Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 86

The Crazy people of this world… (Skippable)
(A random chapter just for fun; if you are saving your coins, then skip this one… It has no important lore, just some jokes…)

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Following Jareth’s persuasion, people eventually retreated from the university and stopped surrounding it.

His words worked like a charm, and everyone slowly retreated.

The crowd’s anger subsided, and shocking news swept the internet.

The entire nation shook at the news that Jareth had become a Grade 1 mage yesterday and that his ascension had created a massive mana storm.

The appearance of a new Grade-1 mage is not a small matter; not even nukes can kill a Grade-1 mage, and they are walking nuclear weapons that can influence the whole nation with their words.

Every time a new grade-1 mage appears, all of the media channels go crazy, covering this news and showing it repeatedly.

Despite the fact that the majority of grade 1 mages are not positive individuals, the media’s massive hype still excites the general public.

To the common folk, grade 1 mages are just too far above them, so they think that their actions have nothing to do with the common people, and such strong people will not bother to do anything to the weak.

But this mentality is very wrong.

Firstly, achieving Grade 1 without being selfish is extremely challenging.

You need to be selfish to snatch resources and other things to survive the competition and make continuous progress to grade 1.

Those who aren’t selfish enough will not be able to convince themselves to manipulate others to get resources out of them, and due to a shortage of resources, you might never be able to reach grade 1.

Unlike Jareth, who just upgrades by doing some lottery at random, ordinary mages need magical herbs, potions, and other auxiliary things to improve.

Jareth has ‘Mana Singularity’, so his mana will never go out of control, and he knows that he can ascend without worry.

But that’s not the case with normal mages.

They need to buy potions that enhance mana control for short time periods so that they can safely ascend to the next grade without worrying about their mana going out of control in case their mana ends up increasing.

Ivan’s Higher Arcane University provides Mark and all of the other students with a variety of resources, including mana purification herbs, supporting potions, mana stones, etc.

For a mage, mana stones are an absolute necessity.

Mages place mana stones in their hands and then meditate, slowly absorbing the mana in the stone into their bodies. Alternatively, they can meditate and absorb the mana in their surroundings, making it their own.

This way, their mana capacity slowly increases over time.

Talented individuals have a higher affinity for mana, can absorb more mana in less time, and have purer mana when compared to others, giving them an advantage over others.

This is the reason why talented people are favored.

If you have good talent, you will achieve much better results during training when compared to less talented people.

It’s not that untalented people are being targeted on purpose; it’s just how this world works. People are born different; your talent for magic is already determined at birth.

But even in this cruel world, there is still a way for the untalented to reach enormous heights.

The power to transcend the limits placed upon you by your talent and the power to make breakthroughs that couldn’t have been possible in normal circumstances—that power is called ‘Enlightenment’.

If you can achieve ‘Enlightenment’, you can break out of your shackles easily, and you won’t be much worse than a world-class genius at that point.

But in the long annals of history, there has only been one person who has ever achieved Enlightenment successfully.

And that person was the First Great King.

He was the one who taught humanity the way of magic, the path of mana, and the power of spells.

If not for him, this world might have developed in the direction of ‘technology’ instead of ‘mana’.

People still revere him today as the ‘Founder of All Magic’.

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Capital City, Hotel Hanging Moon.

While sitting on the couch, Jareth watched TV to see how things had turned out and if the crowd of people had left the university.

He wanted the people to leave so that he could go back to his comfortable dormitory room, and then the first thing that came up when he opened the TV was.

[Shocking News! Jareth Blaze shattered the moon and reversed time to play volleyball with dinosaurs!!]

*cough!!**COUGH!!!!!*

Jareth was so taken aback that he immediately spit out the tea that he was drinking and coughed violently, as if he had some sort of lung disease or something.

[Basic Magic: Clean!]

He calmed down for a moment and then used the cleaning magic to clean the floor and his clothes. Even in his wildest dreams, he hadn’t thought that people would make such weird remarks about him.

Jareth was hesitant to continue watching after seeing that strange title, but his curiosity peaked, and he opened the TV once again. (Yeah, he closed it abruptly in shock after seeing it once…)

Once the TV opened, the news anchor started to explain the title.

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(TV News)

The news anchor waved his hand to say hello and then started his explanation.

“Yesterday, after many people witnessed the phenomenon of extreme mana flow in the sky, it has been confirmed that the famous Professor Jareth Blaze of Ivan’s higher arcane university has successfully ascended to Grade 1!”

When the anchor said those words, an AI-generated image of him standing in the sky wearing a weird superhero uniform appeared on the screen.

“According to our sources, Professor Jareth was feeling quite moved after seeing that the common people were hearing his voice, and he had a certain realization, and he broke through to the next realm!”

“Not only is the professor valiant and heroic, he even felt moved after seeing the enthusiasm of the common folk!! Have you ever seen a man more heroic than him!!”

“That waving cape! THAT AMAZING WELL-BUIT BODY!!! Jareth Blaze is the hero of the century!!!!! Yeahh!!!”

The anchor’s eyes were already turning bloodshot; it was evident that this individual was undoubtedly under the influence of something, and he was merely spewing nonsense at this point.

“Moreover, just a few hours ago, our reporters interviewed an old man on the street, and they found out that Jareth Blaze actually saved him 80 years ago from a great disaster!!”

“This proves that Professor Jareth has the power to influence time!! He must have gone back to the prehistoric era, and dinosaurs might have been his pets! This is entirely possible!!”

The anchor looked a bit sensible and smart when the show first started, but as time went on, he continued to spit more and more crazy bulsh*t out of nowhere, and the strange fact is, this literally increased the ‘TRP’ of their channel like crazy!

People even believed his randomly made bulsh*t like it was the actual truth!

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Jareth nearly smashed that TV in sheer anger, but he held his hand back and didn’t do so only because he was in a hotel room right now; if he broke something, he would have to pay for it.

‘Ugh… Where are these brainless people coming from? It was okay that they misunderstood that I was grade 1. The f*ck do you mean that I was playing volleyball with dinosaurs!?’

After rubbing his forehead for a while, Jareth changed the channel and decided to watch some other news channel.

And the first thing he saw in the headline was:

[Shocking NEWS!! Jareth Blaze has been recognized as the god of flames, and his fans have created a cult to worship him!!]

‘F*cking bulsh*T! The people in this world are crazy!’

Even in his previous world, people used to believe in superstitions, but the people of this world are even crazier; they literally opened a cult and put his statue in it to worship.

Sooner or later, the police will obviously raid their illegal cult, and they will all be in jail, but they are really destroying Jareth’s image at this point.

Even on the internet, a war is going on between keyboard warriors. People are making random bulsh*t to gather attention by using Jareth’s name, and he’s been dragged to the center of this storm.

‘Ugh, I want to retire already.’

Although Jareth didn’t give a single f*ck about what the world was talking about him outside, he still didn’t want others to use his name to increase their popularity.

‘Sigh~ it’s the era of the internet; everyone is after fame… There are medicines for diseases, but not for stupidity…’

Even if Jareth tries to stop these people from making random false claims about his name to gain popularity, there are just too many of them, and he doesn’t have that much free time to waste on it.

‘Forget it; if push comes to shove, I will go to the headquarters of the social media companies and threaten them to remove things about me…’

Now that Jareth has the power to fight for his own survival, he fears nothing.

If anyone dared hinder his progress, they will get kicked in the A*s!

Then Jareth opened the back statement on his smartphone, and a smirk appeared on his face.

[Current Balance: 999999999/-]

‘I have so much money now that I can’t spend it all in my whole life…’

When Jareth killed his fake family in the Blaze mansion, he obviously snatched their space rings, leaving no evidence behind.

He even took the space rings of all the wizards and warriors that gathered there to attack him.

Now that he has a lot of money, he’s extremely rich.