The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 4 - Domesticated Mercenary

As for giving guidance, Su Li didn’t consider himself capable of that.

At this moment, in Su Li’s view, when Egbert said “Thank you for your guidance,” he simply meant that he understood Su Li’s meaning.

After all, this fantasy world was a place where even lamb chops could be called “Mie Mie meat chops.”

Therefore, Su Li assumed that Egbert would next return to the Church of Light, choose to confront his opponents, strive to seize the position of Pope, marry a rich and beautiful woman, complete the typical protagonist’s path of revenge, reach the pinnacle of life, rule the world, and so on and so forth.

Su Li was convinced that the Egbert before him was not from the same world as himself. He also never wanted to risk his life exploring how colorful this fantasy world really was.

Since the other party knew how to proceed with his own life path, Su Li only needed to prepare his farewell blessings.

However…

After stuffing the remaining gold coins from buying clothes into Su Li’s hand, the former Son of Light showed a faint smile and said, “This is the remaining silver coins from your payment for hiring me to bring you here.”

As he spoke, Egbert placed a large handful of silver coins into Su Li’s palm. At a glance, there were several dozen of them.

“I should have given you more,” Egbert said, looking somewhat ashamed. Su Li’s words about being a loser were, in his view, an extremely valuable wake-up call. If not for Su Li’s reminder, Egbert believed he would have eventually fallen into a state of madness, distorted to the point of abandoning himself.

At this moment, he desperately wanted to give Su Li all the money in his pocket, but worried that Su Li’s strength might not be enough to keep it safe, so he could only feel ashamed.

Su Li was the one who truly felt ashamed.

He really hadn’t expected that Egbert, whom he had simply regarded as a sucker and later wanted to give a bit of advice to due to his naivety, could have such a high level of thinking.

However, when faced with those silver coins, Su Li didn’t hesitate to accept them.

Just as he had done with the gold coin earlier.

Su Li’s mercenary behavior never involved refusing freely given money.

Adults understand reality better.

The sudden transmigration, for Su Li, was equivalent to directly erasing his pleasant future life of lying flat for thirty years, living off social security as a slacker.

It wasn’t that he resented something that didn’t exist, but starting from zero in another world was indeed quite a blow to one’s life plans.

There were no verbal laments; all the unusual feelings about transmigration were buried deep in Su Li’s heart. His rationality also made him constantly consider how to survive in this high-risk alien world.

When one lacked combat prowess, the fact that even someone of the Son of Light’s caliber could be hired proved the importance of money.

Su Li knew he was an ordinary person, so he needed this money.

“I’ll keep the money, but someday I’ll pay you back,” Su Li said, his eyes showing not hypocritical sincerity, but only the answer after rationally considering the future and drawing conclusions. “Many times over.”

Egbert, however, shook his head and said something particularly hurtful to a poor wage slave. “In fact, I don’t care about this money at all.”

A few silver coins could buy quite good quality clothing. Just by looking at the number of silver coins gleaming in his hand, Su Li had roughly estimated that the exchange rate between this world and modern society’s currency was about one gold coin equaling ten thousand yuan.

Egbert continued. “As you previously guessed, I had originally planned to head straight into the Beast Forest. However, others in the Church have probably deduced this action as well. Before they realize the miracle of our encounter, they shouldn’t be able to confirm my presence in Sadina City for a short while. So, I’d like to take this opportunity to stay by your side and learn as much as I can.”

Su Li was stunned for a moment. He tried to be tactful but ended up being quite direct. “I don’t think I have anything worth learning. I’m just an ordinary person, as ordinary as can be.”

His life goals were simply to buy a small house, preferably with a little garden, and then raise a lazy but cute orange cat.

Although he had achieved all of this, it was all lost due to transmigration to another world.

What could people from this other world learn from him? How to slack off and be a slacker? Or how to judge when to turn over while sunbathing?

“What you don’t care about and completely disregard is precisely what I need to learn,” Egbert confirmed that Su Li had his own logic that was completely incompatible with this world.

And this uniquely special perspective was exactly what Egbert needed to understand most.

“Besides, you should believe that even if the Son of Light isn’t a merchant, he wouldn’t do business at a loss.”

What else could Su Li say? If Egbert himself didn’t care that this chicken might turn completely green with envy and fall below the bottom line, then Su Li had no reason to question himself.

He might as well treat it as a rich person’s frivolous pastime.

Afterwards, Su Li, pulling Cyril who wanted to clean up the leftovers himself, planned to leave the inn to look around nearby. Egbert once again put on his hooded robe, covering his face.

The streets of this fantasy world closely resembled the style of modern Nordic small towns. The ground was paved with relatively even blue bricks, pedestrians walked slowly with constant smiles on their faces, and the conversations between people created a lively scene. Compared to the dirt roads of Jisuo Town, it was clearly more prosperous.

Shops were scattered along both sides of the street, but at a glance, most seemed to be taverns and inns.

Egbert quietly told Su Li about his understanding of this city.

“The reason Sadina City is called the City of Mercenaries is that all mercenaries from around the world need to come to this city to register their identities. The managers of the Mercenary Alliance seem to have foresight far beyond the present. Before the establishment of the Mercenary Alliance, Sadina City could only be considered a third-rate city, poor and backward, with a population of just over 100,000.”

“Now, the city’s population has reached an astonishing 800,000. Because of its direct connection to Jisuo Town, the monsters hunted by mercenaries have also driven economic development through trade.”

“This is a good city/Sadina City is great, isn’t it?” Egbert’s voice and a strange voice sounded simultaneously.

The speaker had a scruffy beard, but his eyes were surprisingly bright.

As soon as he spoke, the smell of alcohol that hit them made Su Li and Cyril involuntarily take a step back. Egbert, however, calmly stepped forward, blocking the curious gaze the stranger was directing at Su Li.

A zero elemental affinity meant not only that Su Li couldn’t access this world’s special power system, but more importantly, that to anyone in this world who had entered the threshold of elemental mastery training, looking at Su Li was like seeing a blank spot suddenly appear in an area usually teeming with various starry points.

Su Li not only couldn’t absorb those elements into his body, but his body would instinctively repel the approach of those elements.

For those with good intentions, it was perfectly normal for this to arouse curiosity. But if someone had malicious intentions…

Egbert naturally chose to take on a protective stance, shielding Su Li behind him.

Unexpectedly, the speaker rubbed his scruffy face, took out a flask from his waist, took a big swig, and then laughed in true mercenary fashion, saying, “Alcohol is a good thing, even kids should have a taste.”

Su Li’s face remained expressionless. “I don’t think alcohol is bad, but I can’t agree with the idea that even kids should try it.”

The mercenary’s eyes brightened further. He only heard the first part of what Su Li said, completely ignoring the latter part. Seeing that Su Li didn’t dislike alcohol, he excitedly said, “Right?”

He even tried to reach out and pat Su Li’s shoulder in agreement, but Egbert directly intercepted and swatted his hand away.

The mercenary looked at Egbert with displeasure. “Look, as a mercenary hired to protect the young master, you should understand that no mercenary would commit a crime in Sadina City, right?”

Only then did Su Li notice that both Egbert and the mercenary had similar badges on their chests.

Su Li guessed that this must be the public identity Egbert had prepared to stay in this city. Therefore, Su Li straightforwardly said, “Egbert is just being responsible. Besides, who can guarantee that your casual slap wouldn’t make me cough up blood?”

The mercenary was stunned for a moment. “No way?” He looked as if he couldn’t believe Su Li could be that weak.

He even seemed to want to try it out.

Su Li raised an eyebrow. “If you dare touch me, I’ll lie on the ground and won’t get up without 20 gold coins.”

“If you really want to gift me some money, I wouldn’t mind.”

The mercenary pouted and hung his flask back on his waist. “I would mind.”

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Seeing the two chatting more and more happily, Egbert forcefully interrupted the conversation and coldly said, “Tell us, why did you approach us?”

Since leaving the inn, Egbert had noticed many people focusing their attention on their group, but this mercenary was the first to speak up.

“You should have reached the Class level of Elemental Master, right?” the mercenary said in a declarative tone. “I don’t intend to do anything to your employer. I just wanted to ask if you’d be interested in teaming up with me to hunt an eighth-level beast in the Beast Forest after you finish this job.”

The elemental master ranks were divided into Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.

Family level was already among the top-tier in this world. As for the Genus level, Egbert knew only the Pope had reached such strength.

Species level was said to exist only in legends; in reality, no elemental master in this world had currently reached the Species level.

“No,” Egbert shook his head.

“You don’t agree?” The mercenary frowned.

“What I mean is, Su Li and I are not in an employer-employee relationship,” Egbert said. “You can think of me as Su Li’s domesticated mercenary.”