Throughout history, Curse Users had always pursued the mysteries of curses.
That was because Curse Users believed curses were a power that revealed the truth of the world.
To crazily, greedily, endlessly, and boundlessly absorb knowledge and understanding in this field—that was the duty of a Curse User.
In that regard, Curse Users and Magi were surprisingly similar. Ultimately, both existed to pursue and reveal the mysteries.
The difference was that Magi had always pursued the Root, while Curse Users had always pursued gods.
After all, in this world, gods were either part of the Spiritual Energy filling the world—or the Spiritual Energy itself. Pursuing gods was like pursuing the mysteries of the world itself. Any Curse User would be fascinated by it.
Of course, Curse Users and Magi still had fundamental differences.
Modern Curse Users in particular were no longer like their ancient counterparts, who sought ways to coexist and communicate with gods, merge with heaven and earth, sever yin and yang, and reverse life and death. They had cast aside religious faith, learning curses solely for practicality and universality and applying them to tasks such as purifying spiritual disasters. Compared with Magi who would stop at nothing to explore the mysteries, they were actually more like magic users.
Magic users were Magi who treated magic as a tool and implement, using it for their own benefit and pursuing goals such as making money.
They had always been scorned by orthodox Magi, but in nature, they were quite similar to the Curse Users of this world.
Even in the modern era, however, there were still people who continued to pursue the mysteries of curses.
Take Harutora, the reincarnation of Yakou. He was not only the founder of modern curses but also the driving force behind the emergence of modern