Arcane Sniper [Matan’s Shooter]

What if Rafaella healed once when receiving about 149,000 damage? All conditions will have been reset.

‘If you look at that, Middle Earth is also amazing. How could they have inserted so many conditions to harass users? Still, if you look at how popular it is… After all, are you motivated to play games that are difficult?’

Leeha shook his head, letting out air bubbles. However, I was hoping that the game would be a little easier, at least for now.

This is because not only the C team below, but also the A team, which was not chased by the fishmen after Drake’s mermaid incident, were moving smoothly.

‘It would be nice if we continued like this… The next week is important.’

In just two more days, Team A will enter the central part of Yonggung’s waters. If nothing happens then, Hyein’s B team will begin to move in earnest.

And what about Leeha, a member of Team C?

Three days later, I arrived near the Dragon Palace, logged out, went to Middle Earth to rest for a day, and then logged in again to move.

[Kyu, kyak!]

It was then that Blaugrun, held by Anderson, flapped his wings.

“Hey, did you say Mr. Blaugrun? “Your boundary range is wider than mine?!”

“… You’re not going to like it, Anderson. “What is there, Dragon?”

[Kyukyukkyun! Kkyukkyun!]

Hearing the bronze dragon’s urgent cries, Leeha’s expression began to harden.

What does it mean that it is the 18th day since Team C, Leeha, entered the waters of the Dragon Palace?

Based on the criteria below, it means that you have already been online for 48 hours, then took a 5-hour break, and have been online again for about 36 hours.

This means that mental fatigue has accumulated tremendously.

Leeha understood Blaugrun’s words and sighed.

“Kkorok, kkorok…”

It’s like, “Eoin.”

Even though the words only let out bubbles, Anderson and Sibrem were able to understand the situation by looking at Leeha’s expression.

‘Ugh, then that’s right.’

There was no way Middle Earth would let me go that easily.

* * *

[Quew! Kkyukkyun!]

“It’s not within our detection range yet… “What should we do, sir?”

“Our waves could get caught by them. First, pay attention to the direction the dragon is pointing and pause for a moment. “They move together with the schools of sardines over there.”

“All right!”

Anderson and Sibrim, who were moving at high speed, slowly slowed down and approached the school of fish around them.

If humans had approached, it would have been a school of fish that would have been scattered, but these are mermaids, the spirits of the water and the Wave-Undine family!

The fish swam gently and accepted the mermaids as one of their own.

‘Do you understand it as a wave? Right. If we move together at the same speed like this, the fish people’s ultrasonic detection will only interpret us as part of a shoal of sardines.’

It was a camouflage tactic, so to speak.

However, this camouflage is somewhat unfamiliar to those who are snipers on land; it is closer to the camouflage that a submarine can use.

“Kkorok?”

Leeha suddenly felt a cool sensation on the back of his neck and turned his head.

A fish the size of my palm was poking at the back of my neck. Sardine’s shining eyes and Leeha’s eyes met for a moment.

‘Kick, is the difficulty difficult? It’s a game that irritates people, but I can’t quit because of this experience.’

A different experience from existing virtual reality games.

The freshness of stimulating various senses that are difficult to feel in reality.

There were bound to be many pragmatists who used the time gap between Middle Earth and reality rationally and efficiently, as well as users who simply played the game for a new and unique experience.

“ah! Caught! “It’s over there.”

“You already knew?”

“yes? ah… yes.”

Sibrim looked at Anderson with surprised eyes.

A mermaid who is much smaller in size and has a pretty face that you might not trust in battle. However, its ability to detect enemies is equal to or better than that of Seaburim.

“Heh, indeed… “If you add speed to that ability, you might be able to survive on your own.”

“yes?”

“no. “How many enemies?”

“There are three. There are no other sea creatures and only three fishmen are wandering around. But the direction… The direction is this way. “If you stay like this, I think we’ll run into each other!”

After hearing Anderson’s words, Sibrim closed his mouth for a moment. The Captain of the Sea God Guards finally detected the enemy and his expression darkened.

“this. “There’s no place to hide nearby.”

“The speed is faster than expected and the direction is accurate. The encounter will probably be around 6 minutes?! “Maybe they know we’re there?”

There is nowhere to move.

Moreover, in a sea that extends beyond just east, west, south, south, and up and down axes, it happened to be in exactly this direction, so the fishmen were approaching as if they knew the group below.

[Kyutkyukkyu…]

Blaugrun, still hugged by Anderson, looked down. While looking at the anxious dragon, Leeha was thinking of something else.

‘Maybe it’s a good thing. Three fishmen, they must be scouts or border patrol members. If they know we’re there, they’ll come running at full speed. ‘You don’t know yet.’

Compared to Anderson’s fuss, Leeha was calm.

What if the fish people don’t know yet? It might just be an opportunity.

―First of all, let’s move with the flow of sardines like this.

“Is there any way?”

“Kkorok.”

Leeha nodded.

Strictly speaking, Leeha has never properly fought a fishman yet. Besides, wouldn’t it be impossible to use Black Bass if it were underwater?

―Sibrim, how many fishmen can you face?

“Three is too much.”

-You mean there are two?

Sibrim nodded, but his expression was not bright. Even if you deal with two, there is only one left.

It was too risky an operation to believe that Anderson or others would do it.

“Can you do it? If you trust Anderson,

it would be better if Mr. Anderson did something… I can’t just play around. Let’s do it. Let’s lure them in and then kill them.

The closer you get to the waters of the Dragon Palace, the more likely you are to encounter them.

If so, now would have been an opportunity.

A chance to experience a very good real-world test.

Leeha carefully opened the waterproof bag and examined one of the items inside.

“It’s coming. 3 minutes and 30 seconds to go – Leeha, please be careful what you say. “It will catch you because your breathing is different from your sardine friends.”

With Anderson’s final caution, a glimmering figure appeared at the far end of Leeha’s vision.

Three fishmen were swimming, leaving their humanoid arms and legs still and only moving their fish-like bodies.

The harpoon weapons held in their hands, made of an unknown bone material, looked sharp even in the sea.

The movement of the sardines became faster and more intense. It was an appropriate choice for Sibrim and Anderson to hide in a shoal of sardines.

Unlike other fish that scatter or run away when an enemy appears, shoals of sardines move more together on their own.

It’s as if it’s not camouflage but camouflage that makes their collection look like one living thing.

‘But the shark knows that and swallows it all at once, right?’

Suddenly, a scene I saw in a documentary came to mind.

I suddenly felt a little sorry for these sardines, but I was so glad that they were able to hide themselves even more.

Among the sardines swimming like a large whirlwind, Leeha, Anderson, and Sibrim clearly discovered three fishmen.

‘Captain!’

‘Not yet – just pull it in a little more. Anderson, you take charge of the guy on the left.’

After listening to the conversation between Anderson and Sibreem, Leeha also finished preparing.

Is the purpose of the three fishmen this school of sardines?

Their eyeballs could clearly be seen rolling from the following position.

“Hockey, it’s food.”

“Leeha, Just bring the kraken here and feed it.”

“Hakit! Go back and-”

“〈Bubble Shoot〉” “〈Bubble Shoot〉!”

And when they finally approached, Sibrim and Anderson used their skills.

The air bubbles that shot out from the mermaids’ hands were instantly sucked into the fishmen’s mouths.

What was surprising was what happened next.

To Leeha, who had no idea how their skill mechanism worked, a comical scene was being produced.

“Hakyuup!”

“Key-ip, key-ip—!”

This is because the two fishmen were turned upside down, struggling and rising little by little.

“Kkorok?”

There was no time to ask, “What is that?”

“Now is the time, Leeha! It won’t last long, so hurry!”

Sibrim quickly swam away, snatched the weapon from one of the overturned fishmen, and began dealing with the other fishman, which was not incapacitated.

“Crock, crock!”

Leeha swam on her own without anyone to catch her anymore and headed towards the fishmen.

However, I couldn’t attack them carelessly because I couldn’t understand what was happening to the fishmen who were upside down, struggling and screaming.

[Kkyun! Kyakki!]

“Just attack, Leeha! What the captain and I fed to them was air! I can’t control my swim bladder, so I can’t sink underwater! “They’re upside down and can’t keep their balance, so just kill them!”

I could understand the following as I heard Anderson yelling behind me.

As expected, the brutally realistic Middle Earth was showing its true value in places like this.

‘Does that method work because it’s a fish? good! If that’s the case, I can’t just sit still!’

It is said that fishmen are more aggressive than mermaids and have superior basic physical combat abilities.

Since Sibrim is a mermaid of the rank of captain of the Sea God Guard, he will be able to kill at least one fishman in no time, but the other fishmen will be normalized before that.

What Sibrim and Anderson wanted was to neutralize at least one of Leeha’s remaining two before that, and Leeha was confident in that task.

“Korororok, boogurrrrrrrrrrrrr!”

Leeha reached into his bag and took out a black stick that looked slightly longer than a wand.

[Yep! Wow! Wow!]

―Leeha, Mr. Blaugrun! So, hurry up and become an adult! So we can make more things like this!

Even black bass are useless underwater.

So what weapons are left? Should I use a flamethrower? That also makes no sense.

Unless you are at the Pyromancer Pyro’s special skill level, flames cannot overcome seawater, not at sea level but underwater.

‘If I hadn’t had this weapon in the first place, I wouldn’t have volunteered for the mermaid quest!’

I’ve never used it before.

It was literally one of the last weapons left for ‘self-defense’.

But what on earth can a stick without even a decent blade do?

“Hakit! “Human – Leeha!”

“Mermaids, Leeha! I brought a human! “The sea level hakyuns have come down!”

The fishmen who had turned over and were struggling also discovered the following.

The actions of the guys who tried to keep Leeha in check by swinging their weapons, arms, and legs wildly were quite threatening, but since Leeha couldn’t move properly, Leeha was able to evade them with his somewhat poor swimming skills.

[Yep! Blaugrunn

cried as if cheering for Leeha.

It has to be that way. This is because what Leeha is holding now is another ‘own’ item.

Before being born as an Easter egg, when I was an adult-class bronze dragon, I received two dragon scales from Blaugrun.

One was used to make a flamethrower, but what about the other one?