Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong-Chapter 268: Under the Rain of Miasmic Poison. Part-3.
*KEREEREREEREKKERR*
Just after moving a few hundred meters, another screeching noise appeared, and this time, that creature was much closer.
’Ugh, why am I so good at jinxing myself... I just hoped to not meet them again!’
The creature was originally sleeping under the muddy miasmic filth and the poisonous liquid in the swamp, but the powerful explosion happening near Jareth’s mana shield jolted it awake.
The voice was so loud that not only one, but several more creatures started waking up from their deep slumber everywhere around Jareth.
’I already hate this place...’
Jareth also has a spell that can isolate the sound of objects around him, but that spell works in a limited boundary, and he would have to cast it over and over if he wants to move in complete silence.
He didn’t have enough time on hand; otherwise, he would have researched a new spell that would work in sync with his mana shield and silence the noise of anything hitting his mana shield.
Or he could have just modified his mana shield too.
But such research takes time and effort, which Jareth didn’t have, as he had just returned from the Elven capital.
’If only there was a method to censor what I was seeing... ugh, eww...’
Jareth felt nauseated the moment he laid his eyes on those ugly and disfigured creatures.
Those creatures had a disfigured humanoid head hanging around like the pendulum of a clock, and their entire body was oozing poisonous pus.
Whitish tentacles and maggots were squirming around their entirety; it was as if a human head was forcefully attached to the rotting corpse of a donkey.
The creature seemed to have four donkey-like legs, which were rotting, and they were all crawling in the miasmic filth like miserable, pathetic beings.
Their screeching voice carried immense sadness and pain; it was as if the creatures were trying to tell Jareth about their miserable existence.
Ironically, their voice of sadness and pain was corrupted with miasma, and whoever heard it would have their emotions stirred, and their mind would also get affected by miasmic corruption.
’Thankfully I have the ’rational mind’ spell...’
[Grade-6 Fire Magic: Fire lance bombardment!]
Dozens of magic circles appeared around Jareth and fired lances made up of condensed fire elementals glowing with purple flames at those miserable creatures.
*BOOOM!*
’I can’t help you all...’
Jareth shook his head as he immediately obliterated the entire group and moved past them instantly.
He knew that killing these beings was completely meaningless, so he didn’t waste his time and increased his walking pace even more.
’Each day I spend in this world, I loathe miasma more and more...’
These miserable creatures are humans who fell in this miasmic land and died here.
They were once human too, but now their souls have been eternally cursed by miasmic corruption, and they are forced to wander this place for all eternity.
As long as their soul keeps existing, miasma will keep reviving them over and over with rotting flesh created from each other’s bodies.
These creatures are actually in a half-dead and half-alive state.
Their flesh rots and regenerates continuously; once killed, their souls enter the bodies of other surviving ’wanderers,’ and the body of that wanderer then divides into two bodies.
This way, their population never decreases.
Unless they are killed by someone else, they are always wandering or sleeping below the poisonous swamp all the time.
The body feels hungry, but they can’t eat, as they have no teeth or digestive organs at all.
Everything inside them is rotten; miasma gives them enough power to stay alive but makes them starve eternally.
Their mind is awake enough to understand their own pain and horrible situation, but miasma continuously rots their brain, making them unable to escape it.
Their soul is constantly under torture, but miasma doesn’t let it die completely to prolong their torture as long as possible.
Moreover, miasma instinctively makes them try to ask for help from those who enter this land, but their pleas for help end up harming their helpers instead.
Their entire existence is nothing but miserable.
Jareth does not have any skill or ability that can directly shatter a being’s soul, due to which it’s impossible for him to give them salvation.
That’s why he didn’t stop and averted his gaze, as he was not in a position to help them at all.
All those who die in this place suffer the same fate.
’Keep calm, keep moving... I am no hero; I don’t need to burden myself over these things...’
The power of mind-breaking curses in this place is way too strong; thankfully, Jareth had already cast a ’Rational Mind’ spell on himself, otherwise, it would have been difficult to maintain his sanity.
’Only the likes of Zion can deal with places like this... I should leave...’
The ’Sword of Salvation, Astra’ can likely give ’salvation’ to these miserable people, but Zion likely won’t come here, so it’s pointless to think about it.
Jareth shook his head, ignored the burning bodies, and moved while maintaining his cold expression.
Along the way, Jareth met dozens of those ’Lost Wanderers’; each of their rotting bodies was more disgusting to look at than the other.
Some of them were even dragging their disfigured head around, and some had reproductive organs growing all over their body.
One of them even had tongues growing all over its body without a mouth, and it was crawling with the help of those tongues, all the while screaming horribly.
A faint-hearted person might have already suffered several heart attacks from seeing such a sight.
’Too high graphics is also a bane... if only I could decrease the graphics quality or something like that...’
Unlike the game where you could just use the censor settings to deal with all these horrible scenes, Jareth had no choice but to see it all with the highest graphics.
Even though he has seen his fair share of gore scenes in his past life and in this life too, these creatures still made Jareth feel like throwing up.
*Slither* *Slither*
A noise of something slithering entered Jareth’s ears as he saw another disfigured monstrosity, but this one was different.
It was shaped like a giant maggot with hundreds of thousands of smaller maggots crawling all over its entire body.
Disfigured humanoid heads were hanging all over its body like pendulums of a clock.
’A memory eater... this one is even more ugly... I didn’t want to meet this one either...’ 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
The moment that monstrosity noticed Jareth’s presence, it crawled forward and let out horrific screeches that directly attacked Jareth’s sea of consciousness.
[Grade-5 Flame Magic: Explosive Blast!]
Jareth didn’t hesitate for even a single second and threw a powerful spell on the creature instantly!
*BOOOM!*
A massive purple explosion swallowed the creature and completely obliterated it out of existence.
’Phew, thankfully I reacted fast...’
