I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 391

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Episode 391
Ep. 391
“Watchman.”
“I’ve realized something lately.”
“? What is it?”
“When my master calls me Watchman, it seems best not to answer at all.”
“….”
Ihyeon simply closed his mouth at the remarkably accurate observation.
He had no idea how much effort Ihyeon had poured into extracting information about the 101st Floor until now.
Leon, whether he was a Spirit like Jiana Elsie, couldn’t resist ice cream either, but even when offered ice cream and asked for information, he never answered.
Whether immunity had built up from such varied tactics, Leon now chose complete silence whenever he sensed that Ihyeon was about to ask him something important.
‘Tch, I really need to enter the 101st Floor now, but wouldn’t it help if he told me something at the very end?’
For Ihyeon, it was inevitably disappointing.
Even the simplest piece of information would be a great help.
Ihyeon deliberately wore a gloomy expression as he approached Jiana, Elsie, and Blue, who would enter the Tower with him.
“This is truly unfortunate, isn’t it?”
“However, if that is the Watchman’s intention, I cannot be of assistance.”
“Yeah, Master. Actually, we’ve done well without knowing, haven’t we?”
“I even named our team ‘Watchmen’ out of respect for Leon.”
“….”
The Spirits tilted their heads at Ihyeon’s unusual reaction.
It wasn’t the first or second time Leon had rejected him, and usually Ihyeon would think ‘I should trust the people I believe in’ and move on, but today something felt stubbornly stuck with him.
“Well, what can I expect from someone who thinks of me as just a big pimple?”
As he said this, his glances kept drifting toward where Leon was sitting, and it was terribly petty.
Leon finally sighed and raised the white flag.
“Fine, fine. Really.”
“I haven’t said anything yet, though?”
“I can see it coming from a mile away—if I die, what will you all do, who will manage this vast land, I’ve increased my subordinates so much but I’m sorry I can’t take responsibility, that sort of thing you’ll rattle off.”
“Oh.”
I hadn’t thought that far.
Ihyeon, who had planned to make one last emotional appeal and then enter the 101st Floor without hesitation if it didn’t work, was amazed by Leon’s eloquence.
It seemed that to become a Watchman, one needed not only outstanding ability but also eloquence.
But the wall Leon had maintained until now didn’t seem to be just to fool Ihyeon; his hint was remarkably simple.
“In the 100-level floors, you’ll need to correct the past.”
“The past?”
“Ugh, I don’t know! I’ve said my piece, so I’m going in for a while!”
Leon grumbled and hid himself inside the sniper rifle.
As one climbs to higher floors, the Tower’s restrictions grow increasingly stronger.
It seemed to be a considerable burden even at that level.
Thinking about it that way made him feel a little sorry, but….
‘I’ll have to give Leon another soul stone if I obtain one later.’
Ultimately, it was a problem that could only be resolved by Ihyeon climbing the Tower.
If I could just get a proper feel for things on the 101st floor, everything else should flow smoothly afterward.
“What does it mean to correct the past?”
“It’s probably similar to the 90s floors, I would imagine.”
Even the Spirits had no knowledge of it.
‘The 90s floors are about history, the 100s floors are about the past.’
The characteristic of the 90s floors was that one couldn’t even change the history one had built oneself.
‘Going back to the past means there’s already a confirmed future, or a present.’
It seemed there were special conditions attached, no less than the 90s floors.
Just then, Leon, who had entered the sniper rifle, suddenly remembered something he had forgotten and urgently conveyed his message.
– I forgot to mention this earlier, but from now on, one failure and it’s all over! Move carefully~
“…Anyway, he’s quite sentimental.”
Come to think of it, Leon always gave bonuses.
It was the same when I met him as the remnant of a Watchman, not a Spirit.
Clear on the first attempt, and in the form of correcting the past at that.
Just hearing the conditions made it feel far from easy.
“Alright, is everyone ready?”
“Of course!”
“Yes, Master.”
Ilgyeok had always broken through even worse conditions than this to get here.
Though time that flows is said to be something that can never be changed.
Whatever the past, if it could be corrected, I would fix it perfectly.
「Will you enter the Main Tower’s 101st Floor?」
“Yes.”
With Ihyeon’s affirmation, the scenery before his eyes began to shift.
* * *
“…Where is this?”
The next moment, Ihyeon looked around in bewilderment at a landscape he could never have imagined.
The place where he stood was a sort of massive stone tower.
In truth, since the inside of the Tower had shown such diverse forms, he wasn’t surprised by a mere stone tower.
“W-what?”
“…?”
“Beep beep beep.”
However, Jia and Elsie, and even the Golem Blue, showed reactions similar to Ihyeon’s, seeming quite flustered.
Blue, though expressionless, even produced the sound effect that Leon had removed, which said everything.
And for good reason.
“There are people here?”
Numerous people were wandering around inside the Main Tower, where there should have been only Ihyeon.
‘Could it be that the hidden camera surrounding me all this time…?!’
Ihyeon suddenly recalled a deeply ominous suspicion.
Now that I thought about it, my luck had been following me far too perfectly!
What if everything had been a social experiment for an unfortunate soldier, and the production team had now decided it was time to wrap things up?
…Of course, that wasn’t the case.
Elsie asked in an astonished voice.
“These people, they’re actually real people?”
“Of course they are, Elsie….”
Real people.
The meaning behind those words was simple.
By the aura I could sense, they were absolutely not Hunters.
If they were Hunters, they would be undergoing mind control or checking their equipment in preparation for clearing a floor, but these people were different.
People dressed in robes and clothes that weren’t from Earth, bustling about carrying unidentifiable miscellaneous items and books.
“I believe they are likely locals of this world, Master.”
“That’s what I thought too.”
Ihyeon nodded at Blue’s words.
This is yet another world.
All the worlds I’ve passed through so far could have been the same, but encountering the same type of people makes me feel it more strongly, I suppose.
If that’s the case, then this is a different world while also being a time period that has already passed.
– Hmm, this is a place I don’t know either? This should be interesting.
From inside the sniper rifle, Leon spoke in a voice like an audience member watching an engaging film.
‘Are you saying places I might know could appear?’
– Hmm hmm, well then, I’ll stop here.
Leon, who had inadvertently given me a hint, hastily closed his mouth.
In any case, this clue was quite significant.
‘The past, and perhaps a place Leon knows might appear….’
It wasn’t certain yet, but I seemed to be getting a rough sense of it.
“Sniff sniff, sniff sniff!”
“Elsie, you can’t do that in public.”
“No wait, this….”
Then, Elsie perked up her nose and began sniffing while turning her head this way and that.
I wondered if this world had ice cream too, but her demeanor was far more serious than that.
After sniffing for a moment, Elsie’s expression became one of disbelief as she fixed her gaze on one direction.
“That can’t be….”
“?”
At Elsie’s unusual reaction, Ihyeon, Jia, and Blue all turned their heads as well.
At the end of their gaze was.
Patter patter—
A man dressed much like the others, walking in quick steps while cradling an armful of books.
However, his appearance was quite striking.
Unlike the ordinary-looking people around him, he had blonde hair and a face that looked remarkably noble and refined.
“Elsie, why is that man here?”
Yet that alone couldn’t explain why Elsie was reacting so intensely.
Could he be someone directly connected to this floor’s mission?
‘If so, how did Elsie know that?’
Meanwhile, Elsie answered Ihyeon’s question with evident frustration.
“That man. It’s Roel, that bastard!”
“Roel?”
Who was that again?
…Ihyeon momentarily harbored a thought that would have made Roel deeply sorrowful if he’d heard it.
Of course, it wasn’t that I had genuinely forgotten Roel.
Rather than that.
“…Minjeong’s spirit from the Frontier?”
“Yeah, that unlucky bastard.”
“How?”
I simply couldn’t connect this bright, healthy-looking, handsome man with Roel, who always trudged around covered in gloomy robes.
Could it be that this man also speaks in that same dreary, drawn-out manner whenever he opens his mouth?
Just thinking about it made my entire body prickle with discomfort.
Meanwhile, separately from that, Leon’s hints were gradually falling into place.
‘Elsie wouldn’t be wrong, so this fellow must be Roel’s past appearance.’
Time truly was terrifying.
Rot away for thousands of years in some space within the Tower, and even a handsome man becomes as gloomy as Roel.
…I found myself thinking thoughts that would have deeply displeased Roel if he’d heard them.
But since he wasn’t here and these were merely my private thoughts, who could complain?
Just then, someone called out to Roel, who was walking hurriedly.
“Roel Agriatus de Flobang Kaiser Tusrianu the Third, Mage!”
“Ah, did you call for me?”
“Isn’t that Roel?”
“It’s the full name, so that’s why, Elsie.”
Elsie tilted her head at the unexpectedly long name, but fortunately Jia corrected the misunderstanding.
Since only the first two characters matched the familiar name, it did sound like a different person at first glance.
Ihyeon nodded as well.
“Mages certainly are clever. They memorize those long names quite well.”
“Minjeong couldn’t memorize it though?”
“…Minjeong is a Dark Mage, after all.”
“Ah~”
This time, I was even creating prejudices that Dark Mages would find offensive!
In any case, I hadn’t said such a thing without reason.
The Roel I had met was certainly a Dark Mage.
But not only to him as he is now, but to this entire magical tower from the start.
‘It doesn’t seem to be a place related to dark magic.’
It felt completely disconnected from dark magic.
Roel was conversing with the person who had called him over, standing at a distance.
From what I could gather in passing, it seemed to be a discussion about very complex magical research and experiments, but as Ihyeon, I couldn’t quite grasp what they were saying.
Elsie shook her head.
“Sigh, whether back then or now, she’s never been someone I particularly liked.”
“Why back then?”
“Because she’s always spouting such boring things.”
“If you want to become a fine adult later, you need to study hard. Stop watching shorts.”
“N-no shorts!”
At that moment, someone approached our group, who had been standing idly in the middle of the Magic Tower.
“Excuse me, perhaps….”
Turning around, an elderly middle-aged Mage greeted us with a benevolent smile.
“You must be the royal envoys sent to conquer the Tower? Welcome. The Magic Tower welcomes you.”
“??”
“Ah~ that kind of concept?”
Unlike Ihyeon, who was taken aback by this unexpected turn of events, Elsie nodded along quite naturally.
“That’s right, we are the royal envoys!”
“Hehe, I’ve heard quite a bit about the young prosecutor Elsie. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“M-master, that Mage fox, I think I know her too?”
Elsie, who had been walking away with a shrug just moments before, now recognized the middle-aged Mage and quickly fled behind Ihyeon.
The Mage introduced himself and handed over a piece of paper.
“I am Moid, the chief Mage of this Magic Tower. Here is the official document from the royal palace informing us of your arrival.”
Ihyeon nodded and accepted the paper with both hands, examining it.
Though I had never seen these characters before, with the system’s assistance, I had no trouble understanding them.
[ We wish for the endless prosperity of your esteemed Magic Tower.
We have recently heard news of a mysterious tower appearing near the Magic Tower. His Majesty is greatly concerned for the kingdom’s safety and wishes to lend the royal forces to assist…. ]
Though the letter contained various details, the essence was simply: ‘Since the Magic Tower’s strength alone may not be sufficient to conquer the tower, coordinate appropriately with the royal heroes.’

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