The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 19 - Atmosphere

The appearance of Egbert meant that the conflict would be fully brought to the forefront.

His identity as a “traitor” was revealed when he didn’t disguise himself and directly attacked the church members using light elements.

The church member who engaged Egbert in battle looked shocked. Several people in white robes behind him directly shouted, “Egbert!”

“I didn’t expect you to come to Sadina City.”

Egbert’s expression was cold. Faced with this obvious attempt to shift blame and engage in conspiracy theories, he chose to respond with even more forceful actions.

The person who first crossed swords with Egbert was surprised to find that not only had Egbert not suffered any physical damage during the pursuit, but his strength had actually increased.

His already shocked expression now looked comical enough to stuff an egg in his mouth.

Then the few people behind Egbert’s opponent exchanged glances, and in an instant surrounded Egbert in the middle.

This series of actions once again insulted Su Li’s dynamic vision. By the time he could see clearly, an old man had drawn a long sword from his staff and was swinging it, its cold light flashing as it pointed directly at Egbert’s neck.

That person sneered and said, “Your life will be taken by me, Heinacius, captain of the second division of the Order of the Knights of Light!”

“You think you’re capable?” The coldness in Egbert’s eyes was bone-chilling. Not only did he not avoid the sword coming straight at his face, he even moved towards it.

Su Li drew in a sharp breath, unable to understand why Egbert, who should have been using intimidation tactics, had directly charged in.

Su Li believed he understood Egbert’s behavioral patterns fairly well.

Not long ago, even Mark, who had the status of a kidnapper, wasn’t directly pummeled into the ground by Egbert. Now, even if the church’s past framing had angered him, Egbert shouldn’t be this irrational.

Fortunately, the church member who had drawn the sword from his staff didn’t cause any harm to Egbert. Instead, that seemingly expensive sword directly turned into a puddle of glowing red liquid under the effect of light and heat.

Heinacius’s boasting instantly turned to fear. He retreated more than ten meters, hiding behind the other church members, as if trying to get others to fight Egbert to the death. He shouted from where he stood, “Killing the traitor is something all Knights of Light should give their all for. Why aren’t you acting? Do you want to disobey the bishop’s orders?”

“You can’t say it like that, Heinacius. Just now, you clearly took the initiative for merit, and now that you’ve found you can’t win, you want to drag us down with you… Heh, you don’t need to pressure us with the bishop. As long as we are believers of the God of Light, we naturally won’t allow a traitor to continue living in this world.”

“Such a filthy existence should be ground to dust and scattered to prove the radiance of the God of Light!”

“The vengeful spirits of the civilians who died in Siliqing City are all following Egbert.” A Knight of Light who had been observing Heinacius’s self-serving actions and appropriately taking advantage of the battle sneered.

In terms of the art of speaking, Heinacius was completely crushed.

Subsequently, those church members who had previously surrounded Egbert but hadn’t actively attacked finally began to give it their all.

The chaos at the city gate was immediately reported to Euphia by quick-thinking mercenaries. She and the Lion’s Club leader hurried over and immediately tried to stop the fighting between the two parties.

Concern for Su Li’s safety was one thing, but the fact that one gate had been demolished and nearby houses had turned into ruins on a large scale was another matter.

Euphia absolutely would not allow the city she wanted to protect to be turned into ruins by outsiders right before her eyes.

“Stop!”

A fire dragon about ten meters long swiftly flew over the street, and the temperature in the air rapidly rose.

At the same time, the Lion’s Club leader, who also cared about this city, used his control over the wind element to conjure a pale green tornado. Empowered by this, the fire dragon directly blew the Knights of Light surrounding Egbert into the sky.

As the chaos escalated, Su Li was taken to a relatively safe location by Cyril.

At this moment, he was crouching in a secluded corner, observing a battle style that greatly compressed his past views.

“Daring to fight at the gates of Sadina City… Knights of Light, are you trying to make an enemy of the Alliance?” Euphia’s tone grew sharper. “Or has your Pope finally decided to slaughter everyone who disagrees with him?”

“Heh.” Heinacius wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth after landing and sneered, “I’d like to ask you, someone who dares to harbor a traitor to the Church, even letting an existence abandoned by the God of Light live in this city… Are you prepared for a death warrant issued jointly by the twelve divisions of the Knights of Light?”

“Shut your dog mouth.” Euphia raised her chin, her usually bright eyes now emitting a knife-like sharpness. “Neither Sadina City nor the Mercenary Guild is for a small team captain of the Knights of Light to dictate.”

“If you dare to put those baseless labels on my head again…” Euphia sneered, “I guarantee that before your group of knights can jointly issue a death warrant, your ashes will be scattered in Sadina City’s largest toilet pit.”

The six flames dancing beside Euphia made the air increasingly hot, and her undisguised killing intent made cold sweat run down Heinacius’s temples as he involuntarily took a step back.

The Lion’s Club leader voluntarily acted as a third party, spreading false information while pretending to mediate. “There’s no need to be so confrontational. Why don’t we sit down and talk things over? Sadina City’s barley wine is famous across the entire continent.”

“There’s nothing to discuss.” Egbert acted as if he didn’t know the Lion’s Club leader. He stared at Heinacius, his eyes conveying that he absolutely wouldn’t let him off.

“From the moment the Church dared to label me a traitor, I was destined to fight them all to the death.”

“Ah, of course,” Egbert’s voice was full of mockery, “If the so-called God of Light would protect his followers, you lot certainly wouldn’t die here.”

“Would. You. Not?”

The moment the last word fell, a temperature so high it was hard to imagine directly melted half of Heinacius’s arm before he could react.

Screams of agony filled the air. Behind them, Cyril immediately covered Su Li’s eyes.

“Don’t look!”

Su Li didn’t try to remove the hands covering his eyes.

Because what he should or shouldn’t have seen, he had already seen.

He had never doubted the dangers and cruelty of this world.

With Cyril’s hands covering his eyes, Su Li lost his vision but his hearing became more acute. He heard the church member who earlier seemed at odds with Heinacius using rhetoric to try and disrupt the hard-won peace of Sadina City.

“In the name of the Church of Light, I demand that the Mercenary Alliance assist us in capturing the traitor. Egbert, who colluded with monsters and harmed countless civilians, is heinously guilty. He made half the civilians of Siliqing City food for monsters.”

These words were meant to make Euphia, who had originally planned to silence them, turn towards a rational analysis of the situation.

“He must die here, otherwise who can guarantee that the iron hooves of monsters won’t trample Sadina City next?”

The mercenaries who had been questioning the church members suddenly froze. They began to whisper among themselves, “Is what that church dog saying true?”

“Siliqing City did indeed suffer a large-scale monster invasion recently, and there’s evidence suggesting those monsters were deliberately lured there.”

But whether it was the so-called traitor who did it couldn’t be determined.

The church’s influence was vast, and under their absolute authority, voices of doubt were often squeezed out of existence before they could be voiced.

While the mercenaries in the city could still sarcastically question whether the church was again eliminating dissenters, the residents had already fallen into panic upon hearing that Egbert was a traitor who colluded with monsters.

Even though everyone in this world had elemental affinity and could cultivate elements, the difference in their power levels could be as vast as Euphia being able to summon fire dragons, while those with average abilities could only light a candle flame.

The panic among the civilians, under the guidance of the speaking church member, was spreading more and more.

“The Church’s influence reaches every corner of the world. We have no intention of occupying Sadina City. On the contrary, it’s you who remain silent and inactive. Could it be that you want to defy the will of the God of Light and harbor a traitor?”

Show weakness to the enemy, show threat to the enemy.

“Or…” the representative of Light’s face turned as grim as a ghost, “do you also want Sadina City to become the next Siliqing City?”

The former statement attempted to stand on moral high ground, instructing people and declaring their harmlessness. But the latter was a blatant threat – either help target Egbert, or someday, the many mercenaries who don’t listen to the Pope will become ghosts under the iron hooves of monsters.

Su Li guessed that the Knight of Light speaking now had probably listed the information about Egbert’s familiarity with Euphia as the basis for conversation from the moment he saw Egbert.

Thus, this threat, incomprehensible to others, could be brazenly uttered.

Mercenaries were a profession built on the foundation of commoners and nobles. When commoners and nobles unanimously ordered them to attack Egbert, what would Euphia do?

That Knight of Light, with an ambiguous smile, quietly watched Egbert, who stood not far away with a stone-cold face but no longer attacking.

Euphia’s face instantly turned as ugly as if ink had been splashed on it.

Su Li pushed away Cyril’s hand from his eyes, which had been unconsciously pressing harder due to anger. The one labeled by the church as an existence despised by the God of Light tilted his head, looking extremely harmless.

Under the shadow of the high wall, his emerald eyes appeared extremely dim, but Su Li’s tone was slightly cheerful as he said. “I guarantee that before you create those problems, they will deal with you first.”

“And then, of course, there will be no more problems.”

The words Su Li uttered easily made the Knight of Light, who had been suppressing everyone with his words, turn as pale as a ghost.

Euphia and the others quickly realized that if they silenced everyone present, even if the Church of Light had other ideas, they absolutely couldn’t lay hands on Sadina City over the Mercenary Alliance.

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At that moment, a hint of viciousness flickered in the Knight of Light’s pupils.

The next second, an unpredictable attack rushed straight towards Su Li’s head…