It's all one flower.

Farkil clapped out of the light with the information he was looking for.

The official websites of major telecommunications operators and communication-related equipment manufacturers, and their subsidiaries, cable maintenance companies, had rough laying maps of submarine cables.

The aim seems to be to inform the general public, subcontractors, etc. of the areas of responsibility of each branch.

The website of the Economic Magazine also found schematics and planned laying plans for new cables. There is a wealth of data outside telecommunications operators, such as content providers and data centers.

This seems to be a material for reading stock investments and fluctuations in foreign exchange and futures trading prices of connecting parties.

No company will publish detailed maps on boulders.

Send a summary of the URL to Lazolnik, beside printing for those operating in Artel territory. He didn't tell me where he was working right now, but if we get out of the comms interruption zone, we'll be connected as soon as possible.

Thank you. I'll go get it now.

About two hours after the reply, my client Lazolnik showed up at Mariana's house.

Wherever you are, use [Leap] as soon as you can. The summer capital of the kingdom of Amitostigma is laid with [leap] avoidance boundaries, but there are only large cities and many permit points.

If you are a powerless people, even at a distance that takes days to take over a ship, a plane, or a car, you are not equal to a wizard.

It would also be an operation with the power of a wizard to plunge into chaos within Artel territory.

Razornik laughed lightly as he checked the contents of the envelope Farkill gave him.

"People in civilized nations are defenseless."

"It's... it's impossible to prevent a magical attack or anything."

When Farkil said as a powerless people, Razornik pulled in a laugh and the ink flickered a raw, dry map.

"That's not what I'm talking about, it's information security."

"Information security? Antivirus or something, it's better that way..."

"Those who put it out in people's hands, not in defense"

"The one who puts it out?

Lazolnik invites you by placing a map on an empty desk in the computer room.

"You look like you're right about this."

"This is it?

"Please step aside, it's an alley, but even you in middle school had access to it. If it's as cluttered as a map, you don't think you can locate the cable."

"What do you mean?

"Because there are some tricks to traveling with storms and severe water currents, and even when we lay them down, we don't know the exact location without the data from the relay"

Farkil dropped his gaze on an abbreviated map of Lake Lacus as a whole fitting into A4 one sheet.

It was edited by the Economic Magazine on the basis of the announcements made by various companies, with color-coded lines by funding and owning companies, many of which run near the coastal area of Lake Lacus.

"The wizard has a different point of view, but it's out of the question."

"Another...? Ahhh...!

"Okay?

Razornik crooks his lips.

"Uh... Was it [Enemy]?

"That's right. If you just want to look at the bottom off the coast, it's easier [distant], but you're gonna look good."

Read directions from the lake shore on a map and predict the range of lake bottom cables laid. Magically enlarged visual searches can capture the exact location of the cable.

Thanks to the overall picture, it is obvious where and how only the Republic of Artel can be tightened out of the information space.

Razornik says he's using his palm to get a tablet device.

"In both wheeled countries, in the last twenty years or so, the internet has become popular, and some have laid down so much roots that it has to be in national life"

"... right. Here, or Lacrimaris."

The kingdom of Amitostigma stepped through the introduction of the Internet at a relatively early stage as a two-wheeled country. For this reason, the maintenance company of the lake bottom cable has a branch office.

The kingdom of Lacrimalis, an almost magical civilization, also decided to introduce it about a decade ago, and it was still rapidly expanding its area of connectivity.

Razornik nodded.

"That's right. Whether there are wizards or not, the countries where the Internet has become popular are connected anywhere in the world. You know what this is all about?

"Wherever we are in the world, we can exchange information... erm..."

Even when asked suddenly, I can only say the obvious.

"For example, business and exchange transactions over the net are almost 24/7 on a global scale. Sometimes momentary delays cause huge losses."

Farkill suddenly lost sight of the story and tilted his neck.

"Oh, was that difficult? I mean, if some line goes out, distant countries get damaged, too. It's sweet to say that countries connected to the Internet don't have the hassle of attacking submarine or lake cables, but it's in companies and countries, so they're going to put these maps on fine."

"Ahh!"

I can only imagine the efficiency of using it to attack.

"If countries connected to the Internet are connected to each other, as long as the lines and economic connections are tight, the attacking side will also suffer serious damage at the same time. That's why I'm connected to more and more countries for security."

"What do you mean?

"For example, tablet devices have a lot of parts, right?

"Yes."

That's about it, I can tell by the middle school furkill.

"Instead of making them all in one country, the materials fall apart in this country, the parts in that country, the assembly in the other country."

"If you stop supplying one country somewhere, it won't be finished."

"Of course (of course), I will have multiple sourcing destinations, but that will also complicate the countries involved and, if anything, affect each other. So are cables."

"If that was a country that had nothing to do with it..."

"Yes. In this day and age, especially for the countries of scientific civilization, the Internet can also be called a lifeline. This sweetness is a national... no, it's a security hole that threatens security in the region and on a global scale."

"In countries that don't use the Internet, it doesn't matter what happens to the cable, it doesn't hurt or itch."

"That's what I'm talking about."

What has been drawn is a natural conclusion.

"This is an attack by the Nemoralis government forces."

"I don't know how I checked it out, and I'm about to take the back, but I guess it's a dozen and eighty-nine"

Farkill asked, sighing down on the abbreviated map.

"Are you telling Artel?

"Do you think there's any good tricks?

"... I don't know"

"I know you're taking it lightly, but you don't have to dare. You shut up, too."

Copy that.

Razornik points the tablet terminal at Farkill.

"Comrade accessed the maintenance company to get the coordinates of the breaking site. Combined with this map, you will be able to roughly determine the next target or time of attack."

"You don't teach that either, do you?

"The Artel government will hear about the repairs themselves. I predicted from there, they don't go out to the lake, so I don't have any hands or feet."

Wizard intelligence left a funny laugh about the situation and went to pass on information to comrades active on the territory of the Artel Republic.