Cursed Tools

[Cursed tools]

For jujutsu sorcerers, cursed tools were external sources of power, independent of their own abilities.

As weapons, their greatest purpose was to complement a jujutsu sorcerer, producing an effect greater than the sum of its parts.

But just as different weapons suited different people, a jujutsu sorcerer could not simply pick up any cursed tool and gain power beyond their own.

Choosing an unsuitable cursed tool might actually weaken them.

And the difficulty of finding a cursed tool they liked varied from era to era.

Throughout the history of the Jujutsu World, the ancient art of forging cursed tools had all but died out by modern times.

As a result, modern jujutsu sorcerers used cursed tools made and left behind by their predecessors.

Yet with the passage of time, some cursed tools inevitably suffered damage as the eras changed.

As their numbers dwindled, cursed tools became increasingly rare, and eventually, people with power and influence naturally monopolized and stockpiled them.

Those people did so not merely out of a collector's obsession, but more because cursed tools were worth the effort.

Unlike most jujutsu sorcerers' cursed techniques, which had prerequisites and limitations.

The advantage of cursed tools lay in how little it took to use them.

Even an ordinary person with no cursed energy at all could make use of most cursed tools' inherent functions.

And beyond their versatility, there was their practicality.

Some powerful cursed tools, if properly cared for and protected, could retain their power and performance even after being passed down for hundreds or thousands of years.

As for why the craft of making such useful tools had died out in modern times, the key lay in how they were made.

The first method of making cursed tools was simple saturation with cursed energy.

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