Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 230

Chapter 230: Miasmic Instability… Part-2.
“This place… it’s affected with ‘Miasmic instability’…”

Upon hearing Jareth’s words, a serious look appeared on everyone’s face.

Miasmic instability is a phenomenon that happens when Mana and Miasma are fighting with each other in some closed area.

Mana and Miasma are completely incompatible, so placing them in an enclosed space will undoubtedly lead to chaos.

The flow of mana will start interrupting the flow of Miasma, and the opposite will also happen.

This strange situation caused immense instability in the void and the space-time fabric of the world in that particular place.

If the concentration of mana and miasma becomes too high and each of them keeps interrupting each other for a long time, that place is declared to have been affected with ‘Miasmic instability’.

“Hmm, it’s still in it’s early stages though… The density of miasma is still lower than the density of mana; things are still more calm right now… But as time passes, this place will become a dead zone where no living beings could enter…”

Jareth has mana singularity, so he won’t get affected by any chaotic mana and miasma currents in the area, but the rest of the group doesn’t have it.

“What type of phenomena appear when there’s miasmic instability in the area?”

Just when Jareth was about to answer Mark’s question.

A powerful fluctuation in the space-time fabric appeared and teleported Mark away on the spot in an instant.

No one, including Jareth, was able to react on time.

“Er… yeah, something like this happens…”

It seems the chaotic mana currents in the area heard Mark’s question and decided to give him a practical instead of a theoretical answer.

“Uh, what do we do now? Should we go look for him?”

At Sylvia’s question, Jareth shook his head and spoke in a calm tone.

“The spatial shockwave only teleported him somewhere nearby in the forbidden area; no need to worry much about it; he can take care of himself…”

“No one becomes powerful and strong without facing hardships; let him be for now; keep moving forward…”

Mark is the rival of the main protagonist; he won’t die so easily; he survived a more dangerous situation in the original timeline; this isn’t much of a problem for him.

As the group kept moving forward, Jareth suddenly had a thought, and he spoke.

“By the way, the intensity of these weird magical phenomena isn’t always stable; they can become weak and strong at a moment’s notice…”

Jareth glanced behind him and found that everyone had disappeared.

‘What the f*ck!?’

A frown appeared on Jareth’s face as all the members of the group went missing in an instant.

Jareth has been using his mana detection at full capacity the entire time, and he didn’t even notice them disappear, which is simply too weird!

His mana detection didn’t even notice when they got teleported away.

“No need to frown so much, Jareth Ayad… It’s beyond any human’s capabilities to sense something like that…”

*Step**Step*

Just when Jareth was a bit taken aback at the disappearance of the group, a person wearing a pitch-black robe appeared from the darkness in the corridor.

The person’s face was hidden behind a strange-looking white-colored mask that didn’t even have a single hole in it for eyes to see.

Jareth’s eyes narrowed as he glanced at the person wearing that pitch black robe.

His presence was tainted with miasma, and he was giving off a very dangerous aura, which seemed so familiar that Jareth couldn’t make a mistake in any case.

“Nathan… sigh, In the end, you really end up joining the False Dome Cult after all…”

The moment he had appeared in front of Jareth, his presence became visible, and it was easy to identify him.

Jareth saw through his identity in an instant and also figured out that the other party has likely joined the False Dome cult and has gotten tainted with miasma.

“Well, I had no other choice; I wasn’t ready to stay in that sh*tty death cage for my entire life, of course…”

“Anyway, I was already old, and at the end of my lifespan, years of hard work and injuries from past battles had reduced my lifespan a lot, so I didn’t have much time anyway…”

At that moment, Nathan took off his mask, and a face of a young man in his early twenties appeared.

“Miasma is such a fascinating power… By accepting it, I have regained my youth! I am at my peak once again now! I can research for a much longer time, and I can live for even after Miasma invades this world…”

“Isn’t this fascinating!”

Although Nathan’s face looked young and handsome, his eyes were clearly showing that this guy has definitely lost a part of his mind, and he’s losing his sanity bit by bit.

His eyes were filled with madness.

‘I see… It’s miasmic decay, a horrible way of torture…’

Jareth has seen it in the game lore, so he can easily figure out what has happened to Nathan.

Miasmic decay is a type of phenomenon that happens to people who get corrupted by miasma to the point that their soul gets tainted while they are still alive.

The miasma slowly starts to steal away your life, your memories, your will, and your sanity from you.

As time passes, the person inflicted with this condition starts to feel immense pain that directly comes from their soul being slowly ripped apart while they are still alive.

This pain is beyond any other level of torture; it’s enough to drive even the strongest-minded person insane in a matter of a few minutes!

Getting inflicted by this situation is basically a death sentence where you get horribly tortured for decades to come before your soul finally shatters and gets reduced to nothingness.

‘He must be only in the starting stages right now; that’s why he’s still a bit sane and capable of thought…’

As Jareth had anticipated, the False Dome Cult will undoubtedly use Nathan.

‘Well, they already know the location of all the golden nails, so it doesn’t matter if they have Nathan with them now or not… They already have all the information he can give…’

‘They are likely planning on using him as a puppet from now on…’

Despite the fact that Nathan has a bad personality and causes trouble, his strength is not to be questioned.

Even without miasmic corruption, he was already a peak grade-1 mage stronger than even Reynald, and now that he’s affected by miasmic corruption and has gained more powers, he’s definitely gotten much stronger.

‘Not only has he been strengthened by miasma, we are currently in a place where mana and miasma are causing disturbances in each other’s flow…’

That means this place is disadvantageous for both mana and miasma users, but as Nathan is a space-type magic user, he will be at an advantage.

He can tell where the miasma flow is stronger in the void and can use it to enhance his own magic’s effectiveness.

This is also the reason why Jareth wasn’t able to notice the group being teleported away on time, as Nathan was using miasma and the void to cover his tracks.

“I know everything, Jareth! After I disappeared for a while, you piece of sh*t actually put all the blame on me in the conference and declared Thomas to be the next principal!!”

“You did all that without my permission!! I am the principal of the university! I created it all with my own efforts!!”

“You have no rights to change the principal without my permission, you garbage!!”

“You were only a mere grade-2 mage up until now; you only became a grade-1 mage recently! You are nothing compared to me!!”

“I can kill the likes of you as easily as swatting a fly!” HAHAHAHAH…”

Hearing all those words from Nathan, Jareth came to a conclusion,

‘Yeah, he’s definitely losing his sanity… They must have stationed him here to suppress my movements and cause delay…’

The False Dome cult is filled with people that have several screws loose in their minds, but their leader, Rahnan, is a very cunning man; he knows how to create intricate plans and deal with situations with the least effort.

‘He’s basically just another ‘Jareth Blaze’… a genius who wasn’t blessed with mana and talent despite having amazing mental capabilities….’

‘Fighting mindless fools with immense power is much easier than fighting a cunning enemy that is weak but can make extremely complicated plans…’

Moreover, Rahnan isn’t even weak anymore; he’s blessed with miasma and has become powerful.

In other words, he has an extremely intelligent mind and powers beyond ordinary people’s comprehension capabilities.

‘I wonder if he’s also here though… It’s likely that he only sent this ‘puppet’ and Fisur… but there might be others too…’

Jareth has spread out his mana detection, but the place is affected by miasmic instability, so his mana detection isn’t working properly in this place.

He has to follow the map that Sylvia gave him before coming here to reach the core area where the Golden Nail might be located.

“You are dead meat, Jareth!! You are dead meat!!! I will kill you and turn you into meat paste!!!”

“I will feed your corpse to my pet Yoma at dinner!! HAHAHAHA!!”

Nathan himself doesn’t know what he’s even talking about anymore; he’s in a state of trance where he’s slowly losing his sanity, and right now the only thing on his mind is the order given by Rahnan.

Which is to eliminate Jareth at any cost.

As he’s affected by Miasma and is being mind-controlled, he can’t even disobey the orders anymore; he’s basically just a mindless puppet at this point.