Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 290

Chapter 290: The Relay Race Against ‘Destiny’! Part-2.
“This glass… even this is heavily enchanted with mana detection resistance magic… it’s almost as if someone never wanted anyone to find this thing…”

*Well, of course, this thing is the greatest secret artifact of the fairy race. just like the globe, the tower and the portal-creating artifact, this one is also from times unknown…*

*Moreover, this glass is actually a type of artifact itself; if you try to forcefully open it, it will break and the artifact stored inside will shatter… that’s why no fairy king ever dared to bring it out…*

“I can see that powerful magic enchantment… yeah, it seems the entire tower’s base is connected to this magic enchantment; if this glass is broken forcefully, the entire tower will collapse on us…”

“This place is built as a trap…”

Jareth finally figured out why the entirety of the upper floors of this tower were just empty with no rewards and only powerful traps and enemies.

They were basically a trap mechanism.

If someone somehow made it to this artifact and broke the glass without knowing the consequences of doing something like that, the entire tower would collapse on them, and all the enemies inside the tower would attack them.

“But then, how do we open it then?”

*I seriously do not know. If I knew, I would have just opened it myself back then and would have used it to find an empty place for my people and would have escaped there with the surviving fairies…*

*That way, at least some of the fairies would have survived…*

Rororon’s voice was filled with sadness and regret. Jareth felt helpless hearing his answer and started thinking about what to do.

‘If there’s no way to forcefully open this and get the artifact, how did the players from the past get this thing then?’

A question that Jareth hadn’t thought about until now suddenly rose in his head.

‘The portal opening artifact was also something that could only be operated by obtaining that ‘Qualification’ which my system gave me…’

‘Hmmm? Then how did the players get to this city? Where did they get the qualification?’

The more Jareth thought about this matter, the more confused he became.

And he felt weirdly confused about why he had completely ignored that fact up until this moment, almost as if he had ‘forgotten’ about it.

‘Did something interfere with my memories? No, I don’t feel any different than usual, and my mana singularity is working just as usual… there’s no problem at all, so what’s going on here…’

Jareth could not find any solution to his question, and the more he thought about this matter, the weirder it felt.

“Is it possible that this thing also requires someone with qualifications to open it?”

*Hmm? What do you mean by qualification? *

Jareth’s doubts were confirmed by Rororon’s confusion; just as he had expected, Rororon had also forgotten about the ‘qualification,’ and he only remembered that the two of them entered through the portal opening device.

“Forget it, let me try it first…”

Jareth raised his palm and channeled his mana into the glass, and the moment he did that, the glass shattered on its own, and Jareth succeeded in safely opening the safety lock.

*Wha-what!? You opened it just like that!? That’s impossible! *

Before Jareth could answer Rororon’s question, he noticed a sudden change in the artifact; the artifact suddenly glowed brightly, and a strange glowing object of uneven shape appeared out of it.

The object seemed colorless and colorful at the same time; it was as if Jareth was looking at something that seemed to have every color existing in the world inside it.

The object seemed like some kind of energy or some kind of solid item; at the same time, it was formless, presence-less, and didn’t radiate any mana or miasma at all.

Just when Jareth was getting more and more confused by that bizarre object, the glowing, energy-like object rushed towards Jareth and passed right through his mana shield without any resistance and entered his body.

Then it disappeared as if it never existed at all.

[Ding! You have found an ‘Unknown Fragment’!]

[Ding! You have completed the greatest challenge of the tower of trials!]

[Ding! The tower of trials has been fully conquered and you have found the great treasure stored within it!]

[Ding! Congratulations! You have received a ‘Memory Reader Card (Legendary)!’]

Before Jareth could understand what was going on, more system notifications flooded his mind.

[Ding! Conditions met! The new possibility to save this dying planet has been created!]

[Ding! Conditions met! You have fulfilled the main purpose for the creation of this ‘Origin’s Blessing System’!]

[Ding! Memory Reader Card (Legendary) is now in use!]

The system did not even ask for Jareth’s permission to use the legendary card, which he didn’t even know existed, and before he could react, he lost consciousness!

…

Inside Jareth’s sea of consciousness.

“This place… my sea of consciousness…”

Jareth found himself sitting in an open grassland.

The sky was light blue, and the weather was sunny; a warm breeze was hitting his face, making him comfortable all over.

The greenery-filled grassland was stretching far and wide until the horizon.

Although Jareth didn’t know why the scenery here was so good-looking, he knew that he was definitely inside his own sea of consciousness right now.

He felt deeply connected to this realm; he was lying on the comfortable grass and felt comfortable all over.

A massive amount of information and knowledge started to enter his brain at an unfathomable rate.

He felt overwhelmed and felt as if he was going insane, but that comfortable grass beneath him supported him and helped him keep his sanity.

‘This grass, this good scenery… it’s helping me through my difficulties…’

Finally, Jareth understood why his own sea of consciousness was filled with this good scenery; this scenery represented his ‘love’ for Shiina and his ‘hope’ for a better future.

When a human being is going through troubles, their good memories, their ‘love,’ and their ‘hope’ become the anchor that keeps motivating them to move forward.

This scenery represented Jareth’s ‘humanity’; it protected him from corruption, it protected him from crumbling after knowing the truth of the world, and it protected him from continuous setbacks when he failed to protect the golden nails twice.

It protected him during his entire stay in this world, and now that he’s facing another difficulty, it has forcefully summoned Jareth into its embrace to protect his mind from shattering under pressure.

It was almost as if, even in this life, Shiina was still showering him with her love and care.

Jareth could only sigh after thinking about this thought.

‘Even in this life, I have become indebted to you once again… You are so cruel; how am I supposed to pay you back when you aren’t even here…’

Before Jareth could think about this matter further, his mind was bombarded with even more information, and he could only stop and focus on absorbing it.

He was receiving knowledge that was beyond human comprehension.

It was knowledge that was directly being bestowed by the ‘world’ itself; it was a story about a struggle that lasted several millennia.

It was a story about an unending struggle for hope, and Jareth was forced to listen to this story.