Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 182

Chapter 182: The Gap in Ambitions…
President’s Residence, Garden.

The teleportation circle on the altar lit up, and Jareth and Jui appeared on it together.

The president and the rest of the group were already standing there in wait.

He stretched out his hand for a handshake, and Jareth also didn’t deny it.

“Good work, Mr. Jareth; it seems I underestimated your capabilities vastly. If I had known that you were this strong, I wouldn’t have needed to worry about your well-being…”

“Haha, here, have this token; it’s yours to use now…”

The president didn’t delay at all; he directly handed over the token to Jareth the very moment Jareth came back from the north.

He needs to go and assign a lot of people to collect those mana stones that fell from the island; there’s not much time, or they will be buried beneath snow if too much time passes.

The president is also in a hurry due to this exact reason.

“By the way, Mr. Jareth, can you tell us more if you know anything about that bone dragon? Is it perhaps related to your trip to the abyss altar?”

By asking those questions, the president wanted to find out the reason why Jareth was so adamant on going to such a dangerous area.

Unless there’s a solid reason for it, no sane person would like to go to that horrible place.

The central island of the floating pearls was definitely a difficult to conquer dungeon, but that dungeon never harmed anyone outside, and it never created any dungeon waves either.

Thus, it won’t harm you unless you manage to get too close to it.

But the Abyss Altar Area is completely different. It’s a literal hell-hole with weird and twisted creatures inhabiting the land.

Just looking at it once is enough to make ordinary people lose their sanity.

“Well, my trip there is indeed related to the bone dragon and the ‘False Dome’ cult too… I will reveal more about it at a press conference after I come back…”

After hearing that reply, the president bid farewell to Jareth and went back to his meeting room to work with the ministers to sort out who will get how much share of the money earned from the mana crystals.

Of course Jareth will get the most of it.

Seeing that the president had left, Jareth nodded his head towards Jui as a farewell greeting and then flew away into the sky and headed towards the university without even waiting for her response.

After everyone left, only Jui was left alone, and seeing that no one seemed to have cared about her presence, she gritted her teeth and went back home with a sore look on her face.

It turns out she didn’t do any work, so she will barely earn anything from this trip, which made her feel annoyed.

She glared at the sky and shouted in her mind,

‘Curse you, world!! I hereby vow, you will suffer one day!!’

…

Evening, Ivan’s higher arcane university.

Principal’s office.

Thomas sighed, and a solemn look appeared on his face.

“So, you are heading to the abyss altar to figure out what the False Dome cult is conspiring?”

“But isn’t this too risky?”

In the first place, Jareth and the others had gone to the desert of chaotic thunder just to figure out what the False Dome Cult was planning in that place.

Although all that was Jareth’s lie, the appearance of Konda turned it into a truth automatically.

“It’s not that difficult as you think…”

Now the False Dome cult is definitely responsible for all the mess that Konda created in the desert of chaotic thunder.

Thankfully, Jareth defeated it; otherwise, the cult would have succeeded in destroying the nodes of the false dome seal much faster.

In the book, there was a mention of a key that could be used to open the seal from inside.

But no one knows where that so-called key is or what it looks like; it could even be a random piece of stone; finding it is near impossible.

‘The False Dome Cult likely couldn’t find that key either; that’s why they are likely using the power of that demon god and trying to slowly break nodes that are already very weak…’

‘Once they break four of them, the whole seal will fall apart on its own without even needing to deal with the rest three of them…’

In truth, there are eight nodes to this seal, but that eighth one was broken long ago by the cult of Therath members.

And now that one has been broken by the false dome cult in the Abyss Altar Area, that means there’s only six more left.

If any three of the six are broken successfully, then the sea of miasma will get inside and destroy the rest on its own.

Aside from going to the Abyss Altar for finding rare materials, Jareth also has another goal in his mind.

He has to try and find out if he can recreate that broken node of the seal himself; if it’s possible to repair it, then it would be even better.

‘I need to at least give it a try; I will think about the results later…’

“I am planning on making it a quick trip; not only do I have amazing resistance to miasma, I can definitely keep myself safe in any situations…”

Hearing Jareth’s words, Thomas had no other words left to say.

He wanted to stop Jareth from going to such a different place not only as the principal of the university but also as a friend.

Thomas has already considered Jareth as a close friend who is reliable in times of need.

Now that Jareth has saved Bastille, Thomas thinks that Jareth is a genuinely decent person with a kind heart.

But this is just a misunderstanding on Thomas’s part.

He doesn’t know that not only Jareth doesn’t consider any of them as his friends, he didn’t even do anything for the sake of being a hero.

People are misunderstanding him as a kind person, but the truth is far from that.

“By the way, I leave training Mark and Risa in your hands in the meantime… Also, there’s an extra student now, but he will need a lot of work…”

Thomas nodded his head and replied,

“No worries, I will personally ask the professors to give him some extra classes to make up for his lack of knowledge…”

“If it’s someone you have chosen, I am sure that kid will definitely have a bright future and amazing talent…”

Thomas has a lot of trust in Jareth’s abilities; he has never seen Jareth fail in any task ever before.

Even when the odds are against him, you can always bet that Jareth would come out as a winner in the end.

After Jareth was done telling Thomas his general plans, he got up from the seat and decided to leave.

The reason he came over to tell Thomas about this is because he wants Thomas to take on the responsibility of teaching and protecting his three talented assets when he’s gone.

If not for them, Jareth would have already left for the Abyss Altar without even telling anyone about it.

Thomas suddenly handed over a talisman-like thing to Jareth and said with a smile,

“It’s a family heirloom of mine… Although it’s just an ordinary thing, it can function as a lucky charm; you can have it… Make sure you come back safe; you have to come back and hand it back to me with your own hands, okay?”

Jareth nodded his head and left after putting the lucky charm in his space ring.

Although he doesn’t care much about these small details, it’s always good to know that someone is waiting for you to return safely.

Although Shiina is not present in this life to accompany him, he has at least found a few people who can be considered somewhat trustworthy, even as mere acquaintances.

Jareth maybe doesn’t consider them friends, but they sure do consider him a friend after going through so many battles with him.

‘Sigh, he’s become stronger again…’

Staring at the ceiling of the office, Thomas sighed to himself after Jareth left.

Originally, he used to think that he was the strongest among the thirteen grade-2 professors in the whole university.

Jareth dispelled his misunderstanding when he demonstrated his power and killed a wyvern in a single attack.

Less than a year has passed since then, and Jareth has become even stronger than that time, and he himself is still stuck in the same place.

Just yesterday he saw Jareth smash that floating island to bits easily with one attack, and Thomas also noticed that video online.

At that moment, he realized that the gap between them has become much bigger than ever before.

Jareth has become someone who belongs to a completely different world compared to him and the rest of the professors.

‘Ugh, if only I was a bit more talented, I could have ascended to grade 1 fast too… Sigh, maybe this is the difference between an average person like me and a genius like him…’

Jareth’s amazing feats can only be considered something that only a genius could achieve; ordinary talents like Thomas and Shin can’t compare to him in this matter.

‘Well, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming the principal of the university… I am already very satisfied with it… Maybe that’s the reason why I have lost that ‘Spark’ of genius…’

Shin is also the same; his lifelong goal was to have a happy and peaceful life with his family, and he has already achieved it; that’s why he’s also not making any progress.

They are not putting in much effort for improvement as they have already achieved what they want to.

As they say,

{Only those with great ambitions can progress farther than others…} (Source: Trust me bro…)