Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 164

Chapter 164: Konda, The Incarnation of Terror! Part-3.
Standing on the city wall, Shin looked at that giant behemoth with a nervous and shocked expression on his face.

‘T-that bone dragon…’

Shin belongs to one of the most influential and oldest wizard families; thus, he has had access to a lot of history books that were completely out of the grasp of ordinary people.

In the history books, there is a mention of a dragon who came on this planet in a meteor and then rampaged like a berserk insane beast for years!

Eventually, it somehow fell into a forbidden area and was sealed off by several powerful Grade 1 mages.

This dragon is mentioned in numerous folktales.

The dragon had dark black scales and was extremely intimidating to look at; it was a true Abyss Dragon; it could control miasma and corruption easily; and it killed millions in its rampage.

Except for this one dragon, there are no mentions of dragons in the history of this world.

In the long annals of history, no one has discovered another dragon other than this Abyss Dragon.

In other words, the bone dragon that Jareth is fighting is likely the same one.

‘It doesn’t have black scales or a proper body… Perhaps staying in that so-called forbidden place caused it to age and its body to rot. or perhaps the miasma that it controls has corrupted and destroyed its own body…’

‘No matter the case, it’s a relief that this thing is not in its prime form at least…’

Indeed, Konda isn’t even in its prime; if it had a proper body, its defense would have been even higher.

You can even see cracks on those shining bones of this bone dragon; they were likely also created from centuries of corruption running deep into its body and penetrating its bone marrow.

Jareth’s flame meteor left only a few scratches on its tail and didn’t affect it much.

Shin was extremely shocked by this outcome.

An attack that could have easily wiped out a grade-2 mage like him didn’t even injure the bone dragon.

‘T-this is going to be troublesome…’

Shin can already see that Jareth will have to retreat if things keep going like this.

Moreover, there is no one in the current world who can contain this dragon; in the past, the dragon was only sealed because of its own mistake, but that might be impossible now.

Furthermore, nearly a dozen grade-1 mages were required to seal this dragon, and there are currently only two grade-1 mages in the human race.

In other words, sealing the dragon is also impossible.

Looking at that dragon, Shin could feel endless helplessness.

In the face of absolute power, tricks are useless; the gap in power is just too huge.

The current human race can’t even beat Grade-2 mages with their advanced technology, so the weapons of the human race are pretty much useless against the bone dragon.

And if things stay this way, then the world really may come to an end; this dragon will rampage in all directions and slaughter anyone and everyone.

Mark and Risa, who just arrived at the city wall with Aria, also had a nervous and worried expression on their faces.

They were worried about Jareth.

At that time, they didn’t know why Jareth was sending them away in such a hurry, but after seeing this absolute monstrosity burst out of the ground, they figured everything out.

If they were still beside Jareth, they would have been a hindrance for him.

Weak people have no place on the battlefield of the true giants.

Mark couldn’t help but clench his fists tightly while looking at Jareth, who was standing in the air and was stopping the Bone Dragon with his power alone.

‘I must work hard… I want to help him too; I don’t want to be considered a hindrance by the person I admire…’

Mark has always wanted to follow in Jareth’s footsteps and become someone whom Jareth could acknowledge.

Although Jareth’s figure looked so small in front of that massive dragon, his presence was giving unwavering hope to the people.

He was representing the ‘Hope’ of survival for humanity right now.

At that moment, Mark realized what he needed to accomplish in his life: he needed to become someone who can singlehandedly create ‘Hope’ for people in the darkest of times.

To be a hope is to create light in a situation where everything seems ridden with despair and darkness.

…

On the battlefield,.

‘So even a meteor didn’t do much?’

Jareth is now sure of the fact that even if he used the ‘Attack Enhancement Card’ he still can’t beat this dragon.

With his current abilities, Jareth can surely launch an attack that is much stronger than the one he created in Artavia with the help of a grade-1 mage and four grade-2 mages.

The attack they created in Artavia was not only boosted by the power of several mages; it was also boosted by Jareth’s mana singularity and even had the amplification boost from the night witch grimoire along with the attack enhancement card.

‘We were able to break the space-time fabric with that attack, but the area was too small… If I use an attack enhancement card, I can certainly break the space-time fabric, but the area will not be much bigger either…’

‘This dragon is just too big; that attack will barely be able to injure a small portion of it even if used…’

‘I need something that can directly target this dragon as a whole…’

While contemplating in his head, Jareth wasn’t sitting idle at all; he was launching many strong attacks, one after another, on the bone dragon.

But just like before, they barely left a few scratches on its bones and didn’t do much damage.

*Boom*

The bone dragon did a claw attack and pounced at Jareth like a lion, but Jareth immediately utilized his float magic to dodge the attack in mid-air.

He has already placed a massive mana detection field in this area and has also boosted his mana fluctuation sensitivity.

Every time this dragon moves, its miasma collides with the mana in the air, creating mana fluctuations.

Although they are very small and nearly untraceable mana fluctuations, Jareth can sense them with the help of mana singularity and increased mana fluctuation sensitivity.

Thus, he could easily dodge the attacks of the bone dragon, as he could detect them the very moment the dragon moved even a single inch.

It’s like Jareth has some kind of ‘Dodge Hack’ placed on his body; he can dodge all of the dragon’s attacks before the other party’s attacks are even half-way to actually attacking.

The bone dragon has long lost its mind to corruption, and it can’t make strategies or perform coordinated, proper attacks.

It’s just a beast with an overly resistant body who only does things purely on instinct.

The most basic instinct of an abyss dragon is to destroy everything, as they are literal incarnations of terror and destruction.

And because its body and mind have rotted away, leaving only this instinct in its bones, it will continue to rage wildly until it dies.

The overly defensive body of this bone dragon rendered Jareth’s attacks useless, despite his ability to easily dodge the attacks of this mindless beast.

The situation between Jareth and Konda is that neither of them is able to harm each other, and the fight has entered a stalemate.

Whenever Konda tries to attack Jareth, he flies away and attacks from a different angle, but no results are created from those attacks.

This back-and-forth battle of fighting like crazy kept going and going endlessly.

Three days and three nights passed by, and Jareth kept replenishing his mana from the surroundings forcefully and kept bombarding the dragon while the dragon kept jumping at him and even swung its tail to attack.

The two of them battled from near Bastille to hundreds of kilometers away; they fought on the ground and in the air; hundreds of gigantic cracks were left on the ground, and the desert became even more of a wasteland than it already was.

Although Jareth did his best to contain the miasma and corruption, the endless battle started to cause mental stress, and he stopped caring about the corruption on the ground.

Jareth’s expression remained as cold as always, but the battle kept going.

This battle was so fierce and terrifying that the phrase “The heavens were pierced and the earth was shattered…” seems to fit it perfectly.

But these three days weren’t for nothing.

Jareth finally seemed to have figured out a way.

‘Although I don’t know if this method will actually work but… I have nothing else left in my arsenal… I have already fired all types of magic that I know on it…’

Jareth suddenly flew up towards the sky, glanced down at Konda, and then spoke.

“Konda! Don’t you think that the weather is quite nice today?”

The dragon had already lost its mind long ago, so it couldn’t understand Jareth’s words. It opened its jaws and used sound waves to create a roar.

*ROOOOARRRRRR!!!*

Jareth wasn’t intimidated by that roar; instead, a smirk appeared on his face.

‘Got you!’

The dark clouds in the sky shone with purple thunder, and a massive bolt of thunder was launched towards Konda.

‘In these three days, I have been purposely wandering, trying to fight in the sky, as I was analyzing the composition of the thunder in the sky…’

Jareth started to analyze the thunder in the sky as soon as he entered this desert of chaotic thunder.

He knew that the thunder here has the power of the ‘Laws’ of the world in it, and he can learn more about the ‘laws’ by analyzing this thunder.

He declared to Mark and Risa that he was bringing them here for their training, but in truth, he came here to train himself, not them.

‘This is it… I will gamble it all on this one move…’