Chapter 347 - One Bullet At A Time

"Hey, that guy seems to access the dungeon without a team. Isn't that pretty much a suicide?" one swordsman pointed at me while I am busy fiddling on the settings on my dungeon dive. I am just listening on the side.

"Ah, perhaps you didn't know but that guy is a little bit famous in the Alternate World community. Remember the winner of the Arena Competition that happened last time? That was the guy. I didn't say it exactly but I heard from some people that he also declared a solo guild war against a certain guild with plenty of players and won in the process."

"What? He is that strong?"

"Yeah. Plenty of players calling him "The Wolf" nowadays. However, no one tries to communicate with him much due to his mysterious nature. Some players even tried to find some clues on his real face but no one really knows. According to some, this adds some mystery to who he really is!"

Just listening on the side makes me really want to facepalm. The community already took notice of me huh? I know I am not making any lowkey actions and most of the time, they are doing significant changes in the game so I guess that would make a bit sense. But receiving this much attention is not something I really look forward to. Thankfully, some people are afraid of approaching me for that main reason.

I was about to enter the dungeon when a few players appeared with loud voices.

"Heh? So this guy is considered a strong guy and champion of the Arena Competition? Does that mean killing him right here and now will allow me to become the current Arena champion? Perhaps he will drop great goodies too!"

4 Players started to surround me. Since we are not in town and currently in a hostile area where monsters dwell, killing players here will not enrage authorities of the towns here but you will earn the red player status, becoming a player who is now labeled by the system who has committed a PK.

I didn't respond to the one guy and just continue to configure the dungeon. The player who sounded greedy earlier was also the first guy to strike first. Of course, he was slow so the strike he just did entirely miss.

[You have been attacked. You can now retaliate against the attackers without hitting a penalty.]

I grinned seeing the restriction is no longer there. I am now free to kill.

"Is that it?"

The others also attacked simultaneously. But they are not worth the time. So before they can even attack, I pull the gun I just forged and pull the trigger to the four players in rapid succession. I didn't even bother to aim, they are on point-blank range, killing them is easy.

I didn't bat an eye and pulled the triggers to them. And as I expected, their bodies exploded the moment they got shot by the gun. Before the other bastards can react, another bullet destroyed them and killed them in the process.

Since they already did the first striker earlier and the system already appear for me, killing them will not hit me with the Player Killing punishment. As for them, they died of course. If the dummies are not able to handle the power of the gun, then what about a human with light armor? It was an obvious outcome.

"Holy sh*t! He all one-shotted them all! What the hell?! So the rumors that he is really strong is true?! It wasn't just a fluke that he won against the Immovable Holy Knight?!"

"Told you, he is the one that we saw on the internet last time! I was not wrong!"

There are still some bullets left on my gun so I didn't reload. I just went ahead and input the final preparations on the panel and process my entry to the dungeon in solo. Despite the warnings of the dungeon that it is difficult to play without a party, I headed inside. This dungeon is already something I already memorized before so I don't need to get worried in any way with a gun and a crappy weapon that I crafted for the sake of being fodder.

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[You have entered the Underground Tombs- Hard Difficulty]

The smell of dirt, dust, and a bit of undescribable smell emanates around the place. Not only that but the smell of iron and some rust also waves around. The only thing that is missing is the rotten smell. For a place crawling with dead people, the rotten smell is pretty much absent in this place.

"Alright, time to get working."

My objective here is to test the effects of the gun and see how strong it was against bosses. With every target dying from a single shot, bosses in dungeons are my only hope that they won't die easily, or else, I can only stash this away and wait until I get to an enemy that is close to impossible to kill and just use it for my advantage.

As I walk forward, a horde of mummies appeared before me. I took a quick headcount and I managed to count at least a dozen of them. It was a clear count. 

"GROARRRR..."

[Rotten Corrupted Mummy]

Level 80

HP: 90,000/90,000

Traits: Undead

Their low moans actually allow me to deduce that they are shamblers and do not run on their targets, allowing me to properly plan whether it is better to reload or it is fine without doing so in the distance.

Despite being resistant to physical damage, I know they are weak so it is already expected for me to kill them easily.

BANG!

CRUSH!

The rotten mummy was squashed easily and disappeared in one bullet. Now I am certain. The gun is strong enough to inflict at least around 90k damage or more. Since it one-shots a level 80 Rotten Corrupted Mummy that can resist quite a number of physical attacks, I still needed to move to a bigger monster. For now, let's get rid of them all.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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Around 30 minutes later and after killing around 70 or more Corrupted Mummy, the first Mini-Boss room has finally been here. Since I already memorized the layout of this dungeon, the next is a mini-boss with quite a decent amount of health and a fair share of defensive capabilities. 

Since I only keep on blasting on the mummies without a care, I already accumulated 20 [Eyeballs of Corruption]. A quest item that is dropped by the mummies every time they are killed. There is a 50% chance they will drop and I only needed 20 to open the door to the mini-boss room.

The door has 20 holes on it and each hole needed one eyeball in it. So unless you didn't kill the mummies on your way and evaded it to speedrun, then you will be forced to fight them again and gather 20 pieces of them.

With the [Eyeballs of Corruption] in hand, I started placing them one by one. Once the last piece of the eyeball was placed, the door cracked open before disappearing, allowing me to enter the sealed chamber.

In the middle of the room is a humongous armored monster. Much bigger than Atlas and has a much bulkier build than him. However, compared to Atlas, Atlas is a complete being, this big guy is not.

[Corrupted Dullahan] Mini-Boss

Level 99

HP: 1,000,000/1,000,000

Traits: Undead

Dullahan monsters are known as very tanky walking armor, missing their head, and have a massive stature compared to normal undead. This monster is also always being associated with the undead and it will never be associated with other species other than the undead.

The moment I entered its field of sight, the chunk of armor stood up and pull up its heavy greatsword.

"Alright! Prove to me that your defenses can handle the power of my gun!"

BANG! BANG!

-you have dealt 167, 543 damage.

-you have dealt 170, 987 damage.

Holy crap! The damage I already dealt with the gun with only two shots already dealt around 330k damage already! And that is still two shots of the gun! I haven't even used my gun's special abilities too!

No wonder the enemies and the dummies can't survive in one shot of this thing.  This one hits with an estimated damage output of around 170k to 160k depending on how far or near I was. It also affects whether the place I shot with the gun hits a fatal area or not. Since I shot its chest area, it automatically is counted as the fatal area. As for the non-fatal areas...

BANG!

-you have dealt 100,127 damage.

I see. It lowers quite a lot but it didn't fall to the threshold of 100k damage. That is still quite a huge number. But it was clear. If this gun used its first skill, [Rapid Gunfire], this boss is dead immediately.. With all bullets hitting and reaching 160k to 170k damage, this thing is now dying one bullet at a time.