Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 118

Chapter 118: Misunderstandings Continues… Part-2
Jareth was messing with Mark on purpose, but Mark misunderstood that he was trying to teach him about the way of being a real wizard.

Mark nodded his head and said,

“I will keep it in mind!”

Jareth nodded his head and said,

“Well, you still technically tanked the attack, so you win…”

As Jareth said those words, a staircase appeared nearby.

Mark was surprised by Jareth’s words; he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Jareth had already declared that he had passed, which means he had to leave now. It would be rude to stay here anymore.

Mark nodded his head and climbed the stairs to leave.

After a few minutes of climbing the stairs, he found himself standing in the main garden of the university.

‘Oh~ so there was a hidden staircase here? It must have been hidden with magic detection, nullifying artifacts…’

Mark has visited this place before, and he never noticed this hidden staircase in the ground. Only after passing all three trials did he get to see this staircase.

‘Well, this isn’t bad either…’

Mark watched the flowers in the distance, and the slight breeze ruffled his hair.

‘After going through those dangerous places, this place feels so peaceful and nice…’

Mark shook his head and lay down on the finely trimmed grass nearby. He watched the clouds float in the sky, and soon his eyes closed as he fell asleep due to exhaustion.

…

Third-floor maze area.

‘Ugh, where do I go now…’

While Mark was sleeping comfortably under the warm sunlight and the caress of the cold wind breeze, Risa had lost her way in the maze of the third floor.

Risa passed through the second trial, but she can’t find her way in this maze.

Her shadow magic isn’t yet strong enough that she can just pass through these maze walls that are enhanced with magic.

And she doesn’t have the massive mana capacity of Mark either, so she can’t directly blast her way through the walls.

(By the way, those walls were healed by the illusion after Mark passed the trial of the third floor…)

Moreover, her direction sense isn’t that good either, so she ended up losing her way in the maze.

Truthfully speaking, it was already a great feat that she reached the third floor; most of the students got eliminated on the first floor.

‘Sigh. It seems I will not be able to win this time…’

Risa couldn’t help but feel sad; she wanted to win and force Mark to do naughty things with her.

She knows that Mark himself won’t take the initiative, as he’s too shy and dishonest with his own feelings.

Just as Risa was about to give up, she suddenly sensed someone approaching with her mana detection.

‘hmm? This aura…’

Before Risa could think about it much, Aria came running in her direction, and dozens of lava lizards were chasing behind her.

As soon as Aria saw Risa, she said,

“Student Risa, run!! The monsters here have gone insane!”

Risa frowned a bit and glanced at the grade-5 lava lizards with a look of confusion.

‘What? Why is Professor Aria running? Isn’t she a Grade 2 mage? She should be able to deal with these few weak monsters easily… wait! This must be a mini-boss trial!’

[Grade-5 Shadow Magic: Shadow Lance Bombardment!]

A giant magic circle appeared and bombarded the rushing Lava lizards with her shadow lances.

Risa then manipulated the shadow elements, creating a sword out of the condensed shadow elements.

[Fallen Style Sword Art: Thousand Shadow Mirages!]

She raised the shadow sword about her shoulder and swung it downwards a thousand times in a matter of three seconds.

She fired a thousand arcs made up of condensed shadow elements at the lava lizards and sliced the lizards into pieces without much effort.

Although Risa is a mage, she is well versed in swordsmanship too. It would be a mistake to underestimate her close-range combat abilities.

When it comes to close-range combat, she has the upper hand, even against Mark.

Her combat style is very versatile.

She knows magic, swordsmanship, archery, dagger arts, martial arts, and other combat styles.

She has molded her body to be capable of fighting with or without weapons, so that she can keep fighting no matter if she has mana or not.

This is also one of the reasons why even her own family members fear her; she is a maniac who has mastered the way of an assassin to the core.

…

Seeing the dead lizards on the floor, Risa frowned a bit and thought,

‘Eh? Aren’t these monsters a bit too weak? When I used this attack on Mark, he easily blocked it with his mana barrier, as if it didn’t have much lethality at all…’

Risa often asks Mark to have friendly spars with her, so she was quite surprised that her attack was so effective.

Most of the time, she only uses her magic when sparring with Mark, so she has become used to seeing her attacks fail.

Mark’s mana barrier is so strong that her relentless attacks mean nothing to it; she hasn’t scored a single victory against him until now.

Thus, even she was unaware of how lethal her own attacks are.

‘Er… I have been throwing these lethal attacks at him all along?’

Risa glanced at her shadow sword with a complicated look on her face.

‘T-this…’

Thinking about this, Risa couldn’t help but feel guilty. She’s indeed a bit crazy in her mind, but she doesn’t want to be hated by Mark.

If Mark starts to hate her, she will lose the purpose of her life; she’s so obsessed with him that she can’t afford to be on his bad side.

‘I-I will need to apologize to him…’

Just when Risa was contemplating how to apologize to Mark, Aria hugged her from behind.

Her face was covered in tears, and a smile of gratitude hung on her face.

“Thank you, student Risa! You saved my life today! I can’t thank you enough!”

A look of confusion appeared on Risa’s face after hearing those words.

“Eh? I saved you? When?”

Risa didn’t know that Aria was a weak-hearted person! She only became a grade-2 mage by relying on her own potion-making talent!

She doesn’t have any real combat experience, and she’s only good at healing magic!

Even now, she was running from those lava lizards, not because she wanted to give Risa a trial, but because she had no idea how to fight them.

Aria looked at the sky and prayed.

‘Ah, my dear ancestors, I have survived one more day… Please keep blessing me as usual!’