The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 140.2

Castor estimated the Dark Holy Son’s situation and finally told the Dark Pope, “Let’s say if Lan Zhe practiced at full strength without slacking off, it would take approximately three years to catch up to you. But if you use your power to strengthen his body, and with the help of alchemy tools collecting dark elements infused into his body, the time needed would only be…”

Castor held up three fingers. In his own field, researchers had confidence far exceeding the social status of those present.

“Three days. In just three days, I can guarantee that Lan Zhe’s strength will equal yours, without any possibility of an unstable foundation.”

Everyone was stunned.

Someone suddenly uttered a deeply memorable phrase.

“Indeed, Castor and the entities behind him are destined to be meteors illuminating the night sky, just as Su Li initially evaluated?”

Castor, however, turned pale and displayed a long-absent manic smile.

He still remembered the words he had originally received from Su Li.

——“All we do is correct, all we create is justice, we are meteors of the era, destined to illuminate the pitch-dark night sky.”

Previously, no one had ever carefully considered why people with the same elements needed to guide each other for the guided person to gain significant power improvements.

There were indeed barriers between different elements, but these barriers weren’t so thick that, with Egbert’s strength, he couldn’t provide significant guidance to Cyril.

What could a researcher do?

Nothing at all. Any adult from the small building could easily kill Castor.

But researchers, as that saying went—They were meteors of the era, destined to illuminate the pitch-dark night sky.

Never hoping for longevity, Castor only cared about the present.

When the Dark Pope was about to directly initiate the enhancement for Lan Zhe, the old man also raised a new question, “Are elements inexhaustible and unlimited?”

To this question, Castor responded with a counter-question.

“Let me ask you, how many more decades do you think you can live?”

The Dark Pope didn’t speak to Castor afterward and instead concentrated fully on enhancing Lan Zhe’s body.

As Castor had said, he indeed wouldn’t live much longer.

Among the Charles Group of Five, Charles had died in his prime, the Pope of Light died by his own power, the Mercenary Alliance Guild Master lost most of his strength due to assassination attempts but was still alive, as were Dean Asa and the Dark Pope himself…

Of the five of them, two had already passed away.

How much longer could the others who were still alive survive?

Not much longer.

As for after death? Of course, dust would return to dust, earth to earth, and even the most abundant elements would eventually return to the world.

After enhancing Lan Zhe’s body to an appropriate level, the Dark Pope suddenly started discussing another topic with Castor.

He asked Castor, “What do you think is correct for the world—humans or monster beasts?”

The researcher handed the alchemy tool, which had accumulated enough dark elements, to Lan Zhe, whose expression was contorted with pain and who was drenched in sweat from the body enhancement. At the same time, Castor gave the Dark Pope a confused look.

“Why would you raise such a question? The world doesn’t care about these things at all,” Castor said. Seeing that Lan Zhe had composed himself, sitting cross-legged and beginning to receive the elements stored in the alchemy tool, Castor consciously led the person wearing the black robe out of the room.

“If your reason is that humans live short lives and leave nothing behind when they die, allowing elements to form a virtuous cycle in the world, then indeed you could say humans are more important to the world, or more ‘correct.’

“For monster beasts that can live for thousands of years, the power accumulated within them is clearly enormous.” Castor made a circle gesture. “One monster beast has this amount of reserves, and it won’t return to nature for thousands of years. So two monster beasts means twice this amount.”

“Perhaps when you ask me this question, you actually want to express that monster beasts’ existence has plundered too many elements, causing the world’s dissatisfaction, which led humans to become aware of monster beast civilization’s existence, and also prompted humans to start researching how to enhance their own strength, eventually overthrowing monster beasts?”

The Dark Pope’s mouth twitched, and his steps in the research corridor halted.

Castor stopped as well and gave him a puzzled look.

The Dark Pope then said, “I hadn’t thought that far.”

Castor gave him a “do you think I believe that” look, then continued walking forward.

The researcher could even articulate more of what was in his mind.

“Perhaps what you really want to say is whether Su Li’s existence has allowed humans to seize the correct opportunity, to forever be qualified to control their own destiny… the…”

“Savior?” Castor uttered the word as if suddenly enlightened.

Castor even added an evaluation, “As expected of the Dark Pope, who is on the same level as the Pope of Light. Just a bit of information allows you to make such associations.”

The person in the black robe chose only to display a smile.

After all, no one wanted a person they could talk to as an equal to consider them someone with deep scheming intentions.

The Dark Pope could even display a childlike expression and say, “These are all your own words.”

Castor stopped again and turned to look to his side.

But this time he said nothing.

……..

That evening, Su Li enjoyed Mark’s steamed rice after a long absence.

The Dark Pope briefly informed them about Lan Zhe’s situation, and then the old fellow expressed that he wanted to find Dean Asa and the Mercenary Alliance Guild Master.

Su Li didn’t know the reason, but Euphia, who had rushed over for dinner, explained, “Perhaps he thinks my previous idea has potential for expansion, so he went to discuss cooperation with them.”

What the idea was, or what the cooperation entailed, Euphia didn’t say.

With the same mentality as Castor, any possibilities told to Su Li before actual results materialized were essentially just empty promises.

Besides, if they truly wanted to significantly enhance the power of different elementalists, there were too many details that needed to be discussed privately.

Character, age, mentality…

Euphia’s vision darkened, and she couldn’t help but complain, “It feels like that would be much more work than reducing the noble warfare mission phase.”

Although Su Li was full of questions, he didn’t pursue them.

He was even somewhat happy that others knew to keep things from him.

When everyone told Su Li everything, he truly wondered if these people were all counting on him to guide them through every step.

This invisible pressure, for someone whose life goal was to retire early and take it easy…

It was indeed better not to have it.

…….

Halfway through dinner, Cyril and Egbert, along with the two humanoid disasters, returned.

Somehow, the dragon-blooded youth and the stubborn former Son of Light had managed to strike a balance in their interactions with the dragon and mermaid, avoiding death while still being beaten half to death.

Su Li promptly put down his bowl and chopsticks, grabbed the medicine box Lan Zhe had prepared at home, and was about to bandage the two when Elvi said, “That youth with my bloodline won’t need it.”

Su Li’s mind raced with many thoughts, but Elvi didn’t give him time to ponder, directly providing the answer.

“Today, during the day, he told me that he wants to follow you into the world of monster beasts.”

Su Li’s movement with the bandages suddenly froze.

Elvi continued, “Currently, the dragon clan’s demand for humans who have awakened the dragon bloodline isn’t high, but for the entire winged clan, dragons have extremely strong individual combat abilities. Once he is discovered, it’s very likely he will be forcibly transformed.”

“The reason you don’t need to bandage him is that, over the past 200 years, through various experiments, one method to improve the success rate of transformation into monster beasts for humans who have awakened monster beast bloodlines is significant blood loss.”

“Humans and monster beasts have different blood production capabilities. Those who awaken monster beast bloodlines are themselves between humans and monster beasts. As long as he loses a large amount of blood, the blood-producing function provided by the monster beast bloodline will give him most of the blood his body needs.”

“So… as long as the concentration of human blood in Cyril’s body is reduced, it will increase his survival rate when he transforms into a dragon?” Su Li’s expression suddenly turned cold.

At the same time, he unhesitatingly picked up the bandages to dress Cyril’s wounds.

Su Li suddenly felt grateful that he wasn’t an elementalist.

Compared to the various homework between Cyril and Qi after class, Su Li had a lot of free time.

And that free time hadn’t been entirely wasted. Most of the time, people in the small building would teach him some knowledge useful to himself. For instance, Lan Zhe had patiently taught Su Li the functions of various medicines and powders in the medicine box.

After Mark helped reset Cyril’s broken bones, Su Li administered a bottle of healing potion to Cyril, sprinkled accelerated healing powder on his wounds, and quickly wrapped them with bandages.

The dragon-blooded youth, his head now bandaged, lowered his eyes and said with a sense of guilt. “I’m sorry.”

Sorry for letting Su Li see such a scene.

Also sorry that he had thrust his future choices onto Su Li.

Su Li understood but said nothing, only proceeding with Mark to treat Egbert’s injuries.

As the treatment process was repeated on Egbert, Leia deliberately displayed an astonished expression and asked with somewhat exaggerated posture, “Don’t you want that child to become a monster beast, to penetrate monster beast society, so that he can provide you with various information related to monster beasts?”

Su Li’s expression was cold. “No.”

“Once we arrive, there will always be opportunities to gather information.”

“Perhaps becoming a dragon would make him very powerful, but I don’t want my friend to develop an incurable ‘Madness Disease’ because of it.”

Leia’s expression turned unpleasant.

“What makes you think that monster beasts’ mental issues are incurable?”

Su Li didn’t want to explain the details while bandaging Egbert, so he directly gave Leia the answer.

“Since you care that the Raven is a bird, has wings, and can fly, it means that the Raven’s genes can only complement monster beasts with roughly the same characteristics.”

Su Li even thought that what Leia said about the Raven reaching level ten and not letting his value go to waste—also meant that among water-flying monster beasts, a certain being very important to Leia was perhaps right on the edge of madness.

Leia paused.

He suddenly understood why Elvi always looked like she wanted to kill Su Li but ultimately didn’t.

It was truly strange how, with just a tiny bit of insignificant information that others couldn’t possibly notice, Su Li could uncover so much.

And Su Li could manage to do this while making the humanoid monster beasts aware they had been exposed, yet not angering them to the point of outright killing him.

Leia turned directly to ask Elvi, “Why don’t you do it?”

Elvi was particularly annoyed with him. “Don’t talk to me.”

But the dragon still explained the reason.

Elvi looked at Su Li and said coldly, “I actually also want to know what humans can achieve while remaining just human.”

This response seemed less like an answer to Leia and more like it was specifically meant for Su Li to hear.

Su Li acted as if he hadn’t heard, finished bandaging Egbert, and then specifically served him food.

During the second half of the meal, the two humanoid monster beasts suddenly understood how humans became masters of balance.

Even though Su Li hadn’t said anything explicitly, the two humanoid monster beasts could tell that because he had bandaged Cyril first, he specifically served food for Egbert, who was bandaged later.

During the second half of the meal, to accompany the two injured individuals throughout, Su Li specifically went to the kitchen to feed various grains to the raven.

Leia: ……

Elvi: ……

Tsk, suddenly feeling a bit annoyed.

Leia said sarcastically, “As expected of weak humans, they even die if they don’t eat.”

But no one paid attention to him.

Even Su Li couldn’t be sure what the mentality of these two humanoid monster beasts was at present.

Elvi wasn’t in a hurry to take the raven away, and because she wasn’t in a hurry to leave, Leia couldn’t contact the king of the winged clan through her to discuss cooperation details, so he simply stayed as well.

Su Li had the right but not the power to prevent these two from staying in the small building’s guest rooms, so he could only pretend not to see Leia’s sarcasm.

In the evening, calculating that everyone was probably asleep, Su Li knocked on Egbert’s door.

Perhaps as expected, or because he was naturally meticulous, Egbert’s room was even neater than Su Li’s.

Su Li didn’t go in deeply but pulled out the chair by the table near the door. After closing the door, he sat down.

Egbert silently walked back to his bedside. Perhaps knowing that Su Li was waiting for him to speak first, after a while, he finally said, “I want to go with Lord Su Li.”

Before speaking, it had been difficult, but once the topic was opened, Egbert, who had not expressed his inner thoughts to Su Li for some time, was like a floodgate that had been opened and couldn’t be stopped.

“Whether it’s to solve those potential issues in monster beast society where some might set the destruction of humans as their standard for peace, or simply to follow in your footsteps, I don’t believe I should stop.”

“I’ve never been clear about what Lord Su Li really wants, and I’ve always wanted to offer the best I can think of as repayment to you, but I don’t know…” Egbert sat on the bed with his head lowered.

When he spoke, it wasn’t like he was addressing a youth much younger than himself, but rather like he was addressing his elder, his… faith.

“I don’t know what I should do to truly be good to you.” Egbert raised his head.

“I want everyone to know what you’ve done.”

Assisting the heir of Mercenary City in reforming the mercenary task model, revealing the truth about the monster beast invasion of Siliqing City, helping the world’s last Crystal Winged Dragon seek revenge, securing a chance of survival for Sadina City from an army of one hundred thousand, designing a solution for the Pope of Light, saving the Dark Holy Maiden, offering Godfrey to the mentally blank people of the Inner City, discovering monster beast civilization, revealing the current state of human survival… and many more.

All of these flashed through Egbert’s mind like a movie sped up 32 times.

Egbert wasn’t clear about what others felt after meeting Su Li, but he was very clear that if he hadn’t met Su Li, his fate would have been either dying in the Beast Forest or at the hands of the Bishop.

Cyril was probably similar.

When Mark was framed by his companions in an attempt to pin the blame on the Lion’s Club leader, if Su Li hadn’t mediated, the Lion’s Club might have clashed with Euphia’s mercenaries.

Euphia might have died in endless assassination attempts when she couldn’t determine if the reform path was correct.

Even Reiji, the student from Asa Academy whom Egbert had discovered during his tracking, would probably have died during training in the Monster Beast Forest due to his inability to speak.

There was no need to mention more people.

What troubled Egbert most was that Su Li had done so much yet had never received what he deserved.

Power, wealth, prestige.

Nothing at all.

And now, he still had to constantly envision how to solve the predicaments humans might face after entering monster beast society.

Still had to worry about him…

Egbert’s heart felt as if it was being tightly squeezed by an invisible hand. He once again couldn’t control himself and lowered his head to hide his pained expression.

Then, he heard the footsteps of the youth.

Those were Su Li’s footsteps, which no elementalist could imitate.

Egbert saw the youth’s feet stop in front of him.

And then, he felt the warmth of Su Li’s palm on his head…