Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 210

Chapter 210: The Hidden Train Station… Part-2.
An hour later.

The car finally stopped, and the four got out of it.

They had arrived at a small building located on the outskirts of the capital city.

Jareth walked inside, and it turned out that the building is actually a small public library.

He walked over to the counter with the trio, pulled out a particular golden card, and showed it to the person sitting behind the counter.

Upon seeing that card, the individual glanced once at Jareth, then at the remaining three, before nodding his head.

He got up from his seat and led the way for the group.

That card was something that Jareth got from the president himself while he was getting that research team; it gives him access to various hidden locations in the capital.

Normally, only military officials can possess it, but Jareth obtained one for himself in return for the valuable information he traded.

As they say,

{Information and experience are more valuable than gold; they can prove their worth in a life-and-death situation…} (Source: Trust me bro…)

Jareth himself has such a vast amount of information on this world that it alone is enough to compile an entire book out of it.

The person who was leading the group is actually an undercover military officer who’s stationed here to guide those with special permissions and help them enter the hidden station.

Yes! A literal hidden train station is located right below this small library.

The officer led the group to a secluded hidden area, then took out a book from his space ring and placed it in an empty spot in the book cabinet.

The floor moved, and a hidden staircase appeared in everyone’s view.

The officer signaled with his hand and asked the group to enter, clearly showing that this is the way to the underground train station.

Jareth didn’t hesitate much, as he already knew all about this as he had seen all this in a game cutscene in great detail, so he wasn’t much surprised.

Mark and the others, on the other hand, were quite shocked, though.

For them, this whole situation is quite new and mysterious. They have never been on covert missions like this before, so all this is new for them.

Still, they didn’t shout or make noises that would attract attention and were able to remain calm even in this situation, which shows that they are all well trained.

The three followed behind Jareth like chicks following the mother hen.

Once the group entered, the hidden mechanism in the floor activated again, and the entrance closed on its own. The officer took the book back and went back to his seat to pretend to be an ordinary person once again.

…

“How did you know that there was such a hidden station here?”

Once they passed through the stairs, the group arrived at an underground train station, and Risa was the first to raise the question.

Jareth just shrugged his shoulders at that question and replied in a calm tone,

“When your mana detection is as powerful as a grade-1 mage, there’s nothing in the entire capital city that’s hidden from you anymore… You can detect everything…”

“My mana detection range alone is as wide as ten kilometers in diameter…”

Hearing Jareth’s words, the trio was shocked to the core, and all three of them were left speechless.

The three of them already possess a few hundred meters of mana detection, yet they pale in comparison to Jareth, like an ant comparing itself to a dragon!

“This hidden train station is only open to a few people who hold this golden card in their hands… Usually it’s the military that uses for weapon and resource supply…”

“This is just one of the few… There are nearly a dozen such hidden train stations in the capital city, each leading to a different city in a different direction…”

“And then those cities redirect the trains further outwards…”

“In simple words, the entire nation is connected with these spider-web-like train tracks that run deep underground, hidden from everyone’s sight…”

“Also, there are anti-mana detection devices fixed everywhere, so unless you are in grade 2 or above, you can’t notice them at all…”

Jareth found a bench nearby and sat down to wait for the train and continued to explain,

“These train tracks were laid down a long time ago; their main purpose is to transport troops faster to the frontlines and spread freedom more efficiently…”

“These train tracks are basically the reason why our human armies were able to march in all directions and slaughter hundreds of thousands of enemies without having to worry about running out of ammo…”

“And in case our aircraft run out of ammo, the aircraft itself becomes the ammo!”

Jareth couldn’t help but feel a bit nostalgic when he remembered how he used to drive fighter planes and do massive-scale attacks on demon cult hideouts in the game.

“But… is it not a bad thing to kill innocent people and trample over them with armies like that?”

Upon hearing Jareth’s words, Azul was momentarily confused.

“The thing is, in war, no one is good and no one is bad; when two sides are at war, everything becomes a war tactic… Deception, illegal weaponry, and using innocent people as decoys or cannon fodder…”

“These are some morally questionable tactics of war, but they become completely legal once a real war starts…”

“War is cruel, and it spares no one… Children, weak, old, sick, young or adult, all are equal in the face of a nuclear missile…”

Jareth sighed at his own words and spoke in a solemn voice.

“Ironic isn’t it that only in the face of death are all considered truly equal no matter the race or the culture…”

“The world lies about equality and all; no one’s truly equal; it’s all but a big lie crafted to soothe those who are too naïve to realize the truth…”

Mark frowned a bit at those words and asked,

“Is there no way to make everyone equal? Is there no way to make everyone happy and prosperous?”

Jareth smiled in amusement at those questions.

“The answer to that is actually quite complicated… The goals and ambitions to achieve greatness, wealth, fame, and other worldly things are what drive humans to work hard and progress…”

“Ambitions and dreams seem to hold no major sway, but in reality, they are the ones who drive everyone to achieve more and more for themselves, are they not?”

“If you make everyone truly equal, then will people stop wanting to be richer than others? If you make everyone equally powerful, then will people stop aiming to become more powerful than others?”

“Love that is isolated from the influence of others is considered strong, but will a love confined in a cage still be considered free?”

Jareth crossed his arms and leaned his back on the bench.

“Stop thinking too deeply about these matters, you three; these are something you will slowly figure out as you grow up and experience the world… You have all the time in the world… There’s no hurry…”

‘That is if there’s a world for the time to exist… but who knows what will happen tomorrow…’

Jareth is no philosopher; it’s just that he’s lived through two lives of difficulties and thus has a bit more knowledge of reality than these inexperienced children.

‘In my opinion, I might be just as much of a fool as any other person…’

‘After all, if someone truly ‘understood’ everything about the world, wouldn’t they already be considered ‘God’?…’

Even Jareth is bound by his emotions just like any other person; there’s no such existence who isn’t bound by these mortal thoughts.

And there is such a person who isn’t bound by the constraints of their emotions that existence would have transcended the realm of mortals long ago.

“The train is here… Let’s go…”

Jareth glanced towards the right side of the track and sensed that the train was already about to arrive.

“This train will lead us to the border area of the human empire; we have to travel from there on by ourselves… So make sure you get plenty of rest when on the train…”

“After all, sleeping in the wild will be more troublesome for newbies like you…”

Jareth himself has slept in the wild plenty of times in his previous life as he was working on shady missions all the time.

And most of them were related to smuggling drugs through forests in the darkness of night while making sure not to get caught by the police.

Although this body has never slept in the forests, it has slept in worse places like the sewers and the slums before.

Moreover, now Jareth has a physique that is equal to peak grade-2 warrior, so he will be fine even if he doesn’t sleep for a month or so.

Only Mark and the other two will have to face difficulty on this journey; that’s why he warned them about it.

‘Well, I would have brought Aria or Shin with me to become emotional supports, but I can’t bring them to the elven capital with me, so the three of them have to do it without them…’

The train finally arrived at the platform, and the four boarded it without hesitation.

They all have their necessary items in their space rings, so they have no need to carry bags or suitcases, thus they can move more freely.

The group sat down on their seats, and as it’s a luxury train, there were staff serving drinks.

Jareth got himself tea as always; and the rest of them took some juice; thus the journey; through the hidden train station began!