Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 66

Zero and the ultimate rank skill!
Test subject number ‘0’ is the girl who became the first victim of the cult leader’s cruel experiments.

She has been working for the ‘False Dome’ cult for a long time under the name ‘Zero’.

She has always succeeded in her missions and is considered a highly successful assassin.

Players had to fight her in the late stages of the game, where she would assassinate one of your heroines.

It’s a cannon event; you can’t stop it.

This assassination is bound to kill at least one of the heroines.

There are three endings in this game; each one of them ends well for the protagonist but has a bad ending for the rest of the world.

Although the protagonist lives happily with his harem, the fundamental issues facing this world remain unresolved.

The protagonist never ascended past grade 1, and things remained in the same stalemate as before until the end of this game.

But things have changed a lot now.

Zero has personally come forward to kill Jareth, as she blames him for killing his younger brothers.

She doesn’t have her past memories, so she considered the members of the death squad to be her true siblings.

Now that they are dead, she is hell-bent on getting revenge for them.

…

But clearly, Jareth wasn’t going to let her outdo him so easily.

‘Her ultimate skill is the most dangerous; I need to make her go insane if I want her to avoid using ‘that’ skill…’

Jareth is not a good person, either.

He is aware of Zero’s hardships, including the deaths of her two younger brothers, but he won’t allow her to kill him so easily.

Although he clearly doesn’t have any purpose to live, he doesn’t have any reason to die so easily either.

He is a selfish person who cares about himself a lot; he won’t let Zero kill him, even if she has a legitimate reason to do so.

In response to her thousand miasmic needles, Jareth waved his hand, and a gigantic magic circle appeared in front of him.

[Basic Magic: Rotating Mana Beams!]

Jareth instantly cast the spell, eliminating all miasma-covered needles with concentrated mana beams rotating all around him.

His attack also damaged the ground and city walls, but he didn’t care about them, as there were no civilians alive in the whole city anyway.

“Heh, is that all? You were rambling a lot, but that’s all you could do?”

Hearing Jareth’s words, Zero’s eyes became even more bloodshot.

She brought out another dagger and held it in her other hand.

[Dual-Dagger style: Miasma type: Twin charge!]

Zero launched at Jareth at an incredible speed; her speed was so fast that Jareth wasn’t able to react properly to her.

Although he has the mana singularity to do detection, his body moves slower as he is a mage, not a warrior.

Zero’s daggers pierced Jareth’s mana barrier as they were covered in condensed miasma and directly cut off Jareth’s right arm in an instant.

If not for the fact that Jareth was able to dodge due to the early warning he got from the mana singularity’s detection, he would have lost his heart in that attack.

“heh! See! You are wea-”

Before Zero could laugh for too long, a condensed mana beam hit her directly and blew her away at an immense speed.

Her body went right through the city walls and fell outside of it in an instant.

She misunderstood the fact that Jareth would stop attacking for a few seconds after losing his arm.

She was unaware that Jareth possesses ‘Active Heal’ and is indifferent to losing an arm or two.

When she cut his arm off, Jareth immediately ignored his own injury and fired a lethal blow towards her, which caught her off guard.

Immediately, Jareth flew out to finish her off.

Jareth’s hand regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Zero’s bloodshot eyes nearly popped out of their socket from shock.

“Y-you aren’t human! You are a monster!! I will kill you!!”

Jareth shook his head in response to those words.

“Heh, me? A monster? You are mistaken… I am more evil than that!”

[Basic Magic: Concentrated Mana Rays!]

A gigantic magic circle the size of a five-story building appeared in the sky in an instant.

Thousands of condensed mana needles shot out of the gigantic magic circle, raining down at a speed five times faster than sound.

The ground shattered from their impact, and the shockwaves created by their immense speed spread far and wide, making all the nearby monsters feel fear on a cellular level.

Jareth’s magic instantly transformed all nearby monsters into sieves, and debris flew everywhere.

Jareth single-handedly cleared half the battlefield immediately.

The soldiers who were fighting the monsters were shocked to see this overwhelming scene.

Zero’s situation was the most severe of them all.

Those magic needles stuck in her entire body and caused her immense pain, despite not turning her into a sieve like the other monster did.

Such immense pain caused her to lose her sanity even further.

When she looked at Jareth’s figure standing in the sky like a god, she felt immense hatred in her heart.

She could help but loathe those dark purple eyes that looked down at her as if she were a pathetic worm in front of him.

She lost her mind after witnessing such blatant mockery.

As Jareth raised his hand to fire a massive mana beam to finish her off in one go, tears appeared in Zero’s eyes.

…

(Sudden Flashback)

“Big sis! Here! Take this bread! I sneaked into the storeroom and stole it!”

Seeing the happy smile on her little brother’s face, Zero smiled a bit and slowly sat up.

She has been ill for a week due to an injury she sustained during a mission, and Jacob was concerned about her.

All the members of the false dome cult are strong people; they either eat human flesh or don’t even bother eating.

So for the three of them, who were still quite weak, it was common to starve because they had no food to eat.

They slept on the cold floor regardless of whether it was winter or summer, and they lived to die for their master.

For them, it was not that unusual to fill their stomachs by eating mice or cockroaches; getting to eat bread was a rare luxury.

“What if Master finds out?”

Upon hearing Zero’s worried voice, Lucas, who was standing on the side, placed his finger on his mouth and spoke quietly.

“If you don’t tell him, no one will know hehe…”

Zero was still concerned, but greed took hold of her.

“Okay, then, if something happens, I will protect you two!”

She divided the half-rotten bread into three pieces, and each of them ate a piece.

The conditions in which they lived were not good, but for Zero, that was the happiest time of her life.

As long as she could enjoy food with her two brothers, there was nothing more blissful for her in this world.

But that happiness didn’t last long.

Jareth killed Jacob and Lucas just a few months later, and Zero was heartbroken.

They were her last family members in this world, and their deaths were a great blow to her mind.

…

(Back to present)

In that moment of life and death, Zero suddenly remembered her oath to protect her younger brothers, and her sanity returned in those last few seconds.

“I broke my promise to protect them… but I won’t break the promise to avenge them!! I will be your death, Jareth Blaze!!!”

[Ultimate Skill: Sacrifice Type: Field of Absolute Null!]

That skill seemingly altered the space-time fabric itself, as the mana within a 100-meter radius instantly solidified.

Jareth’s mana stopped responding, and he landed on the ground.

Fortunately, he was not flying too high; otherwise, he would have broken his leg.

The look on his face remained as cold as ever, but he was already panicking in his mind.

‘Sh*t! I underestimated the power of ‘reality’… This isn’t a game anymore; anything could happen at any moment’

‘My plan to make her insane was successful, but she suddenly gained clarity out of nowhere! And the thing that I didn’t want to see still happened! Sh*t!’

Jareth knew about Zero’s ‘Ultimate skill’ all too well.

Her ultimate skill is her last resort attack.

She sacrifices her soul, mana, and life force in this one attack, and forcefully nullifies all mana in a hundred-meter radius for a minute!

When she unleashes this ultimate skill, the entire space-time fabric warps, preventing her enemy from using even a small amount of mana or leaving this ‘field’.

Seeing that Jareth fell from the sky and his mana circle dissipated mid-attack, a creepy smirk appeared on Zero’s head.

“Like I said, I am your death, Jareth Blaze! You took everything from me! And now I will kill you with my own hands!!”

“No matter what grade, a mage is still a mage after all; they can’t fight melee battles!! You are dead meat now!!”

Skills have their own rankings.

The first category includes ordinary skills such as body strengthening, basic magic, and attribute magic. Above these are the ultimate skills that can influence specific phenomena, and only a select few exceptional individuals possess them.

The legendary rank skills like ‘Sword Intent’, ‘Dao Rhythm’, or ‘Mana Singularity’ hold the highest rank.

However, the impact of each skill varies depending on the user’s proficiency.

Jareth has barely been using ‘mana singularity’ for less than two months now, but Zero has been using her skill for years now!!

Usually she only sacrifices a limb or two to improve her attack, but today she sacrificed her whole existence to kill Jareth.

Clearly, the effectiveness of her skill far exceeded Jareth’s capabilities; despite his mana singularity, he was still unable to use mana against her ultimate skill.

‘Sh*t! Why does these sudden changes happen outta nowhere!?’