The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 136.2 - The Beginning of Monster Beast Civilization (part 2)

The moment the horned dragon quickly stood up, the friction between its armor pieces made everyone in the room stand on edge.

“What do you know?!”

A more intense argument suddenly erupted.

“The rules of monster beasts have forbidden interference with the development of natural monster beasts by external forces for ten thousand years!”

“What do you think I could do? Sacrifice my own life to violate the rules, just for so-called friends? Don’t be ridiculous!”

Elvi sneered as she looked at Su Li.

“If it were you, would you use your own death to give that child a ‘choice’ to live when he faces a life-or-death crisis?”

Su Li knew she was referring to Cyril.

But he could respond without hesitation, “I would never, ever let those around me face such a choice.”

This was a promise.

“If such a choice truly emerged, I absolutely would not use my death to exchange for Cyril’s choice.”

Elvi sneered. “Heh.”

“You think I’m being self-righteous? You think my behavior doesn’t match reality?” Su Li seemed to be competing with Elvi to see whose smile carried more mockery.

He likewise pulled back his lips.

“Don’t underestimate humans!”

“No one’s life weighs more than another’s. If I were so pathetic that I could only use my death to exchange for a chance for Cyril to choose life, then I wouldn’t be me at all!”

Elvi stood stunned.

Su Li forcefully tore off the silk on his face. He still kept his eyes closed, maintaining a state of sightlessness, yet in that moment shouted mercilessly at Elvi, “Human growth emerges from countless choices, but choice is a self-determination, not something forcibly granted by external factors.”

“Monster beasts, no matter how strong or long-lived, you will never match the endless growth potential of humans!”

Just a bunch of living corpses.

Su Li finally told Elvi, “I won’t let you take Raven away.”

Afterward, Su Li, with his eyes closed, retied the silk ribbon he held in his hand.

Elvi Bessemer stood in place for a very long time.

No one knew what the dragon-horned lady was thinking at that moment.

But everyone knew that in this verbal confrontation between human and dragon, Su Li had achieved an absolute victory.

Whether it was Su Li’s conversation after removing the ribbon, or the continuous questioning that seemed to come after abandoning reason, these all became the driving force that pushed Elvi into the deep pit Su Li had dug.

In fact, this trap had existed from the beginning.

The weak could become weaker, but the strong, like Elvi Bessemer, had always remained strong.

So would the strong never change?

No, the reality was that even the slightest change from the weak could cause earth-shattering consequences.

Su Li had already started eating the meal Mark brought out after Lan Zhe’s examination confirmed that Cyril’s body was not seriously injured.

Roy was standing beside him, serving him food with clean serving chopsticks.

When it came to taking care of people, Egbert was truly wholehearted; he would only pile everything he considered good in front of Su Li.

But Roy, who had experience with family life, could better judge what Su Li needed at the moment.

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So after losing the opportunity to serve food, Roy successfully received Egbert’s resentful glance.

The two-star mercenary didn’t care; he even brought out a bowl full of various raw grains and pushed it toward Su Li.

Su Li casually took the bowl and, with movements noticeably more rigid than usual, began feeding the Raven.

He was thinking.

Elvi’s words had revealed too much information.

High-level monster beasts could not interfere with the growth of natural monster beasts. This inability to interfere, with the changes of the times, must have become a general understanding within the contemporary monster beast civilization.

The situation with Na’an, where only the Raven had provided some assistance from the monster beast side, confirmed that Elvi wasn’t lying.

And this understanding of non-interference, established by rules set countless years ago, had gradually been instilled in the minds of monster beasts within their civilization as a concept that could not be violated or changed.

And no monster beast would question the reason.

If the survival of the fittest in human circles was a rule created by monster beasts, then what about the rules that monster beasts themselves followed—who created those?

Su Li chose to temporarily ignore this question.

There was more important intelligence that needed to be sorted out in his mind.

First, the monster beasts represented by Elvi in the monster beast civilization would die if they violated the so-called rules.

Second, if natural monster beasts referred to those like the Raven who grew up in the Beast Forest, then this would explain why Elvi, in her own concept, was not equivalent to a natural monster beast.

Natural meant conforming to natural laws, so what did unnatural mean...?

Before this question could be answered, Su Li had already fed the Raven an entire bowl of mixed grains.

No one paid attention to whether the Raven was full or not.

A ninth-level monster beast in its original form was unlikely to be satisfied with just one bowl of mixed grains.

What was more interesting now was...

Elvi had voluntarily sat down at the table.

No one dared to ask if she wanted to eat human food. Mark acted as if nothing had happened, as if he knew nothing, treating Elvi like a difficult guest who might take offense if not served properly.

Mark chose to serve rice to Elvi and handed her chopsticks and a knife and fork.

The dragon picked up the bowl, copying Su Li’s movements, but seemed to have no idea how to eat.

No one questioned her actions, nor did anyone question her reason for mimicking.

Su Li simply asked when he learned that Elvi was sitting at the same table. “Do you really have to take the Raven away?”

Elvi put down the bowl and utensils she couldn’t figure out how to use. She looked at Su Li, whose face was still covered with the silk ribbon, and before answering that question, her absolute control over the elements allowed Elvi to discover, just by “looking,” that Su Li kept his eyes closed behind the ribbon, never opening them.

Elvi chose not to answer Su Li’s question, but instead asked him, “For you, what lies behind the so-called shame?”

What did it mean for Su Li to be unwilling to see her human form’s nakedness?

This counter-question instantly filled Elvi’s mind.

She wanted an answer, and before getting it, she would not choose to tell Su Li the answer to his question.

“Perhaps what I say won’t match what you want to know,” Su Li stated in advance.

Elvi: “I don’t care, I just want to know what you mean by your sense of shame when facing me.”

“It refers to civilization, to what belongs exclusively to humans and differs from monster beasts,” Su Li said in a clear voice. When he didn’t guide the conversation with emotions, listening to him speak was like a pleasure for others.

“Rather than a sense of shame, it is more a sense of decency. Propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame are inevitable products after humans emerge from the stage of primitive intelligence. In some sense, this mindset is the most fundamental principle that distinguishes humans from beasts. Whether it’s insulting abuse or the expression ‘beast in human clothing,’ they all fundamentally adhere to the principle of decency. From a human perspective, only animals would mate in public.”

“Of course, this is just part of a biased concept. Since there’s a saying that even fierce tigers don’t eat their cubs, it shows that when humans abandon civilization, their actions can be worse than those of wild beasts.”

“Therefore, what you consider as submission to your physical strength is absolutely not a habit of following the strong, from my perspective. Rather, it’s a bandit’s act trying to make me abandon principles I’ve upheld for many years and act according to your logic.”

So, when shame was first mentioned, Su Li had silently jabbed at Elvi. From his perspective, what Elvi said was naturally trampling on a civilization different from her own.

Su Li told Elvi, “I will always be proud of the words ‘human civilization.’”

Elvi was silent for a long time.

But ultimately, she didn’t continue on this topic and instead answered the question about the Raven.

“Yes,” she said.

Su Li: “?”

Elvi looked at the young man. “I must take the Raven away.”

“From the moment I appeared here, this matter has no longer been something that needs to be discussed with humans.”

“The value of natural monster beasts is strength in terms of another set of rules. Even if his power is weak now...”

Everyone was stunned by the words “power is weak.”

The Raven, with weak power...

Even the coldest joke wouldn’t be this cold.

Yet these words were uttered by a dragon in human form.

“I cannot choose to give him up.”

“Why?” Su Li asked.

“What makes you choose not to give him up?”

“Or to be more precise, what happened in the monster beast civilization that requires you to find the Raven?”

Just as the Raven could see that Elvi’s identity was extraordinary, Su Li could also perceive this point.

To be able to control the wind without the slightest disturbance with such a powerful body...

Even monster beasts with power levels several tiers above the Raven couldn’t achieve this so easily.

Control over elements and control over elemental rules were two different concepts.

Su Li had initially considered whether it was necessary to get Elvi away, privately unite the people inside the small building, and discuss the conclusions he had drawn from the existing information. But when he learned that Elvi was a wind element and what she had done before, this idea was instantly blown away.

What was wind?

Wind existed in all objects’ movements.

Breathing, talking, walking.

As long as an object wasn’t absolutely still, it would definitely generate wind, and control over wind rules would presumably enable Elvi, whose power already far surpassed human levels, to easily eavesdrop on any information she wanted to know.

Humans had no ability to resist.

They couldn’t communicate privately or communicate with eye contact.

Even if eye communication was useless, the inability to communicate privately also meant that any information Su Li wanted to tell others would require Elvi to voluntarily output what she already knew.

“That’s not something you should know,” Elvi said.

Her tone was no longer one that faintly contained condescension.

What did Na’an represent to Elvi?

The dragon couldn’t describe it with her existing vocabulary, but after Su Li pointed everything out, Elvi’s first reaction wasn’t anger, which might have arisen in a truly savage and arrogant being, but grief that silently rose from the depths of her heart after she calmed down.

She had done nothing.

Yet she demanded that her friend must take what she considered the correct choice.

The truth was as cruel as if a blade had pierced her heart.

But if it weren’t for this heart-striking conversation, Elvi Bessemer, this dragon, might have forever harbored anger toward her friend who had died long ago.

Elvi appreciated this point, which was why she warned Su Li, “Even if I don’t place a fraction of my attention on you, don’t think that absolute zero elemental affinity is truly equivalent to the concept of worthlessness that humans have assigned to you.”

“Don’t try to approach that world.”

Elvi said, “For you, it’s a hell from which there’s no escape once you make contact.”

“What about Cyril?” Su Li didn’t care about the information Elvi was revealing now.

Su Li also had that touch of youthful loyalty that he didn’t want to hide.

Although this loyalty wasn’t the true fearlessness that belonged to youth.

After weighing that he could easily die no matter what he did, entering the monster beast civilization versus not entering it, in his view, the difference was probably between dying suddenly at home one day, or entering the monster beast world, trying to make a change, and being targeted and killed.

In the world before his transmigration, there was an overused saying:

—— “If you’re going to die, at least die knowing the truth.”

Su Li didn’t want to live in confusion, nor did he want to die in confusion.

He needed to have some pursuit.

Of course, before he could fulfill his mission of dying with clarity, he first needed to confirm what would become of Cyril as a monster beast who had awakened monster beast bloodline.

Su Li never imagined that this question would be the beginning of opening the abyss.

How would Cyril’s future develop?

When Su Li showed no concern for what might happen to himself, Elvi understood that Su Li must get an answer to this question.

The dragon didn’t dislike this young man who dared to argue with her.

After saying, “Since you’ve already prepared for an early death, I don’t mind letting you die with clarity,” Elvi began to explain to Su Li what monster beast civilization was built upon.

However, what truly amazed Su Li was the fact that Elvi Bessemer, this dragon, had once been human.

As everyone knew, Elvi initially appeared to be a somewhat lovesick character.

More than 200 years ago, a young dragon girl was deceived by a human noble, and after uniting with this human noble, Elvi gave birth to Cyril’s ancestor, who had mixed blood from her lineage.

But this “birth,” why did it far exceed the reproductive speed of eighth-level monster beasts?

Pure-blooded Crystal Winged Dragons required a hundred years of gestation and a hundred years of hatching.

What about higher level dragons?

Theoretically, they should require even longer.

Even if humans had the concept of ten-month pregnancies, Cyril’s predecessors, as beings born from a monster beast, couldn’t possibly defy monster beast reproductive logic and truly develop several generations in just over 200 years, like humans.

And the truth behind this—

Was because Elvi Bessemer had once been human.

Like Cyril, Elvi was also a person who had awakened dragon bloodline.

But unlike the current Cyril, she had undergone blood purification to become a dragon.

And if Elvi wanted her descendants to become like her, then Cyril’s upcoming development would be to have all traces of human-related bloodline completely cleansed, and all the blood in his body would be replaced with Elvi’s blood.

As long as this process was realized, Cyril would break away from the concept of humanity and move toward becoming a true dragon species, transforming into a true dragon.

When Elvi Bessemer awakened her dragon bloodline, underwent blood purification, and entered monster beast civilization...

She ran away.

Emotionally, she still considered herself human, but physically, Elvi Bessemer was a monster beast through and through.

She returned to human society.

But her kind could not accept an entirely non-human existence.

Especially when humans understood how valuable a dragon was...