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The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 135.1 - The Meaning of the Daphne Flower (part 1)
Perhaps he had a fear of enormous creatures.
In that instant, the thought “What the hell is this?” was squeezed out of his mind.
“Why didn’t anyone warn him that he’d be face-to-face with a giant dragon when he opened his eyes? If possible, he would rather have remained blind.”
“The reason fantasies are wild and fascinating is precisely because they can’t become reality. And if fantasies do become reality... they probably just turn into horror movies, don’t they?”
When one turned to discuss survival strategies with others, but suddenly discovered that the fierce beast pursuing you was not only crouching beside you but also gently breathing on your neck...
He was truly doomed!
Say something, say something quick!
Heaven knows that when death was truly just a hair’s breadth away, what filled Su Li’s mind wasn’t desperate survival strategies, but rather...
“Hello...?”
The platinum-haired youth still stood in place. Perhaps his movements were too rigid, his mental state too shocked, so that after he turned his head to look at the giant dragon, a full three seconds passed before he uttered those two words with a questioning tone.
Meanwhile, the dragon—so enormous that it blocked Su Li’s entire field of vision—maintained a silence so complete you could hear a pin drop.
Just as Su Li finally calmed down from his chaotic, tangled thoughts, the dragon unceremoniously opened its mouth wide and let out a roar directly at him.
Su Li stepped back.
Perhaps when people are on the verge of mental collapse and experiencing severe shock, in order to maintain the last line of defense in their mental realm, they uncontrollably shift their attention elsewhere.
Like now.
Su Li, who hadn’t died on the spot, experienced a perfect process of mental collapse and reconstruction in just a few seconds.
He could even say to the dragon that hadn’t killed him outright: “Please don’t spray saliva on me so casually...”
“Even if you gave me a leaf earlier to wipe my mouth, it’s still not okay.”
He even added “please.”
What a polite young man! While Eis couldn’t help thinking this, the next second, blood burst from around his eye sockets and clouded his vision.
Su Li, meanwhile, had become completely calm.
He would never ignore his concept in this world, which was almost synonymous with the rules.
That is, as long as he didn’t die on the spot, there was always room for recovery.
Perhaps because the dragon didn’t respond, or because the only person who wanted to disrupt this abnormal conversation had already lost his mind, Su Li withdrew his hand from the dragon’s head, put it behind his back, and ignoring his uncontrollably shaking palms, he could even continue saying to the dragon, “Um... thank you for giving me a leaf earlier.”
“But randomly spraying saliva is still inappropriate behavior.”
The green-eyed youth, tugging at the hem of his clothes, spoke with a troubled expression to the sky-filling dragon.
For Elvi Bessemer, she had imagined many possibilities for meeting the person who held the Final Creation.
But possibilities were, after all, just possibilities.
Elvi Bessemer still believed she needed to personally meet the human youth who held the Final Creation.
But before she could directly face the child she wanted to meet, she discovered that someone had already carried him away like a sack.
Elvi Bessemer was troubled, and this trouble prompted her to try to chase after the youth.
This was interesting.
To be precise, the process of chasing was truly interesting for the dragon.
Trees so large they required multiple people to encircle them continuously fell. This scenery was like a human destroying a carefully built stack of blocks—the destroyer could feel endless conquest satisfaction from the process of knocking them down.
Until Elvi Bessemer stopped beside the youth who was vomiting non-stop.
Humans feared monster beasts; this was natural. And when choosing to appear in this form, Elvi had also anticipated Su Li’s reaction.
But even the dragon hadn’t expected that the youth would calmly place his hand on her head and even ask her for a leaf to wipe his mouth.
Elvi thought she should be furious at this youth, as his actions and behavior were quite disrespectful.
But all her intimidation and desire to toy with him ultimately ended when she met those green eyes staring at her.
There was no fear in them as she had expected.
Those green eyes contained only the purest form of “observation.”
Nothing superfluous.
This was very unreasonable.
For a dragon who had lived countless years, people generally had to get used to this dragon, or rather this enormous creature, who had long since formed the arrogant habit of judging the present based on everything recorded in her memory.
So, the problem definitely lay with this human.
The roar that followed her thoughts was met not with fear or panic, but with something even more incredible: “Please don’t spray saliva on me so casually...”
...
......
The air seemed to have solidified.
The dragon felt awkward.
And the human...
The human simply stood up straight and pounded his waist, which had become a bit sore from bending over due to excessive vomiting.
This was reasonable.
After all, when noise exceeds 100 decibels, it can cause severe damage to the human body. When the giant dragon’s roar merely covered Su Li in saliva, he could already skillfully determine that he wouldn’t easily die here.
That being the case, facing a dragon was no different from facing the ambitious Ophelia.
If the eager-to-understand Grand Princess, who stayed in the Mercenary City, knew what he was thinking right now, she would probably just say: Thanks for asking, but she couldn’t bear the reality of being compared to a dragon.
How many dragon species did humans know among the monster beast groups?
From a classification perspective, the Level 7 monster beast Lizard Dragon could be considered a dragon, right? Of course, the dragon before him and that lizard.....dragon that ran on its hind legs could never be viewed by humans as the same species.
After his waist felt a bit better, Su Li couldn’t help but lift his head.
——It was truly enormous!
From this subtle angle, he could only see the white mist formed when the dragon’s expelled breath interacted with the natural temperature difference.
Perhaps because his brain had already modeled it, or perhaps because... the skills Egbert had learned to infer more from existing information hadn’t yet reached their maximum level...
Anyway, Su Li was now able to very calmly ask the dragon a question.
“Hello, madam. Or should I say sir?” Su Li asked with an uncertain tone.
Under normal circumstances, this conversational tone would be more like an adult naturally striking up a conversation with another adult wearing gender-neutral clothing. Not a youth speaking to a giant dragon.
“Madam is fine.”
It wasn’t a voice producing words, nor did it cause his eardrums to vibrate. This response seemed more like information input, jumping directly into Su Li’s brain.
The green-eyed youth straightened his clothes once more before saying, “Then, madam, what business do you have with me?”
When Elvi tried to explain to Su Li her reason for chasing him... unlike the abnormal silence brought by her powerful wind control abilities, the surrounding environment quickly fell into a very reasonable commotion.
Cyril was the first to catch up.
When the youth with wind element powers discovered his good companion was being chased by a dragon...
Who knows what was going through his mind.
At this moment, Su Li looked extremely disheveled in his vision. The wrinkles in his clothes from being carried by Eis, the physiological tears and reddened eye corners from violently bending over to vomit, plus the somewhat wet appearance after being sprayed with dragon saliva...
In that instant, Cyril’s mind was filled with the thought that Su Li had suffered greatly.
But when this thought appeared, the dragon youth was suddenly horrified to discover that his first thought upon seeing Su Li still full of life wasn’t relief that he was alive.
It seemed that his expectation for Su Li to be alive had already become a natural cognition, like eating and drinking.
Cyril even felt that Su Li should be that daily image of sitting in his room on the second floor of the red brick building, opening the window, feeling the fine rain outside while feeding rice to the omnivorous raven.
Not standing less than two meters away from a giant dragon!
“What do you want to do to him?!” Cyril truly came like a gust of wind, inserting himself into that distance of less than two meters.
His speed was so fast that before Su Li’s mind could accurately judge what was happening, Cyril had already taken Su Li more than ten meters away.
But Cyril didn’t choose to flee.
Since he had seen this dragon up close, a strange feeling had inexplicably arisen in his heart—a desire to get closer, but also carrying the natural human repulsion toward monster beasts.
The idea born from instinct was too bizarre, so Cyril chose to abandon his obsession with this suddenly arising thought. What he cared most about was still Su Li’s personal safety.
“I didn’t do anything to him.”
That kind of conversation method, suddenly input into the sea of consciousness, made Cyril freeze in place.
Su Li, however, acted as if he hadn’t noticed this unnatural stiffness and calmly pulled Cyril behind him, then stepped forward and asked the dragon in a calm voice, “You still haven’t told me what business you have with me.”
“Before answering your question, you need to deal with that group first,” Elvi shifted her gaze to the large group behind her, looking like ants trying to launch an attack on humans.
The bait army’s fanatical faith in Su Li had reached a pathological level.
Who would have thought this might be due to Su Li actively radiating charm? Later, when asked, it was discovered that for those baits, they believed they should live for Su Li.
Their weak former selves had already died in those disasters and crises where they were used as bait.
Qi also pondered his own situation after such responses.
He found that his perception of Su Li was the same.
It was just that this mentality among people around Su Li was expressed less obviously.
The water bullet, formed by compressing elements throughout the body and continuously collapsing inward to the size of a human fist, gave the people beside Qi a strong sense of danger.
But the dragon targeted by Qi was completely unconcerned.
Such an attack couldn’t even leave a mark on her scales.
It wasn’t even enough to tickle her.
Although it didn’t matter, Elvi would still consider any attack directed at her as provocation.
Thus, the words she told Su Li also carried an alternative warning.
Su Li could only stop that group of people who were ready to jump into hell before continuing his conversation with her.
Elvi watched with somewhat surprised eyes as the youth, with just a few words, made those who clearly outmatched him in strength quiet down.
But the conversation still couldn’t continue.
Compared to the bait army that had just looked like they didn’t want to live anymore, what now prevented the conversation from continuing was Dean Asa and a person wearing a black robe.
Even from a distance, Su Li could vaguely see the cold sweat running down Dean Asa’s forehead.
This wasn’t the concern caused by worry for him, but absolute panic facing an invincible entity.
Just as fools, knowing little, do not fear heaven and earth.
When Su Li faced the dragon’s non-killing, his conclusion was that as long as he didn’t die, there was still room for recovery. But when Dean Asa faced the dragon’s existence, his conclusion was pure, absolute suppression that couldn’t be resisted.
“You—” Dean Asa struggled to speak, his limbs seeming constrained by forces invisible to Su Li, his whole person exhibiting a rigid inability to move.
“Would you please condescend to take human form...” Dean Asa didn’t want the students who had participated in the expedition to go insane just from looking at this dragon.
Just like Eis, who had already fallen unconscious.
The moment everyone saw the silhouette of the giant dragon, the perception they received in both body and soul was that they were facing death directly.
If anyone at the scene could maintain complete calm, it was only Su Li, who, apart from being frightened at the beginning, had maintained peace throughout.
Su Li could see at a glance that Elvi had no intention of obeying so-called human rules.
She acted as if she hadn’t heard Dean Asa’s words at all, focusing only on Su Li as she said, “I came to find you because, from my individual perspective, I just wanted to know what happened to my friend in human society.”
“You understand.”
Elvi didn’t say anything more detailed, but she knew Su Li would definitely understand her words.
“Are we going to talk here?” Su Li asked the dragon.
Their conversation style had become more and more natural. If his earlier questions were in the form of small talk, now Su Li was calmly conversing with an entity as if it were his equal.
No unnecessary fear, no awkward stiffness.
Elvi looked down at the youth gazing up at her. Earlier, she hadn’t seen anything in those eyes, but now, Elvi saw the purest form of inquiry in Su Li’s eyes.
The world shadowed by the dragon once again welcomed the warmth of sunlight.
All of Dean Asa’s actions to lower himself in hopes of achieving his goal had no chance of success.
Elvi would take human form only because Su Li’s questioning tone carried the inappropriate idea of discussing someone else’s privacy.
That was respect.
Respect that shouldn’t exist between monster beasts and humans, but nevertheless did.
Elvi chose to take human form.
The dragon’s dark red scales seemed to form a magnificent attire too precious for humans to look at directly.
Su Li hadn’t expected Elvi to understand his meaning so quickly, nor had he anticipated that she would actually transform into a human in public.
Another point was—
“Cyril...” Su Li asked in a muffled voice, “Not being able to see that kind of elemental constructed magnificent clothing is truly regrettable.”
Su Li looked at the reflection in his companion’s eyes. The image was too small, but Su Li could still see that the human form of the dragon reflected in Cyril’s eyes was wearing armor woven from dark red and silver.
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Most noticeable were the curved dragon horns on the forehead of the dragon’s human form.
Without a doubt, this was a magnificent female too dazzling to look at directly.
Of course—
This didn’t apply to Su Li.
“What are you doing?”
No longer that conversation method that seemed to pour directly into the brain, proper words uttered from her mouth reached the ears of everyone present.
Su Li...
Su Li was caught in a dilemma—not explaining might get him flattened with one slap, but explaining might get him smashed into a pulp.
But he still chose to turn his back to the human-form dragon and explain, “You should be able to tell that I don’t possess the elemental power that everyone else has.”
Elvi was indifferent. “So?”
Having elemental power or not, to a dragon, all were weaklings.
All being weaklings, who would care whether those who could be killed at any time had the battle power of half a goose or a hundred geese?
“So your elemental constructed clothes, or rather armor, in my eyes...” Su Li felt as if a handful of sand had been forcibly stuffed into his throat, and he could only say the answer in a harsh voice, “are simply nothing.”
“Hahahahahahaha!” Elvi burst into unbridled laughter.
“I thought you were troubled by something else.” Elvi walked slowly toward Su Li’s position, her face showing blatant wildness and arrogance. “I allow you to gaze upon my body and submit to the power of my flesh.”
Monster beasts of course wouldn’t feel the shame that humans had in their hearts.
Taking human form, for monster beasts, was just changing form.
The body was still that body, so how could they possibly feel awkward?
Su Li: ...
Su Li chose to bury his head in Cyril’s chest in self-abandonment.
Then he mumbled, “What actually flashed through my mind was wondering whether I’d be silenced first by my companion’s ancestor for seeing her naked body, or whether I’d be buried alive by my companion.”
Although the answer had nothing to do with his guess.
Su Li still felt ashamed.
“You actually didn’t see anything, did you?” Cyril forcibly returned from his strange feelings about the dragon and placed his hands on Su Li’s shoulders, saying helplessly, “And I’ve told you before, anyone who dares to harm you would have to step over my corpse.”
“In other words, before I harm you, I would choose to kill myself.”
“That sounds wonderful, I hope you can truly do everything you say,” Elvi actively inserted herself into the youths’ conversation.
As for the various students who had originally been behind her, they had already been dispersed or taken away by Dean Asa along with Haiya who had arrived later.
In the end, only a human, a dragon, and a dragon-descendant youth remained at the center of the scene.