The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 138.2 - Mermaid Ruler (1.2)

Following closely behind was Elvi, who had no dragon horns on her head but was holding a large sword with a dragon horn-shaped hilt.

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The latter was still saying to the one who had emerged from the water first, “Since you dare to come, you’d better be prepared to die here.”

The mermaid-like monster beast twisted around and said, “I didn’t come here to fight to the death with you.”

Perhaps sensing the people on the shore, or perhaps due to the mermaid’s nature, Su Li could hear the clear voice like morning seawater even from a distance.

“You know very well that for water species, there are also those who can fly.”

“If you can compete for the Raven, why can’t I?”

Amid their verbal exchange, a water screen nearly a hundred meters long, several times larger than Elvi’s original form, rose from the lake surface in an instant.

But afterward, Su Li finally understood why he had felt the ground shaking more than once during the night.

The large-scale attack launched by the mermaid was directly intercepted by the wind element that Elvi had wielded with a swing.

This seemingly bold and uninhibited style of fighting was actually just a tug-of-war battle where neither side was using their full strength. The large sword with the dragon horn hilt in Elvi’s hand was suddenly used as a throwing weapon, hurled toward the mermaid.

However, it was caught by a hand formed of condensed water and violently pulled down toward the lake surface. But due to the gravitational acceleration given to the weapon by the wind element itself, plus the pulling force of the giant hand formed from lake water, the impact of the dragon horn sword hitting the lake bottom couldn’t be seen clearly. The ground-shaking that occurred the next second almost made Su Li tumble headfirst into the lake water.

Su Li gratefully looked at Egbert who had grabbed his arm.

The Raven that was crouching on his hat as a mascot had no thoughts about being the object of contention, but instead said to Su Li, “Am I considered a valuable commodity now?”

“If so, then perhaps you can use this fact that I’m being fought over to accomplish something you want to do.”

Su Li didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“What choice do humans have?” Su Li casually stroked the black crow’s claws on his head.

The two humanoid monster beasts fighting over there, upon seeing this, decisively abandoned their intention to continue fighting.

The subject of contention had arrived, and as the marked goods, they should give the marker a chance for a direct competition.

The two monsters, who hadn’t been fighting seriously but had still created a scene of natural disaster for humans, both fixed their eyes on the Raven.

Su Li, however, pulled his hat down to shield his vision.

Egbert also acted as if he hadn’t seen anything, quietly standing guard at Su Li’s side.

This time, the one who actively opened the conversation wasn’t Elvi, but the mermaid-like monster beast.

“Are you the little crow’s caretaker?” The mermaid’s curious tone and questioning eyes, even blocked by the hat, were still perceptible to Su Li.

“Would you be willing to give him to me? Of course, I’ll treat him well.” The mermaid’s eyes curved with a smile.

“Aren’t you disgusting?” Elvi didn’t hesitate to coldly rebuke.

The mermaid, as if not hearing, continued to say to Su Li, “My name is Leia Somorfeld. As you can see, my original form is a mermaid. I’m the ruler of the water species.”

As he spoke, he twirled once in front of Su Li, who couldn’t see him.

Incidentally, he introduced the dragon lady who had never revealed her name, with a somewhat disdainful tone.

“This is Elvi Bessemer. I guess the noble dragon lady would certainly disdain to introduce herself to humans.”

As soon as these words fell, Su Li heard the sound of metal clashing.

The hat wasn’t as densely woven as silk, so Su Li could vaguely see that Elvi had poked Leia’s fish tail with her weapon.

If Elvi, who had lived for over 200 years, was a dragon lady, then it could only mean that this mermaid had lived much longer than her.

The sudden action of Elvi poking Leia’s fish tail with her weapon was, conversely, because he was deliberately provoking Elvi.

Noble...

Elvi likely did have a high status, and this status was somewhat problematic.

Also, Leia’s action of provoking Elvi to attack him might well be an attempt to imprint an impression on humans that dragons were violent.

This wasn’t deliberate guidance. Su Li could feel that the suddenly appearing mermaid monster beast did these things without much thought. He was simply using habits that had been ingrained in all aspects of his life in the most natural way possible.

All those seemingly gentle and innocent words could be treated as nonsense.

Various thoughts flashed through Su Li’s mind, but he acted as if he hadn’t guessed any implications and only said, “My name is Su Li. The Raven isn’t my pet; he’s my companion.”

“Good boy, good boy.” Leia walked toward Su Li. The eyes of the aquatic creature looked both cold and somewhat blurry, beautiful like gems submerged in flowing water.

Upon first meeting a human, Leia didn’t sense anything from the human who covered his eyes with a hat that would make him uncomfortable.

So he approached the human youth as was his habit...

But was blocked by a barrier created by overlapping dark and light elements.

“Please do not approach Lord Su Li,” Egbert said with a calm tone.

The bloodthirst that flashed momentarily in Leia’s eyes was seen clearly by both Egbert and the Raven, and both immediately raised their vigilance.

“Don’t use your methods on humans,” Elvi interjected coldly.

“Competing for the Raven is not something humans can decide the outcome of.”

Elvi looked coldly at the mermaid, “Stop putting on that act here. They don’t know your stench, so they can’t show the expression you like.”

“And if you keep showing that attitude in front of me, even in human society, I wouldn’t mind squeezing the life out of you, the true ruler of water species.”

Leia’s expression instantly turned cold.

If his voice had been gentle and clear just now, then his speaking voice now was like a venomous snake flicking its tongue.

Extremely dangerous.

“Since you know what I want to see, why stop me? After all, I can either compete for the Raven or not.”

Leia made an angry expression. “I thought you should understand that we are on the same side.”

“To be on the same side as a madman like you, facing a group of humans so weak that I can crush them anytime?” Elvi mocked, “Don’t be ridiculous. Leia Somorfeld, which monster beast doesn’t know that you, as a madman, enjoy filling entire ponds with the blood of your targets and then soaking yourself in it?”

Leia snorted.

“As if you, war hyena, are any better.”

Su Li was observing the whole drama until the focus suddenly shifted to him.

Leia’s gaze fell on Su Li, and after circling him with narrowed eyes, the mermaid finally said, “Come to think of it, I just realized, this human...”

“Seems to be pure-blooded.”

“So what? Do you think a hybrid like you can avoid harming a pure-blooded human and leave descendants?” Elvi even ignored Su Li at this point; she was always targeting Leia.

“Hehe...” Leia laughed strangely.

Su Li acted as if it was finally his turn to speak. Looking up, he said, “What I said before still stands. If you want to take the Raven away, then I also want to go to the monster beast world.”

This statement drew the gazes of both humanoid monster beasts to him.

Su Li was so obedient that he seemed like an unworldly youth.

His performance was both true and false. Elvi knew Su Li was acting, but also knew that Su Li’s target was Leia.

There was no need to expose him.

Elvi was happy to watch the show and also pleased to see a human youth completely expose Leia without him even realizing it.

On the battlefield, this mermaid was as disgusting as the leader of the beast species.

If Elvi was a monster beast who needed rationality to restrain madness, then Leia was a thorough pervert.

The king of the water species did exist.

But the king of the water species had changed several generations in Leia’s hands.

Most of them had died at Leia’s hands.

Everyone knew that the reason this true ruler of water species hadn’t taken the throne was because he disdained that position. He didn’t need the throne; what he wanted was for every monster beast who sat on the throne to bow to him, to beg for his mercy, to beg for his attention, to kneel at his feet, and to exchange their self-dignity for chances of survival through repeated trampling.

What did it matter to be king if they still had to beg for life at his feet...

After several generations of such behavior by Leia, the current king of water species had thoroughly become his dog.

Even though that dog had gradually developed strength that could potentially rival Leia’s.

But it was still useless.

Leia was still an insurmountable mountain for the entire water species.

Commanding one water species after another under his control on the battlefield, not interested in strangling enemies, but only in torturing them to death for amusement.

No matter how much he used water to wash the bloody smell off his body, Leia was so disgusting that Elvi felt she couldn’t eat after seeing him once.

Su Li, however, acted as if he hadn’t noticed anything and continued, “And I think you guys might not care about the Raven that much.”

The battle between Elvi and Leia seemed more like the former beating the latter to relieve mental pressure, and the latter irritating the former as a source of amusement.

As for the Raven?

That was just an excuse for them to irritate each other.

Elvi might have needed the Raven, but this need seemed less desperate after the truth about her treatment of Na’an was revealed.

From another perspective, the main reason for Elvi’s arrival here was still Na’an.

The “noble” in Leia’s words could also prove that Elvi’s identity was extraordinary.

The reason for Elvi’s appearance here could be largely determined as a dragon who wanted to understand a friend’s situation but couldn’t express this intention due to her own identity, and finally came to human society under the pretext of obtaining the Raven.

Before Su Li pointed it out, Elvi might not have known that the real purpose of her coming was Na’an.

Given Elvi’s distinguished identity, her death would clearly be good news for opposing forces.

But because Leia didn’t have the power to overwhelmingly defeat Elvi, his arrival was probably just as he had said to Elvi.

That statement, “I thought you should understand that we are on the same side,” removing Leia’s deliberately irritating component, had an eighty percent chance of being true.

The winged species and water species had appeared, but notably absent was the beast species that Elvi showed extreme disgust for even just mentioning them. This perhaps indicated that among the three forces, the beast species was the strongest.

Since Leia was the ruler of the water species, not the king, it might also indicate that the water species wasn’t completely under his control.

With three forces opposing each other, if one was strong, the other two would inevitably form an alliance.

Assuming internal strife within the water species, for Leia to avoid water species becoming the most suppressed among the three forces, an alliance with Elvi would clearly be a good choice.

Internal strife wasn’t suitable to discuss at home, nor at the winged realm. Any conversation between water species and winged species, once discovered by the beast species, would definitely confirm an alliance between the two.

As a force that needed an alliance of the two to resist, the beast species would only need to privately inform either Elvi or Leia of their desire to ally with one and destroy the other to share the spoils, and the cooperation between the two species would immediately fail.

At this time, coming to human society to talk became the best choice.

Su Li also thought about Leia’s reason for coming to human society.

Leia had already given the answer.

Overtly, Leia came because water creatures could also fly.

Flying fish was specifically mentioned here.

Having already become monster beasts that could transform into human form, the Raven living in water probably wouldn’t have any pressure either.

This was quite coincidental.

After figuring it out, Su Li really acted like a pitiful child and said to Leia, “Actually, I’d prefer the Raven to stay rather than be taken away by you.”

As Elvi had expected, Leia had indeed been quite exposed, but Elvi hadn’t anticipated the speed could be so fast, so she only said, “I told you it’s impossible.”

“Indeed, now Leia’s view of the Raven might be indifferent, but once the Raven upgrades to a level ten monster beast, crossing to another tier, even Leia would have to weigh the Raven’s value.”

“I don’t mind telling you the reason.”

“The value of the Raven as a natural monster beast lies in the fact that he is a pure monster beast.”

“Monster beasts transformed from humans, even after having their human parts removed, still need to combine the subsequently replaced monster beast genes with the original monster beast genes. But this combination has cracks, and the result of these cracks is...”

Leia completed the following words.

“That’s a madness no transformed monster beast can resist.”

Su Li was puzzled. “Madness?”

“You can understand it as unable to live, unable to die,” Leia explained simply.

The mermaid ruler was very interested in drawing closer to the human youth through storytelling.

Su Li was very good-looking, even more so than the mermaid.

Leia even thought that making Su Li the new king of the water species might not be a bad idea.

The mermaid ruler’s lengthy explanation, after being translated through a way Su Li could understand, essentially meant: The genes formed by the combination of humans and monster beasts are a completely new form of genes. After removing the human part, these genes are incomplete. They could be complemented by the blood of pure-bred monster beast ancestors, but these genes are still unstable.

If a complete normal monster beast gene required a weaving of 1 and 1, then a transformed monster beast would be a weaving of 1 and 0.5.

Directly missing half.

This wouldn’t affect lifespan, but it would affect the brain.

Transformed monster beasts didn’t really understand exactly what “affecting the brain” meant, but they knew that many transformed monster beasts who hadn’t died in war ultimately died from madness.

The suicides of transformed monster beasts were too numerous to count.

Leia had also mentioned this.

Su Li guessed that the missing part of the genes was essentially the human rational part that hadn’t been completely erased in transformed monster beasts.

Long-lived species and ordinary humans were different.

In the hundred years it took for the Raven to cultivate from an ordinary crow to a level nine monster beast, the only thing that had deeply imprinted in his memory was meeting Su Li not long ago.

If Su Li was asked about his deep memories?

Everything before the transmigration, everything after the transmigration, the scrambled eggs he had for breakfast today, and before dawn, Ophelia climbing a ladder and hanging outside his window...

These were all profound memories.