Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 115

Chapter 115: Giant Drill goes brrr…
“Hmm, so this is the boss area of the second floor?”

Mark stood on the shoulder of the giant sand golem and stared at the oasis in front of him.

‘Wait, isn’t that professor Thomas there?’

While looking around, Mark noticed Thomas, who was sitting on a chair under the shade of a ‘Date Palm’ tree and was working on some documents.

An assistant professor was pouring juice for him, and another one was massaging his shoulders.

Seeing all that, black lines appeared all over Mark’s face.

‘He’s enjoying his time here while the students are getting beaten blue and black by the beasts in the desert… how extravagant…’

Mark shook his head and stopped looking at Thomas. He knew that it was pointless to argue about it.

Thomas is not only a professor; he is also the principle. Unlike Jareth, who has totally left his post and has become a vice- principal, Thomas still does both the work of a principal and a professor.

He thinks that he isn’t yet worthy enough to fully assume the role of the principal, as he isn’t a Grade 1 mage yet.

He will stop working as a professor when he becomes a grade 1.

…

‘There’s a massive barrier around this oasis… This is likely the second trial…’

Thomas is well-known for his amazing magic barrier knowledge; he likely created this barrier around the oasis to test the students’ anti-barrier abilities.

Unless you break this barrier and enter the Oasis, you won’t be able to complete the second trial.

Mark looked at his wrist watch and saw that the test was only three hours away from ending.

‘If I want to get perfect marks, I need to clear all three trails… I need to hurry; there’s not much time…’

Even Mark, who has been completing the challenges very fast, can feel that the time given to clear this test was too short.

Which means other ordinary students won’t even have the chance to clear the second floor before the test ends.

In other words, this test is meant to never be completed by all students; it’s deliberately designed in such a way that the students will not be able to get full marks at all.

‘This is likely the reason why no one has gotten the perfect score since the past two decades… Not even the vice-principle Jareth, got it, even though he is so talented…’

Mark has misunderstood that Jareth has always been a very talented and strong person.

He thinks that Jareth must have been a genius during his university days.

But the truth is, Jareth has been just a fraud since the start; he was pretending to be strong even in those days, and if someone had figured it out, then his life as a mage would have been over.

Fortunately, Jareth was good at scheming due to his amazing brain, and he never let anyone find out about his weakness.

Even when he took this test, he passed the trails with his intelligence, not his magic.

If he didn’t have a sharp brain in his head, he would have failed this test in his university days.

But Mark doesn’t know all this, so he just thinks of Jareth as an all-powerful mage who can split the sky, shatter the ground, and evaporate the sea in one attack.

‘I need to think of an idea to break this barrier…’

Mark clenched his fist and controlled his golem with a determined look on his face.

The golem fired a lot of stone bullets, but it didn’t even scratch the giant barrier.

Mark flew down from the shoulder of the golem and landed on the ground. He pointed his wand towards the ground and cast his magic.

[Basic Magic: Maximum Output: Concentrated Mana Detection!]

Mark focused a lot of his mana and concentrated his mana detection range around the mana barrier.

‘As expected, this barrier goes underground too… There’s no point in digging an underground tunnel either…. His barrier has no blind spots and no obvious weakness-‘

Just when Mark was thinking that the barrier had no obvious weaknesses, he suddenly noticed a strange mana fluctuation around the barrier.

He glanced at the golem and commanded it to bombard the barrier again to confirm what he was thinking.

‘Hmm? When the stone bullets hit the barrier, the barrier directly spreads the impact of the bullet thoroughly on the surface of the whole barrier, thus reducing the power of the attack to very low…’

‘It’s like hitting a sponge with a punch… It won’t have any effect on it… but…’

At that moment, Mark got the idea that he wanted.

He immediately waved his hand and stopped the mana output for the sand golem.

The sand golem lost its shape and turned back into ordinary sand once it lost its mana supply.

Mark pointed his wand towards that sand dune and cast his magic.

[Grade-6 Earth Magic: Sand Skin!]

The sand flew into the air and covered the whole gigantic barrier like skin.

Mark poured a lot of mana, covered the entire transparent barrier with sand, and then used the sand skin to exert force on the barrier from every angle.

This caused the absorption and dispel abilities of the barrier to get weaker, as its whole surface was receiving attacks now and there was no room left for dispelling the shockwave produced by strong attacks.

‘I have seen Mr. Jareth use low-grade spells to solve big problems; I can do the same too.’

With a smirk on his face, Mark waved his wand.

[Grade-4 Earth Magic: Maximum Output: Giant Stone Drill!]

‘When attacking a sponge, it’s better to use a drill…’

Not only did Mark put a lot of mana in the sand skin spell to suppress the shockwave dispelling abilities of the barrier, he also put a lot of mana in the giant stone drill and then used it to attack a single spot heavily.

‘I can’t break barriers like Mr. Jareth, but I can still follow in his steps!’

Mark had seen Jareth break the barrier with just ‘Mana interruption’ during the battle in Artavia, but Mark’s mana interruption isn’t that strong yet.

He can’t do things the way Jareth did; Jareth just broke that massive barrier like it was just some decoration and was easy to break.

But Mark had to use such an indirect method to break this barrier, which is thousands of times weaker in comparison.

This just shows how strong Jareth’s ‘Mana interruption’ ability actually is.

But this was already a great feat; even Thomas, who was sitting inside the barrier with a relaxed look on his face, couldn’t help but get surprised by Mark’s amazing feats.

Soon enough, the stone drill punctured a hole in the barrier, and the whole barrier broke apart like broken glass.