Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 189

Chapter 189: The Nest… Part-4.
This inscription on the wall is the first clue and one of the biggest foreshadowing done by the Developers of the game.

This inscription literally screams, ‘Leave’ if you put your ear on it and try to listen to it carefully.

The reason being that the creator of the inscription wanted whoever came later to not go deeper into the forgotten city as it has that monstrosity sealed inside it.

If not for the fact that Jareth took the help of the ‘Laws’ of the world and killed Konda in one-shot, that beast would have proved to be a very troublesome foe.

Its rampage would have never ended and it would have become the cause of death for millions of people.

‘And after this corridor is the path…’

Jareth stepped forward and arrived on an open balcony like place located two stories high in a massive empty hall.

The hall was made up of the same glowing stones and there was miasmic mud filled in the hall.

‘Here comes the most annoying part of this journey…’

In the game, entering the hidden inscription corridor adds a new save point where you will respawn if you die afterwards.

Right outside the corridor is the ‘Pathway of Fools’.

Although this is not an official name given to this area by the game developers, it was very popular in the player’s community.

The reason was simple, although this path that leads to the inner areas of the ‘Nest’ has no enemies guarding it, it’s filled with traps and platforming challenges.

You need insane platforming skills to be able to complete this place.

Only simple minded ‘Fools’ who have dedicated their weeks and weeks of time on learning and adaptating to this path can finally complete it.

But that would mean you have completely given up on your ‘life’.

Thay where the name ‘The Path of Fools’ comes from.

There aren’t any casual gamers who have crossed this path, including Jareth, the only reason he has seen it all is because he watched the gameplay videos online that were made by speedrunners.

Even speedrunners needed days of hardwork to master it all though.

‘Here goes nothing…’

[Basic Magic: Maximum output: Mana Shield!]

[Basic Magic: Maximum Output: Float!]

Jareth put a lot of mana to boost his flying speed, he bent his knees and used his physical strength to give himself an extra explosive boost.

*BOOM*

As if a bullet had launched, a massive sonic boom was created and a strong shockwave spread everywhere which created cracks in the ground and the walls of the hall.

Jareth jumped in the air and flew forward like a bullet with an insane speed.

The miasmic mud also reacted at the very moment when Jareth entered the space above it.

*Boom*

Massive spears made up of condensed miamsa flew into the air to attack Jareth.

The whole miasmic mud in the giant hall became restless and thousands of spears flew in the air much faster than sound to attack Jareth.

But Jareth knew this was going to happen, that’s the reason why he had deployed his mana shield with maximum output and was using a lot of mana to boost his flying speed.

The speed of these spears is as fast an attack from a peak grade-1 mage and as there’s thousands of them, jumping above this miasmic mud would mean instant death unless you are in peak grade-1 realm or above.

Even Jareth was barely avoiding getting hit by those spears and a few dozens of them still hit his mana shield regardless of his insane speed.

Thankfully his mana shield is too strong and it wasn’t even scratched by those few attacks.

After a few milliseconds of flying at insanely fast speed, Jareth dived down towards the exit door below.

Although half of it was already submerged in the miasmic mud, Jareth didn’t care, that upper half of it was enough for him to pass through.

He flew towards it and the thousands of spears turned in the air and chased him as if they could see him try to dodge.

Jareth passed through the upper half of the broken exit door and then flew upwards, making a perfect ‘U’ motion to avoid the spears.

But he didn’t stop there, outside the hall were several pathways that were leading to the outside.

But Jareth didn’t take them, instead he kept flying toward the ceiling and entered a giant crack in the ceiling without hesitation.

The few miasmic spears that followed him till now finally stopped as Jareth had gone out of their tracking range.

If he had gone for those more obvious looking exits he would have actually found out that the exits were all blocked and this crack in the ceiling was the only way out.

Then those miasmic spears would have kept hitting him.

These exits are deliberately placed here to confuse the player and bait them into rushing inside.

Jareth knew about this and thus he didn’t even bother exploring, he directly went for the only safe exit, which was the crack in the ceiling.

He could have smashed his way out of those blocked exits but that would have wasted too much time and time is something that he is short of right now, so he can’t waste it here.

After flying up for a while Jareth got out of the massive crack in the ceiling and then found himself standing in another hidden corridor filled with ancient inscriptions.

Jareth walked forward without hesitation and the inscriptions blew up on him along with the walls of the corridor.

*Crack!* *Boom!*

The broken debris flew at high speeds and hit Jareth’s mana shield before bouncing off of it.

The expression over Jareth’s face remained cold as usual as he kept walking forward without caring about the explosion at all.

The same phenomena kept repeating itself, the inscriptions kept exploding at his face as he walked past them without caring about the world.

The ground cracked and the walls fell apart, miasmic mud started to leak from the cracks and thus, Jareth hastened his steps to avoid it.

The reason why Jareth didn’t bother wasting mana or using enhanced float ability to avoid the explosions is because you can’t avoid them.

They are all unavoidable attacks enhanced with the residual powers of peak grade-1 mages.

In this small corridor it’s completely impossible to avoid them.

Unless you can pass right through the walls, it’s pointless to even waste mana to boost speed and dodge them.

That’s why Jareth focused more mana on his shield to tank the attacks instead of dodging.

This is also one of the many infuriating traps made by the game developers.

Avoiding those miasmic spears and making a perfect ‘U’ then flying towards the only safe exit are just the starting.

When you enter this hall, you must have enough mana left after flying at fast speed all the previous difficulties, so that you can withstand these explosions.

If you don’t have that much mana left, then you are basically as good as dead.

This is one of the reasons why most players who try to clear this ‘Path of Fools’ do so after they max the character level and add a lot of ‘HP’ increasing artifacts to the build.

The more health and mana you have the better.

Of course you can also use artifacts that increase your resistance to fire and thus you can minimize the damage even further.

‘Finding those damage minimizing artifacts is a pain in the A*s in of itself, my own mana shield is a hundred times more reliable and cost effective than them…’

Talismans, enchantments, artifacts, armor sets, etc. all are support items that can improve your survival chances by a lot.

But finding things of grade-1 level is not an easy task.

Each grade-1 level item or equipment has its own unique questline and you have to complete it to get your hands on it.

It’s just that Jareth is in the real world now and he don’t need to complete the quests to access the hidden areas as he can go and find them himself.

‘The Grimoire of Amplification I got from the National memorial also had a questline of its own… but I totally ignored it…’

Jareth doesn’t care about those questline anymore, all he needs are the rewards that they give, he has no need to make friends with various NPC’s as most of them are just useless people who always shout for the help of the Protagonist.

Thinking about the quests, Jareth also remembered that there was a quest where one NPC who was a soldier guarding the city walls requested Allen to give the flower bouquet to his wife on his stead as he wasn’t able to get off duty.

And the obvious happened after that, the wife’s favorability for Allen increased instead as she misunderstood that he was the one who was giving her flowers.

‘Although nothing happened between Allen and that lady in the game… I am not sure if things will still be the same now that things have turned into reality…’

The current Allen is not controlled by the restrictions of the questlines.

He can proceed further and cross boundaries if he wants to, after receiving these weird quests.

‘I firmly believe that the developers of this game definitely weren’t good people…’

Jareth shook his head and stopped thinking about Allen and as that would just pollute his head with pointless thoughts.

He kept walking through the corridor and finally reached the exit, where a similar miasmic mud filled hall was located.

‘Yeah, I have to repeat the whole process three times before I can get to the next part…’