Arcane Sniper [Matan’s Shooter]

The call started immediately. Kijeong’s voice was incredibly loud. His excitement could be felt.

-It would be better to connect on the internet and check! Puhahaha, it’s so ridiculous.

“What is ridiculous?”

-Hurry up and connect right now. This is war-related notice, no, the community would be better. Because there is a table organized there.

What is he making up a fuss for? Leeha went to his computer and quickly checked the community.

“What, this…

-Did you see it? Isn’t it awesome? It’s awesome, right? Kuheuheuheu, heuheuheum, eong-ah!! Eong-aaaaahh!!

Even though Leeha was only hearing laughter from the receiver, he could see Kijeong’s expression.

[Title: ★Fibiel’s users praise Ha Leeha-nim★]

[Title: As expected of that Ha Leeha person, I knew it would turn out like that]

[Title: By the way, what did that person do? Why did he get all of that? Didn’t he also form a friendly relationtionship with someone from an enemy country?]

[Title: No.1 in Kraven, Drake, No.1 in Minis Alexander, but Fibiel’s no.1 is not well known Haha Fibiel’s standard Haha]

[Title: As requested: Summary of Fibiel’s major contributors.txt]

Tsurururuk, the updated articles were war-related gossips.

And what accounts for 90% of the chat was related to the ‘compensation announcemet’ that Kijeong mentioned.

Leeha was able to see what was included in the compensation notice just by checking the title once.

“Did they reveal the top contributor?”

-That’s right! Not just number one! On the homepage, everyone from the 1st to 10th is listed! Hyung’s name is there! It’s embedded! Leeha clicked the article with a confused face.

[Title: As requested: Summary of Fibiel’s major contributors.txt]

1st: Ha Leeha: 35,878

2nd: Granville: 14,556

3rd: Pei Wu : 8,044

4th: Ram Hwajeong 6,861

5th: Ram Hwayeon : 10,000 – > 5,000 after reduction

Rush’s guild master was 6th, Kidd was 7th, NPC at 8th, Byeolcho’s master 9th, Shin Nara 10th.

No, but what the heck did he do to get 1st place over the Commander-in-Chief NPC ㄲㄲㄲ the difference is more than twice…….

-Isn’t Ram Hwayeon better than that? Ram Hwajeong got 6,800 but Ram Hwayeon only got 5000?

-If she didn’t get deducted she would have been the 3rd best contributorㄷㄷ the NPC commander-in-chief is 2nd among users ㄷㄷ

-what do you mean deducted?

– I heard that she made a big mistake at the end, and there’s a rumor that it’s because of that….

-I’m close to -1000, who’s +35,000? I can’t play this game anymore.

-ㅌㄲㄲㄲ I’m -400 as well ㄲㄲ I was relieved when I saw you

-Among non-rankers Rush’s guild master saved his face

-There’s also Byeolcho’s guild master. Rush Gilma would have been blessed with money and people, but Byeolcho Gilma is the best

“Wow……. The difference is bigger than you think.”

It wasn’t surprising that Leeha was number one. He knew very well that no one among the users would have made a higher contribution than himself. However, wasn’t it foul to have the commander-in-chief NPC as a competitor?

The first thing that surprised him was that he even beat the score of the commander-in-chief NPC by a huge margin.

And the second was the person in the 10th place.

“Kijeong-ah?! You-”

-Did you see? You saw, right? Thanks, hyung! Because of hyung, people are now making a fuss about us, and there are a lot of applications on our guild! It is to the point where Tale-hyungnim had to stay up all night to review applications one by one!

The masker of honor, Master Kay.

He was recognized for his contribution in leading the Byeolcho Special force, which performed special missions exceptionally.

‘The NPC on the ranking was one of the division leaders who led the Wichimore River invasion route.. In other words, not only the commander-in-chief, but literally all NPCs who participated on the war also competed…

Leeha was extremely proud of Kijeong who was able to put his name on the ranking Kijeong had a good reason for calling Leeha and leaving messages.

-A lot of people recorded our last meeting with Alexander, and our names kept getting mentioned on Y-Tube and overseas broadcasts Heuheuheu.

“Really? Wasn’t there a recording prevention?”

-Of course there was. Still, why can’t th people who want to take a picture can’t? They were taken with enough distance. It was a little blurry, but people who know would be able to recognize it. Do you remember Rush’s guild master, Ron? He already appeared on TV and got interviewed! He mentioned hyung there too. Do you want to get the Ytube link?

“N-no. It’s okay. Now that I think about it, I think I will only hear something embarassing.”

Ron was someone who secretly tried to get Leeha join Rush guild. He did not say anything about Leeha.

-He did not say anything embarassing. That guy is afraid of hyung.

“What?”

And Leeha thought too naively. Ron did not just simply talk about Leeha.

-Cough, I will read it as it is.

‘If you talk nonsense about him, your head will explode as soon as you log in. Without knowing his location. But on the other hand, it is a good thing. If you are logged out in one shot without knowing who the attacker is, wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that Ha Leeha is the cause? He displayed the mose astounding performance of any Middle Earth user I’ve even seen. I swear, if Alexander had sat here, he would say the same thing.’

After reading the full text mentioning Leeha during Ron’s interview, Kijeong straightened his voice again. Leeha could not hide how absurd it was on his expression as he listened to Kijeong’s delivery.

“……I’m not a psychopath of any kind, so I’m sure I won’t shoot him for not complimenting me.”

-Haha, it must have been an American joke. Still, isn’t it half-sincere though? He knows what will happen if he spoke incorrectly.

With the exception of a few really cloe friends, Leeha had become a target of fear and awe even to his allies. He didn’t quite know whether that feeling would be good or bad.

-Anyway, hurry up! It’s about a week away from the reward period in Middle Earth time, so don’t forget it!

“Of course. I will log in now.”

-Okie, I will tell you the rewards after you log in!

Your cute little dongsaeng has organized and will give it to you without looking for it yourself. Leeha’s burst into laughter at the same time as Kijeong’s bright voice.

“Kijeong-ah!”

“Hyung! Hyung! Are you there? As I said earlier, the reward is-”

“W-Wait a minute Kijeong-ah, before we talk about the reward!”

As soon as Leeha logged in, Kijeong ran like big dog. Leeha calmed him down first.

It wasn’t the time to think about the reward that had already been decided, as it would no longer change, and he wouldn’t be able to receive it even if he became impatient.

Leeha considered a different thing to be more important.

“Have you heard anything about the 3rd Human-Demon war?”

“3rd Human-Demon War?”

“You know, what Luger said. Bluebeard Count Le, the monster said to be a fragment of the demon king. No, can he be called a monster?”

“Ah. Didn’t he tell you? It was not in the homepage, and Middle Earth is quiet as well…… hyung had seen the community too, but not everyone is interested. Some people who heard Luger said that he is only trying to make it an issue, and everyone is only interested in their own contribution. So how could they relate to Middle Earth’s story? I think I’ve seen some comments saying, “Isn’t it just to end the war in moderation?”.”

Kijeong gave every information he had gathered to Leeha.

In fact, the planned signing of armistice agreement and peace treaty did not interest normal users. Rather than the reason the war abruptly ended, the consuquences of the war were more important to them. “Hmm……. What about the red dragon, Kuzgunak’shi?”

“That information was deliberately told to a small number of people, so what rumor can we get? Of course, there’s no news. Aigoo, it’s a problem that we are so serious. We have to enjoy first!”

“Haha, hey! You should have prepared to enjoy for a time like this. I mean, I gave you time to prepare. Don’t you know that masters give their star pupils time to enjoy before going into an intense training?”

The excited Kijeong tried to dance, but Leeha stopped him with a smile. One vague conviction that Middle Earth could not be this peaceful kept Leeha on edge.

“Anyway, listen to me, first of all, there’s a positive and negative contribution reward.”

“Okay, okay. Tell me. Will you start hitting me if I don’t let you talk?”

“Haha, hit!”

Kijeong was excited at Leeha joke and continued explaining.

First, Middle Earth’s official reward announcement, he value of the plus contribution can be changed to items or stat points according to the contribution value.

However, from rare items or higher, the contribution points required will increase exponentially, making them hard to acquire.

In case of stats, it goes without saying. In Middle Earth, there were practically no way of getting important stat points with only 100 or 200 contribution points.

“Hmm, how about hero or legendary level?”

“I don’t know about that. Someone shared that they used 1,000 contribution points to get a rare helmet. The difference between special and rare level is more than 3 times the contribution points, so the higher it goes, the more contribution points it would require, right?”

“If it’s rare, wouldn’t it cost more than 200 gold anyway? They must have made some money, right?”

“Well, he said that in order to not die in the war and get negative contribution points, he had to buy potions and scrolls worth 150 gold. Anyway, considering all of that, I don’t think he had profited much. We’ll have to leave some time.”

“As expected of Middle Earth.”

“Yeah. Still, people with positive contribution points are happy.”

Kijeong spoke again after Leeha nodded. In the case of negative contribution points, there was really a penalty like the rumors floating around.

The experience penalty will only disappear after spending a lot of time connected!

“What if they don’t connect?”

“Well. They must be permanently connected. I think Middle Earth will be crowded with people everywhere for the time being.”

There will be more and more people who will just chat in towns rather than go hunting while the penalty was active. Kijeong’s prediction was quite accurate. And Leeha could guess why such penalty came out.

‘Is it also another way to weaken user’s strength? If I think about it carefully, the purpose of the war in the first place was to weaken the users vefore the 3rd Human-Demon War…’

However, it is said that the experience penalty can be reduced with money.

However, Middle Earth’s gold is practically a cyber-currency. Therefore, Leeha thought that it would not be a big deal if the users had enough money.

“There will be quite a bit of resistance. Who would pay for it?”

“You still don’t know about Middle Earth’s users eong-ah.”

And Middle Earth’s users’ tenacity was stronger than expected.

“Huh?”

“Even after the backlash, the price of Middle Earth’s gold had risen. The demand for gold suddenly skyrocketed because of people trying to pay for the penalty. There were so many people willing to remove the penalty with money, and people in the towns are going crazy. Even if you died just once during the war, it would be virtually impossible to get out of the swamp of negative contribution, so there must be a huge number of those affected.”

Seeing Leeha’s disbelieving expression, Kijeong said that he had disposed his gold for some time.

“What are you going to do now, hyung? The war is over.”

“Well. I’d like to get the rewards first, but….” I heard that you are going to the royal palace for your meritorous deeds-.”

“Yeah. That’s why I haven’t used my contribution points left. At that time, after seeing what they are giving, I plan on changing it to stats or items.”

Those who have a few contribution points immediately exchanged them and went hunting, but Kijeong was different.

And Leeha also had the same idea as Kijeong.

The royal palace might give them better item, but you don’t l. At that time, he could make a decision based on the situation, so there were few things he had to do right now.

The fist thing is hunting.

Even though he worked so hard on the battlefield, Leeha’s level did not rise. This was because his focus was on assassinating a few factors rather than killng a large number of people.

At some point, he was so absorbed in destroying the keystone that it was natural.

Leeha opened his character window.

Name: Ha Leeha / Race: Human

Job: Musketeer / Level: 162(99.7%)

Title : Fearless / Achievements: 94

HP : 4,420(3,094) / MP : 1,160

Stats:

Strength: 280(+195)

Agility: 2031(+817)

Intelligence: 148(+97)

Constitution: 145(+52)

Mind: 40(+30)

Remaining Stat Points : 51

Leeha felt somewhat absurd at the same time that he was fortunate to see 99% of the experience.