The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 180.2

After carefully examining the person and confirming there were no injuries, he finally relaxed his body and collapsed onto the ground.

Egbert looked up slightly at the confused-looking young man and said with a bitter smile. “When I first saw Lord Su Li using such powerful force, besides being shocked, all I could feel was worry that using such power might have side effects.”

“Now that I’ve discovered you’re fine, it’s really wonderful.” Egbert’s face broke into a bright smile once again.

As long as he could see Su Li, Egbert’s eyes would never hide any gloom.

He didn’t question or wonder why Su Li possessed such powerful strength – he was simply relieved that Su Li was unharmed…

“Yes.” Su Li’s smile curved upward a bit more without him even realizing it. “I’m fine, and my current state is much better than I imagined.”

“Who cares about your condition, little master!” Roy also rushed quickly to his side, then muttered, “Well, actually I do care very much.”

“Also, you didn’t need to apologize earlier at all. Although I don’t know why you chose to hide such power, trump cards are things you don’t need to reveal when there’s still hope of salvaging the situation.”

“Otherwise, how could a trump card be called a trump card?” Roy was about to reach out and pat Su Li’s shoulder forcefully, but then noticed Egbert glaring at him fiercely.

“What are you looking at? Am I not right? Besides, even if you – this man whose thoughts always turn in strange directions – might think ‘now that the little master has powerful strength, he doesn’t need us anymore’ or something like that, that would just be you overthinking.”

Egbert refused to take the blame and directly countered, “You’re the one thinking that way. I would never think that after Lord Su Li no longer needs me, I should quietly hide away and never appear before him again.”

“What a joke! Even if Lord Su Li no longer needs Egbert, I could change my name to Eg-1-bert, Eg-2-bert, or something else. There would always be one that Lord Su Li needs.”

A true warrior dares to face any hardship head-on and rises to meet challenges.

Egbert wouldn’t be like this mercenary who looked rough and tough but was essentially overly sensitive – immediately becoming worried and cautiously starting to test the waters.

“Besides, instead of worrying about whether Lord Su Li might suddenly not need you anymore, why don’t you think of ways to make yourself stronger and better, so that Lord Su Li would never have the thought of not needing you?”

“If someone is no longer needed, what you should consider isn’t whether the person who once needed you has something wrong with them, but rather think about your own problems.”

Roy: ???

Three sentences were enough to make the two-star mercenary doubt himself through psychological manipulation.

“No, what you’re saying is what’s wrong.” Roy couldn’t help but question his life.

Egbert simply sat on the beach and leaned back, supporting himself with his arms.

He said nonchalantly, “What’s wrong with it? Whether Lord Su Li needs us or not doesn’t matter at all. What’s important is that we need him.”

Just as the two were about to start arguing, the Raven lightly pinched Lan Zhe’s shoulder with its claws, and only then did the Dark Holy Son shed his expression of watching a show and step toward Su Li.

Just as he was about to pull the person to his side and nearly create a sound-isolating barrier with dark elements, both Lan Zhe and the Raven saw Su Li holding his forehead and saying seemingly helplessly, “I thought everyone would be more concerned about this war…”

Both the person and the monster beast saw Su Li’s expression change.

From gentle and soft, it gradually turned sharp and expressionless.

“It’s already under my control.” His ice-cold, bone-chilling voice penetrated deep into people’s hearts.

Beneath his thick eyelashes, Su Li’s green eyes were like inorganic glass balls, causing anyone who saw them to involuntarily feel their hearts turn cold.

Then those lively conversations that had been like arguments quietly disappeared.

Since probing was probing, it showed that everyone’s focus had always been on Su Li.

The crowd followed the young man’s gaze toward the place that, despite its surging waves, hadn’t captured much of their attention before.

Only then did they realize in shock that the battle had long since stopped, with only red coloring the sea and forest.

All the monster beasts that were still conscious looked toward this place as if they were looking at…

A monster.

Incomprehensible, impossible to look at directly, yet unable to escape.

Was this… a human?

There was no answer.

Terror, chills, fear, panic, dread, trembling…

This was the human that monster beasts had never taken seriously…

“Now it seems like all the monster beasts can hear what we’re saying.”

That was a somewhat childish, somewhat cold voice carrying composure.

Many monster beasts were too far away, and because the elemental field had disappeared, they couldn’t hear what Su Li was saying at all.

But even if they couldn’t hear, they could recall the taste of their bodies being out of control, their thoughts being suppressed, and their bodies – which should have been one with their thoughts and moved according to their thoughts’ guidance – becoming hostile to their own minds.

People who had never experienced that taste could never understand the feeling of discovering that the body, which should have acted and changed according to one’s own thoughts, suddenly pointed weapons that should have been aimed at enemies toward oneself.

This wasn’t even like the feeling of being backstabbed by trusted companions.

Disbelief? Unwillingness to accept?

Neither.

The body wasn’t a companion that required repeated contact before trust could be established.

The body was oneself.

Yet in that moment, the body had become something else – something incomprehensible and indescribable.

——Terror.

All thoughts were powerfully invaded by this emotion, leaving all monster beasts looking at Su Li with eyes filled only with fear.

They wanted to retreat, unwilling to look directly.

Whether it was the expressionless Su Li, or Su Li chatting with companions with a smile hanging at the corner of his mouth.

Or the current Su Li, who seemed like a deity looking down upon the mortal world…

Why would such an enemy exist?

The monster beasts suddenly understood the feeling that Elvi had described about the Beast King.

Impossible to defeat…

It was fundamentally difficult to muster fighting spirit.

Among the three monster beasts, the first to regain consciousness was surprisingly Bartholomew, who had been unconscious for a full minute.

For a moment, an indescribably bright light burst forth in the unicorn’s eyes.

But just an instant after that light appeared, everything quietly extinguished. The momentary burst of power became ash in an instant.

It couldn’t be done.

No matter who it was, it was impossible to raise hostility toward that existence.

Rather than thinking about impossible things, what Bartholomew should do wasn’t focus on the humans standing on the beach, but deal with the aquatic monster beasts in the sea.

Rather than fantasizing about impossible possibilities, it was better to do well with everything he could do right now.

Maintaining the status quo – though it wouldn’t get better, it wouldn’t get worse either.

Change required courage.

And the longer one lived, that kind of courage that made one believe the entire world could be grasped in one’s hands instead became uncontrollable fear of the entire world.

Bartholomew took action.

His powerful strength allowed him to dash toward the beach in the blink of an eye…

But he overlooked one point.

All monster beasts that had been betrayed by themselves couldn’t achieve the results their thoughts wanted under their own denial.

Bartholomew’s action had barely covered a dozen meters when he uncontrollably fell to his knees…

Humble, resentful, angry – all these emotions layered together, yet Bartholomew couldn’t stand up no matter what.

Later, Leia and Elvi, who had also partially recovered their ability to move, began fighting each other in the water due to their already close proximity.

As for the results…

They were even more miserable than Bartholomew, who was kneeling halfway.

The scales on Leia’s tail were scraped off in patches by Elvi’s claws. Before the mermaid could counterattack, the dragon had already sunk to the bottom uncontrollably.

Other dragons whose mobility had recovered slightly faster could only look at Leia with fear, then turn and swim toward Elvi, who had uncontrollably transformed into human form in the water.

After exhausting all their strength, that dragon finally brought Elvi, who had nearly drowned, to the surface, securing life-saving oxygen for the dragon.

All the grand wars seemed like jokes.

The scene entered an extremely delicate new situation.

Information fragments also flashed through Su Li’s mind.

He touched the alchemy ring on his index finger and only came back to his senses from his trance after a long while. Then he heard Gabriel ask, “May I go and help His Excellency Bartholomew up?”

As soon as these words left his mouth, even though he hadn’t experienced the taste of his body betraying his consciousness, Gabriel couldn’t help but swallow and quickly changed the topic. “Pretend I never said that.”

The words that slipped out made the gray wolf feel somewhat embarrassed. He lowered his head, trying to use this action to reduce his psychological pressure, then squeezed out a sentence through his teeth. “What I mean is, may I bring Bartholomew over? You…cough, you chose to stop this war, so you should have something you want to say.”

“If my private guess isn’t wrong, then please forgive my behavior and allow me to go bring the unicorn over.”

By the end, Gabriel didn’t even dare to continue using Bartholomew’s name, let alone honorifics like “His Excellency.”

Gabriel had indeed shown respect to Su Li before, but that respect was only because Su Li had used his “personal charm” to make other powerful people listen to him, and despite being “useless,” had occupied the dominant position among everyone.

This respect carried somewhat condescending undertones.

But regardless of what motivated the respect, as long as he hadn’t looked down on Su Li, Gabriel and Su Li’s previous conversations had been relatively natural.

But compared to now, when Su Li had demonstrated the ability to crush the entire battlefield by himself…

Gabriel could no longer say any extra words.

Even his so-called respect had become complete submission and reverence.

Just like…

Just like facing the Beast King who had established countless rules favorable to the Beast Tribe.

Gabriel fell into a momentary trance.

Then he heard Su Li say: “Go ahead.”

Gabriel, running toward where the unicorn was, turned back to glance at Su Li mid-stride.

Su Li’s lake-green eyes weren’t focused on the dragon and mermaid struggling for survival in the sea, nor on Bartholomew kneeling on the ground.

He was only looking at the gray wolf who was running forward and then turning back.

Irrepressibly, Gabriel felt a surge of heroic spirit rise from the bottom of his heart.

Even when he was forcefully pushed away while helping Bartholomew up, Gabriel didn’t get angry. He simply said, “Su Li… Lord Su Li, that human, he has something he wants to say, something he wants to tell you, as well as Elvi Bessemer and Leia Somorfeld.”

Gabriel said seriously. He could see the flash of hatred that passed through the unicorn’s eyes when he pushed him away.

That emotion was too complex – it wasn’t directed at Su Li, who had rendered the unicorn unable to move, but at Bartholomew himself for kneeling on the ground.

Gabriel’s voice became somewhat obstructed, and then, as if he had grown accustomed to humans using rules that monster beasts were familiar with to change their actions, even when humans didn’t adopt survival-of-the-fittest rules.

Gabriel looked seriously at Bartholomew and said, “No matter what you’re thinking, the current you has indeed lost the ability to act and has no possibility of continuing to fight. Since that’s the case, as Lord Su Li who made you into this state, how could you possibly have the chance to escape and not listen to what he has to say?”

While speaking, Gabriel felt somewhat ashamed, feeling like these words were somewhat defaming Su Li.

Whether from his interactions with the young man or from the gray wolf’s own intuition, he felt that Su Li had no intention of using force to suppress monster beasts.

It was strange.

Clearly, using force to suppress monster beasts was no longer just an intention, but a fact.

The gray wolf’s words freed the unicorn from his self-loathing emotions. Bartholomew used Gabriel’s outstretched hand to stand up with all his strength, his voice hoarse and powerless. “Now, help me over there.”

The unicorn was better off; Elvi and Leia on the other side weren’t so lucky.

As fellow Beast Tribe members, Gabriel would understand Bartholomew’s momentary resistance.

But Roy, who had applied to Su Li to drag Leia over, and the Raven, who said he would bring Elvi over, showed no courtesy at all.

Leia didn’t want to be sensible, but when Roy walked over to him on the frozen sea surface, the mermaid understood that his current body was probably more fragile than when he had just been transformed into a mermaid, let alone fight.

Having no choice, Leia could only choose to be dragged away by the two-star mercenary.

The mermaid looked utterly frustrated.

On Elvi’s side, the dragon clearly showed resistance to the Raven’s approach.

The soaking wet Elvi actively walked toward the beach. Her shoulder blade area, covered by elemental clothing but still vaguely showing white bones, twitched from time to time, whether due to seawater or because her body was still not fully under control.

The Raven said again, “Su Li has something to say.”

Elvi still replied, “The battle isn’t over yet. Once I kill Leia, I’ll listen to whatever Su Li wants to say…”

“As long as he’s willing to cooperate with the dragon race in producing new offspring.”

The Raven stopped talking. After transforming into a giant crow, he directly grabbed Elvi’s wound area. He flapped his wings and immediately lifted the dragon to a position not far from Su Li.

When Elvi was dropped, she couldn’t help but let out a muffled groan.

When the three monster beasts had all gathered and Su Li could finally see their appearances clearly, he acted as if he had seen nothing and immediately brought up the main point. “Elvi and Bartholomew attacking the Water Tribe together – does this represent that the Beast King personally led a team to attack the Winged Tribe?”

This question wasn’t really necessary, but seeing how these monster beasts were completely unwilling to look at his face, Su Li had already determined they weren’t willing to cooperate.

Since that was the case, giving them an easy question to answer would make it more convenient to expand the conversation.

The young man, who privately thought the monster beasts weren’t looking at his face simply because they didn’t want to cooperate, had no idea how complex the hearts of these monster beasts truly were after their naturally trusted bodies had betrayed them.

Elvi was even trembling slightly beyond her control.

She also felt that intimidating power that rivaled the Beast King.

But there were subtle differences between the two.

The abnormal point was that the Beast King could kill her at any time, while Su Li chose to dialogue with them as equals.

Elvi, who had almost had her mindset completely transformed from absolute fear into absolute awe due to that tremendous terror born from absolute power, clenched her fists tightly, letting blood flow down from her palms.

The other two performed similarly.

Leia even pulled off his own scales, using self-harm to maintain his sanity. Bartholomew went so far as to bite his tongue bloody, allowing his throat to swallow the mixture of saliva and blood.

It wasn’t like facing the Beast King, Bartholomew thought.

When facing the King, most of what Bartholomew felt was the inability to resist, but when facing the current Su Li…

The previous unicorn had hardly spent any time with him.

What Su Li had been like then, the unicorn didn’t know. But what Bartholomew was thinking now was that he couldn’t look directly.

He would be…

His mind would be invaded.

He would uncontrollably, from the moment he truly saw him clearly, begin to extend, begin to think.

Why would humans have such power?

If all humans had such power, then what were the eternally proud monster beasts?

Why had a human with such power never shown his strength before?

Was it to leverage his bloodline value to stir up trouble?

No, with such power, he could even kill gods to show you.

Must not look directly, must not think.

But he still raised his eyes – those were the eyes of a unicorn destined to symbolize light, about to fall into the abyss.