Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 89

To the Port City, Urona! Part-2.
University, Main Building, Principal’s Office.

Mid-Night.

Jareth waved his hand and easily opened the mana lock on the door of the principal’s room.

Mana singularity has boosted his ‘Mana interruption’ capabilities, and now that he has insanely pure mana coursing through his body, it’s even easier for him to break these low-grade mana locks.

Moreover, he can easily restrain his mana fluctuation and suppress his presence to avoid the detection of others, so he was easily able to avoid the detection of other professors.

‘I didn’t really want to come here, but my curiosity still got a hold of me… It would be better if no one saw me sneaking around here, so I will try to do everything as stealthily as possible…’

Although no one would dare blame him for sneaking around because they don’t want to get on his bad side, he still prefers it when no one notices his actions.

Some things are better kept secret from others.

Jareth had already cast the basic spell ‘Silent Steps’ on himself, so even if he jumped up and down like crazy, it would still not make any noise.

After all, he came here with a full-proof plan.

…

Once inside the principal’s office, Jareth immediately noticed that the whole table in front of the principal’s chair was covered in coffee cups.

‘Oh… it seems Thomas is working hard to complete the paperwork… He’s a reliable man…’

Even Thomas, who was already a peak grade-2 mage, had to work so hard to complete all the paperwork, meaning that the workload on his shoulders was massive.

Thousands of complaints had been piling up in the past few days due to their anger towards Nathan.

Thomas had to write and send formal apologies in reply, even if he used the computer to print the same apology letter many times.

He still had to sign them all by himself while putting mana into his sign to prove that it was a genuine thing.

Furthermore, he had to complete all of the paperwork required to get the government’s cooperation going.

The free vacation trip also brought a lot of paperwork.

Fund management, event management, and many other things related to the university all needed Thomas to look over them.

The workload was immense for a newbie principle like him.

Nathan used to dump all his work on his servants or the professors who wanted to butter up to him, so he didn’t run into these problems.

But Thomas, being a hard-working guy, didn’t want to dump his work on others, so he was pulling all-nighters again and again. That’s why so many coffee cups were piled up here.

‘Thankfully, he isn’t sleeping here or something; otherwise, I would have had no choice but to retreat for today…’

Although Jareth has ‘Mana Singularity’ to suppress the mana fluctuations, Thomas is a peak grade-2 mage; he can easily sense it with his keen intuition if someone uses mana in such close proximity to him.

Jareth doesn’t want to take the risk of getting discovered today, so if Thomas really was here, he would have retreated and would have come back some other day.

But after using his mana detection, Jareth was sure that no one was here.

With a sense of relief, he made his way to the smallest bookshelf.

‘I have done it quite a few times in the game, so I remember it properly…’

Jareth stretched out his hand and picked up a green-colored book from the middle shelf.

He took that book and walked over to the largest bookshelf in the room.

[Basic Magic: Float!]

He cast the float spell on the book, causing it to float in the air.

The book floated towards the uppermost shelf, and with a flick of Jareth’s finger, it was placed in an empty spot.

*Click!*

Once the book was placed properly, a mechanical ‘click’ sounded in the room, and Jareth nodded his head at it.

‘Good, the mechanics of the game are still the same here…’

After finishing all of that, Jareth used telekinesis and a wave of his hand to lift the entire bookshelf to the side.

This bookshelf itself is made up of magic-resistant material, so you will need to use telekinesis to push it aside. (Or you can just go ahead and deadlift it if you have a lower back made of steel or something…)

Attribute magic is useless against it.

Obviously, Jareth’s magic will be able to deal with this magic-resistant wood easily, as he has ‘Mana Singularity’, and the efficiency of his attack is just too good.

But today, he was here to carry out his tasks in a stealthy manner, not to destroy things; if he did so, it would cause a massive commotion.

After pushing the bookshelf aside, Jareth placed his hand on the wall and attempted to channel his mana into it.

A massive magic circle covering the whole inner walls of the principal’s office lit up instantly, but before it could activate, the magic circle suddenly stopped taking mana as if it had recognized that it was not Nathan who was trying to activate it.

Once the magic circle went dim once again, Jareth rubbed his forehead and thought to himself.

‘Ugh… How did I forget that you need the ‘Principle’s Brand’ for accessing this place…’

In the game, the protagonist got a brand engraved on the back of his hand, and only then was he able to enter this hidden place.

A very powerful magic circle is placed in this place; if Jareth tries to forcefully break his way in, the whole hidden library will self-destruct.

That’s not what Jareth wants to see.

‘Forget it; let’s look at the structure of the circle first. I will analyze it and use mana interruption to break the magic circle…’

With the help of ‘Mana Singularity’, Jareth’s mana-analysis capabilities have been greatly improved.

He only needs to analyze this magic circle to seize its ownership for himself.

Jareth placed his hand on the wall once again, but this time he spread his mana to all walls and analyzed the basic structure of the magic circle.

But the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became.

‘This magic circle… It’s extremely big and complicated…’

Jareth was shocked by the fact that Nathan had deployed such a complicated and powerful magic circle here.

Even with the enhanced analytical capabilities of Jareth, it will take several days to fully understand this magic circle.

‘I don’t have that much free time… Let’s just copy the magic circle’s structure for now. I will study it in my free time and break it down step by step…’

‘And once I am done analyzing, I will come back to seize the ownership of this magic circle…’

Jareth originally thought that he would be able to get things done in one go, but who could have thought that Nathan would place such a complicated magic circle in this place.

‘He likely used a trace of his own soul to enhance this magic circle… How terrible of a secret are you keeping here that you had to go to such extreme lengths to conceal it, Nathan? …’

Originally, Jareth thought that if they hadn’t stopped Abella, she could have really found things in the hidden library.

But now that Jareth knows the real truth, he is sure that even if Abella had succeeded in stealing the main key of the hidden library, she still wouldn’t have been able to bypass this magic circle.

‘That magic key is not the problem; I can make it with the help of ‘Mana Singularity’ but this magic circle needs to be analyzed properly… Otherwise, this whole university will likely self-destruct if I try to forcefully enter…’

Nathan didn’t care one bit about the lives of the students and others at the university.

He might have established this university in such a way that he could take the students as hostages when the need arose.

He could have stopped the government by saying that he could easily blow up the whole university with this magic circle, and the lives of all students in the university were in his hands.

‘I discover something new about him every single day… tch!’

Jareth shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He used telekinesis to place the shelf and the green-colored book back where they were.

Moreover, he even restored the broken mana lock before leaving.

He left no traces behind.

…

Next day, morning.

University Front Gate.

“Wohoo!! Today is the day!!”

“We are finally going on vacation!!”

“I’ve been waiting for this!”

Although only Mark and the others worked hard to earn the spot for this trip, other students were also allowed to tag along.

The only difference is that Mark and others won’t have to go through the hellish training, but those who didn’t go to Artavia will have to do this training if they want to enjoy the free time.

But even then, the students were still very excited about the trip and cheering happily.

Some were chatting, while others were already making plans for who would sit with whom and who would stay in the same room.

One by one, all of the students gathered at the front gate, and soon enough, the professors also arrived at the scene.

The students got to sit in magic-powered buses, and the teachers were going to ride their own luxurious cars.

The destination was obviously the airport.

Although they could have just used a teleportation altar to directly teleport, that thing is very expensive to use, and the university rarely ever uses it.

It’s generally only used in emergency-case scenarios; usually, they just take a flight if they want to go to some distant places.

They used a plane to travel to Artavia.

In the first place, the trip is funded by the government; why not take a plane and enjoy the luxurious plane services while you are at it?

There’s no fun in directly going to the destination; the journey to that destination is also just as necessary if you want to enjoy the result properly.