Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 99

Salvation or Mercy? Part-5.
“I see… So, what you are trying to say is that your body is immortal… Unless someone helps you transfer your souls into new bodies, you won’t be free from this?”

The face on the tree agreed to Jareth’s words and said,

“Yes, there might be other ways, but this one is the most reliable and easiest way… to get it done…”

“We are creating these bodies… as vessels, but we have yet to succeed; maybe… we will succeed in the future…”

The tree branch shook, and it gave Jareth a potion.

“We condensed life force…. into the purest form and turned it into a sacred liquid; if you take it, your life force will get extended… It can also work as a one-time healing item…”

Jareth tilted his head in confusion and said,

“This seems precious; why are you giving it to me then?”

A smile appeared on the face of the older twin after hearing Jareth’s question.

“We have seen many strong men in the past; you are definitely one of the strongest people we have ever seen, and we would like to ask… for your assistance if possible…”

“This potion is… a bargaining chip…”

The mutated tree has been in the cult for a long time, and many powerful wizards have visited it over the years, so they have seen the aura of strong people, and they easily guessed that Jareth was strong.

“All the vessels outside… serve as an eye for us; we have seen you fight; you were unstoppable…. by everything, and we would like to… get help from you.”

“With only basic magic, you cleared out so many of the vessels… Your attribute magic must be… even stronger!”

The twins misunderstood that Jareth’s magical capabilities were extremely strong and that he was an exceptional mage.

His display of power with basic magic led them to believe that his attribute magic might be even stronger, but in reality, his fire magic is significantly weaker.

Jareth placed the potion in his space ring and then said,

“Are you not worried that I will take this potion and run away?”

The older twin just smiled at those words and said,

“No… My intuition tells me you won’t betray… My intuition has always been… very good…”

Jareth was quite surprised that this twin could still smile after centuries of torture and pain. The mind of this kid must have really been very strong; others would have already gone insane by now.

He nodded his head and said,

“Well, let’s talk about what kind of help you need?”

The tree roots moved and broke the ground beneath to bring out two buried vessels.

“We have two test vessels ready… Here, whenever we try to embed our life force and soul in it, our mana goes …. out of control and the experiment fails, which causes these… vessels to go insane…”

“We need help… in controlling the… mana…”

Hearing those words, Jareth nodded his head, and he smiled in his mind.

“Good, when it comes to mana control, there’s no better than me in this world….”

“Try doing the process now; I will control the chaotic mana for you…”

Jareth came here to just kill and be done with this boss, but as it turned out, he got curious about the lore of this boss and found out that this tree is actually immortal.

Now he wants to give it a try to see if he can change things by helping this tree boss.

In the game, the protagonist only has to defeat this boss three times, and it completely stops regenerating for the time being.

It’s likely that the game developers put the lore that the tree will regenerate again in several years or something.

Basically, it’s that type of boss where you defeat it and make it reset its evolution cycle.

Once defeated, this mutated tree remains a small tree sapling, slowly regenerating, and it never grows back to full length until the end of the game.

But it’s real life now; not only does the tree have a lot of stored life force, but its regeneration is more accurate and much faster.

That’s why Jareth had to blast it to smithereens so many times before its regeneration ability finally slowed down.

…

At Jareth’s agreement, the mutated tree placed its branches on the two vessels, and it began to embed its life force in them both.

Jareth stretched out his hand and stabilized the chaotic mana and the disturbance in the mana produced by that massive life force transfer.

Happy smiles started to appear on the two faces as they could finally sense that they were about to become free.

But before the process could even complete its initial phase, the two vessels exploded and sprayed blood and their internal organs everywhere on the ground.

Thankfully, Jareth was already protected by the mana shield, so he didn’t get smeared with blood.

A look of great sadness appeared on the faces of the twins.

“Why is it…. Still not working?…”

Hearing that question, Jareth glanced at the broken organs splattered on the ground and said in a solemn tone,

“It’s likely that your body has already manifested the ‘law’ of ‘regeneration’ in your body itself…”

The twins had no idea what Jareth was talking about, and they asked in confusion,

“What does that mean?”

Jareth shook his head and said,

“You see, in this world, there are techniques that can control certain ‘Laws’ of the world, like ‘Sword Intent’ that controls the ‘Law’ of ‘Sword’ or ‘Mana Singularity’ that controls the ‘Law’ of ‘Mana’…”

“These are skills; they are harmless to the body… but sometimes things can go a step further than that…”

“Instead of you controlling the ‘Law’, which ‘Law’ manifests into your physical body and transforms it accordingly, which is harmful in one way or other…”

When the ‘Law’ of ‘Sword’ manifests into someone’s body, it forms the ‘Sword Heart’, and when the ‘Law’ of ‘Mana’ manifests into someone’s body, it forms the ‘Mana Brain’.

“Just like those, the ‘Law’ of ‘Regeneration’ has manifested into your body, and it has become aligned with your very existence… This is likely the result of living in a self-healing body for so many centuries…”

“Your soul gets injured every second, and then it heals again and again; this insane healing likely caused this manifestation…”

Jareth glanced at the mutated tree and said in a solemn tone,

“In simple words, unless you severe the ‘Law’ of ‘Regeneration’ from your body itself, you will likely not be able to leave this body as it will keep regenerating the loss of life force…”

“The life force and soul transfer will keep failing…”

Hearing Jareth’s words, the twins felt immense despair and sadness. They had already placed their bets on this one method, and they didn’t know about other methods.

Not that this has failed; they have nothing left.

“Are we… destined to suffer here…. for eternity?….”

Tears of blood started to flow from the eyes of the twins. They have been trying to escape this soul-tearing pain for centuries, and there’s no end in sight to this at all.

Their lives have been filled with suffering the worst punishment for several centuries; even the most firm mind will not be able to stay sane in such a situation.

As a matter of fact, these twins are so helpless that they can’t even escape this pain by going insane.

This ‘Law’ of ‘Regeneration’ has manifested in their very existence; it regenerates their ‘Will’ and prevents them from going insane.

Which means they are forced to suffer this torture while being perfectly awake and fine. This is so cruel that even Jareth couldn’t help but frown deeply at this thought.

Just when the twins were weeping tears of blood in the depths of despair, Jareth said,

“Actually, I think I know a way…. But I would need a lot of time for that…”

‘I don’t have a way to save them, but I can’t let them lose hope, Only when you have hope can you make it past hard times… Even if this hope is false, it’s still hope after all…’

Jareth has played this game till the end, but he has never seen anyone or any item that was capable of severing the very ‘Laws’ of this world.

This is like saying that you are literally severing the very rules that make everything exist, and such a thing is impossible to pull off for even a grade 1 mage.

In the game, players battle the incarnations of the demon god, but there are no plots that allow them to battle the demon god’s actual body, leaving Jareth unaware of the demon god’s full capabilities.

‘But I am sure of one thing: that demon god also can’t interfere with the rules of the world; otherwise, it wouldn’t have needed to use humans to destroy the seal… He could have just destroyed it by interfering with the laws of the world….’

‘In other words, to rescue these twins, you need something that is beyond the level of even those demon gods!’

Thinking about all this, Jareth felt that his decision to agree to help was a bad idea. He clearly doesn’t have any clues about how to finish this random quest he has taken.

And this quest seems to have no end.

…

The twins smiled at Jareth and said,

“We have waited for a long time; we can surely wait for a few more years. We hope you can help us find the solution for this problem… We are ready to wait for as long as you want…”

“Even if centuries go by, we will wait for your return…”

Jareth felt guilty about lying to them after hearing those words, but he had no other choice; he had to lie to them to make them regain hope.

“Yeah, I will do my best to look for the solution; wait for me…”

Jareth sighed and took one last glance before leaving.

[Basic Magic: Mana Beam!]

He made a hole in the ceiling with his mana beam and flew upward.

After a few minutes of blasting mana beams, he reached the bottom of the ocean, and he immediately cast a basic mana seal to close the hole so that water wouldn’t go down.

Then he flew into the sky and made a promise to himself in his mind.

‘I will definitely return here again one day once I have the ability to rescue those two innocent souls….’

It’s not that Jareth is trying to be good; he’s just trying to give ‘salvation and mercy’ to those two souls that were punished unjustly.