Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 46

Broken! Mana Singularity is too Broken! Part-3.
Half an hour ago.

When Jareth was still fighting the two brothers, he did not notice a dark, black shadow enter the university building quietly.

The shadow lacked facial features and wore a black cloak covered in black mist.

Surprisingly, the shadow’s physical structure resembled Abella.

And, sure enough, Abella created this shadow.

She utilized forbidden dark magic to detach a piece of her soul and transplant it into a dark magic-enhanced doll.

Her powerful soul molded the doll into her body shape, giving it such unique characteristics.

Abella can control her shadow from thousands of kilometers away, allowing her to sneak into any well-protected location.

As this doll retains a portion of her soul, it has its own will and can make independent emergency decisions.

The doll lacks mana circuits; therefore, mana detection cannot detect it.

Even still, Abella had to get the principal away from university because it’s highly likely that he could notice the doll in some way.

Thus, she dispatched her main body to battle the principle and keep him busy, while her shadow sneaked into the campus.

Jareth could have spotted the small traces of mana on the doll, but he was too preoccupied with the twins to notice the shadow.

The shadow entered the university’s main building and began to move stealthily toward the principal’s office.

She needed to steal the secret library’s keys, because without them, even a grade-1 magician would take a long time to open the magic seal on the door of the secret library.

When the shadow doll was going to sneak into the principal’s office, Aria, who had been depressed for the previous few days, came over to retrieve the smartphone she had left there.

The shadow quickly created a knife from the residual mist surrounding its body and launched a surprise attack on Aria.

Aria is a coward when it comes to fighting and killing, yet she is a genuine grade-2 mage who can maintain a mana barrier around herself at all times, much like other high-ranking mages.

*weng!*

Thus, when the shadow doll attacked Aria, its knife met with the mana barrier and came to a halt in mid-air, prompting Aria to go into alert mode immediately.

“Wh-what!?” (Aria) The shadow doll fled quickly after realizing its attack had failed.

The shadow doll dashed towards the adjoining student classes, where other lower-grade wizards were instructing the less gifted kids.

(The academy’s 13 grade-2 mages only educate the most gifted students, while lower grade wizards teach the others.)

Aria raced behind the shadow as she noticed it running.

But the shadow doll was faster than her; it entered a classroom and grabbed the nearest student’s neck, then placed the knife on the student’s neck, threatening the professor with the student’s life.

Aria entered the room and yelled at the shadow doll, impatiently.

“Stop! Do not put your hands on the students!” (Aria)

The shadow doll ignored Aria’s words and slowly retreated, holding the pupil hostage.

Because the shadow doll has free will, it does not want to die; instead, it wishes to live

And if it does die, the soul fragment of Abella in its body will vanish, causing significant harm to the main body.

Abella did not want to hurt her soul while still fighting Nathan.

Thus, when the shadow doll became stuck in a tight position, Abella’s primary body chose to fly towards the university in an attempt to rescue it.

But Nathan didn’t let her do what she wanted; instead, he pursued her and continued to fire deadly spatial spells.

This resulted in a stalemate.

But the deadlock was broken when the shadow pulled out a teleportation scroll from her coat and attempted to flee with the hostage.

Aria realized how dark and deadly the cult was; she knew that if the shadow doll succeeded in taking the student, that student would most certainly be unable to live peacefully again.

Aria’s fear peaked when the shadow accidentally slashed the student’s throat while attempting to activate the teleportation scroll.

When someone’s anxiousness reaches a breaking point, their thinking becomes chaotic.

“NOO! I won’t let you!!” (Aria)

Aria lost her temper and promptly used her strongest spell.

[Grade-2 Wood Magic: Absolute tree of bindings!]

Not only did she unleash her most powerful magic, but she continued to pour her entire mana into the tree as if she had gone mad.

A large magic circle appeared, and massive tree roots and stems began to stream out of it in a second.

One of the tree stems went directly at the head of the shadow, hitting it with such force that the shadow doll rocketed away like a cannonball, breaking through the building wall in an instant.

Aria’s wood magic did not end there; in her fright and distress, she lost control of her own mana and poured an excessive amount of mana into the magic circle, causing it to overload.

While the tree roots burst through the floor and dug into the ground, the tree’s shoots broke through the roof and began to grow upward.

Eventually, giant tree branches filled the entire sky above the institution, blocking the sun’s rays.

Even Abella and Nathan, who were fighting in the sky, were taken aback when they saw the massive tree.

Taking advantage of Nathan’s momentary hesitation, Abella dropped down quickly and snatched the broken shadow doll before flying away at incredible speed.

…

Originally, Abella’s strategy was foolproof; she knew that if she could discover the keys in the principal’s office, they were probably in Nathan’s space ring, so she began a two-front attack.

Even if one of her bodies succeeds, the other will be able to escape in time.

What she didn’t expect was the unpredictable element known as Jareth.

She sent Jacob and Lucas, two grade-2 warriors, to deal with him, but Jareth not only survived but also counterattacked and killed those two brothers.

Furthermore, his glowing mana ball magic triggered a significant suppression on the bone titan, allowing the principal to score the victory.

Nathan instantly destroyed those space-stabilizing worms, restoring the potency of his spells, and then launched an unrelenting barrage on Abella.

In other words, Jareth inadvertently thwarted Abella’s intention to assassinate the principal by casting some basic magic.

After the shadow doll’s unsuccessful plot, Abella had to fly away quickly to distance herself from Nathan and use the teleportation scroll.

Jareth shook his head as he watched the fading figures of Abella and Nathan in the sky before diving down to deal with the chaos below.

“Ugh… Despite using magic, this tree continues to grow…Unless she stops pouring more mana, it won’t stop…” (Shin)

“I can temporarily control its growth by casting a barrier, but she is using too much mana… She has most certainly lost control of herself… It will be tough to stop her now.” (Thomas)

Jareth scoffed at the two and remarked, “You people are always so useless…” (Jareth)

[Basic Magic: Mana Barrier!]

Jareth created an unbreakable mana barrier for himself and entered the university building via the broken wall.

Using the float spell, he quickly approached Aria.

Although many of the unrestrained tree branches attempted to bind him on the spot, Jareth successfully evaded them.

Because of mana singularity, his basic magic has become stronger overall, including his float spell.

He can effortlessly fly and avoid the branches.

After a few seconds of flight, Jareth approached Aria, who had become unconscious while standing in front of a massive magic circle.

The magic circle launched numerous tree branches and roots toward Jareth, but he effortlessly avoided them by shifting the direction of his float magic.

Jareth placed his hand on the magic circle as soon as he reached its edge.

[Basic Magic: Mana Interruption!]

Jareth’s mana interruption ability had advanced to a new level as a result of mana singularity.

He simply disrupted the mana flow in the magic circle, preventing it from operating.

After losing its mana supply, the massive tree comprised of condensed mana began to lose shape as the mana within it dissipated in the air.

‘Phew, finally done…’ (Jareth)

Although it took a lot of effort, Jareth was able to survive through this whole ordeal.

His mana was already running low after fighting those twins and now that he had to deal with Aria’s spell, his mana was already down to just one percent.

He can’t even keep up the mana barrier now. He needs atleast a few minutes to barely recover enough mana to cast the mana barrier again.

‘Sigh… Once this is over, I must somehow improve my mana capacity…’ (Jareth)