Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 284

Chapter 284: The Hallway of Increased Gravity.
[Ding! You have caused a tremendous change in the World’s Destiny!]

[Ding! You have changed the strings of destiny of all the people on this planet!]

[Ding! Your actions have granted a longer lease on Life to all beings on this planet!]

[Ding! Your great deed has been noticed by the ‘World’!]

[Ding! You are granted the ‘Qualification’ to be the bearer of the ‘Banner of Lost Faith’!]

[Ding! You are granted a new ‘possibility’…]

…

Jareth was stunned by the sudden barrage of notifications that appeared when he successfully cast the powerful seal on the golden nail.

‘I didn’t get any credit points this time… but I seem to have gotten quite a lot of other rewards instead…’

Jareth has never truly figured out the mysteries of this weird system.

It wasn’t in the game, as there was a character leveling system in the game. This system is purposely asking him to change the destiny of the world as if it knows that the world is headed towards ruin and wants to change that.

All the items it gives to Jareth are exactly tailor-made for him for the perfect moment.

‘The Banner of Faith?… it’s mentioned by the system too… but why does this one has the word ‘Lost’ in it…’

‘Also… what is the so-called new ‘Possibility’… that’s such a vague way to reward someone…’

Jareth already knew that sealing the golden nail will definitely change the destiny of this world a lot, but he had no idea that such a big change will happen.

In the original game, perhaps the false dome cult succeeded in destroying the golden nail here or somewhere else.

The main thing is that if one more golden nail is broken, the false dome barrier will likely already start collapsing.

There will be cracks in it, and miasma will start leaking inside; the demon gods outside can easily widen those gaps once they appear.

Sealing this golden nail will prevent it from being destroyed, the false dome barrier’s life will extend, and in turn all beings that live on this planet will have their lives extended.

It took Jareth a very difficult journey to make it here, but thankfully, he managed to get here and seal the golden nail.

‘But this is also just a temporary measure… if just sealing was enough, even Luche or Zion could have done that…’

Luche was literally sitting just a few meters away from this golden nail for a long time, and she could have easily cast a seal herself.

In fact, these seals were intact for a long time, and no one even managed to destroy them; only the presence of the ‘False Dome Cult’ changed the situation this fast.

They managed to shatter golden nails one after another, and there was no time to even cast the seal.

‘Still, it would have been difficult to cast a powerful enough seal on the nails for Zion and Luche as they don’t have mana singularity…’

The power of the false dome barrier manifests in the golden nails, and it’s difficult to manipulate mana near it as the nail itself causes the mana flow around it to get disturbed.

Only someone like Jareth with such precise mana control can actually cast a powerful enough seal like this.

‘No, in fact even I used that enhancement card actually; it’s much stronger than my real capabilities…’

*You really went all out on that seal… this is definitely the strongest seal I have ever seen aside from the ‘False Dome Seal’ that is…*

“Oh, you know about the ‘False Dome Seal’… that means you used to either be a grade-1 being or you used to hold a high enough position to know about it…”

“And considering that you are so weak, you likely weren’t a grade-1 individual; that only leaves one option…”

Jareth’s deductions were spot-on, as Rororon went silent after hearing those deductions and didn’t continue talking.

“Phew, now that I am done with this ticking time bomb, it’s time I go to the place I came here for…”

After taking a deep breath and looking at the golden nail one more time, Jareth moved on and walked in the opposite direction of the corridor from where he came.

‘The main pathway to the ‘Miracle City’ was long destroyed; only the alternate hidden route is left intact and even that is still difficult to access…’

Jareth walked towards the wall of the giant hall and placed his palm on it before embedding his mana into the wall.

He used his powerful mana control to spread his mana in the wall and did a ‘manual’ mana detection on the spot.

Mana detection works by sending your mana into the environment and observing its reactions to the environment, but that’s an automatically working skill.

The other method is by channeling your mana into something while maintaining body contact; this increases the detection power and efficiency of the skill.

Jareth has a ‘mana singularity,’ and he used this method along with it to increase the power tremendously.

He needed to do this because the wall was made with special materials that were very good at mana detection blocking capabilities.

‘It’s here…’

In the game, some gamers found this hidden pathway by pure chance when they came across a glitch and went out of bounds from the map in the hall where the golden nail was located.

Then everyone found out that this is an alternate path that leads to the miracle city ‘Levina’ at certain random instances.

[Basic Magic: Telekinesis!]

Jareth used his telekinesis magic to rip apart that entire section of the wall with extreme precision and stuffed it into his space ring.

That one particular section of the wall was made up of detection-blocking materials that were good at messing up mana detection.

It was valuable material, so Jareth took it with him

After he was done stuffing that four-meter wall in his space ring, he moved forward with steady steps.

A hidden corridor was now visible, and Jareth walked into it without hesitation.

The moment Jareth stepped inside that corridor, he felt a very weird sensation take hold of his entire body.

‘No wonder mana detection was not working at all; even if I used mana detection from any possible angle, it would have been impossible to find what was going on here unless I knew beforehand…’

The walls of the hallway were covered in thick miasma, and the flow of mana was heavily suppressed to the point it was near impossible to tell if there was any mana present there or not.

Jareth even noticed miasmic corruption sticking to the walls like paint; everything was pitch black, and Jareth had to use a glowing mana orb to make his way forward.

Even his footsteps were completely silenced, as even the sound was being absorbed by the miasma inside the corridor.

Walking inside that corridor was a challenge of its own; powerful waves of miasmic corruption put a massive burden on Jareth’s mana shield.

It was gravity that was forcefully enhanced in this place, and even with his mana shield resisting it, Jareth could still feel the heavy suppression on him.

He felt as if he was carrying an entire train on his shoulders while walking forward.

Even the mana shield’s consumption was going off the charts, and Jareth was forced to drink mana recovery potions to replenish his mana.

‘Was it this difficult in the game too? … I don’t remember that though…’

Truthfully speaking, Jareth hasn’t watched any videos or information about the miracle city from this point forward.

He only knew about the hidden entrance and that there’s a rare item in there that can help him in his escape plan.

‘No, there’s no way that walking through here would have been this difficult in the game… even grade-1 individuals will find this hard…’

‘I think that miasma’s hostility against me has increased and it’s targeting me even more now…’

Miasma in the ‘Wailing Hills’ area is already very hostile towards any invader due to the lingering wills of the fairies mixed in it; now that Jareth has helped the world and has enhanced the safety of the golden nail,

It’s obvious that Miasma will be even more hostile towards Jareth in particular.

In other words, the hostility towards him has multiplied and is causing Jareth to face an increased difficulty here.

‘You don’t really think that this much can stop me, right? I have already crossed more difficult trials than this…’

Jareth’s steps slowed down due to the increased burden, but he still didn’t stop and kept moving forward with determination flashing in his eyes.

He was already too deep in this hellhole to go back; now that he was already here, he will go to the end of it before going back.

The struggle with the gravity corridor lasted for half an hour, and Jareth’s moving speed was nearly as slow as a turtle by the end of it.

But finally, he managed to cross the corridor and reached a massive underground area.