Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong-Chapter 270: The Forest of Hatred. Part-2.

The Fairy Race suffered tremendous pain as they were hunted down to the last one alive, and they were used and exploited to the very end.

The hate, the resentment, and the evil emotions—all of them have gathered in this one place, in this one area that is now called the ’Wailing Hills’ area.

The main reason why it’s even called the ’Wailing Hills’ is because it an area where the dying wails and screams of thousands of fairies rang out constantly.

Those dark shadowy things that Jareth could see wandering around in the forest are phantoms of the dead fairies.

Miasma has taken hold of this place, and all the hate and resentment have become concentrated to the point that whoever dares to come to the ’Wailing Hills’ area becomes a target for that hatred.

’It’s not wrong to say that this is a ’Forest of Hatred’ filled with immense hatred for humanity and everyone who caused the immense pain to the fairy race...’

’This world is way too cruel...’

Jareth has no words to describe his emotions.

The fairies suffered such a horrible fate because they didn’t try to resist, and humans kept on doing such cruel things just because the fairies couldn’t resist.

That’s the irony of life: the better you do, the more people consider you a pushover and constantly try to cross your bottom line over and over until there is no line to cross.

Jareth sighed and stopped thinking about this matter further, as he didn’t have enough time to waste standing here.

He used his space ring and brought out a shining crystal made up of highly condensed fire elementals from it.

[Basic Magic: Telekinesis!]

Using telekinesis, he made the crystal float above his mana shield and then stepped forward to walk on the narrow and broken path.

’No matter what kind of tree, they are still afraid of fire even if they are enhanced by miasma...’

The moment Jareth put the fire crystal down, all the rotting demonic trees nearby hurriedly got out of the ground and stepped away with their entire bodies shivering crazily.

In the game, you would need to gather a tremendous amount of wealth to buy a massive amount of extremely pure fire attribute crystals, but Jareth did not have to do it.

He himself is a powerful fire mage and is capable of gathering pure fire elementals from the environment.

Thus, he was able to make these crystals on his own.

’It took me the entire night to condense and make five of them... but it was worth it...’

The best way to deal with these demonic trees is not by fighting them head-on, but by scaring them off with powerful flame elementals.

If you try to fight them, they will send signals to each other and keep swarming you, but by using flames, the demonic trees will be too focused on avoiding the fire to even notice your presence.

This way, you can simply bypass this entire ’Forest of Hatred’ challenge without even needing to fight even once.

’It’s all the blessing of the unemployed lords who spent their precious time to find this method of easily bypassing the entire challenge...’

Jareth knew about this method from the game’s forums; some unemployed players who had nothing better to do in life but play games all day long found this trick while trying various tricks and looking for bugs.

Using this method, not only can you scare off the demonic trees, but even those dark phantoms will not come close either.

*Step* *Step*

Jareth stepped forward, and his heavy footsteps rang out loudly in this silent and creepy landscape.

As he moved, those demonic trees in his path opened a path on their own, and after he passed through one place, they would come back to their original position once again.

The fire crystal was hanging outside Jareth mana shield, so it was constantly being affected by miasma and corruption present in the air and was constantly losing its power at a very fast speed.

Jareth already knew that such a thing would happen; that’s why he prepared five of these crystals just in case.

’The corruption rate and the consumption is much faster than I expected but it’s still bearable... my fire elemental powers are highly resistant to miasma after all...’

He looked at the crystal hanging above him periodically to check and confirm its condition after walking a certain distance.

He travelled uphill and reached the top of the hill using the narrow broken path and then went downhill on the other side.

It was possible to go around the hill and not climb it, but then Jareth would have had to walk on miasmic soil and areas with a higher number of demonic trees.

Which would have increased his mana consumption tremendously; this narrow path is the only place that is not so heavily corrupted by miasma.

’Originally I thought that it was because it was a game mechanism just like those poison clouds... but now I know that it’s just a massive curse trap...’

If someone who doesn’t know about the fire crystal trick walks on this path, they will think that they are lucky that this path is not corrupted and is safe.

This is a trap laid out with precision while taking in a human’s psychology of trying to seek safer places when stuck in dangerous areas.

Once you fall for this trick, you are as good as dead.

’Miasma and its tendency to deceive... the lies never end...’

*Ueeeeehhhh!* *Ueeeehhhhhhh!*

Just as Jareth was thinking about deceit and lies in his mind, the distant voice of a baby crying rang out in Jareth’s ears.

’I was just talking about it and here it is... the tricks and lies, sigh...’

Jareth shook his head, ignored the voice, and continued walking.

Obviously, there is no baby in this dark forest filled to the brim with miasma; it’s just a method to trick Jareth to try and make him go off course.

There are many weird phantoms and evil spirits wandering in this ’Forest of Hatred,’ and their main goal is making you fall in their trap.

Jareth is going on the right path; if he goes and tries to invest where the voice of the baby is coming from, he would have to leave this narrow stone path and enter the area where miasma is even denser.

He would not only waste his time; he would waste his mana and energy all at the same time, and the result would be that he would find a powerful evil spirit lying in ambush ready to attack him.

He’s seen this trick in the game, and so he entirely ignored it and kept moving forward.

What Jareth didn’t know was that the evil spirit was not that far away and didn’t like the fact that Jareth completely ignored it.

*You ignored me, didn’t you!! Kekeke hhheheheehe* *You know I am here!!*

*You can’t ignore me eheheheh...kekeke!!*

An evil spirit that looked like a goblin floated out of the forest of hatred and appeared near Jareth.

It laughed and giggled like a maniac. The evil creature was grinning from ear to ear, and its mouth was extremely wide.

Its sharp teeth made it look creepier and intimidating.