The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 101

Fine, screeching buzzing sounds continuously echoed around. After Su Li steadied himself on the ground, he narrowed his eyes, looking up at the sky, focusing all his attention on the Pope floating above.

The snow that had accumulated on the ground in previous days had already melted due to the thick moisture in the air, while the increasingly dense dark clouds gathering in the sky seemed to be fully prepared.

Until the white-robed Pope suspended in the sky released a beam of light visible to the naked eye, which in the blink of an eye nearly blinded Su Li.

The rumbling, exploding sounds that echoed through heaven and earth not only made people’s feet tingle but also caused uncontrollable tremors throughout their bodies.

But Su Li couldn’t see, while all other humans enhanced by elemental power could clearly see that after that attack, a lightning bolt even more powerful than the Pope’s carefully charged assault flashed from the thick, dark clouds in the sky!

BOOM——!

The lightning that illuminated heaven and earth left the arrogant Pope, who believed he could stand above all his peers, completely defenseless.

However, this naturally magnificent spectacle created by human means was still a moment too slow.

The Pope’s previously charged attack had arrived before the lightning.

Su Li, protected by the Raven, remained unharmed under the impact. Egbert and Roy, who had rushed over using their remaining strength, were also barely saved with the Raven’s help.

But others fell to the ground like dumplings into water, their fates uncertain between life and death.

What was even more shocking, however, wasn’t those affected by the attack.

It was the buildings.

Buildings enhanced by elemental power had quality comparable to the hardest metals in modern society. Su Li estimated that even if he gnawed at them with the hardest human teeth for 100 years, he probably wouldn’t even scratch the surface.

Yet buildings of this caliber still collapsed thunderously under the Pope’s attack.

Those structures that initially weren’t widely affected almost instantly collapsed from the impact and began to burn.

Thunder sounded, continuous lightning storms filled the sky, and heavy rain also arrived, but the fiercely burning palace buildings showed no signs of extinguishing.

“Did it work?” Su Li asked, his voice muffled under the enlarged raven’s wings where he felt the temperature rising.

Earlier, when Egbert and Roy were working together fighting in mid-air, Su Li had formed an idea.

One of the causes of winter thunderstorms is the strong convection caused by temperature differences between upper and lower air. The winter thunder phenomenon wasn’t particularly difficult to trigger with the combined effects of water elements, ice elements, and light elements.

The difficulty wasn’t that Su Li couldn’t guarantee the lightning would strike the Pope, but rather—what if the natural high-altitude attack he tried so hard to trigger had no effect?

That would be truly terrifying.

Especially when considering that everyone in this world had gorilla-like strength…

Although Su Li still had multiple backup plans, Egbert and Roy had been the main forces in this encirclement battle.

If they temporarily lost two main forces without achieving an effective strike…

Su Li felt that even if he wouldn’t cry, he would still involuntarily do what he was doing now—burying his head in the raven’s wing.

The oversized crow came with its own shadow. Its wings not only covered Su Li’s entire body, shielding him from the Pope’s impact, but also provided warmth to Su Li who was feeling damp and cold from the humid air.

But the Raven’s words were even more warming.

“Of course.”

“Of course it worked!” The Raven’s usually emotionless voice carried rare excitement.

The Raven had never seen this kind of attack method before.

When the lightning carrying the power of thunder struck the Pope, the people below happened to be hit by the Pope’s attack.

The Pope’s attack was indeed outrageous. If Su Li could have seen it with his own eyes, he would understand that the attack was essentially the sudden explosion of terrifyingly compressed power.

Its power was comparable to an atomic bomb, yet with a lethality against humans far exceeding that of an atomic bomb.

At least now Roy was sighing. “Under that attack, if it weren’t for the crow just now, I fear I would have been gravely injured if not killed.”

Those ten people with power equivalent to the Church’s patriarchs had all fainted at this moment.

But the reason for their unconsciousness might not just be from the impact.

It’s worth noting that with so many of them spreading water elements together, the combined power of eight people only required each to use one-third of their strength to cover the entire palace.

To faint with two-thirds of their power still in reserve…

The Raven initially thought it was because the Pope’s attack was too strong, since if he were to do it himself, going all out, he could also achieve this level of damage with just one attack.

But upon further reflection, he realized that the group definitely wasn’t just fainting from internal injuries caused by the impact.

Some of them must have been so shocked by the current situation that they were literally frightened unconscious.

That was the Pope!

It’s worth noting that they chose to join forces against the Pope, but apart from Su Li’s group who knew the truth and Ophelia, others were driven to action by a single reason.

The King wanted the person who framed him to die, and the Ten Elites believed the Pope was confusing the royal bloodline, attempting to usurp the country. To preserve Amikbi’s legitimate succession, they chose to act this way.

But despite knowing little information and finding the Pope’s actions shameful, neither the King nor the Ten Elites believed the Pope deserved to be struck by lightning.

Being struck by lightning and thunder seemed like divine wrath.

Yet everyone knew this wasn’t an act of God.

Nor was it the doing of any extraordinarily powerful individual.

It was merely the act of a “waste” with no elemental affinity whatsoever.

Some might think that if those following orders don’t act, the commander loses their value. But conversely, if a commander, without taking action personally, can create a scene comparable to divine power just by directing others…

Wouldn’t that be even more terrifying?

People are definitely more agile when using their own limbs than when commanding others’ limbs.

The Raven was stunned to witness such a scene.

Egbert also widened his eyes, looking up at the Pope’s figure falling straight down from the sky.

As a fellow light elementalist, no one present understood better than him what the Pope’s attack just now represented.

“If that lightning had been a moment slower, this palace building that has existed in Amikbi for hundreds or thousands of years wouldn’t just have collapsed from the impact and been ignited by light element particles, making it impossible to extinguish with ordinary rainwater.”

In fact, the Pope’s attack only achieved half its effect. That shocking lightning extinguished half of what should have been a 100% “explosion” from the Pope.

But even with just half the effect, it could achieve this level of destruction…

Cold sweat ran down Egbert’s back.

He suddenly thought of a possibility: if that lightning hadn’t appeared, could the Raven have perfectly blocked all of the Pope’s attack and kept Su Li from being scratched at all?

The conclusion was that the Raven himself would probably have suffered minor injuries.

“It’s simply…”

“Simply like a miracle, right?” Roy laughed in a particularly hard-to-describe way. Looking at Egbert, perhaps having developed some rapport during their collaborative battle, Roy decided to be considerate and tried to use words to comfort the anxious Egbert.

He said, “Don’t overthink it. Now, we just need to be grateful that we’re still alive.”

Egbert stared at Roy as if looking at an idiot for several seconds before blurting out. “I just wanted to say that Lord Su Li, who can accomplish such things, must be far more powerful than those gods who may not even exist.”

Roy raised his hand in a cold laugh…

Then quietly lowered it again due to his elemental energy not yet having recovered.

Then he had no choice but to listen to Egbert’s continuous praise, bordering on self-isolation.

“As expected of Lord Su Li, even this kind of attack, which to the world would be considered exclusively divine, can be mastered in his hands. If there truly were gods in this world, they would only be like Lord Su Li.”

Next, Roy couldn’t help but listen to an earful of Egbert’s praise for Su Li.

It was the kind of ridiculous talk that would make anyone who heard it break out in goosebumps all over their body.

But what truly terrified Roy was that Egbert, this idiot, despite his current state of complete exhaustion, said to Su Li as he emerged from under the crow’s wing, “Lord Su Li must have known what would happen now when he saved Roy, who wanted to die, from Lan Zhe’s hands back then.”

When Su Li bent down, holding onto the Raven’s feathers as he crawled out from under its wing, this was the ridiculous statement he heard.

“…If I really reached that level, I would absolutely deserve the title of prophet.”

Su Li was simply mocking himself and showing how he had completely given up on some of Egbert’s behavior, but…

Egbert always managed to break Su Li’s bottom line.

“You must have known the value of a third-rate mercenary early on, which is why you chose to let him live. Otherwise, a living version of him has no meaning except to eat food.”

At this, Roy, even without strength, couldn’t help but kick him. “Are your words something a human should say?”

Egbert continued as if he hadn’t heard. “Lord Su Li’s wisdom already rivals that of gods.”

“If one day Lord Su Li wishes to become a god, I suggest you use the title God of Wisdom, and if you are willing to become a god, from now on, I will begin preparing a temple for you.”

Su Li: ???

Su Li looked helpless. “I already said it’s impossible that I foresaw Roy’s current usefulness back then.”

Su Li also treated the latter part of the statement as if it were air. As long as he didn’t answer, he wouldn’t feel like the concentration of weirdness around him was too high.

Egbert had a “I’m not listening” expression.

Roy’s expression became solemn for a moment, then he asked Egbert. “Have you already thought about what might happen if what we buried earlier is discovered by others?”

“Not in that much detail,” Egbert answered honestly.

Earlier, he had only thought of the possibility and how to guide that possibility into reality from his perspective.

But Roy directly looked at Egbert like he was looking at a pervert. “So you did think about it, right!”

What would happen after Egbert’s magnum opus with Su Li’s name blacked out was circulated?

At first, Roy couldn’t imagine what he was thinking now.

Even with deep thought, Roy didn’t believe that people who had never seen Su Li would develop absolute faith in him because of a book.

After all, when he first saw the book, Roy just thought Egbert was too outrageous and always believed Egbert was overthinking things. At that time, he didn’t think Su Li was really that smart.

As for later, when he not only changed his view but uncontrollably developed admiration for the little master…

That was also combined with real-world changes.

If he hadn’t seen the changes caused by Su Li, how could he possibly believe that everything described in the book was real?

Humans shouldn’t be so easily biased and gullible, right?

…Probably.

But what if it came with Su Li being able to call down lightning…

And, when everyone was in the dark, the Pope’s plot, which he had prepared for many years and about which no one had any concept of Su Li, had already been completely unraveled by Su Li?

Roy couldn’t help but imagine that this neurotic Egbert must have already prepared to spread word about Su Li under the guise of “the deceased Godfrey.”

Otherwise, why would he be talking about a “temple” now?

Then when he asked, Egbert actually admitted it.

“Why are you nodding?!”

“Then why are you asking me?”

Roy stared at Egbert seriously for ten seconds before saying, “Count me in.”

Egbert gave him a “that’s all you’ve got” look in return.

Roy pretended not to see it, playing blind.

Su Li himself, who didn’t know the concept that Godfrey = Su Li, gazed far towards where the Pope had fallen and said softly, “Let’s go see.”

That attack wasn’t enough to kill the Pope. The continuous thunder in the sky now was just a means to prevent the Pope from flying up again.

As long as he remained on the ground, the Pope, who didn’t possess the suppressive attack method of aerial combat, would become…

A sitting duck under the assault of countless people.

As soon as Su Li finished speaking, the Raven returned to the size of an ordinary crow.

But when he wanted to perch on Su Li’s arm again, staying in this subtle position that allowed for both offense and defense, Egbert squinted his eyes at him.

“Do you have any self-awareness about your weight?”

How big was the raven at its largest?

Egbert couldn’t describe it accurately, but back in Jisuo Town, when the Raven first entered that town, everyone in the town felt like night had fallen.

Remember, that was a large town with more than a hundred thousand people.

“But after I shrink, my weight decreases accordingly,” the Raven explained after a pause.

“No means no,” Egbert still objected.

He even said in a very firm tone. “I’m not jealous that you can perch in Lord Su Li’s palm. I just think that a crow as big as you standing on Lord Su Li’s arm, making him hold his arm up for you to stand steadily…”

“However you look at it, it’s not appropriate.”

The Raven had initially been making excuses for Egbert, wondering if he thought having the Raven stand on Su Li’s arm would cause one arm to bear weight while the other didn’t, leading to a difference in thickness between the two arms.

But after hearing Egbert’s words, he understood everything.

The pitch-black crow expressionlessly opened its beak. “What you’re feeling isn’t envy, it’s clearly jealousy.”

Then, the Raven stood steadily on Su Li’s arm.

Egbert: ………………

Roy asked him quietly. “Not enraged to death yet?”

Then in the blink of an eye, Roy was pierced all over by daggers from Egbert’s eyes.

“Tsk, you deserve it!” Roy hoped that everyone who interacted with Egbert could abandon their conscience.

After decisively making this comment, Roy followed in Su Li’s footsteps.

The Pope’s landing position wasn’t too far from them, but there was still some distance.

The white small building surrounded by Daphne flowers had already collapsed into ruins. Now, the Pope was located behind that building.

His body was completely numb.

After being struck head-on by the sudden lightning without any preparation, the Pope not only couldn’t conduct suppressive aerial combat, but his body also developed obvious stiffness.

But when he saw Su Li and the others approaching, he couldn’t help but reveal a cruel smile.

“I thought weaklings and waste people like you would have died already.”

“Really?” Roy, unhappy with the Pope’s malicious gaze directed at Su Li, said, “You don’t really think all those unconscious people are dead, do you?”

“From what I can see, your own daughter is still alive, though just barely alive.”

“It’s really too much. You weren’t even planning to spare your own daughter…” Roy obviously thought of his own past, and his eyes uncontrollably became extremely dangerous. “Even tigers don’t eat their cubs. You really are a beast!”

Little did he know that after his speech, the Pope’s face grew even darker.

“So, the rumors in the city weren’t spread by Leirela?”

Roy was stunned for a moment when he heard this name. He wasn’t good at remembering any female names except his wife’s. Although it’s not like he remembered his wife’s name either; he just lived on under his wife’s name for a very, very long time.

“Whether it was or wasn’t, what difference does it make to you?” Su Li intercepted the conversation Roy was about to continue. Some comments weren’t suitable for Roy’s ears.

The Pope laughed deeply. When his gloomy eyes stared at Su Li, it was as if he were looking at a corpse.

His stiff fingers slightly raised, directly producing a light element ball that shot straight at Su Li’s face.

This attack, however, was blocked by someone who hadn’t appeared until now, in another instance the Pope hadn’t anticipated.

“I’ll say this, there are some things you can do to me, and I’ll allow it. After all, I’m somewhat the type who doesn’t care when I’m harsh on myself.”

A hoarse female voice sounded. Mavis moved with just one flash and stood in front of everyone. She raised her hand, and a pure black small defensive magic array flashed in front, easily blocking the Pope’s attack.

“It doesn’t matter if you hurt me, but if you want to hurt this child…”

“That is absolutely not allowed!”

Mavis made several gestures in front of her chest, like an orchestra conductor.

Her heterochromatic silver and black eyes stared at the Pope, and the eerie aura grew increasingly thick.

“Hahaha, hahahaha.” The Pope suddenly burst into laughter.

His earlier sudden attack wasn’t really intended to kill Su Li on the spot; he just wanted to see Su Li and the others’ reactions.

To judge from their reactions how much Su Li actually knew.

But now Mavis’s sudden appearance proved that Su Li didn’t just know to some degree, but rather…

He knew everything.

It’s hard to imagine that a former Son of Light who should have been dead and gone half a year ago, and another Dark Holy Maiden who led the Dark Church and created countless terrors in the Inner City, would both be protecting the same person at the same time.

But that’s exactly what was happening.

“So you’ve betrayed me too.” The Pope’s pupils under his wrinkled eyelids grew sharper.

For the Pope, whether Su Li knew or didn’t know didn’t matter.

If he didn’t know, everyone here would die.

If he knew, it just gave everyone here one more reason to die.

“Don’t talk about betrayal. It’s more accurate to say I never obeyed in the first place.”

Mavis looked at the Pope indifferently.

But only Su Li behind her could see that this woman, who normally had the word “arrogance” engraved on her soul, was now uncontrollably trembling with fear.

Fear, of course she would be afraid.

In this world where everyone undergoes unified elemental testing at age five, it was as if Mavis, upon discovering she possessed two elements at that age, was immediately taken away by the Pope of Light.

Her family would even be happy about her being taken by the Pope of Light.

Clergy, how nice that sounds. Clergy, how noble that sounds.

But the reality was that Mavis suffered sustained physical and mental harm.

Day after day.

From initially resisting, not understanding why she was being beaten by the high and mighty people of the Church of Light, to when they finally gave a reason, it was only: “Your existence itself is a sin.”

When all the clergy told Mavis she was sinful, what could a child do except doubt herself?

At this point, the Pope only needed to appear, tell Mavis in a gentle manner how she could atone for her sins, and Mavis had no choice but to believe.

But ultimately, brainwashing couldn’t overcome the naturally peculiar temperament of dark elementalists.

From the moment Mavis was sent to the Dark Church and told the Dark Pope about the Pope appointing her as a spy, Mavis gradually awoke during the subsequent days when she no longer had to live in fear.

But awakening didn’t mean she could escape the Pope’s threats.

Every time the two elements within her body were actively triggered by the Pope to fight each other, Mavis would suffer tremendous damage.

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As it happened more frequently, this damage affected not only her body but also her lifespan.

Fear emerged through these repeated injuries.

But fear was not enough to overcome her character.

Mavis coldly looked at the Pope and said, “Those who attack through conspiracy will ultimately die by conspiracy.”

“Well said, I love hearing that,” Roy immediately applauded and laughed heartily.

“It’s you who will die.” The Pope, with his mottled appearance, mechanically twisted his neck. His golden eyes were covered with a layer of gloom as his gaze swept across everyone’s necks one by one.

Even from a distance, everyone could hear the cracking sounds of his skeletal joints.

Su Li hastily said, “I’ve only seen villains waste time talking and get counterattacked by the protagonist. But I’ve never seen a group of protagonists who want the villain dead yet still give them time to recover.”

With these words, Mavis was the first to charge forward.