Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 204

Chapter 204: End of the trip… Part-1.
‘He’s going to use a potion now…’

Jareth jumped back, retrieved a mana recovery potion from his space ring, and gulped it down in an instant.

[Active Healing!]

There wasn’t enough time to use a healing potion, and he needed mana, so Jareth didn’t use the potions; he just used ‘Active Healing’ to heal himself quickly.

His wounds were healed, and his severed arm regenerated back.

In a matter of seconds, he was back to full HP, and he also recovered nearly half of his mana by gulping down mana recovery potions.

Jareth halted once his mana had recovered to half because he only had two potions left in his inventory and didn’t want to use them all at once.

*BOOM!*

They forcefully flung the broken debris of the bridge away, and Zion emerged from the rubble unharmed.

While buried, he used health recovery potions to heal himself.

Unlike Jareth, he doesn’t have ‘Active Healing’ but even he has health recovery potions.

This is the reason why this endgame boss is so difficult; just like the player character, this guy can use all types of potions to recover and even buff himself.

Beating him is extremely tricky, and you need a one-shot attack to beat him.

In the game, as Zion was the final boss to be defeated, he was nerfed a lot and he was confined to his boss arena, thus having no advantages a normal mage has.

Moreover, his attack patterns were fixed; players used various ‘cheese builds’ to beat him, but things are completely different in reality.

Now that Zion is a sentient person with extraordinary intelligence and an insanely high ‘battle IQ’, it will be extremely difficult to one-shot him.

The reason why he survived that attack card was because Zion sensed the ‘death’ with his intuition and used lifesaving methods to survive.

Right now, even if Jareth uses another attack card, Zion can definitely avoid getting hit by it because he’s more prepared for it.

Zion is no longer just a random boss monster; he can adapt and learn mid-battle, and he can use various different tactics and unpredictable combos to surprise his enemies.

Fighting Konda was difficult, but the other party was a mindless creature in the end; it can’t strategize, and it fell for Jareth’s trap easily.

But Zion is different; tricking him is near impossible, as his intuition alone is superior to any being on this planet; he can easily ‘predict’ things before they can even happen.

[Grade-3 Light Magic: Blessing of the Light!]

Zion didn’t use an attack spell this time; instead, he used the mana that he just recovered to bless his physique and make himself stronger.

From the earlier fight, he had noticed that Jareth’s physical prowess was slightly weaker than his own, which could undoubtedly work to his advantage given his current lack of mana.

Zion was worried that Jareth would recover too much mana, so he only used the health recovery potion to heal and then came out to stop Jareth from recovering too much.

As a result, he was unable to recover a significant amount of mana and only had a small amount left.

*BOOM!*

Zion stomped the ground and launched towards Jareth at an incredible speed.

[King Style Martial Art: Broken Vessel: Shattered Earth!]

Zion is the son of the First King after all; he has trained in every aspect in the past few millennia; not only does he know extremely strong magic, he’s a proper pseudo-grade-1 level martial artist.

In other words, he can indeed use powerful martial arts skills too!

*BOOOM!*

Jareth used ‘chant less’ to skip the chant and used the float magic to dodge to the side.

[Basic Magic: Mana Beam: Barrage!]

Then different magic circles appeared in the air around everywhere and fired gigantic mana beams at Zion, who had just kicked the spot where Jareth was standing.

Zion, on the other hand, waved his hand to smash the magic circle and the mana beams directly with bare hands!

*CRACK!*

The magic circles shattered and crumbled away, while Zion only received small scratches on his fists.

Jareth took this opening; he used float magic to propel himself forward and then kicked Zion on the side of his waist with all his might.

*BOOM!*

Zion flew away like a cannonball and directly broke through the hill nearby.

The giant hill was leveled down from the impact of his body hitting it with such force.

[Grade-3 Fire Magic: Meteoric Shower!]

Hundreds of small magic circles appeared beside Jareth, and small stones burning with condensed purple true flames launched out of them.

Each of those flaming meteors worked in sync with Jareth’s mana detection ability to track down Zion and chase him to attack him with precision.

[King Style Martial Art: Wind Manipulator: Wind tornado!]

Zion waved his hand and took his stance, then punched in the air to create a massive tornado out of the dark miasmic fog!

The burning meteors were instantly caught in it and countered easily.

“This isn’t enough to deal with me, Jareth Ayad! Hand over the other half of the core! Or I will keep chasing and pestering you forever!”

*BOOM!*

Zion stomped the ground and launched at Jareth with a look of frustration on his face.

Up until now, none of his opponents have survived for so long in front of him; only Jareth has given him this much trouble.

In fact, Zion can sense that Jareth can definitely use a more powerful attack again now, like he used before, so Zion has to save some mana in case Jareth uses the powerful attack.

That’s why he’s only using martial arts and not his magic spells.

Still, the blessing of light he granted himself is strong enough to defend again the miasma in the surroundings for a long time, and it also boosts his basic stats.

Thus, Zion can still fight for a long time.

He crossed the dark fog and reached Jareth’s location to unleash another punch attack, but Jareth was already ready for him.

Jareth had used his ‘mana singularity’ to hide the mana fluctuations of his spells; thus, Zion couldn’t sense what spell Jareth was using.

When Zion rushed in to punch Jareth, a massive fist made up of condensed flames launched from a magic circle above and punched Zion with massive force.

[King Style Martial Art: Defense Type: Redirect!]

Zion twisted his body and waved his hand to hit the flame hand on the side and directly deflected that fist attack to the side.

The flame fist hit the ground, and its intense heat turned the soil into molten lava in an instant.

The molten lake flew in all directions, striking Zion and causing his skin to burn in various places.

‘Tch! It was a decoy!’

At that moment, Zion figured out that the flame fist was but a mere distraction tactic, but it was too late. Jareth appeared from behind, and he punched Zion in the back of his head with all his strength.

*CRACK!*

Zion’s skull cracked from the back, and his face hit the ground with extreme momentum.

*BOOM!*

A massive crater was formed on the ground, and debris flew away like bullets in all directions; some of it even hit Jareth, causing small cuts on his body.

But Jareth didn’t care about it; he immediately raised his leg and attacked Zion’s head with another kick.

The previous attack barely made a small crack in the skull, but if this kick hits the same place, Zion is done for.

“I won’t lose!! The hope of the world lies on my shoulders! I will not lose! I will save the world!”

Zion endured the extreme pain of his brain being injured and punched the ground to make his body get away from the range of that kick.

He barely dodged the kick on time, and Jareth’s foot hit the ground.

More debris flew, and a giant and sharp piece of stone hit Zion’s left eye directly, destroying his eyeball!

*Pant* *pant*

Jareth was also getting tired now, and he was now out of mana too; he used a lot of mana in that flame fist attack to trick Zion.

Zion himself is not in a good state either; he was hit in the head, so his brain was injured, and now he can’t even stand properly and can only crawl on the ground.

Seeing that Jareth was walking towards him despite being exhausted, Zion gritted his teeth and hurriedly brought out a white orb from his space ring.

Jareth noticed that movement and wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

Zion put all his remaining strength to crush the orb, and a magic circle appeared below him.

“Don’t be happy for too long, Jareth Ayad! I will definitely come back one day to take that core fragment from you! I will definitely save the world!”

Before Jareth could react, the magic circle lit up, and Zion was teleported out of the Abyss Altar in an instant.

“Sh*t!!”

Jareth stomped the ground as Zion escaped alive, and the other part of the core was also taken away.

Now Jareth only has half of it, and that will not be enough for his grand plans.

‘Tch! Nothing is going right today!’

Not only the False Dome Cult took the other two pieces of the alloy of the adamantium and mithril with them, now he has lost the second fragment of the core too.

In other words, his trip to the Abyss Altar was basically a complete failure.

Not only was he not able to do anything about the node of the false dome seal, he didn’t even get the items he wanted.

This trip only yielded half of the expected results.