The approximate policy has now been consolidated before the third tier invasion operation.

The final preparations for Operation diversion will be handed over to the Adventurer Alliance, and the imperial invasion will be handed over to the Royal Palace led Alliance.

Both were previously prepared by the Knights of the White Wolf (us), but were able to safely take over to the right opponent, feeling somewhat shoulder-loaded.

After that, all we have to do is gather information in parallel with the entry operation and develop new armed forces for the operation at a rapid pace.

"... though, because it was a sudden screw-in project, the delivery time was really bad!

Alexia laughed at the situation strangely tense as she worked the metal on the workbench.

I was visiting the workshop of the Agile Engineers' Union, which Alexia represented, and I was asked to check on the progress of the work that the engineers had entrusted to me.

Since the request included not only the development of new equipment, but also the production of existing products, the union's mechanics also work full rotation, and the content of the report is quite large.

I can't take it home without organizing it, so I'm having a conversation with Alexia as I go through the shop desk.

"I feel really bad about the delivery time."

"No, don't worry about it. I also wanted to do it, so I took on the case. Well, in that sense, do you deserve it?"

Alexia's side, laughing and continuing to work, seemed really fun and energetic.

Of course, the colour of fatigue is hidden by the work, but it still looks shiny based on it.

"... so, what are you making just now?

"It's a new weapon. Luke, I think you've seen it in the world."

Alexia smiled hard and grabbed a piece of metal that was just in the shape of an L-shape and gave it away so that it could be seen from me on the table a little further away.

It was precisely a weapon of ancient magical civilization - a gun - that I saw in the virtual world that reproduced Loki's memory.

It was a state-of-the-art weapon in the ancient magical civilization of the time when Gandalf the Demon King of the Young Days loved it and Evaldi the Dwarf questioned its reliability.

Of course, it's not as precise as the real thing I've seen in the virtual world.

It is a rough imitation that somehow resembles the shape of a metal, but the degree of similarity that can be seen at a glance is realized.

"What!? You made it!

No, not yet.

To my surprise, Alexia shook her head sideways laughing like a prank.

"The principle itself is quite simple. Just make an instantaneous explosion behind a metal barrel and fly a metal sphere with that momentum. Of course, there is a problem with strength and accuracy."

"How do you detonate it?

"The actual product used sandy chemicals formulated by alchemy. Nevertheless, alchemy is done outside my specialty, and I don't know how it was formulated."

After all, I thought you were relying on magic tools.

Alexia agreed with me.

"It's a disposable tool that activates explosive magic instantly and on a small scale... and when you think about it, it's like a home art of mass production spells. I'll talk to Noir later."

"If you're thinking of safety, why don't you go out of your way and blow it with the magic of the wind?

"That's also your hand. The question is whether we can bring power to bear."

I recall Gandalf waving his gun on a young day.

A weapon belonging to the same lineage as a crossbow can be compared simply by pulling a trigger and launching a high-speed ranged attack.

Crossbows fly arrows (bolts) with a recoil that squeezes strings, but guns fly bullets (barlets) with an impact that detonates explosives in the back of the barrel.

Considering this, some of the spells manufactured and sold by the White Wolf Shop accelerate the arrow bullets (bolts) with the magic of the wind, so it could be said that they were intermediate weapons between crossbows and guns.

- That means that the Recruit Weapons Alexia is trying to build are by no means an absurd substitute.

The spell bomb flies with the recoil of strings, accelerating further with the magic of the wind, unifying it into an initial acceleration with the magic of explosion and storm, abolishing strings and bows.

This eliminates the need to load the arrow bullets (bolts) into strings and bows over time, and only loads the cylindrical body with the cursed bullets can fire.

"Yeah... it looks pretty good. I think it is very effective as an alternative to crossbowing. The bullets you shoot are not just metal spheres, just like the spell armor, if you give them magical effects...."

"Am I right? With the current design, it needs to be loaded every single shot, and it's not the type of projectile Gandalf used... but it's still enough to think of it as an alternative to crossbowing."

I thought with Alexia that the idea of this weapon was now (...) good (...) or (...) (...).

This thing is definitely effective enough to kill in interpersonal combat.

The power itself may not extend to white warfare using attack magic and skill, but like Crossbow, "even people without combat skills can become combat power" is really dangerous.

Projectile weapons, both portable and fast, would have surely been mass-produced and thrown onto each front, building countless corpses if they had emerged in the midst of the War of Continental Unity.

But nowadays, wars have almost converged, and new weapons that can still be put into top-secret critical operations cannot be produced and sold in bulk.

For the time being, it would not cause any unexpected situation if it were to be supplied only to the Third Hierarchy Tactical Strategy and entrusted to His Majesty and the Royal Palace for further treatment.

"Yes! Luke, why don't we make you a crossbow instead?"

"Are you sure? Thank you for making it easier to carry a self-defense weapon."

"So why don't you put it in your prosthetic limb? From elbow to wrist, through a metal barrel...."

To Alexia, who speaks of an outrageous idea, I could only return a bitter smile.