The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 178

Three days later.

On March 25th of an unknown year, at the border beach area of the Water Tribe’s territory.

The sun was shining brightly that day, with no wind or waves—perfect for admiring the vastness of the sea, but equally suitable for…

Attacking the Water Tribe.

In the border area, a human youth sat calmly on a rock with his eyes closed, recuperating. His hands were clasped together as he peacefully listened to the conversation reaching his ears. Compared to his usual blank expression, his face now carried a touch of seriousness.

Under the brilliant sun, Egbert was squinting as he spoke with several others. “They should be coming soon.”

The approaching storm was too obvious to ignore.

Not long after those words fell, a dark mass appeared on the sea surface, while the sky above was filled with countless dragons that blocked out the sun.

In the forest opposite the sea, a large group of land-dwelling monster beasts with glowing green eyes had silently appeared.

War seemed to begin so easily.

But over the three days, all decisions that needed to be made had been completed, and all monster beasts were steadily advancing toward what they believed to be the correct path.

Only humans chose to observe silently from the sidelines.

“At times like this, I’m grateful that after multiple experiments, Eg indeed managed to develop the ability to hide our tracks using the refraction of light elements,” Roy said, his heart constantly filled with anxiety, unable to relax even while speaking.

The scene before their eyes was truly terrifying.

Whether transformed monster beasts or natural monster beasts, they rarely maintained human forms.

The monster beasts in their original forms hadn’t yet engaged directly, but everyone knew that once battle officially began, they would truly abandon everything human about themselves and fight like mere wild beasts.

“Indeed, this method of using light elements can hide our tracks, but things like scent and body heat cannot be disguised. We can only hope that the chaotic mixture of auras after the monster beasts begin fighting will make us difficult to detect. Otherwise, our discovery is just a matter of time.”

Egbert wasn’t blindly confident. No one knew better than him that this application of light elements was essentially just a simple little trick.

If they thought this method could prevent monster beasts from discovering them, they could only say that imagination was beautiful, but reality was destined to be cruel.

However, before that happened, regardless of whether anyone discovered them in this corner, the first to encounter them would be the monster beasts who had already made all battle preparations.

Leia surfaced from the sea, his mermaid form extremely resembling the legendary creatures from wandering poets’ tales—beautiful and dazzling.

With his appearance, numerous aquatic monster beasts of various forms also emerged on the sea surface. They looked up at the giant dragons in the sky, their expressions bearing an irrepressible weight.

In past battles with the Winged Tribe, the Water Tribe had rarely gained any advantage.

Compared to the Beast Tribe’s power that clearly exceeded the baseline of the other two tribes, the relationship between the Water and Winged Tribes was more like pecking between weaklings.

Neither had absolute power to suppress the other, yet they possessed different racial talents.

Monster beasts living in water could simply retreat to the deep sea areas, and no matter how much the other two tribes wanted to attack, they could only stare helplessly.

The Winged Tribe was the same—once losses became too heavy, those still alive who no longer wished to fight could simply flap their wings and fly away, forcibly ending the battle.

Compared to the Beast Tribe, which seemed awkwardly caught in the middle but had developed their power to the extreme, at this moment, the one with the most complex feelings was actually Leia.

Su Li, who had been watching this scene, withdrew his gaze and said with an unchanged expression, “Since we know there’s a high possibility of being discovered, let’s prepare in advance for exposure.”

“Although everything is unpredictable, as long as we prepare to handle everything in advance, no matter how changes arrive, we can face them calmly.”

As Su Li’s words fell, the figure of Elvi flying through the sky with giant dragons gradually became clear.

Previously, they had looked like a dark cloud rushing toward the sea surface at extreme speed.

When those dragons came close, Su Li suddenly understood why Leia had previously found it so difficult to control his desire to attack the dragon race, ignoring cooperation with humans and choosing to act directly.

Those dragons looked truly terrifying, clearly far beyond normal specifications.

Bartholomew in unicorn form appeared only two or three times larger than an ordinary horse, but when Elvi in dragon form spread her wings, the width of her dragon body alone exceeded ten meters.

The other giant dragons might have been slightly inferior, but the difference wasn’t particularly large.

Looking across the scene, a rough count revealed that over a hundred dragons had come to this battle.

The aquatic monster beasts standing on the sea surface looked like ants at this moment.

The comparison was truly impossible.

But could Leia retreat to the deep sea and refuse to engage in battle?

This was obviously impossible. Compared to external warfare, Leia feared more the emergence of rebellious voices against him within the entire Water Tribe, which would cause the merman to lose control of the entire aquatic monster beast population…

Bartholomew also stopped at the seaside.

Elvi, flying in the sky, didn’t transform into human form. She looked at Leia from afar, her beast-like features making emotions indiscernible, but her voice could be heard from the sky. “Leia!”

“Today is the day your Water Tribe perishes, and even you—I will cut you into pieces and kill you completely!”

“Anyone can talk big,” Leia immediately mocked back. “You, who lost a third of your dragon subordinates, still dare to bring troops to attack the Water Tribe. Those who know think you hate me deeply, but those who don’t might think you’re rushing here to let all dragons come to their deaths.”

Leia flicked his sharp fingernails that gleamed coldly, the fish scales on one side of his cheek tightly closed.

“You can only gain small advantages with your mouth,” Elvi actually calmed down, no longer showing the initial targeted hostility upon seeing Leia.

She first looked down at the Beast Tribe led by the unicorn, whose presence seemed insignificant compared to the giant dragons soaring in the sky, then said, “The Beast Tribe has been preparing for who knows how many hundreds of years. Do you think the Water Tribe, which has always been listed as a target, still has any possibility of escape?”

These words made the mermaid instantly think of what the Dark Holy Son had said before about the possibility of the Beast Tribe allying with the Winged Tribe.

But the mermaid chose to grit his teeth and completely shake off all thoughts that nearly crushed his judgment.

“Whether there’s a possibility or not, I don’t know. I’m just curious—you, a little girl who transformed from human to monster beast only two hundred years ago, where do you get the confidence to think that you, who’ve grown to this extent in such a short time, wouldn’t be listed as a target by the Beast Tribe?”

“Bartholomew’s previous attempt to ally with me to kill you remains vivid in my memory.”

Whether this sowing of discord was useful or not didn’t matter. Leia only knew that after he said these words, no matter how calm Elvi and Bartholomew appeared on the surface, they would both be unhappy inside.

Their unhappiness would make the mermaid happy.

Elvi indeed showed a moment of anger, but this momentary emotional change was treated by the giant dragon flying high above as an emotion that didn’t belong to her.

Since it wasn’t something that belonged to her, what was worth caring about?

Elvi only sneered. “You can only play with words. Besides, so what if Bartholomew once allied with you to kill me? Now, it’s not you who’s allied with him—it’s me.”

“It’s the entire dragon race allied with the Beast Tribe launching an attack on the Water Tribe—power that someone incompetent like you would never dare to resist!”

“Speaking of which, you probably don’t know yet?” Elvi’s voice unconsciously lowered.

After hearing this, Bartholomew’s eyes flashed as he scolded, “Don’t say things you shouldn’t say. Elvi Bessemer, the Beast Tribe’s purpose in choosing to support you is only to have you contain one tribe, not to have you say unnecessary things.”

Elvi coldly glanced at Bartholomew. “It’s the dragon race allying with the Beast Tribe. My cooperation with you is only to kill Leia—don’t interfere with other matters.”

Though she said this, there wasn’t really any confrontational meaning between the giant dragon and the unicorn.

After ignoring Bartholomew, Elvi continued. “Leia, do you remember the last battlefield where the Beast King appeared?”

That was an era when Elvi didn’t even exist.

Leia didn’t understand the reason for the giant dragon bringing up this topic, but since the other party wanted to have pre-battle conversation, he didn’t mind using this time to observe the enemy’s power level as much as possible.

“What’s the point of saying such things? When the Beast King appeared on the battlefield, you might not have even been born yet.”

Elvi wasn’t angered but only sneered. “In the end, your understanding of that time isn’t much either, is it?”

“The Beast King has long become another kind of existence.” Elvi calmly dropped a shocking revelation. “Not long ago, I might have thought attacking the Water Tribe with the dragon race’s current situation was unnecessary, but now I only feel…”

Elvi’s voice carried abnormal softness. “I only feel that you, this mermaid, simply won’t live past today. No matter what happens, you have no reason to live past today.”

After being severely wounded by humans that day, Elvi had also wondered if she would die directly in that hilly area.

She was angry at herself for underestimating humans again, and she hated that despite preparing to capture Su Li with all her might, she had ultimately been distracted by Su Li’s words.

All sorts of emotions continuously lingered in her heart. Elvi, whose heart had already suffered major damage, uncontrollably vomited blood mixed with heart fragments.

Would she die?

Under the sunlight, Elvi felt her body temperature gradually dropping.

But in the end, she didn’t die.

The monster beasts of Ergonikin had gradually arrived due to the great commotion in the hilly area.

Just as Gabriel had guessed at the time, Elvi then faced only two choices: being killed on the spot or being handed over to the Beast King.

After confirming that the giant dragon had no capacity for action, the second possibility greatly increased. The monster beasts of Ergonikin fed Elvi some medicine to prevent her from dying on the spot, then bound her up and brought her to the Beast King’s territory.

But Elvi wasn’t afraid.

After reaching cooperation with Bartholomew, the unicorn had already returned, and the Beast King must have been clear about the cooperation between the dragon and Beast Tribe.

As the leader of the dragon race, Elvi didn’t believe she would be directly executed without bringing benefits to the Beast Tribe.

The result was as imagined—Elvi’s wounds were treated and she was cared for.

After confirming that she had recovered eighty percent of her strength, the elements in her body had also recovered by more than half, and she wouldn’t easily collapse, Bartholomew brought her before the Beast King…

“That wasn’t a monster beast at all—that was an unspeakable thing! That was something lurking in darkness, fermenting endlessly, ultimately evolving into a complete and utter monster!”

Countless dark elements swirled around.

In a building environment that was more than twice as tall as the dragon territory’s ten-meter-high dome, lay a tiger.

A monster more than ten times larger than Elvi in dragon form was lying on a chair-like structure.

That was a throne, as Bartholomew’s attitude indicated.

At that time, Elvi completely lost the ability to speak.

She also couldn’t continue to arrogantly believe that the Beast Tribe definitely needed to cooperate with the dragon race.

What a joke!

There was no need at all!

How could such an existence possibly need the dragon race’s help to contain another tribe?!

Countless dark elements obscured Elvi’s vision.

But no matter how chaotic her thoughts became, her perception of power made the giant dragon realize that these dark elements weren’t power released by the Beast King, but had gathered around this king for some reason, making his surroundings a place that dark elementalists would spend their entire lives wanting to reach.

Abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal abnormal!

Her mind kept screaming, her brain frantically telling her she needed to escape, needed to stay away, but ultimately the only thing she could accomplish was to kneel down uncontrollably, like Bartholomew who was already kneeling on one knee.

How could such an existence possibly be resisted?

Such an existence was like having all the dark elements of the entire world placed around his body.

Who could win?

Who could resist?

Elvi couldn’t say anything.

But the Beast King spoke as if nothing was abnormal. “It seems the dragon race’s leader isn’t as serious about this cooperation as I imagined.”

“Otherwise, how could you reduce your weight in your cooperator’s heart on your own before the cooperation was even achieved?”

Cold sweat covered Elvi’s back. In that instant, the giant dragon couldn’t say anything.

This was a monster, a monster even more ancient than primordial times!

How could it possibly be resisted! How could opposition be achieved?!

Bartholomew knelt on one knee, speaking in an even tone. “That pure-blood human youth possesses the ability to bewitch hearts. Elvi happened to recently suffer the painful loss of the extremely important Victoria, and with both factors combined, as long as Elvi still possessed emotions, she naturally had no way to completely ignore the human youth’s repeated targeting of her pain points.”

“Is that so?” The Beast King’s voice seemed particularly hollow.

No matter how much Bartholomew wanted to remind Elvi, he didn’t dare make any movement.

The unicorn could only wait for the giant dragon to break free from that demon-like mental restraint.

And it took Elvi more than ten minutes to break free from this state…

What the Beast King thought during this silent time, the giant dragon and unicorn later dared not consider.

However, when facing the Beast King, Elvi, who had finally regained her senses, didn’t disappoint her bearing as the dragon race’s leader.

She said: “Humans are treacherous and cunning. Knowing this yet still giving him the opportunity to speak, I indeed made an unforgivable mistake. But since it’s a mistake, there’s always the need to correct it. I absolutely cannot allow such a mistake to appear a second time!”

The monster, so enormous that Elvi in human form couldn’t see its edges, let out laughter.

In just an instant, Elvi became soaked through as if she had been pulled from water.

“Since you’ve said so, then I look forward to you capturing that human.”

Elvi thought of what she had previously told Bartholomew about needing to let the dragon race recover its strength before going to war…

How ridiculous…

How insignificant!

“No, I don’t intend to capture that extremely cunning human before implementing the cooperation plan.” Elvi bit her tongue hard, using the bloody taste and pain at the tip of her tongue to command herself to stay awake. “Rather than wasting a lot of time on capturing humans, it’s better to resolve Leia early.”

“Compared to catching a human, killing the mermaid would be much more interesting.”

The Beast King’s expression couldn’t be seen clearly, but later Elvi heard him say: “So that’s how you think?”

Elvi once again fell into endless anxiety.

She knew her emotional thinking was all being affected by something inexplicable, but she couldn’t control it.

Fear, terror, worry, chaos—all manifestations that drained Elvi of her strength gathered together.

Until the Beast King’s words rang out, like granting grace to Elvi who had fallen into an extremely negative state, wiping away those endless negative emotions.

“Since you already have a target in mind, then go do it with Bartholomew. I believe you and Bartholomew can definitely achieve the results I want, right?”

Elvi had no ability to deny it.

Acquiescence was thus presented.

Afterward, until she was completely away from the tiger’s range, Elvi collapsed to the ground as if she had completely lost her strength.

Cold sweat on Bartholomew’s body became icy when blown by the wind. However, this unbearable and sticky feeling didn’t make him abandon the completely limp Elvi.

The unicorn waited for a long time, but what he got wasn’t Elvi collecting her emotions and standing up to leave, but Elvi lying directly on the ground saying, “You never, never said that the Beast King was that kind of existence…”

Bartholomew pressed his lips together, then relaxed his expression and said, “Then what do you think I should have said?”

“Or rather, do you think I had any need to tell you about this?”

Whether open mockery or veiled sarcasm, Elvi accepted it all.

The giant dragon only laughed, transitioning from light laughter to loud laughter, until the laughter became increasingly manic, then everything stopped abruptly.

“I didn’t think that at all. I’m just celebrating, fortunately you didn’t tell me.”

Even if the unicorn had told her everything about the Beast King, without seeing it with her own eyes, Elvi couldn’t have believed it.

Now, having seen it with her own eyes, Elvi was actually grateful that Bartholomew hadn’t spoken of it.

Because of this, her previous attention to the Beast King hadn’t been excessive.

Because there was no attention, there weren’t too many emotions. Because there were no emotions, she seemed calm.

All these factors…

Elvi sincerely celebrated that she could still live after seeing the Beast King with her own eyes.

Bartholomew looked at Elvi for a while, and seeing that the giant dragon still didn’t intend to stand up, he chose to turn and leave.

From Elvi’s lying perspective, she could only see Bartholomew’s uncaring advancing figure, while the unicorn’s warning words still hadn’t completely dissipated in the air.

“Don’t think, don’t look, don’t understand, don’t inquire… this is advice.”

Was it advice or a warning?

Or did it have other meanings?

Elvi, now flying above the sea surface, didn’t care. She only wanted to make Leia fear, wanted the mermaid to know that under the certainty of death, he still had to struggle continuously like a clown.

“No monster beast, not a single monster beast can defeat such a monster!” The giant dragon’s mouth curved into a twisted smile, her voice becoming increasingly gentle, gentle like a lover’s whisper. “Leia, don’t worry, you won’t be an exception either…”

As the words fell, Elvi’s figure in the sky completely disappeared.

Wind elements operating at their peak allowed the giant dragon’s massive body to achieve something like teleportation—in the blink of an eye, she appeared before Leia.

The mermaid calmly raised his hand. In that instant, Elvi could clearly feel the obstruction of blood circulation in her body.

The blood that should have flowed along her blood vessels instantly became like thousands of needles, constantly attacking the meridians within her body.

But Elvi completely ignored this pain. Her palm turned, and a continuously compressing wind element sphere collapsed and exploded directly in front of Leia’s face.

The mermaid’s face instantly became bloody, with flesh and tissue flying everywhere.

Although all this looked bloody, for monster beasts, it was merely a light injury.

The leaders had begun fighting, and other giant dragons and Water Tribe members immediately became embroiled in battle.

Bartholomew also led the land-dwelling monster beasts who had transformed into their original forms, joining this battle.

Chaos, blood, severed limbs.

The azure sea that reflected the sky’s color was gradually stained red bit by bit.

Like a fantastical dream.

Everything seemed so unreal, yet everything was happening right before their eyes.

Su Li followed the others around him, moving quite a distance toward a more peripheral area before the youth finally let out a long breath.

As the chaos distanced itself and the roaring sounds diminished, Roy’s question, wrapped in endless worry, quietly arose.

“What Elvi said… is it true?”