The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 146

The long flight finally ended at a small forest.

According to Leia, they could reach the real monster beast society after traveling a short distance.

It was a place with buildings, civilization, and systematic rules.

But…

The dragon had no intention of taking them along.

“It’s easy to understand,” Elvi said after transforming into human form, crossing her arms. “I simply cannot bring you directly into my territory.”

Even though Su Li had extremely high value, like the raven, he was still in his growth period.

Elvi would later take Leia to exchange for benefits. Rather than leaving Su Li in the backyard of her home, which even the dragon herself didn’t trust, she preferred to leave him in an area that was on the edge of monster beast society but not yet inside it.

She believed the clever human youth would find ways to learn what he wanted to know without compromising her position.

In this way, it was better to give Su Li freedom within limitations.

“But what about the raven?” Su Li asked.

Elvi replied matter-of-factly, “I’ll take him with me, of course.”

“Then taking us shouldn’t be a big problem either,” Su Li said with a calm expression.

Elvi raised her eyelids slightly and said meaningfully, “A powerful being carrying one great treasure is no problem. But if there are two, you must be prepared for the troubles that come with possessing valuable jade. And if there are three, can you guess what would happen to me?”

Elvi was referring to the raven and Leia, as well as Su Li, who currently had no footprint in monster beast society.

She could manage two, since the raven’s value appeared to the outside world as something Elvi necessarily needed, and Leia was her spoil of war captured through her own abilities.

If Su Li came along too, Elvi couldn’t guarantee that she could still get what she wanted from the water tribe in exchange.

On the contrary, before selling off Leia, having Su Li’s “stock” along would directly drag Elvi herself down.

The dragon wasn’t about to give Su Li a chance to persuade her.

After being reminded and discovering that Leia had connections with Bartholomew, Elvi no longer dared to underestimate this human youth who was in a vulnerable position.

She feared that if they continued talking, she might become unwilling to let this great treasure, who had the ability to protect himself, wander alone outside.

Afterward, she directly grabbed Leia and the raven, who had no chance to resist, in the claws of her dragon form. Flapping her wings that produced no sound, she flew away, leaving behind the humans.

Only a few confused people remained on the spot—

“For a moment, I even felt that I should have waited for Cyril and Julius,” Su Li sighed.

Roy, however, indifferently placed his palm above his eye socket, gazing into the distance. While looking, he said, “Rather than dwelling on this, we should think about how we can reasonably enter the monster beast city to gather information without exposing ourselves.”

Egbert nodded. “It’s getting dark. We can stay in the wilderness without problems, but Lord Su Li cannot.”

Lan Zhe held his forehead in distress and said, “Could you show a bit more concern? This is a completely unfamiliar monster beast city with no obvious intelligence information!”

“It’s not completely without information,” Su Li pointed out his fallacy. “The city itself represents information.”

“Monster beast society’s civilization can’t be too different from human society. What we need to worry about now is whether those things you stuffed into the alchemy storage device can be used as currency for transactions.”

“And also, since Elvi thinks I have value, and to her it’s equivalent to huge benefits, she wouldn’t dump me in a territory she couldn’t control.”

Egbert, who had already grown accustomed to mindlessly agreeing with his words, said at this point, “Lord Su Li is right.”

Lan Zhe sneered, expressing contempt for this idiot who responded at every opportunity. “Why don’t we fight? If we fought now, it’s not certain who would win between us.”

Roy suddenly became interested, attempting to incite conflict. “You two could indeed try having a match. After all, during this period, both of your powers have greatly improved in your respective elemental domains. It’s a chance for us to see your strength, which would be good for planning our future development, right?”

Most importantly, if these two started fighting, Roy could completely use the process of their brawl to make Su Li try to rely on him.

After all, this was the super scary monster beast world!

There was nothing wrong with the little master depending on his bodyguard.

But whether the two saw through his evil intentions or not, after receiving two disdainful glances, Roy was directly squeezed to the back.

Egbert promptly moved to Su Li’s left side and hurriedly said, “I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t know my place.”

Roy: …Tsk, what was this? Selective intelligence improvement?

After getting rid of the humans who couldn’t withstand even high-speed flight, Elvi increased her wing-flapping speed by more than three times.

However, before reaching the dragon territory, Leia created some discord.

He asked Elvi, “How do you plan to trade me later? Hand me over to the king of the winged tribe for a negotiation between powers to gain maximum benefits? Or will you privately send me back to the water tribe, trading from your personal standpoint to gain fewer benefits but ones you can monopolize?”

Elvi exhaled a breath of dragon fire. “Stop trying to sow discord.”

“What you should be concerned about is not which trading method I choose, but whether you can live to see tomorrow if I truly place you before my king.”

Though she said this, the dragon’s attitude indeed showed that she intended to trade with the water tribe from her own perspective.

Leia seized this point to irritate her. “After all this talk, aren’t you still selfishly wanting to enjoy the benefits alone?”

“Even as I hear you say this, I can’t help but question whether you’ve abandoned your brain,” Elvi squeezed Leia tightly in her claws.

As the merman continuously felt like he was about to be crushed, Elvi mocked, “If I directly involved the entire winged tribe in this transaction, even if my king didn’t choose to kill you outright but instead publicly used you to exchange for benefits, a petty and useless merman like you would afterward only choose to directly incite war between the two races.”

“What I want is to use you to exchange for benefits, not to use the benefits exchanged for you to fill the holes of war.”

Elvi retorted, “If I personally use you to exchange for benefits, a powerless and arrogant merman like you, after being exchanged back, would only choose to whitewash everything and pretend nothing happened, right?”

Leia was not ashamed.

Or rather, he already knew the scene would develop like this.

In the conversation he had with Su Li, the human youth had explained all possible directions Elvi might take.

Elvi’s way of thinking had been perfectly predicted by Su Li.

Leia had previously questioned Su Li: “Knowing that I won’t die, what makes you think I’d be willing to cooperate with you?”

“Based on the fact that you’re a ruler, not the king of the water tribe.” That was Su Li’s answer at the time.

Leia was an arrogant monster beast.

He chose to be a ruler rather than a king because, in his mind, even a king should prostrate at his feet.

This could slightly fill his seemingly boundless heart of “nobility.”

Similarly, Leia would definitely hold a grudge against Bartholomew and Elvi.

Su Li hadn’t delved deeper into the topic of ruler and king at that time, but after seeing Leia’s expression soften, he understood that this merman was simply taking his words as Su Li understanding his inner thoughts.

Although there was essentially no difference, the connotation was worlds apart.

But this wasn’t important either.

What was most important was that the merman indeed wanted revenge against Bartholomew and Elvi.

Su Li’s deal with Leia was that Su Li would eventually deliver both Elvi and Bartholomew to Leia’s domain.

And what Su Li wanted was for the mermaid ruler to unconditionally accept one of his command orders in the future.

Leia agreed.

In fact, this transaction was already worth it just for Su Li’s prediction of Elvi’s psychology.

At least Leia no longer had to feel anxious inside, thinking he might be crushed by the entire winged tribe at any moment.

Moreover, there was also the condition given by Su Li, which was to bring both the “natural enemy” and the “enemy” into his territory.

Wasn’t this creating an opportunity for his revenge?

Therefore, both parties were very satisfied with this transaction.

Leia also indirectly confirmed from Elvi’s words that Su Li truly possessed the ability to bring both Elvi and Bartholomew to the water tribe’s territory.

The mixed city—

To be precise, it was a city where humans existed.

Upon learning this situation, Su Li’s entire face went numb.

If the entire human race was being kept in a large enclosure, then this domain with both humans and humanoid monster beasts was real close-quarters captivity.

Lan Zhe was currently squatting on a tree, looking toward the city gate.

After taking out an alchemy tool with the same function as binoculars from the alchemy storage equipment, Lan Zhe was horrified to discover through the image that those humans all had characteristics of monster beasts.

In other words, they were all people who had awakened monster beast bloodlines.

“Are you sure?” Egbert frowned tightly.

“Humans who have awakened bloodlines and monster beasts who have successfully transformed are different.” Lan Zhe had already discovered the characteristics from the dragon, merman, and unicorn.

For instance, the features left by the unicorn and dragon after becoming human were horns, while the merman’s feature was ears.

Not completely transforming into human appearance was itself a way to show status.

And compared to the appearance of Cyril with scales on his face, the characteristics of transformed monster beasts in human form were within a completely controllable scope.

But what was seen through the binocular device was not like this.

Most of those people, like Cyril, had scales on their faces, tails behind them, and some even had wings.

However, occasionally, some beings without monster beast characteristics could also be seen.

The reason Lan Zhe categorized them all as “humans who had awakened monster beast bloodlines” was because he determined that this city might be a base providing reserve military forces for the three tribes.

As for why they lived together?

This point was probably only known to those awakened ones themselves.

Roy turned his head to look at Su Li with his grave expression and asked, “So, little master, are we going in or not?”

“Go,” Su Li clenched his fist.

As Lan Zhe described the general situation, too many bloody associations appeared in Su Li’s mind.

To avoid getting lost in imagination, Su Li decided to understand the truth for himself.