The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 160

However, the Gray Crane clearly had different thoughts from the Dragon.

No one knew how Adonis managed it, but after Elvi judged that he had truly gone mad, he was sent away that very day.

Su Li also questioned Elvi, “Just sending him away like that? Or do you think that once my false identity is confirmed, the Dragon can escape the Queen’s suspicions?”

“I actually don’t care whether the Queen suspects or not.” The two were still staying in the building where Su Li had been imprisoned—a space so vast it resembled a palace.

Elvi looked at Su Li, who had spontaneously seated himself on the central jade throne, and said with some amusement, “In fact, I’m more interested in knowing whether she’s truly foolish enough to want to eliminate everything that can be equated with danger on the surface.”

“If that’s really the case, then I can only think that all those hundreds of years she spent on the throne were wasted.”

“A Queen who cannot bring any advantages to the Winged Tribe, but instead causes constant internal strife and division…” Elvi’s face formed a wild smile, “would be better off dead.”

This was her sincere opinion.

Su Li stared at Elvi for several moments, then said lazily, “Does this count as knowingly allowing conspiracies and schemes to unfold while doing nothing to stop them?”

“In terms of what a minister should normally do, this would be a great taboo.” The youth sat on the jade throne with his right leg extended straight, his left leg slightly bent, his left arm resting on his knee, his palm clenched into a fist supporting one side of his face. When he spoke, affected by the bone movement, his head bobbed up and down.

Elvi spoke very directly.

Her attitude made it clear that she knew the Queen was deliberately targeting the Dragon Clan.

As long as the Queen dared to make a move, she would have reason to kill the Queen. And if the Queen didn’t make a move, the Dragon would show obvious disappointment.

One reason was that as a clan’s ruler, she lacked the courage to eliminate parts that had already been defined as disasters or rotten flesh.

Another point was… choosing to use talent appropriately required the ability to control that “talent.”

Elvi certainly didn’t seem to have an attitude of recognizing the Queen.

Unless the Queen could find a third solution like the Dragon had when it was schemed against by the joint forces of the mermaid and unicorn, internal strife within the Winged Tribe could be said to be an inevitable event.

If they weren’t of the same species, and their thinking itself had inherent differences, what Su Li should probably be questioning now was why the three tribes, which had no overlapping living territories, insisted on fighting to the death.

But humans shouldn’t try to understand the thinking of monster beasts.

Even those zoologists didn’t necessarily have to understand what all animals were thinking.

Su Li chuckled softly, and when he looked up at Elvi again, his sitting posture had straightened considerably, though by the standards of overly strict etiquette, it was still rather crooked.

Elvi didn’t care about these things. The Dragon simply repeated, as Su Li had expected: “Monster beasts and humans are fundamentally two different species.”

“Don’t use human standards to define monster beasts.”

These words were spoken smoothly and directly.

Looking carefully, one could even notice changes in Elvi’s features—for instance, her chin was raised higher than before, or rather, her eyes moved deliberately from a looking-down angle.

A non-human who had transformed from human was actually feeling proud of non-human civilization.

She had never even concealed her arrogance that non-humans should naturally be superior to humans.

At all times, constantly displaying these alien characteristics.

“You’re right.” Su Li curved his eyebrows, “Humans shouldn’t use human thinking to assess monster beasts.”

Monster beasts also had no way to measure humans with their non-human bodies.

The unfinished words didn’t need to be spoken aloud. Even if Elvi knew, she wouldn’t care.

They would just wait and see what kind of direction the third solution given by Adonis, the Gray Crane who had already been judged insane, would lead the Winged Tribe toward.

****

The Queen’s Palace.

When Adonis was brought to the place, he couldn’t control the drool that flowed from the corner of his mouth.

This was disgusting, and most monster beasts would think so.

But if this behavior could also be categorized as loyalty to the Queen, perhaps everything wouldn’t be so bad after all?

Obviously, this thought was also an illusion.

“How did Adonis become like this? It’s truly disgusting.”

“Don’t have such high expectations for lowly things. The Gray Crane clan was ugly to begin with.”

“As far as I know, Adonis went to complete the Queen’s command to monitor Her Excellency Elvi, right? How did he end up like this?”

“There’s no need to say such boring nonsense. If he’s ended up like this, it must be because the mission has already failed.”

Rustling, dense sounds filled his ears.

What truly stopped these words wasn’t the Queen’s command, but the mechanical, rigid voice of the herald.

“Silence, silence——! Please do not make useless noisy remarks within the royal palace.”

Only after everyone had closed their mouths and the air returned to calm did the humanoid monster beast on the throne, with her absolutely beautiful appearance, speak gently, “Adonis is a minister I trust. Even if the mission failed, he who accepted the task of monitoring the Dragon is still a powerful existence.”

When the excessively beautiful woman spoke, she seemed to be bathed in holy light by some unknown presence.

“You all should not impose various inappropriate evaluations on Minister Adonis just because of the mission’s failure.”

Adonis wiped away the elements he had deliberately inflicted on his own brain to prevent Elvi from testing whether he was truly insane. After regaining clarity, the man coldly wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth. Hearing the Queen’s statement, he merely bowed his head respectfully and said, “Thank you for the Queen’s comfort, but my mission has not entirely failed.”

“At least regarding monitoring Her Excellency Elvi to determine whether she truly has connections with the Water Tribe, I can already conclude… there is no such thing.”

The four words of denial were continuously ground in Adonis’s mouth, and his speaking speed slowed considerably.

During the process of narrating this, the Gray Crane kept staring at the Queen’s expression changes.

He saw very clearly that the woman on the throne showed dissatisfaction with this answer. However, this emotional expression flashed by so quickly that it would make anyone who trusted her believe such perception was an illusion.

But the woman on the throne still spoke like a good ruler who cherished her subjects. “It’s wonderful that there are no additional troubles.”

The lackeys below continued saying, “Although Her Excellency Elvi is the Dragon Clan leader, her disrespectful behavior toward the Queen is enough to warrant punishment.”

“How could Adonis possibly determine in such a short time that Her Excellency Elvi truly has no connections with the Water Tribe?”

“The so-called Dragon is nothing more than a mindless beast. Besides gems, what else does she understand?”

Adonis understood that these fools had already defined Elvi’s actions on their own as part of exchanging resources with Leia, receiving only gems or pearls that dragons favored.

Speaking of which, the resources Elvi had proactively given to the Queen were indeed all of this type——

In other words, that Dragon had long been prepared to take action against the Queen and the Queen’s palace.

Yet these fools in front of him were still thinking about punishing the ambitious one.

“Everyone, I think my report hasn’t been completely finished.” Adonis interrupted various words belittling Elvi.

Facing everyone’s angry glares, the Gray Crane calmly said: “I can indeed confirm that Her Excellency Elvi shows no signs of alliance with the Water Clan, but this doesn’t mean the Dragon still maintains absolute loyalty to the Queen.”

“For instance, during this operation, I discovered that a successor with extraordinary talent has already appeared by Her Excellency Elvi’s side.”

“Moreover, that person is Her Excellency Elvi’s direct bloodline.” Adonis pointed to the wound on his chest. Many people with elemental sensing abilities could detect the continuous wind elements wrapped around his chest.

The Gray Crane said, “Here is the wound caused by that child. And that child’s current strength is merely equal to a ninth-level monster beast.”

Adonis didn’t want to give ignorant people the chance to continue their nonsense. He spoke straightforwardly, “During this journey together, the Black Dragon Victoria showed hostility toward me more than once, both in words and actions.”

“Her Excellency Elvi even asked me to personally test that child’s abilities. I believe the injuries on my body are enough to make everyone understand.”

“Finally, Her Excellency Elvi locked me together with that child for a full day and night.”

Adonis didn’t say what happened during that day, because there would definitely be those with low intelligence who would clamor: “With a whole day’s time, didn’t you have a single chance to eliminate that child?”

Adonis looked at the monster beast whose true form was an eagle. On the surface, his expression remained calm, but internally, his killing intent surged.

“Since it’s Her Excellency Elvi’s bloodline, how could she not have prepared protection for that person?”

“She probably had long prepared for Adonis to attack and then be counter-injured, so she could later question whether he was ordered by the Queen.”

With thousands of words, those who liked to show off were sufficient to complete the unfinished implications Adonis wanted to hint at.

Even better, because of the wound on his body, the Queen required him to rest well and not participate in the court meeting that would inevitably discuss war next.

Regarding this, Adonis had no complaints about Su Li whatsoever. The Gray Crane’s mind was filled with the thought that even the wound Su Li had left had become another kind of gift to the Gray Crane…

****

Dragon Clan Territory.

Su Li was taken by Elvi away from that excessively spacious palace, and then the youth was handed over to the Black Dragon Victoria.

Su Li yawned and said, “I thought you would drag it out for a few more days before letting me see the Raven.”

“Or are you planning to solve Elvi’s genetic disease before the battle with the Queen fully erupts?”

“Stop using your human brain to evaluate Her Excellency.” Victoria’s eyes contained disdain. “Besides, maintaining the best combat power at peak condition before the war begins—isn’t that natural?”

Su Li didn’t care about the Black Dragon’s emotional problems. He only focused on the hidden meaning beneath the disdain.

For instance, the fact that Victoria didn’t know his true identity…

This fact was very interesting, because it meant that sunk costs already existed for the Dragon.

There was no additional conversation for the rest of the journey. Su Li also discovered during this trip that the Dragon’s territory was actually located in mountains with ridiculously high altitude.

Su Li was amazed that he didn’t have altitude sickness and deeply praised Elvi.

Thanks to the Dragon’s wind element enhancement, he didn’t suffer from oxygen deprivation.

And also…

Su Li’s eyes flickered bright and dim as he looked with a smile toward the depths of the cave, at the man sitting in the darkness with black hair cascading down his back.

Before the man could speak, the youth extended his hand first:

“I’ve come.”

“To take you home.”