Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 136

Chapter 136: The Desert of Chaotic Thunder! Part-2.
By the time the others reached the oasis, Jareth had already placed a deckchair near the oasis and was lazily lying on it with sunglasses on, as if he was enjoying a vacation on a beach or something.

Of course, Mark and Risa were the last to arrive, as Shin and Aria both just used ‘Float’ magic to fly and reach the place faster.

Mark and Risa can’t compete with genuine grade-2 mages like them yet, so they were bound to lose.

The reason why Jareth didn’t use ‘Float’ himself is because he wanted to try out the new spell combo with his amazing physique.

‘Maybe I should start learning a few martial arts techniques myself… With such a strong body, it would be a shame to not have some close-range fighting capabilities….’

Although Jareth doesn’t really need any close-range combat abilities due to the existence of a ‘Nearly indestructible mana shield’ that can protect him perfectly from any close-range attacks, it’s always good to have more cards in your arsenal.

‘If not for my low affinity for ‘Fire magic’ I would have already been a genuine grade-3 mage by now… sigh~’

Currently, Jareth only has basic magic in his arsenal.

Although he can indeed use fire magic too, its effects are far too weak due to the low ‘Fire affinity’.

When in combat, he can only use basic magic or his physical abilities to score a victory; he has no other methods, which is indeed quite concerning.

‘Right now, I have four thousand credit points… I wonder if I should buy an ‘attack enhancement card’ or wait and collect more to pull a better lottery…’

‘Sigh, if only I had an infinite number of credit points, then I would have splurged the money on the lottery to my heart’s content…’

Just when Jareth was still contemplating the credit points in his mind, the rest of the group started to chatter loudly.

“Hoho! You collected wood while on the way!? You are indeed an excellent person, Student Mark!!”

Shin couldn’t help but pat Mark’s shoulder again and again while smiling in satisfaction.

Mark used a massive car-like thing made out of magic, so he directly toppled down any dry trees that came in his way, and then he made them float and placed them on the roof of the car.

“Yes! This place is a desert; it may be hot during the day, but at night it will become very cold here. It’s good we lit a bonfire…”

Although temperature won’t have much effect on mages as they can just use their mana shield and keep the temperature inside it normal, it’s always good to have a bonfire when you are out camping.

Jareth glanced at Shin and Mark, who were trying to make a bonfire, and said,

“Do we really need it? It would be much better for your training if you tried to maintain your mana barrier for the whole night while in sleep…”

“Learning how to keep a spell going unconsciously is a great skill…”

Shin shook his head at Jareth’s words and retorted loudly while saying,

“If not for a bonfire, can it still be called a camp? It’s a classic! There’s no point in camping if you don’t make a bonfire!!”

Jareth sighed at those words and said,

“Alas, stupidity has no cure; otherwise, you would have been the first test subject for that cure if it existed…”

Hearing those words, blood veins appeared on Shin’s face as he said in anger,

“Go away! You don’t know what it means to be camping!”

Jareth ignored Shin’s words and glanced at Mark before saying,

“How are you planning on lighting the fire? Do you need my help?”

Jareth is a fire mage; he just needs to flick his finger, and he can make the wood burn.

“Er… N-no, I want to try the method written in the survival books…”

Mark has seen Jareth use the lowest and weakest fire magic and turn it into lethal attacks.

Thus, he thinks that if Jareth used his fire magic, he would blast off half a kilometer of area just to light a fire.

At that point, it can’t be called a bonfire; even the sand in the desert will start to melt into molten lava if Jareth uses his fire magic.

Simply speaking, Mark has misunderstood that Jareth’s fire magic is just too strong; that’s the main reason why he uses basic magic most of the time and rarely resorts to fire magic as it’s too destructive in nature.

“Well, do as you wish…”

Seeing that Mark also wanted to pass time like Shin, Jareth lost interest and stopped caring about it.

The main desert area that they have to travel to is still far away, and the sky here is not covered by the dark clouds, so there is still sunlight here.

‘It’s already evening; it will be night soon…’

…

Just when it was about to get dark, Mark and Shin succeeded in lighting up the bonfire by rubbing two dry pieces of wood against each other at a fast speed.

The whole group took a big bark of the wood and used it as a seat to sit beside the bonfire; only Jareth was still lying lazily on his deckchair.

Just when the group was about to start chatting, Jareth suddenly said,

“Although we are in the outer area of the desert of thunder, we can still experience its mild effects even here.”

“During nighttime, a strange phenomenon happens: if someone tells a ‘lie’ during the night in this desert, then they will get hit by thunder…”

“We are in the outer area, so we will likely only get hit by a much weaker thunderbolt… but it’s still a bad idea to try this…”

A serious look appeared on Jareth’s face as he said,

“In other words, either talk the ‘Truth’ while chatting or don’t talk at all; this is the rule of this place…”

Jareth has been here before in the game, so he knows the general way things work here, but the reason behind it was never explained in the game.

‘Although it wasn’t explained in the game, I can guess that this is also one of the effects of ‘Law of the World’… The ‘Law of Truth’ manifests in this place at night…’

‘This place is so interesting and mysterious… I am sure if it were the original Jareth, he would have definitely liked to do research on this strange manifestation of the ‘Law’ of the world here.

The original Jareth was kind of a scientist type of person; he liked to do research on mysterious things, and he had a smart mind.

If he had grown up in a better family, maybe he would have become one of the most famous scientists of this era and would have invented many shocking things.

…

While Jareth was busy contemplating the original Jareth’s life, the rest of the group was already shocked by his words.

They had no idea that there was actually such a thing happening in this place.

First of all, there is a scarcity of information about this desert, even on the internet, making it challenging to gain comprehensive understanding.

“Er… I will only say the truth from now on-”

Just when Shin said those words, a small bolt of thunder came flying from far away and fell right on his head as if it were targeting him.

Fortunately, he had deployed his mana shield beforehand; otherwise, it would have caused a minor injury at the very least.

Mark and the others were really shocked to see this strange phenomenon.

“Er… I just wanted to test out if it was really true, but it seems it’s indeed the case… If you lie, you get his by thunder; this has piqued my interest-”

Before Shin could finish his sentence, another bolt of thunder fell on him again.

Mark made a complicated expression and said,

“Uh… Professor Shin, maybe you should stop lying too much; it’s bad for your health…”

Shin just smiled at those words and said,

“Haha, what are you saying, I never lie… lying ain’t that bad…”

Bolts of thunder kept falling on Shin like crazy, as if they were purposely targeting him for some reason.

Shin got up from the seat and shouted at the sky.

“I am the most handsome man in the world! I am the best teacher in the world!!”

At this point, Shin was trying to get hit by thunder on purpose, as it seemed kind of fun; thus, he kept shouting lies and kept getting hit by the thunderbolts like crazy.

If someone who didn’t know about the situation had seen this scene from far away, they would have thought that the dark clouds had some personal beef with Shin.

Seeing that Shin was enjoying the effects of the thunder, Risa’s eyes shone brightly too.

She glanced at Mark and said,

“This is like a naturally made lie detector! How about we do a truth and lie test? We will ask one question to each other, and the one who lies will get hit by thunder!!”

Mark became kind of interested in the game, so he nodded his head.

“Let’s do it…”