The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 174.1

Elvi would inevitably bring people to leave the Winged Tribe’s territory, but not right now.

She had previously left the Dragon Clan to pursue Su Li’s trail because she firmly believed that the latter could change the Dragon Clan’s current disadvantageous state.

Leia didn’t have the conditions to search for Su Li. Rather than wasting manpower and resources searching without knowing Su Li’s whereabouts, it was better to prepare from the beginning for not obtaining Su Li.

Elvi had already staked everything, placing the future of the entire Dragon Clan on Su Li’s shoulders. Who knew what kind of madness that dragon would unleash when facing competitors?

Under these circumstances, the intelligence Leia needed to understand was directly compressed to simply watching when Elvi would leave the Winged Tribe and merge into Beast Tribe territory.

In the mermaid’s view, this was equivalent to the complete cooperation between the giant dragons and the Beast Tribe, which also meant that the day the Beast Tribe declared war on the other two tribes would no longer be an uncertain date.

The timing of the declaration of war would, at the earliest, be shortly after Elvi brought the Dragon Clan to merge into Beast Tribe territory.

At the latest, it would be after Elvi used Su Li to restore the Dragon Clan’s losses.

As night deepened and stars filled the sky, while everyone else was fast asleep, Su Li awakened.

This movement caused Gabriel, who had maintained a vigilant heart, to lift his eyelids. After discovering it was Su Li walking toward the position by the fire pit, he withdrew his gaze and continued to sit there with his arms crossed, pretending to doze.

Su Li threw two pieces of wood from beside him into the middle of the fire pit. He glanced at the crackling bonfire and sighed as he spoke to the Raven, who had already transformed into human form and was properly dressed. “Want to have a chat?”

The latter’s movement toward Su Li’s side paused for a moment, then his pace quickened considerably until he sat beside Su Li before replying, “I thought you were simply unable to sleep.”

“The stone that Na’an left behind is still with you, isn’t it?” The Raven spoke with a tone of certainty. “Elvi will eventually find you through that thing. Haven’t you considered abandoning it?”

“At least in my view, Na’an has already died. Whatever meaning the thing she left behind might have, it cannot compare to the safety of you, who are still alive.”

Although the words spoken were extremely cold, the Raven was actually very clear that Su Li would never abandon that stone.

That thing had, up until now, always been kept in the position closest to his heart.

“You’ve already said it—Na’an has already died.” Su Li was not worried about the crisis that might come next. He had known early on that coming to the monster beast society meant he was constantly walking on an extremely dangerous tightrope.

“The thing she left behind is equivalent to the only evidence that the extinct Crystal Winged Dragons once existed in this world.” Su Li stared at the blazing fire pit, his emerald green eyes also taking on a warm glow.

“If that thing were abandoned, no matter who it was given to, the person who obtained it would bear trouble. And if it were destroyed, after the unpredictable changes of time, who would believe that such beautiful creatures once existed?”

“So in the end, you never intended to abandon the final creation.” The Raven was very certain of this point, and his tone was full of conviction. “But at the same time, knowing that Elvi’s arrival would bring crisis to the people around you, you still agreed to let others follow you.”

“You felt that leaving them behind would certainly not be pleasant for them, and they also firmly believed that even if the road ahead was certain death, they couldn’t possibly leave you alone.”

“What wonderful human emotions.” The Raven looked at the young man sitting beside him. He was thin and small—compared to other humans and those monster beasts who could transform into human form, this was thoroughly a cub.

His appearance was tender, his age not great, without any power.

“But what’s even more wonderful… is indeed that I chose to stand by your side.” The Raven lowered his eyes and smiled lightly, silently.

He had no sense of identification with any monster beasts in monster beast society. Instead, facing this human, his heart had always firmly believed that they would always stand in the same camp.

The Raven’s tone became somewhat deeper. “I won’t question your actions, but at the same time, you don’t need to condemn yourself, feeling that your act of keeping the final creation has brought crisis to others.”

As Su Li listened, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head toward the Raven with a surprised expression, opened his mouth slightly, then chose to close it again.

Su Li felt that the Raven wouldn’t go so far as to develop additional imaginary understanding about him too.

But the Raven felt that this gesture of his was simply pure inability to refute.

“Everyone who follows by your side does so out of their own choice.” The Raven’s expression was heavy. “Being unable to sleep well because you’re worried that the crisis destined to come might very well affect their lives… this wouldn’t be like you.”

“Moreover, in my view, you’ve always been the type of person who, knowing of crisis, would still resist it and face difficulties head-on. Furthermore…”

“Wait!” Su Li raised his hand to interrupt the Raven’s words after “furthermore.” “You don’t think that my inability to sleep is due to worrying about those things as you imagine, do you?”

“Isn’t it?” The Raven thought for a second before saying, “The mental sensitivity that Egbert spoke of about you has always been fact.”

“If it weren’t for discovering too many things that others hadn’t noticed, you also couldn’t have seen through so much in advance. For humans living in this world, this shouldn’t be a good thing. A future that can be seen through at a glance would certainly seem too empty.”

“No,” Su Li’s expression showed he wanted to speak but hesitated, “First, let’s not even mention that my inability to sleep is simply because I’m not quite used to sleeping in an open-air environment…”

“Furthermore, seeing the future clearly in advance isn’t bad at all, is it? Up to now, all my efforts have always been to be able to see the future more clearly.”

Otherwise, why would he have worked so frantically before transmigrating?

Of course, it was because he knew that after finishing his hard work and saving enough money, he could completely lie flat and live a beautiful, happy life of retirement and cat-petting.

After transmigration, it wasn’t much different. Whether it was to avoid war or to target that man while the Pope was still alive, the purpose was all to make his own future full of beauty, not to be broken by all the surrounding chaos.

Before transmigration, peace was brought by the nation. After transmigration, the one stirring up disputes was the nation itself…

Su Li could only choose to act himself.

This was very much in line with Su-style logic.

When someone else could solve problems, he would just muddle through the days. He consistently and without regret judged that ordinary people like him living in the world were just making up the numbers.

But if no one could solve the problems, and instead it was the transmigrated him who, because he possessed things from another world, had natural advantages, then he wouldn’t turn a blind eye to all the distortions in this world that might even change his own situation.

Unfortunately, this kind of understanding seemed very inconsistent with the Raven’s logic.

“Peace of mind is a good way to put it, but people—and the intelligent life you speak of—once they remain in a peaceful state for a long time, their hearts would probably die before their bodies.”

“Compared to the year since meeting you, I only feel that the hundred years I previously spent were more like the people of Rota County who had been sealed of emotions before, leaving only memories.” The Raven’s mind was calm. At night, his thoughts would become more fluid due to everything gradually quieting down.

“It’s just that even if I hadn’t been sealed of emotions, I didn’t have any deep recognition of everything in those hundred years.”

“I’m grateful for the things I’ve experienced together with you after we met, and I hope we can experience more together in the future. But I don’t hope that because you know the future, appearing to others like prophecy as you predict in advance everything that might happen in the future, you feel that this life is empty and boring.”

Su Li quickly waved his hands. “I haven’t.”

Raven: I don’t believe it. Smile.jpg

Looking at the unchanging smile on the Raven’s face, Su Li was determined that he absolutely couldn’t let the self-abandonment he had developed because of Egbert also be applied to the Raven.

“What I’ve always wanted has always been very simple.” While emphasizing this, Su Li didn’t forget to watch the Raven’s expression change. He intensified his tone. “I just, really just want to live peacefully.”

This simplified life goal, compared to retirement and cat-petting, saving enough money for the second half of life without worrying about food and drink, should be easier to understand, right?

Various thoughts flashed through Su Li’s mind.

But the Raven said, “I know you want this world to be without war, but this is very difficult.”

Or rather, it should be completely impossible to achieve.

“However, this seemingly unrealizable goal has indeed infected me.”

The Raven quietly gazed at Su Li’s pupils reflecting the bonfire. “So I also believe that this impossible goal, just like you—this incredible person—always has the possibility of coming to pass.”

“But I don’t hope that while your eyes are clearly gazing at the world, your mouth keeps saying that what you want is only personal safety.”

“Knowing others’ choices, yet still feeling pain because your own choices have brought crisis to them… this must be very tiring.” The Raven was saddened that he could only find the word “tiring” to describe it, unable to find better descriptive words.

Su Li was completely different from his earlier slight mouth-opening when he wanted to speak but didn’t—now he was completely shocked into opening his mouth wide.

“I really don’t have the depth you imagine.” Su Li’s mouth twitched slightly. “Saying something like ‘eyes gazing at the world’—I’ve always felt I can barely take care of myself.”

“You don’t need to get entangled with me about these things.” The Raven was completely immersed in his own world. “I don’t think your wisdom is something that can create something from nothing. Compared to meeting Egbert later, and meeting us, what did you encounter before, when you were similarly gazing at the entire world?”

“No one would think a child had such grand goals… Not being believed, not being accepted, experiencing pain, yet always, always persisting with your goals.”

“Even what you said about barely being able to take care of yourself—this would only be because others simply couldn’t take care of you properly.” The Raven was just short of starting to condemn other humans.

Of course, his face also showed visible self-loathing.

A crow had forcibly turned into this kind of profound appearance.

Su Li: “………………”

“Let’s sleep.”

This wasn’t self-abandonment—this was called strategic retreat.

The nighttime conversation thus ended.

But what Su Li didn’t know was that what was originally supposed to be social death in front of only the Raven had essentially been heard by everyone.

And they all felt that the Raven was right.

All the humans’ thoughts turned to the idea that the Raven could say so much, it must be because when he and Lord Su Li/Little Master/Su Li had stayed together in the dragon’s territory before, some events had occurred that hadn’t been told to them.

How damnable—!

Whether it was their uselessness, or the giant dragon who had done so many terrible things to Lord Su Li….

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The change of sky was like the switching of curtains. Suddenly, the sun had already risen high, and sunlight filled the earth.

When Su Li awakened again, his vision was hazy. He took the washing utensils that Lan Zhe handed him and used the water Egbert had obtained by melting ice to wash himself.

Almost as soon as he had finished smoothing the wrinkles on his clothes, a shadow like a dark cloud shot rapidly from the distance.

Su Li’s vision was certainly insufficient for him to see clearly the visitor high in the sky, but his heart had long anticipated this.

Lan Zhe put away the washing utensils Su Li had used, then stuffed several defensive alchemy items into the young man’s hands, subsequently saying to the person beside him. “Prepare for battle.”

In their group, when fighting, no one was the leader. Because everyone would try their best to tip the scales of victory toward their side, and at such times, the commander could become any one of them.

Gabriel took a deep breath, fully preparing himself for battle. His eyesight was excellent, and he could see at a glance the giant dragon diving down.

Although he had never seen it with his own eyes, just by seeing Elvi’s true form, no one would mistake this giant dragon for anyone other than Elvi Bessemer.

So obvious, and so powerful.

The fully spread wings blocked out the sunlight, and the smooth yet sharp-edged form exerted tremendous pressure on the gray wolf, who was at a certain level of the food chain.

As the dragon drew closer and closer to them, Gabriel stared in amazement at the dragon’s clearly closed right eye, which bore obvious explosion scars.

The speed of information transmission wasn’t that fast for lower-level personnel, so Gabriel had no idea that Elvi had lost sight in one eye.

However, even so, he finally understood why the human had said before that he would need to try his utmost to leave scars on Elvi’s body.

This wasn’t just a matter of trying one’s utmost…

Gabriel hadn’t never participated in battles before, but the battlefields he had joined were obviously not significant enough for the top-tier Elvi to get involved.

Now truly facing this giant dragon directly, Gabriel finally hazily understood why neither the Beast Tribe nor the Water Tribe had ever dared to ignore Elvi Bessemer.

This was truly a terrifying powerhouse who could rely solely on individual strength to reverse the changes of an entire battle situation.

The wind stopped.

A large amount of densely concentrated, terrifying wind elements directly restricted the mobility of everyone present.

The transformation of elemental properties—this move was mostly used by monster beasts for creating clothing from elements.

First, garments constructed from pure power could change completely according to the element owner’s thoughts. Second, as monster beasts, their combat power in true form far exceeded their human form, and using ordinary fabric would mean destroying clothes every time they transformed, which would be too wasteful…

Egbert didn’t know why he could still have such thoughts when the current situation was that no one could break through this sudden elemental rule.

All other elements in the entire hill area had been squeezed out by wind elements, and the elemental vision could only see a thin green landscape.

How to fight? How to win?

How to ensure that they wouldn’t be left behind again…

Compared to the precedence of power, after human thinking was filled with the intention to resist, Elvi finally descended to the ground and transformed into human form.

The tall lady’s figure had her only remaining usable eye staring deadly at Su Li.

The emotions contained in those eyes were too complex for humans to read clearly, and Su Li, who was the only one not obviously affected by the elemental rule suppression, also didn’t intend to interpret Elvi’s thoughts.

He looked up at the humanoid giant dragon and said with a calm expression, “I originally thought you should have found me last night.”

The time to heal injuries, the time to stabilize the situation, the time to handle Victoria’s funeral arrangements—all of these had given Su Li the prediction that Elvi should have arrived last night.

What could have caused the delay of several hours?

Su Li thought this way and asked this way too.

Elvi’s throat moved. Her reason was telling her not to dialogue, not to communicate, not to make eye contact—just directly knock down all those who blocked her and take Su Li away.

Under such thinking, Su Li was destined not to get the answer he wanted.

Elvi directly took action.

For large-scale attacks, for a giant dragon who had mastered wind elements to the extreme, the most suitable method was to directly use the wind elements in the air at concentrations far exceeding normal to perform elemental compression on others.

The repulsion between elements was maximized at this moment.

Visibly, everyone except Su Li turned pale, and the crackling sounds of twisting bones were endless.

Those wind elements, in an absolutely dominant posture, invaded the bodies of others who contained elements within them.

The various elements that should have been manipulated freely and smoothly were subjected to the targeting and exclusion of wind elements. The human body became a battlefield, and the hosts could only stand in place and endure that invisible pain.

This was an extremely easy method for a giant dragon.

But with just one move, Elvi had put everyone in a state where they couldn’t move.

Egbert bit his teeth tightly, afraid that if he wasn’t careful, blood would flow along the cracks of his lips.

He exerted all his strength to mobilize the light elements within his body, trying to squeeze those wind elements out, but the result he obtained was only worsened injuries. And the aggressiveness of the wind elements also became increasingly powerful.

“You just want to take me away, don’t you? If that’s the case, what’s the necessity of taking action against others?”

Su Li’s narrative tone contained no emotion.

He knew that his language skills had no effect on a dragon who completely ignored everything he said.

Since that was the case, he only needed to state facts.

Elvi still didn’t respond. Su Li, who couldn’t see elements and wasn’t wearing glasses, also couldn’t discover the great malice that the wind elements covering this land held toward other element holders.

Roy was already unable to control himself and half-knelt on the ground, and the appearances of the other several people were also miserable.

Words were useless, power couldn’t defeat her—at this time, it seemed a dead end had already formed.

But was it really like this?

Before change appeared, there was no answer.

Su Li pulled up the corners of his mouth, and in just the time it took to open and close his mouth, cruel words pierced into Elvi’s body like sharp blades.

“Because you didn’t guess the Winged Tribe King’s attitude toward the Dragon Clan; also because you didn’t consider that Leia was so good at seizing opportunities for revenge; and you didn’t think that as the kidnapped me, I fundamentally couldn’t possibly stand in the same position as you…”