Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 152

Chapter 152: Jareth, a disaster? Part-2.
Standing near the lift on the hill, Jareth could see the whole village from here.

Looking at the crying and sobbing villagers and children, Jareth suddenly remembered some past memories.

…

An orphanage.

“I didn’t know you were the type to come and donate money to places like orphanages…”

In response to Shiina’s question, he replied in a rather vague tone.

“Er… I do some good work from time to time…”

Shiina smiled at those words and flicked her finger at his forehead before saying,

“Hehe, these small good things you do are the reason why you stole my heart, you little thief…”

At Shiina’s words, he just gave a dry laugh.

He couldn’t muster the courage to tell her that he came here to do pre-mission scouting; he was gathering information on the security of this area.

Shiina was oblivious to how evil her own father could be; she never knew how much darkness there was in that seemingly bright and happy world.

Just a day after that random date, the whole orphanage burned to the ground, and hundreds of people and children lost their lives.

…

(Back to present)

‘I have already crossed the line in my past life… I can’t say that I have humanity left anymore; I carry the lives of several innocent people on my back…’

Jareth decided to recruit Azul purely for his own benefit; if he wanted to escape, he would need time, so there is a need for people who can buy that time for him.

‘Truthfully speaking, I am no different from Nathan; he took advantage of his students for his own sake, and I am doing the same… In fact, I may be worse than him…’

‘I am manipulating them to go for their deaths… Humanity? Life? Sympathy? What a joke…’

Jareth shook his head and entered the lift to leave the village.

The things he came here for are already in his palm, so he isn’t planning on wasting any more time here.

The only reason why Jareth was still able to live normally in his past life was because of Shiina’s existence.

But now that she isn’t present to keep him connected to his humane side, he has finally figured out his true nature.

‘Being selfish is the way of the world; if I was selfish enough from the start of my past life, I may have never died in the first place; being an upright and good person doesn’t suit me…’

If Jareth had been selfish in his past life, he could have slowly seized control over the boss’s subordinates and overthrown him before things turned bad for him.

His naïve beliefs were his demise.

…

The lift stopped and the door opened. Jareth walked out, and the same familiar desert appeared in his view.

‘Come to think of it… there are monsters with strong life essences in this world… like a hydra or a phoenix… I can extract pure life essence from them and improve my own life span…’

Ever since Jareth has found the truth of this world, he can’t help but feel that his life span is just too short.

There is no guarantee of how long he will need to wait until he can find some proper solution that can help him leave this sea of miasma.

He will need a long life span if he wants to wait for a longer time and a better opportunity.

‘But the main problem is finding these two types of monsters… There is only one hydra on this whole planet, and as for a phoenix, it never even appeared in the game…’

In the game, Phoenix was only ever talked about in random quotes or lore-related stuff; it never really appeared even once.

So, Jareth isn’t sure where to find it.

‘Although I don’t know where to find a phoenix, I certainly do know where I can find that hydra…’

There is only one hydra that ever appeared in the game, and it’s an optional boss monster that is located in the deepest depths of the sea.

‘I will need to make some time to go and extract the life essence from it…’

Just when Jareth was busy thinking about his plan to butcher innocent creatures to extract their life essence purely for his own selfish gain, time passed fast and two hours went by in a flash.

Azul and Ensha took the lift and came out of the village with solemn looks on their faces.

Jareth ignored their expression and directly placed his hand on the ground. He replicated the same seal that Nathan had put on his hidden library and placed it on the whole village.

Now only the people of the village can go in and out of this barrier.

Moreover, this barrier is of high quality; it will automatically register the aura of the new people that the villagers might bring in to live with them.

Thus giving them its protection too.

Nathan himself may not have been of any benefit to Jareth, but the treasures he collected and the seal he created were quite useful and of good quality.

‘Sigh, if only I had some ability to steal others’s talent, I would have gone and extracted Nathan’s spatial talent to honor his good deeds for me…’

Jareth shook his head and waved his hand.

He used telekinesis to carry the siblings, and then he used ‘Float’ to fly in the air.

[Basic Magic: Float!]

His float magic is nothing like others; it’s extremely fast and efficient due to his mana singularity.

Ensha was shocked to the core after seeing the insane flying speed of Jareth’s float magic.

If not for the telekinesis that was carrying and protecting them at the same time, Ensha and Azul would have already burned to a crisp from the friction created by flying in the air so fast.

Honestly, it felt like teleportation; one second they were in the desert, and next they had already crossed nearly a hundred kilometers and could see the city walls already from the sky.

Jareth didn’t bother stopping; he directly went ahead and did a full mana detection on the city just to figure out where Shin and the others were.

[Basic Magic: Wide Area Mana Detection!]

For someone with Mana singularity like him, scanning the aura and faces of one or two million people is nothing but child’s play; he already did something similar when trying to find the assassins.

Thus, he has experience in this matter.

In fact, his scanning speed is faster than making a phone call; that’s the reason why he didn’t bother making a phone call to Shin to ask about where the group was staying.