Soul Hackers 2: What Are Devil Summoners?
In Soul Hackers 2, artificial human Ringo is deployed by the super-intelligent technological consciousness Aion to prevent a world-ending catastrophe from taking place. In order to facilitate Ringo's success in this endeavor, she's provided with the skills and equipment of a Devil Summoner, a local profession of warriors, spiritualists, and bounty hunters.
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What exactly is a Devil Summoner, though? Surely humans could never hope to contain and manipulate the unknowable powers of demons, could they? Well, not only can they, but there's an entire culture and industry surrounding the practice dating back hundreds of years. Let's take a brief voyage through history to determine the origins and day-to-day of a Devil Summoner.
Demons and mankind have coexisted to a certain extent for about as long as either has existed. Some demons, such as the angels of heaven, are directly created by higher beings like gods, while other demons like fairy folk and rumors arise from the emotions of mankind. There are a lot of demons out there, but humanity is, for the most part, generally unaware of their activities unless they make themselves known.
Many demons enjoy feeding on humans and utilize a variety of strange, mystical abilities to facilitate their feeding, though they also have a general understanding of give and take. Give a demon something they want, be it a thing, a service, or some of your life force, and they'll happily go along with whatever you ask.
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That understanding was a crucial half of humanity's eventual ability to contract with and utilize demons, but the other half is spirituality.
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