"All right, everyone!"
Josen turned toward the gathered trainees and clapped his hands, drawing their drooling gazes away from Mumen Rider's Nano Vibranium Suit and onto himself.
"I'm sure you all have a good idea of how powerful this nano suit worth 100 credits is," Josen said with a smile, dangling a tempting prospect before them as he saw tears of envy trickling from quite a few mouths. "And you heard what Dr. Kuseno, our equipment department head, just said. This suit is only the basic version. Later, you can customize additional modules based on your fighting habits and personal needs."
"Since only one trainee in this class currently has over 100 credits-Mumen Rider here beside me, who has accumulated 111 credits through classes and assessments-I hereby announce that the first Type Zero nano suit will be awarded to trainee Mumen Rider!"
"What?! A high-tech suit at this level is actually being handed out for free?!"
"Why didn't I work a little harder before and earn more credits?!"
"100 credits? That doesn't seem so far off if I put in some effort. Fighting!"
The trainees erupted. A portable nano suit that could seamlessly attach to their own Hero uniforms and provide comprehensive boosts to offense, defense, mobility, endurance, and more was practically a divine artifact to ordinary Heroes still getting by in homemade uniforms!
In the original timeline, the reason the new Hero organization, Neo Heroes, could discover unaffiliated Heroes in batches while poaching large numbers from the Hero Association was its mature cyborg and battle armor technology.
After all, an ordinary person could gain the strength to contend with a Demon-level Monster just by putting on battle armor. Even if they were seriously injured or killed in battle, they could reappear before the public, alive and kicking, before