Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 96

Salvation or Mercy? Part-2.
*krraaaaaalllllllll*

As Jareth walked deeper into the dungeon, he started hearing a very strange and creepy shout coming from somewhere in the cave’s depths.

‘That ‘thing’ is pissed by my presence…’

[Basic Magic: Mana Interruption!]

Jareth retrieved his grimoire from the space ring and cast the mana interruption spell to stop the brain waves that came with that creepy shout.

‘That ‘thing’ attacks the brain and causes a ton of mental damage; it’s better to keep mana interruption activated when dealing with this…’

In the game, Jareth used to bring a mind-protecting artifact with him whenever he came to this dungeon.

That thing is rare, very expensive, and only works for a limited time.

But now that Jareth already has an insanely strong mana interruption spell due to the existence of mana singularity, he can easily counter these brain waves without even bothering to buy some artifacts for it.

‘How times have changed… It’s like I am using a boss character to deal with another boss…’

Jareth shook his head and continued moving deeper steadily.

But then he stopped for a moment and glanced at a wall on the side.

‘Hmm? Is there a hidden room here?…’

In the game, walls are unbreakable objects that remain unbroken even when you fire continent-destroying spells at them.

You can’t even break ordinary furniture, as it is considered an indestructible item by the game mechanism.

And that’s because the game developers haven’t put the animations for breaking a wall in the game.

As a result, no one must have discovered this hidden room because the wall was unbreakable.

‘Why the heck did developers even add this room when they weren’t going to let the players go inside it?’

Jareth shook his head and kicked the wall.

*Boom!*

The fragile wall broke apart in an instant, and Jareth walked in without any hesitation.

The purification of mana has enhanced his body to such an extent that he can now lift a submarine with one hand.

Breaking this wall was just a piece of cake for him.

*Step**Step*

As the whole room was empty, Jareth’s footsteps rang out throughout the room quite loudly.

‘Hehe, if it were me from the previous life, I would have been quite nervous walking in a dangerous hidden cave like this, but now… sigh, time really changes a lot…’

Except for a small stone tablet, there was nothing in the whole room.

Jareth walked over to the stone tablet and noticed that the writing on it was actually the same ‘English’ as his previous life.

The current language in this world is a version that evolved from ‘English’ as well; it’s likely that this world once had the original English, which slowly evolved over time.

‘The game developers were too lazy to create a new lore accurate language, so they just said that the language here is English… Well, that’s actually beneficial for me, though…’

‘If all ancient tablets are written in English, I can easily read them…’

The words written on the stone tablet were,

[Yodo, Marco, and Ramos were once skinned alive here…]

‘Oh! So that’s how it is—this stone table is an Easter egg! The game developers actually put the names of the three story writers of the game on this tablet!’

The game developers often engaged in arguments with the writers due to the game’s complexity and the peculiar and repetitive storyline they had provided.

‘The developers must have put their name here and mentioned that they were punished because they hated the writers… Well, I thought they would give some kind of item or something-‘

*Boom!*

Just when Jareth was having a moment of nostalgia while thinking about his past life, the stone tablet on the ground exploded, and the stone debris flew everywhere at a speed much faster than bullets!

Fortunately, Jareth was already protected with a mana shield, and he wasn’t hurt at all.

But after seeing that the stone had burst apart, black lines appeared all over Jareth’s face.

‘Those sh*tty developers!! They made it so that even if a player somehow glitches past the wall and sees this tablet, the player would die from the tablet blasting on their face…’

‘Tch! The developers of this game are really cunning people…’

*kirrririiririr*

Just when Jareth was cursing at those developers in his mind, he heard a sound from behind, and a horribly mutated beast slowly crawled into the room through the broken wall.

‘Ugh, I forgot there were these disgusting things here too…’

That creature had a humanoid body, but it was walking on all fours like a dog.

Moreover, its tummy was facing the sky and the back was facing the ground, its eyeballs were hanging out of their bleeding sockets; and its limbs were bent in an unnatural direction.

The skin over that creature was almost falling off his body, and its veins and muscle tissues beneath were showing, and that creature was naked.

That thing looked so d*mn creepy with its big tongue flailing out of its dislocated jaw that even Jareth was frowning while looking at it.

‘This thing looks more disgusting than in the game… At least the game had some censoring measures in it, but now… tch!’

[Basic Magic: Mana Beam!]

Jareth instantly summoned ten mana beams, bombarding the creature with them until only ashes remained.

The creature kept screaming creepily while getting slaughtered by those mana beams.

‘Sigh, I have added one more human to my list of murders…’

Yes indeed! That creepy and horrible creature was a human, of course!

That creature was a tormented and tortured victim of the demon cult.

Horrible human experiments are not unique to the ‘False Dome’ cult; all demon cults have done them before, and even the righteous people of the empire have done them before too.

‘I am more surprised about what these creatures are eating to survive, and how are they still alive after eight hundred years?….’

The game doesn’t explain the lore of this dungeon too much; they didn’t show any cut scenes in the game where these mutated creatures were eating food.

‘I am sure that if the mages outside find out that there is something in this dungeon that can prolong their lives, they will go to any lengths to grab that thing for themselves…’

‘No matter the cost…’

Ignoring the ashes scattered on the ground, Jareth left the hidden room and started to go deeper into the cave.

*KaroKARIKARO!*

Soon enough, a similar mutated creature came into Jareth’s view, but this time it had wings on its stomach and was flying in the air.

In an attempt to attack, the creature pointed the horn on its half-broken head at Jareth.

But before it could even do that, Jareth blasted it off with mana beams till it turned into ashes.

‘These creatures can regenerate; it’s better to destroy them thoroughly…’

As Jareth walked deeper, the cave got darker and darker. He saw human-like creatures latched on the floor and crawling slowly with the help of their fingers and several eyes protruding out of the arm’s skin.

These crawling creatures were harmless and didn’t attack Jareth, but he still blasted off all of them.

No matter what kind of strange and creepy-looking creature came in his way, Jareth blasted right through them and made his way inside without any problems.

‘This place is giving me weird vibes… It looks more horrible than in the game…’

The game was not so detailed when he saw it before, but now that he’s seeing it all with his own eyes, even Jareth can’t help but frown.

‘If it were some weak-hearted person here, they would have already fainted by seeing the horribly mutated creatures in this place… This place is like hell on earth…’

Jareth was sure that all of this was just a byproduct of the main experiments that were conducted here; the main thing lies in the deepest part of the cave.

Nearly three hours passed, even with the help of mana detection. It still took Jareth a very long time to make it past the massive underground maze.

If not for the fact that Jareth’s mana detection skill has improved a lot due to mana singularity, he would have most certainly lost in this place, and it would have been very difficult to make it out of here alive.

‘I think I have traveled at least twenty to thirty kilometers just in these caves… This place is extremely vast…’

The maze wasn’t that big in the game, but now that it’s real life, things are more detailed and extreme.

‘I think I know why there are still so many mutated creatures in this maze even after 800 years… ‘That thing’ is not only feeding them but is also creating them on a regular basis…’

There must have been others who would have come from some other unknown entrances in this dungeon, and they must have starved to death in this place while trying to find a way out.

This place is so vast that even Jareth needed to use his mana detection at full capacity to figure out a way through it.

But even after using the right way, Jareth still had to cover a long distance, and if someone didn’t know the way, they would likely have to travel more, which would eventually starve them to death.

You can’t eat those mutated beasts because their blood is acidic, and even the soil starts to melt when their blood splashes on the floor.

And once a person dies in this dungeon, his body will then be used to create new mutated beasts.

‘This place is simply best for developing PTSD…’