Matan’s Shooter

TL: xLordFifth

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“Waaaaa, what a ginormous teeth-”

“This is no time to admire! If we don’t deal with it quickly-”

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

Bobae trembled at the sight as she watched the creature continuously pull its long body from the sea into the air as if it were noodle soup

“What?”

Kijung quietly reassured Bobae and pointed at Leeha.

A rope was tied to his waist, his body completely pulled out, and the muzzle of the Black Bass was pointing down.

“When to shoot to inflict the greatest damage on the target? Where to aim to kill the creature in one shot….? Those calculations have already been completed.”

“But- isn’t it huge? Moreover, Leeha-ssi said he had never seen that monster befor-”

“He can do it.”

The moment Kijung finished speaking, Luger’s mouth twitched slightly.

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

Baaaaaaaaang——-!

“That’s my Leeha-hyung.”

Compared to Luger, who used a skill, Leeha did not use the Multi-Warhead Shot. He literally found the optimal point.

Before arriving in the New Continent, Leeha also wanted to raise his specs.

Beyond simple stats and skills, he must literally develop his abilities to deal with unknown variables.

The giant moray eel did not make any sound.

With more than 140m of their bodies under the thin ice, which had already risen 8m above sea level, the two sea monsters slowly fell back into the sea, turning gray.

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

The gold dragon that launched the ship had long since been forgotten.

More than Ram Hwajung, who initially shocked them, were the two musketeers who killed the huge monsters in one shot.

“Pheeew……. Nice play, Ram Hwajung-ssi! Ah, Fernand-ssi, what level did you say they are?”

“W-what you just caught is level 247. They are usually between level 240-250-”

“Ah, really? That’s amazing! It’s this big, and with such poor defense, isn’t it a shame that it isn’t level 250?”

The giant moray eel was no longer an object of fear.

They’ve caught sight of it 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 the moray eel, the size of Leeha’s body, were literally right under them.

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

It meant that Leeha had grown once more as a sniper by overcoming that crisis.

“Even though I knew that if you just cut off the head of a fish, it would die… .”

[Kyuuu, kyuu.]

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

[Kyukyukyu! Kyukyu!]

Flap, flap, flap!

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

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

“They said that feeding drastically shortens the growth period,  but I don’t know when Blaugrun-ssi will become juvenile. Will it be possible before we arrive in the new continent?”

[Kyuu?]

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

Even at times like these, Leeha’s ability to conserve his wealth was outstanding.

On the sixth day of the voyage to the new continent, on the eighth day of the subsequent logout, and the tenth day of the expedition, there were no problems except for the occasional sea monsters.

For Fernand and the first expedition, the ‘biggest problem’ was the sea monsters, and in fact, the 40 carefully selected users from the continent neatly overcame that crisis.

Something slightly different happened to those users when it was about the 29th day into the voyage to the new continent.

“An abnormal object was found ahead! Is it a sea monster? The distance is approximately…… 1.7 to 1.8 nautical miles! There’s something floating and it doesn’t seem to be a giant moray eel.”

Leeha briefly reported.

Although he shouted quite loudly from the crow’s nest, no user, including Fernand, seemed nervous after hearing the sound.

It was because unless they attacked and came up from below the sea like the first giant moray eels did, they did not pose any particular threat.

‘After all bang! It will make a sound and they will say that it is caught again.’

Most users thought the same thing.

“Let me see, what is it~”

Leeha hummed a melody like an old man and adjusted the magnification of the Black Bass.

However, what caught Leeha’s attention was a slightly different type of creature.

“Hmm……. What? I can’t see it properly. Is it really just a dead fish?”

However, Leeha wasn’t able to see properly.

A common characteristic of a sea monster was its huge body.

1.8 nautical miles, about 3.5 kilometers away, if it was a sea monster, it should come in at a full scale….

‘Is it human-like? No, isn’t it slightly smaller than a human?’

Leeha tilted his head and looked at the mast of the Blue Marlin for a moment.

After Leeha started hunting giant moray eels, one person went up the Blue Marlin’s mast to keep tabs on Leeha, and there was only a certain person who would do such a thing.

Luger was there, holding his [Cobalt Blue Python] with an attitude that he would not go down unless Leeha did.

Leeha: Luger! Do you see that?

Luger: I know that there’s something. The reflection of the sea water’s light is different in that part.

Leeha: Huh, you have good eyes. Do you have a good hunch about it? Do you know what that is?

Luger: You idiot. If I had known, would I have stayed still? I would have already shot it.

Leeha: You’re not confident about it. Anyway, there’s something, but you don’t know that it is, right?

Luger: This bastard dares-

Leeha: Epepepe, Isn’t the record for hunting giant moray eels so far ‘17’? Kilkil.

Luger: You, you- are so arrogant when you cowardly shoot from afar-

Leeha ignored Luger’s whispers and looked through the scope again.

Luger, who did not have a scope, would not be able to know the identity of the unidentified object better than Leeha. But by the nature of the fighter, and like a seasoned hunter, he knew that ‘something was there’.

‘It’s like that and then suddenly, bak! I don’t think it will…… attack while jumping. I will have to wait for the distance to narrow further first.’

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

He could feel the weight of Blaugrun sleeping on his head, but Leeha just left it alone.

The fact that Blaugrun did not react at all also shows that the object was not dangerous.

“Still, Blaugrun-ssi thinks that my head must think it’s some kind of nest.”

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

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

There was no problem until now. He was a little annoyed that there were so many sea monsters coming out, but…

During the voyage, Leeha raised two more levels.

He was now 179. Nevertheless, in terms of simple level figures, the lowest level among the expedition members was Leeha.

There were no users who complained about Leeha hunting and leveling up alone. That’s because Leeha was so thorough, and the sea monsters were killed before the expedition members discovered them.

‘It wasn’t as much to worry about as what Fernand-ssi said. No, users must have become incredibly strong.’

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

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

‘Fernand-ssi is more surprising. Even though the level has increased and the numbers have increased, does that mean that monsters of that level can only be caught by using cannons according to the ship’s operation? I experienced it during the naval battle, but the cannons don’t fire forward or backward. They could only shoot to the side.’

If they didn’t get the direction right, they would never be able to catch the marine lizards that rushed at them like a pack of dogs in front of them or the giant moray eels that leaped out from below the sea surface.

Leeha 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 gradually narrowed.

1.3, 1.2 nautical miles, the identity of the unusual object was finally revealed within the scope..

“Eh?! H-human! It’s a human! What I saw earlier is a human!” 

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

“Human?!”

“A human? User? No, npc?”

“No- it can’t be- can it? It can’t be Kraven user or NPC, and it’s even more outrageous that it’s the bodies of the members of the first expedition team.”

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

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

“Captain Drake! Shouldn’t we check?”

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

Ay, Ay, Sir!

“I will contact Alexander-ssi!”

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 the pirate users of both ships steered their ship toward the floating body.

“Is it confirmed?”

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

Leeha determined the identity of the target by alternating between his naked eye using eagle’s eye and scope.

“……Oh my……. S-since this is Middle Earth, I guess it would only be natural-”

“Why? What is it?”

If the object was about 500 meters ahead, observing it was a piece of cake. Leeha clearly saw.

“It’s human…… but not human.”

“Then?”

“Only the upper body is human.”

“Yes? Only the upper body?”

Fernand tilted his head.

However, Leeha’s explanation was accurate. The upper body was human. So what about the lower body?

“The lower body is…… a fish.”

Even Leeha who spoke was equally embarrassed.

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

*** 

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

“Is it dead?”

“Even though she looks like a masculine type, her facial lines are pretty. I thought the scales on the bottom would look kind of creepy, but they match a lot better than I thought.”

“No, but doesn’t this thing breathe underwater? Shouldn’t we throw it back into the sea?”

“Someone get some water in a bowl!”

“Ice-”

“Waaaah! Ice magic won’t work!”

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

With them surrounding her, the mermaid lay on the deck as if she were dead.

“Fernand-ssi?”

“No. Mermaid? What mermaid? This is definitely the right direction…… why is it like this?”

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