I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 80

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Episode 80
Ep. 80
“Would you like to enter the 40th Floor Range of the Main Tower in South Korea?”
“Yes.”
With the familiar notification window, Ihyeon and Jia entered the Tower.
And upon arriving at the Tower, the familiar sight of the Abandoned Castle greeted them.
And once again…
“Master!”
A red-haired spirit burst forth as if she had been waiting, Elsie.
She chattered away as if she had been waiting for this day alone.
“Aren’t we supposed to party now? We’re going to party, right? It’s the 50th Floor Range, right? Huh? Huh?”
The lustrous red hair swaying about was quite fascinating.
For Ihyeon, naturally, I had rarely grown my hair out even slightly, let alone to that extent.
I watched Elsie bounce around my surroundings in circles—performing flashy techniques like cartwheels and 360-degree spins—with a bewildered expression.
It was only because her existence was hidden from the surrounding people; otherwise, I would have been too embarrassed to hide away.
Of course, it was an embarrassing scene even for me to watch alone, so I stopped Elsie and spoke.
“Yes, let’s do it today.”
“Gasp…!”
But upon hearing my long-awaited party proposal, Elsie stepped back with a shocked expression.
“?”
“?”
Seeing this, both Ihyeon and Jia tilted their heads in confusion.
‘Did she not want to?’
Of course, it was a misunderstanding.
“Oh, you meant let’s party, not go away?”
“When did I ever tell you to go away…?”
I looked at Elsie, who had made such a terrible misunderstanding, with pity.
In any case, upon hearing that she could party with me, Elsie beamed with joy.
She laughed so brightly that it seemed as though her laughter might overflow from her face.
“Yes! Party!”
Could she be that happy?
“ID ‘Elsie’ is requesting to form a party.
Do you accept?”
I quickly accepted the party invitation Elsie had sent.
Jia was automatically considered part of the party since she was bound to me as an item, but Elsie had to go through this procedure.
‘At this rate, I really don’t think other people would ever imagine these two are items.’
The 40th Floor Range was grouped as a public floor anyway, so it was an exception.
Except for the fact that separated floors couldn’t be traversed alone, the system was virtually indistinguishable from a regular Hunter.
And so my party changed to a total of three members.
“Elsie, I have a task for you.”
I moved forward as I spoke.
“Just leave everything to me~”
Elsie answered confidently, tapping her small chest with her fist.
Meanwhile, Jia stepped back and made her presence known, drawing the attention of the people around us.
My serious expression.
Elsie also shifted her tomboyish atmosphere to something more composed, matching my demeanor.
“You know what we’re up against on the 50th Floor Range, right?”
“Of course. Obviously.”
Elsie revealed a murderous intent as sharp as a honed blade’s edge.
Was the spirit dwelling in an S+ grade item truly that different from others?
“Demi Lich.”
I nodded at Elsie’s answer.
The Floor Master of the 50th Floor Range was none other than the Demi Lich.
As the name suggested, compared to the “true” Lich that had left deep scars across the entire world, this creature was hopelessly crude.
For a Lich, it lacked even basic intelligence, and aside from summoning Undead, it wielded no noteworthy dark magic.
“The battle arena is the Rotten Ground.”
“I know that too.”
Still, it was a fitting finale to the 40th Floor Range—a grand battle that unfolded on a massive scale.
Countless Hunters gathered on the vast Plain to face the Undead legions summoned by the Demi Lich.
Like other missions, waves were settled once a day, but the distinctive feature was that the wave never ended unless the Demi Lich itself was vanquished.
In fact, it had only been a few years since it was discovered that the Demi Lich could be destroyed at all.
Attempts to break through the Undead legions and approach the Demi Lich were rare to begin with.
If the United States’s largest guild, “Great America One,” hadn’t accidentally discovered something called the “Demi Vessel”—a degraded version of the Life Vessel—during their conquest, it might still be unknown.
Despite various twists and turns, even after most guilds formed conquest teams to attempt the annihilation of the Demi Lich, only a handful succeeded.
When the Demi Lich was vanquished, the wave ended early, and the next day it restarted with a new Demi Lich, just like other waves.
And my objective was crystal clear.
I twisted one corner of my mouth upward and spoke.
“Our goal is the annihilation of the Demi Lich.”
The annihilation of the Demi Lich.
And not with a guild-scale conquest team, but with just three members in our party.
Elsie wore an expression remarkably similar to mine as she responded.
“That’s what a master should do.”
I stared at Elsie for a moment, then moved forward as I spoke.
“Whether I become your master depends on what you do on this Floor.”
Elsie panicked and chased after me, shouting.
“That’s not fair! A master can’t say two different things with one mouth~~”
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The Rotten Ground.
The mission site farthest from the Abandoned Castle on the 40th Floor Range.
On the muddy flatland that seemed more like a swamp than solid earth, a putrid stench always seeped through the air, true to its name.
Naturally, it wasn’t an environment favorable to Hunters, but on the other hand, it was essential terrain that had to be crossed to advance beyond the 50th Floor Range.
And on that plain right now.
“Uwaaaaah!!!”
“Push! Push!”
A massive battle was unfolding with hundreds of Hunters clashing against an even greater number of Undead.
Unlike other Floors, this place didn’t have a structure where waves ended once a day—it was always like this.
During daylight hours when Hunters gathered, they pushed forward, but as night fell, they were pushed back again in an endless cycle.
And amidst this stalemate situation, news arrived that the Hunters’ morale suddenly surged.
“Ilgyeok! Ilgyeok is coming!”
“Really?”
“Phew, now we might actually have a chance!”
Though Ilgyeok hadn’t yet joined the battle, merely hearing that he was coming caused the front lines to surge with rough excitement.
Not long after, from beyond the rotting plain, a figure appeared—one now known to people as the “Black Knight.”
It was Jia.
The atmosphere intensified.
Some were already offering optimistic predictions.
“If this goes well… could we actually see the Demi Lich fall today?”
“It’s definitely Ilgyeok, but… is it possible?”
Still, many remained unconvinced.
Jia was, after all, a Goblin Warrior by nature.
“If the goal was to defeat the Demi Lich, you wouldn’t come here in the first place.”
“That’s true.”
Finding the Demi Vessel somewhere in the forest surrounding the plain was simply not a physically feasible task, was it?
Moreover, there was another reason the Hunters were skeptical.
“I heard that Vessel is incredibly durable.”
“Right, when the United States Guild first tried to destroy it, all their Mages had to gang up on it.”
No matter how skilled Ilgyeok was, he wouldn’t easily destroy a Vessel renowned for its durability!
Even as a Demi Vessel, it was truly the essence of dark magic, so it wasn’t so flimsy that an ordinary Hunter who happened to find it could tap it and watch it shatter.
Because of this, they speculated the strategy would end with merely suppressing the Demi Lich so it couldn’t exert its power.
Even that much was considered an impossible feat for an individual Hunter to accomplish.
Kwaaang——!!!
“Oh, ohhh!”
“Pierced through in one strike!”
When people cheered at Jia’s reflection charge—a technique that had practically become his trademark—it was still the same.
Ping—! Ping—!
Monsters fell one by one each time Jia leveled his spear.
“This is incredible.”
“Who would have known the spear was such an elegant weapon?”
The Hunters watched, mesmerized, as Jia maintained the front lines while dancing with grace among the Undead like a crane among chickens.
But even so.
Crunch— Crunch—
Wasn’t it impossible to directly attack the Demi Lich on the opposite side of that plain, who was shrouded in an ominous black aura and raising Undead in what seemed like infinite numbers?
Such doubts existed somewhere in the hearts of the Hunters.
But then it happened.
Thump—
“Huh?”
“What?”
Jia, who had been slaughtering Undead, suddenly stopped fighting and stood in place, and the Hunters looked at her in bewilderment.
Her expression was barely visible beneath the helmet.
Naturally, her intentions were unknowable.
Jia, who had been standing motionless for a moment.
Whoosh—!
Lightly leaped into the empty air from that spot.
Thwack——!!
From there, a motion flowing like water that seamlessly transitioned into a spear-throwing stance toward the forest.
The Hunters were left dumbfounded by what had unfolded in an instant.
“Wha—?”
“Why would she suddenly throw her spear?”
But then.
Boom———!!!
「50th Floor, the Demi Lich’s Demi Vessel has been destroyed.
The Demi Lich has transitioned to a vulnerable state.
Destroyer: Ilgyeok」
“??????”
The message that appeared before all the Hunters on the fetid plain.
That left the Hunters not just bewildered, but utterly speechless and stunned.
She was fighting well and suddenly threw her spear, and the Demi Vessel was destroyed?
She had been fighting from far away—how did she even know the Vessel’s location, and even if she had discovered it, how did she strike it so precisely with a thrown spear?
But the confusion didn’t last long.
“Wow, woooow!”
“G, godly Ilgyeok!”
“Please take me with you!”
“Just pay more taxes!”
The Hunters sent cheers toward Ilgyeok, who had achieved the early termination condition of the notorious 50th Floor in an instant.
Whoosh—
Moreover, the spear Jia had thrown automatically returned to her hand, making it even more impressive.
Jia, ignoring the Hunters’ cheers, began slaughtering Undead again, wielding her shield and spear.
How on earth had this happened?
Let’s rewind time for a moment.
「Ilgyeok: I’m telling you again—your task, Elsie, is to locate the Demi Vessel.
Elsie: Just trust me, Master!
Rather than having Elsie participate directly in combat, I deployed her as a scout to locate the Vessel.
I had originally intended to search for it myself, but with Elsie joining the party, there was no need to do so.
After receiving my instructions, Elsie immediately dashed into the forest, sniffing the air.
Her movements were light and swift, seemingly unaffected by the marshy ground.
Watching her disappear into the distance, I realized my initial assessment had been somewhat mistaken.
‘She’s not a New Recruit—she’s a hunting dog.’
Elsie had a way of making one think such things!
In any case, my instructions didn’t end there.
Ilgyeok: Once you find the Vessel, alert me. I’ll destroy it myself.
Elsie: Of course. Just wait. It’s not even a true Life Vessel, and with a Demi-class, I should be able to sense the vibrations and find it quickly.
Destroying the Vessel had to be Ilgyeok’s role.
Unlike Ilgyeok, whose identity was already fully exposed, neither Jia nor Elsie had revealed theirs yet.
There was no need to expose my cards prematurely.
And there was another reason as well.
‘I need to gauge just how unpredictable Elsie can be.’
Elsie was unpredictability incarnate.
Though I had grown somewhat inclined to ascend together with her, verification was always better in abundance.
The fact that she had kept a low profile from the 46th Floor to the 49th Floor, seeking only my attention, proved at least minimal trustworthiness.
But whether she would follow my instructions precisely, and whether she could remain composed when facing her objective, was another matter entirely.
However, Elsie’s abilities surpassed my expectations by far.
Elsie: Master, I found it!
Ilgyeok: Already?
She was exceptional.

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