Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 84

Ruler of Mana! Part-2.
A gigantic tornado made of condensed mana started to form above the mountaintop, and the whole world could feel the disturbance caused by that storm of mana.

It was such a massive event that even Nathan could feel it happening from inside the death cage.

…

Royal Palace, Rooftop.

Reynald’s mouth widened in sheer shock. He has only seen this phenomenon once in his whole life, that was when he himself ascended to grade 1.

Mana is a ‘Law’ of this world, and it exists in everything in the world, so usually it never gets this chaotic.

Only when someone is ascending to grade-1 does mana respond so fiercely.

The sky turns dark, and a vast amount of mana starts to rush towards the person who is ascending.

Then the mana steadily enters the body of the person and enhances their overall abilities.

As if they get genetically modified, the people who ascend to grade 1 get longer life spans and a tougher body.

Their mana control and other skills get boosted tremendously, and their combat capabilities get boosted even further.

When Reynald ascended to grade-1, he had influenced the mana in a radius of 40 kilometers, but the scene that is happening currently is even more overwhelming than that.

Reynald was able to become the strongest of the current century by just influencing mana in 40 kilometers of area, but Jareth is currently influencing the area in a radius of 100 kilometers, which is just too insane.

Even Reynald couldn’t help but feel shocked at that discovery.

‘A new monster is born it seems…’

Then Reynald suddenly remembered something, and his eyes widened even further in shock.

‘Wait… currently only Jareth Blaze is the one who is extremely close to ascension… could it be that he finally broke through!?’

Reynald’s guesses were justified.

His mana detection ability stretches far and wide, and he can sense that no one in the whole capital is close to ascending grade 1, not even Thomas who’s already a peak grade 2 mage.

The only person Reynald was not able to assess with his mana detection was Jareth Blaze.

‘Now that I know that Jareth has the legendary rank talent Mana Singularity, I think I know why I can’t detect him at all…’

‘Mana Singularity’ gives extreme control over mana, thus unlike other mages, Jareth doesn’t create mana disturbances no matter how big spells he casts.

He can simply command mana to stop the disturbance, and no one will be able to sense him at all.

Mana detection works by detecting the mana fluctuations and disturbances created by the individuals in the atmosphere around them.

But as Jareth can simply command the mana itself with the help of mana singularity, he doesn’t produce any mana fluctuations at all.

Which means using mana detection on him is simply a waste of effort, as he is undetectable through it.

That’s also the reason why Reynald isn’t able to properly assess Jareth’s true grade, as the only way to detect that is by seeing the mana fluctuations or mana density of an individual.

Usually, the higher grade the mage, the more mana fluctuations they create, and the higher the density of their mana.

That high density of mana and fluctuations in the air is what creates the overwhelming and suffocating aura of a strong person.

Jareth simply has no mana fluctuations; he looks intimidating and overbearing just because he’s cold and scary, and his aura is naturally like that.

But there’s no real way to assess his realm with that little information.

The only reason why Reynald was sure that Jareth was close to ascension was because he has seen Jareth use magic, and his abilities are really very strong and overpowered.

Even those mana beams that he fires casually are at the level of an early grade 1 mage.

Under all these circumstances, the first person Reynald associated that mana storm with was obviously Jareth.

After all, in Reynald’s eyes, there was no one else who was as close as Jareth to ascension.

[Basic Magic: Float!]

Thus, to confirm his own suspicions, Reynald flew into the air and drifted off towards the mountaintop. Unlike lower-grade magicians, he isn’t afraid of that chaotic mana flow in the atmosphere.

…

An Underground Church, Location Unknown.

Rahnan glanced in a certain direction, and a frown appeared on his face.

“Another obstacle has appeared? Tch…”

Rahnan was already quite irritated by the fact that his benevolent demon god was temporarily not able to contact him after the incarnation’s destruction caused him to lose a lot of power.

Now even more obstacles have been created in their way with the appearance of a new grade 1, which is quite the bad news for his cult.

‘It must be that guy…’

Even Rahnan knew that only Jareth was the closest to ascending to grade 1, and his suspicions also fell directly on Jareth.

‘That gigantic fire arrow was also mostly his doing… he’s proving to be a real headache now… I must get rid of him as soon as my benevolent god recovers…’

Rahnan’s powers are all given to him by that demon god, and in his absence, he’s quite weaker, so he’s not sure whether he can fight Jareth who has become a genuine grade 1 now.

(Rahnan isn’t a genuine grade 1 mage; he’s just borrowing someone else’s powers and calling them his own…)

After a few minutes of contemplating, Rahnan waved his hand in the air, and Norton appeared in a matter of seconds after getting his command. He kneeled down towards Rahnan and said in his usual hoarse voice,

“What can I do for you this time master?”

Hearing Norton’s voice, Rahnan replied in a calm tone.

“Call that fatty back, tell him that he’s been wasting too much time outside and I need him to do some work for me…”

“Although he has a very greedy, irritable personality, he’s still reliable…”

Norton nodded his head and left immediately after getting orders from Rahnan.

Seeing that Norton had left, Rahnan brought out a small dark black gemstone from his space ring and embedded some mana in it.

“We have figured out the location of the seals, it’s time to return you all…”

After saying those words, Rahnan broke that black gemstone by clenching his palm tightly, and the broken gemstone turned into miasma particles and disappeared in the air.

Seeing that his message was delivered successfully, a smile appeared on his face.

‘No matter what, I will help my dear God to achieve his vision… I will be the one who will make the whole human race tremble in fear…’

…

In a certain lush forest.

Two extremely beautiful elven women stared at the sky with looks of worry.

“Sister… it seems the human race has three Grade 1 mages now… how about we ask them for help in subjugating the corrupted lake?”

“If we don’t purify it soon… I don’t think we will ever be able to revive the world tree…”

The younger elf had a look of worry on her face, and she couldn’t help but persuade her sister for the sake of the elven race.

But her older sister didn’t hear her words at all; she just shook her head and walked back towards the inner area of the lush forest while saying,

“You are too young… you don’t know about the reality of the world… even if humans have more Grade 1 it’s hopeless… this world is already on its way to doom…”

“Moreover, it’s near impossible to purify that lake of rotten miasma… I hate to say it but… we will have to give up on growing a new world tree…”

“Even a grade 1 healing magician can’t heal the corruption on the sacred branch… much less others…”

The younger sister was still not convinced by her sister’s words; she still wanted to refute and persuade her older sister.

But the Elven Queen had already made up her mind, and there was no persuading her now.

“Humans are not a trustworthy race… you shouldn’t be looking for cooperation with them… don’t you know what they do with the elven women they capture?”

The younger sister went silent after hearing those words.

She was also aware of how cruel this world can be; for the untalented, it’s a bane to be born in this unfair world.

The elven queen shook her head after seeing that her younger sister had gone silent. She glanced in a certain direction and said in a solemn tone.

“Let’s go, the army is waiting for us. We must find a new sacred branch in this expedition to the lake of rotting miasma…”

“Otherwise, the world tree is really done for…”

The younger sister glanced in the direction of the flowing mana once more and then shook her head before following in the footsteps of her sister.

Although she has lost in this negotiation, she still thinks that there might be some hope in the future.

Maybe a mage of great caliber will stumble upon their small tribe while travelling with his disciples in the future.

…

Outside the capital city, Delta.

Unaware of how much chaos he had created in the world, Jareth had fallen unconscious at this moment, and his whole body was floating in the air while wrapped in the flow of the gentle mana.

Mana slowly entered his body and increased his mana density and purity continuously.

What takes other mages decades of effort to do, Jareth had accomplished it in just a few hours.

His mana purity level was slowly rising steadily, and he was absorbing more and more mana like crazy.

The mana flow near him was so intense that even Reynald had to stop far away from the mountaintop to observe the situation.

If he tried to get too close, it’s very likely he will get affected by the mana flow. So he waited for the ascension to end.