The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 118

Basking in the morning sunlight that shone through the carriage window, Su Li lazily yawned, truly feeling what it meant to be relaxed.

Almost, just almost, he would have been trapped by the Grand Judge to the point of complete disorientation.

Thankfully, his reactions and instincts had urged him to leave that city quickly. Otherwise, what would have become of him now, Su Li himself couldn’t be certain.

With his heart still racing from the sense of having narrowly escaped, Su Li took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

Egbert, who was driving the carriage, asked the newly awakened Su Li with a heart full of confusion. “Lord Su Li didn’t originally decide to return to Sadina City this early, did you?”

Although the Mercenary City was still under military siege, as long as the people in the Inner City didn’t issue orders, those troops were essentially just decorative.

Besides, Sadina City wasn’t completely defenseless.

Not to mention Euphia’s father’s authority after his treatment, just consider Dean Asa, that old man with the strange laugh—when the city truly faced destruction, he would definitely contribute his strength.

Looking at it this way, with “Xiao Zuo” himself being constrained by Diz who had arrived in that area, Su Li should have had more time to establish forces or intelligence systems in the Inner City that could cooperate with the Mercenary Alliance at any moment.

Egbert couldn’t understand it.

Su Li told him. “You’ve overlooked the most important thing.”

“That is the book you wrote…” Su Li still felt embarrassed about this outlandish reading comprehension, “Not only common people can see that book.”

“Ordinary nobles might dismiss it and not consider it to have any practical value, but for truly intelligent people, what they can see in that book is a complete logical system.”

“In situations where ordinary people can only grasp one or two steps using that logic, clever people can already see ten steps ahead…”

Nobles already occupy resources beyond ordinary people, and what they can see would only be more extensive.

Furthermore, in modern society, compared to actual warfare, the war of public opinion is clearly more brutal.

The Grand Judge was obviously pushing the Dark Church toward Su Li’s faction.

This action could indeed be understood as a move to bring the Dark Church into the open.

After all, Godfrey Keats is a good person who stands with the masses.

But this matter could also be interpreted as… the Dark Church, which is aligned with Su Li’s faction, might have acted on Su Li’s instructions, causing so many nobles to be destroyed during the period when the king was in a coma after being stabbed.

—Perhaps even the king being stabbed and falling into a coma was on Su Li’s orders.

Public opinion is a blade in the hands of the disadvantaged.

When the Dark Church could kill any noble at any time, Su Li, who was positioned on the same side as the Dark Church, was no longer part of the disadvantaged.

So how could the broadly disadvantaged groups possibly believe in a character who stands in opposition to them?

Moreover, there was also a core concept in the book edited by Egbert.

Namely, strength does not represent everything.

The fact that strength doesn’t represent everything could reversely prove that the Dark Church’s action logic was wrong.

Killing without reason was also wrong.

From the perspective of the weak in public opinion, the victims were nobles.

The previously scattered forces would instantly unite into a rope of hemp that couldn’t be easily broken under the Grand Judge’s move.

If Su Li and the Dark Church were on the same side, then the defenseless nobles could only choose to rely on the other side, namely the Grand Judge, or more accurately, the King’s faction.

This situation of being forcefully made into a one-on-one confrontation, although not an absolute disadvantage for Su Li, meant that if Su Li continued to stay in the Inner City, he would face opposition from everyone.

Including ordinary people.

As said before, public opinion favors the weak.

As long as nobles were portrayed as unable to resist the Dark Church’s offensive, ordinary people would think: if even nobles are suffering so badly, what could ordinary people use to resist the Dark Church?

If Su Li had been even a little slower in leaving, he would have faced a scene where the very people he wanted to help would hate and be hostile towards him.

Su Li broke all of this down and explained it to Egbert.

“Human responsiveness is like this—if one is constantly restricted and blinded, they’ll never understand what category they belong to.”

“But with just one opportunity, a spark, a trace of insignificant light—any of these can instantly illuminate an era.”

Those who gather firewood for others freeze to death in the snow and wind.

This kind of beautiful-strong-tragic scenario didn’t suit Su Li, so he would eliminate all terrible possibilities from happening.

Su Li didn’t have particularly negative feelings about the Grand Judge calculating against him, because he indeed needed to stand on the same side as the Dark Church.

The Grand Judge wanted nobles to obey, Su Li wanted the Dark Church to become a force to resist “Xiao Zuo.”

And what the Dark Pope wanted was for Dark Elementalists to live openly and legitimately.

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“So Lord Su Li , leaving so early, also had the purpose of letting the Dark Pope and the Grand Judge entangle with each other?” Egbert asked.

“Because you left early enough, the side we represent is no longer a force completely linked to the Dark Church. Therefore, the Dark Church cannot occupy an absolutely dominant position. Thus, in the field of public opinion, the evenly matched Dark Church and the Grand Judge with the nobles also cannot actively turn the will of the third-party public toward themselves.”

“No, it shouldn’t just be that…” Egbert shook his head and tightened the reins hanging on the horse.

As the horse slowed its footsteps with a clip-clop sound, he frowned and continued, “Perhaps there’s also the point that when we leave, the Dark Church will be in a disadvantaged position in terms of awareness.”

“The fact that all Dark Elementalists were hunted down before is a fact. A war of revenge is justified. As long as the Dark Church can provide evidence that those they killed were not good people in the general sense, and even did many evil deeds in private, then people from the Dark Church can naturally place themselves in a disadvantaged position relative to the masses.”

“As for the Grand Judge… who is guiding the nobles to obey, he would likely also gain the trust of the nobles through this move.”

“At that time, if the people of the Dark Church only need to show that if they are not given fair enough treatment, they will choose to kill more nobles—with this intention, the Grand Judge would probably have to incorporate the needs of the Dark Church into the judicial system.”

“And in the process of promoting basic citizenship rights for Dark Elementalists, those nobles would instead become the ones actively facilitating it.”

If nobles don’t allow Dark Elementalists to have basic citizenship rights, then Dark Elementalists wouldn’t be bound by the law, so nobles could be killed at any time by Dark Elementalists who want revenge on society.

They have to obey if they don’t want to die.

But nobles would never realize that all their actions were already part of the calculation.

“Looking at it from another angle, this is still a resource exchange between the Grand Judge and the Dark Church, except that the so-called resources are various connections and forces. And these are also different from the limited perspective of your conversation with Mavis in the banquet hall…”

“Now, this is the entire plan,” Egbert’s gaze was sharp.

Su Li clapped his hands. Looking at Egbert, he momentarily had a sense of “my child has finally grown up.”

To this, Su Li quite seriously affirmed Egbert’s words. “Completely correct.”

“Reality worships the strong, but public opinion always tends to favor the weak. When the concept of opinion warfare emerged, that city was no longer a place where we could stay.”

They didn’t have the home-field advantage, nor did they possess individual strength that could completely resist the entire city.

Appropriate distance was the best choice.

All clever people who want to secure a place after the world’s pattern changes would immediately adapt to the new logic and use this logic to try to crush Su Li, who proposed this logic, in reverse.

People are just like that.

Forever ignorant when blinded, but when awakened, the tree of wisdom would instantly take root and sprout.

Su Li didn’t think he could outplay those seasoned veterans, especially since his understanding of this world definitely couldn’t compare to those who had always lived in it.

So he chose to leave early from that city which was no longer safe.

Fortunately, Egbert had already learned to infer one thing from another.

Compared to killing the Pope of Light to prevent the Church of Light from continuing to expand its influence and affecting public consciousness, Su Li was more grateful that Egbert had grown to a point where he could stand on his own.

He could even see the various behavioral implications in the confrontation between the Grand Judge and the hidden Dark Pope.

If the current Egbert were placed back at the stage where he was calculated against by the Bishop, Su Li would bet that the Bishop would die miserably.

“It’s wonderful, you’ve grown so much,” Su Li sighed with emotion for a moment.

He remembered that a long time ago, his evaluation of this former Son of Light was… that the water sloshing in his head could fill many dried-up lakes.

Egbert, however, was taken aback. He gripped the reins in his hand, held his breath, and said word by word, “It’s because Lord Su Li has always been seriously explaining things to me.”

“If it were me, I don’t think I would spend so much time and energy focusing on cultivating another person.” Egbert lowered his head, his pink cheeks and earlobes truly revealing something.

“It’s not about cultivation.” Su Li wouldn’t accept this sentiment. He didn’t think he had such a big face, only saying, “I’m just standing on the shoulders of giants, babbling a few words orally.”

And if initially, Egbert hadn’t stopped, thrown down a gold coin and then turned to leave, Su Li guessed that he himself, along with his box, would have weighed less than five jin.

“Just as you now marvel that I would seriously tell you what I understand, I similarly marvel that in such a dangerous world, I could safely live until now—isn’t it all thanks to you all?”

Su Li believed that he might have no money, no height, no cats, but he definitely had self-awareness.

Egbert, however, quite naturally ignored the “all” in “you all,” he only cared about himself.

“Please definitely rely on me!” Egbert’s voice was exceptionally firm, “Only rely on me!”

Su Li was stunned by this tone for a moment. After a while, he rubbed his nose and said, “If I hadn’t relied on you all, what I would be doing wouldn’t be living in the city. Without reliance, I would only choose to live in a remote corner or a village, building a house, farming land, and muddling through life.”

Although it’s pretty muddled now too.