Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 285

Chapter 285: In the Hall of Sweet Melodies.
The moment Jareth stepped foot into that massive underground area, a calm and peaceful melody started to ring out in the area.

Jareth glanced at the ceiling of the underground hall and noticed that the entire ceiling had a spell cast on it.

Symbols representing some kinds of music notes were engraved in the ceiling, and each one was embedded with a mana stone secured with miasma-resistant rare materials.

Thus, the spell was still operating even after several millennia.

‘It’s a spell that activates when it notices a living being’s presence nearby… the creator of this spell turned the mechanism used in traps to create this unique spell…’

‘Even used the miasma-resistant metals to keep it intact from miasma… that’s some dedication…’

*I don’t remember this… someone must have installed it much later after the destruction of the fairy race… the melody has a deep resemblance to the songs sung by fairies in the past…*

The entire hall was covered in miasma everywhere, but the ceiling was still intact.

‘After crossing so many difficulties and defeating an unbeatable boss, this place is reached… even music is playing in the background now; this area seems like an optimal place for a checkpoint…’

Jareth didn’t know if there was a checkpoint here in the game or not, as he hadn’t seen any information about this place in the game.

He shook his head and listened to the calm and sweet melody with closed eyes.

The melody seemed to make Jareth think of a warm, cozy place filled with happiness and laughter, but in a long-forgotten age and nowhere to be found in the present.

It was a happy yet sad melody, as if it was grieving the destruction of the fairy race and was created as a last tribute to the fairies by someone.

‘I wonder who created this… some fairy that managed to survive the disasters? It can’t be Luche as she likely does not know about this alternate route…’

*By the way, I have been meaning to ask this but how did you know that there was such a hidden route here… even I didn’t know about this, even though I am the… cough…*

“Well, I didn’t know either… I just happened to find out about it from some records made by others… I don’t know who made those records though…”

Technically, Jareth wasn’t lying, as those videos he watched were also records that were made by some gamers who he didn’t know, and he doesn’t even remember their names either.

*How odd…*

“What’s odd is what you were about to say… I feel that you almost blurted out something important…”

*I-I can’t hear you…*

Rororon went silent once again and stopped talking; Jareth shook his head and stopped staring at the ceiling.

He enjoyed the melody for a while and even recorded it on his mobile phone before using his magic.

[Basic Magic: Telekinesis!]

*BAM!!!*

He used his telekinesis to rip apart all the mana-resistant materials from the ceilings and stuffed them into his own space rings.

Rare materials that have a tendency to resist mana are items that are very rare, and they have a high concentration of light elementals in them.

Thus, Jareth didn’t miss this opportunity and grabbed them for himself, as they might come in handy someday.

‘It’s a shame that no one will be able to hear this melody here but… no one even visits this place so it’s fine, I guess…’

While thinking that, Jareth shook his head and moved forward.

He used his mana shield to resist the miasma on the ground and in all directions and reached the central area of the massive underground hall.

All the walls and pillars of the hall were built from strong materials, and there were traces of powerful enchantments on them, but miasma has corroded them thoroughly with time.

Now only one structure is left barely intact.

‘The realm node connecting machine, a gateway to the ‘Spirit realm’….’

Jareth looked at the massive circular artifact floating in midair with awe and excitement.

The artifact was shaped in a circular manner, and there was nothing between it, as that was the gap where the portal will be opened when in use.

The massive artifact, the size of a two-story house, was circling in the air at a slow yet steady pace. The entire artifact was made up of mana-resistant material, and there were thousands of enchantments carved on its entire body.

Even with his mana singularity, it took Jareth a while to properly figure out how many enchantments were placed on that artifact.

Its presence alone was so powerful that even Jareth felt a bit suppressed despite having his mana shield working at full capacity.

“How did the fairy race manage to create something like this… it’s such a sophisticated artifact that it would have taken insane level of skills to make something like this…”

*The fairy race already had it from a very long time… no one knows where it came from and who made… just like that ancient universal map…*

“Hoh… that’s interesting… By the way, what’s written on this tablet here?”

Jareth placed his hand on the stone tablet coated in miasma-resistant material placed directly below the giant floating artifact.

There were several characters carved on it, and they seemed similar to what the text in the temple had. Jareth used his hand as a medium for Rororon to see the characters and showed him a mental image of it.

*This here says…*

{Only those with the ‘Qualification’ to create a new possibility shall use this pathway!}

{If you are qualified, step forward; an ancient history awaits your arrival!}

‘Hmmm!? Didn’t I just get some kind of ‘qualification’ too… wait a minute, I needed a qualification to go inside the miracle city with this path!?’

‘That’s the first time I am hearing this!!’

Jareth was shocked by this sudden revelation, and he felt weirdly suspicious about how his system knew every time what he might need soon or might need at that particular moment.

It was almost as if the system was predicting or keeping an eye on his strings of destiny and was working accordingly.

‘But if my system can take such intelligent decisions, why isn’t its shop more rich in items and rewards… it’s so empty and even weird…’

Jareth had no answer for these questions at the moment, so he stopped doubting his existence and started to think about the present.

“Qualification?… They even made sure to use miasma-resistant material to write this down; this means this matter might be true… as no one will put so much effort just to write some words as a joke…”

Collecting miasma-resistant materials is a very difficult task; finding items that have a high concentration of light elementals in nature is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

*I don’t know anything about this… this might have been set up by someone else… fairies do not create discrimination; they do not depend on things like qualifications…*

*In their eyes all are equal and qualified… unless, of course they are bad people…*

Jareth didn’t bother arguing with the little fellow and flew into the air using float and raised his hand to cast spells again.

“We just have to try it; we will find out the results if we do…”