I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 376

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Episode 376
Ep. 376
‘Elsie has been using S-rank items for quite some time now, so I should give Jia something comparable for fairness.’
Jia, who had been scraping by until now with the B-rank spear of Rex Lizardman.
…Though I wondered if describing her performance as merely “scraping by” was even accurate, the truth remained that it felt somewhat lacking at this point.
Moreover, unlike Elsie and Blue, who mostly operated independently, Jia had been working even harder, managing that reckless Knight Order on top of everything else.
Since she’d obtained the spear anyway, I might as well strengthen our overall combat capabilities.
“Try using this spear from now on.”
WHOOOOOOSH————!!!!!
“Ugh, AHHHHHHH!!! Armor Fox, you’ve gone insane!!!!!”
“W-what is this noise?!”
“An explosion, there’s an explosion at the Master’s residence!”
“All forces, combat stations!!!!”
The moment I handed the spear to Jia, a tremendous tempest erupted centered on her.
Small Elsie was sent flying like a kite, and Minjeong and Donghoo, who were in the main building, rushed out in shock.
Naturally, the One-Strike Knight Order guarding the house went on high alert.
However, from within the dust cloud stirred up by the windstorm.
Thud— Thud—
“No problems whatsoever.”
When Jia walked out calmly, holding not the silver spear from before but a golden-gleaming spear, the chaos subsided considerably.
“The Captain has handled everything!”
“Kyaa! As expected of Captain!”
“If Jia says there’s no problem, then there isn’t one.”
“That gave us quite a scare.”
With that, Minjeong, Donghoo, and the squad members who had rushed out could return to their posts with relief.
However.
“Knights, wait a moment.”
“??”
Jia stopped the knights who had gathered and stepped closer to them, asking a question.
“Do you notice anything different about me?”
“?!?!???!!?!”
“I-I saw this on the internet!”
‘…How?’
“You must answer correctly!”
“Find it! Find what’s different no matter what!”
The Knight Order went on high alert once more.
The squad members swarmed around Jia like a cloud, scrutinizing her from head to toe with the determination not to miss a single detail.
“Sigh, there’s nothing wrong with anything. That poor Legendary Sword flew all the way outside the fence and back. But what are those guys doing, Master?”
Just then, Elsie returned, tidying her disheveled hair, and asked.
“Well, Jia asked them if they noticed anything different about her, so that’s why they’re acting like that.”
“W-what?!?!? That Armor Fox asked such a horrifying question?!?!?”
‘Why is everyone like this?’
Ihyeon thought they were all making far too much fuss over nothing.
Of course, if my primary weapon had completely changed, I could have asked the same thing.
It wasn’t even that difficult to find…
“Argh! I can’t find it! I absolutely can’t find it!”
“Hurry, just search the internet!”
“The world’s ending soon, come on!”
‘…They can’t find it?’
Ihyeon harbored deep concerns that something serious might be wrong with his squad members’ intelligence.
Jia hadn’t deliberately hidden it.
She was displaying it so proudly right in front of them that their inability to find it wasn’t an intelligence issue—it was just…
‘Do the Undead have poor eyesight?’
That was the only explanation he could come up with.
“But what exactly changed about the Armor Fox?”
“…Are you serious?”
So why was Elsie like this?
Eventually, the apocalypse that the squad members had dramatically predicted while making a fuss arrived sooner than expected.
“Full formation.”
“Y-yes, formation!”
The squad members, their discipline suddenly tightened, aligned themselves in perfect rows and columns at Jia’s final command.
With the lines arranged, what came next was obvious.
“Begin physical conditioning on your own.”
“Hup! Hup!”
“Lift your legs higher, higher!”
It was the hellish PT exercises that had now become a national pastime for them.
She seemed genuinely furious that the squad members hadn’t recognized the Death Spear that Ihyeon had personally given them.
The peaceful atmosphere of Ihyeon’s home was suddenly filled with the loud cadence of PT exercises and groans of agony.
‘The fact that there are still rewards left to confirm is incredible.’
The rewards from the 100th floor hadn’t finished yet.
I needed to verify everything before testing the effects of exclusive skills or items, and even rushing through felt insufficient.
Next was the skill from reaching level 85.
“Honestly, since I hit the jackpot with the item, I’m not expecting much from the skill.”
“What if it’s F-rank?”
“If it’s just a light B-rank, that would be…”
“…Are you serious?”
Of course, there seemed to be a significant gap in expectations between Ihyeon and the Spirits, but in reality, since Ihyeon almost never received skills below B-rank, that would indeed be considered ordinary.
But then.
“…”
“D-don’t tell me it actually turned out to be F-rank?”
Ihyeon’s expression hardened like stone as I examined the skill options.
Elsie, wondering if her words had jinxed things, asked with a look as if she could hear the sound of something cracking.
If this narrow-minded master claimed that only F-grade skills appeared because of her words, she couldn’t even imagine what kind of retribution would come crashing down.
Phone confiscation for 100 days, ice cream confiscation for 100 days, beef confiscation for 100 days, and so on….
But.
“Elsie.”
“Huh, yes?”
“Your words seem to have taken the hit for me instead.”
“Wh-what?”
It was the opposite.
‘She’s grown taller, but how does she manage to do only cute things?’
Ihyeon glanced at Elsie with eyes that suggested I wouldn’t mind biting her, then checked the options once more.
To be precise, B-grade skills had mostly appeared as I expected.
But what was the point of having options?
Even if two out of three were B-grade.
「2. Temporal Distortion Snipe (S)」
If just one was S-grade, wouldn’t that be more than enough to make up for it?
Another S-grade skill had appeared, following Soul Destruction.
Moreover, its name carried such tremendous impact—distorting time itself.
‘This is absolutely insane.’
Ihyeon, fearing someone might remove the options, decided to.
「You have acquired Temporal Distortion Snipe (S).」
Choose and think it over later.
An innate S-grade skill was in a different class compared to simply raising lower-grade skills one tier at a time.
Temporal Distortion Snipe surely possessed effects no less powerful than Soul Destruction.
‘Does it mean slowing time and then sniping?’
From the name alone, it seemed like that effect, but reading the description revealed it was somewhat different.
「Temporal Distortion Snipe (S)
Distorts the time of the sniped target.
The degree of distortion and duration are proportional to the caster’s total stats.
Limited to once per day.」
“Hmm… so.”
Ihyeon pondered for a moment.
Distorting the time of the sniped target?
It didn’t seem to be merely a skill that slowed time to make sniping easier.
Well, that’s probably why it was an innate S-grade skill.
‘For now, I’ll enter the practice range and see for myself.’
The rewards I’d obtained this time were so abundant that opening the practice range was essential.
But it seemed like the rewards should have ended here originally.
「100 consecutive S+ grade clears.
Special rewards have been added to your inventory.
Please check your inventory.”
‘What is this now?’
It wasn’t over yet.
I told the spirits that I had received 100 consecutive S+ rewards from clearing floors.
“Well, that exists too.”
“Really~ how far are you going to cheat~”
The response that came back was not much different from usual.
Well, I didn’t ask Ihyeon to change anything, and the spirits added it on their own, so what could I do.
“Still, clearing 100 consecutive S+ floors is something I did, but it is quite impressive.”
“That much I’ll admit.”
Since S+ grade was something that could only be obtained through near-perfect strategy, it was natural that such special rewards existed.
I rummaged through my inventory window, wondering what exactly had been added.
And not long after.
“Uh, u-uh? They’re giving me this?”
“W-what is it, Master?!”
Even those watching showed a reaction that would make anyone incredibly curious.
I obtained S-grade items as casually as eating rice — though that wasn’t quite accurate — and equipped S-grade skills without hesitation — that wasn’t quite right either — so what could I have seen to be shocked like this?
「Soul Stone (???)*2」
It was two soul stones.
“Not enhancement stones, but two soul stones.”
I wondered if this was truly a reward befitting the special bonus for 100 consecutive S+ clears.
I had obtained one before and absorbed it into my sniper rifle, but since it showed no particular effect, I still had no idea what its purpose was.
However, Jia, Elsie, and Blue’s reactions were different.
“Y-y-y-you obtained soul stones?!?!??!!”
“Soul stones, Master?”
“Beep beep beep, soul stones are tremendous treasures. Two of them would be enough to turn the tower upside down.”
Elsiya was always prone to making a fuss anyway, but if even Jia and Blue reacted like that, soul stones were certainly extraordinary treasures.
“Right, but last time there was no particular effect either. You all said you couldn’t explain the purpose of soul stones either. If I give them to you, you can become stronger, right?”
“Well, that was back then….”
“It’s a bit different now, Master.”
“Oh, really?”
I listened to the spirits’ explanation with keen interest.
When I first obtained a soul stone, I was on the 45th floor.
Now that I had climbed more than twice that height, it seemed the tower’s restrictions had been unlocked.
The two spirits and the golem exchanged glances for a moment.
Soon, as was customary in such situations, Jia stepped forward and began the explanation.
“Soul stones are literally the seeds of souls.”
“Seeds of souls?”
“Yes, Master. Since we are also spirits, we are essentially souls. Through soul stones, we can achieve growth completely different from stat increases or enhancement stones.”
“…So that’s why you asked me for it back then.”
“Hmph, that Armor Fox, trying to monopolize the Spirit Stones all by herself.”
Ihyeon nodded as if he understood.
If Enhancement Stones simply strengthened an item’s function, and in the case of S+, added a Spirit’s characteristics,
then Spirit Stones meant they tremendously amplified the inherent power of S+ items.
“Then, for people without S+ items, it’s essentially meaningless, right?”
“Yes. However, aside from S+ items, there is one more use for Spirit Stones, though it’s extremely rare.”
“Hmm.”
Ihyeon glanced back at the sniper rifle without needing further explanation.
After all, there was already a precedent of using it once before.
“Beep beep beep. Awakened items are essentially empty vessels that can hold spirits. When you plant the seed of a spirit, a new spirit takes root.”
Specifically, in the Awakened item ‘Choi Ihyeon’s Sniper Rifle’.
Only then did I begin to dimly grasp the meaning of Awakened items and Spirit Stones.
Ihyeon asked.
“So, do you Spirits also end up inside S+ grade items like these Awakened items?”
“That’s not it.”
Elsie shook her head.
“Like the Armor Fox said earlier, Awakened items are incomparably rarer than S+ items. Usually, Watchmen or Overlords use their influence to create them.”
“I see.”
“And even if an Awakened item exists, creating a spirit by absorbing a Spirit Stone is a completely different matter.”
It was like a camel passing through the eye of a needle twice in a row.
“So it requires far more astronomical odds than I thought….”
Of course, without odds of that magnitude, producing this level of power would be nonsensical.
Otherwise, the Main Tower and everything else would have already concluded long ago.
“So, I already gave one Spirit Stone to the sniper rifle. Should I give these two to you?”
“Of course, even a lifetime of gratitude would be insufficient, Master….”
“Yeah, the Armor Fox is right. We think….”
“??”

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