Chapter 1683 – Purified and Sanctified

First of all, what the heck is a Pure Core? Why do I have one, and what does it even do?!

Gandalf?

[Pure Core. Absorbs and cleanses mana.]

Wait… that’s it? Come on, Gandalf, you have to give me more than that!

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No? Damn your silver locks and fulsome beard, damn them to Hades! Cleanses mana? How? What sort of mana?! I mean, if I go back out in the fifth, then… will this automatically cleanse the corruption out of me? That would be… extremely useful.

Also, since it’s a second core, does that mean I absorb more mana than I did before? If so… fine, I suppose. I can’t see any drawbacks to that.

I notice a few other things. My eyes are now made out of Unsullied Crystal, whatever the heck that is. So long as it’s hard enough to stop an attack going straight through and into my brain, I can’t complain too much. Also, if it doesn’t melt when I walk into the fifth, I’d appreciate it. Melting eyeballs are… unpleasant.

[Unsullied Crystal is a rare spiritual material. Only the truth may penetrate it.]

Did my body just become even more valuable? I’m really starting to worry about the price tag attached to me. Best keep quiet about this one. Not sure what it means by ‘only the truth may penetrate it’. Maybe I’ll need to experiment with that a little.

Also, my eyesight has once again returned to complete rubbish, all of my mutations lost. Grumbling, I punch in mutations up to +15, improving the quality of my lenses.

Wait, what the heck happened to my healing gland? It’s gone?! I need that!

Although… what in the name of goodness is a Virtuous Echo Network?

[Virtuous Echo Network. This organ breaks the cycle and turns harm into healing. Fuelled by purified mana, it will provide more healing the more the host is attacked.]

Okaaaay. I don’t know anything about cycle breaking, but this is basically constant healing as opposed to healing I can trigger? And it’s fed off the mana that the pure core spits out?

That seems… good. I’m interested to see just how much healing I can get out of this thing when it revs up. I assume there’s some sort of limit.

Right?

What else is going on in here? Things seem to have taken a strange turn while I was evolving, that’s for sure. My business district appears to have had a severe makeover. Now it’s apparently a complex. All of my various bits and pieces back there fused into one, all-powerful dispenser of business and justice.

I like it!

Seriously though, what the heck is this thing?

[Everflowing Well of Living Waters: This organ is a wellspring of liquid mana. When supplied with arcane energy, it will release a constant supply greater than what is fed into it.]

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WHAT?!

So, if I push mana into this organ, I just… get more back? Is this some sort of hack?! I didn’t think it was possible to make more mana out of nothing, not even the Altar can do that!

And… wait a second. Will the liquid mana I get out of it change depending on the type I put in? Could I feed Gravity Mana into this organ and get pure, concentrated liquid gravity out the other side? Maybe I have to mutate it first, but even so…

That would be… insane. Like… really insane. How in the heck would it even work?