The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 89

“I’m going to the Inner City next.”

The moment these words left Su Li’s mouth, everyone erupted.

“You can’t just decide on a long trip like that!”

“That city is destined to be the center of a storm. What are you going to do there?”

“If you want information, any one of us can go in your place and see everything that happens there clearly.”

“That Princess Ophelia is ambitious. Even if we have a cooperation now, it doesn’t mean that someone so ultimately self-centered will choose to give up on killing you.”

“Whether it’s her eyes or her expression, when she’s not deliberately diverting her attention, her desire to kill you is completely unconcealed.”

Su Li looked at everyone. They were in an uproar, yet they only tried to stop him from going, without questioning why he wanted to go. He felt a headache coming on.

“No matter what you say, I’m going. Of course, I know it’s dangerous there, but some things… rather than letting them happen in some unknown corner, I’d rather witness them myself.”

This was a change of eras, destined by fate.

What would happen if he went, and what would happen if he didn’t?

If he went, the forces connected to the Mercenary City would insert themselves directly and forcefully into the capital city, that melting pot of everything.

If he didn’t go, it was clear Ophelia wouldn’t let Sadina City, the autonomous mercenary city, off the hook.

A hundred-thousand-strong army was lurking just outside, poised to drag this city into the conflict.

With the various factions in the Inner City entangled, destined for conflict, could the Mercenary City really just stand aloof and watch from afar?

Was that realistic?

Perhaps others thought they could deal with this city after everything calmed down. But Ophelia couldn’t.

She had too little and wanted too much.

Ophelia wouldn’t accept failing and having the people of this city remain ignorant of her death. Nor would she accept succeeding while a city refused to acknowledge her as queen.

Besides these practical considerations, Su Li’s reasons for going were more subjective and idealistic.

There was a natural gap between him and the other upper-class people of this world.

Putting aside all the complicated interconnected facts, Su Li couldn’t accept Ophelia becoming queen, or the Pope’s schemes succeeding completely.

Su Li’s intuition told him that within that city existed a deeper level of…sin…that they didn’t yet understand.

Why did the Pope want to stand above the king?

For thousands of years, the country and the Church had maintained peace. Was the person who broke this peace an exception, or did they know something else?

The lack of information made it impossible to speculate logically. After all, Su Li hadn’t even seen the Pope’s face.

“I want to know the final outcome of the struggles of the countless people in that city.”

“I also want to know why this world is so distorted.”

“What I want to know most is what Sadina City can do, and what it can achieve, after the events in the Inner City conclude.”

No power or organization could remain detached forever.

If one Xiao Zuo and those armies could put so much pressure on this city, then without using this incident as a breakthrough, how could this city survive in the future?

If Xiao Zuo could assassinate the Mercenary Alliance Guild Master, he could just as easily kill those of equal strength, and even all the leaders within the Mercenary City.

Even if the mercenaries, driven by their spirit and yearning for freedom, continued to defend the Mercenary City after their leaders died, what would be the outcome?

Why did Egbert exist as the guardian of Siliqing City?

Clearly, without a powerful individual as a protector, a city was less a city and more a piece of fat meat in the eyes of others.

Perhaps they wouldn’t swallow it whole, but they would certainly squeeze it dry.

By then…

“By then, our current inaction will only become the sin of the powerless wailing about the true arrival of hell.”

Su Li lowered his head and looked at his hands.

These hands were no different from his hands in the modern world. Aside from the calluses on the sides of his nails from holding a pen, they were still soft and not very strong.

Completely different from everyone else’s.

Besides her elemental abilities, Euphia excelled in swordsmanship. Her powerful close-combat style had left the only woman present with calluses all over her palms.

Su Li wouldn’t presume that a woman’s hands should be soft.

He just thought about himself, and whether he could truly retire peacefully, unaffected by others.

If the future remained like this, then that ordinary retirement plan wouldn’t even have a chance of being realized.

Looking at the gradually silent crowd, Su Li said, “I can watch the birth of hell, and I can watch the cries of my fellow beings, because the powerless have always done so. But you’ve already shown me that even the weak like me have the power to change this world. You can no longer ask me to remain a bystander.”

“Of course, I want to live quietly in a secluded corner, basking in the sun every day, maybe raising a cat, occasionally seeing scenery I haven’t seen before. That kind of life has always been what I’ve sought.”

“But this goddamn world simply won’t allow it!”

When Su Li realized he couldn’t fit into the existing rules of this world, and was unwilling to change the three views he’d formed in his previous world, both his reason and his heart, though not broken, were etched with the word “broken.”

Like being rejected.

But reality was different from this feeling.

Everyone around him trusted him, accepted him.

What normal person would believe that when a city defended against foreign enemies, a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy would become a core force, not because of individual strength, but because of so-called wisdom?

Yet this improbability had become reality.

“If you didn’t want me to go, you shouldn’t have shown trust in me from the beginning.”

“But since you trusted me then, what’s wrong with trusting me again now?”

“I don’t want to see you injured, but what I least want to see is you blindly accepting the current situation as ‘right’ just because you’ve been injured too many times.”

Before, those green eyes couldn’t see anything.

But now, Egbert could see his own reflection within them, complete and whole.

His boiling blood made him say without hesitation, “I once said that if anyone wants you dead, Lord Su Li, it must be after I’ve already breathed my last.”

Lan Zhe also raised an eyebrow, a reckless smile on his lips. “How dangerous can the Inner City be? I’m the Dark Holy Son. If Su Li’s predictions are correct, then it’s not so much that the so-called Dark Holy Maiden is using the people of the Dark Church, but rather that they’re already prepared for a direct confrontation with the Church of Light.”

The Raven reached out and stroked Su Li’s hair, which seemed strikingly bright compared to his own.

The raven’s voice was always low and hoarse. “If the changed world is what you want, then I, too, yearn for it.”

Unlike Ophelia, who genuinely wanted to kill Su Li because he posed a threat and pressure, the Raven’s previous desire to kill Su Li wasn’t because he was human and the Raven was a monster beast. Back then, the thought existed simply because Su Li saw a world he couldn’t.

Seeing an incredible new world through a human wasn’t a miracle for a monster beast.

It was an abyss.

But the Raven still wanted to do it.

The boy who would preen his feathers, the boy who would get discouraged because the world wasn’t as he imagined but didn’t dare to change it, the boy who would vomit at the death of others, the boy who could sit at the same negotiating table with someone far stronger than himself and yet suppress them with his aura…

More and more memories related to Su Li filled his mind.

Maintaining his raven form had also been a way to avoid revealing his true stance. After all, he was still a monster beast, different even from Cyril, who had some monster beast blood.

He was a true monster beast, who saw humans as enemies and was likewise treated with hostility by humans.

But when he transformed into his human form not long ago, the smile on the boy’s face as he pretended to cover his face, his eyes peeking through his fingers, suddenly made the Raven understand that only others would care about the difference between monster beasts and humans.

If Su Li ever minded his existence, it wouldn’t be because he was a monster beast, but because he had done something Su Li couldn’t forgive.

What were monster beasts?

They were beings who, after gaining self-awareness, would fiercely demarcate their territory and rarely allow others to intrude.

But now, it wasn’t him opening the doors to his world, but Su Li, a human, accepting him.

Pure black feathers appeared in Raven’s palm. He grabbed Su Li’s wrist and, when Su Li opened his hand, pressed the feathers into his palm, refusing any refusal.

Raven said, “These are feathers from my neck, the softest on my body. It will let the monster beasts, who only refrain from attacking you because of Na’an’s final creation, understand—”

“You, are the child under my protection.”

This was the greatest blessing the Raven could offer, besides his personal protection.

Then, Euphia and Roy narrowed their eyes.

“The Alliance’s reserves won’t lose when it comes to protecting Su Li.”

Roy’s tone was mocking. “Mr. Crow, are you trying to make bodyguards look bad? Egbert aside, you want to protect Su Li?”

“Get in line!”

Cyril immediately and cooperatively stepped forward. “Then I’ll start queuing now. No matter who comes after me, before my strength fully develops, they’ll all be behind me, right?”

Egbert said confidently, “I don’t believe anyone can surpass my love for Lord Su Li. When it comes to protecting him, I’m willing to sacrifice everything at any time, not just my body, but even my soul. I’m willing to become a stepping stone beneath Lord Su Li’s feet.”

Euphia immediately put him in a headlock, her eyes blazing as she yelled, “What kind of filth are you putting in the child’s ears? Get lost!”