The All-Time Best Talent was F-Class Purification - Chapter 110

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Chapter 110 – An Elite Talent Awakened as an F-Rank Purifier
The pitch-black floor of the Deep Sea.
Fifteen A-rank Guards cut through the water toward the Core Crater, navigating between the eerie shadows cast by the irregular flickering of the Underwater City’s artificial lights.
Blue Tower’s elite—on Ground Level, they would have trampled a small Guild underfoot without effort. But here, their swimming was frantic and disorganized.
“Damn it, Pipe Line 12 is completely shut down! The valve didn’t burst—someone deliberately cut the power!”
“We have to restore it before the Krakens breach the Barrier! Move faster!”
The searchlights mounted on the Guards’ helmets swept across the dark Seabed Ley Lines. The moment their beams touched the heart of the Core Crater, they all stopped swimming in unison and gasped.
“What… what is that…?”
The searchlight beam stabbed toward me. My eyes burned, but I didn’t pull my hand away. Pure white light poured from my fingertips, buried in the blood-tinged murky water. The enormous energy that should have flowed to the Underwater City was oxidizing to white as it passed through my hand—and the ones holding those searchlights could see it clearly.
“Intruder! That madman is cutting the power!”
“Fire! Shoot now!”
The Guards were frantically pulling their underwater mana rifles forward when—
Boom—!
From the pitch-black darkness behind them, where debris from the Broken Dome had accumulated, something massive erupted.
“Large entity detected! Behind us—Gack!”
The Guard at the rear’s voice cut off with a death rattle.
It was Park Jae-jung. After the bone-density surgery, his body’s skeletal and muscular density had become abnormally high, transforming him into a perfect human torpedo in this crushing deep-sea environment of thousands of atmospheres. Water resistance meant nothing against such mass and raw strength.
Park Jae-jung’s heavy mithril gauntlet lashed across the rearmost Guard’s back. The impact was muffled by the underwater environment, but the destructive force was horrific. The Guard’s special alloy suit crumpled, and his spine shattered on impact.
“What, what is this! An ambush!”
“Turn around! Firing formation!”
The trained A-rank Guards reflexively wheeled around and aimed their guns at Park Jae-jung. But before they could pull the trigger, a red flash blazed above their heads.
Seo Eun-ha had been preparing since before combat began. She read the deep-sea environment, calculated the superheated energy surging from the Core Crater, the conductive properties of seawater, how the pressure of thousands of atmospheres would amplify the destructive force of a thermal explosion—all in an instant.
“Do you like hot water?”
Seo Eun-ha’s voice, dripping with contempt, came through the communication network. From her fingertips, superheated mana compressed to its limit fell into the center of the Guards’ formation.
Kaboom—
Seawater at 1,000 meters depth collided with hundreds of degrees Celsius in an instant, generating a catastrophic cavitation explosion. The superheated mana slammed the compressed seawater, and tens of thousands of bubbles erupted.
“Aaaaagh!”
“Suit cooling system damaged! The helmet, the helmet is melting!”
The extreme temperature change melted the seams of the Guards’ suits, and the shockwave from the underwater explosion rattled their organs. Disoriented by the combined pressure and heat, they flailed and fired wildly.
And within that chaos lay the Slasher’s most peaceful hunting ground.
Whoosh—
Perfect concealment without disturbing a single droplet. Han Ae-ri glided between the bubbles like a ghost of the Deep Sea. Erasing one’s presence in water wasn’t merely about moving quietly.
It meant reading the flow of water currents and dissolving even the microscopic pressure changes created by one’s own movement into the surrounding ripples. The instinct carved into her body to survive the Underground Laboratory was manifesting at its extreme in this deep-sea environment.
Han Ae-ri drove her mana harpoon dagger—with near-zero underwater resistance—short and decisive into the jaw of a Guard writhing in superheated water.
Thunk!
The one-centimeter gap between the helmet and neck guard. The harpoon dagger pierced that vulnerable joint precisely, severing the Guard’s cervical spine. Before blood could spread like ink through the water, Han Ae-ri planted her foot on his shoulder, pivoted lightly, and launched toward the next target’s back.
Scrape. Thunk.
One by one, the Guards clutched their throats and sank to the floor within the bubbles. An invisible terror. The A-rank Guards were being systematically slaughtered without even glimpsing the shadow of their hunter.
“Fall back! Scatter upward! If we stay clustered—!”
The guard who appeared to be a Squad Leader surged upward, mana blazing, but Park Jae-jung loomed before him like an immovable mountain. Park Jae-jung didn’t even draw a weapon. With both arms hardened to stone-like density, he simply ensnared the Squad Leader’s waist mid-ascent in a crushing embrace.
“Let—let go! You beast!”
The Squad Leader thrashed with A-rank mana detonating from his core, yet Park Jae-jung’s bear hug didn’t budge an inch. Instead, as his arms tightened with devastating force, the sound of the Squad Leader’s suit crumpling echoed through the underwater depths.
Crack—!
“Gaaaahhh!”
His ribs shattered into fragments, and the Squad Leader’s eyes rolled back in agony. Park Jae-jung didn’t relent until the man’s spine snapped completely, then hurled the limp corpse to the sea floor below.
Barely a minute since combat began. Fifteen A-rank Guards from Blue Tower lay dead on the cold Chilcheon Island floor without landing a single effective blow.
But as I watched that one-sided slaughter unfold, my own condition was approaching its absolute limit.
“Nngh…”
I clenched my jaw so hard my teeth threatened to shatter, yet my hands trembled like aspen leaves, submerged in the turbulent crimson core.
‘Too much. This toxicity… it’s beyond the threshold.’
My dantian’s mana core blazed like a furnace, spinning wildly out of control. Purification light poured forth in an endless stream, incinerating the crimson energy that flooded in, yet the total output surging from the seabed ley lines far exceeded what a single human could endure.
The veins in my wrists swelled as if ready to rupture. Throbbing pain pulsed at my temples, and tinnitus began to ring. The excess corruption energy I couldn’t absorb scraped across my suit’s surface, producing an eerie corrosive hiss. My vision blurred white.
‘Hold on. Just a little longer.’
Shhhhh—
Then, from Han Su-jin’s hands pressed against my back, an even more intense and warm light began to flow. Despite the chaos of battle and the stench of blood, she kept her entire focus fixed solely on my condition. The S-rank Healer’s vast healing mana cooled my overheating core and sutured my muscles and blood vessels in real time as they threatened to tear.
“Guild Master… just a bit… longer…”
Even Han Su-jin’s voice wavered at its limit. As she poured mana into me, she herself was being drained away.
I swallowed blood-tinged saliva and nodded.
Whoooooom— crackle!
At the apex of the colossal barrier dome that enveloped the underwater city, power supply finally ceased completely, and with a horrific rupture, an enormous fissure tore open.
“It’s breached! The barrier is collapsing—!”
Desperate screams from Blue Tower hunters erupted across the forward communication network.
Roooaarrr—
Through the ruptured fissure, thousands of atmospheres of seawater cascaded down like Niagara Falls, and the glittering artificial towers and underwater gardens that had shone under artificial lights shattered and crumbled under the deluge. Through the fractured barrier’s gap, the grotesque tentacles of a ravenous colossal kraken and swarms of bone sharks surged in like a tidal wave of madness.
I gasped for breath, my chest heaving, and slowly withdrew both hands from the core crater’s turbulent waters.
“Haa… haa…”
The moment I pulled my hands free, crimson energy surged skyward once more—but it was too late. Restoring the collapsed barrier was now impossible. The city had fallen into the monsters’ jaws. The primary objective was achieved perfectly.
“Should we escape now?”
Park Jae-jung asked, watching the collapsing underwater city.
I nodded, catching my breath. That’s when it happened.
Crackle— crackle.
Strange radio interference began bleeding into our communication network.
[…You little rats… gnawed through someone else’s pipes, didn’t you?]
In that instant, every hair on my body stood on end as a chill raced down my spine. I wasn’t alone. Seo Eun-ha, Han Ae-ri, and Park Jae-jung all instinctively gripped their weapons and fixed their gaze toward a single point.
The pitch-black seawater before us. That darkness split with a sickly cyan light, and the surrounding water temperature began to spike violently. The water wasn’t boiling—an overwhelming mana wave was forcibly displacing and vaporizing it.
Flash—!
A cyan bolt of lightning struck the sea floor where we stood.
At the center of the parted seawater, a man in a silver uniform, now torn and drenched in blood, stood with crimson eyes blazing.
Kang Tae-man, Vice Director of Blue Tower.
Upon confirming the complete collapse of the Barrier, he abandoned any pretense of defending the line and walked directly into this Darkness himself.
His very existence defied the laws of the Deep Sea. The waves of mana radiating from him pushed back the surrounding water pressure, ceaselessly evaporating the seawater within a five-meter radius of his body. He was deflecting thousands of atmospheres of pressure with nothing but mana alone.
That wasn’t all. I could see cyan lightning flickering at his fingertips, spreading through the water. Seawater was a perfect conductor. The moment that lightning discharged into the water, everything within dozens of meters would be electrocuted. There was nowhere to escape. No way to defend against it. That was the absolute advantage a lightning user possessed in the Deep Sea.
A chill ran down my spine.
There was none of the composure I’d felt when dealing with the fifteen A-rank Guards. This was an entirely different class of existence. If the Armored Guard were strong soldiers, then Kang Tae-man was a catastrophe incarnate.
“So that’s the stench of Lower District garbage. Must be those wanted criminals from Munglade.”
Tens of thousands of volts of lightning whipped around Kang Tae-man like a lash. His gaze swept across the fifteen corpses of guards scattered across the seabed and the collapsing Dome.
And the moment that sight touched his face, something far more dangerous than mere anger bloomed within him.
A rage that threatened to tear apart.
The surrounding seawater churned violently. The density of lightning pouring from Kang Tae-man’s body suddenly doubled, tripled, and the bedrock of the Sea Floor began to crackle. What he had poured into this City, what he had sacrificed for it—there was no need to speak it aloud. A paradise carved from blood and bone in a drowned world. And it was crumbling to dust before my eyes, sinking into oblivion.
“Payment for destroying my paradise, built through blood and suffering.”
His voice was quiet. Which made it all the more terrifying.
“In this deep and dark Tomb, I’ll separate your flesh from your bones.”
Cyan lightning erupted from his fingertips, tearing through the pitch-black Deep Sea like daylight. The moment I saw that first discharge hurtling toward us, I screamed instinctively.
“Scatter! If you bunch together, you’ll all be hit!”
We knew seawater was a conductor. But knowing and stopping it were different things. The moment that lightning spread through the water, distance became meaningless. If we couldn’t block it, we had to either endure it or neutralize Kang Tae-man himself before the lightning reached us.
There was no escape.

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