Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 161

Chapter 161: The Benevolent Fairy powder… Part-3.
As the name implies, Benevolent Fairy Powder has something to do with fairies.

Innocent people will think that it’s some kind of usable powder or something that fairies make.

But the truth about this thing is just as dark as it is lethal.

In the human empire, there is an organization that regulates and checks the quality of food produced by various companies and factories.

They have compiled a list of the 100 most deadly poisonous substances in the world.

The ‘Benevolent Fairy Powder’ is ranked first on this list of the most lethal and horrifying toxins.

If it’s a poison, you might wonder why it’s called ‘Benevolent’ in the first place.

We must understand its composition to comprehend the significance of its name.

As the name already suggests, this thing’s main ingredient is related to ‘Fairies’, but to what extent?

Benevolent Fair Powder is made by squashing a fairy alive and grinding its corpse into a meat paste.

You would need to grind the whole corpse; not even the bones must be left behind, and then you would need to dry the meat paste at insanely high temperatures that only a grade-2 or above-level fire mage can provide.

Once you do that, the paste will burn into charcoal, and then you need to add a refined soul’s power to that burned charcoal.

This will turn the charcoal into powder that will shine with a faint green light.

The main thing is that you would need to torture the fairy for a hundred days at a time before turning it into paste; you would need to corrupt the fairy’s soul with hatred and darkness.

Fairies are a small and very harmless type of creature, the size of a human palm. They are well known for having the best healing magic, and they often help people in need.

They are the most benevolent and kind race out there, and it’s near impossible for hatred to corrupt them, even in extreme cases.

Only one in a thousand fairies will get corrupted by hatred if you use this process on them, which means most fairies will die a meaningless and pointless death in this process and will turn into waste material.

This powder bears the name ‘Benevolent Fairy Powder’ due to the benevolent nature of the fairy race, which prevents even a few from succumbing to hatred.

It’s a substance cultivated with the purest form of hatred and darkness; just by a touch of it, anyone below grade 3 will instantly lose their mind and will get corrupted to the point that their body will start rotting while the person is still alive.

This was the primary reason the entire fairy race went extinct a century ago.

Not only did the various demon cults use this method to kill their enemies in the most brutal way, but they also hunted down fairies like crazy.

Fairies used to exist in every corner of this planet, and you could encounter one or two every day by simply taking a casual stroll outside.

Yet, now there are none left in the world.

Such a successful race met its demise in the most brutal manner.

The fairies were unable to protect themselves.

Fairies never learned any other magic except for healing magic; they believed that harming others was a great sin and that only healing magic was the true path to ascension.

Although the path they walked was indeed very good, and they could have achieved a lot with it, they forget one thing: people’s greed knows no bounds.

The king who ruled the empire during the height of the Cult of Therath even recognized the use of this fairy powder as legal at one point.

Tens of thousands of fairies were killed every day to make this powder and create lethal poison to kill the enemy.

The fairy race kept declining, and eventually they went extinct a hundred years ago.

Even though the previous king had placed a ban on this thing, the fairy race was never able to recover from this blow, and there was no saving them.

In the whole fairy race, there is only one type of fairy that barely learns basic combat skills.

That is the King Fairy.

Every hundred years, a king fairy with extremely high talent is born among the fairy race.

The King Fairy usually has the potential to reach grade 1 on its own. But the sad thing is that no King Fairy ever reached that level, as they never really trained seriously.

The fairies would inevitably become targets again and again without the ability to defend themselves.

Teenage children can easily capture fairies without the use of mana because they are such weak creatures!

And once caught, their end would always be horrible!

Jareth has read about many races that were destroyed by humans in the past in this game’s lore, but the fairy race met the most tragic ending of them all.

They weren’t even regarded as living creatures; they were treated as mere ‘ingredients’ and slaughtered mercilessly.

And what did the fairies do to retaliate?

Nothing; they still kept helping injured people and never chose to abandon their kind-hearted ways.

That is the reason why anything related to a fairy is associated with ‘benevolence and care’.

Even the most lethal toxin has the name ‘Benevolent’ in it… how ironic.

Just by seeing this item once, weak-hearted people can lose their minds and go mad.

That’s how lethal this thing is; its very existence is a curse on the world itself.

The world’s kindest existence turned into the most lethal toxin; this is the cruelty of this corrupted world.

…

Jareth knew the whole history of this item, and he also knew what its effects were.

This substance is not only a potent toxin, but it can also aid him in his goal of creating a ‘wormhole’.

Although it feels awful to be using this item, Jareth has no other choice.

The whole fairy race is already extinct; only a few ancient tombs and dungeons have some hidden bottles left that have fairy powder stored in them.

The fairy powder that Erik has was also extracted from one of the ruins of a previous demon cult’s headquarters.

Nowadays, this thing is strictly banned; whoever is found carrying it with them is sentenced with ten years in jail just for having it.

‘Although they created monuments and statues to sympathize with the fairies… it’s all useless in the end…’

The sins committed by the humans of this world are just endless; there are just too many beings whose lives were destroyed by the human race.

‘I guess living in a solar system that is surrounded by an endless sea of miasma indeed causes a lot of subtle influence…’

In Jareth’s previous world, humans were evil, but they weren’t this corrupt.

Miasma undoubtedly affects people in this world, if only very slightly, but even this little impact can lead to significant changes.

Jareth doesn’t think of himself as an incarnation of justice, so he isn’t going to slaughter the human race for doing what they did.

All he can do is just feel pity for what happened to the fairies. In his opinion, the humans have failed humanity itself; it won’t be wrong to say that they are the real monsters in this world.

‘The longer I stay in this world, the more I want to leave this place… sigh. If not for the circumstances, I would prefer not to use this item for myself…’

The fairy powder can be used as a fine material to stabilize the wormhole, and as the fairy race is already dead, there is no point in hesitating.

Jareth shook his head and urged Erik to bring out the stuff.

Erik nodded his head and pulled out two palm-sized glass bottles filled with Benevolent Fairy powder that were glowing with a faint green light.

Jareth hurriedly put it in his space ring, as he didn’t want it to affect Aria’s mentality.

He then transferred money to Erik, just as he had promised.

Erik smiled happily after he found out he got the message from his bank account on his phone.

But before he could remain happy for a long time, Jareth directly increased the size of his ‘Glowing Mana Orb’, and the ‘Mild Darkness repelling’ effect got boosted in an instant.

“NOOO!!! You are a Liar!!! You f*cking monster!! AHHHHHH!!!”

Jareth sighed while looking at Erik’s body, which was turning into dust, and said in a calm voice,

“You seem to have misunderstood something… I fulfilled my promise, made a proper exchange, and even gave money; thus, I am not a liar… But yeah, you can say that I am indeed a ‘Monster’…”

Erik, a shady individual, resorted to transforming into an undead lich to evade the police’s relentless pursuit. He staged his death to make his escape possible.

However, even after becoming undead, he never stopped his business of smuggling illegal drugs and harmful substances to various places.

Many innocent lives have been destroyed by him for profit, and he also has many forbidden spells in his arsenal.

If one day he sells those forbidden spells to others, then more people will die horrible deaths.

Jareth simply eliminated this unstable factor on the spot. Although he can’t bring back the dead fairies who died unjust deaths, at least he can prevent a few innocent people’s lives.

The fairies would have also chosen to help, so Jareth just did this to make amends for the fairy powder he was going to use.

Fortunately, he had cast a silencing spell earlier, so Aria didn’t hear what he talked about with Erik, and he also hid the powder fast enough without letting her catch a single glimpse of it.

Thus, she was unaffected.