Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 157

Chapter 157: The Dungeon of Undeads! Part-4.
That punch alone created such intense wind pressure that Aria had to activate her mana shield to withstand the wind pressure and shockwave.

Her mouth nearly fell to the floor from sheer shock.

‘Er… I-I feel like my eyesight has become bad these days. I just saw a mage punch a grade-4 monster to death! That’s unbelievable!’

Aria rubbed her eyes a few times just in case, but she had no choice but to accept the reality.

Jareth successfully killed a grade-4 monster by punching it to death and exploding its body like a balloon.

Even the undead skeleton that was sitting on the back of the monster had all of its bones crack as it died on the spot from the shockwave of that punch.

Although Jareth’s face remained as cold as usual, he was feeling quite complicated in his mind.

‘Er,… I used physical strength to deal with an enemy despite being a fully mage-type character. This seems so weird… I feel like I have lost my dignity as a mage…’

Jareth glanced at Aria, who was already half lying on the ground, as if she were getting ready to sleep on the floor, and said,

“Professor Aria, keep my close range combat capabilities a secret, I wouldn’t want Mark and Risa to think that I helped them behind their back by dealing with a monster of the fourth floor myself…”

Jareth made up an excuse on the spot, and as he knew that Aria has a more naïve type of personality, she will be able to keep this secret, thus his dignity as a mage won’t get tarnished.

‘I should use my physical capabilities as a last resort effort; it can surprise the enemy at critical moments. It’s better to not reveal this ability to the public…’

‘Let them think that I am just a mage and weak in physique…’

Although Jareth’s words were said in a calm and respectful manner, Aria heard everything completely differently.

“You pathetic worm, you were so shocked that you fell from just that? How pathetic! You better not tell the world about your patheticness, or you will tarnish the name of the university!”

Aria hurriedly nodded her head at Jareth’s words and said,

“Yes! Yes! I-I will do as you say!”

Seeing Aria’s face, which was on the verge of crying, Jareth frowned a bit but ignored her and stopped caring about the matter, thinking that Aria was moved by his strength.

The two of them misunderstood each other and thus didn’t even bother to clarify the situation.

Jareth shook his head and said,

“Professor Aria, let’s go to the boss room. We will go and wait for student Mark and student Risa there…”

Aria was taken aback by those words for a moment; she wanted to deny it, but just when she was about to say it, dozens of undead skeletons walked out of the several corridors in front of them and rushed towards them with their spears.

This time, there were no living monsters; only skeleton-type monsters attacked them.

Thus, Jareth raised his hand and cast his magic.

[Basic Magic: Glowing Mana Orb!]

The glowing mana orb has the ability to repel darkness and miasma slightly.

Jareth, possessing mana singularity and incredibly pure mana, utilized this mana orb to its utmost potential.

The miasma-repelling ability became extremely strong.

When the bright light of the floating mana orb fell on the undead skeletons, they started to disintegrate into dust in an instant.

Aria was forced to close her eyes as the brightness was just too high; it was so bright that if an ordinary person had seen this glowing orb, they would have lost their ability to see permanently.

After getting extremely pure mana, it won’t be wrong to say that Jareth’s basic magic is indeed at the level of a usual peak grade-1 spell!

It’s so strong that these grade-4 monsters die from just getting touched by the light of that glowing orb and don’t even leave intact corpses behind. In an instant, they turn into ash.

Jareth was quite satisfied by seeing this outcome; he butchered dozens of undead skeletons while using the minimum amount of mana and wasting nearly zero effort.

Jareth didn’t wait for Aria; he started to walk in the direction that was leading to the boss’s room.

He has actually already scanned this whole dungeon with his mana detection, and he knows which way to go to reach the boss room faster.

Aria was perplexed for a moment when Jareth suddenly started to leave, but then she immediately ran to his side to follow along with him.

She’s more of a healer-type mage than a combat one; she doesn’t want to stay alone, as that would mean she would be stuck in a place where she would be forced to fight.

But if she stays with Jareth, she will be able to safely survive this dungeon.

‘Ugh… to think I will need to depend on a hot-tempered person like him one day… I just hope he doesn’t notice my meager presence too much and doesn’t end up killing me from the collateral damage of his spells…’

Many people in the nation admire Jareth because of his strength, but Aria, being a weak-hearted person, can’t feel safe around someone who can blast wyverns and cyclops with one attack.

For her, it’s like she’s walking with a giant wolf that can attack her at any moment without even giving an explanation.

With how strong Jareth is, he can take advantage of her, and she won’t even be able to defend herself, which is a very scary thought.

What she didn’t know was that Jareth never thought about taking advantage of her; instead, he feels that any other woman except for Shiina is not his type.

They seemed too bland in front of her; she was mature, calm, cheerful, and mischievous at the same time. She stole his heart to the point that now he’s unable to like anyone else.

Moreover, Aria is engaged to someone else; it’s not a wise idea to ignore boundaries that should not be crossed.

Jareth learned to be ruthless and cruel through his experience, but he also learned to respect boundaries from falling in love with someone as wonderful as Shiina.

{After all, you can only mature in the truest sense if you experience all aspects of your own ‘self’…} (Source: Trust me bro…)

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For the next three hours, Jareth and Aria flew in the direction of the boss room.

Jareth already figured out the way out of this mage, so they were able to travel fast while ignoring all paths that lead to dead ends.

Only Mark and Risa will have to work hard to reach the boss room, as they don’t have the same insane mana detection as Jareth.