The All-Time Best Talent was F-Class Purification - Chapter 35

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Chapter 35 – An Elite Talent Awakened as an F-Rank Purifier
Seo Eun-ha swallowed hard. Her eyes darted between my hand and her own skeletal wrist, fear and determination warring across her features. She clenched her fists.
“Do it.”
She gritted her teeth as she spoke.
“I’d rather die in agony than live the rest of my life like this. Do whatever you need to.”
“Admirable resolve.”
I rose and moved to her side.
“Remove your top, please. I need to access the spinal line—the primary circuit running along your back.”
She hesitated for a moment before peeling off her hoodie and turning around in a thin tank top. Her exposed back was a nightmare. Dark crimson veins sprawled across her spine like a spider’s web, and scattered black marks—burn scars from mana backflow—dotted her skin. The stench was overwhelming. Rotting wood.
I took a deep breath, concentrating my D-Rank core energy to my fingertips. This was a living person—a mage with an intricate, hypersensitive nervous system. There was no margin for error.
‘Focus.’
I placed my palm against her back, between her shoulder blades.
“Ugh!”
The moment my hand touched her, her body convulsed like a freshly caught fish.
“It’s… it’s burning…”
“Stay still. If you move, I’ll sever the nerves.”
I pressed down on her shoulders and began the purification.
A low hum resonated.
White light streamed from my hand, piercing her skin and burrowing into the spinal nerves. My consciousness synchronized with her body.
I could see it now. The mana circuits enveloping her spine were catastrophic—like a forest ravaged by wildfire, every pathway choked with blackened soot and tar-like residue. Mana had nowhere to flow, so it kept backing up, burning her from the inside out.
‘She endured this for a year? Her willpower is monstrous.’
I clicked my tongue. An ordinary person would have died from shock long ago.
‘Beginning now.’
I honed my purification energy into a blade-sharp edge and began scraping away the debris from the thickest point—the center of her spine.
[Contamination Identified: Degraded mana containing mana-suppression agent components.]
[Initiating forced extraction and annihilation.]
A sharp, crackling sound.
“Aaaahhh!”
Seo Eun-ha screamed. Her fingernails gouged into the table, splintering as they broke. Blood trickled from her split lips. Park Jae-jung turned away in sympathy, but I didn’t stop. If I halted now, she’d be crippled forever.
“Just a little more. We’re almost there.”
I poured everything into it. Black smoke erupted from her pores, filling the tavern with a nauseating stench.
The tar-like residue melted away in the purification light. As the blockage cleared, her suppressed mana—her true power—began to surge wildly.
A deep, resonant boom.
The furnishings in the tavern trembled. Light bulbs flickered, and glasses cracked. It was the pressure of mana threatening to detonate inside her body.
‘Dangerous. If the circuits fully open, she’ll go berserk.’
She was A-Rank. The sheer volume of mana she possessed defied imagination. It cascaded through the newly opened pathways like a waterfall. A-Rank mana resisted control, raging unchecked. The building shook; windows shattered. Without suppression, the entire tavern would be torn apart.
“Park Jae-jung! Hold her down. We need to contain it!”
Park Jae-jung rushed forward, seizing her limbs.
“Stay with us, Seo Eun-ha. Don’t lose consciousness!”
“Haaaaaah—”
Seo Eun-ha’s eyes rolled back as she gasped for breath. From her back, crimson flames began to shimmer like heat haze. Her fire magic was manifesting.
I worked frantically, sweat pouring down like rain. I’d cleared away all the debris. Now came the final task—reconstructing the tattered circuits.
“Renewal.”
I tore away a fragment of my core energy and layered it across her circuits. My purification energy was neutral and stable. As it mingled with her volatile flame mana, it began coating and reinforcing the scorched circuit walls.
This was no mere restoration. I was carving new pathways—thicker, more resilient, far more resistant to heat than before.
Whoooosh!
The moment the final connection completed, a blinding pillar of light erupted from her back.
CRASH!
The tavern’s ceiling shattered. A crimson inferno pierced through the roof and soared into the night sky. The tremendous heat sent both Park Jae-jung and me flying backward.
“Cough… What was that? What just happened?”
Park Jae-jung brushed soot from his singed bangs and stood up.
As the dust settled, Seo Eun-ha stood in its place. Covered in sweat and grime, yet her expression was one of pure ecstasy. She gazed down at her own hands.
In her palms, a small but fierce crimson flame danced and spun. Not ash—living fire.
“It’s back.”
She was trembling with tears.
“No… it’s even hotter.”
As she clenched her fist, flames bloomed in the empty air. No rehabilitation needed. She was already complete. Laughing within that crimson inferno, she was the very embodiment of a witch risen from the flames of hell.
[Target: Seo Eun-ha (A-Rank Mage)]
[Status: Recovery Complete. Mana Circuit Grade Elevated (A+)]
[Peculiarity: Resistance to Purification Attribute Acquired.]
Success. I collapsed onto the floor, breathing heavily. I felt utterly drained.
Seo Eun-ha approached me slowly. The tears streaming from her eyes evaporated in the heat. She knelt on one knee before me and extended her still-trembling hand.
“…Thank you.”
Her voice held no more despair.
“For giving me a second life. I don’t know how to repay such a debt.”
I smiled and grasped her hand. It was scorching hot.
“I already told you how to repay it.”
I helped her to her feet.
“The Dominion. Let’s show them. Let’s show them how the ashes they discarded return as a terrifying inferno.”
Seo Eun-ha’s eyes gleamed with fierce determination.
“Yes. I’ll burn them all. Not a single one will remain.”
She gripped my hand tightly. With this, Moonglade had acquired the perfect spear. B-Rank shield Park Jae-jung, A-Rank spear Seo Eun-ha. And me, commanding them both.
“Let’s go. To our castle.”
We stepped out into the street, leaving the shattered tavern behind.
One week later. Outskirts of Gyeonggi Province, Moonglade Exclusive Mine.
BOOM—
A massive explosion shook the tunnel entrance. The ground trembled as if an earthquake had struck, and the blast of heat instantly warmed the frigid air.
“The firepower is… excessive.”
Park Jae-jung, wearing a hard hat, clicked his tongue. We stood in the Temporary Observation Post at the tunnel entrance, looking down into the Underground Training Ground through reinforced glass.
The underground training ground one hundred meters below was nothing short of an inferno. Five crystal golems released for training had melted beyond recognition, their forms flowing as crimson lava pools. And there, drenched in sweat, stood Seo Eun-ha, breathing heavily.
In her hands was a C-Rank magic staff hastily procured from the market—or rather, what remained of it as it crumbled to ash.
“Damn it… it blew up again.”
Seo Eun-ha hurled the staff shaft down in frustration. The wooden handle had already become charcoal, and the mana stone had blackened beyond recovery, unable to withstand the overload.
“That’s the third one now.”
Park Jae-jung made a note on his tablet.
“The staffs sold on the market can’t handle the output. After the Renewal, the purity and pressure of your mana have exceeded A-Rank. Most items will melt away before the mana even flows through them.”
It was a blessing, yet an urgent problem. A sports car with the finest engine, but with a flat tire—that was Seo Eun-ha’s current predicament.
“Shall I head down? I’ve brought a solution.”
In my hand was an elongated metal case.
The heat still lingered in the training ground. Seo Eun-ha sat on the floor drinking water. A week ago, she had been a hollow shell drowning in alcohol. Now, well-fed, well-rested, and most importantly, having reclaimed her hope, her face radiated vitality.
“How’s your body feeling?”
At my question, she crumpled the empty water bottle and let out a soft laugh.
“Insane. Better than my prime. Back then, every time I cast magic, it felt like my blood vessels were clogging. Now it’s like racing down a highway. Everything’s wide open.”
She clenched and unclenched her palms.
“But the equipment’s the problem. It can’t handle my mana. At this rate, I can’t even take down street thugs, let alone the Dominion.”
Her complaint was valid. For a mage, a staff is no different from a gun. A faulty barrel explodes before the bullet even leaves.
“That’s why I prepared this.”
I set the case down on the floor and opened it. Inside were two items.
One was a skeletal metal staff, its frame bare. It had once been wrapped in ebony wood, but that had burned away entirely, leaving only the heat-resistant adamantium alloy skeleton—scrap metal. The other was a fist-sized crimson crystal.
“This is…”
Seo Eun-ha’s eyes widened. Her instincts as a mage had reacted.
“One is the remnant of a Fire Dragon’s staff recovered from an old dungeon. The mana circuits were all severed, so it was unusable. And that crystal is the core of an eggshell left behind when the Crystal Queen hatched during the last mine incident.”
I picked up the crimson crystal.
“Originally it was unattributed, but the extreme heat and pressure from the Queen’s hatching caused it to mutate. It’s a very powerful mana stone imbued with fire attribute, but… simultaneously, it’s extremely unstable.”
The surface of the crystal was covered in dark red impurities, trapping the mana so it couldn’t flow properly.
“If you just embed this in the staff, it’ll explode immediately. The wavelengths don’t match.”
Seo Eun-ha pointed out accurately.
“Exactly. That’s why I’m going to attune it.”
I removed my gloves and gripped the crystal in one hand, while my other hand grasped the staff’s skeleton.
[Purification: Synchronization and Impurity Removal]
I infused purification energy into the crystal. This time, it wasn’t about changing its shape. It was about burning away the corrupted residue obstructing the mana flow within the crystal, and calming the raging energy into stillness.
Ssshhhhh—!
Dark red smoke rose as the murky shell on the crystal’s surface peeled away. Simultaneously, the old, severed mana circuits remaining within the staff skeleton melted under my energy, reconnecting cleanly.
“…Wow.”
In my hands, the once-cloudy red stone had transformed into a flawless transparent ruby. And from the staff skeleton, a subtle silver radiance began to shimmer.
I fitted the purified crystal into the groove at the top of the staff. Click. Physical connection. But that alone wasn’t enough.
“Link.”
Finally, I channeled purification energy through the junction. Filling the microscopic gaps with my mana, I opened the path of mana so the two objects became one perfect organism.
Whooooom!
The staff resonated with a harmonic hum, radiating crimson light.
[Item: Breath of the Crystal Queen]
[Grade: A (Growth-type)]
[Status: Restoration and Purification Complete]
[Description: A mutated queen’s core has been grafted onto the framework of an ancient staff. All impurities have been perfectly removed, boasting a mana conductivity rate of 99.9%.]
I tossed the staff to Seo Eun-ha.
“Here you go. A welcome gift. The design is a bit rough, but the performance is guaranteed.”
She accepted it with trembling hands. The moment it touched her palm, she would have felt it—the staff connecting naturally to her body like a part of herself, neither rejecting nor draining her mana.
“Ah…”
Entranced, she swung the staff through the air. With merely a gentle flow of mana, a colossal whip of flame erupted from its tip, tearing through the void.
Roooar!
Heat engulfed the training ground. The power was incomparably heavier and more destructive than her previous cheap staff. Most importantly, the staff remained completely intact.
“How is it?”
She stared in a daze, her eyes darting between the staff and me.
“…This is insane. You unblocked my meridians, and now this equipment too… What exactly are you? You’re not even a blacksmith.”
“Let’s just say I’m a Scrap Alchemist.”
As I shrugged, Park Jae-jung chuckled warmly beside me.
“Good.”
Seo Eun-ha planted the staff firmly on the ground. Her eyes gleamed with sharp intensity.
“With a weapon like this, I’m confident I could hold my own against the Dominion’s First Strike Squad.”
“Confidence is admirable, but not yet.”
I tempered her enthusiasm.
“The weapon is perfect, but your body hasn’t fully adapted to this new power yet. One more week. Train in actual combat here.”
“And then?”
“After that.”
I gazed toward the training ground’s exit, beyond the dark mine shaft.
“We’ll have to receive a guest. A very troublesome one.”

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