Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 154

Chapter 154: The Dungeon of Undeads! Part-1.
Outside Bastille, Eastern desert area.

[Grade-4 Earth Magic: Stone Spike Rain!]

Mark waved his wand, and ten giant magic circles appeared behind him and fired gigantic stone spikes at a man wearing heavy steel-plated armor.

The heavy armor-wearing knight jumped aside at an astonishing speed; it seemed like that heavy armor didn’t weigh him down in the least bit.

Mark’s forehead was already drenched with sweat.

‘This knight is too strong!’

Mark has trained a lot, and he has amazing reaction speed and magic abilities, yet the other party is still able to dodge all of his attacks easily and is unharmed even after fighting Mark continuously for half an hour straight.

This just shows that the other party is not a weak person either; he’s not only at the peak of grade 4 but is also extremely skilled.

Just when Mark was still thinking about how to deal with this person, Risa also jumped in the battle and brought out her shadow sword to fight.

[Shadow Fallen style: Moon Blade Dance!]

Two wings made up of shadow magic appeared behind Risa’s back and increased her speed and agility. Not only was she able to dodge the knight’s sword attacks, but she was also successfully able to keep the other party busy.

Mark took advantage of that moment and seized the opportunity to fire a stronger spell.

‘I copied this one from ‘him’… It should be effective in this battle…’

[Grade-4 Earth Magic: Stone Spear!]

Mark concentrated a huge amount of mana on his magic circle, and two layers appeared on his magic circle.

This means that Mark has achieved a higher proficiency in this magic, as he can stack up two circles of it.

Mark timed the moment and unleashed the magic when the opportunity arose.

Risa twisted her wrist and did an upward slash, causing the other party to back off and lose balance for half a second, and Mark didn’t miss that timing.

His double-layered magic circle fired an extremely thin stone spear at three times the speed of sound!

It was so fast that the knight wasn’t even able to react, and the spear directly pierced the other party’s heart.

The power of that spear was so strong that the shockwave created by the collision of the spear with the knight’s upper torso blasted a massive hole in his chest.

[Shadow Magic: Shadow Bubble!]

A bubble made up of shadows directly covered the body of the knight, and Risa immediately jumped away without hesitation.

*Boom!*

The body of the knight exploded, and the explosion was strong enough to create a small earthquake that caused a small landslide nearby.

Fortunately, this is in the middle of a desert, and there are nothing but giant hills of sand and boulders here; thus, no one was harmed by that earthquake.

When the dust settled, Risa opened her eyes and found that Mark had created a giant stone shield to protect them both from the explosion.

A smile appeared on her face, and she gave a thumbs up to Mark,

“Nice work partner…”

Although, Risa was happy, Mark, on the other hand, was calmer. He glared at Risa and said,

“That was too dangerous! You shouldn’t have jumped so close! You could have gotten injured from such a strong explosion!”

Risa shrugged her shoulders and said,

“I am not so weak that a mere explosion will sweep me away… By the way, it seems we have finally dealt with this troublesome guy…”

Risa and Mark walked towards the massive crater caused after the knight self-destructed his own body, and a look of shock appeared on their faces.

“This guy really was ruthless; he didn’t even care about leaving an intact body behind, and he really wanted to take us down with him.”

Mark also nodded his head at Risa’s words and said,

“Yeah.. Well, we slaughtered several of his subordinates; as the leader of the bandits, he was obviously going to get angry at us…”

Just when Mark and Risa were thinking about what to do next, Jareth and Aria landed on the ground.

Jareth was holding a bandit by his neck, and the other party was desperately trying to get rid of Jareth’s hand.

Jareth threw the bandit on the ground and glanced at Mark before saying,

“This guy was sneaking around… likely he was part of their group and had gone somewhere when you slaughtered the other bandits…”

“Now that he has returned, we can extract information about their hideout from him… Go ahead, student Mark, show me how good you are at information extraction skills…”

Risa also wanted to give it a try, but Jareth stopped her by saying.

“Student Risa, you can instruct him in the process; I think your information extraction ability is good enough…”

Jareth had no doubt that Risa can extract information easily; she’s skilled at torture and other stuff, so it would be pointless to ask her to demonstrate her skills.

Instead, it is a better choice to ask Mark to do it; this way, he will be able to train his mind more.

Jareth himself has been a heartless murderer, so he is very resistant to killing and bloodshed.

But Mark is not accustomed to too much bloodshed.

In fact, Mark hasn’t even killed a human before; this is the first time he has even killed a real human.

He has indeed fought quite a few battles, but he hasn’t killed a person.

Born into a prestigious family and raised with care and love, Mark had no reason to turn into a heartless monster who could kill without batting an eye. That’s why it’s important to train his heart now.

If Mark doesn’t take action now, he won’t have the courage to make decisive decisions in the future. A pawn is only good when it has some value; without abilities, a pawn has no value.

…

Following Jareth’s words, Risa helped Mark understand how to put psychological pressure on the other party and make them spit out all the information.

Mark frowned a lot at the start, but slowly he got used to it.

As a genius, he has insanely fast adaptability; he can copy others spells to great extents and improve his own combat power, and his insane adaptability gives him a great advantage.

Creating spells to counter specific conditions on the spot is just child’s play for someone like Mark.

Jareth only used that fire beam spell on Mark once during the end of the three trial competitions.

And Mark directly copied its fundamental ability to concentrate mana.

Thus he enhanced his spell, turned it into a double circle spell, and made the earth elemental so concentrated and dense that its power was insanely strong!

It directly killed a peak-grade 4 knight on the spot!

Even Risa herself was surprised at how fast Mark learned the tricks that she taught him.

A thought came to her mind:

‘Could it be that Mark has a hidden talent to become a sadist torturer!? That’s so cool!’

Risa’s idol himself is someone like Gazid who conducts illegal experiments; obviously, she will find ‘Sadists’ types of people quite cool.

‘Ah, how romantic would it be if we both stab each other and make hearts on the ground with our blood!’

One thing was sure: Risa was definitely messed up in the head.

Mark sighed and used a stone spike to kill the bandit and put him out of his misery.

Although it didn’t seem quite good to hear the loud wails of the other party, Mark also knew that he needed to grow out of his passive mindset.

He idolizes Jareth, and he wants to become a true mage like Jareth, who is strict, cold, and selfish.

To become like Jareth, he has to learn to be decisive and ruthless.

What Mark didn’t know at the moment was that the reason Jareth was making him do these unpleasant things was because he was angry.

Jareth had originally expected that Mark and Risa would have already conquered at least a floor or two in the dungeon, but when he came back, the two hadn’t even gone out to practice yet.

Jareth was so angry that he kicked Shin in the back and asked him to teach Azul while he personally led the group towards the dungeon.

On their way to the dungeon, they found this group of bandits that were setting up an ambush to attack any passersby who were heading towards the dungeon.

Jareth directly ordered Mark and Risa to fight this group of bandits just to punish them.

Moreover, he has dragged Aria with him because he is going to punish her by making her heal the students at even the slightest scratch.

‘Hmph! I thought they were going to work hard honestly. But who could have thought that they were busy buying ‘make up’ materials all this time!’

‘Forget it; let’s go to that dungeon; I will make them understand what it means to be strict!’

Jareth smiled evilly in his mind, which caused the other three to feel ominous in their hearts.