The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 170.1

Su Li walked out of the inn.

The well-groomed young man looked as refined as a noble young master walking through his own castle. Of course, this was provided one ignored the fact that the second floor roof of the inn had been completely torn off.

Su Li even had the leisure to estimate there what level Egbert’s strength had roughly grown to.

After just a few days of not seeing him, the difference was truly obvious.

Or perhaps the snowy owl inside hadn’t made any resistance?

This question was set aside for the moment. Su Li looked at Adison standing beside him and asked with an unchanged expression. “What does that look in your eyes mean?”

Adison tilted his head to look at him and said, “It’s the kind of look one has when observing a miracle, nothing too significant.”

“After all, I’ve never seen what a true purebred human looks like, so naturally I couldn’t have known in advance that you have no elemental power whatsoever.”

Adison turned his palm toward himself, then decisively flipped it over, focusing his gaze on his knuckles.

Everything that had happened today had been more intense than anything experienced in the past fifty years.

“I’m very curious why someone like you, who has no power at all, would insist on entering this world.”

Seeming to feel that his tone was too arrogant, Adison explained, “A human’s life isn’t long, especially for someone like you who doesn’t possess any special powers. Perhaps one day you’ll die in an accident. If that’s the case, wouldn’t living each day well be the most important thing you should do?”

“You mean to say that my existence here is quite unseemly?” Su Li ignored the clanging sounds from upstairs and showed slight interest in this butterfly spirit.

It was still the same observation – like an observer watching fish in a fishbowl.

Adison couldn’t detect that layer of glass, nor did he feel that he and Su Li existed in two different worlds.

Adison waved his hand in explanation. “I didn’t say that at all.”

“Just joking.” Su Li quietly shifted his gaze away.

“As you said, I could indeed live each day well before accidents arrive, even treating each day as the final celebration before doomsday.”

People could certainly live that way. Su Li, who considered himself mortal, felt that as long as one didn’t violate morality and law, any way of living was acceptable – lifestyles shouldn’t be constrained by definitions.

Of course, he also didn’t feel he possessed that kind of extraordinary freedom.

“It’s just that such a lifestyle isn’t what I want.” Su Li glanced at Adison, who was staring at him seriously. “Compared to waiting for accidents to arrive and passively accepting such irresistible events, that seems rather unreasonable to me.”

“I don’t accept any improper regulations.”

“Nor do I think I need to abide by them.”

Su Li raised his eyelids to look at the sky. “What I want comes from the inner planning of clear rationality. Before accidents arrive, eliminating all accidents in their cradle – that’s what someone like me, a human, should do.”

He turned his head to look at Adison. “Or do you think that compared to powerful monster beasts, weak and incompetent humans don’t even deserve to possess what the word ‘arrogance’ represents?”

Su Li’s tone didn’t sound like teasing.

Adison remained silent for a long time.

He had never encountered such a person.

It hadn’t reached the level of being astonishing, but he felt an inexplicable conflict. A feeling of being completely out of place with his world constantly surrounding him, yet he couldn’t prevent it…

Time passed for a long while, yet seemed like only an instant.

Su Li looked at the inn’s roof, which had been completely torn off and couldn’t possibly be restored in the short term. Before walking back into the first floor of the inn, he left Adison with a parting remark, “Although saying this feels quite impolite, since you don’t belong to the human category, I can still evaluate you using standards not meant for humans.”

“That is to say…” Su Li stepped toward the inn that looked like ruins.

But he stopped before the entrance. The young man’s voice was as clean as the sky after rain had cleared, yet the words he spoke were like a torrential downpour on a sunny day. “I look forward to the day you commit suicide.”

Adison froze in place.

For a long time, he didn’t make any reasonable response.

He was thinking about whether the young man whom Egbert had described as almost divine truly possessed all those qualities, and…

Whether he had truly been seen through.

Unlike most people who might develop defensive psychology when realizing they’d been seen through, Adison, who wasn’t particularly normal himself, felt an indescribable joy deep in his heart when he realized this.

So there really was such a person – someone with a different upbringing than his own, who had experienced different things, yet like someone from another world, had so plainly seen through him…

Su Li, still unaware that the butterfly spirit also engaged in abnormal mental supplementation, greeted Egbert, who was covered in sweat and had several gray-white bird feathers in his hands.

“Eg.”

The latter showed a smile without any hidden meaning – or rather, when seeing Su Li, Egbert felt that nothing was more suitable for facing Su Li than a smile.

“Lord Su Li, the snowy owl won’t be able to enter that room again for a short time. No, to be precise, I built a bird’s nest in the mulberry tree in the inn’s courtyard. From now on, if Asgari doesn’t leave, that will be his residence.”

Su Li chuckled.

“I thought what you’d rather say to me would be something like ‘welcome back.'”

Egbert seemed to have his heartstrings touched and remained speechless for a long time.

Finally, Roy, another member of the house-demolition trio, grabbed his shoulder from behind. Only then did he snap back to reality and say disdainfully to the latter. “Stay away from me.”

“So heartless? When we were dealing with Asgari just now, I used ice elements to execute excellent control techniques more than once, allowing you to actually land your directed attacks on him.”

Egbert said nothing.

Roy didn’t need him to give any high praise for this kind of tacit cooperation. He just said happily to Su Li without concealment. “Welcome back, little master.”

“Also, I regret to inform you that Egbert doesn’t have any spare glasses made by Castor.”

What the hell kind of alchemy tool reserves would Egbert have?

To this day, he still couldn’t accept that the clothes Su Li wore were made by Castor.

Although the clothing style was indeed beautiful, making the young man look like a deity walking among mortals…

But did this prevent his jealousy from rising?

Egbert felt it didn’t prevent it at all.

And he felt quite justified in this attitude.

Incidentally, the clothes that Su Li thought he had changed out of and would be sent for washing had all ultimately become precious collections that Egbert respectfully stored in spatial alchemy tools.

“But Lan Zhe has some!” Roy’s deliberate way of speaking made the veins on Egbert’s forehead throb.

His first reaction was that he had once again shown his useless side to Lord Su Li…

But.

Those things weren’t important at all. From now on, every day, he would ensure that any monster beast daring to appear before Su Li would understand what it meant that – the premise of civilization was to dress properly.

Adison expressed amazement.

“Since you can’t see elements, you also can’t see clothes constructed from elements.” Adison sighed. “Someone like you is indeed more suited to living in the human world. In the monster beast world, you’re constantly suffering visual assault.”

“I’m very grateful that compared to using elements to construct those virtual garments with so-called defensive effects, I prefer real fabric placed close to the body.”

“Have you ever considered that this might be why you seem so out of place compared to other humanoid monster beasts?” Egbert retorted.

In the eyes of (what he considered himself to be) Su Li’s most trusted subordinate, no one could occupy the spiritual highland that Lord Su Li naturally possessed in his presence.

After making this rhetorical statement, Egbert completely ignored the butterfly spirit’s existential crisis.

He began chattering in front of Su Li. “Lord Su Li must have had a very difficult time these past few days.”

“Lan Zhe has also prepared appropriate food.”

“Also, although Rota County isn’t completely under our control, because of Asgari and the intelligence he brought, we can confirm that for at least three days, this city won’t become a battlefield. You can completely choose to relax in this environment.”

Su Li was puzzled. “I wasn’t particularly tense, so there’s nothing to relax about?”

This casual questioning tone seemed to genuinely become a problem in Egbert’s view.

He wore an expression of “I don’t want your opinion, I want mine” and immediately followed up. “Lord Su Li is inherently someone with a sensitive spirit, isn’t he?”

“Otherwise, how could you have chosen to lend a hand when you first saw me?” Egbert deliberately said things that Adison was destined not to understand.

“Highly sensitive people do indeed always see places that ordinary people can’t see, but they also often discover details that mortals can’t notice.”

“Could you not speak as if I’m no longer human?” Su Li’s mouth twitched.

“Also, I don’t think I’m some highly sensitive person.”

“You don’t need to deny yourself.” Egbert disagreed. “My existence’s meaning is to let you release yourself at any time.”

Speaking of this, Egbert couldn’t help but sigh. “How many days has it been since you experienced peaceful sleep?”

“Danger is everywhere, and you’re already deeply trapped in a whirlpool that I cannot eliminate no matter what I sacrifice…” Egbert clutched the fabric at his chest, gripping it tightly.

“The days in the Dragon Territory must have been very difficult, you couldn’t even eat your fill… For those monster beasts, their minds probably don’t contain any concept of basic human needs.”

“Those monster beasts have long been completely alien races.” Egbert gritted his teeth. “Just thinking about you staying in such an environment for so long makes my heart ache unbearably.”

Su Li felt a familiar suffocation.

“It’s not as much as you think, and there aren’t those strange things.”

Humans were actually a forgetful species.

Even though Su Li knew that no matter how much he said, it would be useless…

He always chose to try to save himself before everything truly left him speechless.

The young man, who had analyzed his own mentality in passing, sighed and said, “Perhaps people live to save themselves again and again, endlessly.”

Egbert still couldn’t keep up with this habit of self-analyzing mentality and then expressing inner thoughts.

His focus had always been on the suffering Su Li had endured.

“You clearly didn’t need to experience these things.”

“You’ve said this countless times already. Don’t keep repeating the same words.” Su Li gave up on using logic to defeat Egbert, who had fallen into a logical abyss. “Besides, in Elvi’s view, as long as I still have value, she couldn’t possibly choose to harm me.”

“Moreover, compared to before, I should have an easier time afterward.” Su Li sat in a chair in the first-floor hall.

Natural sunlight from the sun directly passed through the roof that had long been torn off, shining on his face.

Su Li said calmly, “As long as Elvi still wants the dragon race’s power to return to what it was before, then no matter what monster beasts, no matter how much they want to kill me, they’ll first have to get past Elvi, who has already put all her eggs in one basket because she has no way out.”

“You should think about the positive aspects.”

“But those thoughts don’t matter!” Egbert’s tone was urgent. “I certainly know about those realistic changes, but based on reality, what’s more important isn’t the change in your future environment, but…”

“Your mood.”

“What I care about most, or rather, what I’ve always cared about is only your mood.”

Lan Zhe, as if watching a show, interjected, “Sometimes you shouldn’t pay attention to the various evaluations of Su Li that Egbert says out loud.”

Lan Zhe turned to look at Su Li. “You just need to treat all the evaluations he makes as evaluations of himself. Honestly, mental sensitivity is something that’s clearly tied to Egbert, isn’t it?”

“Normal people wouldn’t think so much. What I think about is just that you’ve had a rough time lately, and then, as a companion, I need to compensate you as much as possible, whether it’s giving you the best clothes to wear or food and lodging.”

Su Li had originally thought he might hear something sensible from Lan Zhe, but after listening to the end, he realized…

Wasn’t this just nonsense?

“When all is said and done, don’t you and Egbert both firmly believe that during this time, I suffered improper and unfriendly treatment?” Su Li supported his forehead with his hand.

When being chased by the black dragon, he hadn’t felt a headache. When sleeping at high altitude, he hadn’t worried about accidentally falling off the Raven’s back…

Only now did Su Li truly feel an indescribable discomfort.

Shut up, stop with the overthinking!

“This isn’t what we think, and it couldn’t become fact because we think it. It’s because this is fact that we know it.” Roy casually conjured an ice flower of a honeysuckle, a flower symbolizing health.

Su Li’s eyes were lifeless. “What tongue twister are you saying?”

Roy said very seriously. “This is fact.”

Definitely not fabricated perception.

Their viewpoint had always been that just because Su Li felt indifferent about all the misfortunes he encountered, they couldn’t reasonably assume those misfortunes should have happened.

This was abnormal, an irrefutable error.

Su Li refused to continue this topic, “Fine, good, I understand. I know what you’re thinking, so let’s temporarily drop this topic.”

Before others could interject, Su Li firmly continued speaking.

“Since Asgari wants the entire monster beast society to perish, the snowy owl must have already organized an intelligence network that knows the movements of various major forces. Our existing speculation, whether it’s that Elvi will target me afterward or that the Beast Tribe might provide support to Elvi, all of this needs verification before we can truly rely on these surface-level speculations to decide our next actions.”

Egbert was confusedly led into the groove, or rather, finally walked onto the normal path he should take.

He followed up, “But in fact, the only thing Asgari did was prevent the Queen from sending him and instead send Adison to fight the dragon race.”

As the butterfly spirit’s gaze toward Asgari became increasingly dangerous, Egbert continued, “I don’t think monster beasts are creatures that necessarily become smarter the longer they live. On the contrary, enormous thinking inertia has long caused the long-lived beings in this world to ignore the derivative implications of their lifespans.”

“The only thing Asgari did was remove himself from the Water Tribe uniting with the Winged Tribe to suppress internal Winged Tribe unrest.”

“Rather than considering whether the snowy owl truly has the ability to instigate three-race warfare, my suggestion is to directly treat him as a troublemaker in war, which would be more appropriate.”

Adison blocked Asgari’s foot that wanted to kick Egbert away.

As the snowy owl looked at Egbert with eyes that regarded dead things expressionlessly, the butterfly spirit sneered, “Isn’t what he said the truth?”

“Who doesn’t know that the snowy owl has always been a pure minister beside the Queen, without his own forces, and unlike Adonis, doesn’t have an entire gray crane clan behind him.” When Adison thought of his own half-missing body, he couldn’t help but grit his teeth.