The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 158

[To Egbert:

When you saw this letter, I had probably already been taken away by some giant dragon. Of course, you didn’t need to worry about me – my being taken away was more a result of my own choice… Although some trivial accidents occurred during the process of choosing, those were nothing at all.

Returning to the main topic, I left this letter with only one thing to truly say: “I was going to pursue the freedom that I would eventually possess in a short time.”

You could understand this sentence, just as you had understood all the various things I had said in the past.

So, go and do what you thought you should do. I would protect myself well, and then try to possess brief freedom without anyone’s restrictions or suppression from any beast.]

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“Did you understand it?” Roy pointed at the obviously darkened ink traces of the word “freedom” on the letter and looked up at the frowning Egbert.

The two-star mercenary’s mind was in a daze.

“Lord Su Li’s meaning was that he planned to temporarily break away from us ordinary people who would reduce his efficiency,” Egbert said with furrowed brows. “Although I didn’t want to admit it, Lord Su Li had always possessed the talent to protect himself well.”

“In the past, we used to define this kind of talent on our own, considering it inferior to the elemental power or physical strength one possesses.”

“This kind of perception had created a paper-thin barrier between me and Lord Su Li. Although it could be broken with one poke, I had never thought of actively piercing through it before.” Egbert analyzed his inner thoughts.

A conclusion was easily reached.

Toward Su Li, each of them had a level of trust that ordinary people would find hard to believe, but regarding his strength, everyone had tacitly regarded it as inferior.

This state hadn’t been bad – at least it had been true when they were in human society.

But in monster beast society, the entire situation would be changed and overturned.

The Raven’s strength, which they had seemed unable to defeat before, was only at the bottom level in this civilization.

Those who had once believed they possessed the power to protect Lord Su Li found themselves so weak in this world that they constantly needed Lord Su Li to extend the self-preservation thinking that should have been focused on himself to them.

The fact brought about by this situation was all too obvious – they had been the weak ones from beginning to end.

And for a philosophical idealist who had never taken freedom seriously, Egbert also understood very clearly that Su Li’s repeated emphasis on freedom was essentially just wanting to avoid hurting their self-esteem while creating a safe domain for them in advance.

Then he would continue maintaining the inherent lifestyle of human society.

Even someone whose pride was so arrogant it was about to break through the sky would probably have no way to harbor any resentment toward Su Li’s methods of repeatedly emphasizing freedom without putting pressure on others.

Not to mention that those who truly saw this letter were a group of people who had always held Su Li at the tip of their hearts.

“I was very ashamed, whether it was my weakness or the fact that I had never kept up with Lord Su Li’s mind.” Egbert crumpled the edges of the letter paper, but he relaxed his brow. “Just as Lord Su Li said, even if my strength was weak and I couldn’t continue to regard myself as his protector in the monster beast world, I still had things that needed to be completed waiting for me.”

“What did you plan to do?” Lan Zhe had recognized this part of the truth earlier than Egbert.

After the content on the letter paper was read aloud by Egbert, the Dark Holy Son’s attention had already shifted to the level of how they, who had been left behind in Rota County, should act.

“Lord Su Li had already left us in the best situation. Whether it was Joel or the already destroyed practice platform, this was equivalent to us having nearly a month’s time in a situation where we couldn’t be interfered with by monster beasts.”

“At the same time, Lord Su Li was also opening up new territories for us in that world we temporarily couldn’t set foot in.”

“So I thought that what we should do now was to unite everything that could be united, ally with everything that could be allied with, and turn everything that had the possibility of being turned.”

Egbert raised his eyelids, his appearance no longer as humble as when he had stood beside Su Li in the past, but rather having the accurate understanding of frivolity and wildness when placing himself on the same plane as the world’s people.

He chuckled and said, “Let’s make a bet – I believed that there must be people in this city who hadn’t been transformed into monster beasts yet, but whose blood relatives had already become monster beasts.”

“Emotions were naturally nothing, but as long as there was even a trace of opportunity, it meant that complete failure was impossible.”

“Lord Su Li had placed himself at the forefront of the storm, so what we should do was to do our utmost when a new wave rushed to his side, to stand on that storm’s front and trample on those wave crests, walking to his side.”

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Dragon Territory.

Su Li was deceiving Adonis.

“Although you were base and humble, as long as there existed a noble and honorable person who forgave you, then you could escape from the filth and cheapness imprisoned in your bones and blood.”

“I knew this without you telling me.” Adonis had always done this.

Otherwise, why would he act as a faithful lapdog beside the Queen?

Was he really being cheap and wanting to lick boots?

Anyone could think that was impossible.

This mentality was exactly the same as the Dark Pope’s mentality.

Why did the Dark Pope have to ally with the Grand Judge? That was naturally because what a minority said was useless – no matter how eloquently they spoke, it was equivalent to farting.

Only those who truly held power could influence established rules, and even influence many people under subjective will.

Was it useful for Adonis to say he wasn’t base?

But it was useful when the Queen said it.

When the Queen said the Gray Crane was a loyal minister, then all other winged monster beasts couldn’t have a second word, otherwise it would be questioning the Queen’s authority.

Believe it or not, the next time there was a battle, you and your family would be sent to the front lines as cannon fodder?

This was the pressure of power.

“Then did you think the Queen was someone who embodied noble and upper-class concepts?” Su Li’s mouth corner hung with a smile of unclear meaning.

“If the Queen was truly noble to an unattainable degree, then how could Elvi possibly have rebellious thoughts, and the Queen would even need to send you to verify.”

“Also, the transformed monster beasts were all originally human. Monster beasts and humans had a naturally antagonistic relationship – even if enemies became allies, they wouldn’t necessarily be much more noble, right?”

“True sublimity and nobility could absolutely not be proven by these low-level things.”

“What could be gained from the low-level proven by the low-level, except low-level answers?”

Su Li watched as the Gray Crane fell into deep thought.

Adonis was sick, and this world was also very sick.

Everyone was under abnormal pathological conditions, and then treated being sick as normal.

As the only normal person, Su Li didn’t think he could reverse the entire world’s illness with his own strength alone.

But there wasn’t only one treatment plan – fighting poison with poison was also a good choice.

“To reverse your fate, what you needed to do wasn’t repeat history, but jump out of history.”

“Did you believe there were gods in this world?”

Adonis pulled himself out of his thoughts. “Did this question have any relation to the present?”

“Of course it was related.” Su Li deliberately didn’t look at him – his diverted gaze would only become distant in Adonis’s eyes at this moment, or perhaps ‘as if gazing across space at some larger, broader world.’

“If you believed there were gods in this world, then gods existed. Conversely, if you didn’t believe, then gods didn’t exist.”

“The observer effect – what determined everything wasn’t the thing itself, but the individual called the observer.”

“As long as you didn’t think you were inherently base, then what others bestowed was merely the original sin of ignorance.”

“What exactly were you talking about?” Adonis had already been confused by the circular reasoning. He felt he vaguely understood, but also seemed to understand nothing at all.

This state, using modern society’s know-it-all terminology, was “those who understand, understand; those who don’t understand, there’s no helping it.”

But whether he understood or not didn’t matter – what was important was that Adonis couldn’t possibly admit his ignorance.

Then he could only admit that there was something wrong with this world.

Thus understanding that Su Li’s instilled meaning of the observer was equivalent to: whether gods existed depended on him as an individual. Gods would exist because of him and would not exist because of him.

This was enough to make someone who couldn’t completely deny that gods didn’t exist become excited and fanatical.

Adonis was no exception.

But there was still one more step needed–

Su Li smiled as he watched the Gray Crane who had already stepped into the pit.

“I just wanted to tell you that whether the Gray Crane clan was noble or base depended on the observer himself. Everyone was an observer, and I was no exception. Different from other observers, I determined from my perspective that you weren’t base, so as the observed object, you should also understand that you weren’t cheap or humble.”

Adonis fell into a hell of thought.

Everyone was an observer. The Queen needed the Gray Crane clan’s devotion to exchange for the transformative definition after positive observation. While Su Li, his definition of the Gray Crane clan from beginning to end was simply that Gray Cranes weren’t base.

The Queen and him – who was right? Who was wrong?

His own devotion could bring about the Queen’s positive cognitive change toward the Gray Crane clan, while whether he devoted himself or not, Su Li’s definition would only be that Gray Cranes weren’t base.

The nature of intelligent beings would infinitely tend toward self-interest.

Su Li quietly watched Adonis’s moment of enlightenment, watched him say: “You were right.”

The intelligent life in this world was like ginseng fruit placed in a ginseng mold.

Without self-identity, the upper levels decided what they should grow into, and they would only grow into that shape in fixed molds, then be endlessly exploited, harvested like leeks.

–And remain completely unaware.

Adonis clenched his fists. The Gray Crane’s eyes were bright, his nails that dug into his palms penetrated skin and flesh, blood meandering down through the gaps between his fingers. Adonis spoke with an almost eerily calm voice. “I had never been as clear-headed as I was now.”

“I was so foolish that I hadn’t even seen through the fact that the Queen was using me.”

“My death would absolutely not result in the Gray Crane clan being looked upon favorably. On the contrary, reality would only cause the entire clan to collapse because this guy who was supported by the whole clan had died.”

Adonis murmured to himself. “My death here would truly be the Gray Crane clan’s real end.”

“Even the fact that we two were locked in the same domain probably had the hidden meaning of making us kill each other. You could hurt me once and could kill me a second time, yet you chose to tell me all the truth…” Adonis’s eyes gradually became tinged with fervor.

Su Li’s intuition told him that something big had happened.