The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 163

Rota County.

The group who had previously been struggling with “Asgari” discovered after a series of tense and thrilling probing actions…

This humanoid monster beast had not come here to deal with matters related to Rota County.

His arrival was solely to find Joel.

According to what the snowy owl had said himself, Joel’s great-grandfather’s younger brother had been transformed into a monster beast in the same batch as him back then.

In their era, the two had lived together in Rota County and had survived for a full five months before being taken away for transformation.

It was just unfortunate that of the people who had originally agreed to survive together, one had ultimately died.

Asgari raised his eyes to look at Joel, and in the depths of his golden pupils, there was a point so black it was impossible to look directly at. “If he had been the one to survive, perhaps things would be easier for you now.”

However, Joel inexplicably felt his hair stand on end. “What do you want to say? Or what do you want to do to me?”

The sense of danger that his intuition brought Joel kept throbbing, and he couldn’t help but raise his voice in questioning, “You also said that the person you mentioned was my great-grandfather’s younger brother. Since he was my great-grandfather, what relationship does he have with me?”

“If it’s because of guilt, or other inconsequential emotions, then I don’t recommend, nor do I hope for such emotions to be forcibly imposed on me. You give me a feeling that’s too dangerous, which makes me unable to trust you.”

The massacre in Rota County not long ago that had killed over a thousand people was still vivid in memory, and the ones who had actually taken action were only two humanoid monster beasts.

Humans and monster beasts were fundamentally not beings who could engage in equal dialogue.

Joel’s eyes clearly expressed this information.

However, Asgari chuckled softly and said, “Do you think that all humans, after being transformed into monster beasts, are no longer the same person they once were?”

“Is there anything wrong with this understanding?” Joel looked at him warily. Although his words were phrased as a rhetorical question, he was actually very certain of the truth of this information.

“Indeed, the facts are also like this.” Asgari nodded, “But there are always some things that humans will never choose to abandon, no matter what form they become.”

“Your great-grandfather’s younger brother, my friend, Morton, we grew up together.”

Asgari didn’t intend to elaborate on his story at length; he just told Joel in a very calm tone, “During our human period, we were very good friends. After awakening our monster beast bloodlines, we also struggled together in this city for five months before being taken away for transformation.”

“But in the end, Morton was killed by my own hand.” Asgari said, looking at Joel whose hair had instantly stood on end all over his body from tension.

“In the past, the Winged Tribe practiced a system of the strong plundering and transforming, using force to dominate and crush other opponents, seizing their talents to improve their own survival chances.”

Joel’s back molars pressed tightly against each other, his voice sounding as if it came from between his teeth. “So you killed him to survive, is that it? The sense of danger you give me is like a heterogeneous being formed after different species mixed together!”

In that youthful torso that looked similar in height and appearance to Su Li, there seemed to exist countless monsters that devoured each other, entangled, twisted, and were filled with stickiness.

It was hard to imagine that Asgari’s original form was a snowy owl.

The feeling he gave people was clearly more like some creature covered in saw teeth, living in the deep sea, with an excessively free and terrifying appearance—a wet and slippery fish-like being.

“Calm down.” Lan Zhe grasped the back of his neck, while one of his friends directly placed his palm on Joel’s skull.

This conversation couldn’t be left to Joel alone.

“You also said that was your great-grandfather’s younger brother. You don’t even know what your own grandfather looked like, yet you care about your great-grandfather? Or even that great-grandfather’s younger brother whose existence you only learned about from others?” His friend’s words were already piercing enough, but Egbert’s subsequent words poured cold water on Joel.

“Feeling fear toward an enemy is the most unnecessary emotion. We who are trusted by Lord Su Li, yet we try to fear an existence that doesn’t even measure up to him… Joel, tell me, are you asking for a beating?”

Egbert really would hit people!

Joel immediately calmed down.

“Alright, let’s return to the previous topic.” Egbert took the initiative to control the conversation, saying, “We already know that you killed Joel’s great-grandfather’s younger brother, so what else do you have to say? Or rather, is it our turn to ask questions?”

“If so, then please definitely tell me what you truly came here for, and what you mentioned about the things you must hold onto even if you’re no longer human.”

However, Asgari stood there in a daze for several seconds. His lean jawbone lifted slightly upward, and his gaze involuntarily looked toward the sky before he spoke with a tone full of melancholy, “I hope this world can die here and now.”

“I’m not referring to the world itself, but to humanoid monster beasts, or rather, transformed monster beasts.”

“Regarding transformed monster beasts, my understanding has always been that they shouldn’t exist. And this understanding, rather than being smoothed out by time, gradually became nothing under the influence of monster beast bloodlines after I became a monster beast.”

“I sincerely feel honored to be a monster beast.”

This statement made everyone feel an indescribable chill.

Fine and dense, like spring rain. Silent and soundless, yet with bone-piercing cold.

“This is wrong.” When Asgari said this, his inhuman aura became even stronger.

“I want to correct this mistake.”

“Especially after discovering Joel.” Asgari said, “Morton’s talent is within me, as is part of his blood. I use this to check periodically whether anyone in his bloodline has awakened monster beast heritage. Joel was discovered this way.”

“My previous plan was to wait quietly, and then directly instigate a war between the three tribes.” Asgari’s face showed a smile, clean like a child’s.

“No monster beast has any value in continuing to live.” he said.

“Including yourself.” Egbert said with certainty, “You’ve already prepared for death, or rather, martyrdom.”

“Although I haven’t heard the word martyrdom before, I think you’re right.” Asgari nodded in acknowledgment.

“So your purpose in coming here is to prevent Joel from being transformed into a monster beast, while also wanting to obtain this city’s power for future warfare?” Egbert couldn’t be like Su Li, who when facing his own speculations, had enough peripheral information to confirm them multiple times.

Egbert always had some hesitation when making deductions.

However, Asgari acknowledged the former but denied the latter.

“Telling you my purpose is just to gain your trust. You can also consider that I’m using some intelligence related to the monster beast world to exchange for your protection of Joel. Also, I don’t think you’re qualified to participate in wars between monster beasts.”

“That’s not a domain humans can touch.”

“This is unreasonable.” Egbert directly refuted, “Joel is just a descendant of your friend’s elder brother. I don’t believe you would personally come here for him—you could completely command others to act.”

“You coming to this city must have other purposes. Just as you said, you don’t think humans are qualified to participate in monster beast wars. Therefore, you deliberately put on an act that our strength is too weak and we’re unworthy to enter.”

“But you overlooked one point: your arrival itself signifies intelligence. Rota County has too many humans. Assuming newly born transformed monster beasts all become battlefield soldiers, then those who can survive, especially those who have lived for decades or even hundreds of years, wouldn’t have low status in monster beast society.”

“You possess a noble identity. Snowy owls have wings, so unless by accident, you must be from the Winged Tribe. Moreover, Lord Su Li’s previous letter also indicated that he was pursuing ‘freedom.’ This freedom is equivalent to the fact that the great dragon definitely intends to wage war. I can’t determine the target of the war, but the great dragon’s targeted combat actions must have your promotion behind them.”

Egbert’s gaze became increasingly sharp. “I bet this battle is internal strife, and your personal matters are essentially just an excuse to remove yourself from this battle. This way, no one will notice that you even had a hand in this battle.”

He turned to look at Joel beside him, saying in a calm tone, “I trust Joel’s intuition. In my view, your danger level won’t be lower than Elvi’s, and the latter is said to be a dragon of extremely noble status within the Dragon Clan.”

“Internal war—one side is dragons, so the other side can only be those who control power, right? You can’t be the one in power, so you must be a close minister of the one in power. Whether you take sides in the internal strife has no impact on your desire to destroy the three tribes.”

“So what you really want to avoid this battle for is because within this battle, there are aspects that neither side of the current conflict has paid attention to. That is to say, the process of this internal strife and its developmental predictions are all within your expectations. The draft of this predictive intelligence might even be placed on the desks of Beast Tribe or Water Tribe rulers.”

“For the other two tribes, during the Winged Tribe’s internal war, they will definitely be full of vulnerabilities. If the other two tribes want to plunder, this is the best opportunity.” Egbert bit down hard on his back molars, desperately trying to recall Su Li’s way of viewing things, with fragments of memory circling and flashing in his mind.

Finally, Egbert bit through a piece of soft flesh in his mouth, feeling the fishy-sweet breath in his oral cavity. His gaze sharp and his tone decisive, he said, “Your real purpose is to cause the other two tribes to unite in attack during the Winged Tribe’s internal strife, and attempt to cause unequal distribution of benefits between the other two tribes, thereby using this to trigger a three-tribe melee, thus beginning the first round of consuming monster beast numbers.”

“All above, do you think I’m right?”

Although it was still phrased as a question, Egbert was already sufficiently certain.

The fragmentary intelligence he had obtained, combined with the letter Su Li had left behind, plus Asgari who had appeared in this city for “personal matters” at this time—everything was like a puzzle that could be completed.

But what he didn’t notice was that Roy beside him showed an expression of being utterly astounded.

The two-star mercenary was simply amazed. This was much more frightening than Su Li wearing a face with no obvious changes in expression, taking things for granted while seeing the whole picture from a small part.

This was Egbert!

“Could this be the legendary ‘you become what you chase’?”