Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong-Chapter 271: The Forest of Hatred. Part-3.

"Ugh, why do I always end up meeting these ugly creatures..."

Jareth frowned in annoyance, and his true thoughts slipped out from his mouth.

Hearing Jareth’s words, the evil spirit’s eyes widened in shock.

*Wha-what!? Y-you!! How dare you say I am ugly!? I am the most handsome evil spirit out there, you know!!!*

Jareth was shocked after hearing that sudden retort from the evil spirit.

In the game you could not interact with these evil spirits, and thus Jareth thought that they were mindless creatures who had their minds corrupted with miasma.

He was so taken aback when the evil spirit talked so fluently that he almost stopped moving and stood in one spot for a while.

"What!? You are intelligent? You are not brainless? That’s interesting..."

Hearing Jareth’s questions, the evil spirit’s face visibly became red due to sheer anger.

*Who are you calling brainless!! This is the first time in my entire life as an evil spirit a human has dared to insult me this much!!*

*You are such a rude human!! I have never seen a human as evil as you!!*

The evil spirit deflated like a punctured tire and looked disheartened.

*Even we evil spirits have a heart, you know!! My mother said I am the most handsome evil spirit out there! I am definitely not ugly!!*

The little guy was almost on the verge of crying, as if his feelings were hurt by Jareth’s insulting remarks.

Seeing him like that, Jareth put his finger down with a confused look on his face.

He was about to blow away this evil spirit with powerful fire magic on the spot, but seeing it like that made him hesitate.

As if noticing Jareth’s hesitation, the evil spirit who was acting and pretending to be sad suddenly revealed its true form.

It transformed into a massive, phantom-like shadow creature, and its gigantic mouth rushed to attack Jareth with extreme speed.

Its attack was so fast and swift that even Jareth could not have reacted to it with his mana detection being in an inactive state.

*Bam!* *Crack* *Shatter!*

The evil spirit’s sharp teeth hit Jareth’s mana shield and cracked under the force.

The evil spirit had no idea that the main reason why Jareth was able to afford to keep his guard down was because he had absolute faith in his powerful mana shield.

His mana shield did not even get a single scratch when being bombarded by the rain of miasmic poison crystals; how can it be broken so easily by just a weak bit of force from an evil spirit alone?

The mana shield was unaffected, but the evil spirit’s teeth shattered, and it suffered severe damage in its mouth, forcing it to revert back to its original goblin-like state.

Its eyes were teary, and it was holding its mouth with a look of pain on its face.

*Wha!? What is that shield made up of!? N*kia!? Why is it so strong!?*

Ignoring the wailing evil spirit, Jareth brought out an odd-looking coin from his space ring.

"It’s really surprising that an evil spirit whose mind has not been corrupted exists... It’s really interesting and amazing that you were able to maintain your sanity despite being corrupted by miasma..."

"You are really interesting; I have changed my mind... I won’t kill you, as that would be a waste... This dark and damp place is way too bad for a living environment..."

Jareth smiled with an evil grin comparable to that of a devil and spoke calmly.

"I have decided; you are coming with me now..."

Jareth tossed that odd-looking coin in the air and embedded it with his mana, causing it to glow with light and float in the air.

The evil spirit was confused by Jareth’s actions, but before it could react, its entire body started to get sucked into that odd coin.

The evil spirit tried to run and move with all its might, but it could not break free of the powerful suction force; eventually its body was sucked into the coin.

*What did you do to me!?*

Hearing the evil spirit question him from inside the coin-like artifact, Jareth replied calmly,

"This is a spirit catcher, an artifact that I bought a while ago... never thought it would come in handy today..."

"I find you interesting, so you are coming with me..."

*No! Release me this instant, human!!*

*I cannot stay here! I have kids waiting for me to bring them food! Please let me go!! My mom is sick; I need to bring her medicine!!*

Jareth shook his head at those words.

"You are such a drama queen. evil spirits have no parents or families to begin with, so stop pretending in front of me. I won’t fall for your trap..."

"I was only distracted earlier because I didn’t expect you to actually be intelligent enough to be able to talk..."

The commotion attracted another evil spirit, but that spirit was not sane like the first one, so Jareth used his fire magic to destroy it.

[Grade-4 Fire Magic: Flame of Purification!]

Its entire body was burned and reduced to nothingness.

Spirits are made up of energy bodies, and you can use specific purification spells to easily deal with them.

Still, you do need powerful mana control to actually carry out the purification and completely annihilate an evil spirit.

"Look, that one was an ordinary evil spirit; it didn’t talk and directly attacked... you are definitely hiding something from me..."

"Tell me everything about yourself and I might consider letting you go..."

At Jareth’s words, the evil spirit retorted in a loud voice,

*You are a liar! You are evil! I will never fall for your trap! I am sure you will not let me go even if I tell you everything! You are a bad human!*

Jareth could only give a wry smile at those words.

’How did it notice that I was not planning on letting it go at all... I would have just said, ’I only said maybe I will let you go’...’

Seeing that the evil spirit did not fall for his trap, Jareth could only shake his head and continue moving forward while trying to continuously probe out more information from it.

"What’s your name, by the way?"

*I am not telling you anything!*

"If you won’t tell me your name, I will just have to refer to you with a nickname then... how about ’Loudmouth’? After all, your voice is quite loud and annoying to listen to..."

Jareth was very bad at giving nicknames, and even the evil spirit was disgusted by that nickname. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

*Ugh, fine, I am called Rororon; don’t you dare use that weird nickname to talk to me!!*

"Oh, does that mean you are willing to talk and spill all the beans, Roro?"

*It’s called Rororon! Not ’Roro’!! Rororon is an honorable name! Don’t tarnish it like that!!!*

"I see, so you are some kind of high-level evil spirit to have an honorable name. I never considered that there was such a hierarchical system among evil spirits..."

"I just considered them all brainless beings only capable of attacking everyone they came across without a thought in their head..."

*Don’t compare those lowly evil spirits with me!! I am different; I am...*

The evil spirit suddenly went silent as if it had realized something.

*Wait... You are deceiving me and extracting information from me!! I won’t talk to you anymore!!*

’Ugh, it noticed much faster than I expected...’

Jareth could only shake his head in regret and keep moving forward.