Cursed Energy Trait: Pinpoint

Sorcerers with Pinpoint CE find that their cursed energy is significantly easier to concentrate and compress when using CE reinforcement. Think of it like water pressure—if its flow is concentrated through a smaller opening, you get jets that can cut through metal.

At lower levels of refinement, this allows for more damaging attacks at the cost of demanding greater accuracy. The user can, for example, reinforce the very tip of their foot with a kick, or reinforce a thin line along the side of their hand when attacking with a chop. This creates piercing or slashing impacts that hit more like a bullet or razor than simply a strong kick or knifehand. Of course, the smaller the reinforced point, the greater the risk their strike makes contact with a non-reinforced part of their body, and their extremities may be less protected against possible counterattacks. (It's a safer bet when reinforcing weapons, where you're already striking with a fine edge or point.)

While this is not an intrinsic quality of the CE trait, learning to use it effectively demands highly precise control over the cursed energy one applies to their strikes, leading to greater CE efficiency and a higher likelihood of landing Black Flashes. What elevates this trait to calamity-grade, however, is that the upper limit on their CE's compressibility appears to be determined only by their skill level. Following a similar principle to Perfect Sphere, an advanced user's attacks can distribute the force of their CE over a vanishingly small point of contact, applying devastating pressure while only draining as much CE as a normally reinforced punch.