Aim lab

"Are ya sure you want to take his challenge? I know that yar spirits are high, but if you lose, think of it as a fair sport, ok?"

Willaim has to confirm what Vero is getting in. If by any chance Vero got mad from losing, his shop would take a big hit. On the other hand, Rex, who's from the Frenzy gang, could get some leeway if he gets in trouble.

"I won't be mad."

Vero accepts the duel only for the promise of a free gun. He can't stomach the thought of losing a hundred thousand tel in one go. He doesn't even know what he has accepted.

The old man brings them both to the back of the shop. By opening a large metal door, he leads them into a spacious room filled with machinery. They pass by a lot of people shooting their guns at a wall, but upon closer inspection, they are shooting at augmented reality dummies.

Seeing that Vero isn't familiar with this, William explains.

"This is a training area that our William weapon shop offers. It has a lot of different ways to try out your gun. We might not be as good as the facility of the inner wall, but we're not far behind either. Recently, we also acquired one of the hot training and sports facilities, "aim lab." " Since ya accepted the duel, I guess that you've tried it out already."

They arrive at a spacious training ground. This one only has a slim control panel.

"For safety reasons, ya might have tried this thing already, but for now I must explain. The aim lab augments reality by simulating target and bullet impact, but they can't accurately simulate the trajectories of the bullet yet. The only gun they support is the CAR, so if you're using another gun, you have to use a real bullet. "

Willaim said that as he worked on the control panel. A red ball appears in the air, moving from left to right, and then disappears.

"The target is ready. I will land ya the CAR rifle so you can practice with it. "

Willaim passed the gun to Vero, and he inspected it. The black long gun was a bit too heavy for Vero's little body but not too heavy for him to handle.

"Can I test it?"

"Go for it."

Vero pointed the gun at a dummy and fired it off. The bullet flew and hit the target that was 50 meters away. The shot is right on the target with high accuracy. He fired more shots after that one to see how the gun felt.

After using it for five minutes, his verdict is that this gun is very well-rounded. It's not as powerful as the old world gun, but if you need to shoot something in the wasteland, this would do just fine. HE shot more and more bullets to observe the trajectories.

At a certain range, the bullet doesn't seem to be accurate anymore and the bullet sways left and right to where he is aiming.

'So this is the limit.' At 200 meters, other factors start to affect where the bullet goes.

Observing from the side, Rex is impressed by how accurate Vero is shooting. Normally, a young hunter wouldn't have the skills to back it up and fail at the most simple task because they were too full of themselves.

Being in the Frenzy gang, Rex has the most experience with young hunters. They often come from the inner city or a slum kid that has some connection. These kinds of people usually have bad personalities.

"Are you ready? I ain't got all day for ya two, ya know? " Willaim cut in and sped up the process.

"I'm ready whenever the kid is."

"OK, I'm ready now."

"Alright! We'll be playing on normal difficulty. Shoot the most targets to win. You can also shoot another person's target. Is this ruleset OK? "

"Bump it up too hard."

"Oh? Go easy on the kid, will ya? "

"There is no point in doing this then. You can handle it, right? " Rex gestures at Vero.

"OK"

Rex scoffed at Vero's response. The young hunter is still very entitled and easily tricked when you put pride on the line. Willaim sighed at the situation. He could see Vero getting annihilated by the veteran hunter.

[3...2...1.... START!]

A metallic sound starts the event off. A red target appeared at a faster speed than Vero anticipated, making him miss, while Rex, on the other hand, hit the target accurately. The big guy smiles and shoots another target down.

Vero quickly adjusts to the speed of the target and shoots again. This time he barely missed the target, and Rex shot it down instead. Vero could feel that the other party was getting more and more confident.

The next target, Vero, shot it right in the middle when it came out. The shot was so clean that Rex thought that it was another person. They continuously shot down the target, but every time Vero got faster and faster.

Until Vero shot Rex's target.

"What the..."

This surprises both Rex and William, who are observing the competition. From the outside, William can see that Vero is getting better and better with every shot he takes. He has an incredible amount of focus that William thought Vero was actually a cyborg.

Beep!

The competition ended with a score of 261 to 239 in Vero's favor. At first, he was losing because of how fast the targets were, but this could not compare to a ruin tracker at Dumo tower that could dodge bullets. The target was predictable and static. Even a wasteland dog that Vero encountered with Cherry's crew would be harder to hit than this.

"Is this a best of 3 or just one round?" Vero asked.

"OK, OK, you win this time! I'll get the gun for you. Hey old man, I'll leave my hunter ID here and charge it for the kid's gun. I only have a 300,000 tel budget, so don't go overboard, OK? I'm running late. See you next time! You better survive! "

Rex passed his hunter terminal over and left the facility. Vero doesn't know what to do and looks at William.

"Don't mind him, despite his attitude earlier, he's a good kid."

"He doesn't seem to be, consistent?"

"Well, Rex often likes that, but as I said before, he's a good guy. He has had a bad day recently, so it's unavoidable that he would be pissed. Normally he's a chill dude with a highly adaptive personality. "

"Can people change that much from one incident?" Personally, Vero hasn't changed that much since Fran died, or he hasn't noticed it yet. He himself can't tell.

"You would be surprised. In my time as a hunter, I have seen many people turn into villains with just one bad day."

"That's sad."

"Indeed, but we can't do anything about it, so let's talk about the future! What gun do you want to take? "