Ice and Fire (2)

In Risk City, the concept of bodily modification is truly vast.

It can mean regulating one's metabolism with serums, extending one's allotted lifespan by rearranging one's DNA code, or replacing one's body entirely with machinery through cybernetic prosthetic surgery known as implants….

Magic circuits were the same.

They were different from implant surgery─.

They were basic bodily modifications.

Apparently, there are two main ways to learn them.

The first is to undergo an artificial procedure.

Apparently, most of the people who swagger around the streets claiming to be magic users belong to this category.

In the case of magic circuit procedures, they literally cut away at the subject's money and lifespan, so their miserable ends are apparently difficult to put into words.

I heard that some of the skilled specialists from the ‘families’ in the city center can greatly reduce the side effects caused by artificial procedures...