Arcane Sniper [Matan’s Shooter]

The thing that led to Luger’s defeat was that although he knew his skills, he did not know the power of the king of the northern trolls.

“Damn it!”

“All we can do now… is to retreat.”

The faces of the Three Musketeers, including Luger, were distorted.

No matter how powerful the anti-tank gun was, it did not have infinite energy! Luger’s skill, which penetrated hundreds of northern trolls, was blocked when it collided with the weapon Crolang quickly lifted.

It was obvious that he wouldn’t be able to use this powerful skill consecutively, and the frustration that his final move had been blocked permeated through the air.

Except for one person.

“Calm down! It’s not over yet! [Calm Mind]!”

It was the skill cast and shout that woke Kidd and Luger’s spirits.

Leeha knelt down and pulled the bolt. It was nonsense, it was a circus act.

‘But I have to do it, even if I look like a clown or whatever!’

Click-!

One last bullet was loaded. Leeha clearly saw that the bullet fired by Luger’s reinforced cannon, Jagdpanzer, made a ‘path’ towards Crolang.

How could the huge shell reach Crolang? 

It pierced the bodies of the trolls before him and shot forward. That too with incredible speed, and overwhelming power!

In other words, the bodies of the northern trolls did not recognize they were dead, and still ‘stood’.

Of course, they will collapse soon. But still, as long as their beastly hearts pumped, those bodies still had to stand up for around 0.3 seconds.

Leeha aimed for that gap.

It was only 0.3 seconds.

Spatially, there was a path between the holes in the bodies of the trolls. Luger and Kidd hadn’t realized anything yet. Not to mention Crolang, who had not figured out the situation yet. What is he going to do?

“Haaaa…”

And Leeha, the only person who was aware of the situation, aligned his line of sight and took a deep breath.

In that brief moment of exhaling and stopping, he pulled the trigger.

The bullet fired from the Black Bass was a thread. A thin strand of thread threaded through the holed bodies of the trolls like the eye of a needle.

 A strand of black thread touched Crolang’s neck.

“Fuuu…… Haaa……”

Leeha took a breath of air.

“What is…”

“You shot a bullet through the gap created by my skill? What nonsense-”

However, they couldn’t do anything even if they didn’t believe it.

Kidd and Luger looked at Crolang’s eyes filled with absurdity. The king of the northern trolls spewed blood from the new hole in his neck.

“ASdasd一……”

He had a hole in his throat, so he could not speak.

The king of the northern trolls, wide-eyed, began to fall backward. While the 10 m body fell, the corpses of the northern trolls that had been attacked by Luger collapsed.

As if the timing was right, all the corpses made a noise as they hit the ground.

Kuuuuung…….

Thin pieces of ice rose from the frozen ground and were blown away by the wind.

Ting!! Ting!! Ting!!

Bluebeard clapped his hands as if he had seen an opera. His expression looked quite excited.

“Amazing! How did you do it? Did you use magic bullets? I guess I have to retract what I said! Aren’t you as good as those young ones from 20 years ago? No, even now I want you-”

“Scrooooooolll!!!!!”

The Three Musketeers were not stupid enough to listen to Bluebeard’s words and wait. Kidd and Luger, who were briefly dumbfounded by Leeha’s amazing accomplishment, also moved like lightning. As soon as the notification window appeared in front of them, they did not waste any time.

Riiip-!

[The king of the northern trolls, Crolang, has fallen.]

[All trolls in the northern troll village are weakened by 50% for 1 hour.]

“Wait! I still have something to say-”

Shyuuuuk!

Using the return scroll, the figures of the three disappeared in an instant. Bluebeard looked into the air with a regretful expression and licked his lips.

“Tsk, that’s too bad. If they are raised well, they would be better than those guys before. No, maybe all three of them-”

“Arut, ka-……

“Churururu…”

Bluebeard no longer spoke. It was because the northern trolls who had lost their king and father were gathering around him.

“……Oh, dear. Did you become instantly stupid after you lost your king?”

Bluebeard frowned but soon changed back to a benevolent expression. Then, he slowly moved his feet in front of Crolang’s corpse.

“Even then, it was more about leadership than brute force……. Okay, anyway, with you, even your children would be able to-”

Pausing for a moment, Bluebeard tapped his silver staff twice on the floor. The frozen land turned into a swamp. The body of the giant Crolang disappeared as if it was sucked into the ground.

“-I have to wake ‘Pyrot Cocri’ soon. No, no, would it be better to wake ‘Gibli’ up? It’s better to be alive than to be resurrected as a corpse…… well…… no matter who, I should know where they lay first. I will be busy running around for a while. Don’t I?”

Kiiiiiiiik—-!

The mysterious horse that Crolang had been riding laid down in front of Bluebeard, uttering a strange cry. The 10m tall mount was much larger than Bluebeard, but he lightly leaped and sat on the beast’s back.

“You guys stay in the village as you do now. Your king will definitely return. Let’s go.”

Aturururu…….

As the northern trolls silently knelt down, the gigantic mount of Bluebeard started running.

*****

They had no time to calm their beating heart.

The place they arrived at using the return scroll was ‘the nearest town’. From there, the three of them moved nonstop to Aelstock, using a crystal ball without talking to each other.

It was because the three of them felt the danger that Bluebeard could slaughter them if he wanted to.

“Heuk, heuk, heuk.”

“Haa, haa.”

“Pheew…”

And when they finally arrived at the warm capital, the three of them caught their breath.

The three of them were silent for a while.

They just looked into each other’s eyes and made strange faces. It was because they seemed to be happy, curious, and flustered.

Kidd opened his mouth first as he watched the two breathe out.

“Anyway…… we did it.”

He put in his hat and said, and a smile could be seen on his lips.

“Right. I don’t know if we really did it, or not but, hehe.”

It was only natural that they couldn’t handle Bluebeard’s overwhelming pressure at the moment. They were worried about what would happen if they even stopped escaping, but fortunately, nothing happened. However, the reason Leeha laughed right away was Kidd’s words. The joy of surviving was great.

‘However, too many of our weaknesses were exposed. Isn’t it a bit excessive?’

Most importantly… he did not have a lot of skills. Not against Bluebeard, but against Kidd and Luger…

Even though he was the successor of [Bullseye], except for the high damage output and overwhelming range, it was difficult to continue fighting with auxiliary skills alone. Moreover, the range was dependent on the individual’s skills, and it was difficult to see it as a power of a skill.

It was less than what he had hoped for until now, but after seeing Kidd’s and Luger’s skills, who had the same job, he could not help but feel even more regretful.

“……How did you catch it?”

“Huh?”

“I asked how you caught him.”

However, he was not the only one who thought that way.

Luger also couldn’t help but turn cold when he saw Leeha’s incredible shooting skills. Even Kidd, who had seen Leeha’s performance again and again, couldn’t close his mouth. It wasn’t strange that Luger, who had never been active with Leeha before, was surprised.

“How did you shoot and hit it?”

“What is the skill name?”

“What skill? I don’t have any skills.”

Only Kidd, who knew that Leeha wasn’t lying, let out a small sound.

 ‘Are you saying that he really caught that thing on his own abilities…?. Through the holes in the corpses……?’

With a sigh. However, Luger couldn’t believe it.

His eyebrows went up.

“Don’t play around, answer me, [Bullseye]. No… Ha Leeha.”

Luger lowered his voice and spoke as if he was threatening him, but Leeha’s expression straightened.

“Oh? Calling me by my name now, right, you need to be nice too. Still, if you keep making me feel so distant, the three-”

“Shut up and just answer. What skill did you use and how did you catch it? How were you able to hit Crolang by aiming through the holes in the body of over a hundred trolls? Is there such a thing as an ‘absolute accuracy’ skill? Tell me the name of the skill and the way to get it right away.”

Of course, that friendship was quickly broken.

Luger growled and threatened, showing his teeth. Luger’s obsession with skills, in other words, his obsession with ‘strength’ exceeded Leeha’s expectations.

And looking at Luger’s attitude, Leeha could definitely get a sense of Luger.

‘He’s more like a child. No, it’s not just being young. Rather, it’s… being pure. Phew, looking at this pomade man, I think he’s pure.’

Luger’s attitude of literally wanting to be the strongest. Even his method of becoming the strongest is ‘1:1 fight’. What could be purer than this?

The passion of wanting to be number one was the height of simplicity in Leeha’s eyes.

‘Is it the reason why Alexander and Lee Jiwon avoid Luger and do not take him on?’

What if the two decided to kill Luger? Luger might have been great in terms of attack power, but there’s no way they couldn’t beat him. Luger would be tough as well, but it’s clear that their win rate would be slightly higher.

Why do they keep sparing Luger and can’t be bothered to kill him several times to lower his level?

Leeha seemed to have a vague idea for this reason. He was annoying, but he was a person that couldn’t be hated.

“What are you talking about?! I think I have to have a conversation with Director Browless. I am the only one with a strange skill system. This is so unreasonable!”

“W-what?”

So he was able to treat Luger relatively comfortably. In a playful exaggerated manner, Leeha complained to Luger and then to Kidd.

“Don’t you think so too, Kidd? Right! Before that, what? [Wild Punch]? I almost bit my tongue while looking at the skill. And what about you Luger, like a rail gun!. What is it? It’s a total cheat! I’m the only one who has nothing!” 

[Wild Punch] and [Jagdpanzer Cannon]. Leeha spoke the names of the skills as he thought of them. Seeing how Leeha spoke and behaved, Kidd felt something. The Texas outlaw sighed and pointed at the Black Bass.

“Your accuracy and attack power is also a scam.”

“It’s just because I am good. I need a skill, a skill!. Don’t I?”

“Well, since you became the last of the Three Musketeers, isn’t it natural that you lack skills? You are still far away, Ha Leeha.”

“Hmmmm…. Sounds about right. If you say it like that. If I think carefully, there’s nothing wrong with what Kidd said.”

“Did you just think of that now?”

Luger was the only one who couldn’t adapt to the two’s conversation.

“W-what are you two talking about? Answer me properly, Ha Leeha!”

The pomade blonde looked at Leeha and Kidd alternately and got angry. Leeha nd Kidd looked in different directions and smiled.

“It’s noisy, so let’s go and finish the quest. Let’s go!”

Leeha pushed Luger on the back. Even if he tried to scream, he was pushed by Leeha and Luger had no choice but to move.

****

“What- Cough!”

The shoulder of the user who raised his arm to block the entrance was torn. Blood gushed out like a fountain, but there was no instakill judgment. This is because the attacker opened the lid of a potion bottle and poured it into his arm.

“Guide me. I have something to hear.”

They were in one of Minis’ cities. Although it was located in the suburbs of the city with the purpose of a luxury bar, it was not just a security guard, but a place where the Knights of the Guard roamed.

Even so, the attacker’s demeanor was unstoppable.