Editing Sorcery Hacker:Volume2 Phase03 (section)

===Option 03: From a Warning about Taboo Magic (Since Withdrawn)===

Magic belongs to the four basic elements of fire, water, wind, and earth, but it can be further divided based on its application and derivations. The most obvious example of this are the spells with Ex in the middle. For example, the Primary Ex fire element spells are a specialized category of buffing spells. The most well known of those is Primary Ex Massive, a muscle buffing spell.

Taboo magic is also marked with a middle name added to the standard Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary pattern.

Taboo magic is commonly thought of as magic banned from use because it is too destructive, but that is actually a groundless misunderstanding. The power and range of magic is defined by the sorcery gun or other device being used, so that is not the deciding factor.

The actual definition is as follows: magic with an extremely uncertain elemental classification, creating an exceedingly high risk of the caster losing control even with the assistance of a sorcery gun.

In other words, it has very little to do with the power of the individual magic.

The most obvious example there would be Secondary Taboo Sleep. That magic rapidly freezes a living being and seals them in an ice coffin, but the water element alone cannot accomplish that. It actually uses a combination of water and wind to create a flash freezing effect that works much faster than ordinary freezing and prevents the body’s cells from even noticing they are being frozen.

Magic is no more than a technique that humans have developed to control the mystical by using the four elements created by the colors that the Four Lords provide the atmospheric manaflows. On the other hand, humans have no way of directly converting pure, uncolored mana into magic. An attempt to use magic outside those four classifications will end in failure, but that failed attempt to control the mystical in that way could mean losing control in a destructive fashion. Some even theorize that the craters seen pockmarking the moon’s surface when using a telescope are the scars left by some ancient accident of that nature.

Now, the cleverer among you will have some questions about all this.

What about the network of pure mist mana and the Media Summoners that use it? Or what about the Sorcery Hackers who abuse such things? Those of you living in a peaceful city devoid of deadly magic may actually be standing in the middle of the most dangerous minefield of all.

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