Manipulator

Manipulator (操演者) is a Unique Skill widely used by Demon Lord Clayman, which allowed him to easily create and operate a large intelligence-gathering empire.

Abilities
This Unique Skill allows the user to convert information into encrypted data and then send and receive it via electrical and magnetic forces running through naturally occurring leylines in the ground, allowing for encrypted communications as it conducted surveillance over a wide area. Deploying a subordinate of the user to an area allowed them to function as their eyes and ears to gather intelligence. It could also be used to encrypt the information of things the user sees to more easily analyze/decipher them.


 * Marionette (操り人形): This ability allows to forcibly take control of his subordinate's body against their will, also allowing to effectively observe the surroundings from a bird's point of view.

Sub-Skills

 * Leyline Manipulation (地脈操作): The user can collect intelligence through the naturally occurring leylines using electric signals and geomagnetism.

Related Arts

 * Demon Blaster (龍脈破壊砲): Clayman's ultimate attack as well as a Mystic-Art, The ley lines gathered around the world allows the pulse of the earth to be transformed into blasts of disturbance effect to attack the enemy in the form of flying dragons made of light. It bypasses conventional defenses both magical and physical in nature, destroying the internal magical circuits of the target.

Trivia

 * When Clayman first obtained Manipulator, it permitted him to interfere with individuals within his line of sights, but his power has grown because of Clayman’s ceaseless training and continuous efforts developing it also becoming the keystone force of his enormous intelligence-gathering empire and established the origins to his Title of "Marionette Master".
 * In That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Isekai Memories, the "Clayman [The Marionette Master]" unit uses this as a one of the Battle Skills.