Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 72

The Small Trick… Part-1.
Outside the city.

[Grade-5 Earth Magic: Mud Lake!]

Mark stomped his feet, and a magic circle appeared on the ground, turning the sand in a radius of 50 meters around him into mud.

Only the ground below Mark and the other soldiers remained normal.

Risa seized that chance in an instant.

[Grade-5 Shadow Magic: Shadow Bind!]

The shadows of the monsters immediately moved and bound the monsters, preventing them from moving too much in the mud lake.

Mark smiled at Risa’s timely cooperation and then raised his wand towards the sky.

[Grade 4 Earth Magic: Stone Arrow Shower!]

A massive magic circle appeared in the sky, and gigantic stone arrows started to fall from it.

The speed of those stone arrows was much faster than the speed of a sniper rifle’s bullet.

This implies that each of those arrows carried a significant amount of momentum.

In a 50-meter radius, they easily killed all of the grade-five and lower-grade monsters.

But this also consumed a lot of mana.

Mark and the other soldier have been fighting for more than two hours non-stop, and nearly all of them are exhausted by now.

Casualties among the soldiers have piled up to hundreds by now.

If not for the fact that Mark and the other students are much stronger than these soldiers, they would have also gotten injured by now.

Still, all this fighting has nearly drained all of the mana from the students.

However, the horde of monsters is still rushing endlessly.

Mark and Risa leaned their backs against each other and panted heavily while looking at the monsters that were rushing towards them from all directions.

“I am impressed; I never expected that you would be able to keep up with me even though you are nearly out of mana.”

Hearing Mark’s words, Risa smiled and cast a low-grade shadow condensing spell to create a sword out of her shadow magic.

“Hehe, you underestimate me too much… I can fight even if I don’t have mana; if you feel like quitting, I won’t mind carrying you out of here…”

A smirk appeared on Mark’s face after hearing those words.

“Heh, being carried by a girl? No thanks; I would prefer if I were the one to carry you out of here…”

[Grade-5 Earth Magic: Stone Spike Graveyard!]

Spikes made up of condensed stone elements rose from the ground and hit the vitals of the rushing monsters accurately.

Mark’s precision and amazing mana control have earned the respect of all soldiers, as none of them got hit even when Mark used such wide-area attacks.

Risa ignored the impressed expressions on the soldiers’ faces nearby and thrust her shadow sword into the ground.

[Grade-5 Shadow Magic: Support type: Shadow extension!]

Risa’s shadow magic penetrated into the magic circle that Mark had made, and she enhanced it further with the small amount of mana that she had left.

Risa’s enhancement turned Mark’s magic circle dark black, and shadows covered the stone spikes.

The shadows expanded the range of that spell even further and damaged the monsters even more badly.

Mark and Risa’s teamwork was so efficient that they didn’t even need to use any words to figure out what the other party was going to do.

Mark had purposely reduced his own control over his magic circle so that Risa’s mana could get into it and enhance it further.

Although this was a risky move that other mages could have taken advantage of, right now they are fighting monsters, and there are no mages on the opponent’s side.

So the two of them didn’t need to hold back.

With their amazing teamwork, Mark and Risa killed nearly 50 low-grade monsters in one attack.

Still, this wasn’t enough.

As time passed, more monsters began to rush them.

Risa had already used the last bits of her mana to enhance Mark’s magic. She ran out of mana, and her legs couldn’t hold her standing any longer.

Before she could collapse on the ground, Mark caught her and prevented her from falling.

“Heh… So I lost first… sigh~ okay, you win…”

Risa pouted her cheeks a bit as if she were upset that she lost to Mark, but her eyes were showing that she was happy to be held by him.

But Mark didn’t have the time to notice all this; he was worried about the monsters that were rushing towards them.

‘Tch! Is there no end to them?’

Just when Mark was about to take Risa and retreat, the monsters suddenly stopped.

*Dead silence~*

As if they had all suddenly lost their motive to attack, all the monsters stopped mid-battle and stood still.

Even the soldiers, who had been fighting fiercely up until now, stopped after witnessing this unusual scene.

Before Mark and others could figure out what was going on, all of the monsters started to turn into magic particles.

“W-what’s going on?”

A confused look appeared on Mark’s face as he saw this strange phenomenon.

When the summoner dies, a magic circle appears, which brings the summoned beasts back to the spirit realm.

But right now, things are extremely strange.

As if the summoned beasts were being sucked out by a strange power, all of them were turning into magic particles, and those magic particles were flying towards the inner area of the city together.

“This is?”

Mark wanted to go inside the city and find out what was going on, but before he could move, a hand appeared on his shoulder and held him in place.

“Stay here; that place isn’t for you to play yet… Also, take all these soldiers and retreat far away from here….”

A familiar voice appeared in Mark’s ears as he glanced at the person who was standing beside him.

The man looked extremely handsome, and his golden hair was waving in the gentle breeze.

A calm look hung over his face. His very presence gave people the feeling of ‘protection’ and ‘hope’.

“Father…”

King Reynald ignored his son’s voice and flew away instantly.

That insane speed surprised Mark, but he could only shake his head.

“Everyone! The monsters are all dead! Let’s retreat now! This place is about to become a playground for the grade mages! We shouldn’t stay here any longer!”

Hearing Mark’s words, all of the soldiers nodded their heads, and they relayed the message to the general.

The general immediately gave the retreat order, and the soldier rushed back to the military vehicles instantly.

Mark glanced at the city walls one last time before leaving with Risa in his arms. (She’s pretending to have fainted; she succeeded in making him carry her princess-style…)

…

Ignoring the retreating army below, Reynald rushed towards the city and landed on the city wall.

A solemn look appeared on his face when he saw that all the magic particles were slowly rushing towards the altar in the center.

His eyes met with Rahnan, who was standing on the altar, and Rahnan smiled at Reynald creepily.

But Reynald’s face didn’t change much after seeing that creepy smile.

‘That thing… It’s not his real body; he’s likely using some type of forbidden magic to appear here without his real body…’

Reynald glanced at the altar once, and he figured out everything in an instant.

‘Destroying that shadow form is pointless; moreover, it likely doesn’t have any combat capabilities either; it’s just for show…’

‘Moreover, the ritual won’t stop even if the altar is destroyed or that vessel is killed…’

Just as Reynald was contemplating in his mind, another person flew down from the sky and landed beside him.

“What took you so long, your majesty?”

Reynald glanced at the other party, and his eyes widened a bit,

“Hmm, you seem quite angry for some reason, Jareth Blaze…”

Blood veins were twitching all over Jareth’s face as he was staring at that altar, and his well-built muscles were on full display as he didn’t have his shirt on at the moment.

“A certain someone’s minion dared to destroy my favorite shirt… I am quite upset over that…”

Zeros’ attacks tore apart his shirt, revealing a massive hole where she had pierced his heart.

Jareth wasn’t particularly the type of person to get upset over a torn-up shirt, but the original Jareth liked this shirt a lot, and thus, he is feeling quite upset now that he lost the shirt.

Ignoring Jareth’s words, Reynald glanced at Jareth’s well-built six-pack abs, then glanced at himself.

‘This guy… He seems more like a warrior than a mage… Come to think of it, I lost my six-pack abs after I got married. I used to be more well-built in my younger days.

It’s been two decades since Reynald’s marriage, and he has become so accustomed to his wife’s amazing cooking that he has lost the will to work out like he used to do in his younger years.

‘Sigh, it’s good to be young…’

(Jareth is ten years younger than Reynald…)

As Reynald continued to contemplate all of this, Jareth abruptly spoke:

“So… what do you say? Should we go for a combined one?”

Reynald immediately understood what Jareth was talking about, and a smirk appeared on his face,

“Would you be able to keep up with my maximum output?”

After hearing Reynald’s words, Jareth responded in his usual cold tone.

“What’s your maximum?”

Reynald smirked and said,

“Ten layers…”

Even Jareth felt a bit shocked after hearing those words, but then he nodded his head and said,

“I will manage it somehow; let’s go for a combined one… fully immersion one…”

The smile on Reynald’s face widened even further after hearing those words from Jareth’s mouth.

“You are really an interesting person, Jareth Blaze… This is the first time someone has said that they can ‘manage it’ after hearing about my abilities…”

Jareth just shook his head at those words and thought to himself.

‘Anyway, I have become a professional fraudster by now… I can do simple tricks like this now…’