Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 140

Chapter 140: Bastille, A City Blessed By The Moonlight! Part-2.
In comics and movies, it is usually shown that when the protagonist encounters such a situation, his first action is to go beat up the guards and rescue the people who are being forcefully dragged to their deaths.

However, those films always fail to show the greater implications of this action.

The main thing is that the government also doesn’t want to throw them out, but for the survival of the majority, they have to make this sacrifice.

By exiling these people who give no returns to society, the government is fulfilling many goals at once.

Not only does this serve as a warning to other people that they need to work hard if they want to live in their safe houses, but it also quells the massive monster siege.

Once the monsters eat their fill, they don’t attack the cities like crazy, and massive monster sieges don’t happen.

The army from the outside can’t be deployed in time, and even if they deploy it beforehand, a massive army needs a massive amount of resources to maintain.

If you increase the number of soldiers, you will need to keep in mind that you will need more money.

More money means you will need to increase the tax more, or you will have to ask the government outside for support.

Even though the government is trying its best from outside, they also have to take care of the rest of the empire; they can’t just keep funding this isolated city for free.

In this desert, not a single crop thrives, and there are no regional specialties that are unique to this area.

Which means that the government gets literally no benefits from funding this city that is isolated from all directions.

Thus, the funding for this city can’t be increased, and more military personnel can’t be deployed here either.

In other words, the government is just as helpless about this place as the people living here.

Even if you want the people to relocate, you can’t possibly relocate millions of people.

Where will you take so many people? How would so many people get new jobs so soon? Who will give them excellent living conditions for free?

All in all, if you look at the bigger picture, the situation in Bastille is already in much better condition.

If the government wasn’t funding it from the outside, then even more people would have died every year.

Right now, things are in a proper balance.

And imagine that suddenly an idiot guy comes and tries to destroy this equilibrium just because he doesn’t want the poor people to die.

This will not only put the lives of the rest of the people in the city in danger; it will cause massive chaos for everyone.

This is the reason why ‘being a hero depends on circumstances; if the conditions are already in balance, you will only be a villain if you try to mess with them…’

By saving a few people, you may feel happy, but you will fail to realize that you are putting the lives of millions of other people at risk.

What if the monsters outside went crazy and attacked the city desperately due to hunger?

You won’t have enough army to counter it, and no help will come from the outside as this place is very isolated.

Even a grade 1 mage will need at least half a day if he wants to come here by flying while avoiding the thunder from the sky and the monsters below.

And that half a day is enough for the tsunami of monsters to level the whole city to the ground and kill millions of people.

It is often depicted in movies that a hero can do a last stand and keep thousands of monsters at bay, but that’s not a realistic scenario.

There is barely one grade-3 mage in this city, and he himself is the city’s minister, so how would the city defend itself against hordes of monsters outside if the barrier collapsed?

Thinking like a movie’s hero is a ridiculous thing; reality in this world is more cruel.

…

Bastille, Core area, Hotel Grand Moon.

When the car finally arrived at its destination, Mark and the other got down, and a gigantic skyscraper appeared in their view.

Although the skyscraper looks modern, it also has a lot of traditional-type architecture in it.

Just looking at it from the outside, you can tell that this building is definitely a five-star hotel.

When the group was still looking at the hotel with an excited look on their faces, a luxurious car suddenly arrived at the scene, with several muscle cars following behind it.

A man wearing a silver suit and dark red hair got out of the car and walked over to the group with a smile on his face.

The man glanced at Shin and said,

“Nice to meet you, sir. I am Zang Shao, a minister in the parliament and the mayor of this city… It’s a pleasure to meet someone as strong as you…”

Bastille also has internet, so the people here can access social media; thus, the city knows about Shin as he’s a famous grade 2 mage.

And as grade 2 mages are quite rare in this place and rarely appear, the mayor decided to come himself to greet Shin and, if possible, try to coax Shin into staying here.

If a grade-2 mage decides to stay in this place, the safety of this city will be improved.

The main reason why no grade-3 or higher-ranking mages want to stay here is because they don’t have enough resources here.

But if the mayor himself tries to arrange it, then they can certainly collect enough money to tempt people.

“Ah, you’re the mayor? Nice to meet you, Mr. Zang. I see that you are running your city quite well. I came here thinking that things here would be much more backward…”

“But you have surprised me; this place has developed well even though it’s isolated from the outside world…”

Zang smiled dryly at those words and replied,

“Mr. Shin is joking, haha. I am merely doing my duty; keeping the lives of the people safe is my responsibility, hahaha…”

Shin didn’t mention the matter of the people who were being sacrificed, and Zang also didn’t acknowledge the fact that he was sacrificing the lives of people to save others.

In other words, both of them were tacitly talking in a way that didn’t highlight each other’s problems.

Shin himself has nothing to do with this city, and he doesn’t give a single sh*t about who is getting sacrificed here, so he didn’t bother arguing with Zang about this matter.

Surely Shin’s words may put a lot of pressure on Zang as he’s a grade-2 mage, but even if Shin tries to argue about it, it won’t change anything.

Matters like this are not so easy to resolve; they have many complicated things behind them.

“Ahaha, look at me, I totally forgot about the main matter. Mr. Shin, please feel free to stay in this hotel; I will personally fund your and your group’s stay…”

Shin was surprised by those words, and he nodded his head.

“Hoho, Mr. Zang is indeed a generous person, it seems…”

Zang laughed a bit at those words and said,

“Haha, no, no, this is what I should do… Okay, I won’t stop you anymore; please rest in the hotel; you must be tired from the long journey…”

Zang only came here to show his goodwill, so he decided to leave early so as to avoid any unpleasant things from happening.

From other people’s perspectives, Shin and Zang were talking happily with each other while laughing and smiling as if they were old friends who had met after a long time.

But only the two of them knew that they were both just being polite with each other to avoid trouble.

Zang doesn’t want to offend Shin, as he wants to hire him.

On the other hand, Shin has come to this city for the first time, and he also has the students with him.

So, he wants to avoid any misunderstanding with the mayor so that he doesn’t target the students.

The two were laughing happily, but they were actually scheming in their minds.

“Ah, I forgot about one other thing…”

Just when Zang was about to leave, Shin suddenly called out to him and said,

“Actually, we are not the only ones here; Jareth Ayad has also come here with us; he went out to resolve some personal business, but he will likely come to the city later in a few days…”

“So I would request the mayor to keep things ready for him too…”

Hearing the name ‘Jareth’, Zang was so shocked that he nearly fainted on the spot.

Even a grade-2 mage is extremely rare in this city, and now suddenly a grade-1 mage who is known for being extremely powerful has suddenly appeared here.

This information not only made Zang nervous, but even the bodyguards and other people nearby were shocked to the core.

Zang glanced at Shin and confired again,

“uh.. A-are you talking about ‘The Wyvern Killer’, ‘The Divine Flame’ Jareth Ayad? A-are you sure he’s the one who’s here?”

Shin nodded his head and led the students inside as he spoke.

“Yes, yes, that guy… Just keep an eye out for him; he should be here soon…”

Although Shin and the group were being casual, Zang and his bodyguards were already trembling in shock.

Only one thought was ringing in Zang’s mind at that moment.

‘F*ck me! How the f*ck did I attract a walking nuclear bomb on myself out of nowhere!?’