Curse

This is a world where "curse" is power, currency, and sin. Practitioners formulate and harness the active energy called "mantra". The curse of joy can heal, the curse of anger can burn the city, and the most powerful ones are often the forbidden curses that stem from betrayal and sacrifice. Every time you use a spell, you have to pay an irreversible price—either emotion, memory, or cause and effect. Gu Yuan, a young man, survived the night when his family was exterminated, and he was burdened with the taboo curse "Mourning Silence" that his relatives paid for with their lives. He abandoned grief, fell into the curse with absolute rationality, and regarded every battle as a cold calculation. In his eyes, magic is not a fanatical belief, but a rule-based tool that can be analyzed, utilized and even transcended. When he relied on strange spells and cold wisdom to struggle forward in troubled times, and gradually came into contact with the truth of the world, he discovered that the so-called "curse" may be a huge conspiracy that envelopes all living beings. The ancient fable "The Cursed Crow and the Maiden" seems to predict his fate, and the mastermind behind it, the "Pure Sky Alliance", attempts to use extreme means to purify the world. Gu Yuan did not want to be the slave of the curse, and he disdained the false name of savior. His path is to challenge the established fate as a chess player, and carve out his own path in this death cycle of pain and power - even if the price is eternal loneliness. The curse is as cold as the abyss, and so are the people. This is an epic story of a rational person heading toward darkness and seeking transcendence in the darkness.