The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 85

In the end, this possibility was mentioned by Egbert with a dazed expression – the Pope indeed had golden eyes as proof.

If we include the major premise that Ophelia’s biological father was the Pope, then her mother’s marriage to the king as a Holy Maiden wouldn’t actually serve the purpose of a strong political alliance between the Church and the royal family.

Setting aside whether that seventy-something-year-old man actually loved Ophelia’s mother or not, just considering the fact that the Princess herself had previously admitted she knew her true identity very early on…

Perhaps it was precisely because she knew she was the Pope’s child that she came up with the idea of brainwashing Xiao Zuo.

Given Ophelia’s age at that time, it would have been difficult for her to successfully brainwash Xiao Zuo on her own. However, if the Pope was standing behind her, everything would make sense.

Going back to the beginning, when Egbert was schemed against by that Bishop who had died without even leaving bone fragments, it was already proven that the Pope had approved of it…

What was the Pope’s reason for approving this matter?

After all, initially, Egbert was still a Holy Son loyal to the Church.

For someone of his capability, was it really just because the Pope wanted the Bishop dead?

Previously, Egbert falling victim to the scheme could be perfectly explained by the existence of Diz, who had comparable talent within the Church. After all, with a true heir present, Egbert’s death as a central target would cause no significant loss to the Pope.

However, after seeing Diz’s peculiar mindset, some things didn’t add up anymore.

Although the initial assumption was that the Pope was someone devoted to his desires and held the concept of “after I die, I won’t care if the floods rage to the heavens”. This would explain why Diz, even as a manipulated heir, made sense.

After all, everything seemed…

To make perfect sense.

But what if Diz wasn’t actually the true heir either?

Looking at the timeline, Su Li crossed over to this world in February, and now it was December.

In these ten months, could Xiao Zuo’s strength really have undergone such an earth-shattering transformation?

“Rather than such unimaginable progress in strength, I’m more inclined to believe that Xiao Zuo’s power had already broken through to the Species level comparable to Raven at that time.”

“Let me ask you a question,” Su Li poked the raven standing on his shoulder. “After reaching this level of power, can one truly master it immediately with a human body?”

Although Su Li already knew the answer, he still needed confirmation.

The raven transformed back into human form, deciding not to revert to his raven appearance for the time being.

Because he had a strange feeling that Su Li’s subsequent words would likely be heavily related to monster beasts as a species.

And perhaps even he himself was within that massive game of chess.

After putting on clothes that only served to shield his form from Su Li’s view, the Raven calmly said, “Of course not. Unlike humans who use those power level classifications to determine their strength, for monster beasts, reaching level nine means they can take human form. And taking human form represents a transformation that almost completely changes their physical structure.”

Su Li nodded and even revealed information he had never shared with others before.

“For a while, I believed that the reason why gods were so revered by humans was because they had reached a level of power beyond human comprehension, and they possessed human form.”

“Humans tend to have an attitude of ‘those not of our kind must be of a different heart.’ However, if the forms are similar, even when one does something completely incomprehensible to others, they’ll just be considered unreasonable. At the same time, this characteristic of level nine monster beasts being able to take human form also made me think about the God of Light and God of Darkness. Could they represent certain monster beasts too powerful for humans to comprehend?”

“Eg once said that it had been a long time since any power user reached the Species level. I was previously wondering if it was due to the decreased concentration of elements in the world. But obviously, in the past few thousand years, there haven’t been any major natural phenomena like tsunamis, earthquakes, or meteor strikes.”

“So, in a world composed of elements, where humans are also composed of elements, why do level nine monster beasts truly exist while humans cannot break through this power limitation?”

At this point, Su Li quickly raised his hand to stop everyone from falling into an uncontrollable human versus monster beast mental storm.

Before everyone’s minds went blank, Su Li continued, “Assuming that after reaching a certain level, power users need time to stabilize their power changes and allow their bodies to adapt. Then, ten months, plus going back two to three months when the Pope guided the Bishop to scheme against Eg as a starting point, looking at it as a whole year, this might have been the time Xiao Zuo needed to stabilize his power.”

“And since he was already brainwashed and destined to be controlled by Ophelia, the Princess backed by the Pope, perhaps the Pope had already prepared to pave the way for her beforehand.”

“Thus, Eg became unnecessary to the Pope. The Bishop himself was someone who wanted to cause trouble, and his existence would only bring variables, so during the battle at Jisuo Town, there were problems with the Bishop’s weapons.”

“At that time, we had already guessed that the Pope wanted the Bishop dead, and we determined the reason was that the Pope feared the Bishop would threaten his position. Now thinking about it, if the premise that Ophelia is the Pope’s daughter is correct, then the Bishop’s death was built upon an even deeper abyss.”

Su Li took a deep breath before approaching from another angle.

“Going back to Xiao Zuo, with his level of light element power, whether he became king or pope, probably no one would resist once his identity was revealed.”

Power supremacy had almost become the most firm class division between people in this world.

“But obviously, the Pope was grooming Ophelia as his heir, which is why he chose to tell her about her true identity very early on.”

“Conversely, that man had probably been preparing for true church hegemony for many, many years.”

All of this even made Su Li tremble uncontrollably.

This was a conspiracy that had existed for who knows how many years, and perhaps involved the entire world…

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Qi’s mind went blank. He couldn’t comprehend or understand why things suddenly involved so much.

But he still had to ask, “Then what about my mother? Why was she able to participate in all of this?”

Su Li paused.

Qi looked into Su Li’s eyes and said seriously, “Whatever the reason, I will accept it.”

Since things had been said to this point, all of Su Li’s concerns about Qi’s emotions breaking down became irrelevant.

Therefore, Su Li finally spoke word by word, revealing the extremely cruel truth about Qi.

“As a Holy Maiden, since Qi’s mother’s existence wasn’t for the alliance marriage, then her main purpose in marrying the king was…”

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“To hint to the king that Ophelia was his daughter.”

“I really can’t imagine the king would be completely fooled by that stupid ‘eye color is atavism’ explanation…”

“Therefore, I feel ashamed for having doubted a country’s king’s intelligence…”

Because that was also a manifestation of arrogance.

Su Li could have discovered some details earlier, but he didn’t.

Su Li, feeling ashamed about his inadequate grasp of details, saw a group of people with completely blank expressions.

Lan Zhe directly raised his hand to block his self-reflecting appearance. “No, wait, how did you think of all this?”

“Or rather, what else haven’t you fully explained? Tell us everything. I don’t know why, but my intuition tells me that your unspoken words are what we can truly understand.”

Su Li’s expression was stunned as he asked confusedly, “…Is what I said hard to understand?”

“It’s not hard to understand, it’s that he can’t keep up with your train of thought and feels scared because of it,” Egbert looked at Lan Zhe with disdain. “He wants you to lay out all the facts in front of us and try to understand your deductions in combination with the current situation.”

“What’s with that ‘you’re an idiot’ look?” Lan Zhe looked at Egbert with displeasure.

“You obviously can’t put everything together right now either.”

“Of course it’s because I think you’re an idiot,” Egbert said straightforwardly and boldly. “And I believe that even if I don’t fully understand now, Lord Su Li will definitely give all his deductions, because it’s always been like this.”

“Every time, everything we couldn’t understand, he would explain in detail until we could understand.”

From Su Li’s perspective, this was because since explanations were needed anyway, it would be more efficient to explain proactively before others asked.

However, this slight desire to save effort on Su Li’s part appeared to Egbert as being as attentive as hand-holding guidance, directly spoon-feeding them information.

In this situation, there was no need for doubt or terror. The meaning of the inexplicable, under the premise that Su Li was still Su Li, would only become guidance for them.

It was precisely because Egbert firmly believed this that he didn’t end up with a blank mind like the others.

However, it was also because someone thought this way and didn’t hesitate to show it that Lan Zhe could only sigh. “You’re as sick as ever,” while steadily sitting back down on the sofa, waiting for Su Li’s subsequent explanation.

Su Li: ………………

It felt like being a mother hen.

Really ridiculous.

“Can you all just wait for my explanation so matter-of-factly?”

Euphia said, “Because if you don’t explain, we won’t be able to combine such jumpy information into what you already know.”

Roy also nodded in agreement. “I also want to know what truth about things I thought were completely over still hasn’t been revealed until now.”

The Lion’s Club leader also said, “Of course, me too. I also want to know what role the Mercenary City and the Mercenary Alliance played in all of this.”

Su Li: ………………