I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 373

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Episode 373
Ep. 373
[Ilgyeok clears 1000 floors, notice released, management agency grasps situation]
└ Reporter, did your keyboard break?
└ But is this real? They cleared 100 floors?
└ It’s 1000 floors, please scroll down
└ My cousin is a Hunter, and we were eating chicken together when he got so shocked he broke the table
“ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What are posts without verification?”
└ (photo)
└ …Is this real? ]
Just by looking at the article riddled with typos that hadn’t even received proper editorial review, one could gauge the magnitude of the shock.
“Code Black! Activate Code Black!”
“Crane Protocol 2 engaged!”
…In truth, it wasn’t only the public who was astonished.
Upon hearing news of the 100th floor’s clearance, both the Management Agency and the Tower Authority independently acknowledged it as an emergency situation through their executive powers.
It was only natural, given that high-ranking officials from both ministries had already deduced what would transpire after the Main Tower’s 100th floor was cleared.
The integration of Main Towers across the entire world.
As a consequence, the simultaneous opening of gates could not be ruled out either.
There was precedent for two A-rank gates suddenly opening in the heart of Seoul merely because the conclusion of the Main Tower had been discussed—anyone aware of this reality would find it difficult to call the response excessive.
In fact, Erubein, who had requested Ihyeon to conquer the Main Tower, was equally shocked.
“Chris! Chris! Did you see the notice just now?”
“Yes.”
The manager practically tumbled into Erubein’s quarters.
Erubein responded with his usual brief tone, but his expression told a different story.
“Eek! Erubein, no matter how surprised you are, you can’t kill people!”
“Hmm?”
“Ah, my apologies. Your expression was just so….”
The manager knew well how formidable Erubein’s power was.
His current expression was terrifying enough that he could casually strike down any person in his sight without it being strange.
…Perhaps the fact that the only person visible in Erubein’s eyes was the manager himself further heightened his sense of crisis.
In any case, Erubein cleared the notice hovering before him and nodded.
“Ilgyeok truly never ceases to amaze me.”
“Yes? Ah, yes, indeed. I never expected him to climb two more floors in succession after the 99th, reaching the 100th….”
The manager nodded while wiping away the cold sweat that had begun trickling down his temples.
For reasons unknown, ascending two floors of the Main Tower in a single day—and those being new floors, not already-conquered ones—was extraordinarily unusual.
System rewards for clearing new floors were invaluable to Hunters, and attempting two new floors in one day meant deliberately forfeiting those rewards.
However, upon hearing the manager’s words, Erubein shook his head.
“That’s not it.”
“Then what is it?”
“I can’t be certain without verification, but I suspect they were started consecutively.”
“Wh-wh-what?!!!?!”
After decades as a civil servant, I had grown weary of shocking revelations, yet my eyes widened in disbelief at this very moment.
They had started consecutively?
The 99th and 100th floors?
This wasn’t merely a matter of a Hunter choosing to forfeit rewards from consecutive conquests.
A chill ran down my spine.
“That means….”
The 99th and 100th floors—levels no one on Earth had ever set foot upon until now.
But what if the Tower had forced entry, not by his own will?
Typically, Hunters endured grueling research and preparation spanning extended periods just to ascend a single floor.
Even the lower floors, where information was relatively abundant, demanded such sacrifice.
With lives hanging in the balance, every hour invested in research might very well be the difference between survival and death.
“Perhaps the 100th floor was effortless for Ilgyeok.”
“!!!!!”
Erubein’s calm conjecture left me so startled I nearly leaped from my seat.
Did that even make sense?
The American government had been conducting endless research on Ilgyeok.
That accumulated confidence had ultimately led to Yunjung’s dispatch.
…I had no idea what Yunjung was doing behind our backs right now, but regardless.
According to American intelligence, Ilgyeok’s abilities were definitively superior to Erubein’s.
Yet the consensus held that he was struggling considerably in the 90s.
Even for Ilgyeok, there was no way he could ascend a floor per day as he once did.
The Korean government claimed to have agreed with Ilgyeok to conquer one new floor per month.
But they never disclosed whether Ilgyeok truly had the leisure to do so, or if his maximum speed was merely one floor per month.
Common sense suggested the latter.
The notion that even the 90s—where the Hero himself had abandoned conquest—could be ascended at the previous pace was excessive optimism.
Yet if this were truly fact, American projections required drastic revision.
‘Could it really be… that Ilgyeok can reach the very end of the Tower?’
Ilgyeok’s superiority over the Hero remained unchanged.
But it wasn’t mere superiority.
Overwhelming superiority.
An advantage so decisive that even the Hero couldn’t compete—which meant he could even accomplish the unexpected conquest of the 100th floor, didn’t it?
The more I dwelled on it, the more horrifying it became; the more I reconsidered, the more astounding it was.
Caught off guard by the announcement, I had been in disarray, but now I could finally grasp what Ilgyeok had accomplished.
Those with sufficient knowledge of the Tower thought similarly.
The 100th floor might be merely a number, but humans inevitably ascribe meaning to such things.
[ Title: 100th Floor Cleared
Content: It doesn’t seem like a simple 100th floor clear. Like when the auction house opened before, won’t a new function open again?
└ There’s no way this just passes quietly.
└ Could the Tower actually be ending?
└ Subsect? What???
└ That doesn’t make sense lol. I don’t think there’s much difference between clearing the 50th floor and the 100th floor.
└ Still, something feels like it’s about to happen ]
Around the time people gathered on the internet and began offering various speculations about the meaning of clearing the 100th floor.
“Phew.”
Ihyeon emerged from the Main Tower and returned to his home’s courtyard.
He hadn’t even checked his rewards for clearing the 100th floor yet, simply waiting for the notification window to appear.
‘If something’s going to happen, it should be coming soon.’
It wouldn’t simply be glossed over as if nothing had occurred.
As if responding to Ihyeon’s anticipation, before the eyes of every Hunter across the globe.
「The Main Tower’s first 100th floor clear has been confirmed.
Critical changes have occurred.」
Notifications began appearing in succession.
「Effective immediately, all Main Towers worldwide will be unified.
Access to the 101st floor and beyond is restricted to the first qualifier only.
The settings for floors 91 through 100 will be adjusted.
The timer for the 101st floor and beyond remains at 100 days.
These conditions remain valid until the first qualifier’s death.」
First, the Main Tower unification proceeded as predicted.
The timer remained the same as before, but only Ihyeon could ascend to the 101st floor.
‘The adjustment to the 90-floor range towers probably means they’ll be made identical to the previous floors.’
The statement that it remains valid until Ihyeon’s death likely meant that the next candidate would only be selected after his death.
Up to this point, nothing had deviated significantly from what Ihyeon and Erubein had anticipated.
「Effective immediately, the acquisition conditions for S+ rank items are relaxed.
S+ rank items may appear at low probability in item rewards.
The S+ rank items that appear will be determined according to the acquirer’s inclination.」
“Hmm….”
However, this was unexpected.
The appearance of S+ rank items.
So far, there had been a total of three S+ rank items that appeared centered around Ihyeon.
Jia, Elsie, and Roel.
In other words, S+ rank items that previously required extremely special conditions to obtain could now be given like ordinary items.
Of course, even if the system calls it a “low probability,” it would be extraordinarily rare, but from a global perspective, it wouldn’t be insignificant.
Moreover, there was the phrase “according to the acquirer’s inclination” appended to the final line.
It would likely take considerable time for the meaning contained in this sentence to become widely known, but at least Ihyeon understood what it meant.
“Now the factional conflict between Watchmen and Overlords will begin on Earth as well.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Ugh, how tedious.”
The Spirits affirmed Ihyeon’s words.
It was somewhat curious that such restrictions were only lifted after reaching the 100th floor, but perhaps this too was part of the Overlord’s scheme.
Since it was difficult to find a way to stop Ihyeon inside the tower, the strategy shifted toward shaking the outside world and creating chaos instead.
Of course, even so, Ihyeon wasn’t particularly concerned about it.
“Roel seems like a good person, so wouldn’t it be fine?”
“….”
“Roel, that bastard is good? He’s only like that to the Master!”
Jia answered with silence, while Elsie showed a reaction of utter disbelief.
‘He really does seem like a good person though.’
Ihyeon figured that since the spirits belonged to a different faction, their responses made sense.
Even if Roel spoke roughly at times, he always listened well to Ihyeon’s requests.
Based on what Minjeong said, it seemed he was quite helpful.
Of course, at this very moment, Roel was—
“Kekekek…. Kahahaha!!!! Followers of the Watchman! The time has come for my comrades to devour the world!”
He was bursting into maniacal laughter upon seeing the announcement that S+ grade items were being officially released.
All the anger and resentment he had suppressed, the oppression and ridicule!
With his reliable comrades by his side, he could sweep away Ilgyeok and his subordinates in an instant and unfold the Overlord’s will before all creation!
Or perhaps the Overlord had specially sent him outside for this very moment?
“Kheup… Overlord… I humbly accept your noble will….”
Roel wiped away tears, moved by the Overlord’s arrangement.
Indeed, the true master of the tower was none other than the Overlord!
Just as he was reinforcing this belief once more—
“What are you suddenly doing, crying and laughing? Did you finish all the work I assigned?”
“Hehehehe, Mingzhu, now is not the time to be doing such trivial tasks….”
“Trivial? Trivial wooooork????”
“No, listen to me for a moment….”
“Did you just call the Frontier’s duties trivial?”
“That’s why, the Overlord’s touch right now….”
“Ugh, never mind! Just get back to work! Shove it all into your inventory right now?!!”
“S, sorry….”
Thanks to Minjeong’s fierce glare and scolding, Roel was awakened to reality.
The Overlord’s will and all that—he was nothing more than one of the poor K-workers grinding away at grueling labor!
In fact, the Frontier’s Korean branch that Minjeong and Roel were managing was suffering from unexpectedly intense workload.
Even though Claude’s identity had been revealed, the organization itself remained secret—the Frontier.
However, the Frontier’s Korean branch had been exposed along with the series of incidents, so an enormous number of people were trying to contact the Frontier through the Korean branch.
Ihyeon’s 100th floor clear, the Main Tower integration, S+ items—all of it was amazing and fascinating news.
“Someone now knows their home password but is sleeping in the office, while someone else——!”
“I said I was sorry…!”
It seemed Minjeong still hadn’t fully grasped the situation.
Meanwhile, after the announcement’s contents began to be properly analyzed, the internet heated up once more.
There was nothing particularly surprising anymore, but naturally the content was praise for Ilgyeok.
[ Title: Now that the Main Tower is integrated—
Content: Isn’t it pointless for nations to squabble over stealing Hunters from each other?
└ That’s not even the half of it. Now that the timer is unified into one, there’s no need to force a breakthrough to the highest floor.
└ Plus, Ilgyeok lifted the restrictions on S+ items.
└ Just say it—God Ilgyeok!
└ God Ilgyeok!
└ God Ilgyeok ]
Until now, Ihyeon had brought about numerous changes to the Tower’s culture, far beyond simply clearing S+ ranks.
Security in the public floors was strengthened further, and Hunters began stepping forward eagerly whenever emergencies arose elsewhere, regardless of whether it concerned their own floors.
[ Title: Does this mean we’re sharing the 60s floors with Korea now?
Content: I really hope so. Honestly, I haven’t been climbing the 60s because they’re too dangerous.
└ The directors of the Ilgeuk Foundation came to our country not long ago and swept through it for us.
└ Really? I’m jealous. I wish our government would push for that soon too 😀
└ But now there’s no need for that! Since we’re using the 60s floors together with Korea. ]
Korea’s 60s floors had become yet another landmark worthy of mention.
The safe route through the 70s floors was equally so.
Of course, these latter two accomplishments were spearheaded by the Ilgeuk Foundation rather than Ihyeon himself, but without Ilgyeok, the Ilgeuk Foundation wouldn’t exist either.
And then, on top of that, hadn’t he cleanly resolved the highest floor conquest and timer problems—issues that were practically the most pressing concern for all but a few superpowers?
Korea had worried less since Ilgyeok himself was there, but middle powers and developing nations increasingly burdened by the highest floor conquest would have gladly extended him a state visit invitation.
It reached the point where locals would ask Korean tourists “Do you know Ilgyeok?” first—a phenomenon that defied explanation!
Of course, for Koreans, the question “Do you know Ilgyeok?” landed quite differently.
“I don’t really know him that well.”
“Are you Korean?”
“Yes, I am Korean.”
“Then we’re all brothers!”
“???”
Tourist destinations began offering meal and accommodation discounts exclusively to Koreans, to the point that an “Ilgyeok Discount Tourist Map” was created online.
[ Title: What can’t Ilgyeok do, seriously?
Content: He cuts tariffs, raises GDP, clears the Tower, discounts travel expenses.
└ He’s done it all~
└ Yeah, and our bureaucrats even leaked his personal information for him~
└ But he couldn’t become my husband.
└ Get out of here before I really get mad
└ Saw on the internet that the 100% discount event for clearing floor 100 will proceed as originally planned, in a month
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s legendary that they were already planning it ]
In any case, though somewhat sudden, the news that Ilgyeok had reached the summit of the 100th floor—a height no one had ever scaled before—sent Korea and indeed the entire world into a festival atmosphere.
And that same atmosphere pervaded Ihyeon’s home as well.
“Now for the rewards! Let’s open the rewards!”

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