Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 199

Chapter 199: A Very ‘Friendly’ encounter… Part-1.
As he recited the secret words, Jareth placed his hand on the broken pillar and embedded his mana into it.

[Under the Heavens and the above the depths of Hell,

Only the ‘Sword of Promised Destinies’ shall rule the world!]

In the game, you must decode a very difficult puzzle to find this hidden secret chant.

The game developers went all out to create this puzzle.

They literally hired a retired military soldier and asked him to write some kind of encrypted code, then hired a professional sculptor to design a statue of the ‘First King Strar U’lbyatre’.

It was no ordinary statue; the professional sculptor was asked to hide those encrypted codes in it while hand-carved it.

Then the game designers 3D scanned the statue and finally added it in the game, and then added that statue in the arena of one of the three bosses in the upper grounds that you need to kill to get the medallion fragment.

In other words, it’s very easy to miss these details, as most players who make it to the Abyss Altar are speed runners anyway.

They aren’t the type of people who will stare at a random statue from hundred different angles for several hours straight just to find the encrypted code.

You literally need to find a soldier from the army or someone who has knowledge in decoding military codes just to find the hidden meaning behind these codes.

And to top it all off, the sculptor hid the encrypted codes on the statues in various small details; thus, you need a knowledgeable person to even find the encrypted codes on the statue.

And this is not even the end of it.

The boss monster who you need to defeat might accidently break the statue during the fight as it’s a breakable item and a part of its boss arena, thus rendering it completely impossible for you to even see the encrypted code.

This increased the difficulty even further.

In fact, players never even found out about these hidden details till the developers themselves revealed them on their own official websites and channels.

Actually, the speed runners had found a glitch in the map, which directly teleports you to Konda’s boss area when you touch the pillar, and you won’t even need the secret code for it.

In other words, the players never actually found the real legitimate way to Konda’s boss arena; they were using glitches and bugs to actually go to his boss arena as there was no proper path.

Originally, the players thought that the developers had added this boss fight solely as a joke.

However, seeing that the players had failed to notice the encrypted code, the game developers came forward and told everyone themselves.

This way the people didn’t need to rely on the glitch anymore, and things became a tiny bit easier for the players.

This was one of the few rare occasions when the developers actually came forward to help out the players; otherwise, they tortured the players most of the time and enjoyed their whining with delight.

Later on, many players were fascinated by how much effort the game developers put into making such fine details on the statue of the First King.

The only problem was that the developers were putting so much effort on completely irrelevant things; they should have placed this much effort on fixing the bugs in the game instead.

If they had fixed the bugs in the game, then the game wouldn’t have earned its notorious reputation of being called the ‘Game of Masoch*sts’.

These bugs were the ones that led to the game’s downfall eventually, and its popularity faded away eventually.

Most players quit the game because the developers never bothered to fix those annoying bugs in the game.

…

Once Jareth spoke the secret code, the mana circles on the broken pillar lit up a little bit with bright light, and Jareth felt a sensation of weightlessness.

When he opened his eyes, what came into his view was pitch black darkness everywhere.

At that moment, floating torches lit up with bluish flames nearby.

There was one torch on left and one on right, and as Jareth took a step forward, more blue torches lit up to illuminate his path.

‘This place seems more ominous than it was in the game…’

The place Jareth is in right now exists on the border of reality and null; this place is basically a separate small dimension of its own located inside that pillar.

That pillar is no ordinary object either; it is called the ‘Divine Golden Nail.’ There used to be eight of them, which were used by the Golden King to cast the False Dome Seal.

One was already broken during the time of the cult of Therath centuries ago; now this one is broken by the False Dome cult members, so only six of these golden nails are left intact.

This separate dimension can be considered a ‘Plane of Consciousness’ of the Golden Nail where the node of the ‘False Dome Seal’ is locked inside.

The First King likely sealed Konda inside it to protect his people from it.

‘Maybe the First King knew that Konda couldn’t harm the node of the False Dome Seal, so he didn’t really worry about its safety…’

‘Maybe only the False Dome Cult has some way of breaking the node of the seal.’

‘After all, Konda only broke the golden nail that allowed entry to its hidden dimension; it was likely not the one who broke the node of seal.’

Jareth had no way to prove his guesses, as there was nothing here that could prove his theories, but he didn’t care much about it either.

He glanced around and couldn’t discern how far the darkness was spread.

In the game, the invisible barrier stops you from straying from the path, and you are forced to follow the torches that lead your path.

But now Jareth is sure he can definitely go in any direction he wants too; the only reason he isn’t going in random directions is because once he lost his path in this place, he will not be able to find it again.

This place is like an empty void; there is nothing in here at all.

There is no mana, no miasma, no nothing; it’s completely empty; only these torches that lit up with blue light are bringing some light to this dark place.

The very reason why the palace pillar was spouting immense miasma outside into the palace and the forbidden city was because Konda existed here in this empty void.

This empty void doesn’t allow miasma to stay here, and as Konda was confined here, the miasma it was producing by just existing here was immense.

So the sea of consciousness directly chose to chase away all the miasma outside, and as the golden nail was located right in the palace, the miasma pouring out of it filled the palace with immense miasma.

Eventually, miasma leaked to the whole forgotten city and spread everywhere; the golden palace is at the core of everything; the whole calamity started from here.

Even though the First King sealed Konda in the golden nail, the miasma slowly destroyed the whole underground city to the point of complete destruction.

Only recently has Konda left this place, and thus the constant increase in miasma has finally stopped.

‘Well, Konda is not the only thing that is sealed inside this place… The thing that I came looking for is also stored here…’

Although the journey to arrive at this location was very long and difficult, Jareth is feeling quite happy and relaxed at the moment as everything is finally coming to an end.

The item he came looking for is located just right after the boss arena, and then he can finally leave this hellhole behind.

Moreover, as Jareth has already killed Konda, the boss area will be empty, and Jareth can pass right through it without any trouble.

‘Although I was feeling quite unfortunate that I had to fight Konda that day completely unprepared, it’s a good thing I dealt with that guy early…’

By now, Jareth has used up nearly eighty percent of his mana recovery potions just to reach this place; if he had to fight Konda in this mana-less place, then he would have definitely lost today.

Jareth is grateful that he didn’t have to face that monstrosity here at all.

He walked in the straight line and followed the torches for a good few minutes before he finally reached the boss arena.

*Swish!*

Hundreds of torches lit up all around the circular boss arena to illuminate the area. The scene looked something straight out of a fantasy movie or something.

The boss arena alone was several kilometers wide, and Jareth could even feel the trembling spatial fluctuations from the center of the arena.

The node of the seal was broken, thus the space-time fabric around the center of the arena was extremely chaotic at the moment, and just with one glance, Jareth could tell that he couldn’t repair this at all.

It was completely out of his capabilities to restore that node, as it included immense knowledge about the ‘Laws’ of Space, Time, Reality, Null, Existence, and Virtuality.

Unless Jareth can manipulate all these laws, he can’t repair that node of the false dome seal.

But that was not the thing that was the most eye-catching; there was actually a man standing near the rampaging space-time fabric and observing it with a look of contemplation on his face.

The man looked extremely handsome; his silver hair and pupils were shining from time to time as mana was flowing through them.

Seeing that man, the happy expression from Jareth’s face disappeared in an instant, and a cold expression appeared on his face instantly.

‘WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS GUY DOING HERE!? CAN I HAVE SOME EASY TIME FOR AT LEAST ONCE!!!’