The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 102

Unfortunately, they hadn’t achieved any good results.

Su Li watched as Mavis tried everything, opposing the Pope, yet still couldn’t gain the upper hand.

Defeating the Pope was truly difficult, especially knowing about that particular possibility.

Su Li never knew that he could maintain such extreme calmness to think clearly while people around him were fighting for their lives.

Though he’d never had the opportunity to face such a situation before.

What was the possibility he had imagined earlier because of the Raven?

At that time, everything had been swallowed inside, impossible to contemplate deeply, but now he could recall it precisely.

What kind of person was the Pope?

Without discussing his personality, just considering his actions, one could clearly feel that this was a person who would use any means to achieve his goals.

Thinking about something previously deliberately overlooked—why the King was still alive—revealed an inconsistency.

Why was the King still alive now?

“Now” didn’t refer to the current moment, but rather from the moment the Pope revealed Ophelia’s true identity to her, the King should have no longer needed to continue living.

Using the Son of Heaven to command the feudal lords—for a conspirator who could lay in wait for decades, this maneuver shouldn’t be difficult.

At that time, with the King dead, when all his children were still young or even unborn, the Pope could have chosen to support anyone to take the throne and thoroughly brainwash that person.

Of course, there was also the possibility that the Pope might not have been seated as Pope back then, and his strength wasn’t as formidable as now, so constrained by reality, he couldn’t accurately complete his objective as imagined.

If we reason from this, a second question emerges.

What was the reason for exchanging Ophelia and Xiao Zuo’s talents?

It was easy to see that this pair of siblings had their talents switched.

Ophelia had golden eyes but was a water elementalist, while Xiao Zuo had ice-blue eyes but was a light elementalist. Unless it was absurd to the point where Leirela and the Pope had blood relations, no matter how you looked at it, the two were related to experimentation.

Castor, a researcher who once tried to cooperate with Qi, had privately told Su Li a lot of information.

For instance, there had once been a successful experiment in exchanging elemental affinities…

Assuming Castor’s successful experiment referred to Ophelia and Xiao Zuo, another question arose: why would the Pope allow such an experiment?

With 100% elemental affinity, even for a child, strength could increase with each breath. For the Pope at that age, brainwashing a daughter with such talent shouldn’t have been very difficult.

Why would he make things so complicated?

And what was the value of the experiment?

Xiao Zuo wasn’t the Pope’s child, so why, in all his conspiracies, did the Pope show that he wanted Xiao Zuo to inherit his position?

Before completing the seizure of the country, planning to hand over his position to the son of someone he considered an opponent…

What kind of earth-shattering fatherly love would that be?

Since this possibility didn’t exist, it meant that Xiao Zuo inheriting the Pope’s position would have clear advantages for the Pope.

Simply put, the Pope wouldn’t do anything without benefits.

So, with teenage Xiao Zuo taking the Pope’s position, coincidentally possessing the King’s bloodline, the only or remaining possibility was just one.

–Soul possession.

If the elemental affinity experiment could succeed, it proved that this talent, although cognitively judged extremely important for humans—just as many people would immediately label Su Li as a waste, and if he possessed this power, he wouldn’t suffer such one-sided discrimination—

But for humans, elemental affinity wasn’t essentially that important.

Having it was fine, but not having it wouldn’t kill you.

This power, for the human body, was dispensable.

This point could be referenced by Su Li.

As someone with absolutely zero elemental affinity, Su Li still lived in this world, without inexplicable weakening, inexplicable illnesses, or inexplicable rejection phenomena.

All this proved that this world essentially composed of elements…

In the beginning, perhaps humans didn’t exist at all.

Ignoring this uncontrollable extension, nearly touching on the essence of the world.

Su Li returned to the previous possibility of the Pope possessing Xiao Zuo.

When Su Li had previously stopped the Raven from acting, besides thinking of this possibility, he thought of another point.

Where did the Pope learn about soul possession?

After one question arose, countless others followed.

In a world unchanged for thousands of years, where did this information come from that the Pope could learn about it?

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Unimaginable.

The intelligence seemed to be cut off, causing Su Li to enter a stalemate state when he uncontrollably speculated to this point.

When Su Li emerged from his thoughts, he sensed Egbert and Roy’s uncontrollable rapid breathing.

Unlike Mavis, who previously had thoughts of taking down the Pope, these two had openly acted to delay time, not truly to let the Pope recover, but to allow themselves to recover.

The elemental reserves in the human body normally couldn’t be 100% consumed; more or less, 1% would remain.

This was a human instinct to avoid personal danger.

But when Su Li had mentioned “all,” that 1% had also been squeezed empty by these two men who didn’t think about themselves at all.

They needed time to recover, so Mavis, who originally wasn’t supposed to appear, had appeared.

The Raven’s intelligence was well-hidden, and very few knew of its existence. Even those who knew only regarded it as a general low-level monster beast tamed by humans.

After all, changing size was something even third-level monster beasts could do.

Mavis, who was unaware of this ace card, walked out knowing the Pope would provoke the conflict between the two elements within her body.

This meant she knew…

She would die once she came out.

Su Li felt like he was back before his transmigration, sitting in a room with 100% light-blocking curtains drawn, coldly tapping at the keyboard, constantly perfecting in his mind how players would react to what they saw on screen.

Just like now, he knew the Pope wouldn’t die, and he also knew Mavis would very likely die.

But “very likely” wasn’t absolute.

Su Li personally saw Mavis being hit head-on by a white-gold complex pattern formation, spitting blood as she flew backward.

Yet Su Li remained extremely calm in his thoughts as the Pope laughed wildly.

Especially when the Pope blurted out: “You think just with you people you can hurt me?”

“Even if everyone in this city combined, you would have no resistance against me.”

His highly raised chin fell back after saying this, as he gazed at Su Li’s position from afar.

Was the distance ten meters or twenty?

Su Li felt he couldn’t accurately estimate this part of the distance anymore.

But…

When the Pope wanted to attack proactively, Su Li tilted his head and said matter-of-factly, “I don’t think resistance can be compared to an ambush.”

The Pope’s face instantly became extremely gloomy. “Useless trash, who do you think you’re talking to?”

But Su Li was very sincere, with sincere eyes and an equally sincere tone. “Of course I’m talking to an old man in his seventies or eighties, who can’t see the world clearly, doesn’t understand that he has been in a conspiracy from the beginning to the end, and still stubbornly thinks…”

“He can escape death.”

Su Li’s face quickly changed to an apologetic expression. With one arm straight, barely moving his arm but waving his palm up and down, he said, “Sorry, the above words aren’t complete. To be precise, it should be, you’re just a stubborn idiot who thinks you can escape the cycle of death.”

Su Li also pretended to look puzzled at the Pope, his slightly tilted head infinitely mocking.

“By the way, do you know what ‘idiot’ means? If you don’t know, I can tell you now.”

Su Li’s lips curved into a brilliant smile. His hairstyle, which had previously been blown backward by the fierce wind, was now moistened by the humid air. His emerald eyes, after being washed clean by the raindrops from the sky, seemed even clearer.

Even from a distance, the gorilla enhanced by elements could see just how transparent those emerald eyes were.

Yet this youth, who matched words like clean and clear, unhesitatingly gave the Pope the middle finger.

“Please, you don’t really think our choice of an ambush battle was a difficult decision made after hasty preparation, do you?”

From afar, the Pope could see those lips, slightly trembling in the cold air, uttering word by word. “We chose to ambush you in the palace because we had already prepared for your inevitable death.”

“Ah ah…”

Su Li deliberately elongated his tone. Like a rich young master strolling in a garden, he lazily stroked the black crow standing calmly on his forearm.

The bird’s chin feathers were extremely soft, and when gently rubbed, one could feel the Raven’s involuntary dodging due to sensitivity.

Too leisurely.

Unnaturally leisurely.

The Pope couldn’t help thinking this.

It was as if, though he shouldn’t listen, he still heard every word Su Li said without missing any.

“The legend of Sadina City’s prophet should have spread far, but your disregard for this will be the biggest failure of your life.”

Su Li raised his arm, and the ever-cooperative Raven, who sighed in relief at Su Li no longer rubbing its chin, walked onto the youth’s head.

Su Li stretched out both hands, in a gesture of embracing the world, and raised his head to look at the sky.

Above, there was still lightning and thunder, with continuous rumbling sounds. The high-altitude combatant who could no longer fly still lacked the final remark that would completely ignite his temperament.

Such as…

“Guess whether I know about your backup plan?”

“And guess whether I know about the strength you’ve been hiding all along?”

“Of course, I also allow you to guess what kind of scene I ‘saw’.”

These words were like bewitching words. Though not wanting to listen, one couldn’t help but engrave them in the heart.

Just like…

“Xiao Zuo didn’t come back with Ophelia, I thought that was already obvious.”

Su Li quickly lowered his highly raised head back to a normal angle. Those eyes seemed to be lit up by the lightning above, and combined with his pale lips, he appeared almost inhuman.

The exploding thunder, like cannon fire, and that sentence which couldn’t be accurately heard but was understood, entered the ears simultaneously.

“–Xiao Zuo has been dead for a long time!”

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This was a lie, but Su Li smiled as he watched the Pope rush toward him in a frenzy.

This attack was blocked by Egbert and Roy, who had recovered considerably, working together.

“You know,” Roy, facing the torrential rain pouring from the sky, sarcastically looked at the Pope from afar, “to what extent have you underestimated the prophet?”

Roy, who hadn’t dared to interject earlier to quickly recover his strength, had been holding back a lot of frustration.

Now with his power not fully recovered but at least at five-tenths, Roy’s trash talk was unrelenting.

Although he didn’t understand what Su Li’s words meant, he knew that those words were deliberately affirming to the Pope that Su Li was a prophet.

The reason? Unknown.

The rationale? Not important.

What was important was that Egbert was cooperative enough.

“Lord Su Li’s abilities, how could they possibly be understood by a selfish and extremely vicious thing like you?” After Egbert finished speaking, he proactively went forward.

What would happen next was already obvious.

Su Li had done everything he needed to do.

For instance, Mavis had once again had the conflict between dark and light elements triggered within her body by the Pope.

And, for another instance, the arrival of Lan Zhe, who had never appeared in the Pope’s sight from the beginning.

“I feel I’m not at all suited to make a stylish entrance in extreme crises and transform into a savior role to rescue people,” Lan Zhe commented half-jokingly while stuffing a pill into Mavis’s mouth.

Su Li apologetically looked at Mavis, who lay on the ground with somewhat blurred consciousness, and said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t believe you can just so carefree go straight to death now.”

Lan Zhe paused and then, with a difficult expression, pulled Mavis from lying on the ground to a stable sitting position.

“Isn’t there something wrong with what you said?”

“For someone who has already prepared for death, I think using even more malicious words to retort isn’t too much, although I haven’t deteriorated to the point of saying those trash words to a severely injured lady.”

Su Li was somewhat dissatisfied.

Although he knew Mavis would do this, knowing didn’t mean he wouldn’t be unhappy when he saw it.

How to put it…

After reviewing all the Pope’s reasons and actions in his mind, Su Li truly had a sense of being at a God’s viewpoint, watching everyone perform according to plan.

Yes, according to plan.

However, compared to the initial plan, in the actual scenario, Su Li was forced to accompany it with some impromptu performances.

For instance, he hadn’t initially understood the Pope’s reasons for doing this.

So in the original plan, Mavis would fall but before completely dying, what needed to be done was to recount her past deeds, dragging out time for the recovery of the former Son of Light and the third-rate mercenary.

This was an action planned even without Mavis knowing.

The only informed person, Lan Zhe, was also required to time his entrance perfectly.

Game designers rarely participated in their own games because it would violate certain contract rules, but this didn’t mean Su Li wasn’t clear about players’ basic game operations.

[What kind of suicidal behavior is fighting without a healer?]

Therefore, Lan Zhe had already been squatting inside the white building earlier.

When the Pope came, and later how he confronted Leirela, Lan Zhe saw it all clearly.

The excellent environment of darkness under light made him like a bystander watching a bloody CG scene, until the bloody scene turned to him, and only then did Lan Zhe, facing the wind and rain, heal Mavis back.

Moreover, this action completely eliminated the light element in Mavis’s body that didn’t belong to her.

Normally, this couldn’t be achieved. Even the Dark Pope couldn’t dispel the light element that the Pope of Light had injected into Mavis during her childhood.

But as the saying goes:

–Place in mortal danger and then revive.

The days Lan Zhe spent in the Mercenary City were practically in a naturally perfect pharmaceutical experimental environment.

Test subject number one, Egbert, who inherently possessed the light element and was extremely resistant to beating, when hammered to severe injury multiple times by the Raven, Lan Zhe, while providing medicinal assistance for treatment, also casually researched why the light element had healing effects.

Later he discovered that this wasn’t healing, but blinding.

Simply put, the optical effect of the light element, apart from simply creating some illusions… like when Egbert impersonated Godfrey in the tavern, his appearance was significantly different from his actual form.

Besides this minor change, the light element could also give directed blinding to a person’s consciousness.

The brain tells the patient, you’re injured and need treatment, but the light element can deceive the brain during battle. Then the brain tells the body, you’re fine, you can persist.

The cutting off of sensory nerves would make it impossible for a person to accurately judge their body’s state, and the bodies of the gorillas in the elemental world indeed possessed a natural, infinitely exploitable potential.

At least Egbert had never truly risked his own life.

As long as Mavis believed she was dead, the light element in her body that didn’t belong to her would disappear.

But Mavis thinking she was dead didn’t mean she was truly brain-dead.

At this point, Lan Zhe just needed to take out a pill and stuff it in, and even if not lively and energetic, at least Mavis could open her eyes peacefully.

Then Mavis directly kicked Lan Zhe away, cursing as she said, “Stay away from me.”

Then, she turned around and hugged Su Li, who had come closer to check her pupil’s light status.

Su Li: ???

Lan Zhe: ???

Dark Holy Maiden, what are you doing?! Dark Holy Maiden!

The Raven on Su Li’s head immediately began pecking at Mavis’s head.

“Let go, let go of me…” said Su Li, who was already about to roll his eyes.

“Although I know you’re immensely surprised that you’re still alive, but if you continue hugging, I can’t guarantee whether you’ll see tomorrow’s sun,” Lan Zhe threatened, squinting his eyes.

But what had more pressure was actually Egbert, who had directly thrown the Pope entirely to Roy.

Roy: ???

“You son of a…You’re something else!”

Roy cursed.

But Egbert’s appearance still prevented the possibility of Su Li being smothered unconscious.

Mavis was forced to release Su Li after Egbert appeared.

But at this moment, the Dark Holy Maiden, who seemed to have perfectly inherited the quirky traits of dark elementalists, didn’t care about Egbert’s fierce glare at her. She lowered her head, looking at the toe of Su Li who had retreated several steps, feeling the temperature brought by the breath at the tip of her nose, no longer suppressing herself, she began to chuckle.

Until later, she couldn’t control her laughter.

Several adult men couldn’t understand why she could be so happy, and although Su Li knew Mavis had reasons to be happy, he also didn’t quite understand why she could… laugh so ridiculously.

–Until Roy, who was struggling to resist the Pope, saw his opponent being blasted away by a gray elemental sphere.

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Su Li & Egbert & Lan Zhe & Roy: ???

Mavis, like a robot without lubricant, slowly crawled up from the ground.

The eeriness of her movements was enough to make everyone’s back crawl.

When she fully stood up, everyone discovered that Mavis’s heterochromatic eyes—one black, one silver—were changing: the silver was continuously deepening, while the black was continuously lightening.

Not only were her pupils changing color, but even her extremely strange hair, half white and half black, had all turned gray.

Then, Su Li felt a blur before his eyes, and Mavis’s figure was gone from his sight.

Until the sound of a building collapsing suddenly rang out in the heavy rain.

That wasn’t the collapse of those buildings continuously burning in the rain, finally unable to stand, but the scene of being directly smashed through by the Pope’s body.

“What… what is this?” Su Li was dumbfounded.

“I want to know too.” Roy’s lips trembled.

Lan Zhe, after exchanging glances with Egbert, pinched the bridge of his nose and began explaining, “No matter what kind of element, they all possess the possibility of fusion.”

The words Su Li wanted to say were blurted out by Roy: “Bullsh*t!”

“Opposing elements absolutely don’t have the possibility of fusion.”

“If you say it that way, you’re not wrong.” Lan Zhe glanced far at the scene of Mavis grabbing the Pope’s leg and smashing him violently to the ground. He swallowed and involuntarily stepped back.

This was just, just absurd!

“But two elements existing within one human body naturally possess the possibility of fusion.”

“Elements in the body are just a mass of power. That power, before being used, even though it has attributes, is still just power.”

“Only after the element is used can people more intuitively feel the attribute differences of elements.”

“For example, you can make your ice element into ice blocks, glaciers, ice spears, ice fragments…”

At this moment, in the area where Egbert and Roy had previously fought with the Pope, there was still an incompletely melted ice mountain created by Roy.

“But before those ice-related things appear, the essence of the element in your body is just a kind of power with a relatively cool temperature.”

“For instance, Euphia’s element would make her body temperature higher than normal people, but this doesn’t mean she actually has fire inside her.”

“Dark and light elements are the same.” Lan Zhe’s mouth twitched, and he said reluctantly, “I just didn’t expect that Mavis with fused light and dark elements would have such high destructive capability.”

In the end, this relatively reasonable explanation was thoughtlessly given mystical coloring by Su Li.

“Rather than saying it’s a qualitative change produced by mixing two powers, it’s more like Mavis just simply wants to hit someone now, and coincidentally there’s a target that can be beaten.”

Egbert agreed without thinking. “Lord Su Li is right!”