I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 48

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Episode 48
Episode 48
“Wh-what…?”
Realizing the truth, Sunddeuk also stopped in his tracks and turned around.
The Giga Bears that had been following behind him had noticeably vanished.
‘How in the world is this even….’
It made no sense.
“W-watch out, hyung!”
At that moment, Bonghyeon shouted a warning to Sunddeuk.
While Sunddeuk had paused, a Giga Bear’s front paw came within inches of his face, swinging down at his head.
A perilous moment where he was about to allow the attack.
Thud—
With a single sound, the Giga Bear attacking Sunddeuk burst apart without hesitation.
‘Was there another party here besides them…?’
There wasn’t.
In a flash, the image of Ihyeon standing beside Jia crossed his mind.
Could it be the Assassin’s doing?
He didn’t know what skill was being used, but if it was an Assassin who concealed their presence and attacked?
“Use detection magic, detection magic!”
“Huh?”
“Detection magic, you bastard!”
Crash—!
Sunddeuk shouted as he threw a punch at the torso of the Giga Bear attempting to attack him next.
The Giga Bear flew backward, its high stats preventing it from being defeated outright.
Bonghyeon, who had cast the detection spell, cried out.
“Ah, there’s no one! There’s no one in this area!”
‘Then what the hell is this!’
He couldn’t comprehend it at all.
A Mage?
No matter how skilled a Mage might be, it was impossible by Sunddeuk’s understanding to completely conceal oneself and unleash such devastating magic.
In the meantime.
Roooar—— Boom——!
Even the last Giga Bear fell to the inexplicable attack, its life extinguished.
And in the dazed eyes of Sunddeuk, Gwangju, and Bonghyeon, a single notification window appeared.
「The 32nd Floor clear record has been updated.
Location: Tower of South Korea
ID: Ilgyeok
Rank: S+」
“!?!?!?!!!!”
The three of them gasped in shock at the absurd message.
“Ilgyeok, wait—Ilgyeok?!”
The system never lies.
Which meant the one who hunted those fifteen Giga Bears they’d herded was none other than Ilgyeok.
The S+ ranked Hunter known throughout South Korea—no, throughout the entire world—Ilgyeok.
Sure enough, when I checked the position log belatedly, it clearly showed that Ilgyeok had accepted a mission on the 32nd Floor.
“Ugh, uaaahhh——!”
“Please spare us!!”
The moment Gwangju and Bonghyeon confirmed the ID was Ilgyeok, they both prostrated themselves without hesitation, begging for forgiveness.
This was Ilgyeok, who casually unleashed attacks that obliterated Giga Bears in a single blow.
There was no way such a person wouldn’t know their malicious intentions.
They had to beg for mercy now, or they wouldn’t survive.
Sunddeuk, meanwhile, wore a similarly stunned expression at first, but soon his face twisted into something vicious as he began to shout.
“You… you bastard! So what if it’s Ilgyeok?! So what if it’s Ilgyeok, huh! Try blowing my head off too, you bastard! If you want to be a villain, go ahead and try!”
A Hunter who kills another Hunter receives a red skull mark above their head, even if they keep their ID private.
It’s a mark that never disappears unless they die—a permanent stigma.
This was also why Sunddeuk had attempted to use mob herding instead of stepping forward directly.
Regardless of who Ilgyeok was, the story of clearing three Gates was famous.
Even stepping forward this boldly, it was clear they wouldn’t attack easily.
And no matter how strong Ilgyeok was, they were overwhelmingly higher level on their side.
If they faced off one-on-one, Sunddeuk was confident he wouldn’t lose easily!
Indeed, even after Sunddeuk’s loud shouting, the attacks that had been instantly killing the Giga Bears ceased.
Gwangju and Bonghyeon cautiously lifted their heads and spoke hesitantly.
“C-could Ilgyeok have been among the people we saw?”
“Who is Ilgyeok…?”
Rumors about Ilgyeok and the appearance of Ihyeon’s group flashed rapidly through their minds.
Though not dressed like a Dark Mage, there was information about a beautiful woman.
Which meant…
“The person we touched was…”
“Ilgyeok…?”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon turned deathly pale, as if their very souls had fled their bodies.
There were plenty of other people to mess with, yet they’d lost their minds and touched Ilgyeok!
And then.
Whoosh—
Jia appeared like a shadow behind Sunddeuk.
Though a Tank, her mobility of 80 nearly perfectly evaded the senses of the three people, who were thoroughly panicked and agitated.
Sunddeuk, realizing Jia’s appearance too late, cursed again.
“You bastard! Lucky me! You think I’m scared?!”
Zing——
A common Tank attack skill, ‘Concentrated Force’.
A simple method of converting vitality into strength for an attack, but it possessed equally direct destructive power.
Crash———!
Sunddeuk’s punch landed squarely on Jia’s torso.
“Huh?”
“W-wait, did hyung just hit Ilgyeok?!”
The impact was so loud that even Gwangju and Bonghyeon momentarily wondered if Jia had been the one struck.
Yet the expression on Sunddeuk’s face, who had delivered the attack, was grotesque.
‘W-what is this…?’
The attack hadn’t connected.
No, it was far worse than simply not connecting.
It was as if all of his strength had been completely absorbed….
A subtle and deeply unpleasant sensation that even Sunddeuk, a tank-class Hunter himself, could recognize.
And in the next moment.
Smack—!
Sunddeuk, struck on the back of his head by Jia’s casual punch, lost consciousness and crumpled to the ground.
“H-hiiieeek——!”
“B-brother!”
As the trusted Sunddeuk went down in a single blow, fear flooded the faces of Gwangju and Bonghyeon.
Was that person really Ilgyeok?!
Though the rumors had suggested otherwise, if she could subdue Sunddeuk so effortlessly, there was no explanation other than her being Ilgyeok.
But regardless of what Gwangju and Bonghyeon were thinking.
Step— step—
Jia approached the two with an icy expression.
Smack— smack—!
She struck both of them fairly on the back of their heads.
“Ugh….”
“Whine….”
Gwangju and Bonghyeon made deflating sounds and lost consciousness just like Sunddeuk.
It was then that Ihyeon appeared, descending while still wearing the concealment cloak.
‘Are they dead?’
Ihyeon clicked his tongue while examining the three fallen figures.
Then I recalled the conversation I had shared with Jia after capturing all the Giga Bears that Sunddeuk and the other thugs had herded over.
– Really, playing the villain on the 30th Floor? Are you in your right mind?
Anyone trying to clear it normally wouldn’t herd together more than ten Giga Bears.
And moreover, they were herding them quite precisely in my direction, weren’t they?
Though I couldn’t understand why, since the mob herding was certain, I hunted all the Giga Bears anyway.
Since they had done the work I would have had to do as a Dummy anyway, even if they were villains, it was rather something to be grateful for.
Meanwhile, Jia, who had been quietly observing the scene, spoke to me like this.
– I will handle them.
– Huh? You? Well, there’s no real need for that.
I had clearly tried to stop her.
My identity wasn’t exposed, and I hadn’t suffered any harm.
Judging by their appearance, it seemed like these Thugs had simply tried to harass us on a whim, so it might have been best to just walk past them.
However.
– I will handle this.
Goooooo——
– Y, yes.
Seeing Jia’s overwhelming presence, I found myself nodding without thinking.
Her eyes and expression were so resolute, as if saying that something far worse would happen if she didn’t deal with them.
So I let her go, and with just three attacks, Jia took down one person with each strike.
Fortunately, their chests were still rising and falling, so they appeared to still be alive.
…Though their skulls did seem somewhat caved in, but that could have just been my imagination.
Watching Jia maintain a serene expression even after instantly dropping three people, I felt compelled to caution her.
“Just to be clear, you absolutely cannot kill people, Jia.”
What if she, being an item, didn’t fully understand the sanctity of human life?!
But Jia nodded reassuringly, as if my concern was entirely unnecessary.
“I have ensured that they will forget ever seeing you and me, Master.”
“I, I see. That’s convenient….”
So an S+ item was capable of such delicate control.
I looked back and forth between Jia and the three fallen people with an uneasy expression.
‘Even so, this is practically at the level of a blood feud.’
I never would have imagined there might actually be something resembling a grudge.
And I also hadn’t realized that the “memory” Jia mentioned spanned a longer period of time than expected.
“Well, since we’ve cleared this floor now, let’s head back.”
“Yes.”
After Ihyeon and Jia disappeared,
the place quickly became noisy again.
“Ilgyeok must have come through here!”
“Search! Search!”
It was because Guild members and people from the Management Bureau had heard that Ilgyeok had entered the 32nd Floor.
At first, I had pretended not to know and slipped out of the Village, but our true intentions were obvious to each other anyway.
At some point, people were running about like they were in a race, searching for Ilgyeok.
Not long after, a shout rang out from the desolate Cliff of the Rocky Mountain.
“H, here! There are people here!”
“What? Where, where?!”
People rushed toward the sound.
What they discovered were none other than Sunddeuk, Bonghyeon, and Gwangju.
“These people are Ilgyeok?”
“No way, they couldn’t be sprawled out like this after clearing an S+ Floor, right?”
“You never know—maybe their skills are powerful but have an incredibly strong rebound….”
“All three at the same time?”
People who saw the three of them began murmuring various speculations among themselves.
And the Hunter from the Management Bureau, upon seeing Sunddeuk’s menacing appearance, quietly smacked his forehead.
‘That’s him!’
The identity of Ilgyeok, discovered by pooling all of the Management Bureau’s wisdom (?).
A vicious criminal, no less!
Though he was supposedly living a life of atonement after leaving his past behind, just look at Sunddeuk’s appearance.
His looks still hadn’t completely shed his past to the point where one could say he’d truly changed.
‘Hmm, at that level, it certainly makes sense he’d be reluctant to draw attention to himself….’
The Hunter from the Management Bureau nodded and quietly convinced himself.
Even if he didn’t look like a Dark Mage, people shouldn’t be judged by their appearance alone.
Thus, the people moved the three who were likely Ilgyeok to a more comfortable location and waited for them to awaken.
A moment later.
“Mmm….”
“Ugh….”
Starting with Sunddeuk, Gwangju and Bonghyeon gradually began to regain consciousness.
“Oh, he’s waking up!”
“I saw him first!”
“What are you talking about, our Guild’s people discovered him first!”
The excited crowd raised their voices against each other.
But the moment Sunddeuk tried to speak first, everyone fell silent and concentrated as if by agreement.
Gulp—
And the first words that came from Sunddeuk upon regaining consciousness were….
“…Huh? Where’s Mom….”
“….”
It was hardly enough to meet people’s expectations.
His vacant expression suggested that several years’ worth of memories had vanished.
His pant legs somehow felt heavier than before.
And there seemed to be a foul smell coming from somewhere.
Silence.
The first-ever S+ rank clear in history.
Not satisfied with that, a streak of 32 consecutive S+ clears.
Recently, even a simultaneous subjugation of two Gates, something rarely seen even when searching the entire world.
A mysterious Hunter whose identity no one knew.
The next superhuman who would save South Korea.
And the first thing the owner of all those many titles says upon waking is ‘Where’s Mom’?
“Is, is that also an effect of the Rebound?”
“It seems he’s suffered psychological shock as well….”
No matter how much one tried to understand it rationally, this didn’t seem right.
Even the Hunter from the Management Bureau, who had been certain that Sunddeuk was Ilgyeok.
‘…Or not?’
It was severe enough to give me pause.

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