Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 172

Chapter 172: Flames of Destruction… Part-2.
‘First, let’s buy the attack enhancement card; I might end up needing it in the future anytime…’

[Ding! Are you sure you want to buy ‘Attack Enhancement Card (Advanced)’?]

[Yes or No]

‘Yes’

Jareth already has enough credit points to support the purchase of both the attack card and the golden lottery, so there was no need to hold back.

[Ding! Congratulations, you have received an ‘Attack Enhancement Card (Advanced)’!]

[-4000 CP]

After finishing that, Jareth looked at the golden lottery and took a deep breath to calm his mind.

‘Although I know now that there is basically no such thing in the golden lottery that can be considered useless, but still, I want things that can be of immediate benefit to me…’

‘If I got something like a strong sword or something, it won’t be of any use to me; I will need to give that weapon to someone else instead, which would be quite the loss…’

Currently, although Jareth has become stronger, he’s still nothing in front of the power of the laws; he needs more time to develop.

The power of the laws is something that you can’t just understand and control in one day or two.

Even though Jareth figured out how to control the thunder in the desert area, he was barely just able to modify it in the slightest.

He can’t actually command the law of thunder like how he commands his mana singularity.

His mastery over it isn’t that high; moreover, he has no affinity for thunders anyway, so it’s a waste of time to be trying to really learn how to command thunder.

Without high enough thunder affinity, he will never be able to grasp the true core nature of the law of thunder, even with the help of mana singularity.

‘Actually, ever since I got this system, it has been giving me things that I need the most at the moment… So I am sure I will get something that’s useful for me…’

May it be fate or something else, Jareth has been getting things that could improve his situation.

When he didn’t have the original body’s memory, he got the newbie pack that gave him memories of the original body.

Then he got the attack enhancement card that resolved his immediate crises of dealing with the wyvern.

Afterwards, he was aiming to become stronger and got mana singularity, which directly improved him tremendously.

Getting mana singularity was a turning point for him.

Before getting it, he was relying on just his attack enhancement cards and random luck to survive.

But if he hadn’t gotten mana singularity, he would have long died in the hands of those two death squad twins who came to the university specially to assassinate him.

Even if he had used the attack card on them, the two of them wouldn’t have completely died as they were blessed with the power of miasma.

Only the way of continuous bombardment and massive miasma repelling was more useful on them.

In other words, from the start, this system has been supporting him with exactly the right things that he needed for the moment.

‘Except for that one time when I got that questionable forbidden spell…’

[Ding! Are you sure you want to buy a golden lottery?]

[Yes or No]

‘Yes’

‘It’s time I use my luck-increasing ritual that I haven’t had to use since the Heian era; didn’t think I will need it today…’

‘Oh, god of thieves and gamblers, bless me with luck, and my life is yours!!’

Jareth rubbed his hands to pray, and as if the system really heard his pleas, he indeed got something really useful today.

[Ding! Congratulations! You have received the ‘Affinity Improvement Card (Advanced)’!]

Although Jareth’s expression was still as cold as ever, he was already crying tears of happiness in his mind.

‘Ah, it’s indeed true; this system is really working according to what I need the most!’

Jareth wasn’t sure about the origins of this system, but he knew one thing: that without this system, he couldn’t have reached his current heights so fast at all.

If Jareth didn’t have the system, he wouldn’t have survived the very first event anyway, so he has nothing to complain about it.

Currently, the one thing that Jareth was lacking the most was his fire affinity.

He indeed has basic magic that is very strong, but basic magic doesn’t have many spells that can be used for offense.

Most of the time, Jareth has to use mana beams and mana bombs; that’s all he has in his arsenal.

In fact, the battle with Konda has taught him that if he one day met someone who is completely immune to basic magic, then Jareth will have no way to fight and he will be defeated extremely easily.

‘Let’s not delay now…’

[Ding! Are you sure you want to use the ‘Affinity Enhancement Card (Advanced) on your Fire Affinity?]

[Warning! This action will cause great changes in the strings of destiny and might lead to dangerous situations!]

[Warning! This action will attract the prying eyes of many great beings across the universe!]

[Warning! This action will cause great destruction in the nearby area!]

[Warning! This action may cause great pain to the user’s body!]

[Do you still want to continue?]

[Yes or No!]

Just when Jareth thought that improving his affinity would be just an ordinary matter, he was bombarded with several warnings one after another.

‘So many warnings at once!? What the!? It’s not like I am launching a nuclear missile on innocent civilians; I am just trying to improve my fire affinity here…’

There were no such warnings in the game, so Jareth has no idea what’s going on here.

The very first warning is that if Jareth used the card to improve his fire affinity, it would change the strings of destiny.

‘Actually, wouldn’t that be a good thing for me? The more changes there are in the strings of destiny, the more credit points I will be able to earn in the future…’

In Jareth’s opinion, this was actually a beneficial thing for him, so he directly ignored this warning.

This same warning had appeared before too, but aside from Konda appearing out of nowhere, not many great difficulties have come his way.

‘Ah, yes, that incarnation of the demon god could also be considered something that I caused with my butterfly effects…’

The second warning would have been the real problem, actually.

The prying eyes of great beings would have caused Jareth a lot of trouble as all his actions would have been monitored by those so-called great beings.

But now that Jareth knows that this planet is surrounded by the sea of miasma, there’s no need to worry about this matter.

The seal of the false dome will hide this matter anyway, so there is no need to care about this warning either.

As for the third and fourth warnings, Jareth already has distanced himself enough; no one will get harmed as it’s just barren desert near him, and only the last warning will cause trouble for him.

‘Ugh, it seems I will be suffering a lot of pain next…’

Jareth gritted his teeth, and a look of determination flashed by in his eyes.

‘No pain, no gain… For a better chance of survival in the future, the pain I suffer right now doesn’t matter…’

If Jareth didn’t succeed in escaping, his soul will be caught in the sea of miasma, and he will suffer eternal torture.

Suffering immense pain now for a limited time is a much better option than suffering for an eternity.

After making up his mind, Jareth decided to finally use the card.

‘Yes’.

[Ding! You have used the Affinity Enhancement Card (Advanced)!]

[Ding! Your fire affinity will be improved to the extreme levels!]

At that moment, Jareth’s whole body started to heat up to a very high degree.

His body became so hot that he was sweating buckets.

All of a sudden, the mana in the air also started to turn into fire and rush towards him.

The temperature in the area started to get hot at an insane pace.

Shin, who was standing in the distance, immediately sensed the situation and cast a massive shield to protect himself and the others.

Even Aria helped to strengthen that barrier with her mana so as to avoid any dangers.

Jareth’s skin seemed to have caught fire at that moment, and an insane amount of fire elementals were rushing towards him at the moment.

The sky turned red from that heat, and the sand on the ground turned into molten lava.

Shin and the others had to close their eyes as Jareth was now emitting extremely bright light.

It was as if Jareth had turned into the center of a nuclear explosion.

The ground was turned into molten lava for hundreds of meters; even the moisture in the air evaporated, making it extremely dry.

Yet the heat kept on getting more and more terrifying.

In the center of it all, Jareth was trying to scream in agony, but no words came out of his mouth as the fire elementals had blocked his senses at the moment.

It was as if his very soul was being burned by the flames. It was pure torture. Torture of the level that ordinary humans can’t survive for even a second.

Pain, suffering, regret. Jareth experienced all of them in that half an hour.

A massive tornado of flames rose in the sky, and the winds in the area became extremely chaotic.

Shin glanced at all this and shouted in shock.

“What the actual f*ck is happening!? I have never seen anyone create such a massive scene just to ascend a small realm!!”