The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 21 - Monster Beast Invasion

At the end of June, the summer sunlight became increasingly harsh. The dappled light filtering through the trees felt warm on one’s skin.

The moment the sun rose, Su Li decisively dragged his secondhand lounge chair, which he had found at a general store, back into the small building.

The building was designed with a small garden in the front half and a three-story Western-style house in the back half. During the less hot period before, Su Li loved sunbathing in the small garden. However, as the temperature gradually rose these days, he, unable to use elements to block the heat, could only complain…

“Life without air conditioning is truly unbearable for humans.”

Watching Su Li sprawled in his chair like a salted fish that had lost all its moisture from the sun, Cyril asked while using wind elements to groom a ball of yarn in his hands, “What’s air conditioning?”

Using wind elements to groom yarn balls was a method Cyril had recently learned to improve his fine control over elements, though it was only after the Lion’s Club leader mentioned it that he thought of it.

“It’s an electrical appliance,” Su Li turned to his side. After several months in this world, his hair had grown quite long, with fine strands covering his eyes, adding a touch of melancholy to his appearance.

However, the next moment, all pretense of sophistication crumbled as he gave up. “Don’t ask me what an electrical appliance is. My intelligence isn’t sufficient to explain it.”

Su Li very much wanted to engrave the information that he was just an ordinary person into the DNA of everyone within sight.

Although this would be difficult…

But Su Li firmly believed it was something that could be done.

Roy, who was sprawled on the sofa reading a book, promptly pushed Su Li away in disgust when he got up from his sun-warmed lounge chair and approached him.

The two-star mercenary with water element mutation to ice element moved aside. “Don’t you think you’ve been too lazy lately?”

“I thought you knew I’ve always been lazy,” Su Li replied innocently. “Rising to action is something young people like Cyril should do. For someone like me, laziness is ingrained in my soul, as natural as drinking when thirsty, eating when hungry, or sleeping when tired.”

“No, I mean, are you not planning to work anymore? You haven’t been to Asa Academy for several days now,” Roy said with a pained expression.

Su Li never gave much thought to his casual remarks, but others always seemed to ponder them deeply.

Like now.

Roy would bet that Cyril and Mark hadn’t thought much about it, just like how there would be barley wine on the dinner table today.

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Unsurprisingly, there was no barley wine on the table, and they had thought about it quite deeply.

However, these two wouldn’t frantically take notes like Egbert did.

Returning to the question of why Su Li had been lazing around at home lately.

The person in question was quite satisfied.

“Paid long vacation is truly a miracle that makes employees sincerely praise their boss as an angel,” Su Li explained. “Though the reason is that many students have been taken to the Beast Forest for training recently.”

Without students, his role as an administrator was no different from a decoration.

Dean Asa also wouldn’t feel comfortable letting Su Li, who had no elemental powers, stay in the academy without anyone in charge.

Therefore, paid vacation became the best choice.

And Su Li had only one thought about this…

Please let there be more paid vacation!

With two months of student training, this would provide him with a hefty sum of thirty gold coins. Adding to his previous savings, Su Li would be able to steadily fund Cyril’s studies at Asa Academy for an entire year.

However, Su Li occasionally wondered, “What would the school-led training look like?”

“Either a group surrounding and attacking a stronger monster beast to practice teamwork, or people spreading out to compete over who can hunt more monster beasts,” Roy explained. His elemental training had come from his now-deceased wife, and he hadn’t formally enrolled in an academy for systematic learning. However, he had extensive combat experience from his mercenary days, and occasionally witnessed academy instructors training students during the hottest days of the year.

“But personally, I’d advise you not to investigate these matters too deeply,” Roy cautioned.

Firstly, Su Li wasn’t someone who dealt well with bloodshed. Secondly, there was the matter of how Euphia handled those Church of Light people under Heinacius.

They couldn’t be released – once news spread that Egbert had been to Sadina City, the Church of Light would likely pressure the Mercenary Alliance by brainwashing God of Light ‘s followers into believing…

—That mercenaries were the source of disaster.

And followers of the God of Light were everywhere across the continent.

So they couldn’t be freed. But long-term imprisonment couldn’t guarantee information wouldn’t leak, and just Heinacius’s group claiming “Su Li was abandoned by the God of Light” could potentially trigger fanatics to take unilateral action against him.

Therefore, Euphia’s final choice was to kill them all and disguise it as an accident.

Everyone knew Sadina City had been chaotic recently, right?

The death of a few church members could only be attributed to their weakness and misfortune in getting involved in matters they shouldn’t have.

Euphia hadn’t told Su Li about eliminating the Church of Light members. Roy had asked about it, believing the young master should understand both the good and bad aspects of this world.

Euphia had told Roy. “This isn’t about my perceived protection of Su Li. Not telling him this news is simply because there’s no need.”

The Mercenary Alliance’s next heir had strong abilities to discern reality.

“From the moment I turned a blind eye to Egbert staying in Sadina City, the Mercenary Alliance was destined to be on the same side as him. Choosing to kill those fools was simply self-preservation and ensuring Su Li wouldn’t face trouble.”

Euphia’s expression then had made Roy feel like: how dare you expect trivial matters to occupy the mind of someone constantly contemplating world affairs.

So Roy didn’t want Su Li to know about these conflicts involving too many unsavory elements.

In the past, before Euphia’s reforms, being a mercenary had always meant walking hand in hand with death.

Sounds cool, right?

Not so much when you’re dying.

But Su Li was actually just wondering…

If their battles would be like some web games, where hundreds of people team up to fight monsters.

Quite exciting.

This was a real-life permadeath game.

But since Roy didn’t intend to tell him, Su Li didn’t pursue the matter further.

As a person, you need to know when to give up.

But just as Su Li planned to continue his carefree existence, enjoying his daily routine of getting paid 5000 without working…

News arrived from Jisuo Town that shook the entire continent.

Monster beasts were revolting and beginning to invade human territories.

The Beast Forest was a place Su Li had heard about from many people since arriving in this world. It housed the most numerous and powerful monster beasts in the entire world.

Previously, Su Li had thought it was just an experience farming zone for humans to grow stronger. But when news of the monster beast invasion arrived, he realized the situation was quite different.

The public explanation for this monster beast invasion was: The monster beast population had grown significantly in recent years, and the forest could no longer sustain them. They needed more living space, and human territories were their desired new territory.

Jisuo Town suffered heavy casualties. After this sudden event, the death rate reached 30% – meaning one in every three people died in this incident. Many people, both those Su Li had met and hadn’t met, all perished in what was publicly called an unexpected incident.

However, the internal intelligence Euphia received told a different story. Not only was it different, but it was completely unrelated to the public explanation.

The plot by the Bishop under the Pope against Egbert, the Pope’s apparent heir, was more complicated than imagined.

The details of the monster beast invasion of Siliqing City, which Egbert once protected, involved one of the strongest monster beasts from the forest – the Crystal Winged Dragon, an eighth-level monster beast. One of its cubs was killed in its nest, while another unhatched egg was taken by the Bishop’s men to Siliqing City.

For an eighth-level monster beast, having one child killed and another stolen was undoubtedly an insult to its dignity and a battle necessary for survival.

That invasion led to the Son of Light being labeled a traitor and hunted by the Order of the Knights of Light.

The connection between that incident and this current situation was that the egg the Crystal Winged Dragon had recovered had now hatched.

Humans only understood which parts of monster beasts were valuable and which were beneficial for cultivation. They didn’t know that Crystal Winged Dragon eggs maintained consciousness during incubation.

While most humans still believed the false public narrative about Siliqing City’s conspiracy, the monster beasts had learned the complete truth.

Stealing cubs and killing them could be justified as pursuit of benefit or inevitable racial conflict.

After all, monster beasts also ate humans to increase their power, right?

But what if everything started simply because humans wanted to scheme against other humans?

When the Crystal Winged Dragon learned the whole conspiracy from its child, and discovered that those truly responsible remained untroubled while an innocent person became a hunted traitor...

The existing racial conflict was now amplified by this harsh reality… The Crystal Winged Dragon unhesitatingly unleashed a one-sided revenge by monster beasts against humans.

When Su Li received the report from Euphia about Jisuo Town’s thirty percent death rate, his entire body trembled.

Roy’s face contorted with fury in that instant.

Suppressing his rage and forcing himself to remain calm, he asked. “Will you go? After all, young master, your domesticated mercenary’s first destination after leaving Sadina City was still the Beast Forest, wasn’t it?”

Though this time, Egbert chose to go simply to increase his strength.