Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 167

Chapter 167: A New Beginning for Bastille! Part-2.
Next Morning.

Hotel Grand Moon, Main Entrance.

Jareth woke up early today because he had a press conference to attend.

The fight with Konda was a big deal; even the government was alarmed, and the military was on the move. If Jareth himself doesn’t come out to say that he has dealt with the threat already, things will not settle down.

The chaos in the nation will hinder Jareth’s plan to find various important items and will likely change a lot of things that were in the original plot.

Although changing plots can earn Jareth a lot of credit points, Jareth’s real goal is not to earn credit points after all.

His goal is to create a stable wormhole.

If things change too much and become too unpredictable, not only will Jareth lose the advantage of having information about the future, but he will also lose various items as their location might change.

‘Well, I have always been ready for subtle changes; the biggest issue is that one of the seven nodes of the ‘False Dome Seal’ has been broken…’

Konda was located extremely close to the seal, and if this guy managed to escape the Abyss Altar area, then it only means one thing: that the seal node in that place has already been destroyed.

‘It’s likely the work of the False Dome cult… Although I don’t know how they found the location of the seals even without finding the hidden library, they likely already have the information in their hands.

‘This is very bad… Now that they have the initiative, they might attack any of the seals, and I might not be able to stop them…’

Originally, Jareth planned to visit all seals, strengthen them, and put up a very strong magic barrier around them with the help of his own mana singularity.

A magic barrier placed with the help of his mana singularity will be at the level of pseudo-grade 0, and to break such a barrier, even the False Dome cult will need a lot of time.

Moreover, once the barrier gets destroyed, Jareth will immediately find out about the other party’s location, and he can directly rush over to seize the opportunity and slaughter all members of the cult.

Jareth now has enough power, so he isn’t afraid; the moment he finds out the location of the False Dome members, he will slaughter them on the spot.

Currently, Jareth has the ability to disrupt the entire plan of the False Dome Cult if he discovers their whereabouts.

But the main problem is that he has no idea where these people are hiding.

Even with his insane mana detection skills, Jareth can’t scan the whole planet after all.

He doesn’t have that ability yet.

Of course, if he had ‘Mana Field’, he could have directly asked the ‘Law’ of mana to help him and guide him to his targets.

Mana is practically everywhere in the world, and if Mana helps him out, then nothing in the world can hide him at all.

This is the power of a ‘Law’; if not for the suppression of the endless sea of miasma, Jareth would have had this power in his grasp.

‘I will need to speed up things… If I don’t hurry, things will really get bad…’

As long as the cult is able to successfully destroy at least four of the seal’s nodes, miasma will start leaking at an unstoppable level.

Once four nodes are destroyed, the other three won’t have enough power to keep resisting the insane pressure brought by the endless sea of curroption.

The rest of the nodes will get corrupted at an astonishing rate, and the seal will break easily.

In other words, Jareth has to at least protect four nodes of the seal if he wants to stop the calamity.

Now that one has already been broken, the situation has already started to head towards a dire state.

The main problem in front of him is that no one in the current world knows how to repair this node.

The whole seal of the False Dome was created by that Golden King, and no one knows what methods he used to create the seal.

Even if Jareth has to reverse-engineer this seal, it will likely take him a few years; at least after all, the seal is just too big; it covers the whole solar system.

Even Jareth isn’t arrogant enough to think that he can reverse-engineer a seal that can cover the whole solar system in just a short time period.

…

While thinking about various countermeasures in his head, Jareth walked out of the hotel entrance gate and approached a luxurious car that was waiting outside.

The mayor personally opened the door of the car for Jareth.

Jareth patted the other party’s shoulder and said,

“I heard you did a good job protecting the citizens and keeping the chaos in the city calm… You are indeed worthy of your position, Mayor Zang…”

With that said, Jareth entered the car and waved his hand towards the mayor and asked him to enter the car too.

Although Mayor Zang really didn’t want to sit in the same car as this walking nuclear missile, he had no other choice.

He had to follow Jareth’s order, as he didn’t want the other party to get angry at him.

He sat beside Jareth and kept wiping the sweat from his face with the handkerchief.

These few days, Mayor Zang has sweated so much that he has lost half his weight by now.

He used to be a bit fat, but now he looks much thinner. Jareth’s aura is really quite a good power for people who want to reduce their weight.

“By the way, has there been anything unusual in the city lately?”

Upon hearing that abrupt question from Jareth, the mayor panicked and thought,

‘F*ck! Could it be that he found out I am purposely taking bribes from a lot of people!?’

“Er.. Unusual… ah! Come to think of it, several people recently reported that the central lake that always used to shine with bright bluish color under the moonlight has now stopped shining…”

“People have now become unable to ‘vividly’ remember their past memories, unlike before when sitting around the lake…”

Jareth nodded his head and replied with a calm voice.

“That bone dragon was lurking underground before it burst out from the ground near the dungeon… It is very likely that the bone dragon likely messed up with something that was important to the river…”

Jareth directly pushed the whole blame of this matter on Konda without even batting an eye; he’s really too good at manipulating facts.

The mayor also believed Jareth’s words without even a single shred of suspicion.

To him, the words spoken by an all-powerful grade-1 mage like Jareth are like the words of God; they are absolute.

Even if Jareth admitted that he was the one who caused this change, the mayor won’t dare to bother Jareth about it, as you can’t blame a ‘nuclear weapon’ for causing destruction.

Blaming a walking natural disaster for such trivial matters is like looking for your own death.

Even when the people came together to protest against Nathan back in the capital city, no one really dared to actually go and break inside the academy forcefully.

They’re all afraid of an absolute powerhouse, after all.

Even the nuclear weapons can’t kill Grade 1 mages, let alone these powerless ordinary people.

All that protest did was damage his reputation and demonstrate the attitude of the populace.

…

“Uh, I have been meaning to ask it… Do you have any information about the origin of that dragon… Not that I suspect you, sir, its just I need some information as I need to report things to my superiors…”

Mayor Zang was really in a desperate state right now.

His superiors are urging him to report everything related to the matter, but he doesn’t have the courage to just go and interrogate Jareth about the details.

Although this is just an official and harmless procedure, it would be him who would bear the consequences if Jareth got displeased by this matter of questioning him.

“Ah, yes… Don’t worry about it much; just tell your superiors that this bone dragon likely came from the ‘FA-AA’; they need to increase security…”

“Once you tell them about this, they will understand immediately and stop bothering you…”

Mayor Zang had no idea what this code word meant, but he didn’t dare to ask too many questions.

Jareth has already given him enough of an explanation; there was no need to pester the other party for a further explanation.

If Jareth’s words are true, then his superiors will figure things out on their own after hearing this code word; it doesn’t matter if he himself knows about it or not.

‘Sometimes knowing too much is also harmful to yourself; it’s better not to get involved in things that are not related to yourself..’

The mayor considered this in his mind and ceased his speech.

The mayor didn’t know that this was one of the best decisions of his life.

FA-AA stands for ‘Forbidden Area—Abyss Altar, and simply knowing about the existence of that area in itself is a curse.

That area contains the vilest and corrupted creatures of this world. It’s a land fully corrupted by miasma; just looking at that place once is enough to drive an ordinary person insane.

That place can easily corrode people’s minds and bodies and demonize them at an alarming speed.

Even in the game, that place was so difficult that the developers had no choice but to turn that area into an ‘optional’ place along with its boss monster, ‘Konda’.