Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 206

Chapter 206: When an adventure ends, a new one starts! (End of Vol.2)
After resting for a while, Jareth decided to hold a press conference to tell his findings.

There were hundreds of mages gathering and trying to contact him constantly, and talking with each of them one by one would have been a great pain in the A*s.

Although Jareth can sell the information about the Abyss Altar Area for quite some money, he isn’t poor; he has so much money that he can’t spend it in his whole life.

Moreover, this world’s going to be destroyed anyway, so having more money is pointless as it will lose its value once he leaves this planet.

Using this information to gather the items he wants to find would be much more effective.

Jareth held the press conference and put up a list of rare items on display.

He provided everyone with basic details about his journey through the endless horrors of the Abyss Altar, but he did not divulge too much detail.

He declared that whoever wants to ask for more information and talk to him personally about it in more detail needs to bring at least one of the items shown in the list by him.

Jareth is quite sure that others can’t figure out that he’s gathering these items to create a wormhole stabilizing device; after all, it’s very common for a mage to gather rare items.

All mages do this kind of thing.

Although Jareth knows the general location of most of the items he wants, it will take a lot of time to gather them, as some of them are also in the personal collections of various powerful and influential people.

Negotiating with them will waste a lot of time, but now that Jareth has put up the list all over the internet, people will flock over to bring the things he wants to his door by themselves!

Not only will this save a lot of time for him, it will help Jareth skip those tedious negotiation deals that he originally would have needed to make with various influential people to get his hands on those rare items.

After Jareth declared all this in his press conference, all the mages and groups who were going to flock over to question Jareth fell silent and started to look for the items that he asked for.

Now there are thousands of people working for Jareth’s selfish goals without them knowing about it themselves.

He manipulated the entire country with his words and used everything to his own advantage.

Abyss Altar is a completely unexplored area for the current empire, so even the government is very interested in it.

Jareth smiled happily when the government asked for information; he directly stated that they needed to give him a professional research team made up of hundreds of genius scientists in exchange for the information.

The information on the Abyss Altar was extremely precious; the government had to bide by his demands, and they assembled a massive team of scientists for him from all over the empire.

Jareth even forced the president to sign a document stating that the government would cover all material costs and salaries!

The thing is; Jareth isn’t worried that these people will copy his wormhole-making technology and betray him.

This entire planet only has a limited number of resources that can be used to create a wormhole, and that’s the reason why Jareth is having such difficulty collecting them.

They can’t leak the information on the research as long as he’s present.

Even if there are spies in the scientific team who leak the technology later on, it won’t matter; by that time, Jareth would have already left this planet far behind.

Jareth has planned everything out by now.

He alone is not enough to carry out this massive experiment; he’s now planning to act as the lead researcher, and the rest of the people will aid him and help him out in doing auxiliary things.

Moreover, when he’s gone to investigate the remaining nodes of the false dome seals, these researchers will be in charge of keeping the research progressing continuously.

Although Jareth wasn’t able to achieve great results from his trip to the Abyss Altar, he has turned this matter to his own advantage.

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University, principal’s office.

One week after coming back from Abyss Altar, Jareth finally came back to the university.

He took out the family talisman and handed it back to Thomas.

“Thanks; it worked wonders; I am glad you gave it to me…”

Although Jareth’s mission ended in a partial failure, he’s thankful that he still was able to get partial success at the least.

So, the lucky charm perhaps still worked in his favor in the end.

If Jareth was not strong enough and was even a little bit weaker than he is now, Zion would have killed him there, and Jareth wouldn’t have gotten his hands on the other part of the core at all.

“Well, I am just glad you returned back safely; I was really worried that something bad might happen.”

Thomas smiled at Jareth’s words and took the talisman back.

Mark and Risa also came over to the principal office at this moment to meet Jareth in person.

They were worried that something might have happened to him, or he might have been corrupted by the miasma, so they came in a hurry to look for him.

Jareth was a bit happy to see that there’s at least people who are concerned about him.

He patted both of their heads and asked in an amused tone,

“By the way, it took me nearly a week to make it back from the Abyss Altar; has something changed in the time… Don’t tell me you two already got married in my absence…”

Mark blushed at those words and replied in a stuttering voice,

“N-no that h-how can that be…”

Risa, on the other hand, smirked and said,

“No! We will only marry after we have passed the university! At that time, we will obviously invite you to our marriage, Vice-principal!”

“We definitely won’t leave you out of such a big occasion! Hehe…”

Jareth was just messing with them on purpose. Mark is a tsundere type of character, so he gets overwhelmed when asked about such matters.

Risa, on the other hand, is more straight-forward; she doesn’t hesitate at all in this kind of matter.

“Hoh… Is that so? Well, I will wait for that day then…”

Jareth nodded his head at those words.

‘Sigh, if only what you said could be true, Risa… If only this game had such a good hidden ending…’

‘Well, if possible, I will bring these two with me at the least…’

Mark carries the possibility and hope of this world; if Jareth can bring these two with him, it might not be such a bad idea.

‘But that will depend on circumstances, I guess…’

There are no perfect plans with perfect outcomes in this world; everything has endless possibilities; even the smallest disturbance, even the smallest ‘Anomaly’, can change everything in the end.

Jareth shook his head and stopped thinking about this matter for now.

“By the way, after hearing your words from the press conference, I have been meaning to ask, is it possible that… that bone dragon in Bastille actually came from that Abyss Altar?”

Mark, being extremely perceptional as always, immediately figured out some missing details on his own.

Even Jareth was a bit surprised by that sudden question.

“Yeah, it was actually a being from outer space; it fell on our planet, then pierced through tectonic plates and directly fell in the Abyss Altar Area located right below…”

“The Abyss Altar was created because of that bone dragon in the first place; in my trip to the abyss, I figured out a lot of information…”

“Apparently, that bone dragon was called Konda, ‘The Empty Shell’… It was a being whose power was equal to the First King from the legends and myths when it was in its prime…”

Mark and the other two were quite surprised to hear that.

Although they knew that Konda was strong, they had no idea it was that strong!

“W-wait, doesn’t that mean you are also much stronger than a grade-1 mage-”

Jareth shook his head at Mark’s words.

“No, no, matter of fact, I am not even a grade 1 mage yet…”

Thomas laughed out loud hearing those words.

“HAHAHA, that was the most unbelievable joke, Jareth! The man who came back alive from the Abyss Altar Area is completely fine, and you are saying he is not even a Grade 1 mage!? Bahaha…”

Even Risa pouted her cheeks at that,

“Don’t try to fool us; we already know that you are strong! We won’t misunderstand about your abilities!”

Seeing that no one believed his words, Jareth couldn’t help but shake his head in defeat.

‘Sigh, in the end, I can never clear this misunderstanding after all… You guys really trust me a bit too much… ugh…’

Jareth waved his hand and opened the door of the principal office to leave, but before leaving, he said in a calm voice,

“Mark, Risa… Get ready, the time for a long journey is close… Don’t forget your training; I have great expectations for you two…”

The two kids nodded their heads at Jareth’s words as he left the office.

‘I have been going on a lot of sidequests these days; it’s time to go for the real main mission now… The time for going to the elven capital is coming closer…’

Although Jareth was not able to save the node of the seal in the Abyss Altar Area, he must try his best this time.

He needs to protect the seal node located in the elven capital at all costs! If he kept being defeated by the False Dome Cult like this, he would never be able to leave this planet safely.

‘It’s time I get serious about it all too…’

{Just like every adventure has an end to it, this adventure arc has ended today, but new adventures always wait for those who have the courage to explore!} (Source: Trust me bro)

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Author’s Notes.

And here ends the second volume!

All throughout this volume, we explored various places and concepts as they were important for what’s to come.

Next we go for real missions!

Thank you all for reading this novel and motivating me to keep writing. I appreciate all of your efforts.

Originally, this story started just as a random idea that I had one day, but it has turned into such a great journey. I enjoyed writing this volume, a lot, and I hope you liked reading it too.

Thanks for all your support.