The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 130.2

It seemed unreasonable to expect someone who, until recently, had contemplated their life and death in another world almost daily and pondered their existence, to care about or be affected by the words of a group of children.

“To put it kindly, I’m generous and unbothered. To put it cruelly, with such high mortality rates during training, only those who survive till the end are winners,” Su Li said.

Su Li curved his eyes as he told Qi, “In the torrents of time, those who can survive and are willing to persevere are all precious kings.”

Cyril commented from the side. “You sound like a super villain from a wandering poet’s storybook.”

“If heroes really existed, they’d probably be charging at you with copper swords while yelling ‘Ohla ohla’.”

Su Li felt as if his throat was choked by air. He replied glumly, “…Having too much humor isn’t good.”

“But with a good sense of humor, I can do interesting things when your attention isn’t focused,” Cyril said, while unceremoniously kicking down an idiot who had just tried to place his entire palm on Su Li’s head.

Sometimes Cyril was grateful that none of his classmates associated Su Li with “Lord Su Li” from that widely circulated book.

This was good.

After all, when the gods sprinkled wisdom upon mankind, those fools who actively held up umbrellas should never become smart.

Cyril looked down at the sturdy boy lying on the ground, who was even taller than himself.

“Bullying isn’t a good tactic.”

Cyril looked down at the fallen aggressor.

Cyril’s ability to read people’s expressions had been refined to perfection during his many years as a beggar.

Back then, the malicious aspects of humanity were much more hidden than they were now.

Who could believe that a person who shared his own precious water with you while holding a broken bowl would deliberately sprinkle a handful of dust into it?

When that big guy had approached Su Li from behind, avoided by many students, Cyril had already raised his guard.

And at the moment when that person reached out his hand, the dragon youth only wanted to follow his instinct and directly step on his neck.

There was no misjudgment. The malice and resentment in the eyes of the person now lying on the ground clutching his stomach were too obvious.

Su Li, who had been said to lack focus, was now completely focused.

When passing students, both familiar and unfamiliar, mumbled things like: “Why hit someone?”

“As expected from someone in the Money Class. Hehe, Faulkner, you’re too weak. You’re from Class Two but were easily kicked down by someone from the Money Class. Are you trying to extort money?”

Some also quietly explained. “It seemed like Faulkner was trying to do something to that platinum-haired boy, and his companion retaliated… right?”

The explainer was cautious, the mockers were smug, and those who stood aloof remained coldly indifferent.

A small school, with only half its students participating in the training exercise…

Yet there was so much drama.

Su Li laughed once, just once, without even adding an extra breath.

He looked at the tall Class Two boy on the ground who was struggling to get up, and said with an icy gaze. “Next time, remember to stay away from me. I don’t like strangers getting too close.”

The explainer revealed an expression of disbelief, the mockers became even more sarcastic, and those who considered themselves morally superior showed disgust toward Su Li.

But one thing was clearly a coincidence that wasn’t a coincidence.

Neither the bystanders nor those involved could, with their self-perceived goodwill or malice, continue to stare at the obviously uncomfortable Cyril.

Until an unfamiliar elementalist instructor approached.

He didn’t pay attention to the big guy with the footprint on him, nor did he pay much attention to Su Li and Cyril. He simply addressed all the students with a tense atmosphere. “Please don’t add unnecessary trouble to my work.”

“I’m annoyed enough with having to lead you to the mission site.”

Su Li lowered his head momentarily, hiding the smile that hung at the corner of his mouth.

He whispered to Cyril, “I feel like if this instructor added a line about quitting if the Dean didn’t pay enough, it wouldn’t be out of character at all.”

The elementalist instructor wasn’t someone who taught students morality.

Perhaps Dean Asa had that idea when establishing the academy, but reality aligned with this world’s logic.

The words of non-powerful individuals were useless.

And even if the words of the powerful were useful, there would always be someone more powerful.

So the elementalist instructor was essentially just an otherworld wage slave doing a job for money.

Cyril hadn’t thought about these things. He just lightly pushed Su Li’s back to make him follow the group.

There was no need, of course, to let a group of students travel to the Beast Forest from Jisuo Town on their own.

The academy’s method for long-distance transfer was a magic array transfer, very fitting for a fantasy world.

When the enormous magic array, large enough to cover all students, lit up in the academy’s largest square, Su Li sincerely marveled at why Dean Asa charged so much.

The underlying logic of alchemy devices that Castor had mentioned earlier also applied to magic arrays.

Using elements to transfer an individual from one location to another specific location was quite a troublesome and delicate task.

It’s just that…

After the huge flash of light, only Su Li remained in the entire square.

Su Li: ……………

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Jisuo Town.

Cyril and Qi simultaneously looked toward where Su Li should have been.

Then they both fell into a long, silent pause.

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“This doesn’t count as me not wanting to participate. This is purely me being ostracized by this damn world in every possible way,” Su Li said without any resentment.

He truly had no complaints.

Really.

Dean Asa, who had been secretly observing to see how Su Li would handle conflicts in the student community, fell into contemplation…

Now, besides Su Li in the middle of the square, there was only Dean Asa at the edge.

Which was greater—the awkwardness or the wind?

This question wasn’t suitable for an old man to answer.

At least Dean Asa’s choice was, “If this damn world is really ostracizing you, then I’ll take you…”

“And together we’ll ostracize this world.”

The dean, whose spirit was forever young, strode toward Su Li.

Su Li looked at him expressionlessly.

“No, I don’t want to go. I want to be ostracized by this damn world.”

Was his identity as a mascot really going to be exposed?

“That’s not up to you,” Dean Asa laughed “Ho ho ho.”

Dean Asa summoned something that, compared to the magic array, was more fitting for a fantasy world…

“A….griffin?”

Dean Asa patted the winged lion, and after creating an elemental barrier to block the wind, he explained to Su Li, “I’m not sure if it’s what you call it.”

“As for this child,” Dean Asa patted the lion’s back, “it’s considered one of the monster beast races that’s easiest for humans to cooperate with.”

Besides the mutual eating as a form of respect between humans and monster beasts, humans excelled at utilizing monster beasts in countless ways.

Those overly powerful people in the small building had also implicitly created an information cocoon for Su Li.

This was Su Li’s first time seeing humans commanding monster beasts.

For the rest of the journey, neither of them said much, until Dean Asa, who had flown in, safely delivered Su Li.

If they had been half an hour later, it wasn’t certain that Cyril and Qi would not have run back to Sadina City from Jisuo Town.

“I hate seeing this kind of situation,” Cyril stated directly.

Qi circled around Su Li twice, and after confirming he hadn’t suffered any harm, added, “Me too.”

“Since everyone is now present, you should get moving,” said the depressed wage slave elementalist instructor from Class One, pointing unhurriedly toward the forest in the distance.

The impact of Su Li being ostracized by the world was that the entire team couldn’t move forward.

Cyril and Qi could guess the possibility of him being ostracized, but couldn’t be 100% certain.

As for the academy’s instructors, they were relatively more rigorous.

Students sabotaging each other wasn’t unheard of, but having someone die before everything even began… that was something completely different.

Therefore, before confirming Su Li’s safety, even though he didn’t want to add extra work to his job, the Class One instructor still chose to prevent students from entering the forest.

He had even issued a lengthy series of warnings before Su Li’s arrival.

He especially emphasized that during this training period, everything would be under the elementalist instructors’ supervision, and any attempt to harm classmates would be reflected in individual scores through a deduction system.

Those with poor scores would not only receive no rewards but would also be directly expelled.

But now, once everyone had arrived, the Class One elementalist instructor acted as if nothing had happened and rudely urged everyone toward the forest.

Su Li walked toward the forest while rubbing his nose, but before fully entering, he uncontrollably turned his head to look at that instructor one more time.

And then, he received an overly complex look from the other party.

After the students entered, the Class One instructor asked Dean Asa, “That platinum-haired child, he’s the protagonist from that book, right?”

Dean Asa nodded in response, “That’s right.”

“For such a person to participate in this kind of training without any means of resistance, do you think this is really appropriate?”

“Ho ho ho,” Dean Asa tugged at his beard, which had whitened with age, and said to the Class One instructor, “Rather than whether it’s appropriate, this training itself is only provided as a direct channel for him to obtain information about monster beasts.”

The Class One elementalist instructor froze on the spot.

He recalled the widely circulated truth in the city, and then blurted out, “That child, does he really want to approach monster beast civilization as a human?”

Dean Asa didn’t say it directly, but told him, “If anyone can truly accomplish this, that person would definitely be him.”

“That’s too high a praise…”

“But what if all the truth was discovered by him from the minor details of the human perspective?”

“And you…” Dean Asa gave a meaningful look at the Class One instructor, who had a reputation for coldness in the academy.

There was no need for him to tell all students that this training would be monitored by elementalist instructors throughout.

Saying such things wasn’t because he wanted to inform other students of the additional implicit rules, but to prevent them from persecuting Su Li.

“No One Understands Lord Su Li Better Than Me,” judging from both the name and the author, seemed to be infinitely close to a third-rate work occasionally sung by wandering poets.

But if one truly settled down to read it, this text, which was difficult for young people to read attentively, could open a new door for a world with rigid logic.

At least from the perspective of the Class One instructor, both this book and the “Lord Su Li” described in it, carried weight comparable to the gods.

And the person who had been elevated to such a high position was, ironically, just a youth.

This made it hard not to worry.

Before leaving, Dean Asa had very forcefully revealed the Class One instructor’s true inner thoughts.

“I don’t think you’re just concerned.”

“Since he’s my student, knowing there’s such an existence, you’re probably desperate to get close, right?”

After a moment of silence, the Class One elementalist instructor watched Dean Asa fly away on the griffin and softly uttered, “You have to understand what someone who doesn’t believe in gods feels when they see a god with their own eyes.”

Beast Forest.

Su Li felt a chill all over his body. After shuddering, he asked Cyril, “We’re moving from winter to spring, right? How can it still be this cold?”

Cyril gave him a profound look.

“My intuition tells me this might be Brother Eg thinking about you again.”

Su Li: Thanks, but no thanks!