A Space Marine Got a Status Window

There wasn’t a single person who doubted Hawk Eye’s capabilities.

However, there was something about her that raised questions.

“Why does Hawk Eye work alone? Isn’t it too dangerous?”

Those who knew that Hawk Eye operated on her own without forming a team wondered why she did so.

It was a perfectly reasonable question.

Hawk Eye was a sniper, and a sniper’s greatest weaknesses were precisely a lack of mobility and firepower, aspects that were normally compensated for by their teammates.

Even so, Hawk Eye only formed a team when necessary and normally acted alone.

The reason was simple.

“Because for Hawk Eye, that doesn’t pose any problem. That’s why she goes around alone.”

For starters, mobility wasn’t a problem for Hawk Eye.

Since she possessed a penetration ability that allowed her to hide practically anywhere, acting alone posed no inconvenience.

Rather, Psyker Agents or Space Marines incapable of keeping up with Hawk Eye’s style would do nothing but hinder her.

But the main reason she could act alone was none other than her firepower.

Hawk Eye didn’t lack firepower.

And right now, she was proving it.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lying in the cargo bed of the military truck, Hawk Eye began firing without pause.

Screech!

Screee!

Screek!

And every bullet she fired, without a single exception, accurately pierced the heads of the Mog charging toward them.

That went far beyond simply having good aim.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Hawk Eye maintained astonishing accuracy even while firing rapidly.

And that was despite her current physical condition being so bad that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she was in terrible shape.

In any case, that was the reason Hawk Eye could act alone.

She alone could unleash firepower comparable to that of an entire platoon of Space Marines.

That was why Hawk Eye had always been confident.

Among the Psyker Agents, there were quite a few monsters even more extraordinary than her, but among all the gunmen who roamed through space with their weapons, she was convinced that no one could shoot better.

And no one could refute Hawk Eye’s confidence.

Not even Kim Seojun.

The skill Hawk Eye was displaying at that moment wasn’t too different from what he himself could do.

In other words, surpassing that through pure skill was impossible.

That was why Kim Seojun thought of something else.

“Hey, play fair! Shooting with four guns is cheating!”

Increasing the number of weapons.

Naturally, under normal circumstances, that would have been impossible.

For starters, a weapon required the use of hands to fire it, so at most one person could handle two.

But as soon as he obtained Telekinesis, the situation changed.

As long as he could position the barrels properly, he could pull as many triggers as he wanted.

Furthermore, Kim Seojun’s Apollo’s Blessing continued to work even when he fired the weapons using Telekinesis.

From then on, Kim Seojun had practiced at the firing range to discover how many weapons he could properly handle.

And the result had been four.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The four weapons Kim Seojun had prepared began firing without pause.

The combined recoil of the four weapons was intense, but for Kim Seojun, who possessed a sufficiently high Strength stat, it posed no problem.

Furthermore, at that moment Kim Seojun wasn’t trying to achieve One Shot, One Kill.

Simply hitting them in the body was enough to inflict sufficient damage on the Mogdogs.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Especially in a situation like that, with more than a hundred thousand Mogdogs charging toward them, all he had to do was hit one and make it fall.

Screeeeech!

Because as soon as it fell, the other Mogdogs mercilessly trampled it.

[You have eliminated a Mogdog!]

[You have eliminated a Mogdog!]

The notifications announcing the elimination of Mogdogs echoed without pause in Kim Seojun’s ears.

[You are eliminating Mogdogs too quickly.]

[From now on, notifications will be disabled.]

Eventually, even the Status Window stopped displaying notifications.

Screeeeech!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

From then on, the only things Kim Seojun heard were the gunshots and the shrieks of the Mogdogs.

It was an overwhelming massacre.

“You really are incredible.”

Hawk Eye expressed her admiration.

“But are you sure this is okay?”

Then she asked him the most important question.

“If you keep shooting like that, you’ll run out of ammunition.”

That method had an obvious limit.

That was precisely why Hawk Eye always tried, whenever possible, to aim for the Mogdogs’ heads or other areas where she could inflict fatal wounds.

Using one bullet to eliminate a Mog instead of three made a critical difference.

Naturally, Kim Seojun knew that too.

No.

He knew it better than anyone.

He had experienced dozens of times the terror of facing the Mog without supplies and without even a magazine available.

“It’s fine.”

That was precisely why he had devised that strategy.

“I have enough ammunition.”

“Oh, really? How much do you have?”

Because he had enough confidence to say so.

“More than the number of Mogdogs you can see over there.”

Upon hearing that, Hawk Eye stopped asking questions.

Instead, she said.

“……Shit, I’ll have to find you a new nickname.”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

And so, the gunshots continued echoing without pause from the cargo bed of the military truck driven by Park Boseop.

Three hours later, Kim Seojun spoke.

“We’re retreating.”

When Kim Seojun gave the order to retreat, Hawk Eye showed no doubt.

“You ran out of ammunition, didn’t you?”

After consuming ammunition without pause, she assumed he had finally run out.

“No.”

“Hm?”

Naturally, Kim Seojun’s Inventory was still overflowing with ammunition.

It was absolutely impossible for him to run out.

“I’m running out of physical stamina.”

What was running out was his physical stamina.

And for Kim Seojun, that was extremely important.

No matter how much ammunition he had, the moment his physical stamina decreased and caused an error in judgment, that would be the moment he found himself face-to-face with death.

In other words, at that moment Kim Seojun wasn’t even making calculations related to the mission.

He hadn’t counted how many Mogdogs he had eliminated or how many points he had obtained.

He didn’t even know.

[Combat has ended. Reward calculation will begin.]

[Due to the mission, all points obtained will be multiplied by 3.]

‘Ah, right. There was that.’

Only after hearing that notification from the Status Window did Kim Seojun remember that there was a mission requiring him to obtain 100,000 points.

‘I don’t think it was easy.’

And he didn’t expect to have completed it either.

Frankly, when he first heard the conditions, he had thought it would be impossible, so he had simply erased the mission from his mind.

That was why.

[You have eliminated 15,332 Mogdogs. You have obtained 45,996 points.]

[You have eliminated 5,531 Mogdogs with a single shot. You have obtained 33,186 points as a One Shot, One Kill bonus.]

[You have achieved more than 10,000 kills during this combat. You have obtained 30,000 points as a kill streak bonus.]

[You have fulfilled the mission conditions. You have obtained a Diamond Ticket.]

‘Huh?’

As soon as he heard those notifications, Kim Seojun was surprised.

‘Did I really do it?’

Vroooom!

Kim Seojun and Hawk Eye were lying like corpses in the cargo bed of the military truck speeding along at full speed.

Both of them were sleeping.

Deeply.

So deeply that they would only wake up if someone shook them.

“They both sleep really well even in a situation like this, sir.”

Park Boseop clicked his tongue in amazement at that.

“It’s proof that they’re veterans of a hundred battles.”

Major Lee Hyena, on the other hand, understood that this was proof that both of them had overcome unimaginable adversity and hardship during this space age.

“They know this isn’t the end, but barely the beginning.”

Just as she had said.

Kim Seojun and Hawk Eye knew they had to recover as much as possible during that period of rest.

This time they had eliminated approximately twenty thousand Mogdogs.

It was an unimaginable number for just two shooters to have eliminated in three hours.

However, there were still close to ten times that number of Mogdogs remaining in the Queen’s nest.

That meant they would have to fight at least another ten battles like that!

Furthermore, there was no possibility that the upcoming battles would be as simple as that one, with only Mogdogs attacking them.

Kim Seojun and Hawk Eye knew that, which was why they slept.

And for their sake, Park Boseop drove the military truck while trying to make the vehicle shake as little as possible.

“What’s the situation?”

“Sergeant Kim, you’re awake?”

“Uh, I’m awake too.”

“Hawk Eye too?”

After driving for eight hours, Kim Seojun and Hawk Eye opened their eyes at practically the same time, as though they had agreed on it beforehand.

After checking the situation, Kim Seojun spoke.

“Park Boseop, do you hear anything around us?”

“No, sir. I don’t hear anything.”

“Stop and set up the air tent.”

Then, Kim Seojun looked at Hawk Eye and spoke.

“Now you’ll receive treatment in a medical suit. Is that okay?”

Under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t even have asked that question.

Hawk Eye’s condition was so bad that, from the very beginning, she should have gone directly into a medical suit as soon as she was rescued instead of participating in combat.

The simple fact that she had fought was surprising!

Even so, there was a simple reason why Kim Seojun asked her.

“I’m not usually the type to take off my suit in front of strangers.”

Hawk Eye’s identity was more important than most state secrets.

“But I’m not so obsessed with secrecy that I’d risk my life to hide it in a situation like this.”

However, by that point, Hawk Eye also knew that revealing her identity and her face wasn’t something she needed to worry about.

“Besides, you’ve already shown me quite a lot, so I should show at least a minimum amount of courtesy as well.”

As soon as she finished speaking, preparations began immediately.

They set up the air tent and everyone went inside.

Then Kim Seojun asked again.

“If you want to keep your identity secure, there’s no need to reveal your face.”

“No, it’s fine. We’re going to be together from now on. It would be even more ridiculous to ask you to turn your heads every time so you don’t see my face. So don’t worry about me. Worry about yourself instead. You’ll be surprised when you see my face.”

Upon hearing that, everyone thought the same thing.

They thought Hawk Eye was saying that because she was about to reveal that she was a woman.

Just as they expected, Hawk Eye was a woman.

“Huh?”

And as soon as she took off her helmet, everyone, including Kim Seojun, couldn’t help being surprised.

For starters, the person who revealed her face, Noah Winston, was an incredibly beautiful woman.

She had short blond hair and completely white skin.

However, that wasn’t what had surprised everyone.

“Noah Winston?”

Because it was impossible not to recognize her face.

“N-Noah Winston, one of Hollywood’s biggest actresses? I-Is she really that N-Noah W-Winston?”

“That’s right. My face isn’t exactly one of those you can see just anywhere either.”

Because Noah Winston was one of the biggest actresses in Hollywood today.

An actress considered the Queen of Romance.

“H-How?”

It was shocking in many ways.

“What’s so difficult about it? Being an actress is a job where you only need to film a couple of movies every ten years, right? During my breaks, I travel through space using the nickname Hawk Eye. And even if I die during a mission, it wouldn’t be that strange for a Hollywood actress to suddenly die, would it?”

Hawk Eye, Noah Winston, spoke as if it were no big deal.

“Good, then tell me now.”

And she continued.

“What’s your wish?”

At that question, spoken with a captivating smile, Park Boseop and Major Lee Hyena looked at Kim Seojun in surprise, as if they had just realized something.

And they thought.

What kind of wish would Kim Seojun ask of such an extraordinary person, someone who was practically no different from a genie in a lamp?

Kim Seojun didn’t need to think about it for long.

“Give it to me in money.”

“Hm?”

Kim Seojun asked for money.

At that, the other three, including Noah Winston, showed expressions of disbelief.

Kim Seojun, on the other hand, saw it differently.

He was there for money.

In other words, if he had had money, he wouldn’t have had any reason to be there.

That was why money was enough.

He had no intention of asking Noah Winston for anything else.

“When we return to Earth, give it to me in money. That’s my wish.”

Above all, the wish Kim Seojun truly wanted to ask for at that moment, ‘Take me back to Earth!’, was something not even Hawk Eye could grant him.

Noah Winston understood the meaning behind Kim Seojun’s words and once again showed a captivating smile.

“Wow, you really are interesting. I thought I’d met all kinds of weird people during my life, but you’re the best of them all.”

“Thank you.”

After responding, Kim Seojun immediately sat down and spoke.

“Then I’ll prepare the medical suit.”

He took a medical suit out of his Inventory and looked at Major Lee Hyena.

“Major, help her.”

“Understood.”

She had to enter the medical suit naked, so Kim Seojun left it to Major Lee Hyena and exited the air tent together with Park Boseop.

Once outside, Kim Seojun spoke.

“Tell me immediately if you hear anything.”

“Yes, sir!”

“I’ll rest for a bit.”

After saying that, Kim Seojun settled down in front of the air tent, deactivated radio communication mode, and let out a long sigh.

‘Who would’ve imagined she’d be Noah Winston.’

Kim Seojun already knew that Hawk Eye was a woman, but even he had been enormously surprised to discover that her true identity was Noah Winston.

‘And I was a fan of hers.’

In fact, Kim Seojun was such a fan of Noah Winston that he had watched each of the seven movies she had appeared in at least twice.

His younger sister, who knew that, had also told him something once.

That when she became successful and won a Grammy Award, she would make sure he got the chance to have a meal with Noah Winston someday.

Naturally, when he heard that, Kim Seojun had told his younger sister that he was already irritated by the heat, so she should stop talking nonsense and get lost.

He had thought it was complete nonsense.

Who would have imagined that he would end up meeting her on such a distant planet in the middle of space?

‘Ever since I arrived on this planet, all kinds of things keep happening to me.’

However, Kim Seojun didn’t allow himself to get carried away by those thoughts.

He would have time to think about everything that had happened once he returned to Earth.

For now, he only had to think about one thing.

Returning to Earth.

And to accomplish that, Kim Seojun had one thing to do.

‘Buy tickets.’

Spend all the points and tickets he had obtained this time!

And the gains from that battle had been enormous.

‘I’ve accumulated 109,000 points alone. That’s insane.’

He could currently buy no fewer than 36 Silver Tickets!

Furthermore, he had obtained a Diamond Ticket as a reward from the event mission.

Kim Seojun didn’t hesitate.

“Use Diamond Ticket.”

He immediately used the most valuable item.

Then he heard a notification.

[You have obtained Mana from the Diamond Ticket! Your current Mana is below 80 points. A stat bonus will be applied. Your Mana has increased by 30 points.]

At that notification, Kim Seojun remained motionless for a moment.

Frankly, he hadn’t expected it.

He had thought he would obtain a skill, a talent, or some Upgrade Ticket.

Naturally, thinking about it, statistically it was more likely to obtain stats.

That was why it didn’t take Kim Seojun long to accept it.

‘Not bad.’

And, frankly, increasing his Mana by no fewer than 30 points was far more extraordinary than obtaining most skills or talents.

With his Mana stat currently at 35 points, that meant it would practically double.

Furthermore, since he already had so many skills that his Mana could barely keep up with them, that was practically the best possible result.

And it still wasn’t over.

“Purchase 36 Silver Tickets.”

Kim Seojun used all the points he had accumulated to purchase Silver Tickets.

Shortly afterward, he heard the notifications.

[Your Endurance has increased by 6 points.]

[Your Mana has increased by 7 points.]

[Your Strength has increased by 20 points.]

[Congratulations! You have obtained a Platinum-grade reward! You have obtained a Talent Upgrade Ticket (B)!]

[Congratulations! You have obtained a Gold-grade reward! You have obtained a Talent Upgrade Ticket (C)!]

As soon as he heard those notifications, Kim Seojun’s eyes opened wide.

‘I got something incredible!’

That was a huge prize.

So much so that his heart began pounding violently!

However, his surprise didn’t last long.

[Congratulations! You have obtained a Platinum-grade reward!]

Because he heard another notification.

[You have obtained Apollo’s Blessing (55 days)!]

[You can now use the Minimap.]

A notification announcing that he had obtained a new ability.