Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 226

Chapter 226: Entering the Forbidden Area… Part-1.
Next morning, Palace, hidden basement.

“Hmm, so the actual path to the forbidden area is from directly under the throne room… A clever tactic indeed; intruders will have a hard time finding it, and if there’s people to guard, then it will be even more difficult…”

“Moreover, the person sitting on the throne would be the grade-1 mage, the elven queen; thus, even if a powerful person sneaks inside, they will be spotted easily…”

“The elves who made this structure put a lot of thought into this matter…”

Sylvia, who was walking beside Jareth downstairs into the hidden basement, nodded her head at those words.

“Well… even with all these, we can’t stop the intruders if the main barrier itself has flaws and new openings have been created somewhere…”

“In case the barrier has become flawed, this path is one of the most useless ones if we look at it this way…”

Jareth felt quite amused after hearing those words.

“Quite the daring one aren’t you, Ms. Sylvia, to think you will belittle the work of your own ancestors… I didn’t expect that from an elf…”

Sylvia shrugged her shoulders at those words.

“Times change… Although I am an elf, I am more on the less kinder side… I am not like the other elf’s who only know kindness… I have killed enough people in my work of line to say that I am not kind at all…”

“I have started to stop thinking of myself as an elf nowadays; we need to adapt if we need to deal with humans; being kind and benevolent will make us end in the same way the fairy race ended…”

Jareth also nodded his head at those words.

“Well, I can’t deny that… You guys really need to adapt to the cruel world if you want to survive while maintaining trade with humans…”

“You are planning to become trade partners with humans, but right now you have nothing of value; moreover, your military might is not that impressive either…”

“Even if you don’t count me and Reynald from the human empire, the military of our empire alone is enough to wipe your entire nation off the surface of earth a thousand times over and over…”

“I don’t mean to insult you, but Elves are weak right now, so weak that you guys aren’t even as strong as the least armed town of the human empire…”

“Even ordinary humans can use guns and defend themselves against stray animals and low-level monsters… but look at elves… sigh…”

Elves are all born gifted with immense mana affinity.

If they work hard to become strong, they can all become strong mages and warriors in just a few years!

If all elves train and work hard to learn combat skills, they can overpower the humans without even the need of technology and weapons!

That just shows how talented the elf race is!

Even the least talented elf has many times more talent than people like original Jareth, who had very little talent for magic.

But the biggest problem is that elves don’t like violence; they don’t train combat skills, and no matter how talented one is, if they don’t use that talent, it all goes to waste!

No matter how talented you are, if you don’t work hard to improve, all that talent is nothing but decoration!

Most elves don’t even learn a single spell or martial skill their entire life; all that combat talent goes to waste most of the time.

“Talking about the army, the number of knights stationed in this capital city is extremely low… I couldn’t find more than five hundred of them with my mana detection…”

“Don’t tell me that this entire capital where tens of thousands of elves are living is being protected by just a mere handful of knights and mages…”

Sylvia gritted her teeth, clenched her fist at those words, and nodded her head, her head lowered in shame at that moment.

“Yes… It’s just as you have sensed there’s barely five hundred people who even know basic combat skills…”

“Out of them all, only a few are even grade-3; only I am the only peak grade-2 warrior here….”

“We don’t even have enough soldiers to organize a proper army… It’s all just as bad as you are thinking…”

Sylvia clenched her fists tightly while walking and spoke in a quiet voice.

“In fact, being a warrior or a mage is seen as bad thing in our race… Violence, war, bloodshed—all these things are like taboo among the elven race; just talking about them will get you strange stares, and everyone will start avoiding you…”

“If you choose to become a soldier, if you choose to learn combat skills and magic, you become a total outcast from society; not a single elf will talk to you; no one will care about you…”

“Everyone will avoid you like a plauge…”

Jareth got a bit curious about this matter, so he asked,

“What if they are in danger and you save them with your strength? They will still not appreciate your kindness?”

Sylvia sighed and nodded her head without hesitation.

“Yes, they still won’t appreciate it… Elves believe that ‘Nature is the supreme existence’, Animals, plants, monsters, and everything is a part of this supreme existence…”

“If you pray firmly in your mind and keep your faith alive, monsters will not attack you and everything will be kind to you; no harm will come your way if you have enough faith in ‘Nature’ in your heart…”

Jareth could help but shake his head in disappointment after hearing those words.

Even he didn’t know about this part of the lore as this likely wasn’t added in the game, but finding it out from Sylvia has made him even more disappointed in the elves now.

Jareth is the type of person who only believes in himself; he doesn’t keep empty faith in things that seem completely nonexistent; that seems more like random bullsh*t to him.

“I guess you can say that everything is indeed part of ‘Nature’; that bit is true… But monsters and animals attacking others for food is also ‘Nature’…”

“What makes you guys think that they will go against ‘nature’ and won’t attack you if you pray in your heart?”

“You guys are just contradicting yourself at this point; this is the highest level of bullsh*t I have ever seen in my life…”

Jareth shrugged his shoulders and spoke in a calm tone.

“The fairy race was at least genuinely kind and benevolent; you guys, on the other hand, are straight up weirdos…”

“You aren’t genuinely kind; you are trying to act kind because of a false sense of non-existent faith that everything will be kind to you if you are kind…”

Hearing Jareth’s words, Sylvia didn’t get angry at all; instead, she sighed in helplessness.

“You saw through all this and figured out the truth so easily… I wonder why the other elves can’t see this truth like you…”

“Perhaps, they all want to run away from the truth that what they are doing is just delusional thinking; it won’t do them any good…”

“This is the reason why I am so worried about them coming into contact with humans; they will definitely mess up…”

Unlike Elves, most humans live without delusions of being overly kind to others.

Although humans have a moral sense too, it isn’t as flawed as the elves; they will definitely take advantage of the naïve nature of the elves, and the trade will become completely pointless at that point.

“Yeah, if human merchants came here, the elves would end up losing all their money, and most of them would go into serious debt and fall victim to scams and various bad people…”

“Their life will turn into hell…”

Jareth also nodded his head and gave an honest answer.

But he also gave advice at that moment:

“Well, you still have hope at the least; you have your princess Ava, unlike you older elves; she’s young; her beliefs and goals haven’t solidified yet like you guys…”

“She still has room to adapt to the new way of life; maybe if the conditions are right, she can learn to get rid of this delusional and empty faith of yours and will teach how to achieve this to the entire younger generation…”

“Change will slowly come that way; it will be slow and might take a long time, but… elves are not short on time anyway, so it doesn’t matter…”

Elves have long lifespans; if they try to bring about change, they will definitely succeed in a few decades or centuries; they have enough time to work hard.

‘Well, that is if this world can allow it…’

Although Jareth knew about the hopelessness of this world, he didn’t say it out loud as it didn’t matter much in this circumstance.

“We are here…”

Just when Jareth was busy thinking various things in his mind, the two of them finally reached the hidden basement, and a gigantic door appeared in Jareth’s view.

“So this is the entrance to the forbidden area? It’s quite magnificent… Moreover, it’s made up of material that is a mana detection repellent…”

“No wonder even my mana detection was feeling such powerful suppression while scanning this area…”

Jareth couldn’t help but smirk a bit while looking at that gigantic door and that massive magic barrier protecting the entirety of it.

‘It’s very impressive; even in it’s worn-out state, I can still sense the ‘laws’ of the ‘world’ blessing the barrier…’

‘The person who made this put some serious effort into it, I guess…’

Jareth placed his hand, at the door and used his mana singularity to sense the mana and miasma flow inside and near the entire barrier.