Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 178

Chapter 178: To The Snowy North… Part-2.
President’s Residence,

Garden, Near the Teleportation Altar.

Sitting on a chair near the teleportation altar, Jareth was waiting for the maintenance staff to make some final adjustments to the teleportation altar.

This teleportation altar will transport him directly to the northernmost city, eliminating the need for him to exert any additional effort to fly to the north.

While Jareth was sipping tea, waiting patiently, a knight wearing silver armor walked over to his side.

She was holding her helmet in one hand and some papers in another.

With a frown on her face, she handed over the papers to Jareth.

“These are the documents the staff asked me to hand over to you…”

Jareth nodded his head and took the papers and skimmed through all the information recorded in them.

‘Ah, no wonder they haven’t been able to deal with this incident until now; I remember this thing from the game…’

‘It’s one of the most notorious sidequests, which takes a lot of time to complete…’

There are several floating islands near the northern cities of the empire. These floating islands are mostly empty, and only a few of them have anything on them beside random trees and plants.

But the biggest island of them all has a massive dungeon on it, filled with extremely deadly traps and metal golems. For the average golem, there is a peak grade-2 enemy.

There are many grade-1 mini-bosses inside, and the final boss is a peak grade-1 too.

‘The quest to clear this dungeon was extremely long, and I remember that most players wrote hate comments about this quest…’

The main reason for the hate was that despite having float magic, the players couldn’t fly high enough to reach that island in the game.

Thus they had to go through a very long and difficult quest to unlock teleportation altars.

First, you will get teleported to the smallest island.

Then you would need to make your way up to the highest island, which is the final and biggest island, all while avoiding massive laser beams fired by the defense mechanisms of the central island.

If you get hit even once, you will directly fall down and die in an instant. And as this place was very buggy in the game.

If you fell, all your items that should have been in your inventory will get stuck in the sky due to the bug when the character falls.

And even if you make it to the final island, there’s no save point there; if you die in the dungeon, you will have to repeat the whole process all over again.

To clear the dungeon, you need to carry many buff items and equipment’s in the inventory; thus, if you fall from being hit by the laser, you will lose all items, and as there’s no save point on the island, you will have to take this risk over and over.

‘I remember that barely any of the players had completed this quest, as it was just too difficult, and only those who had no life and no jobs had the time and energy to invest so much effort in it.’

Jareth himself never completed this quest and gave up on it after losing nearly all his precious equipment once.

The quest itself is not that difficult; if the developers had placed a save point on the island and had fixed the bug in the sky, then this quest would have become a thousand times easier.

But the developers never fixed these issues.

In fact, they said only two words to the players who were complaining, ‘Git Gud!’.

Those two words were enough to make the whole fanbase shut up their mouths and accept their own defeat.

In fact, instead of fixing the bugs, the developers enhanced the laser’s firing speed to torture the players even more.

It was so outrageous that unless you put some hacks or cheating methods in place, you will not be able to complete this quest without losing your sanity.

Thinking about that time, Jareth couldn’t help but feel nostalgic.

‘Ah, those days of being turned into a sieve by the lasers and cursing at the developers for their crimes…’

Jareth nodded his head and placed the papers in his space ring, then he glanced at the lady knight and was a bit surprised.

‘Hmm, wait, I remember seeing this character somewhere in the game…’

‘Oh yes! Isn’t she Jui Qeiy!?’

Jui is a mid-game villain-type character.

According to the lore she’s a former subordinate of Mark’s mother. She can basically be considered Mark’s aunt, as his mother thinks of her as a sister instead of a subordinate.

She’s that overly doting aunt-type character who dotes on Mark like crazy, and she was one of the few people who directly dared to try to assassinate Allen, the protagonist.

Mark didn’t like Allen, and the two were eternal rivals. Jui took it in her own hands to assassinate Allen and get rid of him for Mark.

And as everyone might already have expected, she met her end due to the protagonist.

Any beautiful women that Allen likes only have two endings: either they enter his harem or they die tragically and get considered a villain.

This is basically the heavenly luck saying, ‘If you don’t want to help the protagonist then f*ck off and die!’

…

“I am Jui Qeiy, a knight; I have been assigned to accompany you on this mission…”

She didn’t even bother saying any greetings like ‘Nice to meet you’ or anything; she just stated her name and purpose and then went silent again while trying her best to not show an irritated look on her face.

Jareth knew the reason behind her annoyance.

She hates Grade-1 mages as a whole.

First of all, her master, whom she swore her loyalty to, ended up marrying Reynald and retiring, leaving her behind to fend for herself.

Reynald himself is a selfish person and doesn’t bother respecting anyone at all; his rude behaviors and carelessness in raising Mark made Jui resentful of him.

Then Jui also served as an escort for Nathan once and got to see his dark side with her own eyes, so now she has a very bad opinion of grade 1 mages.

In her opinion, all grade 1 mages are corrupt and bad people. Hanging around with them is not a good idea.

And Jui is not wrong in this matter either; all grade-1 mages are more or less mentally different from others.

They have seen the reality of the world, and thus their thought process is different. In their eyes, life is insignificant and worthless, as the world is already doomed from the beginning.

No one can understand the mentality of the grade-1 mages unless they become grade-1 themselves; only by knowing the reality of this world will you know why all grade-1 mages are so selfish and weird people.

Reynald finds entertainment in growing his wealth and family power; Nathan finds entertainment in doing random weird research.

They both don’t have bigger goals, as they both know that there’s no point in helping the nation or anyone else, as everything is meant for doom anyway.

It’s better to just cater to yourself and enjoy the little time you have left to live.

Jareth finished the tea and got up from his seat.

“Good, then I will be relying on you for a few things, Ms. Jui…”

Jareth doesn’t care what Jui thinks or what resentments she has; he has nothing to do with them.

All he needs to do is complete his own motives; there’s no point in worrying about what others think of him.

Ignoring the piercing gaze of Jui, Jareth stepped on the altar and got ready to head towards the north.

…

Meeting Room.

Standing on the balcony, the president sighed as he saw Jareth and Jui leave via the teleportation altar.

“Er, president, was it really a good idea to send Ms. Jui with him… You also know that she hates working with Grade 1 mages…”

Hearing the secretary’s words, the president sighed again and replied in a helpless tone,

“We only have her at our disposal who has experience working with Grade-1 mages; if we send anyone else, they won’t even be able to keep up with the pressure of a Grade-1 mage…”

“Although she has resentment for them, she also knows her own boundaries. She made it back alive after arguing with the king and the former principal despite being so much weaker than them…”

“That proves she has her own ways… I believe she’s the best candidate for this task… Others will faint on the spot if Jareth just glared at them once…”

The secretary sighed at those words and spoke in a concerned voice.

“I just hope she doesn’t end up pissing him off; otherwise, he might even attack the parliament…”

The president shook his head at those words and replied in a rather vague tone,

“No… If he wanted, he could have just forcefully taken the token; he agreed to the request we made; that just shows he isn’t someone with no moral sense…”

“Unlike the former principal Nathan, he has a bottom line at least…”

It turns out that the president has mistaken Jareth for a decent person.

Jareth’s actions of saving Bastille and helping the nation have caused many people to misunderstand that he’s a good person.

If they had seen Jareth use his torture methods, they wouldn’t have dared to think of Jareth as a benevolent good person.

By now there’s so many misunderstandings revolving around Jareth that he himself has given up on clearing them up.

They just keep getting more and more outrageous, and Jareth feels completely dumbfounded whenever he opens the social media apps and sees weird reels circulating everywhere.

Some people don’t even know his real surname but know him as ‘Jareth the goat’. That has literally become his surname in their opinion.