The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 2 - Zero Talent for Combat

The white-robed man finally brought Su Li and Cyril to a city.

Su Li guessed that the place he was originally in must have been an important transportation hub in this world.

Otherwise, the white-robed man wouldn’t have been able to escape from that place—

…

Jisuo Town, where Su Li and Cyril used to beg, was a place filled not only with poverty but also various mud-like dangers.

This town was one of the areas closest to the Beast Forest. But at the same time, as a transportation hub, once you reached this town, there were six directions you could proceed in.

First to mention is naturally the Beast Forest, known for its coexisting dangers and opportunities. Besides that, there’s the city Su Li is currently in… and other temporarily unnecessary directions.

After the white-robed man took them away from the town, the mode of transportation used was horses, which also led Su Li to judge that the background of this world probably belonged to the 18th/19th century before his transmigration.

He couldn’t discern the details, as Su Li had never studied 18th/19th century Western history. Moreover, this world had elementalists who could turn Newton’s urn lid into a coffin lid by force.

These unscientific elementalists even danced a tango on the coffin lid.

Su Li rubbed his face, which was too numb to make any expression, and looked at the white horse that seemed to be treading on auspicious clouds, just… expressionless.

Cyril, sitting in front of him, looked excited, but still constrained by the identity of the man behind them who called himself Egbert, an elementalist. His voice, blown by the wind, was so small it sounded like sleep-talking. “I, I’ve never been this close to a light element before. There’s never been a light elementalist in Jisuo Town.”

Egbert chuckled lightly behind Su Li. The vibration caused by his laughter made Su Li’s back tingle.

“Elementalists are not something to be looked up to. Everyone has the potential to become an elementalist.”

What Egbert said wasn’t just to comfort them; he was stating a fact. But this fact made Cyril lower his head for a moment.

“You’re right.”

Everyone has the potential to become an elementalist, but not everyone has the money to become one.

This information made Cyril lower his head in sorrow.

Except for the elemental test given to every child at birth by the church, any child who wants to become an elementalist without any connections or family influence needs to invest a large amount of money, and even then, there’s no guarantee of becoming a powerful elementalist.

But orphans, especially those with average talent, are neither worth others’ investment nor capable of investing in themselves.

While Su Li was still pondering about the background settings of this world, Cyril suddenly had a realization and said, “No, you’re wrong!”

Egbert: ?

Su Li: ?

Cyril suddenly raised his head and said in a somewhat proud tone, “Su Li. Su Li is someone who has no elemental affinity at all. From birth, he was determined to never be able to become an elementalist.”

Su Li: …

“If it weren’t for the fact that your tone, little golden hair, sounds like you’re showing off to someone who hasn’t seen it before, I would definitely use my hand, full of delicate bone beauty, to give you a big slap.”

On the first day of transmigrating to another world, he was indirectly sentenced by a companion, whose relationship with him was unclear, to never possess the special abilities of this world.

Although this doesn’t matter much to a slacker like Su Li, somehow, looking at Cyril’s proud face, Su Li felt an urge to spank him.

Egbert laughed even more cheerfully.

Perhaps due to an animal’s instinct sensing danger, Cyril didn’t say much else on the way to the city after that.

Su Li also didn’t want to reveal his complete ignorance of this world to its inhabitants, so the journey was completely silent.

Egbert eventually stuffed the two little ones into an inn, booked rooms for them, instructed the staff to scrub the children clean, and then went to nearby shops to buy two sets of clothes.

When the two children, dressed in clean clothes, stood before Egbert again, he suddenly recalled something a former Holy Maiden colleague had once said.

[Extreme beauty is the only thing that can rival light.]

And now it was just like that.

Cyril didn’t quite reach that level. His slightly curly golden hair and ocean-blue eyes, combined with his extremely thin frame, only made people think he was a pitiful fellow, like a dog with nowhere to belong.

But Su Li, this child with platinum hair and emerald eyes like mountains, rivers, and lakes, made people feel beauty the moment he was properly groomed.

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It was an extraordinarily unique beauty.

He had an extremely obvious lazy quality about him, a uniqueness that seemed to disregard everything in the world yet still existed within it, elevating what would otherwise be just a beautiful face to a level of strange magnificence.

Even his eyes made one think of a series of nature-related things.

Mysterious, beautiful.

But for the person in question, who had finally gotten hold of a mirror…

“Looks like I’m a bit better-looking than I imagined. Wonder how much money I could make relying on my face.”

When Egbert heard this, he vaguely felt that something invisible had shattered. But even so, he could hardly feel strange about it, and just said with a bitter smile, “I’ve never heard of anyone being able to make a living off their face.”

Su Li wanted to say that Egbert was just ignorant, but he still remembered that he had been in this world for less than a day.

He couldn’t very well compare his understanding of this world with that of a native, could he? That would only make him look like an idiot.

Meanwhile, Cyril was tugging at his clean clothes with a strange look, appearing quite uncomfortable. Su Li glanced at him but made no move to comfort him. Instead, he addressed Egbert. “What do you plan to do next?”

Egbert removed the hood he had been wearing on his head until now. Like Cyril, he also had blue eyes, but as he looked at Su Li with eyes full of mirth, his words became playful rather than composed. “I thought I should be the one asking that question.”

Su Li shrugged. “Actually, when you took us away from that town, my only thought was: begging in a big city would be a bit better than begging in that chaotic place.”

In other words, they could simply change locations and continue their life of begging.

But Egbert was different.

“Do you want to guess what I’m going to do?” Egbert didn’t comment on Su Li’s idea, instead continuing to focus on himself.

The notion that changing locations means starting anew and necessarily being better off than before is often a concept imposed by onlookers.

Su Li felt the expensive fabric of his clothes and said with a calm expression. “A lone elementalist, passing through Jisuo Town, the necessary route to the Beast Forest, chose not to enter the Beast Forest directly but to go to other regions. That alone explains the situation.”

“Have you perhaps forgotten the gold coin I used to hire you not long ago?” Egbert asked, feigning confusion.

Su Li gave Egbert a look as if he were looking at an idiot.

“Even if you directly told us your identity, it wouldn’t be a big deal. Besides…” Su Li’s gaze became distant for a moment, “I imagine you yourself didn’t know you’d end up here now.”

Su Li’s transmigration was an accident he didn’t understand, while Egbert’s encounter with Su Li and Cyril was an accident no one understood.

The good deeds of the Son of Light aren’t cheap; on the contrary, they’re very precious. He just pitied the children living in hell and felt a moment of compassion, so he wanted to give them a gold coin. But the moment he took out the coin, he understood from the greedy looks of those around that his action was inappropriate, so he thought to exchange the gold coin for copper coins…

However, Su Li’s response at that time changed everything that was supposed to happen.

Egbert’s plan to escape to the Beast Forest changed into coming to this city, the hometown of mercenaries.

“This isn’t a good story for children,” Egbert said with a bitter smile.

“Do you have some misunderstanding about people who have been begging for years in a crisis-filled remote town?” Su Li didn’t want Egbert to have the notion that he was a naive and ignorant child.

The mirror brought up by the inn’s staff not only allowed Su Li to confirm that he was very good-looking with prospects of making a living off his face, but also helped him estimate that he was about twelve or thirteen years old.

Although he had already gotten an idea when he saw Cyril.

But who could have thought that Cyril, who looked fifteen, was actually only twelve…

Easterners really have no concept of Westerners’ facial features, Su Li thought with a pained expression.

The face Su Li saw in the mirror was a perfect blend of Eastern and Western features, with well-defined bone structure and exceptionally delicate skin.

To cut a long story short, shortly after, Egbert explained things related to himself.

It was out of confusion after everything that had happened, and a deep desire to pour out the complex emotions and thoughts in his heart.

Moreover, Su Li was indeed the only suitable person Egbert had met recently to confide in.

Egbert was one of the many Sons of Light in the Church of Light.

This was a world where even kings had to fawn over church bishops, where divine authority far exceeded royal power.

Egbert, a Son of Light on par with bishops, was sent to a city to govern it in a capacity similar to a city lord before being appointed by the Pope as the next heir.

The plan was for him to stay there for two years, gaining a veneer of experience and reaching a more suitable age before being publicly announced by the Pope as the heir.

However, this action, which on the surface appeared to be a demotion but was actually meant to gild him, was discovered by a bishop of equal rank to Egbert.