Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 216

Chapter 216: Uervar Flower Area… Part-3.
Purple Earth Area, Underground.

“Hehe, I will make a giant pit underground and bury you all in it, and you will not even be able to react!!”

A giant serpent used earth elementals to make subtle changes in the ground located right below the boss arena where Jareth and the group were resting.

Although monsters can’t use magic, some of them are naturally gifted and have a high affinity for certain types of elements.

The serpent lord has great affinity for the earth element, and as it’s a grade-1 creature, it has enough intelligence to lay out traps and kill his opponents’ using strategies and other abilities.

“No matter if you are a grade-1 mage or what, all of you are just humans after all!

“You won’t be able to live once you can’t breathe and are buried under massive amounts of rubble and can’t even cast magic… hehehehe…”

“I will bury you all alive, and then I will eat you as snack-”

Just when the serpent lord was muttering to himself in happiness, someone cut his off.

“No, you won’t…”

Grade-1 monsters can in fact use telepathy and can embed mana in the sound waves to talk; that’s what the snake was using to mutter to himself about his plan.

But it turned out someone heard that plan before it could even be executed.

The snake tilted its head and glanced around him, but there was no one there. Just when it was getting confused, its body suddenly felt weightless and started to rise up.

The snake’s body burst out of the ground like a rocket and floated in the air; debris flew everywhere like crazy, and the trio that was sleeping peacefully woke up from the loud noise.

When they woke up, they saw Jareth standing nearby with his grimoire shining brightly and a gigantic snake floating in the sky covered in telekinesis.

“Hmm, quite the peculiar monster, aren’t you? You are spilling your plans all over… Were you expecting that I wouldn’t hear them… I can easily interpret those sound waves you were making; you know…”

Even Jareth was surprised after looking at the size of the snake; it was so big that it was twice the size of that bone titan that Abella summoned back then to deal with Nathan.

‘It wasn’t this big in the game… Perhaps it became this big because it’s real life now; the game version of the boss was a miniature version, I guess…’

Seeing that it was floating in the sky, the snake hissed loudly and emitted even more sound waves.

“Whhhat!? How did you notice me! I was using earth elementals to cover my mana fluctuations, and I was working in stealth mode!!”

Jareth shrugged his shoulders at those words.

“Well, if it was someone else, they might not have noticed, but unfortunately it was me whom you were trying to trick… I happen to be quite good at mana detection skill…”

Jareth’s mana singularity is not for show; it boosts his mana detection ability all the time.

He has honed his mana detection ability even further by traveling in the Abyss Altar Area for quite some time and trying to use mana detection in that miasma filled place.

Now that his mana detection is several times stronger than it was before, he can easily sense even the slightest disturbance that happens in the mana in the surroundings.

Mana fluctuations are basically the disturbance an individual causes in the mana present in the air by their body’s movement or by their mana’s movement.

Although the serpent lord had hidden his mana fluctuations using earth elementals, it didn’t know that Jareth could sense even the slightest movement in even non-living things!

The moment the serpent moved underground and started to move the ground, Jareth noticed the mana fluctuation caused by the movement of the soil and debris.

He immediately noticed the serpent lord and locked his target instantly.

Trying to hide in front of Jareth is the most useless thing someone can do; the serpent lord didn’t know that and got caught instantly.

“Er… can you let me go? I was just playing a prank, okay… I wasn’t actually trying to harm anyone; moreover, you guys barged in my home first!”

“Let me go now, or I will report you guys to the people from the animal abuse prevention association!!”

Hearing those words from that gigantic snake, Mark and the other were really taken aback for a second.

Even Jareth was a bit surprised for a second.

“You are quite the peculiar one… You even know that there’s such an association out there?”

A look of interest appeared on Jareth’s face; he immediately deactivated his telekinesis and let the other party go.

“This is the first time I have seen a monster behave in such an intelligent manner…”

Mark couldn’t help but be fascinated by the intelligence of that serpent lord.

Hearing Mark’s words, the snake raised its head in pride, and a humanoid expression of smirk appeared on its face.

“Hmph! Of course I am intelligent! I am the glorious serpent lord ‘Tirargandr’! I have lived in this place for more than a millennium!”

“You humans are less mature and less intelligent than the might and glorious me!”

Ignoring the other party’s words, Jareth glanced at Risa and asked,

“Do you know how to make snake soup or something like that? I think we have found our dinner for today…”

Risa glanced at the giant snake and nodded her head with great confidence.

“Of course I know! We can skin him alive! Then we can use your flames to cook the meat on medium heat for an hour or so; the more he twists and turns in pain, the better the meat will taste!”

“They actually often use this method on snake-type monsters… I think a few five-star hotels also do this…”

Just thinking about it all, Risa’s eyes were already shining brightly while looking at that giant snake body.

“With such a big body, he can stay alive for a long time if we are a bit more careful; it’s going to be one heck of a torturing party!!”

Azul and Mark cast glances of pity at the giant snake while hearing all this.

Jareth cracked his knuckles and pretended to be fierce.

“Oho, good, let’s try that method then…”

The giant serpent backed away in fright after hearing all that.

“W-what!? No! How can that be!? I, the great serpent lord, will never become human food!! I refuse to believe that!!”

“Just kill me now!! I will not have my dignity tarnished like that!! I promise you, my soul will definitely curse you to death!!”

While saying all that, the giant serpent slowly started to retreat and tried to run away in the hole nearby to hide.

But Jareth used telekinesis to collapse that hole, and the snake’s escape route was closed in an instant!

“What!? Y-you stay away from me! You fiends! I will report you all to the animal helpline!!”

In the end, the serpent lord admitted defeat and lay flat on the ground after resisting for a few times.

Mark and the trio climbed its body and took selfies with it as if they were trying to show off that they had defeated such a giant snake.

“Such humiliation… I can never show my face in front of my wife and children anymore… Just kill me now…”

Jareth felt quite amused hearing those defeated words from that serpent lord’s mouth.

This monster is powerful enough to fight people like Reynald and Nathan toe to toe for a long time, but now it’s being taken advantage of by three little children.

This scene is so funny that even Jareth needed a lot of self-control to stop himself from laughing out loud.

“Ahem… Let’s stop the pointless talk now. What exactly have you been doing in this place for such a long time? Why stay in a flower field for so long?”

The giant snake sighed at that question and replied in a calm voice,

“Sigh… Well, I don’t often tell everyone about it… But now that you have defeated me so thoroughly, I have no other choice…”

“I am not here because of my own free will; I am actually guarding the last heritage that my friend left in this world…”

“Once upon a time, Uervar Seceno planted these purple flowers here with his very own hands… As his friend, I guard this place in his remembrance…”

“Yeah, yeah, go ahead and call me stupid… But no matter what you say, I will not leave this place, and I won’t let you harm these flowers either…”

“You humans always send people to pluck these flowers and try to take them away for the sake of so called ‘research’ but you guys are all selfish people…”

“I won’t let you guys destroy this place for your so-called selfish gains… I have long forgotten his face and his voice; these flowers are the only last remaining remembrance of him…”

Even Jareth was shocked after hearing all this from the snake’s mouth.

‘Ah! No wonder this guy is here! Monsters of his level usually live deep in dungeons to hide from human activities and never show up on surface…’

‘But this guy is here because it has something to protect… I guess the reason why the snake fights the player character in the game is also because they were barging in here without permission…’

Jareth is not a good person himself, but sometimes even he gets moved by individuals with immense dedication.

“Er… It was our mistake this time; I acknowledge it; we are just a group of travelers, actually; we are just passing by; we will leave soon…”

{True friendship is made through luck, but loyalty is earned through actions.

In the annals of history, a snake is shown as the symbol of absolute loyalty in this world…

Maybe even an unlucky person like Seceno, also had a loyal friend after all…}