There was a lot of depth in curses.
Ves should know. He swallowed a few enlightenment fruits that taught him about the subject.
Although his actual ability to cast a curse remained shallow, he still gained enough of a foundation to roughly understand the curse master profession.
He even used his own understanding to form an exclusive qi cultivation method that enabled the Larkinson Clan to raise its own curse masters.
Still, his own efforts paled in comparison to that of the Red Collective!
The collies had taken greater risks by actively contaminating the spiritualities of their curse masters with negative energies!
Ves could not believe the RC valued curse masters so much that they resorted to this extreme measure.
Such rituals permanently changed the lives of prospective curse masters. Their closer affinities to specific negative concepts should enable them to cast much more powerful curses than normal.
Was the tradeoff worth it? Ves did not know.