The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 5 - Euphia
The shocked expression of the mercenary opposite was reflected in Su Li’s eyes.
To Su Li, Egbert’s words held no special meaning.
This was just a young person, unsure of their future and still in a state of confusion, who had chosen to grasp tightly onto a thread of silk they had stumbled upon that could hold them.
Su Li didn’t think he could truly empathize with what it felt like to be hunted. But if he were to imagine being a middle-aged person laid off from work, with family, children, and elders all depending on him, yet finding himself powerless… he could sense that inexplicable despair and emptiness.
Egbert needed something worth caring about to fill his vacant heart.
And coincidentally, in this City of Mercenaries that Su Li didn’t understand and Egbert himself had barely participated in, he could choose to temporarily abandon his past identity.
Simply put, the so-called “domesticated mercenary” was just a setting Egbert had verbally concocted to perfect his identity (although the person in question didn’t think of it this way at all).
Su Li accepted this setting quite calmly.
To say he hadn’t thought deeply about it would be wrong; he had already considered the potential impacts of a fictitious identity.
To say he had thought deeply about it would also be incorrect; he hadn’t sensed at all Egbert’s underlying desire to be in the same boat with him, wanting everyone who saw them to consider them as being on the same side.
Cyril, on the sidelines, vaguely sensed something was amiss but couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong. He furrowed his brows, his blue puppy eyes no longer looking as moist and cute.
Seeing that Egbert seemed to want to do something, Su Li left with a parting remark. “I plan to check out the Alliance Hall. If you have any business to attend to, you can handle it first. We can meet up at the inn later.”
With that said, he prepared to leave with Cyril.
The reason he had left the inn this time was because he had determined that his current 12-year-old self couldn’t possibly obtain fixed property in this other world. So Su Li planned to use the silver coins he had to rent a house, to first settle himself and Cyril.
The mercenary, who had just been shocked by the “domesticated mercenary” statement, immediately became jovial again. “You, a young master with no elemental affinity, seem quite open-minded!”
Even if it wasn’t overtly obvious, the mercenary naturally carried a sense of superiority towards the seemingly powerless Su Li, as someone with ability looking down on those without.
That kind of gaze, seemingly open and harmless but actually full of targeting, was difficult to describe in words.
Knowing he had no obvious ill intent, Su Li couldn’t be bothered to invite trouble. So, after a slight pause, he said to the mercenary, “Whatever you need to discuss, just talk to Egbert directly. Don’t keep dragging me into it.”
If helping to create a fictitious identity and background was part of repaying the debt, then Su Li could continue to cooperate with Egbert. But if not, he didn’t want to deal with it.
“I understand.” As it happened, Egbert also felt it necessary to teach this mercenary a lesson. That natural contempt, which Su Li didn’t care about, Egbert found extremely irritating.
As the Son of Light pulled his hooded cloak and dragged the mercenary into a nearby alley, Su Li had already begun discussing with Cyril about where they should live.
Living on the outskirts would be very cheap, but more dangerous. Moving towards the center would be suitable, but if they didn’t have income soon, it would be unfavorable for long-term development. Su Li, clutching the few silver coins in his hand, finally took Cyril’s hand and went to the Mercenary Alliance Hall together.
There were many pedestrians on the street, passing by and chatting, “Have you recently taken any routine tasks from the guild?”
“Most are hunting missions in the Beast Forest. Honestly, I feel like it’s been a while since normal people have given the Alliance ordinary tasks.”
“No matter how much you earn risking your life, it can’t compare to doing some simple work and being able to see your family every day, right?”
Thus, Su Li thought that the Mercenary Alliance was equivalent to an extremely broad…
Agency.
On the first day in this other world, he would start with renting a house.
When the lady at the front desk of the Mercenary Alliance Hall looked down at the two children, her honey-colored face was filled with disbelief.
“Are you sure the task you want to post is to find a rental with a monthly rent of about five to ten silver coins?”
“Yes, do you have any other questions?” Su Li looked up and asked in return.
The receptionist’s mouth twitched. “No one has ever posted such a task at the Alliance.”
Nine out of ten tasks at the Mercenary Alliance were about hunting beasts, and the remaining one-tenth were mostly guard and combat missions. Such an extremely ordinary daily task had never existed before. So even though Su Li offered only three silver coins as a reward, the receptionist’s first thought wasn’t that the reward was too small, but rather…
Is this kind of operation even possible?
Cyril, standing beside Su Li, appeared confused by all of Su Li’s actions. His blind trust made him feel that everything Su Li did must be normal. When this sense of normalcy existed between the two of them, it was only the receptionist who began to doubt if she was the one with the problem.
For a moment, the receptionist’s inability to respond quickly led to a standoff at the counter. People queuing behind them grumbled with some dissatisfaction. “What are you doing? Why so slow?”
As he spoke, he directly pushed Su Li’s back with his hand.
Although this was a city where crime rarely occurred, the personal cultivation and basic education of mercenaries were not enough to make lower-ranking mercenaries understand what politeness meant.
Moreover, Su Li appeared to have no elemental light points on his body.
Isn’t this a complete waste?
Who would care what a useless person thinks?
That was probably their line of thinking.
“If you don’t really want to post a hiring task, just get out of the way. You’re blocking the line, you know? Rookie.”
While Cyril wanted to swallow his anger, Su Li turned to look at the person who had pushed him and made him stumble. His gaze carried an undeniable sharpness…
“Excuse me, are you in such a hurry because you want to go to the cemetery to celebrate the third anniversary of someone you know being buried?” When facing overt targeting, and the other party wasn’t a paying client, it would be inhuman not to retort.
“What nonsense are you spouting? What cemetery…” Before he could finish speaking, the man finally realized what Su Li meant. His face instantly turned ugly, and he shouted, “You dare to mock me? Are you looking for a fight?”
“Ma’am, how would you react if someone were to be beaten for no reason in the Mercenary Alliance Hall?” Su Li stood on tiptoe to tap on the counter, which was a bit high for him. People in this world seemed to have eaten something strange, as heights of 1.9 or even 2 meters were common.
The receptionist snapped out of her daze and coldly reprimanded the person trying to attack Su Li. “Do you want to be thrown into the mercenary prison by the Alliance’s guard team? You dare to disrupt the queuing order.”
After saying this, the receptionist took out an iron block from under the counter. As she slightly clenched her hands, in the blink of an eye, the originally heavy-looking iron block turned into fragments, making a dull sound as they fell on the wooden surface.
She sneered and said, “Do you have a death wish?”
The person who had intended to harm Su Li instantly turned pale. After glaring fiercely at Su Li, he had no choice but to slink away in embarrassment.
Seeing that there were no more malicious people hurrying them from behind, the receptionist coughed heavily and waved to the back, calling over another woman wearing the same uniform as her. She then pushed open a side panel and walked towards Su Li.
“Is there a problem somewhere?” Su Li asked, puzzled.
“No problem. It’s just that I happen to know of a house that meets your requirements, so I thought I’d take on this task temporarily to earn some silver coins for myself.”
As the woman said this, many people nearby heard it, and quite a few showed expressions of bewilderment. However, because they were behind Su Li, he didn’t see their reactions.
Who would believe that the daughter of the Alliance Guild Master, who could earn at least hundreds or thousands of gold coins per task, would be interested in a task worth only three silver coins?
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Some people had even started whispering speculations. “Could it be some kind of code?”
“You could go up and ask Euphia yourself.”
The person who asked twisted their face. “Forget it, I’m afraid Euphia might twist my skull off if I disturb her.”
Su Li still didn’t hear this, probably because Euphia was asking him new questions while those people were talking among themselves.
“Why would you post something like finding a house as a task?” The young woman had a tall and powerful physique. Her eyes showed undisguised curiosity. Unlike others who might have negative thoughts about Su Li, who seemed out of place in this world, she was the type of excellent woman who was self-centered but without any negative connotations.
“Are these kinds of tasks not allowed to be posted in the task area?” Su Li asked in return.
“Of course not.”
Simply put, mercenaries were freelancers who made a living by taking on tasks posted by the Mercenary Alliance. What the tasks were and whether mercenaries would accept them was entirely a two-way choice.
“Then in my view, posting this kind of task isn’t a problem. I post a task, others provide answers, I save time, and others can earn the money they need. It’s a mutual choice.”
“But there have never been similar tasks posted before,” Euphia admitted that she was curious about Su Li’s thought process.
“Have you ever considered that they haven’t appeared because everyone’s thought framework has been set in stone?” Su Li didn’t mind chatting with a woman who looked both mature and powerful.
“What do you mean?” Euphia’s eyes lit up.
“It’s just my humble opinion, I hope it doesn’t offend your ears,” Su Li said slowly. “I believe that as long as it doesn’t violate morals and laws, anyone can do anything they want in any aspect.”
As Egbert walked out of the alley, he happened to hear this sentence.
