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===Option 02: [Information Search] Basic Sorcery Hacking Knowledge===

Sorcery Hacking is performed using an antenna device known as a Linkage Plug and a controller known as a Linkage Monitor.

Most sorcery tools will create their own wiring by compressing the Intangible Fog (i.e. the mana spread thinly throughout the air) and extending it into a thin spider web network using various relay devices and control theories. They can easily produce a variety of effects by passing that mana through a gemboard inlaid with the various gemstones crystalized from the underground gemflows, but a Sorcery Hacker will use a variety of methods to interfere with the long and narrow mist manaflows to cause malicious phenomena.

The illegal Linkage Plugs take many forms to suit their owner: swords, claws, darts, bows, forks, icepicks, etc. But unlike the general image people hold, they cannot hack just anything. Their design is focused on portability, so their individual processing power is not all that high.

They generally begin at Level 1.

In most cases, the Sorcery Hacker will start by attacking a simple sorcery tool located nearby, such as a streetlight or sprinkler, to resonate with its processing space and increase their Level to the point that they can target actual city infrastructure or military weapons.

What matters here is the risk of a Sorcery Hacker’s power continually doubling with each consecutive device they attack.

For example, if a Level 1 Linkage Plug hacks a Level 1 streetlight, it will reach Level 2. If the Level 2 Linkage Plug targets a Level 2 air-conditioning duct, it will reach Level 4. And so on.

Even if the objects themselves appear to be harmlessly left behind at the scene of the crime, do not let your guard down. If they remain hacked, they can still provide the Sorcery Hacker with great power.

These conditions mean that the traditional violence of numbers does not work on a Sorcery Hacker. It is possible for them to reach a resonance level of 100 or 1000, so we need to assume those sorcery criminals could acquire the power to single-handedly destroy a city-state if the conditions are right.

Also, control of a hacked sorcery tool or device can be reclaimed by removing the Linkage Plug and that will take its power away from the Sorcery Hacker. If they do manage to approach you, it is crucial that you stay calm, determine what devices have been hacked, and take back control.

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