Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 39

Potion Making event! Part-2.
The news that a massive live competition will be held at the university where excellent students will show off their skills to the world spread like wildfire.

The whole internet seemed to have been taken aback by this sudden news and the parents of the students, immediately started to make preparations to attend the event.

Moreover, those who couldn’t afford the tickets for the venue can watch the show live from the comfort of their home through TV or smartphones.

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Unaware of the chaos that was happening outside the university, the students were busy thinking about what potion to practice.

Mark got paired up with his three lackeys and Risa. (Of course, it was Jareth’s doing…)

“Earlier when prof. Jareth told us about the competition, he didn’t specify which potion we should be working on…” (Mark)

Potion-making is usually a job that only healing-type mages like to do, but as this university is the most advanced in the whole empire, it has the resources to teach the basics of potion-making to all students free of cost.

Aria is the teacher responsible for teaching the students about potion making, and in the past month, she has taught them about a few basic grade potions.

With her careful teaching, even the most talentless student can make a simple potion like ‘Mana Restoring potion’, or ‘basic recovery potion’.

Keep in mind that recovery potions and healing potions are different things, recovery potions are usually quite versatile, and they can be used to recover mana, or enhance the body’s natural healing process to recover health.

They can be used to recover fatigue and blood loss like minor inconveniences too, but the effects of this potion are too mild and they can’t be used to treat severe or fatal wounds.

That’s where healing potions come in.

Healing potions are made by condensing the ‘Healing mana’ produced by the healing magic.

Healing potions can only be made by a mage who can use healing magic, thus most students aren’t able to make this potion.

They usually go for the recovery potion instead if they don’t have an affinity with Wood Magic. (Healing magic is a sub-branch of Wood magic…)

Risa glanced around and noticed that other groups were also talking about this matter.

“I think the professor didn’t give us a specific potion because we are free to make any type of potion…” (Risa)

Just when Mark and Risa were confused, Mark’s three lackeys looked into each other’s eyes mysteriously and nodded at each other.

“Ahem, Sister-in-law, I think we should make the Love-love potion!” (Lackey no.1.)

“Yes! You can charm Brother Mark with it instantly!” (Lackey No.2.)

“Go go! We support you!” (Lackey No.3.)

Hearing their words, Risa’s eyes shined brightly and a smile appeared on her face.

“Yes! We will make the love-love potion!” (Risa)

“Cough! Cough! Ahem…. It’s called a ‘Charm Potion’ idiots….” (Mark)

Mark shook his head in dismay.

‘I have gotten the most useless team out of the whole class… all four of my teammates have below average grades and none of them knows sh*T about making potions…’ (Mark)

Mark shook his head at his own bad luck, now he will have to do the whole project alone as the other four are just too useless, they don’t even know the proper names of the potions.

“Moreover… a charm potion only works on people below grade 5, it’s a very low-grade potion, its effects are very mild even on ordinary people… all it can do is just increase your likeability by just a little bit…” (Mark)

“Aside from that, it’s total crap, just a waste of ingredients… Even the weakest charm spell is better than it…” (Mark)

When Mark finished his speech, he noticed the other four were staring at him in shock.

“Hmm, what?” (Mark)

One of his lackeys patted Mark on his shoulder and said in a disappointed voice:

“Brother… you know so much about such a forbidden potion… you really are something else… I didn’t expect you to be that type of person…” (Lackey no.1)

“What are you even talking about… this is just basic knowledge you know…” (Mark)

In the confused eyes of Mark, the four of his teammates shook their heads while looking at him.

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“Okay, jokes aside, what potion should we really make…” (Lackey No.1.)

“Hmm, I have an idea… we can make ‘The sleeping flame dragon…’, that might even be praised by Prof. Jareth too…” (Mark)

“Well, let’s just do as you say!” (Risa)

Risa and the others were not really into potion making, thus their knowledge about it was too shallow, they didn’t even take Aria’s classes seriously, and thus now they are going to depend on Mark for the whole project.

“Oh, by the way, stop calling her ‘sister-in-law’ right in front of the whole class! That’s embarrassing!” (Mark)

“O-oh okay…” (Lackey No.1)

Hearing Mark’s scolding the lackeys had to back off.

Risa just rolled her eyes at Mark being so embarrassed at that simple term, she even thought that he looked kind of cute when he was embarrassed.

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The Potion research lab.

“You think the students will be able to do a satisfactory job on this?” (Jareth)

While sitting on the chair opposite Aria, Jareth picked the teacup from the table and sipped the tea made by Aria with the usual cold expression on his face.

“U-UH… I-I think at least half of them should be able to give s-satisfactory result…” (Aria)

Jareth tilted his head in confusion and asked:

“Hmm, you are stuttering a lot… are you not feeling good these days?” (Jareth)

“N-no I am just a bit tired from making preparations for the students that’s all…” (Aria)

Aria wiped the sweat from her forehead with her handkerchief as she desperately avoided eye contact with him.

‘Who the heck would feel good when someone as ridiculously strong as you is sitting near them!?’ (Aria)

‘One wrong move and he will blast me off the face of the Earth!’ (Aria)

Aria is indeed a grade-2 wood mage, but she has no confidence in herself, she has never been in real battles and has never faced life-or-death situations.

Thus, for her, a person who can blast off monsters like Cyclops and Wyverns with single attacks is a very intimidating presence.

Sitting in front of Jareth, it felt like she was being stared down at by a Demon who had crawled right out of the abyss.

(Jareth thinks he is looking at others with kind eyes, when in fact his glares feel like he is staring right through your soul…)

“I see, you should take more rest, soon we might be get involved in battle…” (Jareth)

“By the way, talking about the battle you should get a lot of healing potions ready beforehand, who knows how the enemy will attack…” (Jareth)

“In case some collateral damage happened, we can use the healing potions to heal the students…” (Jareth)

Jareth was indeed concerned about the students, but his words sounded totally different in Aria’s ears.

‘Collateral damage!? Does he mean to say that he might accidentally blast me off too! and he will label my death as collateral damage!?’ (Aria)

Aria was already making up misunderstandings in her mind at this point.

She thought that Jareth was warning her to not get in his way, or he might blast her off too, just like he did with the Cyclops.

With trembling eyes, Aria nodded her head desperately.

“O-okay, I will keep that in mind…” (Aria)

‘Someone save me! Take me out of this lab, where did all the students go!? Why did they leave me here alone with this guy!’ (Aria)

Totally oblivious to her inner thoughts, Jareth continued in his usual cold tone.

“By the way, the standard of the students still needs to be raised I think, if only fifty percent of them can perform well in the competition, it might damage the reputation of the university…” (Jareth)

“How about giving them a further push? Do some last-minute improvements?” (Jareth)

Meanwhile, Jareth’s words from Aria’s perspective:

“You can’t even teach properly! You are so useless!” (Jareth)

“Yes! I will teach them properly next time!” (Aria)

Satisfied with the answer, Jareth placed the empty teacup down and got up to leave.

“Well then, I have something else to do too, so I will go first, keep up the good work…” (Jareth)

Only after Jareth left did Aria finally calm down a bit.

Her heart which was about to jump out of her mouth finally started to stabilize.

‘Phew~ I survived… thanks Mother and Father, oh dear ancestors, I survived with your blessings!’ (Aria)

Just when Aria was praying to her ancestor, Jareth’s voice appeared again.

“Ah, I forgot to tell you that you should ask the principal for any special ingredients you might need for the students… he said he will provide all resources for this event free of cost… ” (Jareth)

“Well then, I should go now…” (Jareth)

Jareth came back so suddenly and left that Aria wasn’t able to process anything and remained stiff like a rock from the start to the end.

‘AHHHH! He saw me praying to my ancestors!!’ (Emotional Damage +99)

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Author’s Notes.

Yo! It’s your beloved author here! It seems that wherever Jareth goes, misunderstandings follow him… Let’s see where this takes him next.

Question of the day.

Would you survive having a direct conversation with Jareth as he glares right through your soul?

1. Yes (Imma fear nothing!)

2. No (I will pass… don’t wanna turn into stone like Aria)

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