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Simulation Room.
Gidan set the monster's level and type on the massive bio-printer and stepped aside.
Soon, a large hologram appeared in the center of the Simulation Room, and a 3D blueprint modeled after an S-Rank monster rose up.
When he pressed confirm, bio-printing began according to the blueprint.
The monster dummy was filled in layer by layer, from claws to skeleton and flesh.
A bio-printer was a device that printed biological structures like a 3D printer, capable of faithfully replicating a monster's body tissue and defensive strength.
Of course, since it had no life, it couldn't move, but it was extremely useful for checking how much damage one could deal, so every guild that could afford the expense kept one on hand.
“You shouldn't use this carelessly…….”
Of course, it cost an astronomical sum each time it was used, so it couldn't be used often.
“Eheh~ Kids don't worry about such things.”
Team Leader Hwang Yumin was all smiles, saying she would take responsibility.
The reason they were even using the Simulation Room was entirely because of that special guest.
Gru waddled creakily over to the realized monster dummy.
More precisely, it was because of the chick drone held by that guest, who had even been dressed in the same training jacket as Gidan.
The naive kindergartener had blurted out in front of the hyena-like Team Leader Hwang Yumin that they had come to test a new weapon…….
“Then let's go to the Simulation Room!”
And so, things had ended up this way.
Having been too nervous, their stiff movements made them look even more like a doll, so they seemed to have avoided any major suspicion, but.
‘Will this be okay?’
Contrary to Gidan's worries, Gru chattered away tirelessly at Team Leader Hwang Yumin's questions about the new weapon.
—It can lock onto targets within a radius of about 100 meters and attack…….
“Ooh! How fascinating.”
—Is that so?
When the other person showed interest in their new weapon (toy), the teddy bear flapped its ears and began to huff.
“What rank is this?”
—It hasn't been decided yet.
“What does that mean? That it's not the finished version yet?”
—‘It hasn't been decided yet’ means it hasn't been decided yet.
Team Leader Hwang Yumin seemed puzzled by Gru's words, but since the creator said so, she let it go.
‘Since I don't have high expectations anyway.’
Jjapsso had immense standing as a potion maker, so expectations regarding them were naturally on the medicinal side.
Today, they just needed to do a good job as a surprise guest.
The Hunter shrouded in secrecy, Jjapsso, would cause quite a stir just by appearing.
And Gidan of Hyeonak, playing together with such Jjapsso's toy!
‘This is insane. Should I post this as a vlog (video content capturing daily life)?~’
She giggled and raised both hands high, waving them left and right.
“Alright, let's take our positions and get ready!”
While the staff prepared for filming under Hwang Yumin's direction, Gru brought up the chick drone's information window.
[Mephisto Series Prototype mk.1 (Rank Undetermined)]
The created item's rank has not been determined. After the item is activated, the system will evaluate the rank by judging comprehensive factors.
*Item use may be dangerous. Children should test and evaluate items together with a guardian!
‘Mmm, it really is weird.’
After getting the idea from the universe, Gru had begun modifying the toy drone.
And the moment they thought it was completed quite nicely.
The information window had changed like that.
‘Oing!’
An item's rank was always determined automatically.
Because that was so natural, the fact that the rank would only come out after the demonstration was incredibly awkward.
Just in case there might be similar precedents, Gru asked AI Juju, but the answer that came back was that it didn't know of any such thing.
That was why Gru had equipped the gear and come running to Gidan.
Because Dad would absolutely never allow it if I said it was dangerous!
When it came to involving someone in something adults would worry about, Gidan was the easiest target.
‘But it ended up like this anyway…….’
Gru felt a bit intimidated by the furtive glances and fidgeted with the chick drone.
But.
It was something that had to be done anyway.
Gru held their head high.
—I'll show you.
The camera crew raised their cameras.
Soon, propellers spun from the chick's head, and it flew up into the air.
The chick stopped in place after rising to a certain height.
Now that it had taken its position, if an attack occurred within a 100-meter radius, it would target the subject and fire electrical energy.
—You can attack now.
At this, the publicity team leader gestured at Gidan.
Meaning to hurry up and test it.
“You'll have to tell Brother Joolim that I had nothing to do with this…….”
Gidan said in a sullen voice, then drew his weapon, ‘Biat's Void’.
‘I won't need to use a skill, right?’
Since it was just a test, all that was needed was a light strike wrapped in a bit of mana.
Tap-
Gidan struck the dummy without much thought.
Crack!
Then, electricity flared from the magic stone attached to the chick's chest.
Its forsythia-yellow feathers puffed up round like dandelion seeds with a poof.
The moment Gidan laughed lightly at how cute it was.
The chick's mouth opened, and the energy wave rising from its chest gathered there.
Crack!
Sceeeeech-
Soon, accompanied by a wind-splitting sound, a projectile wrapped in an electric field shot out in a straight line.
“……?”
Sizzle-
The area around the penetrated bullet hole burned.
The only one who had been able to see the speed at which it struck the target was Gidan.
‘Even I... had trouble following it…….’
He broke out in goosebumps.
Gidan was one of only two people in Korea with extrasensory perception. That meant his dynamic vision was far superior to an average S-Rank.
If that was the case, it meant that plump, stupid-looking chick drone had fired its attack at a speed far exceeding the speed of sound.
The team members, belatedly coming to their senses, rushed to check the dummy.
There was a fairly large hole about 10 cm in diameter.
Gidan gulped and asked.
“What... does this thing shoot with……?”
—Electricity. It converts mana into electricity and fires by creating a path.
Gidan thought for a moment, then spoke as if muttering.
“......Then this is a railgun.”
The one the US developed and abandoned.
“A railgun, you say……?”
Those who knew and those who didn't began to murmur among themselves.
“A portable railgun?!”
“What is that?”
“Hey, don't you know the electric gun that only appears in games?”
“Huh?”
It was half-and-half between those surprised and those bewildered, but—
what mattered was that Jjapsso had proudly brought a new weapon that even the US had given up on developing, and had mounted it on a drone, no less.
Moreover, the railgun just demonstrated used a magic stone as its energy source.
Meaning it could be used for dungeon raids where only power based on mana worked.
‘I had heard that Switzerland had succeeded in developing a weapon that fired mana in a coilgun form, but…….’
A coilgun itself was an inferior version of a railgun.
Moreover, the fact that it wasn't a primary weapon but a secondary weapon was even more shocking.
The chick drone took the form of a secondary weapon that automatically attacked enemies within range.
While a coilgun dealt damage as a primary weapon, the chick railgun could add plus-alpha damage on top of the primary weapon.
Among the dumbfounded Gidan and team members, the first to quickly step forward was, as expected, Team Leader Hwang Yumin.
“......How did such a genius appear out of nowhere before my eyes? Did fortune bestow blessings because I've lived a hard life at Hyeonak?”
She was nearly out of her mind. Hwang Yumin, her eyes rolling wildly, gushed praise as if slipping into dialect.
“As expected, you are amazing! I tell you, I had a feeling our Hunter-nim would do great things! This is the one! The person who will revive our Hyeonak! This person is hope! When our Hunter-nim joined Hyeonak, you wouldn't believe how hard I scrapbooked the articles. I really must show you later, truly!”
Hwang Yumin hugged Gru tightly and showered kisses all over the bear mask.
—R-really?
Embarrassed and delighted by the pouring praise and affection, the teddy bear's ears perked straight up.
“Noona, please put them down first before you talk.”
The flustered Gidan orbited around Hwang Yumin like a planet, whining for her to put Jjapsso down.
Only after Hwang Yumin delivered a long speech about Hyeonak's future vision and its relationship with Jjapsso, completely draining everyone, did she put Gru down.
Now, she wouldn't have to worry about sponsor contracts falling through.
Where did such a pretty genius come from?
“They came by bicycle! Pahahaha!”
Unable to stop her devious peals of laughter, Hwang Yumin gestured to the cameraman.
The team members prepared the filming smoothly on their own—
“Our Hunter-nim! Turn around, good. Dana, you stand here too.”
Hwang Yumin grabbed the backs of the two, showing off the large sponsor logo emblazoned on the back of their training jackets.
“Let's go again. Looking cool!”