I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 47

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Episode 47
Episode 47
Gwangju and Bonghyeon trembled as they watched an ashtray streak past between them and embed itself in the wall.
Seeing their reaction, Sunddeuk seemed to have vented some frustration, letting out a low chuckle.
“That’s enough. Come in and sit down.”
“Yes, sir!”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon approached Sunddeuk’s side with obsequious smiles and began unpacking the events of the day without being asked.
“She was really pretty, but… well, she turned out to be a Hunter.”
“A Hunter?”
“Yes! We didn’t want to cause any trouble, so we just backed off, you know?”
“That’s right! Besides, it looked like she had a boyfriend too… We don’t mess with people who are already taken, do we?”
The two of them were desperately trying to dress up their shamelessness.
But Sunddeuk’s eyes gleamed sharply.
“Tsk, you just got scared and ran away. Don’t give me that ‘backing off’ nonsense. And since when did you two care about that sort of thing?”
“N-no, that’s not it, sir!”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon quickly waved their hands in denial.
Sunddeuk had been living this thug’s life for over a decade now.
He could see right through the bluster of these small-time punks.
“This is exactly why I like you two.”
“Gack—”
“Th-thank you…”
Sunddeuk tucked Gwangju and Bonghyeon’s heads under each armpit and roughly ruffled their hair.
It was his way of showing he found them amusing, but the two of them wheezed under the crushing pressure, unable to breathe properly.
After releasing them, Sunddeuk downed a cup of strong liquor and spoke.
“Still, I should boost the morale of my little lackeys here.”
“Boost our morale, you say…?”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon massaged their necks while cautiously gauging Sunddeuk’s expression.
Sunddeuk lifted one corner of his mouth into a smirk as he spoke.
“What floor did you say you were on again?”
“The 33rd Floor, sir.”
“Good. I’ll go with you to the 33rd Floor. If you spot a decent girl there, just point her out.”
“Really, sir?!”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon’s eyes gleamed with excitement.
In other words, he was offering to not only carry them through a floor but do far more than that.
Besides, someone like Sunddeuk would never treat a woman with any semblance of gentlemanly conduct.
Naturally, it meant he wouldn’t hesitate to resort to despicable villainy if things went sideways.
Sunddeuk, who had connections to the ‘Crew’—the symbol of the modern underworld.
Remembering that rumor, Gwangju and Bonghyeon swallowed hard.
“What, are you scared?”
Sunddeuk asked with a bloodthirsty grin.
“No, no, that’s not it!”
“We’ll do our absolute best to serve you!”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon rose simultaneously as if they’d made a pact, their waists bending in a sharp bow.
* * *
It was purely by chance that Sunddeuk, Gwangju, and Bonghyeon, having entered the 30th Floor Common Area, spotted Ihyeon and Jia.
Sunddeuk asked, observing the reactions of Gwangju and Bonghyeon.
“What’s wrong?”
“That woman over there, sir.”
“She’s the Hunter we mentioned to you yesterday.”
“Oh, is that so?”
Sunddeuk narrowed his eyes and observed Ihyeon’s group walking in the distance.
Indeed, even at a glance, she possessed the kind of appearance that naturally drew people’s attention.
Sunddeuk asked.
“Is one of those two her boyfriend?”
“We, we haven’t actually seen her boyfriend’s face.”
“But we suspect it might be one of them?”
“Hmm…”
Sunddeuk pondered for a moment.
But given that he was already intoxicated by his own strength, he wasn’t about to think too deeply about it.
He believed himself more than capable of reaching the 50th Floor range.
There were countless ways to toy with Hunters merely wandering around the 30th Floor range.
Moreover, with Gwangju and Bonghyeon, who feared him, at his side, backing down in a situation like this was something he could never do, even if it killed him.
“The men look pretty pathetic.”
Just as Gwangju and Bonghyeon had said, Jia appeared to be quite skilled.
One could tell from the armor she wore and the way she carried herself as she walked.
But the other two?
Ihyeon, walking at the front, had decent equipment, but as an Assassin, his stats weren’t particularly high.
The Mage walking behind had such a tense expression that it seemed she’d run away on her own with just a little intimidation.
Sunddeuk, who had mastered the art of recognizing those weaker than himself, smiled wickedly.
“You two, just follow my lead.”
“Yes? Sir?”
“Are you really going to do this?”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon asked hesitantly.
At that, Sunddeuk’s expression turned vicious.
“I came here to boost your morale, and you’re backing out now? You want to die?”
“No, no, we don’t!”
“Of course we’ll follow you wherever you go, sir!”
Sunddeuk clicked his tongue dismissively and opened his status window.
「ID: Good Guy
Lv. 67
Strength: 81
Stamina: 63
Agility: 47
Intelligence: 31
Mana: 46」
I was quite satisfied.
‘Well, it’s not like I’m at a level to boast about climbing to the 50th Floor range.’
Sunddeuk gained 4 stat points with each level up.
To be honest, even by his own assessment, he wasn’t remotely close to the level needed to climb higher than the 40th Floor range, so he had stopped advancing there.
Even so, his current stats were enough to move comfortably on the 30th Floor.
His primary stats—Strength and Stamina—were a whopping 80 and 60 respectively.
Even if there was some bluffing mixed in, it wasn’t entirely baseless.
Typically, Hunters active on the 30th Floor had primary stats that peaked around 50 to 60.
Sunddeuk swept his gaze over Ihyeon’s group with greedy eyes.
It seemed like today would be quite profitable in many ways.
Then.
‘Hmm?’
When his eyes seemed to briefly meet with Jia, his greatest target, he felt a strange sense of unease.
‘Did she see us?’
That couldn’t be.
The distance was too far, and their gazes had only crossed for the briefest moment.
But this inexplicable sense of unease….
“Boss, how are you planning to teach those bastards a lesson?”
“Huh?”
“Should we engage them directly once we leave the common area?”
But before Sunddeuk could identify the source of his unease, Gwangju and Bonghyeon beside him were already pumping him up.
Given the nature of thugs who lived off bluffing, he couldn’t afford to show weakness here.
Sunddeuk patted both their shoulders and spoke.
“Haha, that would just tire us out for nothing. I’ve got a plan.”
Sunddeuk, Gwangju, and Bonghyeon began subtly tailing Ihyeon’s group.
* * *
「You have received the 32nd Floor quest.
Eliminate 10 Giga Bears.
Check your quest window.」
The target for the 32nd Floor quest was Giga Bears.
True to their name, they were massive bear-shaped monsters with savage temperaments and overwhelming strength.
‘Still, they match my strengths better than the Muscle Apes.’
Given my nature as a sniper, it wasn’t an unfavorable matchup.
Besides, there was a specific location where Giga Bears primarily appeared.
“There’s a ravine nearby. We’ll climb up over it.”
“Yes.”
Among Hunters, it was a place known as the Gray Ravine.
A ravine with terrain made of gray rock, sparsely dotted with large conifers, where Giga Bears inhabited the caves.
So the plan was to position ourselves at the high point of the ravine and snipe the Giga Bears we could see.
“The path is a bit rough, but you’ll be fine, right?”
“No problem.”
Jia answered Ihyeon’s question with spirited confidence.
We’d have to climb over rocks that reached up to a person’s waist, but Ihyeon had done countless mountain marches with the Special Forces Unit, so it was manageable.
Besides, without military gear, it was far easier than back then.
‘I should keep the Dummy active and use it to lure the Giga Bears when the time comes.’
The Dummy was perfect for drawing out the Giga Bears hiding in the caves.
Ihyeon himself would wear the concealment cloak, and I instructed Jia to move as quietly as possible until she reached her position.
As Ihyeon’s group steadily completed their preparations for conquering the 32nd Floor.
“Judging by where those guys are headed, they’re trying to hunt Giga Bears.”
“Giga Bears? Those things are pretty scary.”
“We had a hard time taking them down too.”
Sunddeuk, Gwangju, and Bonghyeon also learned of Ihyeon’s target around that time.
If they were heading to the Gray Ravine from the 30th Floor area, the target was obvious.
Sunddeuk spoke to Gwangju and Bonghyeon.
“Go gather up some Giga Bears. About a dozen or so.”
“What?!”
“A dozen Giga Bears?”
To Gwangju and Bonghyeon, it sounded like suicide.
Giga Bears were difficult enough to hunt even when carefully luring them out one at a time, let alone gathering over ten of them.
Then Sunddeuk pressed them.
“I’m not asking you to kill them, just gather them. Is that so hard?”
“Well…”
Crack—!
Sunddeuk brought his fist down hard on a nearby rock.
The boulder, the size of a house, shattered like a plank of wood.
“You don’t want to?”
“N-No! We’ll bring them!”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon got the impression that things were going wrong, but they had no choice.
If they backed out because they were scared, it seemed Sunddeuk’s fist would crack their skulls instead of the Giga Bears.
Gwangju and Bonghyeon exchanged glances before starting to run toward the ravine.
Meanwhile, while Sunddeuk’s group was making a commotion, Ihyeon and Jia arrived at the top of the ravine.
The path was rough, but once we climbed onto the rocks, there was a surprisingly safe and secure spot, making it easy to find a sniping position.
‘Good view, good wind.’
Ihyeon looked out at the wide-open landscape before me and drew out the sniper rifle.
I’d left the Dummy below, so now I just needed to lure the Giga Bears.
‘Which direction would have more of them….’
As I was choosing which direction to move the Dummy, I noticed where Jia’s gaze was fixed.
“Hm?”
Indeed, that direction was quite noisy at its end.
No, at that level it wasn’t just noise….
‘What on earth are those people trying to do?’
I honestly suspected they might be somewhat insane.
* * *
“Ugh, uaaaah!”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon, who had scattered in different directions, came rushing back in no time flat.
Uooooooh——!!!!
Behind them, roughly eighteen Giga Bears were trailing along in a swarm.
“Tsk tsk, those idiots. How could they ever prove themselves as men anywhere?”
Sunddeuk, watching the scene unfold, shook his head disapprovingly.
No matter what you attempted, courage was the most important thing.
Even if death itself rose up to your throat, you mustn’t show the slightest hesitation!
As Gwangju and Bonghyeon approached within sufficient distance, Sunddeuk rose from his position.
“Guwooooh—!”
Then he too let out a powerful roar.
A Tank-exclusive skill, ‘Provocation’s Roar’.
It had the effect of concentrating the aggro of monsters within a certain range onto himself.
Used properly, it could dramatically increase a party’s survivability, but Sunddeuk had a habit of using this skill for other purposes.
‘Once I gather them with this and cancel the skill, it tastes absolutely delicious.’
Commonly known as mob herding.
It was the trolling that villains utilized best, and an effective means at that.
You simply gather as many monsters as the target can’t handle, then cancel the skill near them and it’s done.
Uooooooh——!!
As expected, the Giga Bears that had been chasing Gwangju and Bonghyeon as if to kill them instantly changed targets and swarmed toward Sunddeuk.
Confirming the skill had worked properly, Sunddeuk began running as well.
I had already confirmed the direction Ihyeon and Jia had gone up.
‘The Assassin will die in an instant if they’re gathered like this, and the woman is a Tank so she’ll hold out decently.’
Even if she held out decently, the Tank abilities of the 30th Floor tier were predictable.
Push them to the brink of death, then kill off the Giga Bears appropriately and it’s finished.
After that….
Sunddeuk wore a vile smile.
“Heh, hyung, this is jackpot….”
“That 50th Floor-tier skill isn’t a lie.”
Meanwhile, Gwangju and Bonghyeon, now without anyone behind them, blankly watched Sunddeuk run off.
Despite his massive frame, his running speed was quite fast.
He had to manage the Giga Bears’ aggro carefully so it wouldn’t drop, so that speed probably wasn’t his maximum either.
Gwangju and Bonghyeon laughed wickedly.
“Hehehehe, that woman’s really in for it now.”
“Right? If only she’d listened when we asked her to play with us.”
They never could have imagined bringing someone of that caliber into the mix.
Though they revered and respected their leader, moments like this revealed just how contemptible and vile he could be—someone truly terrifying to face as an enemy.
How could he so casually gather monsters and hurl them at others like disposable pawns?
But they remained oblivious.
To the one truly worthy of fear.
Not Sunddeuk, who drove the Giga Bear forward.
Thwip——
“?”
That Giga Bear, flicked away like a finger snap.
Boom—!
“?!?!?!!!”
Obliterated in a single strike.
Thwip—— Boom—!
“W-what’s happening?”
“Two Giga Bears already…?”
Death descending from the unknown.
Terror closing in upon them.
Thwip—— Thwip——
With each inexplicable sound that rang out,
Boom—! Boom—!
another death settled upon their vicinity.
Giga Bearers far larger than Sunddeuk burst apart without a single moment of resistance, their forms exploding into oblivion.
Even their thick hides, which could withstand most blades, posed no obstacle whatsoever.
Simply one at a time.

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