The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 10 - Working

Another three days passed, and Su Li, who had been cooped up for nearly twenty days, finally found a job that was somewhat suitable for him.

Namely, the librarian at the Asa Elemental Academy.

The recent chaos in Sadina City had caused the original librarian of the Asa Elemental Academy to be caught up in the battles scattered throughout the city corners during off-work hours, and was currently on paid sick leave.

Completely neutral organizations like the Elemental Academy wouldn’t be attacked during this chaos, but rather would be intentionally protected. After all, no one could be certain that their family and friends wouldn’t enter the Elemental Academy in the future.

So when this resume submission received a response, Su Li promptly changed into his newest clothes.

As he adjusted his collar in front of the mirror, Su Li, in the span of twenty-plus days, had grown taller again due to sufficient nutrition. His gaunt face was no longer skeletal due to the passage of time, but instead was full of youthful vigor.

Standing to one side, Egbert worriedly said, “You said yourself just three days ago that you wouldn’t easily leave this small villa.”

“Of course,” Su Li affirmed this point, “As long as this place can still be called my home, I will never easily stay away from it.”

Su Li, with a soul of a thirty years old, knew he was a slacker, but his slacking would only be the kind of “slacking off at work”, “getting paid to use the bathroom”, “never working overtime for even a second”, and even “must have weekends off”.

This absolutely would not include mooching off the young.

In terms of soul age, Egbert was a full seven years younger than him.

Rounding it off, it was equivalent to Su Li already preparing for an internship when Egbert was still in elementary school.

Thinking of his previous promise to pay back Egbert’s money, Su Li blurted out, “If a person can’t even remember what they’ve said, what else can they remember?”

Egbert, having recently become accustomed to recording Su Li’s “classic quotes”, was completely distracted by whether Su Li was again admonishing him about something he couldn’t accurately understand at the moment, while taking out paper and pen to record.

Cyril looked at the incompetent Son of Light with disappointment.

He fiercely said to Su Li, “Don’t pretend there. You know that Big Brother Egbert just wants to say that the current chaotic environment is not suitable for going out to work, especially since you’re only twelve years old!”

“Assuming begging is a profession, rounding it off, we’ve both been doing it for ten years,” Su Li raised an eyebrow, just like when he used to chat with friends who knew about his work intensity in modern society.

Back then, he told his friends, “I work so hard, of course it’s so that next time I submit a resume, I can tell the boss I have twelve years of work experience.”

Although after four years of 24/7 work schedules, Su Li directly went to a small frontier town to buy a house, raise cats, get social security, and be a slacker.

Now Su Li could also naturally say, “Ten years of begging experience is not something an ordinary person can have.”

Cyril said angrily, “After all this talk, you’re determined to go out and work, aren’t you?”

Su Li nodded decisively, “Given a choice, even beggars need to change careers.”

“Except for ‘professions’ like being a slacker or a loafer, I don’t want to do any other profession for life.”

“Also, the premise of living off one’s wealth is that you need to have wealth in the first place.”

Su Li spread his hands regretfully, “I don’t want to work either, but who told me I’m not yet rotten enough to directly ask friends for money to spend?”

Egbert had wanted to give his wallet to Su Li more than once.

This behavior of friends trying to hand over their bank cards to him would only make Su Li’s hair stand on end. But fortunately, the other’s feelings for him were just a kind of inexplicable fanatical worship, nothing more.

Even if it was to prevent Egbert from giving him more money, Su Li had to find a suitable job.

Seeing that he couldn’t persuade Su Li, Cyril stopped his futile efforts.

“I can’t stop you, but, Su Li.” Cyril’s azure eyes gazed at Su Li, with only Su Li’s figure reflected in his pupils.

His tone was also unprecedentedly serious and firm.

“You must know your own importance.”

And…

“Please make sure to protect yourself.”

Cyril’s excessive seriousness made Su Li inwardly sigh.

Egbert usually said odd things that Su Li couldn’t quite understand, just like Euphia, but in Su Li’s view, Cyril had always been the kind of real child that one could see through at a glance.

From the moment Su Li dragged Cyril along and was brought to this city by Egbert, Cyril’s world had already been filled by Su Li.

If Su Li were to suddenly die one day, in Cyril’s view, it would be no less than the collapse of the world.

What else could be done?

Su Li directly messed up his hair, which he had carefully arranged for the interview.

“I will,” he said, his tone still maintaining the laziness it was always associated with in daily life.

But when Cyril combined this with what Su Li had said not long ago, he understood that Su Li would definitely protect himself well.

On the stone-paved road not far from the small villa, there was a pool of blood that had never been cleaned up.

It was the blood spilled not long ago when the two mercenaries who came to attack the villa collided with each other’s heads.

For someone like Su Li, whose worst injury had been scratching a mosquito bite until it bled, it was terrifying.

But as an adult, putting on a brave face was inevitable.

Su Li calmly avoided that patch of red stain.

There was a backup of the map of Sadina City inside the villa, so even though it was his first time walking this unfamiliar route, Su Li, with his decent sense of direction, quickly found his destination.

The Asa Academy lived up to its name as an elemental school. On either side of the wrought iron gate stood four statues that looked stiff just by glancing at them.

Pure white and pure black spheres represented the light and dark elements, while the others were a red stone that looked like flame, and a large water sphere contained in some unknown device.

The wind element was represented straightforwardly – it had no statue, but still had a pedestal. There was even a plaque noting: The wind element used by humans is never the true wind found in nature.

It really had that Western fantasy world flavor.

“Su Li, is it? This way.”

It was class time now, and to prevent Su Li from getting lost and wandering into places he shouldn’t go, Dean Asa had specially come out to meet him.

When Su Li saw the back of the person with a head full of silver hair, wearing a magic robe, his heart immediately sank.

—— Of course, this wasn’t because he had thought of something profound.

But rather…

How high could the salary be for a job where the CEO personally conducts the interview?

Brushing aside the heavy thoughts in his mind, Dean Asa took the initiative to speak to Su Li.

“The work in the library isn’t difficult. Usually, you just need to quickly find the target books for students when they come to borrow them.”

“However, because you can’t use elements, your speed in finding books will inevitably be slower than the previous librarian. If any students say something they shouldn’t during this process, please bear with them.”

As soon as Su Li heard the words “bear with them,” he said without thinking, “I don’t have morals.”

Dean Asa’s mind went blank for a moment.

“I mean, I don’t have morals, so you can’t morally blackmail me,” Su Li said frankly. “I came here to find a job that suits me, not to be a garbage can receiving other people’s emotional trash.”

“If the job requires doubling as a garbage can, then the salary of just a librarian is absolutely not enough to persuade me.”

“That would be a different price.”

Dean Asa paused his steps, and Su Li, who had been maintaining a one-meter distance from him, also stopped instantly.

He was incredibly good at gauging the situation.

The white-haired old man tugged at his beard to conceal the unnatural twitching at the corner of his mouth.

By the time the other turned around, Su Li had already prepared himself to be sent away, and was even planning his route home in his mind.

But instead, the other broke into a smile that looked a bit eerie.

“Then how much salary do you think would be appropriate?”

“You want me to name my price?” Su Li raised an eyebrow.

When given this kind of initiative, Su Li wouldn’t show any courtesy. “How about 10,000 gold coins per hour?”

“You really know how to joke,” Dean Asa couldn’t maintain his strange smile.

Su Li shrugged, not saying that it was the dean who had started joking first.

The old man probably had never encountered someone like Su Li who was completely unwilling to deal with things euphemistically. As he turned back towards the direction of the library, his tone became much more straightforward. “Monthly salary of 10 gold coins, the academy doesn’t provide room and board, but there’s a cafeteria where you can purchase meals at your own expense.”

“During this time, if any student makes any unilateral attempt to harm you verbally or physically, you can report the incident to the academy at any time, and I will give the student appropriate punishment. Of course, I don’t think 10 gold coins is enough to hire someone who will accept any abuse, so you still have room to respond as you see fit.”

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“Does this mean I’ve passed the interview?” Su Li blinked.

“Of course.”

Dean Asa stopped in front of a building that didn’t look much different from modern churches, and pulled out a golden key from his chest pocket, placing it in front of Su Li.

Later, he seemed to be about to turn and leave directly.

But after taking two steps in another direction, Dean Asa turned his head back. His face, which now faintly showed kindness, said something that made Su Li blink involuntarily multiple times.

“Zero elemental affinity is not a weakness that only the weak would call useless, but a miracle that ordinary people simply cannot understand.”

Dean Asa was acquainted with Euphia’s father, and during their last conversation, the latter had mentioned Su Li’s situation.

This world is composed of elements – just nine words that explain the essence of this world.

So from another perspective, an existence with absolutely zero elemental affinity could not only be said to be rejected by this world, but more accurately, Su Li unilaterally denied this world.

—— In a world composed of elements, there lives a person who is the opposite trend of elements.

Su Li must have his own special qualities. Dean Asa understood this concept from Euphia’s father, but after meeting in person, he felt even more strongly that this idea was correct.

Neither servile nor overbearing, existing as oneself, not defined by the world – all of these could be used to describe this young man. Dean Asa couldn’t see any self-negation or resentment towards the world in Su Li.

Su Li’s concern about his zero elemental affinity was even less than when the library key was placed in his hand.

Su Li: What else? This is a job that pays 100,000 a month!

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