Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 280

Chapter 280: The Endless Wails and Mental attacks.
*Hmmm!*

A sonic boom sounded in the sky, and Jareth reached the top of another plateau.

There were dark black rivers flowing on the plateau, and they all merged into one before falling down into the giant valley, creating a gigantic waterfall.

‘After knowing what exists in this deep valley, it feels weird that waterfall full of miasma is going down there and is falling on that giant disfigured organism’s body…’

Jareth shook his head and continued flying forward; the area was covered in dark sand, and the dark miasmic clouds hung over it.

*HEHEHEHEH!!! HEHEHEHE*

*OH OHO OH OH OHO!!*

*PERREREEREERE!*

Dozens of weird and irritating noises entered Jareth’s ears as he flew forward; several disfigured faces appeared on the ground, made up of dark miasmic sand.

Even the air and water started creating illusions and eerie voices everywhere around him.

*AHHH!!! HELP AHHHHH!!! NOOO!!!!*

*NOT MY CHILD AT LEAST!!! AHHHH!!!*

*LET ME GO!!! I AM INNOCENT!!!*

The more Jareth stayed in that place, the more illusions he started to see, and he started to hear dozens of painful wails of many people.

‘So this is the true meaning of the word ‘Wailing Hills’…’

Jareth shook his head in helplessness; in the game, you could only see your character show discomfort on their face when traveling through this place.

But now that everything is real, Jareth has to confront the problem himself.

The reason why this entire area is known as the ‘Wailing Hills’ is because of the hundreds of thousands of wailing souls that reside in this area and wail continuously.

They are either victims of the human race, fairies who got tortured to death, or spirits that got corrupted into evil beings.

Along with miasma, these factors create a constant wailing phenomenon in this area; whoever travels through this place gets their sea of consciousness and mind constantly bombarded with endless voices filled with pain and terror.

Some are begging for mercy, some are crying in pain, some are laughing hysterically, and some are praying for salvation.

It was a constant struggle, a constant mental burden that was straining Jareth’s mind tremendously.

‘If not for the fact that I have ‘Mana Singularity’, my mana control would have weakened significantly after being constantly affected by so many voices attacking my head…’

All these wails are sounds produced by miasma using the lingering wills present in the souls, and you can hear these wails directly in your head, your mind, and your sea of consciousness.

There’s no point in trying to plug your ears and try to stop hearing these voices; Jareth already knew this much. That’s why he was putting all of his efforts into enhancing his mind barriers.

As long as he still has mana, it will be very difficult to erode his mind with just this level of mental attacks.

‘Even grade-1 individuals will feel exhausted in a situation like this… thankfully I learned the ‘Rational mind’ spell before coming here…’

The rational mind spell is not just a simple method of controlling your emotions; those who can learn it already have immense knowledge about their brain.

Which helps them create more powerful and solid mind barriers that are very resistant against mind attacks.

The main reason why Jareth didn’t go insane after seeing that horrible monstrosity was also because his mental barriers are thick enough and strong enough.

If it was someone else, they might have suffered a brain hemorrhage at that moment.

*This place… sigh, it’s been so heavily corroded… it once used to be a lush forest with many animals living peacefully…*

Rororon’s voice was much more pleasant to hear compared to those loud wailing noises ringing in Jareth’s head.

“It’s hard to believe that a forest existed here… it’s all just barren, uninhabitable land here now… black miasmic sand is covering the entire area and dark miasmic water is polluting everything around it…”

“Even the air is unbreathable because of miasma… also there’s these constant wailing souls…”

Jareth shook his head; the entire ‘Wailing Hills’ area was just a destroyed paradise that once used to provide shelter for many innocent beings, and now it’s an area that can spread dread into anyone’s heart.

*SHOOOM!* *SHOOOM!!*

Steam burst out of the ground and shot towards the sky, forcing Jareth to dodge it as it was filled with miasma.

Many similar steam jets broke out of the ground and spread miasma everywhere.

*KEKEKEKEKEKEKE!*

A high-pitched sinister laughter rang out in the entire area as more and more miasmic steam jets kept breaking out of the ground one by one.

Jareth was forced to fly higher and dodge those miasmic steam jets, causing him to slow down.

‘The miasma is already started to adapt to my flying capabilities…’

Jareth’s ‘float’ spell lets him float in all directions using air elementals, and its speed depends on his own mana control.

These miasmic steam jets are created using the miasma that has corroded deep into this ground and has found some underwater source.

Using the captured soul of a fire elemental fairy, it’s possible to use heat elementals and turn the water into steam jets to fire them at Jareth.

Not only were those steam jets targeting Jareth with precision, but they were also filled with miasma, so their effectiveness was also quite high.

[Grade-3 Fire Magic: Molten Ground!]

Jareth waved his arm and cast a fire spell and created a massive magic circle on the ground.

Extreme heat waves spread into the ground and heated up the surface of the ground and turned it into molten lava in a matter of milliseconds.

Then he brought out an ice element crystal from his space ring and threw it on the lava, causing it to freeze in a matter of milliseconds.

The entire ground became solid and strong, causing those steam jets to be blocked by the heavy and impenetrable layer of rock formed with frozen lava.

Jareth then increased his flying speed once again and flew away from the area.

‘It’s adapting too fast; if I don’t block its methods, it will keep using them over and over…’

Groundwater is present everywhere, and Jareth does not have the time to keep avoiding these steam jets over and over, as it takes too much mana to keep his mana detection working at full capacity.

He doesn’t have the time to slow down and avoid these jets over and over; it’s better to solve the problem once and for all.

Although the steam jets won’t likely stop from this suddenly made layer of rock, it can stop them for a long time.

*hmmm!*

Jareth’s flying speed increased, and a sonic boom sounded in the air as he flew forward at insane speeds.

He was forced to solidify the ground three more times after the first incident as miasmic water started shooting towards Jareth from the ground due to pressure created by miasma.

Then there was a sudden burst of massive amounts of lava firing toward the sky.

Jareth had to face various attempts that were clearly targeting his flying capabilities over and over; he had no other choice but to stop and freeze the ground once again so that he could fly over it.

‘If only I could fly high enough to avoid anything coming from the ground…’

Jareth glanced up and shook his head after seeing those thick miasmic clouds in the sky.

He knew that diving into them would create even more trouble than what the ground was causing.