Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 232

Chapter 232: The Battle Starts! Part-2.
‘Wha-what!? Where am I all of a sudden!?’

Mark glanced around and found himself standing in some kind of pitch-dark place with no light sources nearby.

Nathan’s teleportation magic had teleported him away from the group when he used the miasmic instability of the area to his advantage.

[Basic Magic: Glowing Mana Orb!]

Using the glowing mana orb, Mark lit up the surroundings, but as his mana orb wasn’t as powerful as Jareth’s, it was only the size of a basketball, and it could only light up a few dozen meters of area.

Once the area lit up, Mark noticed that the place he was standing was littered with hundreds of gigantic skeletons!

‘Monster bones? What is this place? Why are there so many gigantic skeletons here!?’

He glanced down and found that he was standing on a gigantic skull that seemed like an elephant-type monster skull!

Just when Mark was getting more and more confused, the rest of the group also appeared beside him all of a sudden as they also got teleported.

“Wh-what the!? What is this place!?”

“Ahh! There’re so many skeletons!”

Everyone was taken aback by the sudden teleportation. Risa glanced at Mark and heaved a sigh of relief.

“I thought I wouldn’t be able to find you; good thing we didn’t get separated by the teleportation… The miasmic instability here is indeed very dangerous…”

Just when the entire group was getting more and more confused, Sylvia glanced at Mark and spoke in an anxious tone.

“Mark, can you make that light source fly towards the ceiling? I want to conform something…”

“I hope my guess isn’t true…”

At Sylvia’s words, the entire group calmed down, and Mark made his mana orb fly higher while Risa and the other mages also cast their own mana orbs to keep the area bright.

Mark’s mana orb flew higher for a few seconds at high speed and finally reached the ceiling.

The ceiling of the place was quite high; it was hundreds of meters high.

“What I feared has come true… this place is the ‘Trophy Hall!’…”

Everyone felt confused at Sylvia’s words and couldn’t understand why she was feeling so anxious.

“Trophy hall? Does that mean they used to keep treasures and trophies in this place? That would be so amazing!”

Sylvia shook her head; she brought out the helmet of her armor from her space ring and immediately wore it in an instant.

“There’s no time to explain! Everyone gets in combat stance! We can get attacked at any moment!”

“Just keep in mind that this place isn’t just a trophy ground anymore; this is a monster nest for a very terrifying monster!!”

*Crunch* *Crunch*

Just as everyone raised their guard, an eerie sound of bones being crunched started to resound in the entire trophy hall.

Mark’s mana detection immediately noticed the disturbance in the mana nearby, and his expression became solemn.

“A gigantic horde of monsters is coming our way…”

Hearing those words, Sylvia immediately took command of battle with a solemn look on her face.

She unsheathed her sword and spoke in a solemn voice.

“Make the arrow formation! I will be the spearhead; we will break out right through this encirclement! If we waste too much time here, we will all die!”

“Don’t look back; just follow me and run like crazy!!

As Sylvia completed giving her instructions, a gigantic horde of spider-type monsters came rushing from all directions and surrounded the group.

Sylvia raised her sword above her shoulder and took her stance.

[Elemental Sword Art: Fire Type: Flaming Arrow!!]

She swung her sword downwards and fired a gigantic flame arrow from her sword towards the horde of spiders rushing in her direction.

She completely burned all the spiders in front of her to crisp and opened a small opening through the encirclement for the entire group!

“Now!! Follow me!!”

[Elemental Sword Art: Wind Type: Rushing Wind Storm!]

Using the boost of the wind elementals, Sylvia gave more speed to the entire group, and everyone rushed forward with all their might to get out of the place.

Mark and all the mages cast ‘float’ magic on them all, and Sylvia’s windstorm attack gave them enough push to fly out of the place at an extremely high speed!

The spiders immediately aimed at the group and tried to fire their spider silk threads at them, but Sylvia noticed it immediately.

[Elemental Sword Art: Fire Type: Blazing Heat Wall!]

As a gigantic wall of fire had surrounded the from all sides, Sylvia’s sword attack was impeccable and perfect!

She easily repelled away all the silk thread attacks and burned them to crisp before they could even reach the group.

Sylvia might just be a peak-grade 2 swordsman, but she was depicted as a very powerful character even in the game lore.

She took down an entire army of lesser demons and monsters alone; this much is nothing for her!

The group immediately broke out of the encirclement and continued to float further towards the walls of the ‘Trophy Hall’!

“Keep going till we reach the walls! I will break those walls for you! Keep going! We can’t stay in this place!”

“I have read records that a powerful grade-1 spider-type monster made this place its nest during the days when this underground area was finally closed off completely!”

“Those smaller spiders must be its offspring’s!! We can’t stay in this place! If that grade-1 monstrosity noticed us, we will be nothing but it’s prey!”

They had been teleported here suddenly, and Jareth isn’t with them right now, so they can’t fight a grade-1 monster head on!

Fighting a grade-1 monster in their current state will be suicide!

“Breakthrough!!”

The group encountered more spiders coming from the front, but Sylvia took care of them in an instant!

[Elemental Sword Art: Thunder type: Raging thunder dragon!]

Mark and the entire group were shocked to the core by Sylvia’s techniques.

There are very few people in the world that have affinity for several elements all at once.

Sylvia being able to use three elements one after another is really a great feat! Even a genius like Mark can’t help but feel admiration for the other party.

‘She’s so strong!! If she was a grade 1 being… she would have been unstoppable!!’

After dealing with several groups of spiders coming at them continuously, the group finally reached the wall of the trophy hall.

“Get ready to jump out! I am gonna destroy the wall!!”

[Elemental Sword Art: Moon Type: Heavy Armor Piercer!]

*BOOOM!!*

Sylvia took her stance and thrust the swordstip into the wall with all her might; her mana created a massive shockwave, and the wall collapsed in an instant from her attack!

The group flew out as the wall collapsed and blocked the path for the spiders, making it impossible for them to pursue the group any further!

Sylvia’s quick decision-making skills and fast reactions saved everyone’s life in that moment.

If they hadn’t broken out of the encirclement on time, they would have gotten entangled with hundreds of thousands of spiders in this place, and there would have been no end to it.

Eventually they would have all died under the endless seize of those spider monsters.

The group panted heavily as they finally made it out of the place safely, but Sylvia immediately pointed her sword toward the corridor and spoke in a serious tone.

“This is no time to rest; get moving! This place isn’t safe! The grade-1 monster must be out hunting for food or something right now!”

“We must get out of here before it comes back and finds us!!”

With Sylvia’s command, the entire group immediately started to move away from the trophy hall in a hurry.

Just dealing with those little spiders is such a big trouble if a gigantic monstrosity also came with them; they will really die in this place.

“By the way… what is that sword art of yours? It’s so amazing! It lets you control so many elements! I wanna learn it too!!”

While walking through the dark corridors, Risa requested Sylvia to teach her the sword art with an excited look on her face, but Sylvia shook her head at those words.

“I can’t teach you this sword art… In fact, no one can… This sword art is called ‘Elemental Sword Art’; it’s been passed down from generation to generation among the royal elven family…”

“Only the elves with royal bloodline can use this sword technique, as only they have such high affinity for all types of elements! Anyone else can’t use it…”

“Well, even in the history books, there’s no clear record of who created this sword art and where it came from…”

Sylvia patted Risa’s head and spoke in a helpless tone.

“Forgive me… If it were actually possible, I would have really liked to teach it to you…”

Risa shook her head and stopped asking unreasonable demands when Sylvia explained the situation.

“Can a human never learn this technique?”

Sylvia nodded her head at Risa’s question.

“Yeah, unless there’s someone who has such high sword talent that the sword art itself decides to bow down to their feet and acknowledges them as their master…”

“I don’t think anyone would be able to use it otherwise…”

“There’s no way such a person could exist in this world, though… After all, if there really was such a person, he wouldn’t even need this sword art anymore…”

“He would have already awakened the legendary skill ‘Sword Intent’!! At that point, sword arts just become auxiliary support skills; ‘Sword Intent’ is the true pinnacle of swordsmanship…”

“Every sword user in the world dreams of obtaining it…”

(And then there’s a guy who uses that very sword intent to make tea… I wonder who it is…)