Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 200

Chapter 200: A Very ‘Friendly’ Encounter… Part-2.
The moment Jareth noticed that mysterious man, the other party also noticed Jareth’s presence.

He tilted his head towards him and smiled with a gentle smile on his extremely handsome face.

“Ah? It’s been a while since I last saw a human… oh! You seem quite strong too; what an amazing day it is today!”

The silver-haired man waved his hand at Jareth with a sunny smile on his face, as if he had suddenly met a friend trying to get Jareth’s attention.

The man looked completely detached from the dark world around him.

His body seemed to be shining with brilliant light and seemed like a very good-natured and gentle person from the outside.

If Jareth didn’t know the other party’s backstory, even he would have mistaken the other party to be a good person.

Despite all the frustrations in his head, Jareth walked over to the center of the boss arena without showing his emotions on his face.

His expression remained as cold as always.

“You also came here to investigate this place? That means we have the same goal, right, hehe…”

With a bright smile on his face, the man stretched out his hand for a handshake. Jareth didn’t care either and held the other party’s hand without hesitation.

“I am Zion Reid, a humble archaeologist; it’s my hobby to investigate ancient ruins and find out more about lost histories of the past… Although it’s not a famous profession, that’s what I do…”

Jareth nodded his head at those words,

“I am Jareth Aadhira Von Ayad, a humble teacher at a slightly famous university in the Human Empire; it’s nice to meet you…”

Both of them stated their names and identities without trying to hide anything.

Jareth glanced at the white coat the party was wearing and noticed a golden medal attached to his coat around the chest area.

“That medal, hmm, I seem to have seen it somewhere; wait, is this the medal of honor granted by the royal elves!?”

Jareth pretended to be surprised when seeing that medal, despite knowing about it all from the start.

The other party misunderstood Jareth’s true intents and got deceived.

He scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment and said,

“Ah, this… I got this in my younger days; it’s quite an embarrassing story; I accidently saved their queen when I was passing by; I believe it was perhaps two thousand years ago or something like that…”

Zion gave a dry laugh, as being praised by someone made him feel embarrassed.

Jareth waved his hand and spoke in a shocked tone.

“Two thousand years!? Are you not a human?”

Jareth was playing along with the other party, so he was pretending to show various fake emotions on his face at the moment.

Anyway, he has already taken full control of this body; he can make any kind of emotion with it now and is not stuck on that default cold face expression all the time.

And as he has worked for a shady company in the past, he has enough experience in acting, so his expressions seem quite genuine, and it’s nearly impossible to tell that they are fake.

“Actually, I am a half-elf; my father was a human and my mother was an elf; also, I ended up getting affected by miasma when I was a child…”

“So yeah, I have a very big life span; despite being so old, I am still in my twenties if you consider it from human age perspectives…”

Jareth nodded his head with a look of understanding on his face.

‘Of course you have a long life span! It would be weirder if you didn’t have a long life span despite being the only son of the First King… You can deceive others, but not me, Zion U’lbyatre…’

Indeed! The man standing in front of Jareth is the only child of the First King, Strar U’lbyatre!

The first king took an elven princess as his wife, and that’s why Zion is a half-elf; not only has he inherited the long-life span from his mother, he has also inherited his insane magical talents from his father.

If not for the miasma to destroy everything, Zion would have been the next ruler of the forgotten city, living a life of luxury and peace!

“I actually came here because I recently sensed that the realm of consciousness inside the golden nail had started to become unstable…”

“And there were powers spatial fluctuations being created here, so I came here to investigate the situation…”

“But it seems I was a bit too late after all; that bone dragon that was sealed here escaped, and the node of the ‘False Dome Seal’ has been destroyed…”

“Sigh, if only I had made back a bit early…”

Jareth knew that the other party was wandering on one of the moons of Jupiter and was having the time of his life, so he didn’t ask where this guy was before coming here, as he knew about it already.

“Well, I also came here just to check on the seal; recently, a cult called ‘The False Dome Cult’ has been terrorizing and has been making rapid progress…”

“They have gotten their hands on the location of the golden nails, and they are likely trying to destroy them all to break the ‘False Dome’ seal…”

“I am on a mission to stop these guys…”

Hearing Jareth’s explanation, Zion nodded his head in acknowledgement.

“You are a good person, it seems, Jareth. If not for the fact that I am kind of weak, I would have helped you out on your mission too…”

Jareth shook his head and replied,

“No worries, it’s something I must do on my own anyway…”

‘Weak my foot! You are literally the final boss of this entire game!!! Who the f*ck are you calling weak!?’

Yes, Zion is one of the three final endgame bosses, and he’s not just any random endgame boss.

He’s the final boss of this entire game series; he’s the one you need to defeat to finally end this horrible game and achieve your ending.

You literally need to travel through space and go to the moon of Jupiter to fight this guy, as his boss arena is located on that moon.

Jareth was immensely shocked when he suddenly saw this guy appear in front of him out of nowhere; after all, seeing the final boss of the game wandering out of its dedicated arena is definitely a nightmare fuel.

‘Sh*t, the timing is not good; right now I don’t have the artifacts needed to defeat this guy…’

Zion glanced in a certain direction and said in a serious voice,

“Are you here for the secret chamber too?”

“You came all the way here in the Abyss Altar Area; of course you must have had some goal, and what else could be more precious than ‘that’ thing stored inside the secret chamber, right?”

Jareth nodded his head at those words.

“Indeed, that thing is very crucial for my fight against the demons and demonic cult members; I must take it away with me today…”

Zion sighed after hearing those words and spoke in a serious tone.

“The thing is, I need that thing too, as I want to recreate this forgotten city again from scratch now that the evil dragon is gone for good…”

Zion wasn’t on earth when Konda was killed by the heavenly punishment, so he only sensed the presence of the divine thunder from afar but didn’t know that Konda had died.

Right now, he doesn’t know what happened to Konda; all he knows is that Konda is not on this planet anymore and has disappeared somewhere.

Which means the continuously leaking miasma has finally stopped and Zion finally has the chance to once again create a new underground city from scratch just like his father did.

Zion glanced at the broken node of the seal and said in a solemn voice,

“Jareth, the thing is that I want to create a safe place for all creatures; the sea of endless miasma is an unstoppable force, so I have decided to create an underground city!”

“I will make an underground city that will be much stronger than this forgotten city, and my creation will protect all the creatures of this planet and help them survive once the sea of miasma swallows this planet…”

“We are but powerless against the ‘Laws’ of the ‘World’, but at least this method can give us a chance to survive…”

“That’s why this thing is very important for the survival of the world, Jareth Ayad; let me have it, and I promise to make a safe haven for all…”

Zion looked into Jareth’s eyes while saying those words with utmost sincerity.

Even Jareth was a bit moved by those words.

‘Ugh, this is one of the reasons why beating this guy is very difficult; this guy is not a genuinely bad person…’

Although Zion is not a good person either, he’s at least not a maniac who will slaughter people at will.

In the game, Zion was a depressed guy who had given up on life; even when he died, his last words were,

[Even if you kill me… it’s all pointless, hero…]

Although Jareth didn’t know what that meant when he was playing the game, now he understands that Zion was referring to the sea of miasma in those words.

Even if you kill Zion and end the game, everything is pointless after all; dealing with him won’t do anything to the sea of miasma.

This is also the reason why, despite having three different harem endings, all three of them were considered bad endings for this world; as nothing would change and the world would still get destroyed no matter what.