Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong-Chapter 273: The Peaceful Mountaintop.

’Very inefficient and time-consuming... If I had Zion’s armor or some other kind of equipment specializing in miasma resistance...’

’Things have been much easier compared to now...’

It was unfortunate, but Jareth could not do anything about that right now.

He barely had enough time to arrange necessary items for this expedition; there was no way he could have made trips to various places to collect other items.

Jareth shook his head and stopped worrying about what was already in the past; he glanced towards the path forward and looked at the hills stretching far and wide with a look of determination in his eyes.

’The real challenge hasn’t even begun... until now, the entire struggle was to just reach the entrance to the ’Wailing Hills’ area...’

’This is where the real ’wailing hills’ actually start at...’

The massive barren area that Jareth passed by flying was just an uninhabited area outside the border of the nation.

The rest of the challenges were also natural barriers created by miasma to stop people from entering this place.

Fairies and spirits that once lived here died cruelly, and their lingering wills and souls do not wish to be disturbed by humans or any other intruders.

Miasma took advantage of this matter and spread everywhere, using the lingering wills of the fairies and spirits to dominate this area.

’The main reason why the miasma in this place is likely so actively hostile towards intruders is because of the lingering wills of the dead fairies and spirits who died cruel deaths...’

There might be other factors and other reasons behind this matter, but Jareth knows that this must be one of the main factors behind this overwhelming sense of hostility.

’Only this one place is a bit safer...’

In the game, many players used this mountaintop area as the resting spot and treated it like a checkpoint.

Even though the game developers didn’t officially make it a checkpoint, it was treated as such because this is the only spot where faint sunlight shines and the effects of miasma weaken.

Here, you can take a brief rest, drink mana potions to recharge, and change your equipment and other stuff before entering the actual ’Wailing Hills’ area.

Jareth was doing the same; he brought out a high-grade mana potion from his space ring and gulped it down.

The endless onslaught of miasma caused him to use up his mana at a very fast pace, and he has already spent nearly half of his mana by now. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Thankfully he has ’mana singularity,’ or his mana would have already run out two to three times by now, and he would have already gulped down several high-grade mana potions.

Even grade-1 wizards can’t keep up with such fast mana consumption and would have no other choice but to drink mana potions to support themselves.

Only someone like him, with the cheat code ’mana singularity’ activated, can brute force his way in like this.

’I seriously don’t understand how does those freaks from ’False Dome Cult’ always manage to make their way to such extreme places...’

’Even I, who has deep knowledge about this world find it very difficult to traverse these places... yet they somehow manage to achieve it too...’

’False dome cult’ members even managed to reach the innermost place of the Abyss Altar Area, which is already way too difficult to reach, and they even managed to free Konda.

Jareth, on the other hand, had to go through so many difficulties to reach that place that he never wanted to go back there due to how tedious it was.

Similarly, those freaks even managed to reach the innermost forbidden area of the elven capital without even alerting the elves, and they nearly succeeded in opening a permanent miasmic rift there.

Jareth managed to cause their plan to fail, but all this raises a major question.

How do they always manage to reach the area that is most difficult to access? it’s almost as if,

’As if someone is guiding them and giving them instructions and knowledge to deal with all kinds of situations...’

’Don’t tell me that their demon god is capable of guiding them to this extent... did that being manage to somehow scan the entire planet in that short time when he descended in that vessel...’

Back in the battle to win the city of Artavia, the demon god nearly managed to fully descend into a vessel, but Jareth and others managed to destroy it, causing that plan to fail.

But in that small time frame when the vessel was under the control of that demon god, the demon god seemed to have managed to achieve many things.

’Either it’s that he managed to scan the entire planet or... he been staring at this planet for a very, very long time...’

A demon god is deeply connected to miasma, and each of them possesses unique and strange powers.

It might be possible for the demon god to read the memories of a soul or even receive guidance from the miasma itself.

It’s possible that the demon god has been capturing many souls since a long time ago that belong to the people who die on this planet.

Then he reads their memories from the soul using some type of miasma-related technique, perhaps.

Humans have reached nearly all places on this planet, and once those explorers who have explored many places die, their souls and memories help the demon god.

This might be the reason why the False Dome cult is always able to find various odd ways to make their plans successful.

They have an inherent advantage in terms of information-gathering capabilities.

’Wait... doesn’t that mean that if I tell someone about my escape plan and that person dies, their memories can be read and my plan can be interfered with...’

Until now Jareth has not told anyone his plan with clear and precise details, and only Zion barely knows a little bit about it.

Zion is not the type to just randomly die in a ditch somewhere, and if a circumstance arises where he is bound to die, then this world might already be ending.

’Still I need to be more cautious from now on; it’s better not to leak my plan to anyone else...’

’And even if the plan gets compromised, I need to make sure that core secrets do not get leaked at any cost... for example, the time of escape, the location, etc...’

’After all, those are the most crucial details and need to be kept secret...’

Jareth’s eyes shone with a newfound sense of vigilance.

It’s not that he hadn’t thought about this matter up until now; it’s just that he was way too busy most of the time and didn’t notice the matter early enough.

’When collecting materials for my device in the future, it’s better to not let anyone know what I am doing...’

’Also, I need to mix up random useless materials in between the purchase list to confuse others... a demon god is not just a mindless fool; it might be possible for it to notice something...’

If that powerful being is constantly staring at the planet, any small mistake can easily expose his plan, and he will die a miserable death.

Thus, it’s better to be cautious.