TOMWDET Chapter 184.1

Mortal Chapter (6.1)

Su Li barely managed to snatch Matilda, who had nearly died on the frontal battlefield, back from the hands of death.

Matilda had never expected that she would have another chance to continue living.

She was covered in blood all over. Su Li, who had no effective means of treatment, could only choose to pour healing potions down Matilda’s throat. During this time, Matilda, who had regained consciousness, also witnessed a conversation between a human and a monster beast.

The Raven’s injuries were also quite serious. Facing the young man’s appearance of having almost laid out all the healing potions from his entire spatial ring in front of him, he shook his head. “My injuries aren’t serious. Monster beast society is different from human society – everything here is extremely urgent.”

“Once similar healing resources are used, the difficulty of replenishing them will be beyond imagination.”

The Raven felt that injuries that could heal automatically through the body didn’t need to use these things.

But Su Li disagreed.

“Maintaining optimal condition is the most necessary thing, whether for you or for me.”

“But if these medicines were used on the Winged Tribe Queen, then whether psychologically or physiologically inevitable, she would listen carefully to whatever you said afterward, or give you high trust.”

After all, one would be a lifesaver.

Su Li still disagreed. “I don’t need her trust.”

“What I need is for your feathers to return to their original state, and for your wounds to no longer be full of charred traces.”

The Raven’s expression became dazed.

“Choosing to save the Winged Tribe Queen was a sudden idea of mine. There’s no need to continue compromising you for my personal interests when you’ve already borne the cost of battle.”

“If you’re still a man, don’t continue this topic with me.” Su Li didn’t give the Raven a chance to continue speaking.

To prevent the young man from really picking up a bottle and pouring potion into his own mouth, the Raven chose to compromise.

It wasn’t until the wounds on his body had healed and his feathers had regrown into that beautiful appearance of having iridescent black color under sunlight that Su Li turned his attention to Matilda, who was lying paralyzed on the ground with an ugly expression.

“What should I say at this time? Should I chirp and shout at you loudly, not even giving me a chance to complete my duty? Or should I say, thank you for saving my life? Then actively offer you help in hopes of repaying the favor?”

Matilda’s mood and tone were both very calm.

Mainly because she felt there was nothing worth continuing to be melancholy about.

A Beast King comparable to a monster, a human who could face off against monsters directly – from any perspective, he was probably equivalent to a monster as well…

Matilda: Tired, let it all be destroyed, let me die.

She had longed to die in that battle, at least she could have died gloriously.

Rather than like now, standing in place, looking left and right, up and down, with boundless darkness everywhere.

“My suggestion is to shut up and not talk about it.” Su Li also had times when he didn’t want to work.

The Raven had carried people while fleeing with a severely injured body. After confirming that even if other monster beasts pursued them, they wouldn’t be able to catch up in a short time, they stopped on a plain and began treating wounds.

The night was deep, with no stars or moon in the sky above. An occasional breeze made Su Li run his fingers through his hair, and then the young man threw a piece of wood into the fire pit that the Raven had made.

Fortunately, Matilda’s life was tough, otherwise she probably would have stopped breathing halfway through.

“But don’t you think that if I shut my mouth now, I’ll never have another chance to open it again?” After being in a daze, Matilda stared intently at Su Li’s profile with bright eyes.

According to what the Raven had said to Su Li about prioritizing her treatment to gain trust value, Matilda didn’t want to think deeply. With her mind full of images of herself nearly being smashed into meat paste, the Winged Tribe Queen directly defined the young man as profit-oriented.

After all, compared to giving medicine to her, a monster beast he had only met for the first time, giving it to the Raven – even if no obvious benefits could be seen, this kind of boss who trusted his subordinates wouldn’t face the uncertainty that was most likely to appear with her.

As the one being saved, Matilda had given two explanations. She had originally wanted Su Li to come up with a third possibility, but the young man directly ignored her.

Breaking the impression that had just been established and immediately shattered was one thing. Another point was that this human had indeed chosen to take her, a monster beast whose life or death didn’t matter, away from that battlefield…

“Saving me brings you no benefit.” Matilda really wanted to die, to die calmly and openly.

“Although I have the status of King of the Winged Tribe, someone like me who always lives in the Queen’s palace has no substantial control over the Winged Tribe.”

She glanced at Su Li, who seemed to be listening patiently but also somewhat like he was simply dazing, and continued the topic on her own. “No fighting ability, power being usurped. I finally got on the battlefield, wanted to do everything to save my own people, but nearly died in vain.”

Her voice was somewhat hoarse. “Saving me wasn’t even as good as saving Adison and the others… That guy is a butterfly spirit. I’m not clear how strong his fighting power specifically is, but in that kind of flower field, he could easily create scenes that were among the most beautiful in the world.”

“Of course there’s also Adonis. Gray cranes are the clan with the most natural monster beasts among all the Winged Tribe. Although they usually don’t have any obvious prominence in the Winged Tribe’s political circles, in terms of comprehensive power behind them, saving her would be much better than saving me.”

Apart from the hoarse voice, Matilda’s voice had no fluctuation whatsoever.

Su Li heard the crackling sounds from the fire pit. He looked at the starless sky, then didn’t turn his head to look at the woman’s disheveled face beside him. Gazing at the rising sparks, Su Li said. “I saved because I wanted to save. When did saving someone require considering interests?”

“Or have you already forgotten what humans are like?” Su Li turned his head to look at Matilda.

This King of the Winged Tribe’s eye sockets were very red. Whether she had shed tears before, Su Li pretended not to know, only saying, “I saved you simply because your position happened to be closest to our escape route.”

“Secondly, whether or not we saved you had no impact on us.”

Matilda had only one breath left at that time. In her human form, apart from the bloody and mangled stage that looked somewhat disturbing, at other times, when staying on the Raven’s claws, she hadn’t slowed down his flying speed.

“In a situation of choosing between two options, I would only consider the answer that was relatively better.”

Matilda stubbornly raised her head to ask. “So there really aren’t various profit-related explanations?”

“That’s impossible. If it weren’t like that, how could that crow have said that prioritizing the supply of healing medicine to me might bring you benefits…”

Matilda knew she was being overly persistent.

But she chose to let this emotion run free.

Whether as a human or as a monster beast, Matilda hadn’t lived out any heroic appearance.

She envied Elvi, a monster beast who had been mentally connected with a giant dragon for a long time on her own.

There was no helping it – as long as one still had thinking ability, life was always constantly chasing sunlight.

However, no matter how many thoughts there were, they couldn’t change Matilda’s heart that was so dark it wasn’t suitable to be exposed under light when she chose to walk toward death.

At least she was the Winged Tribe Queen, at least she had been able to sit in a puppet position for so many years.

Su Li’s strength was so powerful that whether he saved her or not didn’t matter. Someone as despicable as her, who never dared to resist, such an incompetent weakling, only needed to accept the good results that the strong brought her, hiding secretly in corners covered with fungal threads like a monster beast, enjoying herself in secret.

But she would still…

Resent.

Why save her?

So many monster beasts wanted to live, yet he chose to save one who already wanted to die.

Biased, obsessive, incompetent.

Matilda allowed her dark thoughts to run wild while extremely calmly evaluating her current state.

Su Li rarely didn’t say any words of comfort.

Unlike other people who wanted to improve themselves, when those types of people’s emotions and states were at rock bottom, comfort and actual help were the best forms of assistance.

But if it was someone like Matilda, who based on reality had finally determined she couldn’t live on and really didn’t want to continue living…

What suited her better wasn’t those comforting words that easily touched the heart, but letting her quietly digest negative emotions alone.

Otherwise, it would only intensify the emotions.

The most likely result would probably be self-righteousness, thinking oneself to be providing help, suddenly facing the hysteria of someone in an extreme emotional state.

In the end, the so-called good intentions would only be twisted due to not receiving a response, becoming another kind of unnecessary harm to someone who just wanted to quietly lick their wounds.

After briefly analyzing Matilda’s condition, Su Li suddenly pinched his nose bridge tightly.

During his retirement phase, when not working, Su Li had clearly always been the type who preferred to focus attention on himself…

This damned world.

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Su Li thought randomly for a long time. Only when Matilda’s originally somewhat rapid breathing in the distance gradually calmed down did she speak. “Sorry, I said some things earlier that didn’t seem very clear-headed.”

Su Li nodded to indicate acceptance.

He told this Winged Tribe Queen who didn’t seem like a monster beast but more like a human. “No one can maintain rationality forever. The reason rationality is important is precisely because when the corresponding madness appears, it brings various adverse consequences.”

Matilda hesitated for a moment but still asked. “Do you know about the strange disease among transformed monster beasts?”

“I call it madness disease.”

Simple and clear.

Not knowing what Matilda had thought about, this queen subsequently didn’t choose to delve deeper into topics related to madness disease, but said. “Where will we go next?”

“What will you do again, and whether my survival can provide you with corresponding help… Of course, I don’t think this is the cheap talk of repaying a life-saving favor. I will provide you with whatever power I’m capable of, just because…”

“You’re quite a likable child.”

Or rather, very likable.

Even without deep communication, when Matilda fell into dark psychology, Su Li’s figure sitting there indeed became the rope that held her at the edge of the cliff before she completely went to extremes.

“…Actually, that last sentence didn’t need to be said out loud.” Su Li’s heart ached.

—Oh, so it was completely invisible arrows.

Matilda tried to make her emotions turn toward lightness. “But compared to me who has already lived for hundreds of years, your lifespan might not even reach a fraction of mine.”

“…Thinking about it this way, I always feel like I’ve wasted all these years.”

Matilda became even more gloomy.

But Su Li said. “After dawn, I plan to go to the sea. While the Beast Tribe was attacking the Winged Tribe, they simultaneously sent giant dragons and unicorns to attack the Water Tribe.”

“It’s just that the battle there has now been forcibly stopped.”

Su Li thought for a moment, then gave an example. “It’s roughly equivalent to both the strong and weak all becoming even weaker beings they didn’t care about. That is, the legendary newbie village white-skinned players.”

Never mind the uncle at the weapon shop or the proprietress at the tavern – having their abilities forcibly suppressed, they hadn’t even had time to accept collection quests like little kids’ candy skewers.

In short, in the realm of weaklings, all monster beasts’ fighting methods were weaklings pecking at each other.

Su Li very sincerely pinched his own soft palm, confirming there were no obvious muscle traces.

Matilda was already stunned.

Was this reasonable?

The way to stop fighting was to make everyone have no fighting ability?

It had to be said, considering it from this angle, it really was quite reasonable.

It was just…

“Is this kind of thing actually possible to do?”

“There’s nothing that can’t be done. In this world, anything is possible.”

If it weren’t because he was very clear that elemental power wasn’t a special power he could absorb and cultivate, Su Li probably would have uncontrollably become addicted to that powerful feeling of having massive power added to his body.

As long as he had enough elemental power, he really felt he could do anything. Neither affected by the various techniques of this world, nor suppressed by the various physical rules of modern society.

—Like that scene where he had stopped the battle on the sea before.

That thing mixed some game skill settings related to time and space, plus forced control skills.

In this world, basically no one could solve his set of combat methods constructed through gaming thinking.

However, he was also fortunate that this highly malleable power wasn’t something he could cultivate. Otherwise, Su Li probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity to manifest various skill concepts from games in reality.

—If he could cultivate it, the current Su Li, never mind coming to monster beast society, probably wouldn’t be any different from other transmigrators in novels. He would only stay in places similar to academies, honestly learning things and starting the standard transmigrator route of leveling up and growing.

Su Li. Who would have thought that in a year and a half, even an old salted fish could be forced to become a source of the incredible.

Giving himself a light compliment.

Su Li’s lips curved up in an almost imperceptible smile.

Even the light of the flames seemed to favor the young man, painting orange-red light around the outline of his body.

Matilda once again sighed that Su Li was indeed likable.

Later, the people camping in place each fell asleep.

A dreamless night.

When they woke up again, Matilda had recovered to the extent that she could stand up.

Rather than continuing to be carried by the Raven in his crow-like appearance with his claws, Matilda strongly declared that even if her whole body was fractured, she would use willpower far beyond what ordinary people could imagine to soar in that all-encompassing high sky!

Raven. “Please do your best.”

Su Li. “To prevent life forms on land from suddenly getting blood splashed on their faces by things falling from high altitude during natural walking, my suggestion is that you drink another bottle of potion.”

Matilda’s injuries were too severe.

Su Li had already used quite a few potions just to keep her hanging on to that one breath.

However, the monster beast who had been unconscious at that time obviously didn’t know about this.

Even the Raven’s initial assessment. “Strength reduced by at least eighty percent, permanent damage, incurable” – Matilda had no chance to hear.

After drinking the potion, Matilda, who thought the discomfort when flying was only due to her injuries, had no understanding yet of this change in her abilities.

The subsequent route to the Water Tribe no longer needed to consider the need for concealment during escape. They only needed to fly in a straight line between two points. In less than half a day, one person and two monster beasts had reached above the sea.

The information gathered from this trip to the Winged Tribe was neither much nor little. After exchanging information with other humans, Matilda, who had remained silent throughout and didn’t dare to look directly at Elvi, joined the conversation among the humans.

“You generally know about the Beast King’s situation. The Beast Tribe’s unique rule-making also forms its own system. And the idea of trying to stop the Beast King from attacking the other two tribes from a position of weakness can only be called unrealistic.”

“Decision-making power will only be generated in the hands of the strong.”

“If we can’t defeat Clemens, the Water Tribe, which now appears to have stopped fighting, will eventually be finished.”

Matilda took a deep breath and spoke about the topic she had been carefully avoiding.

“One-tenth of the [Tiger’s] power would be enough to kill me in my prime. Rather than saying I exchanged a hundred moves with him during battle, it would be better to say that Clemens wanted to clearly understand what level his power had reached.”

“Although I’m certainly not the type who has always been active on battlefields, the Beast King, who has been represented by Bartholomew for many years, is probably about the same.”

“However, if you’re lucky enough to think that combat experience can defeat Clemens, then I can only say this is the most foolish idea imaginable, comparable to abandoning one’s brain.”

Matilda became calmer as she spoke.

Just like when she had faced Asgari and Adison before, as long as she wanted to, she could find various seemingly reasonable explanations that could also fool the people around her regarding the expulsion of the Dragon Clan.

“Regarding the Beast Tribe, Clemens’s attitude is clearly: if you don’t want to compromise, then go die.”