Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 225

Chapter 225: Troubles of being a Princess…
“I see… That means you are actually a descendant of powerful elven heroes who fought in the war of abysmal purification!?”

Ava nodded her head at Risa’s question.

“Yup, the first elven royals were the leaders of the elven population that won in the war of Abysmal Purification and were able to establish this country!”

Sitting in a gazebo in the half-destroyed garden of the palace, the group enjoyed tea to cool off their nervousness and stress while talking about various random things.

The war of Abysmal Purification happened in a time even before the birth of the First King, Strar U’lbyatre.

During those times, quite a few races came together in an alliance with the elves to fight against powerful Beast Overlords who were mutated by miasma and were strong enough to destroy civilizations!

“There were many heroes in our lineage; it is said that there was a hero named Zion Reid who once saved the entire country by himself!”

“A gigantic moon-turtle-type monster attacked the country; it was so big that mountains seemed short in front of it!”

“It is said that it’s shell was so strong that its toughness could compete with power metals from myths and legends like Mithril and Adamantine!”

Ava glanced at the three curious new friends of her and spoke in a serious tone for a more dramatic effect.

“And such a powerful monster was split in two by Hero Zion Reid in one sword attack!”

“Zion Reid was not only a powerful grade-1 mage! He was also an extremely strong swordsman! Armed combat, unarmed combat, military tactics, and troop management—he was a master of them all!”

“It is said that despite having a small frame, he had enough strength in his hand that he was capable of defeating an ogre in arm wrestling!!”

Ogre are believed to have nearly the strength of five elephants! They are ridiculously strong.

To be able to defeat an ogre in arm wrestling is an insane feat that can put even the strongest warriors to shame!

“I wonder how he had so much strength despite having the build of a normal elf, or perhaps the history is a bit exaggerated; he must have been extremely tall and muscular!”

“Even bigger than an Ogre!”

An ogre is about five meters tall, and they are naturally very muscular; their bodies are built in such a way that they grow up with well-built muscles without even doing any training at all!

They are naturally gifted from the very start.

To be able to compete with them in physical capabilities is something only an abnormally talented person can do.

“Er… you mean to say that he was good in martial arts too!?”

A look of pure shock appeared on the trio’s face when Ava started to mention Zion Reid’s ridiculous feats of strength.

Just when they had started this journey, Jareth had told them that he met a man named Zion Reid in the depths of the Abyss Altar Area and fought with him on equal terms!

The two of them fought till the point they had a draw! They even ran out of mana and fought with fist afterwards!

Originally, the three of them didn’t know that Zion was ridiculously strong even without mana and was even stronger than the most powerful warriors!

Jareth was able to fight him in hand-to-hand combat and push the battle to a draw; he even forced Zion to retreat and was only an inch away from victory!

This just proves how ridiculously strong Jareth is in terms of physical capabilities!

‘T-this is insanity!’

Up until now, Mark used to think that he could catch up to Jareth by just working hard as a mage and improving his magic capabilities, but who could have thought that aside from being a mage, Jareth was a powerful warrior too!

‘A-at this rate, I will never be able to catch up to him!’

The trio has never seen Jareth use physical strength to deal with enemies; that’s why they weren’t sure about it before.

But now that they have found out about this, they can be sure that Jareth is at least a peak grade-2 warrior in disguise!!

‘Ah, I see now! He never uses his physical strength because he simply doesn’t need to!!’

‘He kills his enemies before they can even make him run out of mana, and thus he doesn’t really need to resort to using…’

Mark and the other two had the exact same idea in their minds at that moment; they all thought the same thing at that moment.

‘His mana capacity is extremely high!’

The three of them saw Jareth fight Konda with their own eyes. Jareth launched extremely powerful attacks as if they were just random spells, which he was tossing around casually.

Yet, even after using so many powerful spells and fighting for three days and three nights straight with such a powerful foe, Jareth still didn’t run out of mana at all!!

This just proves that Jareth’s mana capacity is extremely high!

The three of them don’t have ‘mana singularity,’ so they misunderstood that Jareth had an insanely high mana capacity that was as vast as an ocean.

What they didn’t know was that the mana capacity is the sole reason why he’s still only a grade-2 mage; he doesn’t have high mana capacity!

The only reason he never runs out of mana is because he can replenish it extremely fast, to the point that his mana usage speed is lower than his mana replenishment speed!

In the Abyss Altar Area, there was no mana in the surroundings, thus Jareth ran out of mana quickly during the fight with Zion, but if they were fighting above ground and not in that place, Jareth would have had a complete upper hand.

Not only does he have an attack enhancement card that can settle the match in critical moments, he even would have an infinite mana supply, so he would never run out of it.

Zion, on the other hand, will get tired and will run out of mana easily!

But of course, Zion is not an idiot; he would have noticed all this from the last battle; he won’t come to deal with Jareth until he has found a clue to beating Jareth despite all these advantages!

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“Er… By the way, what about your father, princess Ava? What happened to the Elf King? It seems no one talks about him much… They only refer to the queen, not the king…”

Hearing Azul’s random question, Ava sighed a bit before replying.

“My father was a very sickly person from the start; he had a fragile and weak body… Despite his physical weakness and lack of magical abilities, he was an exceptionally intelligent individual.”

“He was one of the greatest minds of the empire; his strategies and plans were flawless and extremely effective!”

“Even my mother, who’s a powerful grade 1 mage, couldn’t hold a candle in front of his amazing capabilities of dealing with various problems…”

Ava clenched her fists at thinking about the matter.

“If he was still alive, I am sure he could have easily dealt with the problems of this country; he could have easily made plans that would have saved the entire country with minimum casualties!”

“And look at me on the other hand… Both of my parents are great people; one was a great ruler with an extremely smart mind, and the other is a powerful mage of no equals in the entire Elven empire…”

“Yet… I am nothing in front of them… Despite being their daughter, neither am I smart as my father, nor am I as strong as my mother… I loathe myself for being so pathetic and so weak…”

Everyone has their own circumstances in life; Mark and the other two have never lived a life similar to Ava, so they can’t understand her problems.

Thus, they didn’t know what to say to her at that moment.

Ava was supposed to be a heroine after all; her backstory was supposed to make the players sympathize with her. Here, Mark and the other two are villains; they aren’t supposed to play the role of consoling her.

Seeing the sad look on her face, Mark sighed and spoke in a calm tone.

“Well, at the least, you know that you are weak; knowing yourself is the first step to becoming strong… That’s what my mother always says…”

“She’s a powerful knight; she once told me that if you want to become strong, there’s no shortcut to it; you have to work hard every day and reach the top in a slow and steady method…”

“She said that you mustn’t compare yourself to others; you are you, and others are others… The only person you should compare yourself to is a better version of yourself…”

Mark shrugged his shoulders at that moment, sipped the tea, and spoke in a vague tone.

“Well, even I don’t get the whole of it… But yeah, that’s how it is for us who are born in influential families; we are born with a golden spoon in our mouth, but that has a cost of its own too…”

“The more power, money, fame, etc. you have, the more sacrifices and responsibilities you have on your shoulders… If you don’t fulfill the responsibilities even after all that, then you are never going to progress…”

Risa smiled at that moment and spoke in a carefree tone.

“I am the youngest in my family, so I don’t usually care about all that; maybe you should also try to be carefree? Being carefree of the problems can solve most troubles in the world…”

Ava felt a bit awkward about Risa’s advice, but she didn’t deny.

‘Wait… isn’t that just being ignorant!? Why are you telling me to become ignorant!? What!?’