Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 176

Chapter 176: The Underground Lab… Part-2.
Jareth walked inside the lab and reached towards a container made up of magically enhanced glass.

[Basic Magic: Float!]

Opening the large container lid with float magic, Jareth poured all of the blue crystals into that specially prepared container.

‘Good thing I already bought high-quality blue rhino blood to store these crystals…’

The blue rhino blood is transparent in color, just like water, and is one of the highest-quality liquids that can preserve mana crystals and various other highly sensitive metals in top condition.

‘The space rings in this world are very weak…’

The biggest problem is that time works normally even in Jareth’s system space, and even the space rings only slow down time by barely a small margin.

Thus, putting these blue crystals into the system space and the space rings is not a good idea.

There are only a handful of mages in this world who can even use time magic, and most of them end up becoming favorite employees of the space ring forging companies.

Although they have high-paying jobs, the workload is also immense.

They have to cast time-slowing spells on each space ring that is forged in the factory personally, so the process is not only slow; it also puts a lot of burden on the mage.

Moreover, using time magic has a lot of restrictions, and most time magic users don’t even make it past grade 5 in their whole life as there’s simply not enough research done in that area.

Most mages learn spells that were invented long ago and were researched and improved by many people over time.

That’s the reason why fire magic is considered the strongest in this world, despite there being other powers like space and time.

Fire magic was the first type of magic that humanity learned, and countless people have researched and improved the fire spells over many generations and centuries.

Fire magic is the most researched and advanced branch of magic in today’s world.

On the other hand, there has barely been any research in time magic.

It’s not that people don’t want to do research and improve; it’s just that there’s not enough people to conduct research on.

Only one person among a million mages has time affinity; it’s extremely rare, and most people who awaken time affinity don’t have high potential either.

So they can barely use low-grade spells and can only work as space ring-making wizards to earn money.

This is also the reason why space rings are so expensive; there’s just not enough people who are capable of making them.

The demand for the space rings is high, but the supply is too low.

‘Even if the supply is improved, the quality of these space rings is just too low…’

There’s not a single-time type magician in this world who is above grade-4, which means at most only an intermediate-level space ring can be created in this world.

Creating ‘Advanced’ or ‘Master’ level space rings that can directly slow down time by half or ever eighty percent than normal is just a pipe dream and is not possible.

Unless a grade-1 time mage appears and personally creates a space ring, Jareth can’t rely on the space rings to store the blue crystals.

‘It’s much more cost-effective to store the crystals in this specially prepared preservative… At least it can suppress the quality of the crystals from degrading too fast…’

These blue crystals were stuck underground, and there was nothing to preserve them from degrading; their power was leaking every day, and that leaking power was what caused those blue-shining lights on the central lake of Bastille.

If someone had put these crystals in a preservative, like Jareth has done now, the power leak would have been suppressed greatly, and these crystals would have been of higher quality than semi-grade 0 now.

‘Well, if there really was someone who knew the true value of these crystals, they would have rather hidden it somewhere extremely well, and I wouldn’t have been able to get my hands on them…’

‘In one way or another, these crystals being located in that hidden mine was a good thing for me…’

Just one of these blue crystals is precious enough to be sold at an extremely high price.

Jareth can buy the whole country with these blue crystals alone. The value of these crystals is equal to the whole wealth of the human empire, which is currently the richest nation on this planet.

‘To think that such precious treasures are now being placed in my lab as test materials is really something unique…’

If people outside knew that Jareth was planning on using these precious crystals as experiment materials, they would shed tears of blood and curse at him and his whole bloodline like crazy.

These crystals are indeed precious, but Jareth doesn’t care about them.

When it comes to rescuing himself from the never-ending agony of corruption, monetary value holds no significance for him.

‘If there was no such thing as the sea of miasma, I would have sold a few of the crystals to buy major companies, and then I would have directly retired from my job…’

With such immense wealth in his hand, Jareth would have lived a life of luxury and peace.

But things always don’t go the way you want them to; even with such precious treasures in his hand, Jareth can only forget about an easy life and try his best to survive.

‘A momentary feeling of success is not worth getting tortured for eternity…’

…

After submerging all the blue liquids in that large glass container, Jareth put the lid back on it and sealed the whole container with a mana barrier.

‘Now, unless someone has the power to manipulate the laws of the world, it’s near impossible to destroy the barrier, thus the crystals can stay safely here for the time being…’

‘Even when I am away on missions, no one will be able to take these crystals even if they make it to this lab safely…’

Jareth has not seen a single NPC in the game who had ‘Mana Singularity’; only players liked to use it, so he’s not worried that someone will come and steal these crystals.

And even if the other party did manage to steal them somehow, Jareth has already placed a small trace of his own mana singularity on these crystals; he can track them as long as he’s in a 500-kilometer radius of them.

Aside from the crystals, Jareth also placed the bottle containing the fairy powder on a nearby shelf and sealed it with a mana barrier too.

The benevolent fairy powder and the crystals are both great treasures that can be sold for insane amounts of wealth.

But these two are not the biggest treasures in his lab; the biggest treasure are the research notes of the previous Jareth.

The other party poured all his genius into researching how much mana can affect atoms of the world and in what conditions mana can cause the atoms to disintegrate.

The original Jareth failed to accomplish any great results in this research, and all he achieved was tons of failures and test results that showed no results at all.

His notes are filled with the various failed test results, and there is not a single point of success in them.

Even Nathan did more research in the past three years on this matter, but there doesn’t seem to be much progress.

However, despite being nothing but records of failure, these few books, sheets of paper, and diagrams are enough to make any scientist tremble in shock.

Any experienced scientist can see how extraordinary this research is. If this thing can be studied and a successful result is created, humanity as a whole will be able to progress further.

Once you find the proper ratio of mana that can be used to break the atom and create energy out of it while also preventing radiation, you can literally create the most clean and efficient fuel in this world.

Mana can also be used as fuel, but the number of mana crystals on this planet is finite, and creating mana crystals artificially is very ineffective.

You would consume twice the energy to condense mana and create mana crystals than it can be produced from that mana crystal.

This inefficiency has caused many companies to abandon artificial mana crystal production altogether.

But everything could have been changed for the better if the research of the original Jareth was completed successfully.

If a proper ratio is found, then a device can be created that can burst atoms by using that set mana circuit while emitting a set amount of mana.

This will create a thousand times more energy than the energy used to burst the atom.

All you need is to measure the mana ratio needed.

And everything fell apart at this very step; not only Jareth but even Nathan failed to grasp this ratio.

The original Jareth already knew that his mana control was lacking for such a minute and precise task, so he decided to hand over this task to Nathan, thinking that the mana control of a grade-1 mage would be enough to do this.

But even that speculation was wrong.

Even Nathan was not able to control mana to such a minute and precise level.

That’s where ‘Mana singularity’ comes into play; this is the only skill in the world that can influence mana in the most efficient way.

In other words, only someone with this legendary skill is capable of completing this research that started from the original Jareth and now has reached his hands.

‘Now it’s up to me to create success from this tome that is filled with failures…’