The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 179.1

At the beach, above the sky.

Whether it was the brutally powerful Bartholomew, or Elvi who soared high above, toying with them like playthings, turning and moving incessantly, yet taking away massive numbers of aquatic lives in an instant…

They all appeared far too wantonly excessive.

But if one only focused their gaze on these beings, they would never be able to see clearly what this war truly meant for ordinary monster beasts.

On the sea surface mixed with blood and severed limbs, waves rose high one after another, and the monster beasts closest to the humans let out deafening roars of fury.

The dragon warriors who had blocked out the sunlight dove downward with their body’s propulsive force, while behind the lenses over the humans’ eye sockets, elements were flickering with dazzling light.

The groups of aquatic monster beasts had no time to react and could only choose to take this attack with their lives. “Block it!”

“When that dragon approaches, we must find every way to latch onto its body!”

An octopus-like aquatic monster beast, propelled upward by several dolphins using their snouts, leaped high and wrapped around the claws of the giant dragon that was diving toward the sea surface.

The price was that those other aquatic monster beasts that had given it momentum died in the process.

The dragon that had returned to flight above the sky discovered the filthy fish on its claws, but before it could attack with its other claw, the octopus’s tentacles had already moved against the dragon’s scales, climbing upward and gradually approaching the dragon’s neck.

When the dragon finally thought to shake off the octopus using elemental vibrations, one of the tentacles covered in suction cups had already viciously pierced into its eye socket and, following along the neck, shot directly toward the heart from within…

Unable to lift its wings, with its heart no longer beating, the dragon of tremendous weight crashed straight into the water surface, and in its death, randomly knocked unconscious several unlucky aquatic monster beasts.

……

With a thunderous “boom,” another wind element strike hit the hundred-meter-high wave formed by seawater.

The mermaid standing at the highest point remained completely calm, and the advantage brought by the terrain had maximized Leia’s combat power.

The mermaid unhurriedly used water elements to fill the gap that had been blasted out by the wind element, then relied on the ever-rising wave crest to meet Elvi, who was flying in the air, at eye level.

“The final creation left by Na’an confirmed that Su Li is here. Tell me, where is he now?”

Even in the midst of battle, Elvi did not forget to seek the information she wanted to know.

However, Leia had no intention of telling her the answer. The mermaid only said: “If the Beast King is as you described, do you really think that obtaining Su Li would allow your dragon race to contend with such a monster?”

As he spoke, the front half of the giant wave was pushed by water elements and poured directly toward the giant dragon high in the sky!

Elvi used wind elements to erect a barrier in front of the other dragons, blocking this incredible attack, but unfortunately, massive amounts of seawater rushed straight toward the beast race on the ground.

Bartholomew frowned as he watched the formation that had been thrown into chaos in an instant.

“It’s completely impossible to achieve.” Leia didn’t care what ability Elvi used to maintain her composure during conversations that affected the mind – the mermaid felt that if he could influence her once, he could influence her countless times.

“The always powerful giant dragon, the lofty giant dragon lady, unable to make her own race strong, can only try every means to rely on external objects…”

“Don’t you find all this ridiculous? Fearing the Beast King, yet using the opponent’s image carved in memory to warn yourself to remain rational. This inexplicable sense of luck, thinking that obtaining Su Li would give the dragon race the same kind of attrition warfare capability as the aquatic race.”

Leia didn’t care at all about the aquatic races below on the sea surface who were trying their best to fight but were still dying in large numbers.

After discovering that Su Li had special qualities that could affect the entire existing structure of the aquatic race, Leia had already decided to face this war head-on.

The massive deaths of current members within the aquatic race would give him the opportunity to promote new members to positions of power, and this was also the optimal solution for continuing to maintain the mermaid’s absolute rule.

“You seem to think that as long as you obtain Su Li, whether it’s the Water Tribe that once attacked the dragon race, or the Winged Tribe that showed expulsion intentions toward the dragon race, will ultimately be trampled under your feet, and even that figure you fear will undergo changes under the influence of absolute power… Am I right?”

Leia didn’t need an answer. The mermaid at the crest of the giant wave, relying on the terrain, had already been able to create attacks that both Elvi and Bartholomew had to attempt to temporarily avoid. “Your way of thinking is truly ridiculous!”

Elvi did not argue against this statement, not because Leia had indeed guessed her inner thoughts, but because explanations were the most useless things on a battlefield.

Having witnessed human cunning and treachery multiple times, how could the giant dragon possibly ignore the power of words when the mermaid acted this way?

“Do you think that by throwing mud at me, you can make yourself appear pure and refined?” Elvi’s sharp teeth flashed with cold light as she anticipated the scene of her teeth crushing the mermaid.

“Knowing that the dragon race and Beast Tribe have united to declare war on the Water Tribe, yet instead of choosing to temporarily avoid confrontation, you let large numbers of aquatic races participate in the war… Isn’t this action because you, this mermaid, are afraid of Su Li?”

“You think my idea that obtaining Su Li could change everything is wishful thinking, but haven’t you considered that once someone around you obtains him, everything you currently possess won’t become history?”

Elvi directly used words to tear away the skin that Leia had used to hide everything. The battle continued, and this exchange had already lasted over a hundred moves.

“Affirming Su Li’s value, despising Su Li’s weakness, wanting to obtain him, yet fearing other aquatic races who are similarly trying to obtain him.”

“Afraid of change, pinning hopes on everything being able to maintain the status quo. You smugly think my idea of wanting to obtain him to change everything is laughable, but isn’t everything you’re doing now equally laughable?”

The fighting movements continued without pause. Non-human hearing, even amid all the chaotic scenes, still allowed the two opposing sides to hear each other’s words without missing a single one.

“I don’t have your fear, nor your terror, and even the entire dragon race supports my actions.”

“No monster beast can be trusted, no monster beast can share responsibility with you. Your tyranny can only bring you complete baseness!”

Leia had not expected that his attempt to influence Elvi’s thoughts would instead result in being influenced by Elvi in return.

But the mermaid still fell into uncontrollable rage.

“Do you think being a ruler, being a king, means anything? Incompetent as you are, so what if you’re supported! It’s just a dragon race that totals only a few hundred when added together.” Leia’s eyes carried unmistakable disdain.

All monster beasts acknowledged the power of giant dragons, including even the obviously abnormal Beast King that Elvi had mentioned.

But so what even if that were true?

Elvi simply lacked the ability to be a king.

“Giant Dragon Lady, rather than calling the dragon race a so-called ‘race,’ you look much more like a cheap ‘family.’ Bound by blood ties, the dragon race, whose total numbers aren’t even as many as the people in a small village in human society – managing these beings is so simple it’s just like playing house.”

“I am the ruler of the Water Tribe, an existence that towers above the Water King, an official that those foolish aquatic monster beasts will protect with everything they have, no matter how much they may fear or be terrified!”

Elvi’s next attack rushed straight toward Leia’s face, but the other aquatic monster beasts also standing on the sea waves, like moths to a flame, rushed in front of Leia and blocked the attack that he could have easily intercepted by simply moving his hand and manipulating water elements…

Elvi’s expression gradually filled with disbelief.

Victoria’s actions were born from emotion, from the fact that she was the first thing the black dragon saw when it hatched.

But what were these aquatic monster beasts doing this for?

The giant dragon couldn’t understand. No matter how much these monster beasts hated Leia, even resenting the mermaid for making them choose to face this racial war head-on, they all knew that once Leia, who possessed both power and a ruthless heart, died, the entire Water Tribe would truly be finished.

This was war, and this place was a battlefield.

It was a situation with no choice but either one or the other.

In the moment when Elvi was stunned, Leia stepped on the corpses of those fallen aquatic monster beasts and charged straight at Elvi.

The giant dragon’s wings were his true target!

Blood once again surged through her body uncontrollably. As Elvi forcibly steadied her body flying in the air, Leia had already rushed to her side, propelled by the sea waves.

The mermaid’s incredibly sharp claws firmly pierced into Elvi’s wings, and in an instant, large amounts of red blood spurted out…

Leia had actually directly used water elements to condense the sea waves that had originally been used to propel him into a massive sea water giant.

This move had not been discovered by any monster beast before, and even Elvi, who had thought she wouldn’t be severely injured under Leia’s claws, had not expected that in coordination with the sea water giant’s wrist, Leia would directly tear off half of her wing in one move…

“Ahhhhhh——!”

A scream so tragic that it shook the entire battle situation rang out, and only then did Su Li shift his attention, which had always been focused on ordinary monster beasts.

After the young man looked up, what he saw was Elvi, who had lost her balance and was falling toward the water surface…

The chaotic battlefield was right before his eyes, everything that appeared to be completely unrelated to humans.

And in reality, it was. As long as he stayed in this other world that had no concept of peace whatsoever, Su Li would never be able to enjoy a truly peaceful retirement life.

How could he change things?

How could he achieve his personal goals?

Not Asgari’s extreme idea of directly killing all transformed monster beasts, but another method that was more in line with what Su Li had learned and understood about this other world over the years.

It was just that those methods still existed based on power.

Su Li smiled. The stench of blood—so thick at the tip of his nose it nearly made one vomit—was drawn in with each accelerated breath brought on by his smile. It burned through his nasal cavity and lungs. The young man began coughing uncontrollably.

Egbert gently patted his back and asked with concern, “Is Lord Su Li alright?”

“Of course I’m fine, or rather, I’ve never been better.” Su Li took out the alchemy storage ring that had passed through who knows how many hands.

This seemingly ordinary item with only storage functions had undergone a conversation between Su Li and the man with infinite research ideas in his mind before it could be mass-produced through Castor’s hands.

Castor had told Su Li at that time: “The difficulty of creating alchemy storage items isn’t actually that high; what’s scarce are just the materials. But after filling the gap with Lan Zhe’s resources, mass-producing such items actually isn’t a problem either.”

The researcher’s eyes flickered with intermittent light in the research room lit by light element lamps.

“What I’m more curious about is why you have the idea of mass-producing such items. In daily life, other people help carry the things you need, and besides, you can’t use elements…”

Castor’s implication was that Su Li had no need to create trouble for himself.

But the young man told him: “Do you think elements are truly existing power, or more like something illusory and ethereal?”

The researcher found this strange. Castor even felt he had no need to answer this question. However, because it was Su Li, the man’s first thought became that perhaps there was some other perspective.

So he answered: “Of course they’re truly existing power. If they weren’t truly existing power, then how could elementalists have different classifications and use elements to create various things?” Castor looked up at the light element lamps embedded in the research room’s corridors.

“Then do you think that alchemy storage items, since they have the ability to store truly existing objects, might it also be possible for them to store large amounts of elements?”

Castor froze.

No one would ever have such an idea.

Because apart from the amount stored in the human body, elemental power was everywhere in the world.

But aside from the human body, no one thought that there could be other things that could store and release elements like containers.

“Setting aside whether it’s possible to use alchemy items to store elements, even if it really could be done to store such power, when releasing it, there would still need to be a medium or something like a conduit.” Castor tried his best to describe the viewpoint he had reached by following Su Li’s logic.

He frowned: “Otherwise, when the elements stored in alchemy items are released, they would only become elemental factors in the air, not any kind of effective attack method.”

“Or are you thinking that after storing elements in alchemy items, the alchemy items could become a way to accelerate recovery for elementalists after they’ve consumed their power?”

“This research direction is indeed possible, but in fact, we already have many things that accelerate elemental recovery, whether potions or other treasures… Researching new ones simply couldn’t achieve better cost-effectiveness.”

Castor was very grateful for the large amount of purple gold coins that Su Li had previously provided, but the researcher also had no intention of truly becoming like those superiors who constantly burned money without producing results.

He had too many research directions and had always focused mainly on those that might be achievable and could bring obvious benefits after achievement.

Castor hoped that Su Li’s investment could yield returns, rather than being worse than throwing money into water without even hearing a splash.

But Su Li shook his head. “You’ve overlooked one point.”

“That is, my body——“

Castor instantly froze in place. He had too naturally used the habitual thinking logic of all people in this world to deny the fact that Su Li’s mere existence represented something special.

People with empathy could easily empathize with another person, but no matter how empathetic they were, when people from modern society watched those movies about aliens invading Earth for no reason, they couldn’t possibly have any sense of identification with the aliens.

Su Li wasn’t exactly like this example, but he was still from another world.

For this world, he had always been something that people here could understand partially, but could never understand completely.

Castor’s eyes immediately lit up.

“That’s right, your body!”

“Your body is naturally a kind of medium,” Castor thought of too many things in an extremely short instant, “The reason you can’t use elemental power is because elemental power simply has no way to be stored in your body for long periods. In other words, as long as we can find something that has storage capability and can transmit elements to your body, then you can similarly use elemental power!”

Just like a phone without battery – once connected to a power bank, it could use all the functions within the phone.

“Nothing is more suitable for this kind of equipment than the storage capability of alchemy items!”

“As long as I can manage to store elemental power in alchemy items, then no matter what kind of special nature your body possesses, this power can become a weapon you personally control.”

No one was more excited than Castor. The researcher had countless times marveled at the existence of another world in Su Li’s mind.

But that world had never been able to manifest itself to everyone through the elemental power that everyone in this world possessed.

Su Li could only reveal information bit by bit through human-to-human communication, exchange, and understanding.

Setting aside the efficiency issue, just speaking of this method of information transmission, in Castor’s view, it had absolutely no efficiency whatsoever.

Because for people of this world, no matter how powerful language might be, no matter what kind of precedent wisdom could create, no matter what kind of miracle Su Li – this existence recognized by everyone as “waste” – symbolized, none of it could compare to the absolute shock brought by massive elemental power.

Because the former required slow understanding, while the latter inherently represented absolute irresistibility.

Power wasn’t the only path to the final result, but it was a shortcut that could make Su Li’s journey easier.

Castor had a new research direction, and the entire research room instantly suspended all other work to fully develop toward [Research on the Feasibility of Quantity-Level Storage of Elemental Factors in Alchemy Storage Items].

Because Castor had previously experienced disappointment due to Su Li’s body being unable to store elements when he had fantasized about Su Li being able to use elemental power, this time, all research and development were conducted in the underground research room that blocked out sunlight.

All progress was accompanied only by the light element lamps hanging in the corridors.

Before the final results were produced, Castor would not tell anyone the success rate of this possibility.

This matter became a secret shared only between Su Li and the entire research room.

Even after the research results were produced, Castor chose not to tell others, only excitedly inviting Su Li to come to the research room again to be informed of the research conclusions.

He said: “I cannot judge exactly how many elemental factors are stored in the storage items. The elemental storage inside the storage ring is not achieved by humans transmitting the elemental power within their bodies into the alchemy storage items, but is directly connected to elemental collection devices.”