Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 76

A Dark Night… Part-1.
“So, you are here after all…”

Standing on the vast barren plain, Kaiden Blaze smirked a bit as he saw Jareth land on the ground.

Jareth simply nodded his head and said,

“I know your shrewd personality… You won’t let that incompetent son of yours get harmed; you left the Blaze household to come here so that I don’t target your loved ones…”

Jareth had received a message from Kaiden earlier as he was flying back to the capital city of Artavia.

Kaiden had invited him to the barren plains for his final talk.

‘He likely must have thought that I would get weaker after fighting monsters in that border city…’

Jareth was already well versed in Kaiden’s shrewd thinking methods, so he could figure out what Kaiden must have planned.

Kaiden nodded his head at Jareth’s words.

“Yeah, I have already cleared up things with my son and wife… I have told them that no matter what happens, they don’t need to take action…”

“Even if I die, they don’t need to take revenge for me, as I have already given the position of head to my son…”

Kaiden stretched out his hands and said it in a playful tone.

“Even if you kill me here, the Blaze family won’t be affected, and my son will continue it as I have given all of my properties and everything to him…”

Kaiden shook his head and said it in a calm voice.

“Just like you know me well, I know you too… I have been in politics for a long time… I know the hearts of people… You won’t attack unrelated people; that’s why I have brought a gift for you…”

Jareth shook his head and stretched his hand out.

“No point talking to me; you are bound to die today… I will think about what to do with the Blaze family later-”

Just as Jareth was about to start attacking, Kaiden pulled out a gift box from his space ring and opened it in front of him.

“Before doing anything else, you should see this first…”

Kaiden flipped the gift box, and a head fell out of the box.

It was the head of a woman.

Although the skin on the face had dried up a lot, it was still easy to distinguish who’s head it was.

A mocking smile appeared on Kaiden’s face after seeing the shocked look on Jareth’s face.

“Hahahaha! Yes! This is the head of your mother!! Yes!! I preserved her dead body in cold preservation!!”

When he heard that mocking laugh, veins appeared on Jareth’s forehead from sheer anger, and he said it in an extremely cold tone.

“Do you think I will let you live after you show me this? Have you gone insane, Kaiden Blaze?”

Hearing Jareth take his name without any respect, Kaiden frowned a bit before speaking.

“You have lost your manners, it seems… However, it’s reasonable to anticipate such behavior from a humble maid’s son!

At this point, Jareth was already very irritated by Kaiden’s mocking voice; he couldn’t understand why Kaiden was still laughing even though his death was standing right in front of him.

Jareth titled his head, and his eyes looked at Kaiden as if he were staring at dead meat.

“You really have the nerves of steel, Kaiden Blaze… You still dare to mock me? Even though you are going to get killed by me soon? Has the stress caused you to lose your mind?”

At Jareth’s cold and chilling words, Kaiden didn’t back down at all.

He smiled slightly before speaking.

“Jareth, you are still a naïve guy; you don’t know the world of shrewd people too well… You see, I still have the rest of the corpse of your mother, preserved in the basement of the blaze household…”

“And I have cast a simple spell on the basement… If I die here, then the whole basement will self-destruct, and the corpse of your mother will be lost forever… This means you won’t be able to give her a proper funeral…”

After saying this, Kaiden looked at Jareth from head to toe and said,

“Although you are showing a cold appearance to the world, I know you well… You loved your mother a lot; you surely don’t want me to destroy her corpse, right?”

“Think about it, Jareth; if you kill me now, you will never get the chance to properly put her body to rest… Her soul may never be able to get peace!”

At Kaiden’s words, Jareth replied in an increasingly cold tone:

“So? You want to bargain for your life with a corpse? How much lower can you fall, Kaiden Blaze… I am simply too ashamed of the fact that I once even considered you a decent human being… You are worthless garbage in the human body…”

Hearing Jareth’s criticism, Kaiden was unfazed.

“Hahaha, no, no~ that won’t do. You better not show that attitude to me boy… or I will really detonate the basement…”

Even though the basement is directly beneath the Blaze mansion, its construction ensures that the Blaze mansion above it remains unaffected.

Which means, in all of this, only Jareth will be on the losing side.

If he hadn’t known about his mother’s corpse, he still could have rushed at Kaiden without any worries.

But now that he knows about it, he has a chance to put his mother’s corpse at rest and give her soul peace.

If that corpse gets destroyed, this last chance of bringing her soul to peace will also be lost.

Her soul will likely not be able to enter the cycle of Samsara, as she has died with lingering hatred and worries.

If her soul is not put to rest, it will continue to linger around until some necromancer gets their hand on it.

And that’s not the outcome that Jareth would like to see.

If a person dies with peace and no remaining desires for the world, then they enter the natural cycle of samsara and get a new life after forgetting the past memories.

But if they still have some lingering hatred or desire, then the soul will find it difficult to move on to its new life.

If not for the existence of these wandering souls, the necromancers wouldn’t have any familiars at all.

But even then, a remnant soul can only linger for a few months or so before it dissipates into nothingness, but if you use some forbidden methods, the soul can be maintained.

If you preserve the corpse of the dead person and cast forbidden magic to feel life force in their soul, then you can maintain the soul for a long time.

“I preserved that corpse to one day show it to you and push in despair, but who could have thought that my decision to save that corpse would end up becoming a lifesaving factor for me…”

“Hahahaha! Although your mother was useless in her life, her corpse still has some use, right? Ahahaha!”

Jareth wanted to just go ahead and kill this guy right here and right now, but his body refused to move.

It was likely because the original Jareth still hoped to ask for forgiveness from his mother, and thus his body was refusing to move.

That day, Jareth figured out that anything can happen in this cruel and degrading world.

People are corrupted by power and like toying with the weak.

Although Jareth could just ignore that long-gone corpse, it held sentimental value to the original Jareth, and thus…. He retracted his hand.

Jareth retracted his hand and decided not to attack.

At that point, Jareth was already disgusted by Kaiden; thus, he didn’t bother with beating around the bush and asked,

“What do you want to achieve with this?”

A satisfied smirk appeared on Kaiden’s face as he knew that his plan had worked. He knew that he had finally secured his life.

“Hahaha, I KNEW YOU WOULD SAY THAT!!! AHAHAHAHA… GOOD good!!”

“Okay, then, let’s sign a contract!!”

Kaiden brought out a contract from his space ring and threw it at Jareth’s feet.

“Sign it! Acknowledge that you will become my slave!! You will work for me!! From now on!! And you won’t threaten the Blaze family!!”

“You only deserve to work like a slave!! You are nothing more than a maid’s son!! Sign this contract if you want your mother’s soul!!”

*Dead Silence~*

A heavy silence appeared in an instant.

Everything went silent, and dark clouds slowly covered the sky over the barren plains.

Only Kaiden’s maniacal voice resounded throughout the area.

“What are you waiting for!? You worthless scum!! Know your place and sign this contract, or I will really destroy your mother’s corpse!!”

Kaiden was extremely confident at that moment.

He knew that Jareth loved his mother, and he would do anything to preserve her corpse.

Everything was going according to his plan… But what he didn’t know was that the Jareth that was standing in front of him was not the same person anymore.

There is a more ruthless person’s soul in that body now.

After hearing Kaiden mention that Jareth needed to become a slave for him to save that corpse, the hesitation in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

His trembling hands became firm again, and his heart went cold once again as he raised his hand once again.

[Basic Magic: Mana interruption!]

With the help of ‘Mana Singularity’ Jareth figured out the mana fluctuation of Kaiden’s magic.

He easily interrupted with his magic and cut off the mana connections that Kaiden was using to manipulate the detonation magic in his basement.

At that point, Kaiden not only lost that last bit of lifeline, but his mana shield was also destroyed by Jareth’s mana interruption.

[Basic Magic: Mana Beam: Heavenly Bombardment!]

Hundreds of magic circles appeared in the sky, and all of them faced toward Kaiden.

Each magic circle was the size of a two-story building, and the momentum they carried was insane.

But Kaiden was unfazed, even after all that.

“Hahaha, you think I didn’t know that you could cut off my connection to it!! Jareth, you are naïve! Once that connection is broken, my son will sense it immediately! And will destroy that basement!”

“You still have a few seconds to choose, Jareth! Become my slave, and I will send a signal to my son to stop him!”

A crazed smile appeared on Kaiden’s face as he said that, but all that had no effect on Jareth anymore.

‘The Jareth you are trying to swindle is already gone…. And I’m not as soft as that guy!’

Jareth didn’t care about anything anymore; the mana beams rained down in an instant, and the bombardment was so powerful that it created a massive earthquake.

Kaiden saw that Jareth wasn’t going to stop, so he grabbed the severed head and used his magic to crush it in front of Jareth.

“Stop right now, or I will crush this head!”

But Jareth didn’t care one bit!

*Boom!*

Finally, the mana beams landed directly on Kaiden.

It rained from all directions, so he had nowhere to run; moreover, Jareth’s mana interruption was interfering with his magic, so he could not use magic either.

In other words, Jareth cornered Kaiden and bombarded him with mana beams for ten minutes straight.

“AAAHHH!!! AHHHHH!! AHHHHHH!!!”

“STOPP!! AAAHHHHHHHHH!!! IT HURRRRTSSS!!! STOP!! I BEG YOU STOP!!”

The direct hits from that endless bombardment were so heavy that Kaiden screamed in pain endlessly till he died miserably.

Not even his ashes were left and Jareth tortured him to death with those powerful mana beams.

The dark clouds in the sky started to rain water as Jareth stopped firing mana beams after killing Kaiden thoroughly.

Although he had killed Kaiden, it was a sure thing that his mother’s corpse was also gone by now.

Rain fell on Jareth’s face, hiding the sorrow that he was holding back.

No one knew if the water that fell from his face was rain or his tears of sadness.