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The helicopter landed on the reserved helipad. Jareth and the others left the helicopter landing area and went over to the parking area to get in the cars waiting for them.
Shin went back to his home as he couldn’t wait to meet his family, and Aria headed towards the academy with Mark, Azul and Risa in tow.
Jareth took another car to head towards his own mansion that he had bought with the money taken from the Blaze family’s accounts.
’Abyss altar... sigh, this one is going to be a great hassle.’
The promised date for the journey to the Elven Empire is also coming near, and there’s not much time left before he needs to go there, so if he wants to visit the abyss altar, he should be quick about it.
’This time, I should go there alone… Taking anyone else will only hinder me; moreover, others don’t have as high miasma resistance as me… Taking Mark and Risa there will also be a bad idea…’
Jareth would have surely liked to take Allen with him to go on this trip, but it turns out that Allen is just a useless guy and isn’t worth mentioning at all, so there’s no need to do that.
Even though Allen has the extremely rare ’Light Magic,’ he hasn’t made much progress in it; he’s more focused on ’Charm Magic’ instead. Which is basically useless in combat.
Charm magic has a lot of restrictions.
First of all, the effect of charm magic will get reduced by eighty percent if you use it on someone who already has feelings for someone.
Secondly, the charm magic’s effect can be easily detected and negated if you are of the same grade or of a higher grade than the user.
Third, charm magic doesn’t last for a long enough time, and the more you use it on the same person, the more the other party will get resistant to it, and at one point it will stop being effective.
Risa went through hard training to become an assassin, so she has built up her resistance to many things.
Not only is she immune to all poisons of the same grade or lower, she’s completely resistant to charm magic of the same and lower grades.
Moreover, she’s been in love with Mark for a long time, so the effect of the charm spell was already very low on her.
In the old times when they didn’t know how to counter charm spells in wars, they always used to advise the soldiers.
’Fall in love before going to war; that way you will be motivated to come back home alive and will also be more resistant to the enemy’s tricks…’
This technique actually worked wonders in the war against the druids, and it became much easier to slaughter them mercilessly as fewer people were affected by their charm spells.
Most of the forest area that the human race owns today was snatched from the druids by slaughtering them and eliminating them from the area.
’The point is, this useless guy is focusing more of his energy on charm spells instead of learning proper combat spells…’
’I seriously find it hard to believe that such a guy has been chosen as the hero of this world… The heavenly luck must have had some personal beef with the ’world’ that it chose this guy to be the protagonist…’
’If I had light magic, or even Mark had light magic, it would have been twice as easier to deal with miasma…’
Jareth simply gets irritated whenever he finds anything new about Allen, due to which he doesn’t like talking to that guy at all.
’Even if I want to take him as a student and train him properly, it would be impossible to make a proper asset out of that rotten apple…’
No matter how rotten Allen is, he’s a protagonist after all; he has the blessing of the heavenly luck, and making him submit to anyone is near impossible.
Allen will never acknowledge Jareth as his teacher from his heart, and he might even create problems in his plan of escape.
’Protagonists always like to pretend to be all-knowing and question others motives as they please… If I helped him get strong, he will definitely become a great problem for me in the future…’
Jareth has watched too many movies and anime to know that the villain teacher who helps out the main character just for their own benefit always ends up getting beaten themselves.
’Even if I am stronger than him… there is still that bullsh*t called ’power of friendship’ that can beat even the strongest of villains in the universe… So it’s better to keep my distance…’
One of the main reasons why Jareth always avoids Allen like a plague is also because he’s a villain-type character and his motivations and goals are also quite selfish.
No one knows which way the strings of destiny might get tilted if they stay too close to the protagonist.
If Allen tried to make his escape plan flop, then there will definitely be many factors that can cause problems for him.
’I might even get unlucky, and the wormhole might end up connecting to some even more horrible place than this… So I need to stay away from that unlucky omen…’
Jareth has long known that it is impossible to kill Allen completely as long as he’s blessed by the heavenly luck.
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The luck of that guy is simply too high; he won’t die even if hundreds of grade-1 mages start bombarding continent-level magic on him and pursue him to the end of the world.
This may sound like an exaggeration, but it isn’t.
It is canon that Allen was on a whole year-long run from a grade-1 demonized human in the lore, and he managed to survive till help arrived and even was able to counter-kill the other party.
’My stealing activities are also just small things; they don’t really matter much in the grand scheme of things, and the heavenly luck will prepare more opportunities for him as a replacement anyway…’
’Opportunities, chances, heroines, side characters, etc. are all are replaceable parts of this grand scheme; if you kill one heroine, another will appear to fawn over him… It’s just an endless loop…’
The existence of a person blessed by infinite luck is already strange in itself; there’s no point in arguing about how ridiculous it can get from there.
’All that talent and luck… and yet no progress and proper path… Just how corrupted the heavenly luck has become to be choosing trash like that as the protagonist…’
Jareth sighed and shook his head.
’Forget it; it doesn’t matter. If there is any way to save this world, then Allen can find it on his own. I have nothing to do with it; I will just mind my own business.’
’Leaving this place as early as possible is the way for me; it doesn’t matter how many unfair advantages Allen has; I have to focus on my own goals.
…
The car reached the mansion while Jareth was still busy thinking about the protagonist.
Jareth opened the door of the car and went inside the mansion.
Ignoring all the beautiful decorations on the walls and that comfy-looking sofa, Jareth first went to the lift and decided to go to the basement first.
’Out of the ten items that I need to create the wormhole stabilizing device, I already have three of them now…’
The lift door opened at the lowest floor of the basement, and a research lab-like place appeared in Jareth’s view.
The main reason Jareth went out of his way to buy this overly luxurious house was to hide the fact that he is conducting illegal research underground in this place.
No one in the whole empire, not even the government, would dare to raid a Grade-1 mage’s house without any extreme reasons, so this place is the safest to do illegal things.
’Even though I am working on technology that can benefit whole humanity, it is still illegal research as the items I am using are all questionable things…’
There is simply no way that you can get permission to use these items.
Aside from the illegal items, Jareth doesn’t want to reveal his technology just yet, so he has to hide and do things in secrecy.
’Maybe I will give this technology to them when I am already about to leave and am done with all the things…’
Jareth is not a saint; all the items that can stabilize the wormhole strong enough to cross the whole sea of miasma are extremely rare items and are very few in quantity.
If Jareth revealed the technology too early, others will try to get their hands on these already few materials, and he himself will have no way to continue his research at that point due to a lack of materials.
For example, the ’benevolent fairy powder’ alone is so rare that there was only one merchant in the whole game who sold it; it was Erik, and even Erick only had this one bottle.
If you want to find more, you will need to look through ruins of the past.
It will be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
’Moreover, I highly doubt they can even find the blue crystals in any other place of the world… All of them have been harvested by me already, and there’s likely none left…’
If Jareth had the ability, he would have at least tried to save the innocent people of this world, as this world has given him a second chance at life, but right now all he can do is just be selfish.