The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 181.1

The question about whether the Beast King had brought his subordinates into the Winged Tribe territory ultimately received only one word as an answer.

“Yes.” Bartholomew resisted from the bottom of his heart looking directly into Su Li’s eyes, but now he had no choice.

Those green eyes were just as he had imagined – they could easily see through people’s hearts. The expressionless face maintained its original appearance even after receiving his response.

Bartholomew forcefully closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he could speak with a serious expression, “The King is determined to conquer the other two tribes.”

“Elvi herself already had a grudge against Leia, and I was originally created to target Leia…” When Bartholomew said this, the mermaid glared at him viciously, but the unicorn continued as if he hadn’t noticed, “As long as we two exist here, the Water Tribe has no possibility of continuing to ally with the Winged Tribe.”

Bartholomew took a deep breath and clasped his constantly trembling hands behind his back. Looking at the thoughtful young man, the chaotic beating of the unicorn’s heart made its master feel that this vital organ, important enough to be equivalent to a fatal weakness, had already developed problems.

“What do you want?” Bartholomew directly asked about what he most wanted to understand at the moment.

He needed to divert his attention.

Otherwise, just as he had already imagined various possibilities, he would uncontrollably collapse under Su Li’s gaze.

There was nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape.

Bartholomew said, “Whether it’s suddenly stopping this war or actively standing in front of the monster beasts.”

“Regarding your pure human identity, quite a few monster beasts know about it, but certainly not very many. Compared to standing in the open, staying in the shadows makes it easier to fish in troubled waters, doesn’t it?”

Bartholomew voiced all the speculations that had flashed through his mind.

Sometimes, the way one spoke could also become a technique for emotional release.

Just like the dragon not long ago, when she knew she had no power to resist, she still stubbornly told the Raven that as long as Su Li cooperated with dragon reproduction…

Pain didn’t matter.

As long as it could still let them maintain rationality in front of Su Li.

When the body no longer connected with thoughts, when thoughts no longer controlled the body, then who was controlling their bodies?

This was a question they didn’t want to imagine, yet when they thought of it, they already knew the answer.

Su Li didn’t pay attention to these monster beasts’ superficially different but actually identical psychological conditions. He only responded to the unicorn’s counter-question. “I want this world to no longer give birth to transformed monster beasts.”

“Amikbi, a country that belongs to humans, has completely become a breeding ground for the new generation of transformed monster beasts under the abnormalities of time and history.”

“Non-humans have imposed human survival rules on humans, making all humans serve as existences inferior to livestock in ignorance.”

“And the most important point…” Su Li swept his gaze across the three monster beasts, “All transformed monster beasts, whether due to following the crowd mentality or the already established and unchangeable rules of the monster beast world, give me the feeling that you are no longer human, nor are you those natural monster beasts that you somewhat look down upon.”

“But compared to naturally born monster beasts and humans who adapt to the development of the times, what truly has problems is the transformed monster beasts themselves.”

“Anomalies that isolate themselves from normalcy, yet know nothing about all anomalies…”

The three monster beasts swept by those emerald eyes all fell into silence.

If Su Li were still the kind of enemy that could be casually captured or suppressed, Elvi, who told herself not to listen to another word he said, would definitely treat all of this as air.

But under absolute power, these words immediately transformed into incredibly hard steel hammers, pounding bit by bit into their brains.

The young man’s clear voice continued. “Don’t you think… you are very pitiful?”

“Not knowing the present, not understanding the future, not questioning the past.”

Living in a muddle, only able to see one step ahead.

The future they could envision was nothing more than repeating the past they had already experienced.

Su Li just found it absurd.

“So what if you win? What if you lose?”

“If the Beast Tribe defeats the other two tribes, how will things develop in the future? Have you considered this? Have you imagined it?”

This world had no future at all.

It was like a game that had already been shut down – no more updates, no more new players able to log in. No more “to be continued” story markers, and no new features or gameplay to unlock.

Here, it was like a world that, before ending, had been manipulated and influenced by an unknown existence, ultimately heading toward a realistic ending that conformed to this world’s so-called common sense.

Who wanted the world to be destroyed?

That hazy existence that seemed to come from nowhere, like a heavenly voice.

That voice had never said when this world would be “shut down.”

No cats, no real estate, no retirement… No morning markets where you could wake up early and eat various hot breakfast delicacies, and no food delivery that could bring cuisines from various places with just one phone call.

If this world couldn’t even provide those beautiful things…

Then Su Li would rather transform from a plot and copywriting planner into a programmer.

What was going bald?

Rolling out twelve years of work experience in four years – wasn’t that enough for him to spend the remaining four years before retiring at eighteen in another world, working hard to create a future that would allow him to peacefully retire, what gaming terms would call an “ideal home system”?

Su Li didn’t accept a future without retirement.

He didn’t accept a garbage future where one had to work continuously from the moment of gaining complete consciousness until working to death.

Su Li looked at the three monster beasts nearby who had fallen into deep thought and issued a soul-searching question. “I don’t accept that beings like you, whose very existence is equivalent to tragedy, make humans who originally had human rights live no longer like humans.”

Rota County was a pile of unidentifiable matter that shouldn’t exist at all!

Humans had become, in a way that was truly like seeing ghosts, a human resource reserve for monster beasts!

“That’s why I chose to stop this battle.”

Su Li thought he was speaking words that contained various impulses to curse the world from his irritated heart.

However, what the monster beasts heard was…

“Even after determining that we are anomalies, you’re still trying to awaken us who are no longer the same species as you?” Leia smoothed down the scales that had bristled on the side of his face.

Although he still clearly understood that this existence, which could make monster beasts’ bodies betray their consciousness, could at any time make them use their own hands to kill themselves.

But now the mermaid no longer had that indescribable fear toward Su Li.

The psychology of dread had transformed into three parts disbelief, with the remainder being entirely…

“Thinking we are tragedies? What a joke-like statement…” Leia’s expression was full of disagreement, but his eyes were like a sea that no longer had any waves.

He was clear that what he said was merely stating his surface performance, and understood that his deepest thoughts were still hidden beneath the surface calm.

“I don’t think that I, as the mermaid ruler, am any kind of tragedy. I possess the highest rights and status in the Water Tribe, and I have the reverence that all aquatic monster beasts, whether feigned or sincere, must display toward me. Does such an existence appear to be a tragedy in your eyes?”

Leia should have questioned further, asking whether humans were being too arrogant.

But now the mermaid was very clear that Su Li possessed such capital – he had the power to decide whether he was qualified to be arrogant.

Unable to voice his questioning words, Leia understood not to oppose the strong. He knew to keep a low profile, to develop inconspicuously, and not to reveal his true heart.

But beneath these behaviors, wasn’t it still compromise after having no choice but to yield to reality?

Rather than saying he wanted to question, it was more that he wanted to make himself firmly believe that he indeed possessed all the capital he had spoken of.

What tragedy…

The mermaid wasn’t like the dragon, who had killed countless transformed peers at the time.

The story from hundreds of years ago couldn’t be told in just a few words.

In the end, it was nothing more than the Water Tribe King of that time taking a fancy to Leia’s face.

The mermaid in the wandering poets’ mouths who gathered all the beauty belonging to humans and possessed the romance of the sea was nothing when he was still human.

But he had the qualifications to become a mermaid…

What were the other transformees who had similarly awakened as aquatic monster beasts?

They were merely tools for forging miracles.

No one would think that a mere clownfish, grouper, sardine… those common and useless species could be existences comparable to a mermaid.

They were just tools.

But when Leia became a mermaid, became the so-called miracle, he simultaneously became a plaything of a racial king.

Except for the king, all aquatic monster beasts had to bow their heads to Leia.

Disgusting, yet possessing a status that even powerful beings had to bow to.

Nauseating, yet repeatedly putting on a smiling face.

Until one day, Leia made all the preparations and killed the one he had countless times addressed with gentle tones as “King.”

The human Leia had long since died; what survived was merely a mad and sharp, beautiful in form but ugly in heart mermaid.

But what he lost was only himself as a human; what he now possessed was the ruler status even higher than a king. That was absolute nobility where no Water Tribe member could be special, and all aquatic monster beasts had to bow their heads to him.

What kind of tragedy was this?

Leia didn’t think himself pitiful at all.

“I don’t think I’m a tragedy. I only think it’s because I’m not strong enough that I can only press the ruler position above all Water Tribe heads.” Leia’s mouth split into a smile, that smile full of wildness.

“Your pity and tragic perception are nothing but insults to me. Stop using human cognition to judge transformed monster beasts. I, Leia Somorfeld, never needed it!”

Just…

Just still averting his gaze from those human eyes that showed no obvious emotional changes.

Those green eyes contained no pitiful judgment at all.

The tragedy Su Li spoke of was like humans’ evaluation of movies and stories as bad endings, happy endings, and true endings.

Tragic stories, comedic stories, real stories…

Those stories were just stories to humans.

Those words that seemed proud enough to let Leia straighten his back were essentially nothing more than the mermaid’s unwillingness to admit that everything about him was, to humans, merely a standard for judging stories.

Su Li placed his gaze on the mermaid.

Leia gave too many sensory changes – whether it was the initial alienation and inhuman feeling, or the later false reality and weak incompetence; even more so when facing the combined attack of the dragon and unicorn, showing no sign of retreat…

Too awkward.

There was no clear label that could be placed on him.

But intelligent life itself couldn’t be fully covered and defined by so-called labels.

Su Li’s eyes reflected the mermaid’s figure. Leia’s form was disheveled, with large areas of scales fallen from his fish tail, and even his face had many wounds cut by wind elements…

Utterly lacking in beauty.

But when he spoke those words, neither Elvi nor Bartholomew could actually look away.

Bartholomew’s fear of Su Li, besides the fact of being betrayed by his body, stemmed more from his understanding of the Beast King.

Elvi’s undisguised words of various utilization toward Su Li were like a person going to a haunted house repeatedly emphasizing they weren’t afraid of ghosts.

The young man’s language already seemed like an irresistible weapon to the dragon; when absolute power arrived simultaneously, fear pierced her heart like a needle.

What about the mermaid?

No prior knowledge.

Understanding that bodies betray consciousness, yet also knowing due to being a water element himself that affecting others’ blood circulation could similarly influence others’ bodily movements, Leia seemed able to clearly define concepts that were at most like weapons once held in hand and aimed at others suddenly cutting one’s own throat.

It was just death.

Bartholomew’s fear carved by time’s influence, Elvi’s fear of one day her own strength being aimed at her fellow tribesmen – these weren’t within the mermaid’s range of concern.

Time, in the mermaid’s perception, had always favored miraculous beings like him, and the Water Tribe was merely a tool to set off his status and strength.

His fear of Su Li never stemmed from power – it always stemmed from…

The soul.

This human could easily see through everything.

Even what Leia argued about Su Li’s so-called tragic judgment of them was merely debating with air.

Su Li was judging past and history unrelated to himself; Leia was projecting himself, the survivorship bias of the very few mermaid survivors raised by the lives of former human companions.

Most importantly, the mermaid knew that all his responses were merely self-deception.

It seemed only this way would make him feel that Su Li hadn’t seen through him at all.

And didn’t understand the pride possessed by the mermaid Leia Somorfeld.

“Is that how you see it?” The young man’s voice suddenly rang out, continuously stirring the mermaid’s heart.

Words once again became steel needles, and Leia clenched his fists.

“As you said, I indeed don’t care about transformed monster beasts, and I’ve never denied that I consider transformed monster beasts to be erroneous existences.”

Su Li didn’t attempt to shatter the pride Leia insisted on maintaining.

“But I also have a question – do you understand what history means?”

This question left several monster beasts in confusion.

“History is what happened in the past, records of the past sufficient to be preserved in writing or legendary transmission.”

“And you were originally supposed to be human history.”

This sentence rang like a temple bell – once struck, it echoed countless times in their minds.

“You should have been that history, not transformed monster beasts still living in the present.”

This was denial – denial of the legitimacy of transformed monster beasts’ existence.

This was arrogance – arrogance to the point of not acknowledging the series of civilizations that existed because of transformed monster beasts.

“Humans are born ordinary. Wanting to leave a mark in history is what countless people pursue and yearn to achieve.

As humans, every era sees countless tragedies born. Perhaps those might have once happened to you, or perhaps you might have been fortunate enough to be saved by a kind-hearted person who happened to pass by, thus living an ordinary but happy life.

Or perhaps you didn’t meet that good person, sank into darkness, and years later were judged by descendants who treated history as coursework as villains of the era—”

The young man’s words led the mermaid toward the future that the boy once named “Leia” should have possessed.

The former Leia had also been a young master of a family.

He might have rotted into human scum like most nobles, exploiting ordinary civilians. Perhaps he would have been like nobles with soft hearts, using his wealth to help civilians. More likely, he would have been too unlucky, with his family falling into decline, finally having to shoulder the responsibility of reviving the family…

But those possibilities would never exist in the mermaid.

Su Li’s gaze was like flowing water – clear to the bottom in sunlight, sparkling in backlight.

“No matter what possibilities you had, those possibilities absolutely never included the possibility of you transforming from human to monster beast, becoming non-human.”

“Transformed monster beasts – everything that transforms humans into non-humans – severed not only the future of the one once named Leia, but also the history that countless humans should have had.”

Ten thousand years was too long, but compared to the 100,000-year-old humans that modern human history had explored, the humans of this world were still so tender and young…

History had become a plaything of monster beasts; the strength that humans pursued was a joke from the very beginning.

The young man’s words were too deafening.

No matter how much Leia opened his mouth, he couldn’t speak a single word.