The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 153

If Egbert’s power alone was like a small nuclear explosion, then stacked with Lan Zhe, they became a true ruin-making machine.

Su Li was nearly blown away by the violent winds. His eyes, which he struggled to keep open in an attempt to see the situation clearly, involuntarily shed physiological tears in the fierce gale.

When he finally stood steady and could see everything clearly, the other humanoid monster beast had already completely fallen.

Unlike the surprise victory achieved through formations, participating in killing a humanoid monster beast gave Joel a sense of accomplishment no less than killing a god with a human body.

——Even though he seemed to have made no effective attacks.

But he was still very happy.

Joel excitedly grinned, while his unfortunate friend wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with one hand and dragged his broken body toward the monster beast’s side with the other. Then, without hesitation, he wielded his sword-like weapon and viciously stabbed it into the monster beast’s skull.

Afterward, worried that might not be a fatal weak point, unfortunate friend number one said to number two, “Lend me some fire, let’s burn it.”

They needed to completely eliminate any possibility of it playing dead.

Number two said while lighting the fire, “I thought what we should be doing now is cheering that we won.”

“And celebrating that we’re still alive, something like that.”

“Let’s hold off on that kind of celebration for now.” Egbert’s primary concern was still Su Li’s calm yet somewhat cold gaze.

If the battle had ended, Su Li wouldn’t still be on guard against something, but would have immediately gone to the wounded to provide bandaging and rescue.

Thinking of the factional characteristics of the two monster beasts they had just killed, Egbert also silently heightened his vigilance.

However, the reason Su Li hadn’t immediately chosen to bandage the others was simply because his emotions had been too tense earlier, and his body too rigid.

After relaxing, Su Li moved.

Egbert immediately dragged his weak and powerless body toward Su Li.

Even though there wasn’t a single elemental factor left in his body, Egbert still stood in front of Su Li.

“It’s over now, at least for the moment.” Su Li gently exhaled, hiding his constantly trembling and still bleeding left hand behind his back. He softened his voice to increase its soothing quality and spoke gently.

Egbert was stunned for a moment, then his body’s reaction was faster than his instincts, and he collapsed directly to the ground in weakness.

Su Li tried to help him up, but this allowed Egbert to see the cracked thumbnail on his left hand.

“Lord Su Li!” Even though he was already so weak he barely had the strength to speak, Egbert could still raise his voice at this moment, shouting like a roar.

“Stop shouting.” As soon as Lan Zhe approached, what he saw was Egbert thinking he was gripping Su Li’s left wrist tightly.

The young man didn’t struggle at all.

Lan Zhe rolled his eyes at Egbert, took out the medicine he had previously prepared for Egbert from Su Li’s pocket, and despite the murderous looks from the most trusted subordinate, directly poured that awful-tasting medicine that could make one’s soul leave their body into his mouth.

“Don’t worry, although this medicine seemed like something that overdrafts the body and amplifies combat power in my previous hints, essentially, it’s just a recovery medicine used to quickly restore the body’s elemental factors.”

“What is that?” After Roy finished helping to bandage Joel and his unfortunate friends, he came over.

“A new type of medicine that no one has tested. I call it an elemental recovery potion.” This thing had never appeared in the human history of this other world.

It had to be said that Lan Zhe was indeed a genius in pharmacology.

While most people were eating raw materials to change their physical state, he could already refine things into medicines with higher purity and effectiveness.

“…If it’s just for recovering elemental factors, why does he look like this now?” Roy looked at Egbert lying on the ground, eyes rolled back, constantly foaming at the mouth, and sucked in a cold breath.

“The effect of the new medicine is of course no problem.” Lan Zhe shrugged indifferently. “But you should also know that before a medicine is widely applied, what needs to be done isn’t just effectiveness testing, but also taste testing.”

“Obviously, I don’t think this experiment should be conducted on Su Li.”

Su Li couldn’t drink it, Lan Zhe himself wouldn’t drink it, so the remaining choices were only Egbert and Roy.

Who made the former unfortunate enough to not only be chased by a flying bird before, but now directly drain himself in battle with a terrestrial monster beast.

The Dark Holy Son looked at Roy with a half-smile and said, “If you want to try the taste and can describe it in words to provide direction for improvement, then I don’t mind wasting a dose of medicine to let you have a taste.”

“I mind!” Roy immediately stepped back several paces.

Lan Zhe waved his hand dismissively. “Alright, I was just scaring you. That’s enough.”

Roy: …Tch.

The two-star mercenary now had only one thought: just what kind of pervert had trained Lan Zhe, who worked part-time as both doctor and cook?

Oh… it was the Dark Pope and Su Li.

Then never mind.

Roy refocused his attention on Su Li.

“Little master, what does that ‘at least for the moment’ mean?” After thinking about it, Roy also thought of the aquatic monster beasts that should exist here.

As a mixed habitat, regardless of the reason Rota County was established, there was no reason that with three factions present, only two factions would deal with the rebellion.

“Have you forgotten that Leia is currently being carried by Elvi to negotiate with the Water Tribe?” Su Li said weakly.

People could abandon their thinking ability, but not so completely.

“Oh——” Roy wasn’t embarrassed at all. “Honestly, I’d completely forgotten about that guy.”

“Whether compared to the dragon or that unicorn that appeared later, who could fight Elvi evenly even with a broken horn, under their contrast, Leia really seemed to have no presence.”

****

At this time, the mermaid ruler who had been forcibly exposed by the two-star mercenary was walking step by step toward the aquatic people under the dragon’s gaze.

Just now, Elvi had already negotiated resource exchanges with the Water Tribe.

Facing the various things obtained in exchange, the dragon was very satisfied. As for whether the merman had his mind full of thoughts about killing her or something…

Before Leia could return to his territory and regain his high spirits, Elvi unceremoniously dug a pit for him.

And in a particularly open and aboveboard manner.

“Rather than thinking about how to kill me, you should think about how someone whose brain was fed to fish as fish food could be so subtly captured by Bartholomew alone.”

Leia’s face immediately turned cold. “These matters don’t need you to mention.”

“I don’t think I’m being kind in reminding you.” Elvi didn’t care about his targeting. The humanoid dragon crossed her arms. “I’m just expressing that someone like you, who has lived uselessly for hundreds of years, shouldn’t be so ridiculous as to die at the hands of your own toys.”

Elvi didn’t care how Leia was captured by Bartholomew, nor whether the current Water Tribe King had thoughts of betraying Leia.

Those who sow discord don’t need to care about the truth. She only needed to open her mouth and spread rumors.

Interestingly, Leia’s face was getting uglier and uglier.

Had the discord-sowing actually succeeded? Or were her random words actually true?

Regardless of which it was, the merman would fall into a state of internal purges in the short term.

Elvi could use the resources obtained during this period to elevate that caged crow to a level where it could provide her with compatible gene chains.

But before that, she needed to bring back that freely growing resource-type human…

****

On Su Li’s side.

After integration and calculation, the residents of Rota County obtained data after this battle: 1,088 deaths, countless seriously injured, and one-third of the city completely destroyed.

The only thing that was unclear whether to call fortunate or unfortunate was that the practice platform was also destroyed in this battle.

Regarding the destruction of the practice platform, Su Li’s evaluation was: “At least we don’t have to worry about things being teleported over in the short term.”

This could also give humans a certain opportunity to rest and recover.

Although this phase would last at most until one month later.

——To be precise, 28 days.

Su Li sighed softly.

He felt that all the sighs he had sighed in his previous life over so many years weren’t as many as the sighs he had sighed since crossing over.

“Living is so difficult.” Su Li looked at his left thumb wrapped like a dumpling and used that finger to rub his face with bitter optimism. “At times like this, besides telling myself that suffering is proof that happiness is coming, there doesn’t seem to be any other way to interpret it.”

Joel, who happened to come looking for him, was stunned in place for a while after hearing this.

The young man not far away was covered with the bitterness left after gunpowder had settled, but his green eyes seemed to contain a spring that had never been noticed by the world.

Full of vitality.

Only then did Joel say: “I felt like I was just healed by something that couldn’t be directly contacted.”

The number 1,088 was still painful, but that pain was no longer thick enough to continuously drain one’s mental energy.

Joel shook his head, still feeling that inexplicable power in his heart, but said to Su Li, “Thank you.”

“What?” Su Li was puzzled.

“I mean, thank you for still using your own fighting method to secure victory for us when we faced a powerful enemy that both our brains and hearts recognized as undefeatable.”

Joel wasn’t much help with statistical data; the damage statistics were basically compiled by his unfortunate friends. All he could do was accompany his friends while occasionally helping with small physical tasks, and constantly replay the battle process with the terrestrial monster beast in his mind.

In that battle, it seemed everyone would focus on Egbert and Lan Zhe, who delivered the final attack, but Joel just felt that Su Li’s role was greater.

That wasn’t intuition, but a conclusion based on facts.

As a commander, or rather, someone who surveyed the overall situation, Su Li had fought really beautifully.

Even though Joel had never looked down on this young man without any elemental factors with a contemptuous attitude, deep in his heart he was actually like the general public, unable to view Su Li as a strong person he could dialogue with as an equal.

But it was exactly such a person, whom everyone subconsciously labeled as weak, who led them to victory against a humanoid monster beast…

This was enough for him to thank Su Li with the greatest courtesy.

Because what he saved wasn’t just the few people who were at the center of the battle at that time, but more people who would have died in large numbers if they hadn’t achieved victory.

Joel continued, “I know you previously wanted to push me toward becoming a manager in Rota County.” He bowed slightly.

“But just like how we didn’t consider other uses of the practice platform before, I also failed to turn the tide.”

“On the contrary, you were the first to discover the changes and predicted that there would be a second enemy.”

Joel counted on his fingers. “Compared to someone like me who didn’t even fulfill any role, I think you might have more potential to become the manager of this city. Or rather, a spiritual symbol…?”

“Honestly, after that part of emotion in my brain was sealed, I did spend a period of new life abandoning the past.” Joel said to himself. “During this time, all suffering came from the oppression of monster beasts. Under the pressure from external forces, I ignored the weak oppression that existed within the strong-over-weak mode among humans themselves.”

“Sorry, I’m speaking a bit chaotically.” Joel took a deep breath and smiled.

“In any case, what I mean is, if you think you can’t manage this city because of insufficient strength and that’s why you wanted to find me to help, then I think you have absolutely no need for such thoughts. Because you proved with facts that strength isn’t everything, and using your brain can equally defeat seemingly undefeatable enemies.”

Su Li opened his mouth…

He wanted to explain that he wasn’t as sensitive as Joel thought.

And he really hadn’t planned to become a managerial role.

Wasn’t it good to be alone? Or rather, what was wrong with being a mascot in a small team?

What was a manager? That was work even more difficult than a community neighborhood committee!

Su Li declined to add any trouble to himself; anything that could be pushed away definitely had to be pushed away. As for the glory, power, wealth and such that others thought of…

If he really wanted these things, after 0074, he could have completely chosen to continue working hard.

Who would normally retire at 28?

But his choice to retire at that age meant he had no desire for those things.

In Su Li’s view, Maslow’s five-level hierarchy of human needs only needed to achieve the second-to-last level of safety needs; the higher levels of social belonging, esteem needs, and self-actualization could all be set aside.

But people in this other world obviously didn’t think this way.

In their view, Su Li had achieved self-actualization but hadn’t received the social recognition and esteem needs he deserved.

This was too unfair.

Under this cognitive drive, Su Li’s self-satisfied approach of being happy as long as safety needs were met appeared to others as nothing more than so-called self-consolation.

To this, Su Li: …………

To explain or not to explain?

Before entering monster beast society, Su Li had already understood that self-proof was something he shouldn’t fall into whether facing positive praise or negative criticism.

Because it was useless.

What was useful was…

“Just consider it as you think.” Su Li gave up and admitted, saying, “But you should also know that when the tree stands out in the forest, the wind will surely destroy it.”

“I still have many years for growth and am not in a hurry for these few years.”

As if! Having retired at 28 before crossing over, he definitely had to retire before 18 after crossing over!