Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 185

Chapter 185: The Abyss Altar… Part-3.
Jareth told the bald man to go and report the matter of the teleporting miasmic corruption because he already knew what the ministers would choose.

They will follow Jareth’s words and won’t agree to destroying the only entrance they have for the Abyss Altar.

Instead they will choose to hire mages and warriors that will be responsible for purifying the teleportation Altar from time to time.

This is one of the missions you can get in the game too.

If you don’t go to the Abyss Altar Area illegally and choose to stay away from this completely optional area.

Then you can do this mission of helping the government cleanse and purify the miasmic corruption in the teleportation Altar from time to time.

This is a repeatedly occurring quick event type mission and you can do it every once in a while to earn generous awards.

Also Jareth gave this advice so that the ministers choose to hold on to their plans on the teleportation Altar till he comes back.

Humans are selfish people after all, the ministers might end up making the decision of destroying the altar and end up doing it before Jareth even returns back to the surface.

That way Jareth will lose his only reliable exit from the Abyss Altar Area and he would then need to find another one that might not be as reliable as this.

‘The members of the False Dome Cult likely used some other unreliable entrance to the Abyss Altar too, they likely didn’t go from this entrance for sure…’

If the False Dome Cult members had come to the capital city, Jareth would have noticed them easily as his mana detection usually scans the city for them from time to time.

Jareth is always ready for them to come nowadays and he will not hesitate to counterattack in times of need.

‘If the False Dome Cult members had come here then they would have needed the token to open the final protective wall…’

That protective wall is enhanced with a magic barrier casted by the First King himself. And the protection warrior extends in all directions and protects the hall from all directions so that none can enter it without the token

Even Jareth would have needed several days to crack this barrier even with his mana singularity let alone those people from the False Dome Cult.

If they had come here there would have traces of modification on the barrier but it’s still okay that means they never came here.

“Here, this is the contact information… just give me a message when you return and I will come back to escort you…”

The Bald man gave Jareth his contact information and Jareth added it to his own smartphone, then he handed over the token to the bald man and the man left the hall and closed the door from outside.

Seeing that the other party was gone, Jareth shook his head.

‘Good thing I didn’t bring anyone else with me… they would have just held me back…’

Miasmic corruption is a very powerful thing and it can turn even the most strong willed person into its own slave.

Even the bald man who’s a strong warrior can’t withstand its side effects for long and had to use strong artifacts to keep himself safe.

Jareth glanced at the corrupted Altar and thought to himself.

‘My this life would be so much better if not for miasma… it’s really a hateful thing…sigh~’

[Mana command: Mana Purification!]

Jareth forced the mana in the surroundings to directly cleanse the miasma in the teleportation Altar so that he can use it without it malfunctioning.

Then he embedded his mana in the teleportation Altar and the magic circle lit up brightly, teleporting him away to his destination.

…

Forgotten City, Upper Grounds.

The Vast Barren Lands.

‘Its been a while… ‘The land of Banes and terror’…’

When Jareth opened his eyes, he found himself standing inside the broken ruins of a building and even the teleportation Altar he was standing on was charred black in color.

The familiar dark fog was lingering around everywhere in the distance and the environment was dark, dim and depressive.

Jareth was using his mana shield to block the miasmic fog from harming him so he couldn’t feel it, but the air was completely dry and had no moisture in it.

It was completely devoid of oxygen and everywhere you looked there was no source of brightness.

Jareth glanced at the sky and found that there was no sky above, only a massive rocky ceiling held in place by semi-grade-0 magic.

‘No wonder stones and debris fall from the sky when you travel in this area in the game.’

‘The semi-grade-0 magic holding the ceiling of this place is getting corrupted by miasma and its grasp over the ceiling is loosening…’

‘Eventually the whole Abyss Altar Area will collapse onto itself once the spell completely loses its effect and then this area will be forever buried underground…’

Although it’s never explained properly in the game, Jareth can already assume that this Abyss Altar Area is located deep underground right below the capital city Delta.

In other words, once this place collapses, the city above ground will also collapse and get destroyed along with it.

In the game, the player couldn’t notice all this but right now Jareth can see the existence of the semi-grade-0 magic on the ceiling and that’s why he’s speculating all this.

‘Still, with the way things are… the spell can still hold on for another few decades… the sea of miasma is still the most pressing cause of concern…’

Even Jareth can’t repair this magic on the ceiling right now as it will take a lot of time and he doesn’t have the time to be playing hero right now.

Jareth is not a selfless protagonist, he isn’t going to waste his precious time trying to save people from this eventual doom, as a selfish person, he’s going to focus on his own plans first.

Even the First King must have needed several decades to create the whole Abyss Altar Area.

So, it will take Jareth several months or even years to repair all the magic circles on the ceiling.

Thinking about this one might question why the First King even created a dangerous place like this in the first place.

‘No… what he created wasn’t the Abyss Altar we see today… what he had created was a magnificent underground city filled with dreams and hope…’

‘Miasma has turned it into what it is today causing people to change its name to Abyss Altar Area and add it in the lists of Forbidden Areas…’

There aren’t many forbidden areas on this planet but each one is as unique as it is deadly.

Even this barren land corrupted and charred black with miasma once used to be a vast grassland filled with hope and expectation for the future.

When you defeat Konda in the game, what you get as a reward is a broken memory of the long gone time when this Forgotten City was a prosperous place.

The fall of the First King destroyed all hopes of this city and it turned into what we know today as the corrupted land.

Only a few thousand people managed to escape to the surface, most died and got turned hideous monsters that roam this barren land endlessly.

Miasma has a force evolution effect on living creatures and it molds them into twisted mindless beats according to its own liking.

Not only is the process immensely painful, but the result is also horrible.

Once turned into that kind of monster, you are destined to roam around endlessly with no one to share your suffering and no way to elevate yourself from it.

‘Their situation is similar to the people from that book back in my previous life on incomprehensible horrors…’

Jareth shook his head and sighed to himself.

He didn’t dwell on this matter for too long and cast float magic to head in the east direction first.

Although he has no maps to guide him right now, he roughly remembers the directions he needs to head towards to find his way.

After all even in the game he had to try dozens of times to finally find the next save point and that caused him to remember the general direction properly.

He flew into the sky and noticed that the dark fog on the ground immediately obstructed his view.

‘Ugh… I forgot you can’t find your way here by flying high above… the dark fog will block your vision…’

Also Jareth has to save his mana, the whole Abyss Altar is completely void of mana.

Only miasma exists in the surroundings here, there’s no way to replenish mana from the air.

This is one of the main reasons why people have declared this place as a forbidden area.

A normal mage would need to keep his mana shield up constantly when they are here, which means they will keep using their own mana bit by bit and will eventually run out of it with no way to recover it.

That’s why you can’t travel in this place for longer time periods and staying for a small time is already a big challenge for weak people.

If you don’t defend yourself with mana then the miasma will corrupt you and turn you into a horribly twisted beast too.