Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 205

Chapter 205: End of the trip… Part-2.
After all those efforts, at the end of it all, Jareth only received half-baked results.

This was not something he was expecting.

Although he can still accept that the false dome cult members took away the rest two pieces of the adamantium and mithril alloy as they came earlier than him.

He can’t accept that the other piece of the core of the artificial sun was stolen right in front of his eyes.

‘Ugh, all the time it’s me who steals the chances of the protagonist; this time someone else stole it right in front of me… It feels like sh*t…’

Jareth shook his head and drank the last two remaining mana potions with great difficulty.

Drinking too many mana potions at once is really a difficult task; the body starts to build up temporary resistance, and it starts to reject more overdoses of mana in such a hurried fashion.

Although this temporary resistance disappears in a day or two, it’s quite an annoying debuff.

You can use this temporarily enhanced resistance to magic in combat, but that would mean you can’t use potions in battle either.

It has advantages and disadvantages both; most mages don’t use this trick in normal scenarios.

Jareth has mana singularity; that’s why his body is able to withstand the load of drinking so many mana recovery potions.

If it was someone else, they would have exploded like a balloon if they drank so many mana recovery potions at once.

Jareth can digest and control the mana added by the mana recovery potions easily with his mana singularity, but others can’t do such a reckless thing.

Even Zion only used a few potions and didn’t dare to exploit them as much as Jareth.

‘Forget it… There’s no point in staying here any longer; I should leave…’

The only reason Jareth even came here was to get the core of the artificial sun, as he wanted to extract its mana circuits and use them in his wormhole stabilizing device.

He can’t imitate or recreate those mana circuits because they are unique and one of a kind. Jareth will need to research for several years and make his own core of the sun if he wants to create a similar item like this.

He wants to skip this long process by using the mana circuits already present in this core; after all, he’s pressed on time.

‘For now, I will work on this half piece of the core… Later, when Zion comes back looking for it one day, I will kill him and get the other part too…’

Jareth is quite sure that Zion will definitely come back to pester him again. And this time, Jareth will be more prepared for the other party.

Thinking about all this, Jareth brought out a teleportation magic scroll from his space ring and embedded a lot of mana in it.

*Whoosh!*

The magic scroll lit up brightly, and Jareth felt a sense of weightlessness; in a matter of seconds, he found himself standing near the same teleportation altar that he had used to enter the Abyss Altar Area at the beginning.

‘This is what I like about teleportation magic scrolls…’

The teleportation magic scrolls are extremely rare items, but they are worth the effort and were the biggest lifesaving grace for the entire player base.

The main function of these teleportation scrolls is to teleport you to the places where you have been before at least once in your life.

As Jareth had already been to this altar when he came in the Forgotten City, he was easily able to teleport back to it.

‘Now that I have already visited the golden palace of twisted curses once, I can go back there whenever I wish to do so…’

The only restriction is that to go aboveground or come back underground, you need to use this same teleportation altar.

After all, a massive spell is placed on the entire Abyss Altar Area to keep it’s ceilings and walls in place.

The teleportation magic scrolls are not strong enough to bypass the spell cast by the First King with decades of efforts.

Only the dedicated teleportation altar can bypass it.

In simple words, you need four teleportation scrolls for a single back and forth trip to the Abyss Altar after you have visited it once.

One to bypass the security above ground and go to the teleportation altar aboveground, then after using it to enter the Forgotten City, you will need the second scroll to teleport to the palace, skipping all the difficult paths.

Same is true for the way back.

‘I will return to this place if I need something else later… For now I should go back; I am out of mana potions, and there’s no way to replenish them…’

Jareth was simply too exhausted from this trip; if he doesn’t go back now, he will never be able to return.

Resting in the Abyss Altar Area is not an option; the moment you lose consciousness, your mana shield will weaken and the miasma will corrupt you easily.

*Step*

Jareth stepped on the abyss altar and activated it with his mana.

Although the altar looks flawed, corrupted, and unusable, it’s still barely usable as it’s barely holding on.

‘The next time I come here, I hope I am good enough to repair the teleportation altar too…’

The teleportation altar is also the handiwork of the First King and involves the ‘laws’ so Jareth can’t repair it as of now.

With a big sigh, Jareth finally teleported away and returned back to the hidden chamber located below the National Hero Memorial.

He brought out his smartphone, which has finally started to work properly again, and then he sent a message to the bald old man to open the door for him.

The other party took a few minutes to reply, perhaps because he was too shocked to see Jareth’s message.

In the meantime, Jareth sat down and used meditation to recover some mana from the surroundings.

‘Sigh, it feels so nice to be out of that horrible place… Finally, I can feel the embrace of Mana again…’

The Abyss Altar Area was filled with miasma to the brim, so there was no mana in the surrounding area, and Jareth had to constantly keep his mana shield at maximum output.

But now he can finally relax, as he doesn’t have to do all that.

‘Although the results of this trip were not really up to my expectations, I still confirmed a few things that I wanted to, and now I have a deeper understanding of this world.’

‘I guess this trip was still a partial success, maybe?…’

While Jareth was contemplating in his mind, the giant door opened slowly, and the bald man came in.

He was quite shocked when he saw Jareth in such bad shape.

Not only were Jareth’s clothes torn up in many places, he was covered in blood, and he looked extremely exhausted.

A thought came into his mind,

‘What could have been so powerful that even a grade-1 mage like him was reduced to such a state!?’

The bald man hurriedly escorted Jareth out of the area; the officers working in the monitoring room were also shocked to see his haggard state.

But the most shocking thing was that he made it out of the Abyss Altar alive in one piece!

In the long annals of history, Jareth is the first one to accomplish such a feat; the bald old man has already sent a message to the president and the ministers.

They are likely already on their way now and will come over to visit Jareth soon.

After all, nobody in the current human empire knows what’s inside the Abyss Altar and how dangerous that place is.

Jareth is the first one to come out alive, so he will have a lot of information about this matter.

The rest of the people can use this information for themselves, so they will not let this opportunity slip by.

Jareth himself knew that his coming back alive would cause a sensation, and several guilds like the Mage Guild and others, and even Reynald, would come over to question him.

Thus, he asked the bald old man to guide him to a VIP private resting room.

The Bald Old Man dared not to be rude and immediately guided Jareth with a flattering smile on his face.

Although Jareth looks like he’s in a weakened state right now, a lean camel is still taller than a horse after all, and Jareth can still deal with him with a single hand even in this weakened state.

Entering the room, Jareth closed the door and took a relaxing shower first and cleansed off all the dirt.

He changed into another set of clothes and directly laid down on the bed to have a long sleep to get rid of the piled-up stress and exhaustion.

That day Jareth slept extremely peacefully after a very long time; he even dreamt of living a happy, peaceful life with Shiina in his dreams and enjoyed the rest he earned with a lot of efforts.

Unknown to him, there’s literal chaos going on outside.

Hundreds of thousands of powerful mages got news about this matter overnight and hurried over to the capital city just to hear about Jareth’s bizarre adventure into the Abyss.

Jareth’s trip to the Abyss will soon be recorded in the pages of the history books, and people will make folk songs and folk stories about his brave adventures in the darkness of the Abyss and the things he saw.

His adventure’s stories will spread so far and wide that even the False Dome Cult members will hear about it and will thank their demon god that they were lucky enough that they didn’t encounter Jareth while they were there.