Arcane Sniper [Matan’s Shooter] - Chapter 397

“Wow! The teeth—what size teeth—”

“This is not the time to be admiring! If we don’t do it quickly—”

“Shh. You don’t have to do that, Bobae.”

Bobae was making a fuss as she watched the guy continuously pull his long body out of the sea and into the air, as if it were noodle soup.

“yes?”

Ki-jeong quietly reassured Bo-bae and pointed below.

A pose in which a single rope is tied to the waist, the upper body is completely pulled out, and the muzzle of the Black Bess is lowered.

“When should I shoot to inflict the greatest damage on the target? Where should I aim to kill it with one hit, even though it is so huge?… Those calculations have probably already been done.”

“But—is it that big? Besides, Lee Ha said this is the first monster he’s seen-”

“I can do it.”

The moment Kijeong finished speaking, Lee Ha and Luger’s mouths moved slightly.

A roar loud enough to shake two ships sounded simultaneously from the New Serpent and the Marlin.

Tukwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa」

“This is my brother.”

Compared to Luger, who used skills, Lee Ha did not use multiple bullets. Literally to find the optimal point.

Lee Ha also wanted to improve his specifications before arriving in the New Continent.

Beyond simple stats and skills, you must literally develop your abilities to deal with unknown enemies.

The giant moray eel did not make any sound.

The two sea creatures, which had already jumped up to 8 meters above the sea surface and had more than 140 meters of body under the shattered ice, were turning gray and slowly being sucked back into the sea.

Most of the expedition members were in a different state of shock than when they fought the collared lizards.

The Gold Dragon that launched the ship has long since been forgotten.

About Ram Hwa-jeong, who shocked me even more, and the two musketeers who killed that huge monster with a single blow.

“Phew…. That was a nice play, Mrs. Ram Hwa-jeong! Oh, Mr. Fernand, what level did you say this is?”

“Bah, what you just caught is 247. It usually comes out to 240~250 and-”

“Oh, really? It’s awesome! At this size, with such poor defense, being level 250 is a piece of shit!?”

The giant moray eel was no longer an object of fear for Lee Ha, who had found the point of instant death.

* * *

I’ve caught up to everything I can see over the past few days.

Since its head was large enough to match its size, it was not difficult to hit it under the water.

‘No, I guess my skills have improved again in the meantime.’

The teeth of a moray eel, the size of the body below, were literally right in front of my nose.

Even if he had fired a little later, if the ship had been damaged, he might have been hit as well.

It meant that I had grown once again as a sniper by overcoming that crisis.

“Even though I knew that if you just cut off the head of a fish, it’s one shot… It’s so rare to find a level 250 fish like this.”

[Kyuuu, kyuuu]

“Ah. Should we cut the meat from that corpse and eat it? “I can’t eat raw fish, and I’ve heard of something like moray stew.”

[Kyukyukkyun! Kkyukkyun!]

Flapping, fluttering, fluttering!

Blaugrun circled around Iha’s head as he stood on the watchtower.

The strong reaction that always came out whenever the topic of food was mentioned made Lee Ha quite amused.

“I heard that feeding drastically shortens the growth period, but I don’t know when Mr. Blaugrun will become the best of Juvena. “Will it be possible before we arrive in the New Continent?”

[Kyuu?]

“That’s it, that’s enough. Pretending not to understand again. Let’s go down. Hehe, there are a lot of rare potions available as supplies, so you should use them.”

Even in times like these, Lee Ha’s ability to conserve his wealth was outstanding.

On the 6th day of the voyage to the New Continent, the 8th day when Leeha logged out, and the 10th day of the expedition when we returned, there were no problems other than the sudden appearance of sea creatures.

For Fernand and the first expedition, the ‘biggest problem’ was the sea water, so in fact, it also meant that the 40 carefully selected users from the continent were neatly overcoming that crisis.

Something slightly different happened to those users when it was about 29 days into the voyage to the New World.

* * *

“Anomalous object found ahead! Is it sea water? The distance is approximately… 1.7 to 1.8 nautical miles! “It doesn’t look like a giant moray eel, there’s something floating around.”

This is briefly reported below.

It was shouted quite loudly from the watchtower, but no one, including Fernand, seemed nervous upon hearing the sound.

This is because, unless it is in the form of attacking from below the sea surface like the first giant moray eel, it poses no particular threat.

‘Anyway, boom! You’ll hear a noise and say you caught it again.’

Most users were just thinking the same thing.

“Let me see, who are you?”

Lee Ha hummed a melody like an old man and adjusted the magnification of Black Beth’s scope.

However, what caught Iha’s eyes was a slightly different type of creature.

“Um… what is it? I can’t see it. “Is it really just a dead fish?”

But it didn’t really catch my eye.

A common characteristic of seawater is its huge body.

If the creature located 1.8 nautical miles away, or about 3.5 km away, were seawater, it would have to be at a size that would fit within the scope….

‘About a human? No, slightly smaller than a human?’

Lee Ha tilted his head and looked at the lookout of the Marlin for a moment.

After Iha started hunting giant moray eels, one person went up to the watchtower of the Marlin to keep Iha in check, and of course, there was a certain number of people who could do such a thing.

Luger was there, holding the Cobalt Blue Python and taking on a combative attitude, saying he would not go down unless Lee Ha went down.

-Lugger! Do you see that?

-I know there is something. The only difference is the light reflection of the sea water.

―Huh, my eyes are good too. Do you have a good feeling? Anyway, do you know what that is?

-Stupid guy. If I had known, would I have stayed quiet? They must have already shot it.

―What if you don’t even have the confidence to guess? Anyway, there is something, but I don’t know what it is, right?

―This bastard dares me―

―Ebebebe, your record for hunting giant moray eels so far is ‘17 in total’? Giggling.

―You, you, such arrogance as you cowardly shoot from far away―

Iha ignored Luger’s whispers and looked inside the scope again.

Luger, who does not have a scope, would be even more unable to know the identity of the foreign object than himself. But as a fighter, and like a seasoned hunter, he knew something was there.

‘I was doing that and then suddenly, boom! I don’t think it will jump and attack… or something like that. First, I’ll have to wait for the distance to narrow further.’

Iha lowered the Black Bass and looked around again with my naked eyes.

I could feel the weight of Blaugrun sleeping on my head, but I just left it there.

The fact that Blaugrun does not react at all also shows that the object is not dangerous.

“But Mr. Blaugrun thinks my head is some kind of nest.”

After circling around and looking in all directions, Iha fixed his body forward again.

The voyage is already on the 29th day. In just one more day, Fernand’s expected voyage will be halfway through.

‘There is no problem so far. It’s a little annoying because there are so many things about sea water, but…’

During the last voyage, Lee Ra raised two more levels.

The current level is 179. Nevertheless, based on simple level numbers, the lowest level among the members of this expedition was below.

There were no users who complained about Lee Ha hunting alone and leveling up alone. That’s because the security below was so thorough, and the seawater was killing the expedition ships before they were even discovered.

‘It wasn’t as worrying as Mr. Fernand said. No, that means the users have become incredibly strong.’

When the numbers became too large to be handled alone, other expedition members also took part in the battle seriously.

Every time the sea creatures came out, Fernand was surprised that they were stronger and more numerous compared to the time of the first expedition, but there were only a few attacks that threatened the expedition.

‘More than that, Mr. Fernand is more surprising. No matter how much the level has increased and the number has increased, does that mean that monsters of that level can only be captured by using cannons according to the ship’s operation? I experienced it during naval warfare, but guns do not fire forward or backward. ‘You should only shoot to the side.’

If you don’t get the direction right, you’ll never be able to catch a ruffed lizard that’s charging at you like a pack of dogs in front of you, or a giant moray eel that’s shooting out from under the sea surface.

Iha had some respect for Fernand, who had already led the NPC fleet against such monsters when he had not even started playing Middle Earth yet.

Meanwhile, the ship continued to move forward, and the distance between the ship and the foreign object in its direction of travel was gradually narrowing.

The identity of the unusual object was finally revealed within the scope, which had been reduced to 1.3 nautical miles and 1.2 nautical miles.

“Eh?! Hey, human! It’s human! “What I discovered a little while ago was a human!”

He was lying down as if he had fainted. It was floating and already looked like a corpse, but it had the shape of a human.

“human?!”

“Are you human? user? No, NPC?”

“No – you can’t – you can’t do that, can you? “It can’t be a Kraven user or an NPC, and it’s even more ridiculous that the bodies of the first expedition members still remain.”

Kraven’s territorial waters were cleared on the first day.

There is no way that a regular user or NPC could bring a ship to this location. As even Fernand was embarrassed, the expedition members had no choice but to have even more doubts.

“Captain Drake! “Shouldn’t we check that?”

“…hmm. “Stop 0.3 nautical miles ahead, disembark the speedboat and check.”

Ay, Ay, Sir!

“I’ll contact Mr. Alexander!”

The two ships, which were moving forward rapidly, folded their sails and began to gradually reduce their speed.

Burke and Alexander also decided that it was necessary to check if it was not a monster.

Fortunately, the sea was calm enough to operate the boat, and pirate users on both ships piloted small boats and approached the floating carcass.

“Is it confirmed?”

Fernand got on the boat and asked Iha next to him.

The identity of the target was determined by alternating between naked eye observation using a scope and an eagle’s eye.

“…Oh my… Ha, well, since it’s Middle Earth, I guess it’s natural in a way-”

“Why? “What is it?”

If the object is about 500 meters ahead, observing it is a piece of cake. You can see it clearly below.

“Humans are humans… but they are not humans.”

“then?”

“Only the upper body is human.”

“yes? “Only the upper body?”

Fernand tilted his head.

However, the following explanation was accurate. The upper body is human. So what about the lower body?

“The lower body is like a fish… yes.”

Even those who spoke were equally embarrassed.

The identity of the thing floating on the sea that caught the ‘eagle’s eye’ was a mermaid.

* * *

“Wow, this is my first time seeing a mermaid.”

“Is he dead?”

“Even though she looks like a masculine type, her facial lines are pretty. “I thought the scales underneath would look kind of creepy, but they fit in much better than I thought.”

“No, but isn’t this breathing underwater? Shouldn’t we throw it back into the sea?”

“Someone get some water in a bowl!”

“Ice-”

“Wow! Ice magic won’t work!”

Even the personnel of the Marlin came rushing over to the New-Serpent.

With them all around, the mermaid was lying on the deck as if she were dead.

“Do you know anything Mr. Fernand?”

“No, no. Mermaid? What a mermaid? The direction must be this way… Why is this like this?”