Arcane Sniper [Matan’s Shooter]

“Biiiiiig——————!”

“A new ranker is on the rise! No, a new profession?! A new outsider?!”

“What does it matter! What is important is that he is insanely cool!”

Koma staggered momentarily under the users’ cheers but he did not stop walking towards the place with monsters.

“Grrrr.”

“You have worked hard, Koma.”

Whether it was extracting the tusk of the Gigaphant or revealing the spine, a large amount of blood would have spilled. However, Koma’s body was clean.

That was possible due to Ignis’s powerful flame. The flame was strong enough to evaporate all the blood before it even touched the body.

“Grrrrrr.”

“Huh? Why are you nudging your head towards me?”

The enlarged creature tilted its body drastically and nudged its head towards him. He briefly flinched at the strange behavior.

Blaugrunn who was watching this chuckled and whispered to him.

‘Boss! This, this!’

‘Ah!’

When he raised his hand slowly, Ignis’s flame disappeared completely.

Even without doing that, he wouldn’t have felt the heat because his fire resistance was already over 100%. However, it was a thoughtful gesture from the creature.

“You did a good job.”

To be more precise, it was a considerate action for him who was combing it’s fur. The creature felt every single stroke he applied to its fur with intense delight.

With a body that was huge and muscular like a human, the creature was nevertheless still his ‘little one’.

The creature, as large and as human as a bear, drooled while he stroked its fur some more, after which he lightened the atmosphere.

“Is it not over yet?”

“Rrrrr.”

“Right. There are still countless enemies.”

Despite having defeated three Gigaphants and having shown his remarkable strength, it was only a very small part of the entire monster wave. Despite this, there is only one reason why he couldn’t stop laughing.

‘If I gained a level defeating three beasts, how many levels will I gain in the middle or end of this ordeal?’

The hope for his spectacular performance. That was what made him jump with joy.

“Let’s go clean up! Jellypong, switch to ‘Combat Mode: Agility!”

[Myong! Myong!]

The coalition, ‘Leeha Squad’, which includes Jellypong, wreaked havoc on the second wave of monster onslaught.

“Ummm, as expected. What trick are you playing this time?”

“It’s dangerous to reveal oneself too much, Oka-san.”

“It’s okay, Sasuke. Leeha won’t be able to see us from here and even a dragon won’t be able to recognize me here. Am I right, Toon?”

[Quiet.]

“I don’t know what mana covers me, but…..I’ll take it positively. Uhuh.”

Chiyou, the one sitting on Toon’s foot, lifted her head and winked.

Toon did not look at her. While they were quite a distance from Juma City, without special measures, Chiyou would never reveal herself.

‘The subject of caution is not just Leeha. ‘

Her ‘map’ and eyes accurately captured the Gold Dragons soaring in the sky.

Being forced to look at Leeha and sensing the hint of mana, Bailephus might soon find out that Toon is nearby.

‘And Toon wouldn’t possibly not know that.’

But what did it mean that he accepted her invitation?

Like Bluebeard who always roams around without spilling a hint of mana, there’s a technique for Toon to not be 100% recognized by Bailephus.

“He is always cheap, no matter when. When did he get such a pet-“

“No, we knew it too. He already had a Bronze Dragon, there was no way he could acquire another new pet. That one probably is not the fire bear we faced before.”

“The shape is too different. If it were the fire bear from the past–””Could it be a spirit? Maybe we should ask Prea about it.”

Chiyou spoke with a cheery voice as if she had found an amusing spectacle. Sasuke remained silent.

“There are monsters in close combat…. There are dragons and slimes that are waiting for an ambush, and if we try a long-distance snipe, it turns out he himself is an excellent sniper. How exactly are we supposed to capture him? Is there any way, Sasuke?”

“With our current strength… It seems impossible unless we overpower him.”

“That’s what everyone would say. Question is how to acquire this ‘overwhelming power’. Can there be anyone stronger and who can see further than Leeha?”

Chiyou’s voice scolded Sasuke, yet she was not looking at him.

She lifted her head toward Toon, her face clearly visible.

“I think our Toon-nim would know about it.”

[Our Toon-nim?]

“Oh, there you go again. I’m sure you already know what I’m talking about. I mean ‘those people’.”

Toon’s eyes, which had been glaring at Juma City, flickered swiftly. His pupils, wider than Chiyou’s, writhed fiercely.

“Can’t you persuade those people, Toon? If not, how about asking the Count-”

[Are you suggesting I bother the Count just to capture that one man?]

“Well, it’s not as easy as it seems. Just one ‘that man’ managed to damage your beautiful eyebrows-”

[Shut up.]

“Y-Yes!”

Chiyou flirtatiously snuggled up to Toon’s leg.

It was something that Sasuke completely disagreed with, but there was nothing he could do. He had already received orders from Chiyou to ‘stay still no matter what happens’.

‘Phew, I was talking about Bluebeard and I was afraid he’d have a fit. So it’s okay as long as I don’t mention his name?’

From her conversation with Toon just now, she has gathered a few more pieces of information.

The subtle humiliation was well worth it, as the gain was much greater.

‘Should I assume he has a strained relationship with those musketeers who I wrongly suspected to be Leeha? They’re clearly not his subordinates. No, it feels more like… business partners?’

What if they were actually Le’s subordinates?

Toon would not have used the phrase ‘bothering the Count’. After all, he only needs to relay the order.

‘Bothers the Count? Hmm, are those musketeers on almost the same level as Bluebeard?’

Their existence in itself raised such suspicions.

Musketeers whose identities remained hidden even from Chiyou’s vast information network.

They couldn’t possibly be considered mere monsters. Besides, during the total attack on the Demon’s base, none of the screenshots or videos recorded by the users revealed their identities, let alone their whereabouts ever since Toon’s complete revival.

Even mobilizing all the Shinobi clan forces on the old continent, and utilizing all the spies around the New Continent’s Juma City, their identity remained elusive.

At this point, the only thing Chiyou could confirm was that they were not just one person.

Chiyou, watching Toon’s reaction, opened her mouth again.

“But look at his actions. If we can’t kill that man, it might disrupt your ‘plan’, Toon. Shouldn’t we have collected at least 7,000 souls from today’s wave? We can create waves any time, but won’t it be troublesome if we continue like this? Surely, we’re not in a position to take our time.”

Toon’s angry expression softened a bit at her sincerely worried voice.

We can’t understand what an NPC thinks but Chiyou saw Toon’s head moving slightly left and right.

[No. Even so, they can’t. Not until there is someone who can fully control them…]His words carried the slight unease of the dinosaur.

Chiyou: “Sasuke.”

Sasuke:”Yes, Mr. Oka.”

Chiyou: “Go to the old continent.”

Sasuke: “What?”

And with that, Chiyou realized what was most important at that moment. Information about Leeha was just one of many branches. But at that moment, a connection was completely made in her mind.

Chiyou: It’s almost impossible to follow Luger and Kidd now, our only saving grace is few.

Sasuke: Who…?

Chiyou: Fibiel’s Browless.

‘Leeha. Kidd. Luger… Three. And two unknown NPC entities and Fibiel’s Browless… Three.’

They all use ‘guns’.

It’s no mere coincidence that a very rare profession in Middle Earth coincides in number.

‘Something is there.’

It was not a simple instinct.

The ‘something’ that had been investigated for Leeha’s strategy from the past touched Chiyou’s nerves, converging with Toon’s words now.

The leader of the Shinobigumi’s intuition was still alive.

Chiyou: Ah! While I’m at it, I’ll drop by to see the current situation there, scout people we requested from Yamato…

Sasuke: You can entrust it to me.

Toon didn’t move until all the monsters of the wave were cleaned up.

Chiyou and Sasuke spent a long time observing the trends and growth of the users.

It was a long way off, but the distance of the skill effect was noticeable, so it wasn’t hard to compare with all the existing information.

“Ram Hwajung’s gotten a lot stronger. The range of attack of the Blizzard, and that ‘Ice Age’ skill is terrifying.”

“It is said that the Whahong is pushing forward radically. There are many who say that Shin Nara is already within reach, and it will surpass Petyr in a short time.”

“Speaking of which, where’s that insane clown?”

“Sor, sorry, we haven’t found him yet.”

“Well, it’s alright. He must be targeting something like assassination of the king while the new continent is bustling.”

After being persistent with the observation for about three hours, all the wave monsters were finally cleared up.

The front of Juma’s city was glowing bright like the bulbs of a night market.

“We managed to stop it!”

“Great work!”

“Wow, it was tougher this time! An obvious second wave!”

Enjoying the shimmering light from their bodies, the users shouted out the cheers of victory. Despite the great performance of Leeha, the number of victims was almost the same as the first wave.

This meant that if they hadn’t taken care of at least three Gigapunt, the number of victims would have far exceeded those of the first wave.

Unknowingly(?), Leeha, who saved a large number of users, didn’t have time to think about it.

“Ugh, it’s dazzling!”

“How low level must it be to still be leveling up?!”

“I’m sorry, um, we’re sorry! Our Leeha tends to be a bit like that.”

Because he was the protagonist of the long effect to the extent that the users had to cover their eyes.

Blaugrunn, who was next to Leeha, was nodding and saying hello to the surroundings, but even that didn’t properly reach Leeha’s ears.

[Your level has increased.]

[Your level has increased.]

“Insane… 7 levels and 83% for a one-day event?”

You’ve raised 7 levels in a day? Is this for real?

Leeha, who was treated as low level among the users of the new continent, was a respectable level 200 in his own way. It was natural for Leeha to look at the character window and smirk.

‘The news that the 300-level limit had been lifted and the level-up-only hunting grounds were scattered all over the new continent was good-‘

This event boasted better efficiency than putting all those hunting grounds together, so Leeha could only think of it as a god-given opportunity for his lacking levels.

“Heh heh, with that look on your face, I bet you’ve gotten about 10 levels, haven’t you?”

“Uh, Kijung!”

The one who came to Leeha, who was blankly looking at his character window, was the members of Byulcho.

Kijung, Tale, Bobae, Hyein, and even Biyemi who warned Leeha not to die. Basically, they managed to power up again on a guild level with all members surviving.

“No matter who Leeha is, ten is too much. He’s not that low level.”

“Haha, I think it’s possible. It was surprising how much of a low-level he was when he was traveling to the new continent at not even 200.”

“…I am usually told that I am quite strong, but strangely when Bo-bae and Hyein look at me-“

[Ahhh– Ahhh———!]
“Huh?!”

What cut through the jesting among them was a great outcry. Toon’s cry that was clearly heard even from a distance was enough to kill the spirits of the excited users.