Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 212

Chapter 212: The Military Camp… Part-2.
“Uh, so you are actually traveling with Mr. Jareth, and he’s teaching you three personally!?”

A young soldier who had just recently joined the army and had become a warrior after successfully becoming capable of using mana was shocked when he saw Mark nod his head.

After the trio was led to the bunker, they were free to roam around anywhere.

Jareth was still in a meeting with the old general, so the three of them can go and explore the area in the meantime.

Thus, the trio headed out on an adventure to explore the military camp, and they stumbled upon this training area while wandering around at random.

The young soldiers immediately noticed them and offered them chairs to sit in.

Then they all placed chairs nearby and started to ask questions of their own; each of their eyes shone with great curiosity.

Mark and the others are from the most prestigious university of the empire; after all, only the most talented children from the empire are eligible to enter that university.

The likes of them who aren’t talented enough to even become the lowest-level wizards aren’t qualified enough to even become doorkeepers of that university.

Most young people who want to become strong and want to pursue the path of strength despite having no talent for wizardry choose to enter the military and become warriors!

All humans have some amount of innate mana in their body; although you can’t become a mage without a mana circuit, you can at the very least go and try to become a powerful warrior.

Although warriors are not as well respected and revered as mages in this world, they aren’t weak people either.

If a warrior possesses exceptional talent, they can compete with young mage geniuses like Risa and Azul.

It’s just that there’s no particular academies or universities that focus on teaching powerful warriors, unlike Mages, who have proper institutions for guidance.

Moreover, there’s been a very small amount of research in the aspects of warriors; there’s barely any complete skills that can be perfectly utilized by the warriors to show the power equivalent of wizards.

Maybe the warriors lost their legacy at some point in the long annals of history, or maybe there was none to begin with.

But this lack of powerful skills makes them much weaker to Wizards, who have huge amounts of spells and tricks in their arsenal.

So, as people from poor origins with no family background and barely any talent, these young soldiers are quite excited for Mark and the others, who are revered all over the empire as having the highest level of talent.

Mark and the others are accompanying a literal grade-1 mage in his journey, which just shows that their talent has been acknowledged by a grade-1 mage himself.

This in itself is a big feat that the likes of them can’t achieve in their whole lives.

Let alone becoming a student of grade 1 mage; even meeting a grade 1 mage once in person is already a big deal for them.

Grade 1 mages are like high-class celebrities from their point of view, and meeting them in person is like winning a lottery!

The population of the entire human empire is in billions, and the number of grade-1 mages in the human empire is currently just three, including Nathan, who has been sealed in the Death Cage.

The ratio is simply too small.

And a single grade-1 mage is strong enough to level down the entire human empire in a matter of a few days!

Threats like Konda are something that can’t be dealt with even with the help of powerful nuclear attacks, yet Jareth went toe to toe with it and even defeated it in the end.

All these feats are just too awe inspiring from the point of view of these people.

“Well, we were fortunate enough to be chosen by him; even I didn’t expect that I would one day end up accompanying a grade 1 mage and journeying in various places with him…”

Seeing those excited eyes shining with curiosity, Mark couldn’t help but feel a bit embarrassed.

In the end, he decided to speak in a hesitant tone and tried to appear as humble as possible.

But as they say,

{The brilliance of world-class talent can’t be overshadowed by the darkness of the world!} (Source: Trust me bro…)

Mark’s words seemed humble, but in fact they were enough to make everyone envy him to death.

After all, Mark is living the life that everyone in the world would pay even their ‘souls’ for.

Mark not only has immense wealth, loving parents, a caring family, a loyal lover, and immense talent; he also has a great teacher and the support of the strongest people behind him.

He literally has everything that a person can dream for.

(It kind of seems like Mark is the real protagonist instead of Allen… or perhaps Mark is the author’s favorite or something…)

“Were you also there when Mr. Jareth fought that abysmal bone dragon!?”

Hearing that question, Mark and the other two nodded their heads and described the situation to the young soldiers with great enthusiasm.

Mark felt that it was his job as a student of Jareth to spread his amazing brilliance to the world with great enthusiasm.

So, he exaggerated things even further and directly said that Jareth beat that bone dragon so much that Konda was running all over the ground like a bereaved dog.

Risa and Azul helped him exaggerate things even further and said that Jareth caught Konda jaw with one hand and threw it and rubbed it on the ground like he was dragging around random garbage, which he threw away in disgust.

Then they said that Jareth felt that the scenery was not to his liking, so he raised his finger and said to the heavens,

“Make the sky blue or I will burn a hole in the heavens!!”

The heavens trembled in fear of his words and the dark clouds ran away in fright.

Such immense exaggeration would have never worked on veteran soldiers who have faced danger all their lives and have known the cruelty of the world.

But these young soldiers are just newbies who have yet to face real dangers and still don’t have the ability to see through lies at one glance.

Mark and the others’ words easily swayed them, and they instantly believed them.

What the trio didn’t know was that they unknowingly added several dozens of loyal followers to Jareth’s God of Divine Flame cult in just that one session of bragging and exaggerating!

Even Jareth was unaware of the fact that behind his back, the cult worshipping him had suddenly grown bigger once again, all because of his own students, who couldn’t help but brag a bit too much about his greatness!

The trio then showed a few fancy magic tricks to the group of young soldiers and then went on to other areas to take a look.

Along the way, many soldiers passed by them, but they were all already notified by the general, so they didn’t dare to bother the three and let them pass without checking anything.

Thankfully, Mark was keeping an eye on the other two along the way, so he made sure that Risa didn’t steal some mana grenades along the way from the bunkers.

He also had to prevent her from grabbing random potions and herbs from the inventory of the military camp to make poisons and stuff.

In order to keep her close and stop her from wandering around at random, Mark had to use the old-fashioned method of holding hands and dragging her away from things.

He saw on TV that many people do something like this when they go shopping with their partners in some expensive places.

When your budget is tight and you can’t afford to deny the requests of your partner, you have to be tricky; drag them away before they can even make the requests or take a look at the shops nearby.

This is a very economical and life-friendly method.

Mark stumbled upon this method while searching the internet for various new memes about Jareth and his cult members.

Azul, on the other hand, is a more well-behaved person, so Mark doesn’t have to take care of him that much.

His hands are already full with one troublemaker; it’s a relief that Azul didn’t become an addition to his troubles.

While wandering around the empty helipads, Mark suddenly asked Risa,

“By the way, I have been meaning to ask, how come you are able to talk to Professor Jareth so easily without any reserves… Even I feel a bit intimidated when talking to him…”

“How are you so carefree with him?”

Risa tilted her head in confusion at that question,

“What? You guys feel intimidated by him? That’s so strange and bizarre…”

Mark and Azul gave Risa a strange look after hearing those words, and they thought the exact same thing in their heads at that moment.

‘You are the one who’s strange and bizarre!!’

Risa contemplated for a moment and then spoke in a vague tone.

“Er… How do I explain it… He seems quite the chill type of person to me… You know, he kind of seems to remind me of a father figure…”

“It’s kind of difficult to explain… Don’t you guys feel the same… Er, that feeling when you accidentally mistake the primary school teacher as your parent… It’s kind of that type of feeling…”

Risa was having difficulty explaining it, so Mark and Azul shook their heads in defeat and stopped asking about it as they knew it was useless.

Risa has always been like this, carefree and vague.