Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 192

Chapter 192: Inside the City of Horrors… Part-1.
Forgotten City, Burning Garden of Death.

Walking out of the giant hall, Jareth found a huge corridor leading to the surface, and after walking through it for a while, he finally arrived at the real forgotten city’s outskirts.

The Forgotten City used to have a massive garden surrounding it in its haydey.

There were various fruit trees in the garden; any random citizen was allowed to just come out of the city and grab fruits for themselves.

They were free for everyone as the common people were the ones who were growing them in the first place; the First King ruled with benevolence; there were rarely any people who ever got serious punishments, and only the most heinous type of people got the death penalty.

Records describe him as a ruler with great insight into human nature; he could see through the thoughts of people just by seeing their expression, and he could solve great catastrophes with just a mere flick of his finger.

He was such a person, powerful enough to dominate the world alone yet benevolent enough to treat everyone with respect and kindness.

‘Kind of sounds more like an actual protagonist than that pathetic sh*t of a protagonist, Allen, who is just a big shame on the existence of all heroes…’

Jareth glanced at the trees in the vast garden and noticed that a pitch-black flame was burning on all of the trees.

Although the flame was burning with great intensity, the trees themselves weren’t getting burned at all and were still intact, only that they had no leaves and were more like dead tree trunks by now.

The whole massive garden was filled with similar dead trees that had a pitch black fire burning on them.

‘The Black Flames of Miasmic Curse…’

In the game, touching these flames will lead to instant death as they can directly affect your soul and can kill you easily.

‘Well, unless someone has ‘True Immunity’ or some other kind of related resitance ability, of course…’

True Immunity is a passive resistance-type skill; it grants the person the ability to completely nullify all abnormal conditions and status effects.

Curse attacks, charm attacks, mental attacks, illusions, soul attacks, and so on. In fact, it can even do counterattacks sometimes if the conditions are fulfilled properly.

‘The problem is that there are only mentions of this skill in the lore of the game; there is not a single character in the game who actually has it…’

As a matter of fact, not even Allen received that skill ever before in his life, so it’s really impossible to find it with no solid information to work on.

‘I guess the developers only added it into the lore and forgot about ever actually adding it into the game…’

Jareth shook his head and stopped thinking about the matter. The lore of this game is just too vast, and if he kept thinking about it, he would never be able to get his work done.

[Mana Command: Outward Mana Flow!]

Jareth used his ‘Mana Singularity’ to tilt the mana flow from his body to the outside.

Although this will increase the mana he will use every second, this will give Jareth two main benefits.

First of all, increasing the flow of the mana towards outside will enhance the capability of his ‘Mana Detection’ skill tremendously.

And the other benefit is that he can use the mana that is flowing outside to repel the flames of the miasmic curse; although this won’t give me immunity to it, at least I won’t have to worry about the flames touching me accidentally.

Jareth always likes to take precautions first, whenever the situation is at a disadvantage.

Right now, although Jareth is quite sure of his physical prowess and can make sure that he won’t touch the flames, it is always good to be cautious about such things before hand.

‘Just in case I accidentally touch the flames, the mana flow will repel the flames away for a few moments, and that much time is enough for me to recollect myself…’

If something happened to him here, then no one will come to even rescue his dead body, and he won’t even get a proper burial after death.

His corpse will likely then be used by some hideous monster as a puppet or something like that.

Jareth doesn’t want to end up in such a pathetic state, so he’s trying his best to be as cautious as possible.

‘The biggest mystery is… how the f*ck did those people from the False Dome Cult make it here when even I am having so much difficulty…’

‘Don’t tell me they directly teleported to the palace grounds of the forgotten city and didn’t even need to go through the troubles like me…’

Jareth was quite sure that no one has entered from the same path that he used to come here.

After all, if someone had arrived here just recently from the same path, then they would have had to deal with the ‘Flower of Pain’ and that flower should have been dead if they passed through that path.

But the ‘Flower of Pain’ was alive and kicking when Jareth found it, which means the members of the false dome likely used some other path. A path that was much easier than this one.

‘It would feel so awkward if there was a path that could help skip the entire abyss altar area and directly teleport you to the palace grounds…’

If there was such an easy path in the game, the players would have cried tears of happiness and would have thanked the game developers from the very bottom of their hearts.

But the players looked through every nook and cranny of the game map and never found an alternate entrance to the Abyss Altar Area.

This means that the other path exists in reality, but the game developers just didn’t show it in the game as the map was much smaller.

Jareth couldn’t help but shake his head while thinking about this matter.

‘I guess this is the restriction of a game… Only reality can depict the world more perfectly…’

Jareth moved forward without hesitation, and the dry leaves on the ground made ‘Crunching’ noises as he walked through the Burning Garden.

The Black Flames of Miasmic Curse don’t produce any smoke or residuals as they literally burn on the power of the ‘Law’ of ‘Miasma’. Unless you extinguish miasma itself from this whole ‘Forgotten City’, these flames will keep burning.

‘The developers really did a lot of lore-related foreshadowing through the miasmic flames…’

These flames were left behind by none other than Konda, ‘The Abysmal Dragon.

Konda was an Abyss-type dragon; it had control over darkness and curses; it had shiny black scales and a very powerful physical body.

Abysmal dragons are said to have the strongest physique among all types of dragons.

Even the Golden Dragons, who are considered the royal dragons, don’t have such strong physiques.

And the most terrifying thing about Abysmal Dragons is that they are born with the curse of Miasma. As they grow up, Miasma takes away their life force and slowly takes over their body until the dragon goes insane.

By that point, the dragon can spew breath attacks that spew out these ‘Flames of Miasmic Curse’.

In mana-rich areas, these flames will not last long and stop burning on their own, but if the area has a lot of miasma, then these flames will keep burning till the whole area runs out of miasma.

‘In a sense, these flames can also be considered a remedy for miasma if used properly…’

If some creature that has the power to manipulate miasma uses these flames for the good of the people, they can use these flames to completely purify the miasma from the surroundings.

You just need to cast the fire, and the fire will use the miasma as fuel, and eventually the fuel will run out and the miasma will be purified from that area; moreover, the fire will also stop burning on its own, thus it’s even more effective.

‘Still… I have never heard of anyone in the game’s lore who can control miasma… Miasma is always described as an uncontrollable power that no one can meddle with…’

If Jareth stays here for a long time, he can definitely figure out some basic abilities and qualities of the ‘Law’ of ‘Miasma’ from analyzing these Miasmic Flames.

But right now he doesn’t have that much of a free time; the ‘False Dome Cult’ is fast on the move; if he doesn’t hurry up, maybe they will break another node of the seal soon and his problems will increase further.

‘I will definitely come back to this place one day… By using these flames as my practice target, I can prepare myself for the calamity that might come one day…’

These flames are the closest things to the ‘perfect’ manifestation of the ‘Law’ of ‘Miasma’; they can give Jareth a lot of insights.

*Step* *Step*

‘Here it is…’

After walking through the Burning Garden for nearly half an hour, Jareth finally arrived at the massive city gate.

The insanely huge city wall was still standing tall even after such a long time; although the city gate was already destroyed, just looking at its size would be enough to amaze anyone.

The Burning Garden was completely devoid of enemies, as most beings fear those flames and don’t go close to them at all costs.

Not even undead-type creatures want to go in the close vicinity of those trees, as those flames can target even them.

Abysmal Dragons are just that kind of existence; they are accepted by none in the world; not even their own kind likes to go anywhere near them, as just standing near them can harm you a lot.