Arcane Sniper [Matan’s Shooter] - Chapter 273

Click-.

Leeha made a final click adjustment.

Black Bass was adjusted for only 26mm. However, Leeha was well aware of how much the angle will change at a distance of 1,800m ahead.

Since there was nothing to see, the wind was difficult to measure. However, the bullet will listen to Leeha’s wishes.

“Haaa……”

Leeha exhaled a long breath.

Toward the still-dark plain of Minis, a huge monster, the strongest race in existence that interacted with humans, ravaged Fibiel’s army.

‘Calm Mind.’

3 seconds, his body became firm. The flame of the gold dragon was cut off. It was probably about to move. Good. Leeha was aware of its pattern from before.

2 seconds, he was not in a hurry. He did not have to predict Now he just had to wait. Leeha did not exhale again.

1 second, ROOOOOOOAAAAAAR- it was as if he could hear the roar of the gold dragon. And the point where the flame was ignited, the space where the breath started, caught Leeha’s eyes. The distance did not change.

Only the direction has changed slightly.

He moved his rifle slightly. And click.

0 second. Baaaaaaang一一…….

After only 3 seconds of maintaining the skill duration of calm mind, Leeha’s bullet was already traveling through the air.

[ROOOOOAAAAR——!]

It was ultra-high flame breath once more. Breath was also different from magics that use mana. Whether it was breath or magic, the Gold Dragon had no limit. Users cried out that it was a cheat, but Middle Earth’s operators did not listen to the complaints.

“Live-”

“Kuwaaaaak!”

“Anti-magic Shell, Anti-magic-”

Hwarororok!

Those who used magic to defend themselves remained only as corpses. Some of those who had weak magical defense or did not even try defending themselves disappeared without leaving a corpse.

Alexander just stared at Bailephus’ power with a blank expression.

No resistance, no counterattack. The massacre of Fibiel’s low-level users was not even exciting.

“Are you still not coming out, Lee Jiwon…?. After all the soldiers are killed, you will no longer be able to hide and target me.”

Bailephus’ breath was over. As he breathed, the gold dragon flew right to the side.

Flap- flap-!

Whenever they heard the sound of his wings flapping, Fibiel users felt like they were having a nightmare.

[Can’t you see Lee Jiwon yet, Alexander?]

“Not yet. What hasn’t appeared yet- eughk?!”

Pooof一.

Alexander’s body staggered as he looked down at the ground with a groan. To be exact, he didn’t stagger. Bailephus’ body which he was riding shook!

“Bailephus, what-”

Alexander could not connect his words properly.

[ROOOOOAAAAAAR一一!]

The gold dragon roared. It wasn’t the roar of a mighty dragon. It wasn’t a roar that evoked ‘fear’, it was the cry of a creature purely out of pain.

Alexander was perplexed.

“Bailephus! What’s going on?”

[Kaaaaaaa一! Luger?! Luger is here, Alexander!]

“Luger?”

Alexander immediately lowered his head when he heard Bailephus screaming madly.

Then, he found that where he was sitting, just below the starting point of the gold dragon’s neck bone, which Hot Chicks had pierced with his teeth just before, the dragon’s chest had been torn off.

And red blood flowed.

It pierced through the magic shield that was always cast around the dragon, even the dragon scales that were stronger than the magic shield, and caused damage!

Alexander thought it would be natural for Bailephus to react that way. At least until today, there was only one person who had hurt the gold dragon.

[Lee Jiwon and Luger! I will never forgive you!]

Bailephus’ voice trembled. Not out of fear, but out of anger. It was a voice that Alexander had not heard in a long time.

The gold dragon stopped breathing and sped up again.

If it was a human, it would be impossible to grasp the exact situation because of pain, but dragons were different.

It was a simple matter to figure out where the attack came from.

Kwaeeeeek.

The gigantic dragon split the wind.

“Is that…… planned?”

“I-it screamed. The gold dragon is crying.”

The Byeolcho guild members took a step back without knowing it. They had no idea that a scream from far away in the night sky could sound so terrifying.

“H-hyung?”

“Oh……. I thought he wouldn’t be in pain because it was huge. I just shot him for the aggro, it must have hurt a lot didn’t it?”

“I-I don’t think now is the time to say things like that. It’s a lot worse than the day before.”

Hot Cheeks wasn’t meant to hurt the gold dragon.

It was just for biting into the dragon’s scale and sealing the dragon’s magic.

Even the teeth, which attacked the similar spot, could not penetrate its flesh.

Rather, it was close to ‘attaching’ Hot Chicks to the gold dragon’s body, so there was no pain.

However, the ‘damage’ included in this attack was different. Leeha had underestimated his own power too much. He didn’t know he could make even a gold dragon scream.

“The breath is coming!”

Gulp.

Someone gulped. If they succeeded in one shot like this, what do they need to do now? Even Leeha was a little flustered for a while.

Huuuuung!

Suddenly, the wind blew up the hill. Leeha’s bangs flew up. He could feel in the wind itself. How the dragon would move.

“I-It’s going this way now!”

“Uwaaaaa!”

It was only natural for the Byeolcho Special force to make an uproar.

“I heard Ram Hwayeon scream too! She’s currently in contact with Pei Wu, Lee Jiwon, and Ron! He will be here in 3 minutes!”

“3minutes?”

Not 30 seconds? However, it was only natural for them that they did not know where Alexander would appear or where Leeha would shoot.

Leeha shouted while looking at the surrounding users.

“Kijeong-ah! And all Byeolcho Special force, get down! Quickly! Kidd, you too!”

“What? W-what about hyung?”

“I will manage! If I go, the dragon will surely chase after me, and I can hide if I’m alone!”

“You mean you’re going to hide against the gold dragon? He would be able to find even a single strand of your hair.”

“You’re noisy! Kidd, you go down too, quick!! And as soon as you meet Lee Jiwon or Pei Wu, make sure you get the timing right! I will make another shot.”

“What do you mean, eong-ah?”

Leeha spat out the plan mindlessly. The dragon’s movement was much faster than expected, and the crisis they face was much more serious.

While performing the strategy, it was not uncommon for things to change! Leeha immediately came up with a new plan.

“Get down, Kijeong. That’s how you can protect me.”

“Eeek-”

Kijeong bit his lip, but he couldn’t disagree. Leeha’s statement was correct. Taking Leeha with them would endanger everyone.

Kijeong didn’t care about himself, but he wanted to avoid interfering with Leeha’s plan as much as he could.

“Okay, hyung. I will back down.”

“Right, 3 minutes, do you understand? I can hold on that much.”

“Byeolcho Special force! Get down the hill! Keep in touch with Ram Hwayeon and set up a meeting point, quick!”

Kijeong led Byeolcho down. Kidd, who looked at Leeha for a moment, quickly turned around.

“Huuuu, huuuu.”

Leeha took a deep breath and looked around.

It was literally a hill. With a few trees missing. He had to endure 3 minutes against the gold dragon. Huuuung, the roar of the gold dragon mixed with the sound of the wind was heard. 

[Where is Luger-!]

Flap- flap- flap-.

Every time Bailephus flapped his winds, the weeds of the hill fluttered. Now that there was no problem in mana management, he could fly without flapping his wings, but this time, it was not for flying.

It was to shake the vegetation to seek out anything that is hidden. The gold dragon’s eyes were bitter.

“Can’t you feel it, Bailephus?”

[There’s no mana signature. However, there’s no trace that the attacker’s mana moved.]

“There’s no place to hide here.”

Alexander received Bailephus’ words dryly. They could not feel any mana signature, and there were no movements of mana. However, they were not able to see Luger.

Even at this point where there was nowhere to hide. Alexander wanted to speak, but he was speechless. It had been a long time since he had seen his partner so irritated. And he remembered very well what the gold dragon did when he was attacked by Luger and got irritated.

‘All the monsters in the mountain died.’ 

Not a peak, but a ‘mountain’…… He breathed out at random and burned everything to death. Even Alexander was so angry that he could not swallow.

‘Hut. Thanks to Luger, I raised one level. Should I thank him?’

The blonde user was covered in blood but escaped without dying in the end.

A cheeky, cynical attitude and overwhelming attack power befitting the Gestapo-like image. The only person who made the gold dragon Bailephus angry and made the no. 1, Alexander, nervous.

[Where are you, LUUUUGEEEEER-!]

Heeeeeuuup, Bailephus took a breath. Then spewed it towards the slope of the hill. The gold dragon’s super-heated flame breath sprayed around the hill. The flamethrower created by an extraterrestrial being was different from human flame magic.

“Kuuuuuk-!”

“R-run away! Run-”

“Turn it off! The fire!”

“T-this, the water drop doesn’t stop the fire?!”

“Take off your clothes, you idiot, just take them off!”

Just the sparks sticking to their clothes made ordinary users’ vision sharply darken. As the surrounding low-level users left in a hurry, the area around the hill became empty.

[You can’t run away, Luger! Did you try again without knowing my mercy last time? This time, I will completely melt your arrogant face!]

The hill, which was less than 100m above sea level, became a stage. On the stage engulfed in flames, the only things visible on the stage were the gold dragon and Alexander riding it. 

Ordinary users who could not understand the intention of the glowing Bailephus only had a question mark floating above their heads. In the meantime, there was another crowd in a commotion.

“Leeha-hyuuuuung-!”

“D-don’t go, Kay!”

There was a commotion among Byeolcho, which had been waiting for the other elites to meet at the bottom of the hill.

“L-let go of me, This-hyungnim! Leeha-hyung, Leeha-hyung is alone over there-”

Kijeong tried to get away from Tale, but Tale was not the only one who stopped Kijeong. 

Byeolcho’s guild members weren’t the type to watch their guild master go and die.

“Kiskis, I don’t know if I should like our guild master-nim’s personality being like that. Look at the party window. Leeha-nim’s health is still the same.”

Biyemi laughed next to them.

“Yes?”

“He’s not dead yet. Hearing what the gold dragon said, it looks like he is hidden……. Is there a way that Leeha could stay hidden without getting detected by the dragon’s mana detection?”

Biyemi did an accurate analysis and glanced at Kidd. He couldn’t ask openly, but he might have known something, Kidd felt his eyes and then gently pressed the brim of his hat to cover his face.

“I don’t know exactly. But…”

Perhaps it had something to do with [Black Bass].

If one is part of the ‘Three Musketeers’, one could learn some unique skills that fit their characteristics. It was a fact that even [Rapid Fire] Kidd could guess and that there was something that only [Bullseye] Leeha could use.

“But?”

“You should already know. It is his specialty.”

“A secret weapon that can improve the situation?”

However, Kidd remained silent. Biyemi smiled and asked again.

“……It’s about finding a good skill and using it.”

Kidd nodded as a matter of factly. Hearing his words, Biyemi finally burst out laughing.

“Kiskis, the musketeers don’t even know.”

The perimeter of the hill was still burning. In the situation where Alexander and Bailephus were roaring around, they all had different ways of enduring the inevitable ‘three minutes’.

While Fibiel’s elites secretly gathered, the person they were talking about was watching the situation.