Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 135

Chapter 135: The Desert of Chaotic Thunder! Part-1.
“We can only go half-way with the helicopter? Man, that’s such a pain~”

Sitting in the helicopter, Shin couldn’t help but complain as he glanced below and looked at the last city on their way before they entered the desert area.

Jareth nodded his head and said,

“The few cities in the desert have always been independent from the influence of the human nation; originally, they used to be places where talented earth mages would gather every decade or so to compete…”

“But now they have established cities there… Only a few of the people there can leave as the journey is dangerous; thunder can strike you from the sky at any moment…”

“If not for the internet, people there would have been totally isolated from the whole empire…”

Mark couldn’t help but nod his head at Jareth’s words.

“The Internet is a miraculous thing indeed; it can connect you to people that are located in faraway corners of the world…”

Hearing Mark’s words, Jareth thought of something and said,

“Actually, there is one more method… but well… it’s not so ‘friendly’ in nature…”

Jareth glanced at the sky and said in a serious tone,

“There is a ‘Forbidden Magic’ called ‘Mind connect’… You use powerful human brains, extract them from the person’s body, put them in a glass box, and fill them with compressed and liquefied mana…”

“Then put a particular magic circle that will directly connect to your brain…”

“If you repeat this process and put similar brains in many places, you can use them to access the internet just by using magic and spells; there is no need for phones or devices…”

“They can even be used as communication devices… This used to be a famous practice for demon cults in the era of the Cult of Demon God Therath…”

“Although they didn’t have internet back then, they still used to use this method to communicate…”

Jareth glanced at Mark, who was shocked to hear this all, and said,

“They use the brains of young people, so you should always remain careful. Who knows if there are still people out there who know this method…”

Aria was already shivering in the corner and was unable to talk after hearing those words. On the other hand, Shin glared at Jareth and said,

“How the f*ck do you know about such a ‘weird’ magic?”

Jareth shrugged his shoulders and said,

“I have my own sources… By the way, the brain of a grade 2 mage is most suitable as the main brain, so you should also be careful about this actually…”

Shin couldn’t help but frown at those words.

He doesn’t fear death at all; he already has children, so he can rest assured that his legacy will carry on, but no one wants to become a brain living in a confined box.

“This sounds more like sci-fi horror than a magical spell… Are you sure such a thing even exists?”

Jareth nodded his head in agreement with Shin’s words.

“I haven’t personally seen one, but they surely do exist out there…”

“Just like darkness cannot be extinguished from the world as long as there is light, these morally questionable practices can never truly go extinct…”

Even Risa couldn’t help but frown.

“This is even more disturbing than torture… What if the person’s brain can still remain conscious while still in that state?…”

Mark nodded his head and said,

“If such a thing exists out there, I surely wouldn’t want to see it… It would be so disturbing afterall…”

Jareth didn’t say further about this matter and only said,

‘Well, Mark, it doesn’t matter if you want to meet it or not, that’s exactly how your lackeys ended up in the original story…’

There are some surviving members of the lost, extinct cult of Therath.

One of their successors is the mad man who turned your younger sister into a human chimera and then turned your lackeys or so-called friends into these communication ‘brains’ used for connecting to the internet.

Fortunately, Risa already died from the onslaught of the hero’s party; otherwise, the developers of the game would have definitely messed her up in this same horrible way.

‘As I already figured out… this world is totally messed up; any kind of horror you can imagine can actually exist here without you ever knowing…’

The existence of the massive sea of Miasma itself is a horror that is beyond human comprehension.

An ordinary mortal cannot dream of understanding the ‘Laws’ of this world, and thus they remain incomprehensible horrors that haunt you forever once you know about their existence.

‘I can kind of understand why most Grade 1 mages die from going insane instead of dying from age…’

Imagine that you know that your world is doomed, your soul will be tortured for millennia by the sea of miasma once you die, and then there are your loved ones in front of you who are totally unaware of this all.

They don’t know anything and are living normally. You can’t tell them the truth or save them from the inevitable doom they’re about to face.

In other words, all grade-1 are just living while constantly under the stress that their loved ones will one day have to get tortured and turned into demons by the sea of miasma.

The souls of your loved ones will one day float into the sea of miasma, and there is nothing you can do for them.

{Sometimes, too much knowledge can also be a curse, and ignorance can also be a blessing…} (Source: Trust me, bro…)

After three hours of long travel via the superfast helicopter, Jareth and the group finally reached the halfway mark.

The helicopter landed on the sand, and the group got down one by one.

Jareth nodded his head at the pilot and said,

“Good work, you shall go back now; we will make the trip from here on foot; the helicopter will get struck by thunder if we go any further with it from here…”

The pilot nodded his head and left in a hurry, as if he wanted to just be done with this job and go home.

The pilot will go on and brag to his children that a Grade 1 mage sat in his helicopter today.

…

Jareth used his mana detection to sense the surroundings and then pointed in a direction before saying.

“There is an oasis there in this direction… About thirty kilometers from here, let’s go there; we will set up a camp there for tonight…”

The desert of chaotic thunder is vast; you can already see the dark clouds above the desert in the distance.

Jareth and the others will need to travel at least three hundred kilometers before they can finally reach the central city.

“You are free to use magic, but make sure you don’t pass out from depleting all of your mana. Use it sparingly… Consider this as part of the training too…”

Before Jareth could even finish talking, the whole group had already run away in that direction using their magic; only Mark was still standing beside him.

‘Sigh, these people are always in such a hurry…’

Jareth patted Mark on the back and said,

“The key is not using your mana like a brute; find a method that can improve your speed yet conserve mana…”

Mark thought hard for a moment, and then he pointed his wand on the ground and created a giant off-road muscle car from his stone magic.

[Grade-4 Earth Magic: Mark carrier type C!]

Mark jumped inside the giant car, and that car ran surprisingly fast on the sand; even Jareth was surprised by it.

‘It would have been good enough to make a simple ‘pick-up’ truck… Why the f*ck is a huge machine gun placed on both sides of this car!?’

‘Isn’t that unnecessary weight!?’

Jareth couldn’t help but shake his head.

‘This kid is really obsessed with guns…’

Mark actually caught up to Risa, who was using shadow magic to glide on the sand like she was skiing on water.

‘Er… I guess I should also head there; I wouldn’t want to be the last one to reach…’

[Basic Magic: Acceleration!]

[Grade-4 Fire Magic: Rocket thrust flames!]

Jareth bent his knees a bit and took the position a professional athlete takes before going for a run.

‘You think you guys can win just because you started the race early? How naive of you…’

*Boom*

Jareth directly broke the sound barrier and launched like a rocket in a straight line.

Due to ‘Active Heal’ he was able to raise his physical stats and is not way weaker than a veteran warrior in terms of raw physical power; moreover, his basic magic is much stronger than others.

Thus, the ‘Acceleration’ magic gave him immense speed.

And lastly, the fire magic, Rocket thrust’ produced a continuous fire behind Jareth’s back that gave him a continuous boost in speed, as if he had a rocket’s thruster attached to his back.

In an instant, Jareth’s speed crossed the speed of a fighter jet, and he ran faster than a bullet train, leaving the whole group behind in an instant.

In other words, he was the one who reached the oasis first; others couldn’t catch up to his insane speed at all.