The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 136.1 - The Beginning of Monster Beast Civilization (part 1)

Elvi’s evaluation of the story could not become a source of any information disclosure. Just as Su Li thought, she could also create a deliberately vague language dialogue style.

But this deliberate vagueness was itself revealing a part of the information Elvi wanted to hide.

The arrival of the dragon, in a situation where she didn’t care about her own descendant with the same bloodline, instead focused solely on the eighth-level beast crystal-winged dragon?

This information revelation seemed too insignificant.

And that was indeed the case.

If what she truly cared about was only the crystal-winged dragon Na’an, then after the story was finished, what Elvi would most likely do was to seek out Julius.

After all, Julius, who still survived, was a product of mixing both souls.

Even if Julius wasn’t purely the Pope of Light, for someone seeking revenge, since transferring anger was just that—transferring anger—the facts were irrelevant to her.

On the contrary, this also explained another question: what exactly was the reason Elvi followed Su Li to the Mercenary City?

Since it was known that her purpose couldn’t simply be Na’an, all of Su Li’s conversations with her needed to be replayed constantly in his mind.

Until Su Li had a flash of insight, suddenly focusing on the name of the Raven.

How exactly did a ninth-level beast know of the existence of the beast civilization, and provided reverse proof from the perspective of its own strength?

That might be a concept like elemental inheritance that Su Li could never understand.

But since the Raven knew, it proved that this part of information was a naturally produced concept after certain specific achievements were reached.

Then the question arose: who had left this information behind?

It couldn’t have been Elvi.

If she had provided it, then Elvi wouldn’t have needed to ask for the Raven’s coordinates.

And since she didn’t, excluding the possibility that Elvi’s focus wasn’t Na’an but rather the Raven, it could explain that Elvi’s appearance wasn’t driven by personal consciousness, but rather dispatched, or had accepted an order or task.

Otherwise, it didn’t make sense.

The information speculation stopped here, and Su Li felt as if he was standing before a cliff.

More information was clearly on the other side, but he couldn’t cross the bottomless gorge no matter what.

Should he test Elvi again through language?

Before she met the Raven, this was obviously not a good approach.

With the goal so close at hand, yet having an obstructive person beside him chattering away, for a dragon of such immense power that no human could stop her, the possibility of what would happen next...

Would probably only be a “natural disaster.”

Afterward, Su Li remained silent until they entered Sadina City.

Through this, he also continuously “observed” Elvi.

The inability to see was the most obvious disadvantage, but when this disadvantage was a compromise made by a weaker being to serve, or to remain on the same level as a stronger being, then this compromise would only seem natural to the stronger being.

Whether the weaker would become uncomfortable or face difficulties in action due to this compromise, the beneficiary wouldn’t care at all.

At that moment, Su Li’s fumbling action of pouring himself a cup of water from the teapot on the table became the best means of probing.

The pale finger bones stood in stark contrast against the natural wood of the table, and the young man with silk over his eyes, without the possession of elements, when seen by an element holder, would only instinctively produce the concept that a waste could be even more wasteful.

“Can’t you even endure physiological needs?” Elvi looked at Su Li.

The young man, who was groping his way toward the teapot, stiffened at these words, but then continued his actions, not forgetting to respond, “For others, whether water is equivalent to the water element, I’m not sure, but for me, water has always been the source of life.”

Su Li eventually poured himself half a cup of water, albeit with slow movements.

Elvi didn’t speak again.

As Su Li held the teacup, lamenting the failure of this probing, Elvi said, “If those water tribe fellows heard this, they might even look upon you with higher regard.”

To this, Su Li remained as quiet as if he had done nothing, calmly holding the teacup in his hands, not making any additional movement.

Heaven helps those who help themselves—when he wanted to prove whether different forces existed within the monster beast civilization where Elvi was, the dragon directly gave him the answer.

Water tribe, water creatures could uniformly be called the water tribe. As for whether the dragon was a water creature, Su Li was more inclined to believe that her domain was equivalent to the feather tribe or wing tribe or similar, the aerial beast circle.

Because only this way would the Raven, as the target of her journey, be so clear.

The carriage entered Sadina City.

The Mercenary City had been restricted in its usual liveliness in an extremely short time.

Of course, there were questions, and even Ophelia, who wanted to get close to the grassroots and interact with the mercenaries by going on the streets, couldn’t help but question: “Why restrict the movement of the masses?”

The mercenaries of the Mercenary Alliance all claimed ignorance, and one who knew a bit of information could only give a reply without understanding the truth. He said: “Euphia said, Sadina City is about to receive someone who, with a single misstep, could instantly destroy the entire city.”

Ophelia fell into confusion. She began to wonder what kind of human could instantly decide the life and death of an entire city.

After excluding both the Dark Pope and the King, an incredible truth that was circulating within the entire city quietly leaped into her mind.

The Grand Princess, despite the restrictions of the mercenaries, couldn’t control herself and ran toward the street.

Afterward, the mercenary who had tried to stop her hurriedly followed, but the carriage had already entered the city gate.

It wasn’t a carriage with curtains befitting a noble status; on the contrary, all sunlight could openly shine through the entrance and windows into the carriage.

Ophelia saw it as clearly as possible.

Cyril, whose life or death was unknown, and Su Li, whose eyes were covered with cloth to block his vision.

What was this supposed to be?!

This thought kept spinning in Ophelia’s mind.

And deep in her heart, a pain that stabbed her heart arose.

Cyril, who was the same age as her, not weak in strength, yet had fallen into a coma.

Su Li... how on earth was Su Li alone able to withstand it?!

This question, Ophelia didn’t need an answer to.

Her facial features even became slightly distorted in this silent observation, and the mercenary chasing her hissed at this moment. “What kind of death are you looking for?”

The mercenary wanted to angrily shout at Ophelia, saying, even if you’re looking for death, don’t drag the entire city into it. But upon seeing Ophelia’s expression, the mercenary could only swallow most of his thoughts.

What kind of expression was it?

Hatred, resentment, malice, danger, and uncontrollable despair.

Why would despair arise?

The mercenary couldn’t tell, but he could tell Ophelia: “Don’t cause us any more trouble. Since Euphia has issued such a strict order prohibiting the city’s noise and daily activities, it already indicates that this matter is not something we ordinary people can change.”

Ophelia looked up at the frowning mercenary who, despite his impatience, didn’t rebuke her.

She suddenly couldn’t control herself and said, “I’ve never understood why someone who hasn’t received the corresponding benefits and power should bear responsibilities that don’t belong to them.”

“I’ve always found such foolish behavior shameful.”

“But the reality is that I, or perhaps all humans, are being protected by what most people see as foolish behavior.”

Then, without giving the mercenary a chance to respond, Ophelia directly walked back toward the direction they had originally come from.

On Su Li’s side, the carriage finally stopped in front of the red small building.

Everyone was inside the house, trying their best to create an atmosphere as if nothing had happened, as if Su Li had simply returned from training.

The one who opened the door was Egbert.

No matter how much mental preparation he had made for himself, when he saw Su Li with silk tied around his face, carefully getting down from the carriage while holding onto it, the Son of Light’s brain felt as if it had been forcibly impacted by the gamma rays of the grand universe.

Only one thing remained.

“Lord Su Li, what happened to your eyes?!”

“Lan Zhe, Lan Zhe, you idiot, what are you still doing in the kitchen? Come here quickly and see, if you’re late by a second, we’ll both go to the outskirts of the city and die together!”

Egbert completely ignored the lady, or rather the dragon, who had already descended from the carriage and was showing an interested expression, watching Su Li carefully descend while holding onto the carriage frame.

And Lan Zhe, who had been called by name, felt his heart skip a beat.

He couldn’t help but wonder if Su Li’s eyes had really been damaged, and if the being that had caused the problem was the dragon they couldn’t resist...

But upon approaching, Lan Zhe discovered that Su Li was awkwardly gesturing to Egbert, saying, “No, my eyes are fine. It’s just... Eg, you know, the current situation is the same concept as when the Raven turned into human form without wearing clothes.”

Even though in everyone’s eyes, Elvi was a female in armor with dragon horns on her head.

The former Son of Light and the Dark Son both fell silent because of this.

Before being completely dried out, Euphia glared at these two useless men and actively opened up the conversation.

“The training must have been tiring. Did anything interesting happen in the Beast Forest?” Euphia asked while naturally walking toward the carriage, incidentally picking up the obviously abnormal Cyril from the carriage.

But if it was truly a natural action without any pretense, what Euphia would most likely do now would clearly be to point at Cyril and angrily burst out a couple of sentences, asking if there were signs of development toward the uselessness of two adult men.

Instead, after taking him back to the room, she also gave Lan Zhe a meaningful glance.

Everyone was wondering how to begin the next topic.

But no one expected that Elvi, who had attracted everyone’s attention, immediately noticed the Raven watching everything at the door with pure black eyes.

She said, “Well, it seems you’re stronger than I imagined.”

From Elvi’s perspective, the Raven possessed capabilities clearly beyond her imagination.

Rather than saying the Raven was now a ninth-level monster beast, it would be more accurate to say he was just one step away from truly crossing into another realm.

This was much better than what Elvi had initially anticipated.

For monster beasts who reached the ninth-level through their own abilities, on the outskirts of human living circles, the challenges they faced to reach this strength included not only their counterparts below the ninth-level but also the constant covetousness of humans.

At least in the past two hundred years, the only naturally occurring monster beast was the Raven.

On the picture frame, the black crow, upon discovering Su Li, flapped its wings and flew steadily toward his direction.

Until it habitually landed on top of Su Li’s head and nestled there.

“What is your purpose?” The Raven directly broke through the humans’ cautious probing.

Perhaps it was because they were of the same kind.

The Raven was actually the easiest to determine what kind of beast Elvi was.

She had an extremely thick bloody aura around her, and the armor that Su Li couldn’t see was designed to perfectly match Elvi’s movement trajectory. It ensured she could move flexibly in any battle scene while enhancing protection for her body.

Besides, this dragon’s horns were actually her weapons.

The bloody aura on them was so deep that it seemed like the final result of countless repeated soakings in a blood pool.

Monster beast civilization, this systematically formed civilization, clearly had internal wars.

Not to be underestimated.

The Raven tried to guess using some of the thinking habits he had learned from Su Li.

And he quickly judged that Elvi was truly a ferocious one active on the battlefield.

Then, what would her purpose be?

The Raven thought that Elvi had her eye on Cyril.

Even if Elvi had said his strength was not bad, the Raven still thought so.

Because beings with dragon bloodlines could perform techniques that were like replications.

All that was needed was to refine Cyril’s own bloodline, extract part of the blood from the dragon before them, and completely replace Cyril’s existing blood, then Cyril could become a second Elvi in a very short time.

In terms of power enhancement, the Raven didn’t believe his value would exceed Cyril’s.

But his question, what he obtained from Elvi, wasn’t what he had imagined.

“Purpose......”

Elvi’s lips curled into a smile. “Would taking you away count?”

Her tone was light, and if one wasn’t careful, one might misunderstand based on tone alone that she had taken a liking to the Raven, but except for Su Li whose face was tied with silk, everyone could see the cold indifference deep in Elvi’s eyes.

That didn’t look like someone gazing at a companion or something of interest, but rather the icy cold gaze of someone looking at a tool.

The Raven wanted to ask why she wanted to take him away, tried to learn about monster beast civilization information from Elvi’s mouth, wanted to use language skills to make her reveal more.

But all these thoughts were stopped by a thought in his mind that he couldn’t resist.

That was, if Elvi really wanted to take him away, the Raven couldn’t resist at all.

Whether he was the ninth-level monster beast feared by humans, whether he was a monster beast that could surround all the people in the small building, the conclusion was the same: facing this dragon, facing this dragon skilled in war...

The Raven had no power to resist.

Thus, the one who truly broke the rigid situation became Su Li again.

“I thought you would care more about Na’an,” Su Li said. “Whether it’s revenge against the Pope of Light or something else.”

“This would seem more reasonable.”

“You seek reason from a dragon?” Elvi made a “ha” sound, and then directly occupied an entire sofa by herself.

Su Li couldn’t see, so he didn’t know that the lady transformed from a dragon had crossed her legs, nor could he discover that Cyril’s ancestor had even naturally extended her hands, resting them on the back of the sofa.

This action, read as arrogant and unruly, could also be said that Elvi didn’t view anything before her as pressure.

“Although it seems unnecessary to explain some things to humans, but at this time, I feel it’s very necessary to tell you,” Elvi found this young man who dared to present her with the concept of human reason interesting.

“For monster beasts, the difference between a ninth-level monster beast and those before the ninth-level is like the difference between the living and the dead in human perception.”

“Perhaps in your view, since the crystal-winged dragon and I are both dragons, and we have an obvious relationship, I would naturally favor her.”

“But the fact isn’t like this......”

Elvi withdrew her hand from the back of the sofa, she flicked her nail forcefully and continued, “In fact, you can think of the concept between the crystal-winged dragon and me as...... as...... let me think......”

“I think, the relationship between us is more like, a small pet, and a true dragon, do you understand this saying?”

Su Li “stared” at Elvi, his mouth slightly open, unable to close it for a long time.

Su Li suddenly felt that Elvi’s mentality was no different from the feudal remnants in some remote areas of modern society.

“Because of what! Because Na’an hasn’t reached the strength of a ninth-level monster beast, is that it?” Su Li seemed to have fallen into chaos in this thunderstruck information.

He uttered words that were completely contrary to rationality.

This was a high-stakes gamble that no one but him understood.

“But even if Na’an hasn’t reached the strength of a ninth-level monster beast, the power of an eighth-level monster beast is already infinitely close to a ninth-level monster beast, right? Perhaps after a while, or after a hundred years, wouldn’t she be able to rise to the level of a ninth-level monster beast?” he asked.

Such impromptu questioning didn’t seem like something that could come from the rationality-first Su Li.

But now it was like this.

“Do you know for a dragon, no, accurately speaking, do you know for a high-level monster beast, how difficult reproduction is?” Elvi’s smile somehow became mocking.

“An eighth-level monster beast choosing to give birth to a child means she will never have the possibility of rising to a ninth-level monster beast. The elemental power needed for reproduction, the elemental resources needed for hatching, the time that needs to be spent when all this happens......”

“These are all things that didn’t need to happen in the first place.”

“From the moment Na’an chose to nurture offspring, in my heart, she would never be the same kind who could catch up, but rather a monster beast who only knows about reproduction...... a low-level monster beast.”

If previously Elvi’s eyes were already like ice, then now her gaze was like, at the center of the ice, an absolute flame that couldn’t be extinguished by temperature had been lit.

“She gave up on herself, from the day she decided to nurture offspring,” Elvi mockingly said. “I don’t want to know if that was self-touching or simply an overflow of maternal love.”

“She gave up on herself, with the sole purpose of propagating her species, and trying to maintain the purity of the crystal-winged dragon bloodline......”

“Isn’t all of this stupid enough?”

Elvi looked sharply at Su Li. “And what makes you think I would view a stupid thing as an equal being.”

At this time, Su Li didn’t want to think about which one, rationality or sensibility, was more likely to drive conscious action. He also raised his voice and said, “How can you evaluate Na’an’s actions from a completely outsider’s perspective!”

“Whether choosing to nurture offspring is what you think as an overflow of maternal love, I don’t care at all. What I care about is a being willing to work hard from her own perspective, to create more of her own kind and compatriots. No matter what the reason is, no matter what she has sacrificed, this is a great enough existence!”

Su Li declared as if making a vow. “If there were no humans in the world exactly like me, then my appearance, for the entire world, would only mean redundancy!”

“Na’an’s choice to reproduce, isn’t it also a compromise made after experiencing endless loneliness? Moreover......”

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Su Li “glared” fiercely at Elvi. “Did you ever tell her that there’s a higher level existence above eighth-level monster beasts, that there’s another world above ninth-level monster beasts, and that the future of ninth-level monster beasts, the future of existences above ninth-level monster beasts, is a scenery that eighth-level monster beasts can never glimpse?”

“Since you’ve never made an effort for her, what right do you have to demand that she must develop according to your thoughts and desires?”

Su Li clenched his fists, questioning, “Don’t you think, without making any effort for everything, you’re being too arrogant?”

“Bang—” was the sound of the wooden sofa being directly slapped into countless fragments by Elvi’s palm.