Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 147

Chapter 147: Stealing Session Again. Part-4.
[Item Name: Radiant Crystalized Remains]

[Item Rank: Semi-grade-0]

[Item Description: As the sages witnessed it, there existed a beast that had sat its eyes on devouring the moon.

Its arrogance attracted the wrath of the ‘Bearer’ of the ‘Sword of Promised Destinies’, and so the mythical beast’s reign came to an abrupt end.

Its remains crystallized upon the land, and a city was created atop it that was blessed by its mythical radiance.

Although not in its prime, this material is still worth every effort…]

[Item Qualities:

1. Can be used to forge semi-grade-0 artifacts or weapons.

2. Can carry ‘Divine Power’ if strengthened back to its prime.

3. Can suppress mana fluctuations to extreme levels, making it nearly impossible to detect them.

4. Any item forged from this material will be blessed by the radiance of moonlight.]

…

Looking at the awesome item description and the item quality panel, Jareth couldn’t help but smile to himself.

‘As expected of a material created from the dead body of a being that had surpassed the mortal realm! Even after several millennia, this thing is still powerful!’

The reason why it’s said that the crystals aren’t in their prime is because, over the years, these crystals have lost a major amount of mana from them.

Once an organism dies, mana slowly escapes from their body, and the same thing is happening to this crystalized body.

Unless it’s used to create some artifact or other equipment, these crystals will keep losing mana, and eventually they will turn so brittle and weak that they won’t even be worth using anymore.

Fortunately, Jareth found these crystals before they fell in grade even further.

‘Moreover, if I can find some source of ‘Grade-0′ level mana, I can still strengthen these crystals by nourishing them with it…’

In the game, Allen took these crystals to the Dwarfs and asked them to create a sword that would be worthy enough to withstand the might of the Sword King.

‘Sword King’ is a title given to a swordsman whose sword skills are acknowledged far and wide.

This title can be claimed by anyone and has no restrictions in terms of gender, age, race, etc.

In today’s world, currently there’s no one who has been able to claim this title, and there’s only three people who have the talent to become the next sword king.

‘First is obviously Sylvie, who got the title ‘The Broken Meteor’ after she split a falling ‘Flaming Meteor’ spell of a grade-2 fire mage with one attack of her sword.

The second one is a heroine from the cat folk who later became a member of Allen’s harem after he gifted her the sword made from this material.

Thinking about these two, Jareth isn’t sure if he should create a sword and give it to them.

‘I will think about it when the opportunity comes…’

As for the last person, this is a special case.

The third person is Mark’s younger sister, Alice. Originally in the game, she ended up becoming a human chimera, and her story ended quite tragically.

They experimented on her so much that she died from a mental breakdown, and she went brain-dead directly.

Mark didn’t even get the chance to say his last good-bye to her.

Although Alice died tragically, she was Mark’s younger sister after all, a true descendant of the royal family that has been ruling over the human empire for more than a millennia.

Her mother is one of the most skilled swordsmen herself, and her father has insanely pure mana.

Alice inherited both of these factors; she not only has insanely pure mana from the start, just like Mark, but she also has insane talent for swordsmanship.

In the game, when Alice dies, you get a quote that says,

{If not for human greed, this sapling was meant to shine as the next King of Swords… Alas, the world has lost another possibility…}

Although you don’t really get to see her in combat in the game, Alice’s talent is indeed extremely good if we take the lore of this game into consideration.

‘Although I don’t know how much things have changed, it’s worth a try…’

Alice may look carefree and frail now, but a dragon’s kid is obviously not a frail sheep.

Born with the legacy of the royal family, she’s not to be underestimated; maybe she’s the only one in this world who can rival Mark in terms of sheer talent and potential.

Sylvie and that cat girl heroine are uncertain factors; Jareth isn’t sure if they can even reach grade 1, as they both didn’t accomplish that till the very end of the game.

Sylvie ended up dying, and the cat girl was only in peak grade 2 by the time she became the Sword King at the end of the game with the help of the sword made of this material.

There is no information in the game that can confirm that they really have the potential.

However, Alice has an advantage in this matter.

Her potential is guaranteed to be at least grade 1, and if she’s an equal to Mark, then she might go even further.

…

‘Except for this single golden crystal that has the trace of ‘Divine Power’ in it, I can see the description of all other crystals…’

‘Hmm, is it because I am still too low in grade that I can’t see things that are too high in grade?’

Although Jareth didn’t get to see a detailed description of it, he still knows most of the details about it.

‘Everything about this crystal is the same as the other ones; the only difference is that it has one extra ‘item quality’…’

‘That is, ‘It contains a trace of divine power’… Everything else is the same….’

With all the crystals in his hand, Jareth immediately decided to go back.

This place is located directly below the central lake of Bastille, and now that Jareth has stolen these crystals from here, the lake will lose its effects and will turn into a normal lake.

In other words, people will definitely notice this sudden change sooner or later, and powerful mana detection artifacts will be used to do a thorough search of the lake.

Although it’s nearly impossible for Jareth to get detected as he can suppress his mana fluctuations with his mana singularity, it’s always a good idea to be cautious.

Moreover, there’s nothing left here that is worth his attention, so it’s better to leave this dark and gloomy place as fast as possible.

[Basic Magic: Float!]

Jareth waved his hand, cast the float magic, and flew away in an instant.

‘As expected, float is really a very convenient spell…’

Jareth couldn’t help but smile as he noticed how fast his speed was.

Actually, float magic was originally only used to make heavy things float, thus making transportation easier.

You can just load heavy artillery and weapons without the need for massive cargo cranes or anything else.

This enhanced army mobilization, facilitated the slaughter of more innocent races, and enabled the human race to conquer more territory.

A useful spell indeed.

Later on, the mages found that if you keep controlling the direction of your floating magic and pouring a lot of mana, you can literally float in the air and it will seem like you are flying.

All mages don’t have the ‘Wind’ elemental affinity, so all grade-2 and low grade mages make do with this ‘float’ spell if they want to fly.

As for the Grade 1 mages, they can directly stand in void and ignore the constraints of gravity and all.

This is a unique ability of the Grade 1 mages; they can simply ‘fly’ because they are given this ability by the world itself!

Their mana is pure, and they are closer to the ‘laws’ of the world; thus, they can stand in void and fly freely.

Jareth has already fulfilled the criteria of having pure mana; he only needs to improve his mastery over his ‘Mana singularity’ or reach grade 1 so that he can get closer to the ‘laws’ and fly like other grade 1 mages.

Currently, the only thing that can cause people to figure out that Jareth is a fraud is this small detail of whether Jareth uses ‘Float’ or not.

Fortunately, he can hide the mana fluctuation to the extreme, so no one will notice that he has used ‘Float’ unless they are semi-grade 0 or above.

‘I may have become stronger, but I am still too far away from becoming someone who can protect himself in this world.’

An endless sea of miasma has surrounded their solar system, and no one knows how many millions of demons and corrupted beings are present in that massive sea of corruption.

‘I am quite sure that there are definitely more than one grade-0 being there… which means I am still too weak to even withstand the very first wave of the demon siege if the seal of ‘False Dome’ breaks…’

As time passes, Jareth has to keep working hard to become strong; otherwise, let alone protecting others, he himself won’t survive even five minutes once the seal of ‘False Dome’ is broken.