The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 171.1

“Cough cough——” Elvi’s hoarse voice rang out in a campsite.

She told another existence hidden in the darkness, speaking directly, “Compared to using you to take revenge on Leia and the Winged Tribe Queen, I would rather capture Su Li and expand the Dragon Clan’s power, then take action personally.”

“That child is completely different from other people in human society. His body contains the purest human bloodline.”

Elvi looked coldly at the unicorn hiding in the darkness.

“Do you want to know my opinion?” The beast with an obvious horn on its forehead asked back in a cold tone.

“Perhaps as you think, that child can provide a large number of transformed monsters in an extremely short time compared to the monster timeline,” Bartholomew stated the facts. “But this has no value to me, to the entire Beast Tribe.”

Elvi’s gaze became even colder. “This is only based on your understanding. I think you don’t quite understand that child’s value yet.”

Just two days ago, after the dragon had retreated to the deepest Dragon Clan territory, the Beast Tribe, which had been watching this battle closely, sent the unicorn Bartholomew.

The latter first clearly showed the Beast Tribe’s attitude of wanting to support Elvi, then also explained his own reasons for supporting her.

The Beast Tribe didn’t need her to make any great or good repayment, only hoping that when the Beast Tribe attacked one of the other tribes, the dragons could actively restrain the other tribe.

This kind of cooperation that stated its demands in advance allowed Elvi to place trust in this weak position.

But subsequently, based on the principle of intelligence sharing, or perhaps wanting to gain due dignity in this obviously “helpful” behavior, so she wouldn’t be placed in a position of only being helped, Elvi proactively informed them of Su Li’s intelligence.

Initially in Mercenary City, Bartholomew had retreated too early, so he didn’t know Su Li’s actual value at that time.

What Elvi hadn’t expected was that even now, when she carefully explained Su Li’s role, the unicorn still didn’t focus much attention on that youth.

When Bartholomew first learned of Su Li’s intelligence, his eyes had indeed flickered, and Elvi had once raised her guard, but who knew the unicorn could turn around and say such things.

“As long as he’s there, in at most ten years, the entire dragon population will multiply several times from its current number. And in just two years, with Su Li alone, he could restore all the internal war losses between the Dragon Clan and Winged Tribe.”

Such overly detailed evaluation made Bartholomew look sideways, but he quickly suppressed the thought of pursuing Su Li that flashed through his mind. The unicorn’s heart was full of: “This topic doesn’t need to continue for now.”

“Perhaps what you said is right, but for the Beast Tribe, although Su Li’s value exists, it’s far from being as needed as yours, after all…”

Bartholomew crossed his arms, his chest armor looking quite uncomfortable, but combined with his cold expression, it was hard to tell which was colder for a moment.

“Compared to the dragons with the smallest numbers, no group has higher power reserves than the Beast Tribe.”

Elvi’s heart sank, but after multiple probes, Bartholomew still showed this attitude, which indeed proved that the Beast Tribe didn’t need Su Li’s power to expand their forces.

Not a competitor, but a collaborator?

The thought flashed by, and Elvi said likewise: “The Beast Tribe can’t possibly attack the other two clans in the short term. At least before I get Su Li, even if we have cooperation, I can’t use the Dragon Clan’s current state to restrain the Water Tribe or Winged Tribe for the Beast Tribe.”

“I need to capture Su Li.”

“That person can only fall into my hands.” Elvi’s eyes were filled with indescribable thoughts.

She still recalled how she had added the identity of offspring with the same bloodline to Su Li, earning him such natural trust in the Dragon Clan’s territory.

And it was precisely this point that, even though she had always firmly believed that absolute power could make all schemes have nowhere to hide, Elvi truly raised her guard against Su Li.

The most suitable approach for that child was: don’t listen to what he says, don’t watch what he does, don’t give him any chance to respond.

Elvi firmed up her thoughts, then proactively bid farewell to Bartholomew. “Since the cooperation has been reached, you should also return to report to the Beast King.”

Bartholomew clearly knew the dragon wanted to directly capture Su Li.

Only by applying the target to external objects could Elvi ignore the Dragon Clan’s losses in the Winged Tribe’s internal war in the short term.

This way, the avoidance psychology she herself didn’t know about could get some relief and pain alleviation.

Bartholomew nodded in response to what Elvi said, then directly ignored the Dragon Clan’s chaotic current state and withdrew.

After Bartholomew took a day to return to the Beast Tribe’s territory, he explained all the information from his conversation with Elvi and all the probing actions clearly to the Beast King.

The Beast King’s original form was a massive tiger. When transformed into human form, his build unexpectedly matched a young man’s stature rather than being excessively muscular.

Faced with this series of reports, the humanoid monster lying on the stone throne only “hmm”ed once to indicate he knew.

After Bartholomew was silent for a while, he said, “I apologize. During my previous conversation with Elvi, I represented the entire Beast Tribe and indicated that our need for that human youth was weak.”

“There’s nothing wrong with that. You spoke the truth.” A deep voice like a righteous man’s rang out, but no matter how trustworthy it sounded, it couldn’t deny that this tiger had always been someone who played with power and schemes.

“The Beast Tribe doesn’t need a human to change the existing pattern.”

Saying this, the man lightly lifted his eyelids. “Only those who have never held power and never set their sights on the entire world (Elvi) would think that just by obtaining that child called Su Li, they could change all their disadvantages…”

“Heh, such a statement is as ridiculous as saying Leia would choose to abandon his behavior of being ruler but not king, which he had persisted in for who knows how many years.”

But after hearing these words, Bartholomew, who was already kneeling on one knee, prostrated even deeper.

He said with sufficient respect but insufficient emotion, “The King is right.”

“But my previous action of speaking for the Beast Tribe without the King’s permission was truly too presumptuous. Please punish me, King.” Bartholomew’s face was already infinitely close to the ground, and even the shallow dust particles on the floor seemed to touch his cheeks with his breathing.

The man lying sideways on the throne’s armrest didn’t choose to punish Bartholomew, but said, “Bartholomew.”

“Yes.”

“You don’t need to be so serious all the time. I understand your meaning and comprehend that your actions were to gain Elvi’s trust.”

Bartholomew: “But if I were smart enough, I could have used other methods to gain Elvi’s trust at that time.”

The unicorn was like a completely emotionless machine, stubbornly emphasizing his own mistakes.

The Beast King’s “amiable” demeanor that originally seemed fitting for a king’s status disappeared in an instant.

This tiger himself wasn’t any kind of approachable ruler.

His eyes flickered as he looked at the emotionless unicorn kneeling below.

After a while, he said, “Since that’s the case, then go find the Punishment Department yourself.”

“Yes.” Bartholomew responded again, then turned and left.

Only after leaving the Beast King’s observable range did Bartholomew no longer need to control his excessively strong desire, allowing cold sweat to overflow his back.

The unicorn suddenly felt somewhat ridiculous.

Whether it was himself or other so-called kings in monster beast society who thought they could stand alongside the Beast King.

That monster beast, the so-called Beast King, had long transcended the category of monster beasts.

That was a monster!

When in original form, no species was similar to it; when in human form, it was full of dark monsters from head to toe.

Impossible to defeat, impossible to resist.

Even the unicorn symbolizing light couldn’t generate any heart of resistance.

Even repeatedly emphasizing that he needed punishment was only because Bartholomew clearly knew that the Beast King knew he was deliberately emphasizing not caring about Su Li’s value to gain that utterly unimportant trust from Elvi.

What value did Elvi’s trust have for the Beast Tribe?

What Bartholomew should have really said wasn’t that Su Li had no value, but that Elvi’s trust had no value.

They didn’t need to gain the Dragon Clan’s trust at all; cooperation was just cooperation.

Elvi had long been left with no other choice.

In a world of survival of the fittest, why give dragons self-respect? Those in weak positions would inevitably grasp every lifeline thread.

Those with common interests only needed to move toward shared interests.

But for Bartholomew, he had to act in ways that weren’t profit-maximizing.

The Beast King had to know he could choose threatening actions but chose the non-advantageous approach of ignoring Su Li’s value.

The reason?

The reason was that Bartholomew had to emphasize that he still possessed emotions.

Whether it was giving self-respect due to recognizing Elvi’s strength, or giving visual preference due to weak humans’ perseverance…

These were all to prove that Bartholomew still maintained emotions.

Otherwise, just based on his current status as the only one who could get close to the Beast King, it would only make that tiger discover his abnormality…

That was an unspeakable thing!

Not beast, not human either.

It was an alien that couldn’t be described with any words other than monster…

And it was this alien in his eyes who was now positioned on the stone throne, coldly mocking Elvi’s ignorance.

“An immature child, a child who fundamentally lacks reproductive capacity – even if he luckily left behind bloodline, who could guarantee that such cubs would have transformation abilities?”

“The pursuit of the incompetent is just a ridiculous act to escape reality.”

Elvi’s displayed pursuit of that child called Su Li was nothing but obsession from being unable to reverse the current situation by herself.

A manifestation of obsession.

….

Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace.

Similar to the cooperation with the Dragon and Beast Tribes, after Leia had previously withdrawn from the Dragon Mountain Range, he proactively brought his army to visit the Winged Tribe Queen’s Palace.

But rather than calling it a visit, it would be more realistic to call it a threat.

Leia knew that most of the resources Elvi had previously obtained from the Water Tribe had been given to the Winged Tribe Queen.

Now that the dragons had been suppressed by the Winged Tribe, it seemed unrealistic to seize various resource benefits from Elvi. In that case, it would be better to directly bully the Winged Tribe Queen, who had abandoned the dragons’ strength and was now in the weakest position among the three tribes.

You should know that before this, it had always been the Water Tribe that was belittled.

“Cooperation is good, but during the cooperation process, your behavior of only sending one subordinate… could it be that you’re looking down on the Water Tribe?” Leia directly made unreasonable demands to the Winged Tribe Queen.

The mermaid ruler only needed to show a sharp look, and the Winged Tribe Queen, who didn’t want to get involved in war and chaos again in the short term, could only take a deep breath and say, “What do you want?”

“What do I want?” Leia sneered. “Isn’t this compensation you should naturally provide for me, for the Water Tribe?”

“Auston, that child was my most beloved Water Tribe King. But in this battle, he lost his life.”

“From a cooperation perspective, the Water Tribe didn’t fail the Winged Tribe in any way. Moreover, before Auston died, he exchanged for the uniquely rare Black Dragon, Victoria.”

Leia didn’t even pretend to look sorrowful; he just said coldly and directly, “You should at least pay something of equal value to Auston.”

“With one Water Tribe King dead, wanting to cultivate a new Water Tribe King to rise to power requires not only time and energy but also massive resources. Don’t tell me you think that after losing so much, I would just suffer in silence?”

The Winged Tribe Queen took a deep breath.

Adonis stepped forward at the right time, expressing his opposition to Leia, providing the pressured queen with a not-too-embarrassing way out.

Adonis said, “Isn’t Your Excellency being too excessive?”

“Cooperation is true, but the cooperation between the Water and Winged Tribes wasn’t mainly to suppress the Dragon Clan. Compared to the Dragon Clan’s threat, isn’t the Beast Tribe’s restless movements more serious?”

“If the Water Tribe’s losses are also transferred to the Winged Tribe, how can this cooperation be called cooperation rather than the Winged Tribe hiring the Water Tribe…”

These words directly put Leia on the hot seat, but for the mermaid, it still wouldn’t be anything that could pressure him.

“Hiring? You think that little bit of stuff could hire me?” Leia laughed mockingly again.

Only then did the Winged Tribe Queen speak, “Enough, Adonis. Don’t say such things. How could the friendship between the Winged and Water Tribes be destroyed by some external objects?”

Leia naturally knew this woman was implying something about him, but what did it matter? Real, tangible benefits were what he should obtain.

“I want triple.” Leia said directly. “I want triple all the resources I previously gave to Elvi, otherwise the cooperation between the Water and Winged Tribes will end immediately.”

“Don’t forget, compared to the Winged Tribe that also lives on land, the Water Tribe living in water domains is the collaborator the Beast Tribe will always favor.”

Leia saw the Winged Tribe Queen’s face visibly become ugly, and he sneered inwardly, but didn’t forget to tell the Winged Tribe Queen, “Of course, if you give me the triple resources I mentioned, then afterward I’ll also tell you intelligence worth no less than these triple resources.”

Here it comes.

Adison and Asgari exchanged glances, sighing inwardly about those people still in Rota County.

Those people were like they had predicted long ago that Leia would proactively inform the Queen about Su Li’s intelligence.

This was understanding of the Winged Tribe Queen, and also prediction of the mermaid ruler.

So accurate, and so terrifying.

“Someone, bring up the materials that built the friendship between the Winged and Water Tribes.” The Winged Tribe Queen commanded her subordinates’ actions, startling the mermaid.

Not wanting to become a greedy monster who only knew how to take in such a scene, Leia chuckled, then said, “It seems the Queen had anticipated my actions.”

“However, the Water and Winged Tribes have indeed built sufficiently friendly relations.” Leia looked at the pile of materials being continuously carried into the Queen’s palace, roughly estimated, and guessed that these things occupied at least three hundred years of the Winged Tribe’s resource usage before finally showing a smile without any negative meaning.

Everything Elvi had taken from him, he would take back from elsewhere.

A ruler who didn’t understand the dragon’s value and didn’t know that subordinates with rebellious hearts also had unique value was really…

Too good!

Nothing was more suitable for interaction than such ignorant people who couldn’t see the facts clearly but still held tight to power.

After all, interests were the most real thing.

Subsequently, the mermaid first politely described the depth of the two tribes’ friendship, then indicated that he would later return to the Water Tribe and send subordinates to discuss with the Winged Tribe Queen about the next siege against Elvi.

Of course, Leia didn’t forget to explain Su Li’s identity and value.

After the mermaid left, the entire Queen’s palace fell into indescribable dead silence.

Finally, what broke all the peace was Adison, who had previously been rewarded.

The butterfly spirit looked up with a reverent expression and posture, lowering his position, then said in a slightly questioning tone, “Why didn’t you continue negotiating?”