Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 69

A Tarnished hero… Part-1.
An unknown space.

“This is the place I prepared for your death…”

Hearing Abella’s mocking tone, Nathan glanced all around him, and no matter where he looked, he could only see a never-ending space loop.

The floor and surroundings in this place are pure white, and no matter what direction you look, the place seems to have no end.

Nathan is a spatial magic user; he easily figured out what kind of place this is, and his expression turned sour in an instant.

“A Death cage…”

Seeing the solemn look on Nathan’s face, Abella laughed loudly.

“HAHAHA, So, you still have some wisdom in that senile brain of yours! Yes! This is a death cage! Unless you die! Or I break the spell myself; you can never escape this place! Ahahhaha!”

The look on Nathan’s face turned even more solemn when he heard her mocking voice.

As a spatial magic user, he knew all too well just what kind of sinister place this ‘death cage’ is.

…

(Spell intro)

[Forbidden spell: corruption/spatial type: cage of unavoidable death]

[Spell description: A forbidden spell that was taught to humans by the demons to create chaos in the world.

It is one of the most twisted and dangerous forbidden spells in existence. To use this spell, you need the power of more than twenty-five thousand souls, or the souls of ten grade 1 mages.

This spell is used to deal with ‘obstacles’ that stand in the way of the demon worshippers.]

[Spell Effects:

1. Create a looped sub-space.

2. Trap the opponent for eternity.

3. It can gradually erode the trapped entity’s sanity.

4. It can function even after the user dies.]

…

The concept of time doesn’t exist in this small sub-space, as it’s not a perfect ‘space’ with proper ‘laws and rules’.

If someone gets trapped in this place, they get stuck in a loop.

The person never ages in this place as time doesn’t exist, and if the trapped person’s magic control is below grade 1, then they can’t even move freely in this place.

You need at least grade 1-level mana control to resist the non-existence of the ‘rule of time’ in this place; otherwise, your body will freeze as time doesn’t exist here, and you can’t move in a place where time itself is non-existent.

In this place, even photon particles stop moving, making it impossible to see. If you don’t have grade-1 mana control to forcefully keep your body functional, you become blind.

(Nathan and Abella are both using their mana to work like photon particles and detect everything around them…. Otherwise, they couldn’t even see…)

But this is not even the worst part of it all.

‘The biggest problem is… that even if I kill Abella here, I will still remain trapped, as it’s near impossible to break out of here so easily…’

Unless your grasp of mana and space-time fabric is at a level above grade 1, you can’t break out of this place by sheer force.

Either you need to make this space run out of energy, or you need to force Abella to cancel this spell.

But both of these conditions are difficult.

This spell can only be cast with the help of an immense energy source, and Abella used 25 thousand souls as the energy source of this space, which means it will take hundreds of years for this spell to run out of power.

Moreover, there’s no mana in the surroundings; thus, Nathan only has the mana contained in his body; he can’t replenish his mana after he runs out of mana.

This implies that if he runs out of mana, he won’t be able to withstand the absence of the ‘time rule’ and will immediately freeze.

If he froze here, then no one knows how long he will have to stay in this space. He might really go insane from being stuck in a place like this. (White rooms are a mental torture method, actually…)

Nathan glanced at Abella and said it in a serious tone.

“You know, even you can’t leave this space as long as I am alive…. Are you preparing for your death too?”

Hearing Nathan’s words, Abella laughed like a maniac who had lost her brain.

“Kehehehehe, who cares! I don’t care about my death at all!! My life’s goal was to take revenge on you! And I have finally completed it!!”

“Kekekeekke now even if I die, you will suffer in this place for hundreds of years! No one can save you!!”

Hearing that maniacal laughter, Nathan’s mood became sour, and he asked,

“Why go this far? You used to be one of my favorite disciples! Why are you putting me in this tough spot, Abella-”

Before Nathan could finish his sentence, Abella gritted her teeth and shouted at him,

“Don’t you dare take my name with your filthy tongue!! You were the reason for Rahnan’s death!! Had you not sent him to investigate the ‘fifth seal of the false dome,’ he would still be alive!”

Tears appeared in Abella’s eyes as she shouted at Nathan at the top of his lungs.

Her eyes were already bloodshot, and she was already losing her sanity to the darkness that she had consumed to forcefully become stronger.

Nathan immediately refuted Abella’s words and said,

“You are mistaken! I only assigned him that mission! I never said that he couldn’t reject the mission! He went there on his own! It was his fault that he died-”

Before Nathan could continue, Abella raised her magic brook and shot a massive beam of condensed miasma in Nathan’s direction.

[Grade 2 Dark Magic: Ray of Absolute Corruption!]

That ray of miasma and corruption was so dense and strong that even the space became a bit distorted around it.

But Nathan didn’t let her outdo him; he used his spatial magic right away.

[Grade-2 Space Magic: Portal of Misdirection’s!]

The space in front of Nathan distorted, and the beam of miasma got caught in that spatial portal.

The other end of the portal opened right above Abella’s head, and her attack nearly hit her own body.

[Grade-5 Dark Magic: Wings of Miasma!]

Two bat-like wings made of condensed miasma appeared behind Abella’s back, helping her dodge the miasma beam.

But Nathan wasn’t going to stop there; another portal appeared on the ground and absorbed the beam of miasma in it, and the other side of the portal opened above Abella’s head once again.

This series of dodging and portal openings continued on and on for five hundred times before Abella finally came up with a counter.

[Grade 1 Dark Magic: The Insatiable Maw of Corruption!]

A gigantic gate made up of condensed miasma appeared in front of Abella, and the chains on the gate broke apart in an instant.

A monstrously huge mouth appeared from those gates of corruption, and the mouth directly absorbed the beam of miasma, eliminating it in an instant.

The gate teleported as the giant mouth finished devouring the beam of miasma, attempting to engulf Nathan in its razor-sharp jaws.

[Grade 1 Space Magic: Spatial Distortion!]

Nathan didn’t even flinch when he saw that gigantic mouth trying to eat him; he pointed his staff directly at the gate of corruption and cast his spell.

In an instant, the space-time fabric trembled and became distorted, destroying the corruption gate.

Abella had to board her magic broom and fly away to avoid the spell’s effect due to its extremely wide effective range.

Nathan wasn’t going to let her leave so easily; he immediately opened a portal to appear in front of Abella and then cast another spell to attack her.

[Grade-2 Space Magic: Spatial Crush!]

He pointed his wand towards the space beside Abella and forced it to collapse on its own in an attempt to crush Abella under the pressure of that compressed space.

But Abella has always been on guard; she immediately countered Nathan’s move.

[Grade-1 Dark Magic: Miasmic expansion!]

A magic circle appeared above her head, and the space near her got covered in darkness and miasma, thus getting rid of Nathan’s spatial magic effect by expanding the space forcefully by using too much miasma.

Her moves surprised even Nathan, as he didn’t anticipate her to perfectly counter his attacks.

“You are strong, Abella! How about you stop doing the wrong things and turn over a new leaf! If you decide to apologize for your actions, then I will personally help you restore a safe identity in the human nation!!”

Nathan doesn’t really care about how many humans Abella killed to achieve her current strength.

Her strength was all that mattered, and if she could join the human race, she would be of great assistance.

Those at the top of the world, like Nathan, don’t really care about the life or death of ants that can’t even defend themselves.

Most grade 1 mages are arrogant people, and they think of ordinary people as mere ants. Wizards are selfish beings; there’s no point in trying to correct their mindsets.

Hearing Nathan’s words, Abella laughed mockingly.

“BAHAHAHAHA, how pathetic can you be! I knew all along that you were nothing but a f*cking leech! You enjoy immense benefits and gain an amazing reputation from others!”

“Yet you still dare to ask someone who has killed more than fifty thousand people over the past night to enter the human world and start over as a good person!?”

Nathan’s expression turned cold at those words.

“I am just trying to stop you from further doing harm-”

Abella’s eyes started weeping tears of blood, and as she shouted,

“Shut up!! Your hypocrisy makes me sick!! If not for a hypocrite like you, Rahnan would have been alive!! Die, you piece of sh*t!!”

Abella wasn’t going to listen to Nathan’s words, and she had already lost her sanity by now.