The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 169.1

Elvi fell silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.

This situation shouldn’t have occurred.

Her subconscious thought this way, while her heart was filled with indescribable emotions.

What Elvi finally managed to say was only: “You didn’t need to block that for me…”

It sounded like a cold statement devoid of any emotion.

Victoria, however, coughed up fresh blood yet still smiled. “There was no need or lack thereof. I simply felt this was what I should do, so I did it.”

Though she was about to die, her monster beast constitution far exceeded that of humans, and Victoria was grateful she could still speak her mind.

“Your Excellency has always done well.” Victoria’s memories contained countless scenes of following behind Elvi, watching her charge toward the front lines of battle.

But in those images, Victoria was always handling rear affairs, never having fought alongside the dragon.

“The one who didn’t do well was me…” Victoria’s mouth continued to seep red, and no matter how much Elvi wiped it with her hands, it seemed like it could never be cleaned.

“Unable to defeat those enemies who constantly insulted Your Excellency… and never having done anything truly helpful for Your Excellency, cough, cough cough… Whether as a dragon or one of the Winged Tribe, Victoria was always so useless…”

“Stop talking.” Elvi couldn’t understand the emotion that leaped from her heart at that moment. She simply followed her inner voice to stop Victoria from continuing these meaningless actions.

“I won’t be able to follow by Your Excellency’s side anymore…” Victoria grasped Elvi’s hand that was still trying to wipe the blood from her mouth. The black dragon smiled, “If I don’t say it now, there won’t be another chance later.”

“The Queen fears the dragon race, and for power, she ignored the role dragons play for the Winged Tribe… Leia… that merman, he’s always keen on inciting war, while the Beast King always hides behind the scenes…”

“Cough cough, cough…” Victoria covered her mouth with one hand, but red blood continued to drip through her fingers. She raised her eyes to look at Elvi, her pupils reflecting only Elvi’s disheveled state.

But in those eyes, there was no reflection of anything unseemly.

In Victoria’s eyes, the dragon was always the leader who supported the dragon race’s existence in the world.

“Stop talking…” Elvi’s eyes showed a pleading she herself hadn’t noticed, “It’s because I didn’t leave myself a way out that I needed you to block that attack for me.”

“If I had been more cautious, or if I hadn’t looked down on the King of the Water…”

“That’s not it!” Victoria interrupted what Elvi was about to continue saying.

“Your Excellency never needs ‘what ifs.’ You never need to consider those possibilities after the fact.” Victoria’s throat already made gurgling sounds of blood bubbling up.

“You only need to always forge ahead, always place yourself in the most important position, and always, always believe in yourself…”

Only this way could she remain the dragon leader that Victoria would forever look up to from behind.

“You must never doubt yourself, believe that everything you do is correct, and for your goals, forge ahead fearlessly…” Victoria’s vision had already blurred, and she gradually couldn’t see Elvi’s features clearly. Invisible panic and fear of death surged in her heart at this moment.

The black dragon, who had never shed tears and tried to record all of Elvi’s images in her brain before death, couldn’t control the moisture in her eyes.

Until tears, like the heart’s blood in her throat, flowed uncontrollably.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry! I should have discovered earlier that the child had thoughts of harming you…”

Invisibly, fear became the manifestation of self-hatred.

“You shouldn’t have had to experience this… You should always be strong…”

“It’s my… it’s my…”

Fault.

The last word ultimately remained unspoken.

Without needing to place her finger under Victoria’s nose to check for breath that would signify her survival, Elvi knew better than anyone that Victoria had completely stopped breathing.

This child was dead.

The child who had always followed behind her, who would mock the gray crane because of her moods…

The child who had always stayed by her side, who despite feeling jealous about Su Li’s false identity, still chose to believe in her…

The last black dragon in the world…

Dragons never seemed to have good endings.

Whether the crystal-winged dragon or this black dragon.

Elvi laid down the gradually cooling body in her arms. She stood up and gazed across the chasm at the merman who still wore a mocking smile.

Invisibly, Leia felt inexplicably panicked, but he still taunted with words, “Ha, now only Victoria is dead. Soon, very soon I’ll send you to accompany her!”

“Whether it’s your death, or the desolation of the Winged Tribe destined to be oppressed by the Water Tribe from now on, even Su Li… even that human you previously considered yours for the taking, is destined to become a tool for the magnificent Water Tribe.”

“Hahahaha, hahahaha. Cough cough.”

Leia quickly restrained his laughter and looked expressionlessly at the silent Elvi.

The dragon didn’t move. She neither fled with her remaining subordinates nor launched an attack on the Water Tribe out of righteous indignation. She just stood there, saying nothing.

Until Leia could no longer bear that invisible pressure, the merman’s eyes turned extremely malicious. “You understand, don’t you, Elvi Bessemer—”

“I will never let you go, not you, nor every dragon present. I will definitely, definitely make each of you become dust of the ages!”

Elvi finally moved. Though she had clearly been present just moments before, she seemed to exist in some inhuman gap.

Her sudden movement now made Leia, despite the considerable distance between them, involuntarily step back.

Before the merman could display his shame and anger, Elvi actually laughed.

“Hahahaha, hahahaha!”

“Just you?” When the Water Tribe King wanted to cross the chasm to return to Leia’s side, Elvi, despite her disheveled state, appeared beside that humanoid monster beast as if teleporting.

“Just you, who only knows how to command others and never dares to personally enter battle? Or relying on your body that has nothing but a face? Or perhaps…” Elvi’s hand directly grasped that monster beast’s head.

“Crack, crack crack—ahhhhh!” The sound of twisting bones accompanied the Water Tribe King’s continuous screams from his throat.

Elvi lifted the corner of her mouth. “Relying on this new dog you’ve cultivated after many years?”

“But I think you won’t have the chance to let this dog act anymore.”

Whether from pain or uncontrollable fear spreading, the Water Tribe King, as Elvi wished, returned to his original form.

The swordfish thought that this appearance might give him greater control over water elements, but the moment he transformed into a fish, Elvi directly broke his snout with one palm.

“Ahhhhh—!” Endless screams rang out.

But this wasn’t over yet.

The humanoid dragon possessed overwhelming power that ordinary monster beasts couldn’t resist, combined with the gradually recovering wind elements…

The swordfish had no power to resist and was forcibly broken of the weapon that had previously pierced Victoria’s heart.

In the past, Elvi on the battlefield was nothing more than a killing machine, or as Leia described, a so-called war hyena.

No matter how she killed opponents, she had never thought of torturing them.

The weak only needed to prove the strong’s ability through death, but didn’t need to demonstrate the strong’s power through miserable appearances.

But at this moment, all those previously accepted principles turned to ash.

Elvi looked down at the fish in her hands, the corner of her mouth curving into a cruel arc. Then, when obvious terror appeared in the large swordfish’s lifeless fish eyes, Elvi bare-handedly gouged out one of the eyeballs.

The spattering red blood, unlike Victoria’s warmth, was filled with the coldness of aquatic creatures.

Elvi ignored the continuous screams by her ear and reached her finger toward the other eyeball again.

Leia in the distance cursed loudly, “Elvi, whether you want to kill him or do whatever, I don’t care, but don’t do it in front of me!”

Elvi’s motion to gouge out the fish’s other eyeball paused, and she suddenly turned her head…

The moment Leia was gazed upon by those remaining pupils, he felt his body stiffen uncontrollably.

He thought a long time had passed, but everything was just an instant’s change, and Elvi didn’t attempt to gouge out the swordfish’s other eye.

What was the point of tormenting the enemy’s body?

Something already domesticated into a dog would only truly feel despair when abandoned by its master.

And before that, no matter how much his master cursed, the swordfish wouldn’t react.

Elvi smiled.

She maintained this “smiling” action while bit by bit destroying the elemental circulation channels in the swordfish’s body.

The pain was like scraping scales and breaking bones, endless and boundless.

But until the end, Elvi, who maintained eye contact with the merman across the distance, never actually killed the swordfish.

She manipulated wind elements and directly flung that fish, whose life was worse than death, toward Leia’s direction.

The merman dodged, unable to avoid it in time.

Leia said with disgust, “You might as well have killed him directly!”

“How could trash have the right to live?”

The swordfish’s eyes showed pleading. “Lord…!”

“Don’t call me! Rather than living in such a useless state, you might as well die early.”

“I don’t need a useless dog by my side. There are plenty of aquatic monster beasts who want to become the Water Tribe King. As for you…”

“Kill yourself. Just seeing your disgusting appearance now makes me want to vomit.” Leia’s disgust became increasingly obvious.

The light that had remained in the swordfish’s eyes gradually extinguished.

He despaired, suffered, couldn’t believe that despite merely following orders, even wanting to complete orders with 120% efficiency, he had become the abandoned one at this moment.

He couldn’t understand, didn’t comprehend, was at a loss.

But what did any of this have to do with Elvi?

The dragon only said coolly, “Demanding suicide from trash whose bones are all broken…”

“Leia, you really do like to joke.”

“Is that so?” Leia sneered, “Since he’s trash who can’t even commit suicide, then I’ll do it myself.”

Behind despair always lay even deeper despair.

Though the swordfish was at the center of the aquatic monster beasts, surrounded by numerous monster beasts who hadn’t lost their ability to move, this Water Tribe King was ultimately pushed into the abyss by Leia’s own hand.

Elvi just thought of that swordfish’s expression and couldn’t help but laugh loudly. When Leia felt fear at this mad behavior, Elvi’s mouth showed a trace of mockery, then said like a warning, “Don’t worry, sooner or later death will be your turn too.”

“I won’t let you go, not you, nor the Winged Tribe Queen.” Elvi’s eyes stared deadly at Leia, as if looking at some dead thing.

Then, the dragon race and aquatic monster beasts, blocked by the chasm, retreated separately.

During Leia’s withdrawal from the dragon territory, he cursed more than once. “Damn trash, promised to draw out all of Elvi’s trump cards, to let me personally kill that dragon, but accomplished nothing…”

None of the aquatic monster beasts behind him dared to interrupt.

Boundless fear enveloped the aquatic monster beasts, and all the beasts seemed to see before their eyes the scene of Leia personally pushing the swordfish into the abyss.

Everything seemed to return to the past.

Water Tribe Kings were like consumables, constantly replaced, while the mermaid ruler remained forever unique.

****

Rota County.

Su Li had awakened shortly after the Raven landed.

Rota County at this time differed from the “liveliness” when they first arrived, instead filled with a deathly silence and coldness that seemed artificially controlled.

No pedestrians were visible on the roads, and Su Li couldn’t determine whether people existed inside the buildings. All he could perceive was the feeling this city gave on the surface…

Empty, void of everything.

“Cough…” Su Li’s throat felt itchy for a moment, and he coughed once.

The Raven immediately said, “For now, don’t consider what happened in this city. What we should do now is find Lan Zhe.”

The alchemy tools Su Li had previously carried did contain various healing medicines, but Lan Zhe had made the drug concentrations very high for efficacy considerations.

These medicines were just right for other humans or monster beasts with elements. But for Su Li, who had no elements and no strong body, taking them might make his injuries worse rather than better.

Thinking of this, the Raven sighed inwardly. Once the Dark Holy Son learned of Su Li’s injury, he might directly explode, grab a pot, and hammer everyone and every monster beast in sight.

Ignoring these thoughts, the Raven compared his own 1.9-meter height, then glanced at Su Li, who had grown to 1.7 meters but still had a youthful, fleshy face, then unhesitatingly held the youth in his arms.

Su Li fell into a dazed state…

After a long while, he finally reacted, “I haven’t reached the point where I can’t walk, right? Rather than holding me, wouldn’t carrying me on your back be more convenient?”

Only then did the Raven seem to react, lightly transferring the youth from his arms to his back.

Adison nearby twitched at the corner of his mouth. “I say, whether carrying or holding, Su Li’s point was that he hasn’t reached the point where he can’t walk.”

“Treating this youth who dared to directly point a weapon at the dragon leader as fragile….honestly, aren’t you afraid he’ll suddenly reach out and twist off your head someday?”

The Raven couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge him.

Su Li happened to point in the direction of the inn at that moment.

Only after the Raven walked toward the correct path did he reply to Adison. “Compared to Su Li someday reaching out to twist off my head… when Su Li is injured, letting him walk by himself without doing anything to ease his pain, that’s what would really risk having my head fall off.”

Moreover, the Raven didn’t think those humans who held Su Li at the tip of their hearts, treasuring him so much they feared dropping him even when held in their palms, would remain perpetually weak.

Compared to his own hundred years of existence, how long had those humans who were gradually matching his strength been alive?

Most importantly, those humans were still in their prime.

Adison didn’t believe it though.

“In this city, no human who hasn’t been completely transformed into a monster beast will be stronger than you.”

“Ah…” The Raven bounced the youth on his back upward, “Let’s just say it’s as you said.”

Before long, they reached the inn.

Joel, heavy with worry, sat on the first floor. Just thinking about Asgari upstairs made his expression twist. When he heard footsteps, he said without thinking, “This inn isn’t taking guests for the past few days. The innkeeper should have posted a notice at the door.”

Then Joel impatiently raised his head.

The butterfly spirit greeted him with a beaming smile. “I could smell a bird scent from far away. If even a snowy owl can be accommodated here, surely I can be too?”

Joel’s attention wasn’t on him at all.

The unlucky child’s eyes were full of the Raven carrying Su Li on his back.