I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 371

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Episode 371
Ep. 371
But a god is still a god, after all.
The Sun God circled around Ihyeon, speaking in a bright voice.
“I wouldn’t have descended at all under normal circumstances. No matter how strong one might be, unless they could inflict serious damage upon my younger brother’s Divine Incarnation, I would never come. But you’re different.”
“Is that so?”
Ihyeon spoke as if chewing and swallowing each word carefully.
“Isn’t it said that what is soft is more difficult than what is strong? I came because I thought you would surely be able to find a better way than killing my younger brother. If you discover that method, you’ll receive a fitting reward.”
Whether intentionally or not, the Sun God had offered a rather important clue.
‘Destroying the Death God outright is the worst approach.’
It was shocking from the start that he would need to cultivate such power, but according to Ihyeon’s reasoning,
‘The fact that the Sun God himself has appeared means I’ve already satisfied certain conditions.’
At minimum, without possessing strength comparable to Ihyeon’s, one would never encounter the Sun God on the 100th floor.
In other words, to achieve an S+ rank, I would need to faithfully fulfill that request.
Noticing the change in Ihyeon’s expression, the Sun God spoke with delight.
“Exactly that, my boy! Though the Death God has now lost his reason so completely that he even obscures me, his elder brother, he remains a true god nonetheless. What would happen if the very concept of death vanished from this land? Damage beyond what a Divine Incarnation can bear directly affects the true god. Even if temporary, it would surely bring immense suffering. You possess such overwhelming power—I earnestly ask that you consider this carefully.”
It was incomprehensible how a single human could possess such tremendous power, but the Sun God’s concern was grave.
A god is order itself.
No matter how malevolent a god might be, each presides over something in this world.
Especially the Death God—he cannot be omitted under any circumstance.
Death is lamentable, but it is an essential concept.
If one could not die despite suffering from a painful illness,
If one could not die despite having wounds that drained all blood from one’s body,
If one could not die despite becoming useless and left to rot upon the grasslands,
If one could not even perceive the concept of death itself and had to accept it as natural,
Then even if the enemy were vanquished this very moment, should such a world come to pass, the great grasslands could never truly regain stability.
Ihyeon accepted this concern as well.
“Understood. Then I will not destroy the soul.”
“Thank you so much! I wish I could help you more, but I’ve been drained of much power—this is all I can manage.”
The Sun God shone brilliantly with delight, as if the conversation had gone well.
Ihyeon considered his next move instead.
‘The Karmic Flames of Heavenly Hell?’
A fire that never extinguishes regardless of what the target is, burning until the target dies or exhausts their karma.
It was indeed a unique skill obtained through fusion with Erkastrula’s horns.
The Sun God, sensing what Ihyeon was thinking, suddenly jumped up again.
“Again! Again! Didn’t you just promise me you wouldn’t kill him!”
He had just said he wouldn’t kill, and now he was about to unleash flames that would burn until death—what was this!
Of course, ordinary flames would only cleanly incinerate the Divine Incarnation without affecting the true god.
But Ihyeon’s firepower was far from “ordinary.”
Moreover, even from a god’s perspective, that skill was quite troublesome.
It is the fire of Hwacheonjihell, the afterlife.
One could say it falls under the domain governed by the Death God, but since the world system itself is entirely different, it doesn’t apply.
Not only would it deal an irreversible blow to the Divine Incarnation, but to the true god as well, and if that happened, the destruction of this world would be inevitable.
Neither the Death God nor the Sun God could guarantee their survival if they were struck by such an attack.
When the Sun God blocked the way again, Ihyeon spoke with an irritated expression.
“Then what exactly am I supposed to do?”
This won’t work, that won’t work—with so many conditions to satisfy, how was I supposed to achieve my objective?
“Should I just fire a mana bullet?”
“I’m not entirely sure what a mana bullet means, but is that also a weapon designed for killing?”
“Of course it is.”
“Then that seems problematic.”
“Good grief….”
These were truly troublesome conditions.
But the Sun God had something to say as well.
“It’s all because you’re far too powerful, my boy!”
As I mentioned before, the Sun God would rarely have needed to descend in such circumstances.
The best outcome would have been to simply restrain the Divine Incarnation to an appropriate degree.
However, because Ihyeon’s power was so extremely overwhelming, intervention became unavoidable.
It wasn’t exactly a weakness, but in a sense, it was Ihyeon’s weakness as well.
Even with a skill to control output, the firepower was already so tremendous that producing an appropriate result was impossible.
It was like binary code—life or death had to be cleanly separated, nothing in between.
“Tsk, in a way, the expression that you are the Death God might suit you better.”
The Sun God was equally at a loss and was beginning to feel sorry for Ihyeon.
Though it was unavoidable for the sake of the world, the responsibility had already become too heavy for a single human to bear.
Ihyeon organized the conditions the Sun God had presented once more.
“So you’re saying I need to make the Death God regain consciousness, but the damage can’t be so severe that it affects the true god?”
“Exactly that!”
‘Is this really a request a god makes of a human?’
It was absurd, even if it was all because I was too strong.
If it was that important, he should do it himself.
But apart from that, Ihyeon did have one option remaining.
“I never thought I’d find such a useful application for this skill.”
When I first obtained it, I wasn’t sure where to use such a skill, but it turned out there were quite a few places for it.
I’d used it once before too.
But the more I thought about it, the more ironic the situation became.
“Do you have any good ideas?”
“I do have one.”
“Oh! What a capable boy you are!”
The Sun God finally felt joy at the hope that he could fully preserve the world he cherished.
But.
Ssshhhhiiiik——
“H-h-hiiieeek!!!”
“W-what? You really don’t intend to kill me, right?”
The moment I saw the lethal smile spreading across Ihyeon’s lips, I was seized by inexplicable dread.
How could anyone smile so dangerously?
Ihyeon shook his head in denial.
“No, sir. While everything does meet the conditions set by the Sun God, the method I’m considering isn’t particularly merciful.”
“What does that matter? My younger brother has already crossed the line long ago. If he regains his senses, I’ll have him atone by imprisoning him deep underground for tens of thousands of years.”
That would suffice.
‘Hopefully this god won’t complain later about how I turned my younger brother into this, or anything like that.’
From what I’ve heard, even a Divine Incarnation is closely connected to the original deity, so the effect should be decent enough.
Ihyeon aimed his sniper rifle at the Divine Incarnation once more.
The method Ihyeon had mentioned was none other than.
‘Slime Bullet.’
Click-clack— click—
Just as it had been with the Dragon King in the ocean before, when someone’s mind was temporarily unsound, a single shot of this skill would snap them right back to reality.
“I can tolerate this no longer! You dare drag even your brother into this to obstruct my work! Bury yourselves all in the sand!”
By then, the Divine Incarnation had exhausted every effort trying to erase the demon’s mark, ultimately failed, and grew even more enraged.
Rat-a-tat-tat——!!
The Retainers who had been approaching the Temple slowly suddenly accelerated their pace.
As they charged toward the Temple, their momentum was truly formidable.
“N-no, they’re coming!”
“Does the Lord have no solution?!”
Engaging the legion of Retainers meant certain defeat.
The Knights and Warriors stood helpless in that moment.
Bang—!
Ihyeon finally broke his silence and pulled the trigger.
The Slime Bullet rushed toward its target as it always did.
The distance to the Divine Incarnation was considerable, but it posed no real obstacle.
Impact came in an instant.
However.
Thud—!
As if tossing a single pebble into a vast ocean, the Slime Bullet simply sank into the sand that composed the Divine Incarnation’s body.
Rat-a-tat-tat——
The Retainers accelerated even further, and the Divine Incarnation showed no particular disturbance.
“W-what?”
“The Lord definitely tried something, didn’t he?”
“Is it true that even the Lord is powerless against a god?”
My subordinates couldn’t help but waver at this turn of events.
None of them had ever seen me use the Slime Bullet before, so their confusion was only natural.
Ihyeon’s sniper rifle had always been marked by its overwhelming destructive power—the moment it fired, it obliterated any enemy in a single shot.
But surely the Sun God, who seemed to read the very hearts of men, would have grasped the meaning hidden within Ihyeon’s move….
“What did you just do? Even if I told you not to kill anyone, what’s the point if all your retainers are destroyed?”
“….”
I thought he’d be impressed, but he was merely astonished.
The Light Spirit manifested by the Sun God flickered slowly, its luminescence pulsing with bewilderment.
Even for a god, it seemed unfamiliar with skills like Slime Bullet.
I found myself thinking that Ihyeon hardly seemed like a god at all—far too bumbling for that.
The Death God, by contrast, carried far more dignity, even if in a sinister sense.
“Regardless, it is disrespectful to a god.”
“Yes.”
Ihyeon gave a perfunctory nod to the sulking Sun God and turned his attention to observe the Death God.
He wasn’t showing any reaction yet, but a response would surely come soon.
‘This skill has never disappointed me once.’
And indeed it hadn’t.
Trembling, trembling, trembling——
“What, what’s wrong with him now?”
“Battle stations! Battle stations!”
“No, something’s strange about the Divine Incarnation….”
The Divine Incarnation, which had been standing at a height nearly equal to the Temple and scattering overwhelming offensive magic, suddenly began to tremble.
Or perhaps it wasn’t the Divine Incarnation itself, but rather all the sand comprising its form that had begun to shake.
But the Knights and Warriors facing the frontlines against the retainers had little attention to spare for such matters.
“Shields forward.”
“Ugh… I really hate this.”
“Beep beep beep. Please deploy the reserves to the front line.”
Jia, Elsie, and even Blue focused entirely on defending their respective sectors, pushing the Divine Incarnation aside for the moment.
Just as the retainers and the Expedition Team, charging forward with robotic expressionlessness, were about to collide——
“Brace for impact!!!!”
Whisper—— Crumble—! Crumble—!
“Impact…! Wait, what?”
A miracle had occurred.
The retainers themselves, along with the very weapons they wielded, crumbled back into sand at the precise moment before collision with the Expedition Team, as if timed by someone’s hand.
The Warriors, who had braced themselves for a tremendous physical impact and poured all their strength into their shields, found only soft sand striking them and poked their heads outside in bewilderment to assess the situation.
Crumble—! Crumble—!
Countless retainers were still dissolving into sand across the battlefield.
Meanwhile, from atop the Temple, Ihyeon and the Sun God looked down upon the Outside in a single glance.
“Hmm?”
The Sun God had also noticed the anomaly.
The youth called Ilgyeok had certainly not employed any particularly powerful technique.
Something shot forth from the tip of his staff, which was curious, but that was all.
The projectile didn’t appear to contain any significant power.
But the Divine Incarnation that was actually struck by it was different.
The sand that constituted the Divine Incarnation itself began to tremble violently, and all of its retainers were simultaneously dissolved.
“What in the world!!!! What have you done to me!!!! Aaaaaahhhhh————!!!!!”
Then a terrible scream of agony—unimaginable coming from a god—echoed across the entire grassland.
“Hey, you said you wouldn’t kill me!”
The Sun God cried out urgently, wondering if Ihyeon had perhaps forgotten his promise all this time.
…In many ways, Ihyeon and the Sun God had little trust in each other.

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