind the massive door lay a spacious chamber befitting its grandeur.
A round table and thirteen chairs.
As the dust settled, Ihyeon’s smiling face emerged from within.
“It’s not the FBI, but… well, the door’s already open anyway. Regardless, everyone stay put.”
Elsie had been giggling at FBI arrest scenes on her phone lately, and I attempted to mimic one, though unsuccessfully.
Unlike them, constrained by procedure and firepower, I simply walked in.
It wasn’t particularly difficult.
I surveyed the people seated in each of the thirteen chairs.
The cult’s Saedos were mostly draped in black, crude robes.
The High Priests wore significantly better quality garments, though black remained unchanged.
In contrast, these figures wore neat ash-colored clothing, and their complexions differed little from ordinary humans.
To exaggerate slightly, ordinary people on Earth could pass them on the street without finding anything strange.
Not a single one opened their mouth toward me, who had just smashed through a perfectly intact door.
Yet their lack of reaction was not absolute.
“Are you… Ilgyeok…?”
As if emanating from a nightmare, an eerie whisper seeped toward me from all directions.
If ordinary speech is the vibration of air caused by vocal cords moving,
then these figures seemed to vibrate the very air of the room itself.
Considering how such a thing was possible felt momentous.
Yet I remained unintimidated by this entirely different mode of communication, and spoke with an even deeper smile.
“That’s right. I’ve come to assassinate you all.”
“Assassinate…? Did you say assassinate…?”
Their expressions twisted slightly at my incomprehensible words.
No matter how one thought about it, such a word was not something one would utter after openly smashing through a door.
But Elsie, absent from this place, would surely have said this:
‘If no one sees it happen, it’s assassination, right?’
What does the method of assassination matter?
Ultimately, if no one discovers the culprit, or doesn’t think to search for one, then it counts as assassination.
The eerie, vibrating air now completely shifted its atmosphere.
Seething rage rippled forth.
While difficult to empathize with like a Korean might, at least they could discern that I held them in utter contempt.
“You dare… show disrespect to the Cardinals of the Round Table? You will regret it even in death…!”
‘Cardinals? So they’ve assembled quite the roster after all.’
The unexpected title caught me slightly off guard.
Having only witnessed Saedos and Duogsinis raging mindlessly, the dignity and nobility conveyed by the title “Cardinal” hadn’t truly registered.
But if that were the case, I could roughly understand why they had gathered here while fierce warfare raged elsewhere.
‘If I’d left them alone, they would’ve emerged naturally in the latter half.’
Duogsinis were essentially the baseline “common enemies.”
This temple must have had a scenario where elite forces stationed throughout would be deployed sequentially.
Of course, unless this were a game, there was no guarantee it would unfold exactly that way.
Just like how I had managed to enter this chamber.
In any case, the Cardinals appeared to be positioned almost directly beneath the High Priest himself.
I aimed the gun in my hand at the nearest Cardinal.
“What… is this toy-like thing…?”
Naturally, the gun didn’t have a scope like a sniper rifle.
However, the gun’s front and rear sights served the original function of a scope.
Compared to scopes adorned with flashy features like thermal imaging and various information displays, they were practically nonexistent, but there were elements that made it clear they were sights.
Whoosh—
‘Not only soul destruction, but demon marks are usable too.’
Skills that would normally activate through scope aiming now triggered with just precise aim from the gun.
One by one, demon marks visible only to my eyes were placed upon all thirteen Cardinals.
Now, no matter where they fled, I could pursue them to the very end.
“Let me be clear—don’t even think about running.”
“What did you…?”
The Cardinals let out hollow laughs, as if they’d heard every ridiculous thing imaginable.
A lone intruder had entered the enemy’s lair, standing before the highest echelons of their cult.
He spoke of assassination, he spoke of not running away.
Whether intoxicated by the hollow honor of being a great warrior and king who unified the steppes, to the Cardinals he appeared nothing but arrogant and conceited.
And they possessed the actual strength to think that way.
Fwoooaaaaahhhhh—————!!!!!
Without warning, the Cardinals’ ashen robes were torn to shreds.
What emerged was the true form of the Cardinals, infested by Duobuxini.
Each taking different forms, like the Duobuxinis.
One swollen with an enormous mass of muscle.
One wielding hundreds of writhing tentacles.
One with grotesquely elongated arms and legs, and so on.
“We are Cardinals, each overseeing a different form of Duobuxini….”
“You should be the one not thinking of escape…!”
Crash—boom——!
The moment the threatening voice reached my ears, the door I had shattered sealed itself shut again.
One Cardinal with hundreds of rapidly moving tentacles had thrown all manner of furnishings and unleashed Duobuxini to block it completely.
Moreover, unlike when they wore their garments, a violent aura erupted as if it would tear the chamber apart.
The rage of the Cardinals, who stood directly beside the High Priest and handled actual operations, began concentrating entirely on me.
However they had infiltrated this deep during the war, if they failed to achieve their objective, it would all be meaningless.
The Cardinals intended to capture and kill the great warrior Ilgyeok who had walked in of his own accord, then spread Duobuxini across the entire steppes once more.
Clang——!!!
Thud——
“????”
The ominous sound of tearing flesh continued only until it ripped through the superheated air they had prepared.
The Cardinal who had blocked the freshly destroyed entrance flew away with his upper body intact, along with roughly half of the tentacles he had proudly displayed.
Ihyeon spoke again as he watched the Cardinals who hadn’t yet grasped what had just happened.
“I told you not to run away.”
“….”
Though the faces of the Cardinals had become far removed from human as they revealed their hidden forms.
Watching those faces contort demonically was quite an entertaining spectacle for Ihyeon.
The die had been cast.
The tips of Ihyeon’s fingers and toes tingled with exhilarating tension.
“Kill them…!!!!!”
Screeeech——!!
Even as he watched countless tentacles, attack spells, and bizarre body parts that defied description bearing down upon him.
Yet.
‘My die always rolls a six.’
This was a battle Ihyeon could not lose.
* * *
“Push forward! Victory is ours if we reach that point!”
“Hold the line! Slaughter them all without mercy!”
Outside the Minister’s Hall in the Land of Storms.
The fierce war between the expedition and the Duogsinis raged on.
In truth, it was a battle of narrow margins with both sides gaining and losing ground, but with morale itself shattered here, defeat was certain—so both sides screamed at the top of their lungs.
Yet even such fierce combat came to an abrupt halt at a sudden catastrophic event.
Kwaaaang——!!!
“???”
“What, what is this?”
A tremendous explosion erupted from the upper levels of the Minister’s Hall, which until moments ago had been spewing forth all manner of Duogsinis.
Naturally, the expedition members who had been watching this unfold were shocked.
“The, the Minister’s Hall!”
“Could it be that place?!”
Even the Saedos who should have been controlling the Duogsinis fell into utter chaos.
The Saedos themselves roughly understood where the explosion had occurred.
Though they rarely visited, it was where the Cardinals of the Round Table gathered—a place of terror for the Saedos.
With the Left and Right Lawkeepers now dead, it was essentially the highest-tier combat force remaining in the sect—could something have happened there?
But the shockwave did not end there.
Kwaaaack——!!!
The beam that caused the explosion not only blew away the ceiling of the Minister’s Hall but pierced straight through the upper body of the Giant floating above it from below to above.
“Kill them! Behind us——”
A Giant composed of earth spiders does not easily perish from mere physical attacks.
Squirm squirm—
It attempted to gather the earth spiders and regenerate itself somehow, but.
Even if they weren’t vulnerable to physical attacks, physical attacks were still physical attacks.
Gaaahhhhh——
The Giant, having finally reached the limits of regeneration, failed to achieve his goal and scattered into black rain across the Minister’s Hall.
Most didn’t know it, but my mana bullets already had various attributes infused within them.
The Saedos gnashed their teeth and shouted.
“These cowardly bastards! How dare you ambush from behind!”
Naturally, a swift response came from the expedition.
“Can we even match your level of cowardice?”
“We don’t know what’s going on either, but we have no reason to hear such words from those who don’t hesitate at night raids and hostage-taking!”
“Well… that’s…”
“That’s true, isn’t it?”
The cult, though deeply aggrieved and displeased in their hearts, couldn’t push back given what they’d done so far.
In any case, this explosion had undoubtedly shattered the cult’s morale significantly.
Whether the Cardinals actually suffered was unclear, but the fact that an explosion occurred in the Minister’s Hall remained unchanged.
So what had happened to the Round Table’s Cardinals, who had suddenly become the center of everyone’s attention?
“This…! Have you ever seen such a madman…?!”
The Round Table’s Cardinals originally assisted the High Priest in an equal relationship with no hierarchical superiority.
Yet among them, there was clearly a distinction between senior and junior, and an atmosphere where their leader was tacitly determined.
Akne.
Originally the Tribal Chief of a Nomad tribe, he had met the High Priest after the first eclipse and became a Cardinal.
He was the most senior among the Cardinals and had accepted the most Earthspiders.
He was practically among the strongest in the Land of Storms.
Thang—!
“Cough!”
Even for someone like Akne, witnessing twelve fellow Cardinals slaughtered in the blink of an eye left him unable to collect himself.
The last remaining Cardinal beside him had just had his chest blown wide open.
Akne’s trembling eyes glared at me.
The small monster entity in his hand.
Though it appeared smaller than a human palm, the power contained within it was formidable beyond measure.
When a Cardinal fired attack magic, it tore through the magic itself.
When tentacles swung, it shredded the tentacles themselves.
The beam shot from the tip of that bizarre monster entity tore through all of it and came charging like a beast.
That said, I wasn’t relying solely on that monster entity’s power either.
The Cardinals had initially coordinated their attacks.
They occupied all sides and unleashed their respective assaults, but my mysterious movement techniques and inherent mobility far surpassed the Cardinals’ level.
Yes.
Akne’s will to fight was completely broken when I threw myself between hundreds of tentacles and, nestled in my master’s arms, had my upper body torn away.
After that, two of the Cardinals hastily activated a secret passage to attempt escape.
– I told you not to run.
Somehow finding the Cardinals who had hidden their bodies in an instant, I killed them all with a single simple shot.
As a result, the ornately decorated chambers of the Cardinals were reduced to rubble with the sky visible through the gaping holes left by the explosions.
In the end, only Akne survived among the thirteen Cardinals who had sat at the round table.
Could one even call this survival?
‘A Grim Reaper….’
Watching the Cardinals perish in an instant, Akne naturally arrived at such a word.
Though they themselves served a being they called a ‘god,’ Ihyeon seemed no less worthy of the title.
Thud—
Ihyeon, confirming that Akne stood alone, took a step toward him.
Crunch—
Akne, possessing two pairs of long limbs, shrank back at the mere act of walking.
All five of his joints seemed reluctant to extend forward, each one withdrawing as if unwilling to lead.
Despite the fierce battle he had just waged, Ihyeon’s face was pristine—not a trace of blood or dust marred his appearance.
Ihyeon glanced around the chamber once before exhaling and asking.
“Where is the High Priest?”
“I… don’t know.”
Akne feared his teeth might shatter from grinding against each other, but he mustered his last reserves of willpower and shook his head.
The High Priest was different from them.
He did not simply use dust as a tool for combat.
Rather, it was more that….
‘No matter what, I must never let this madman reach the High Priest!’
Even in a mind consumed by dust, one absolute principle remained.
Protect the High Priest at all costs.
Even if it meant his own death.
“You don’t know? Or you won’t tell me?”
“Would you tell me if our positions were reversed!”
At Ihyeon’s casual question, Akne bared his fangs.
He held no confidence in defeating this absurd monster alone.
Yet the creature likely had no way of knowing where the High Priest was hidden in this vast cathedral, so he had to buy time however he could.
Surely the High Priest they knew would find some way to turn the tide.
Despite his terror, Ihyeon detected a steely resolve in the Cardinal’s expression and exhaled once more.
‘This really isn’t my style.’

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