Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 231

Chapter 231: The Battle Starts! Part-1.
[Grade-1 Space Magic: Stable Teleportation Field!]

Nathan stomped the ground, and a massive amount of miasma spread around to create a gigantic field of free teleportation.

In this field, Nathan has the ability to teleport freely to any location he can see with his eyes, providing him with immense mobility and making it nearly impossible to land a solid attack on him.

This is Nathan’s iconic move that he always uses in combat; Jareth’s very familiar with this tactic of his.

Using this tactic of teleporting from one place to another, Nathan attacks the opponent from blind spots and slowly injures and tires them out before finally dealing a decisive blow.

Nathan’s fighting style is like that of ‘Hyena’, slowly torturing the opponent to death while putting the least amount of effort into it during the entire process.

The biggest problem is that Jareth can’t outright interrupt this field right now.

Had it been made of mana, Jareth could have used mana singularity to destroy it using the mana flow around.

But now that Nathan’s been corrupted with miasma, this strategy won’t work, and Jareth can’t shatter the field with mana singularity.

‘The biggest problem of them all is that he can cast it extremely quickly…’

Nathan’s been a grade-1 mage for a very long time; he’s trained his grade-1 spells for a very long time, and thus his proficiency over them is extremely high.

This teleportation field is Nathan’s specialty, and this is the spell that he’s practiced the most.

Just like Jareth’s mana singularity is his bread and butter, Nathan’s main ability is this spell.

He’s practiced it to the point that he can cast it without a single-second delay while consuming an extremely small amount of mana.

“This isn’t the end, Jareth! See this!”

With a maniac-like smile on his face, Nathan brought out a wand from his space ring and used it to enhance his magic even further.

Looking at that weapon, even Jareth frowned a bit.

‘A peak grade-1 ancient elven wand… This is likely one of the weapons they stole from the armory…’

Nathan embedded the wand with his mana and laughed like a maniac.

“HAHAHA, This is ‘Enoron’, an ancient weapon of mass destruction once used by the general of the elven armies from ancient times!”

“This weapon is a perfect fit for me!! It increases the destructive power of my space magic by several times over!! And reduced the mana cost to the extreme!!”

“Jareth! You are nothing in front of the power of this ancient weapon!! I will kill you here today!!”

Jareth raised his fist and punched the ground with immense force at that moment!

*BOOOM!* *CRACK!*

The entire floor was cracked and broke apart; cracks appeared in the teleportation field, and it got shattered in an instant as if it were as fragile as paper in front of Jareth’s punch!

“You talk a lot… in the first place… Who asked?”

When your magic isn’t working against something, what should you do?

Jareth’s answer to that question is simple: you might be out of magical abilities, but you are not out of options!

Make the opponent catch those d*mn hands!

Although Jareth can’t destroy the teleportation field with mana singularity, he can still use it to figure out the weakness of the ability.

Jareth had already concentrated his mana detection in the area covered by the teleportation field the very moment it was cast to figure out its weaknesses.

He used the time that Nathan wasted to spout nonsense and figured out a very fatal weakness of the teleportation field in that small time.

The teleportation field, when cast, attaches itself to the surface of a fixed area; it can’t be moved anymore.

Thus, Jareth directly smashed the entire floor, and thus the teleportation field attached to it also broke apart along with the floor.

If it was some other mage, they couldn’t have noticed this weakness so easily, as the mana control needed to detect this weakness is very high.

Jareth has mana singularity, so he can do such things more easily.

“You barbarian… You are a shame in the name of magic! Despite being a wizard, you are using physical power to do your bidding!? You piece of sh*t!!”

The more Nathan talked, the weirder his talking method became, which made Jareth even more confused.

‘Hmm? He’s losing his sanity much faster than I anticipated; he’s even started to spout insults for no apparent reason now…’

‘Well, getting corrupted by miasma does put a lot of burden on your mind after all… This guy’s losing his edge…’

For a magician, being in a calm state during combat is extremely important; only when your mind is calm can the magic circles created by you be stable and strong!

Alternatively, the instability of the magic circle significantly diminishes their destructive power.

‘Still, he’s an experienced wizard. At the end of the day, I should remain cautious. In a battle between peak powerhouses, even a single mistake can cost you your life…’

[Grade-3 Fire Magic: Pursuing Flame Tornado!]

Jareth’s grimoire shined brightly, and a gigantic magic circle appeared on the ground, which unleashed a massive tornado made of true flames!

Nathan was also not going to sit back and watch it all happen; he also cast his magic to counterattack on the spot.

[Grade-2 Space Magic: Spatial Pitfall!]

He used miasma once again and opened a giant portal like a pitfall in the space below the fire tornado.

“AHAHAH, I told you! You can’t defeat me, Jareth! I will now teleport this attack of yours upon you!”

Just when the portal was about to swallow the tornado, the ‘True Flames’ got triggered.

Jareth is blessed with the ‘Law’ of the ‘True Flames’, and all of his fire magic is made up of true flames.

This kind of flame can burn anything and everything that’s under the power of the ‘Laws’ of the world.

Contrary to popular belief, all types of magic are actually ‘equal’ from the start.

People believe that ‘Space’ or ‘Time’ magic is stronger than other types of magic, but that’s not true at all.

All types of magic are actually, in fact, ‘equal’; it just depends on the user how they use it.

Jareth’s true flames directly burned the portal itself and shattered the space magic used by Nathan on the spot!

Nathan’s space-type magic is indeed strong, but it’s not blessed with the power of a ‘law’ of the ‘world’ after all; it can’t contend with Jareth’s true flames at all.

This is also the reason Jareth was able to challenge Zion Reid head-to-head.

Zion’s light magic is in fact blessed with the power of the ‘Law’ of the ‘Radiant Light’.

Jareth’s and Zion’s magic cancelled out each other as they were equally powerful and harmed them both in similarly fatal manner.

[Grade-1 Space Magic: Stable Teleportation Field!]

Seeing that his portal was shattered and the flame tornado was still moving towards him at an insanely high speed, Nathan immediately cast another teleportation field to escape.

“Again? Is there nothing else in your arsenal?”

*BOOOM!*

Jareth stomped the ground with all his strength and shattered, breaking the floor even more to shatter the teleportation field once again!

Although Jareth was able to break the teleportation field, Nathan was still able to dodge the tornado at least.

The flame tornado hit the walls behind, and everything got melted to the point that only molten lava was left behind!

“You b*stard! How dare you shatter my teleportation field again!!”

*COUGH!* *URK!* *COUGH*

All of a sudden Nathan started to cough up a mouthful of blood and glared at Jareth with extreme hatred.

‘It worked?’

Nathan’s body isn’t that of a warrior after all; he’s a powerful wizard, but his body is weak.

Jareth hit the floor with such insane strength two times! The shockwaves and vibrations produced by his attack were equivalent to an extremely powerful earthquake.

And as the teleportation field was in close contact with Nathan via his feet, the vibrations and shockwaves also hit him and injured his body from the inside out.

Tanking one of those shockwaves was already an amazing feat, but two was a bit too much for even Nathan.

All of his internal organs were hit and lightly damaged, thus resulting in internal bleeding.

Jareth doesn’t have that ’99’ Int stat just for show; he planned it all out the very moment he figured out the weakness of the teleportation field.

A magic spell that Nathan trained in for his whole life was rendered completely useless by Jareth in a matter of seconds.

Right now, if Nathan uses it again for the third time and Jareth shatters it, the shockwaves that will hit Nathan will destroy all of his internal organs beyond recovery.

He will die on the spot.

This is the horror of an intelligent mind paired with a powerful body; defeating powerful opponents becomes as easy as a walk in the park!

“Already on your knees, Nathan? I guess all those words of insult were nothing but empty talk after all…”

Jareth shook his head while looking at Nathan with a look of disgust.

‘If it was Zion Reid, he wouldn’t have fallen for such an obvious trick… sigh, I kind of miss fighting him now…’

It’s very rare that you meet someone who has a battle IQ as high as him; thus, it makes Jareth miss the moments when he was fighting Zion with all his might.

Zion could go toe to toe with him; that just proved how amazing that guy is.

‘If the circumstances were different… I would have liked to become your friend, Zion U’lbyatre…’