Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 222

Chapter 222: The Forbidden Magic called ‘Mutation’… Part-3.
Although Sylvia seemed quite exhausted from all the work, Jareth needed to discuss these matters early.

The faster they can go inside the forbidden area, the better, or the False Dome Cult will win once again, and by that time, it would be too late.

“Okay, I will set up a meeting with the princess early… We can discuss the situation…”

Sylvia barely made it back after seeing the parents of that little girl cry till they fainted; she isn’t in the right mind right now, so she decided to delay it.

“I will ask the princess, and we will organize a meeting in the evening; your disciples shall also attend the meeting…”

Jareth agreed to those words.

“Good…”

Risa and the other two still need some time to adjust; after all, it’s good to have some rest first.

Sylvia nodded her head as a greeting to the three and then left.

The knights behind her came forward and led the group to their own respective rooms.

All four of them got a room for them each in the palace to rest and calm down.

Risa sneaked into Mark’s room once again, but this time she was not smiling but feeling sad, so Mark didn’t scold her.

Although she’s an assassin, she hasn’t ever killed innocent people, and she hasn’t seen anyone die because of her mistakes; this is the first time.

Emu’s death wasn’t her mistake, but it left a very big impression on her mind.

The trio learned a valuable lesson that day: Death can strike at any time, and it’s always when your guard is down that you suffer the most.

…

Standing near the window in his room, Jareth glanced at the clear blue sky and the strangely depressed city below it with a calm look on his face.

‘As I thought… I have expanded my mana detection in all directions, and I can sense the entire capital city and the area inside, but I can’t bypass the barrier of the forbidden area located below…’

Jareth’s mana detection is an extremely powerful ability; if something can block it, then it must be in part with the barriers created by the First King in the Abyss Altar Area.

‘The barrier place is likely the work of the First King too…’

From the game lore, Jareth knows that the First King had close relationships with the elven royal family; his wife was a member of the royal elves.

It won’t be strange if he knew about the existence of the nail placed here underground, so he must have created a powerful barrier to protect the golden seal.

But as they say, nothing is eternal.

Even such a powerful barrier couldn’t withstand the erosion of time, slowly lost power, and started to show defects.

Unlike the barrier on the city that gets repaired and maintained every few years by the royal family, the barrier located underground is too strong and complicated and thus can’t be repaired.

‘In it’s weakened state, there must have opened a hole in the barrier somewhere; that’s the place the False Dome cult members used to get inside…’

The problem originates from the fact that he himself is one step behind despite having the accurate coordinates of the golden nails.

‘How in the hell are these people from the False Dome able to figure out shortcuts to places that are supposed to have no shortcuts at all!’

Jareth has information from the game, so he should be the fastest one to reach the goals, yet the members of the False Dome Cult are always one step ahead of him for some reason.

‘Hmm, it all went haywire from that moment when that incarnation of the demon god was summoned for a brief moment…’

Reflecting deeply on that moment, Jareth began to pace back and forth in his room.

‘Something definitely happened at that time that I completely overlooked, and it worked in the favor of the False Dome cult.’

At that time, Jareth had nearly exhausted his mana, and he had even deactivated his mana detection to conserve mana.

It was a time when his mana quality was still very low and he only had ‘Basic Magic’ in his arsenal.

‘Wait! At that time I deactivated my mana detection… so I didn’t sense any minute-level mana fluctuations… But is it possible that in its final moments, that incarnation figured out the locations of the golden nails?’

Jareth doesn’t know about the full abilities of a demon god; in the game, the demon gods were just meant to be some high-level beings who didn’t interfere with the world of the mortals much.

In the game, the endgame boss was Zion, and even though he was only semi-grade-0, he hadn’t reached the true new realm.

Thus, till the end of the game, the player never actually fights the demon god’s incarnation or the demon god.

Due to this, Jareth has no idea what kind of weird power the Demon god can bring out.

‘I think he likely expanded his mana detection to ‘Scan’ the entire planet in that brief moment…’

Even Grade-1 mages or semi-grade-0 mages like Zion aren’t capable of expanding and scanning a whole continent, let alone the entire planet.

‘If I assume that the other party scanned the entire planet, then everything will start making sense…’

The powers of a demon god are still a mystery, so Jareth is overestimating it as much as he can.

If the other party really has the power to scan the entire planet in a brief moment, then it can explain why the false dome members are able to come and go in dangerous places as they please.

With such a thorough map and guidance, even Jareth’s knowledge about this game can be beaten.

If you scan the entire planet, you will instantly figure out where all the golden nails are and what the shortest methods are to reach those places with the least number of efforts.

‘I guess that’s how they found that hidden teleportation altar that wasn’t mentioned in the game, and that’s also how they found the gap in the forbidden area’s barrier…’

‘This is simply a difference between raw power…’

Just scanning the entire capital city of the human empire took Jareth nearly weeks’ worth of effort. Only then was he able to find the members of the organization that had long disbanded.

Even with mana singularity and the pure mana to help him out, it was still a big task.

‘To scan the entire planet in just a matter of seconds…’

Although Jareth doesn’t want to believe it, this seems the most plausible explanation of why the False Dome Cult is in an advantageous position despite having so much information on his side.

‘I guess this is the reason why they call them ‘Demon Gods.’ They are indeed very powerful…’

The capabilities of that so-called demon god are really too strong; even Zion seems like a weak ant in front of that mysterious existence.

‘It’s already a big miracle that this world is still even intact after facing all this…’

Sea of Endless Miasma, millions and millions of monsters and demons, an immense amount of corruption, tons of corrupt and powerful evil souls, and Demon Gods on top of it all.

All of these things are constantly being held at bay by the Seal of the False Dome alone.

‘Thinking about it… that Golden King was really something else; he created a masterpiece; it’s still capable of protecting an entire solar system even after several millennia…’

‘The more I think about it, the more exaggerated and insane these feats seem like…’

‘Compared to the real powerhouses, I am still too weak…’

While Jareth was busy thinking about things in his mind, the sun started to set, and evening came as the sky became red.

Jareth sighed and stopped thinking too far; he came back to reality and drank a few glasses of water to cool his head.

Then he headed towards the dinner hall with a knight guiding his path forward.

The earlier explosion destroyed a good part of the palace too and affected a lot of people.

It took a lot of effort to calm down the agitated population, and as most of the knights were now on patrol duty to calm the populace, there were only a few knights stationed in the palace.

Aside from Sylvia, they don’t even have any other peak grade-2 knight here right now.

If instead of Jareth, it was some other grade-1 mage like Nathan, they would have taken advantage of this momentary weakness and definitely would have done questionable things.

Like stealing the treasures from the treasury or kidnapping a few elves to experiment on later someday.

Power corrupts you when there’s nobody to stop you from doing things that can harm others.

Being above the law can lead to corruption, often without your awareness.

Jareth didn’t have to face such difficulties, though, to him, his own goals are the only things that matter the most. He doesn’t care about stealing money and doing experiments on random people.

His goal is to create a possibility of survival for himself; having a clear goal and path to follow is also one of the best methods to keep your own power in check so as it doesn’t end up turning into corruption.

“You are here. Welcome, Mr. Jareth; it’s nice to meet you again…”

Reaching the dinner hall, Jareth sat down on his designated chair and was greeted by princess Ava, who was sitting on the chair with a smile on her face.

Sylvia was sitting directly opposite Jareth, along with the other knights on her side.

Mark, along with the other two, took a seat by Jareth’s side.