Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 224

Chapter 224: Plans for the upcoming challenge… Part-2.
“The main thing that we need to worry about right now is that how to enter the forbidden area faster…”

After hearing Jareth’s words, the group finally started to talk about the forbidden area.

“If even Fisur Jolmoh was able to enter, there must really be a big gap in the barrier, if we can track it somehow-”

Just when Sylvia and the other knights were thinking hard, Mark interjected and proposed and idea.

“The reason why your crops and people are dying is because of miasma right? What if we track where this miasma is leaking from?”

“The place that’s leaking miasma is likely where the barrier is broken, if we go from there, we can just directly skip the one week wait…”

Jareth also nodded his head at those words, he patted Mark’s shoulder in acknowledgement.

“That’s a good idea… it seems you are also getting the gist of making good plans now, good work…”

The group of knights and even Sylvia, all were quite surprised when they saw Jareth being so supportive of Mark, to them he seemed like a proud father who was happy that his son had made some progress!

“B-but, tracking miasma is nothing to joke about… those people from the demon cult might be doing it because they are already corrupted with miasma, but for others that kind of thing isn’t possible…”

One of the knight’s had a worried look thinking about this matter,

Sylvia also nodded her head at that,

“Yes, mana detection is basically a person embedding their own ‘will’ in the mana and spreading it out everywhere, then comprehending the mana fluctuations in the mana of the surroundings…”

“If the person’s ‘will’ be not strong enough and their mana detection ends up coming in close contact with dense miasma, they will get corrupted and die of mental breakdown!”

“Some people even go insane from that!”

Jareth waved his hand at those words,

“No worries, leave that task to me and my three little disciples… hmm, Mark and you two, this can be considered a training for you to temper your ‘mind’ and ‘will’…”

Hearing Jareth’s words, the trio nodded their heads immediately without doubting a single thing.

For them, Jareth’s words are absolute, whatever he says must be true.

They have never seen or met a person who’s more knowledgeable than Jareth, not even Reynald knows so much about various things, Jareth was theory genius, he has a lot of knowledge stored up in his head.

From the trio’s point of view, Jareth is basically a walking library, ask him about anything and he can answer it easy and even if he doesn’t know about it, he can easily solve and find the answer to it.

“Well, let’s not waste much time on chit-chat now that we have figured out most of the things…”

“I will leave preparing rations and other stuff to you Ms. Sylvia…”

With that said, the meeting ended, all the knight hurriedly left and Ava took the trio with her to the garden to have a walk so that they can relax and cool their mind from what happened with Emu.

Jareth walked over to the window and glanced at the group of four having a talk and enjoying themselves with crossed arms.

“They are finally smiling again…”

Hearing Sylvia’s words, Jareth sighed,

“Yeah… seeing an innocent person die right in front of you is not something everyone can bear to watch… these three have excellent mental adaptation capabilities…”

“Well, I guess that’s to be expected from the most talented people of the entire human empire… their talent is nothing to joke about…”

Sylvia glanced at Ava who was finally smiling while talking about various things with Mark and the two after so many months.

“Princess Ava has been buried under work as her mother’s been missing… she had it rough at such a young age, I would much prefer her to smile more like this…”

“I guess, fate really likes to laugh at people with kind hearts…”

Jareth himself had a rough childhood and he basically never laughs in happiness, in fact, this body might have already forgotten what it means to laugh out loud to heart’s content.

Even in previous life, ever since he joined the shady company, he couldn’t feel proud of himself because of all the shady stuff he did, thus the smile from his face faded away.

His and Jareth’s story is all about tragedy.

“Well, they can be quite the troublesome bunch, but I am quite sure they will become responsible and strong pillars of support for the next generation…”

“If things remain normal, there’s not much to worry about the future of the Nation…”

Hearing Sylvia’s words, Jareth only sighed.

She doesn’t know the future of this world, but Jareth knows it all too well, this world basically doesn’t really have a future, it’s just darkness and more darkness.

“By the way, you seem to favour these kids a lot, are they related to you in some way?”

Jareth shook his head at that question,

“I am not related to them by blood or anything, but we are bound with the bond of Student and teacher, I am just doing my job as a professor to teach my students that’s all…”

‘My story might have been but a tragedy from start to finish, at the least, these three kids should live a happy youth, no one knows what will happen in the future after all…’

Although Jareth knows about the haunting presence of the sea of miasma, there’s several possibilities to it.

Even he himself is not sure what might happen and which possibility will turn out to be true in the end.

That’s why, the more assets you have on your side the better it is.

Jareth’s training these three assets to become strong, live a live that they won’t regret, that way they will be more willing to help him out in the end.

He’s read enough novels to know that the villain who uses force and fear as a method to make do his bidding, always ends up getting beaten at the end.

He’s not that kind of a fool, he’s a villain that knows how to use his head in a much smarter way.

‘To win as a villain is actually extremely simple… raise ridiculously strong enemies for the hero and let them take care of the hero…’

‘While you yourself use the time to achieve your own goals by completely cutting off contact with the hero…’

‘The key to winning as a villain is avoiding the ‘plot armour’ as much as possible so that you don’t become a victim of the so called ‘power of friendship and love’…’

‘Er… just talking about that makes me feel cringe…’

Jareth glanced at Sylvia and spoke in a calm tone,

“Tomorrow morning, lead me to the entrance of that barrier of the forbidden area, I will scan the entire barrier and the miasma flow patter around it…”

“If I am working on this task, it’s already as good as done…”

Sylvia nodded her head and gave a knightly salute to thank him for his efforts.

“Uh, originally I though you were a dangerous and a very difficult to talk to type of person, but it seems you aren’t that bad after all, Mr. Jareth…”

Jareth just shrugged his shoulders at those words,

“You flatter me… I am just a humble professor, no need to think too much of it…”

‘I am not a bad person!? Woman, It seems your eyes are for decoration only perhaps! I am literally a heartless guy, if not for those sh*tty false dome cult members! I wouldn’t have come here!’

The elven country is suffering from starvation and is on death’s door, thousands of people are dying but that has nothing to do with him at all, elves are not the only people who are on the verge of death!

This entire planet is on the verge of death!

If those golden nails are not protected on time and the False dome cult isn’t taken care of, it will destroy the entire planet along with the billions of organisms that live on it.

‘Still, I don’t really care about the people from this planet, all I want is that my soul escapes the sea of miasma, everything else can go to sh*t!’

Wealth? Fame? Possessions? Relations?

All these are just mere decorations when you can’t even save your own life! What matters here is saving yourself from an eternal torture!

These things can be earned back again if your life is still there!

Jareth waved his hand and decided to go back to his room.

“I shall go back to my room now, you should get some rest too Ms. Sylvia, we have a long battle ahead, when we encounter the False Dome Cult it won’t be just a one-on-one battle…”

“There might be thousands of them waiting in ambush… that Fisur guy, he can create teleportation alters using forbidden magic…”

Sylvia nodded her head at Jareth words and gave a salute in return for the advice.

‘He’s quite a kind person it seems…’

Jareth’s actions are all in line with a benevolent person, so it wasn’t strange that Sylvia misunderstood him for a good person.

‘Well, he shows himself as a cold-hearted person from the outside, but he does have a warm heart, he’s quite like you big sis… I wonder what face you will make when you meet him?’

Sylvia glanced at the horizon and thought to herself.

‘Well… if he was an elf… I wouldn’t have minded it if I had to marry him… any girl will be happy to marry such a strong and kind hearted person…’

Sylvia sighed to herself and went back to her work thinking about her life if she was married to Jareth.

(It’s impossible for you Sylvia, he’s married to Shiina…)