TOMWDET Chapter 186.1

God-Making Chapter (2.1)

After Su Li woke up, Leia dragged him away for another fight.

Or rather, the reason he had been so exhausted that he fell asleep was because the merman gentleman felt that despite having power, his combat abilities were truly disappointing to behold.

Being provoked by other monster beasts, the Water Tribe had no intention of contributing during the confrontation with the Beast Tribe. Though Leia showed nothing on the surface, he felt somewhat displeased in his heart.

But he was skilled at enduring.

No matter how harsh others’ words were, when he couldn’t forcefully defeat his opponent and gain an advantage, treating it as if nothing had happened was the best choice.

Su Li sat casually on the beach, breathing heavily. Those clothes that had originally been neatly arranged were now wrinkled and disheveled. Large amounts of salt crystals precipitated from seawater also hung upon them.

Not far from him, Leia wasn’t in much better condition.

The merman’s hair was disheveled and uneven in length. The fine, tender scales that had grown with great difficulty on his fish tail after previous injuries had once again been forcefully shed.

The wounds, constantly producing pain due to contact with seawater, also made Leia clench his teeth.

He had originally thought that although Su Li’s control over elements was precise, his lack of strong physical power would create obvious disadvantages and weaknesses in combat.

At the beginning, this was indeed the case. In the first match, when Su Li hadn’t directly unleashed that kind of field-controlling level of elemental suppression, he was practically being beaten around by the merman.

But in the second match, Leia began to feel pressure.

Su Li indeed didn’t have that kind of powerful physical body, but he understood very well the shield-related gaming skills from modern society.

Not characters wielding shields as weapons, but using skills to create various defensive shields around oneself.

In single combat, Su Li only needed to turn his ring counterclockwise a little bit, and those elemental powers would continuously flow into his body, rather than being massively infused.

Given that the ring itself also had elemental absorption capabilities, during the second match, Leia truly experienced what could be called a human perpetual motion machine.

Unlike Su Li.

Leia, or rather anyone and any monster beast in this world, had no way to simultaneously output violence while recovering their body’s elements.

After this battle ended, the merman’s evaluation was: “Even if it’s just through attrition, he could wear down any opponent facing him.”

Though somewhat exaggerated, if there was no way to resolve Su Li quickly, any opponent would fall into prolonged, grueling combat until Su Li chose to retreat or achieved victory.

The high evaluation was accompanied by the merman’s obvious displeasure. “However, it’s not without drawbacks. Once there’s absolute power that can break through the ‘shield,’ unless Su Li can dodge attacks with faster speed, he still wouldn’t have a second chance.”

Egbert revealed a smile. “We who follow Lord Su Li’s side have never been decorative mascots placed aside.”

Leia showed an expression as if he had swallowed a fly.

His original purpose in choosing to fight Su Li was to suppress Su Li through combat, making Su Li recognize reality while also making others recognize that the person they followed wasn’t absolutely powerful.

This group’s growth speed was too terrifying. They were like sponges, constantly absorbing any combat knowledge the merman revealed.

In the monster beast world without power hierarchy divisions, it was as if all monster beasts had reached the so-called tenth level, but some had barely touched it, while others were limited because power divisions only went up to the tenth level.

Therefore, after Su Li woke up, the merman who didn’t believe human growth speed could repeatedly break through his impression limits dragged him into another fight.

The result… In the third match, Leia lost.

Any monster beast felt this was unreasonable.

But it had happened.

A monster beast following Leia also tried to save face for him. “Lord Leia didn’t use his full strength. Losing in close combat to such a strong opponent who can directly control the entire battlefield situation isn’t shameful.”

Shortly after, that aquatic monster beast was directly kicked into the sea by the merman who had transformed into human form.

Because no matter how one heard those words, they sounded like they were implying that the merman couldn’t compete with Su Li in elemental combat.

—— In close combat, he also couldn’t gain an advantage.

“It’s indeed very strange.” Leia commented afterward. No one knew how his thinking worked, but everyone heard him say, “Long, long ago, when human bloodlines hadn’t been mixed with monster beast blood, was the originally feasible development direction for humans like Su Li now…”

Using the absorption device on the elemental ring to store elements, then using the output device on the ring to bring power into the body.

This was remarkably similar to electrical energy development in modern society.

But whether it was humans mixed with monster beast bloodlines or monster beasts themselves, they all needed to first strengthen their bodies before they could accept elemental input.

Otherwise, they would just be like balloons containing too much gas, exploding with a “pop.”

But Su Li’s body was like a balloon that originally had gaps – no matter how much you inflated it, it could never be inflated. But the gas blown out could definitely pass through his body.

“This kind of thing…” Compared to humans, the merman’s speculation first caused distress among other transformed monster beasts.

Bartholomew gently exhaled.

“Indeed, this child is a unique existence, whether among humans or monster beasts.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment.” Su Li straightened his clothes.

The world’s development had similarities in approach but differences in execution.

Humanity’s five basic needs had established the path for civilization’s development.

Even if the other world existed with various strange and wonderful power systems, those things could basically be represented by items from modern society.

The force of action might differ, but the effects were largely the same.

As long as one thought from this perspective, any monster beast with a brain would discover how abnormal the place and environment they lived in was.

Where did things start going wrong?

Humans who had been under monster beast suppression for tens of thousands of years couldn’t explain right and wrong – they themselves had no right to choose.

Then the problem seemed to lie only with the monster beasts who had appeared earlier.

After some contemplation, Leia left the beach and returned to the Water Tribe’s true territory.

The civilization beneath the deep sea didn’t record things in books like humans, but it similarly had various tools that could record past information.

Deep buried under the seabed, in a similarly Western-style spired building, Leia walked through holding a glowing pearl.

Various towering bookshelves on the building’s walls were filled with all kinds of books.

The so-called similarity in approach but difference in execution was most evident here.

Under this ten-thousand-meter deep sea, what was placed on the bookshelves, though not made of white paper, was still bound into book volumes.

The dim environment was illuminated by the glowing pearl. Because of the building’s existence, which created a stagnant water environment within its range, simply picking up any book would cause large amounts of silt to spread.

After Leia coughed once, he employed water elements. The power responded like an extension of his limbs, and large amounts of silt were swept out of the building under elemental manipulation.

“Monster Beast History,” “Memories of the Great Sea,” “Ten Thousand Meters Below,” “War”… Countless books came into view.

In his lifetime, apart from the first time he had obtained the position of ruler and toured the territory he possessed, this was the second time Leia had come to this place that contained traces of civilization.

Too many books were piled around him. To thoroughly examine this place that clearly contained no fewer than ten thousand books in the short term was obviously difficult. At this time, other monster beasts who could read Water Tribe script became the best tools.

Until the merman discovered that in the recorded monster beast civilization before humans appeared…

The gradual destruction of natural monster beasts, just like the prefix “natural” in natural monster beasts, was perfectly normal – this was a record of species that should follow natural laws toward extinction after being influenced by reality’s uncontrollable natural factors.

If nothing unexpected happened, probably when the original humans, uninfluenced by external factors, gradually developed tribal forms, monster beasts would have completely moved toward extinction…

[We discovered humans. This is a miracle by the world to save monster beasts and prevent monster beast civilization from being destroyed! Praise the Creator God.]

The miraculous theory in the preface was no longer verifiable, but the three words “Creator God” made Leia, whose memory only contained talk of the God of Light and God of Darkness, truly feel the deep sea cold he had never paid attention to before.

As a transformed monster beast, he should think from the monster beast perspective. But as a former human, Leia couldn’t help but wonder: had humans been defined as tools by an unverifiable higher existence from the very beginning of their birth?

There was no answer.

The premise of being unverifiable made even the three words “Creator God” full of illusory immediacy.

Were humans tools created by some higher existence solely to maintain monster beast civilization? Or did humans represent the original form of a new civilization?

Just as Leia didn’t understand how his thinking had turned to considering these things, or why he had truly entered this library for the first time in his life, he also couldn’t figure out why he, who originally only needed to consider combat, achieving victory, and enjoying the various pleasures that status brought, would think about these matters.

He didn’t want to admit it, but Leia did have some recollection of what Elvi had said about the unthinkable nature regarding Su Li.

But seeing human strength…

Seeing someone who clearly couldn’t physically contain power, yet could defeat him – a merman who had lived for hundreds of years – at the tender age of teenagers through so-called “technological research”…

How could one not think deeply?

He had once been human too.

Denying his human identity was because monster beasts were stronger. But what if humanity’s development path was correct, and being a monster beast was the source of the world’s errors?

This kind of thinking simply couldn’t help but deepen.

Reason said not to think about it, but madness informed him that if even thinking couldn’t continue, then as a monster beast, as a monster beast who had once been human, wouldn’t he be inferior to those low-level natural monster beasts who, due to poor talent, were mostly just treated as food?

[Madness Disease]

These three words were like a stamp, harshly carved into his brain that also possessed ravines.

Everything recorded and passed down by transformed monster beasts confirmed that this peculiar disease that made transformed monster beasts uncontrollably commit suicide originated from the pathological changes brought about by the blood within humans after being transformed into monster beasts having both human and monster beast characteristics.

Therefore, transformed monster beasts needed natural monster beasts.

Using natural monster beast blood to cleanly replace the blood inside their bodies.

Only this way could transformed monster beasts maximally reject this disease.

The reason the mermaid ruler wasn’t affected by this influence was simply because he fundamentally didn’t acknowledge the so-called rules.

Only monster beasts who lived alongside humans and naturally cultivated to the tenth level were called natural monster beasts with the ability to complete bloodlines?

Leia had long experimented with many transformed monster beasts and discovered that natural monster beasts born in this great sea could similarly remedy the defects of transformed monster beasts.

Why was there need, yet not so much need for the Raven?

Of course, it was because the surface rules only existed on the surface.

In secret, rules had long become things trampled underfoot by the merman. And even if rules were touched, after repeated experiments, relatively complete blood replacement methods had long been found.

The merman, evaluated as trash, wouldn’t care about any problems with using other aquatic monster beasts for experiments.

Ignoring these matters, Leia also remembered that transformed monster beasts who had been completed with natural monster beasts actually hadn’t fully recovered.

But what was this part of the deficiency due to? And what was needed to complete it…?

This was an answer that neither Leia nor all the transformed monster beasts in this world knew.

They just felt they were abnormal and would choose suicide because of those strange abnormalities.

Having considered the principles, the conclusion reached was simply that transformed monster beasts weren’t complete natural monster beasts.

But looking now…

Was it possible that this was simply because monster beasts were wrong, and transformed monster beasts, as long as their previous forms were still human, would never be able to resist their characteristics as humans?

Incompatibility in thinking, differences that civilization would inherently possess from its roots… Even with broad similarities, small differences still existed, didn’t they?

Unable to understand, his brain felt like it was being pierced by countless needles.

Leia naturally knew how those aquatic monster beasts who had been used for experiments evaluated the onset state.

That feeling was like being squeezed by the entire world.

Life was like an egg placed in an invisible giant palm. As long as that giant hand gripped tightly, transformed monster beasts would feel boundless pain.

And the only way to alleviate it was suicide.

As long as they died, they would no longer feel that pain.

It was as if…

The entire world was denying the existence of transformed monster beasts.

—— Only death could bring redemption.

By the beach.

The humans were discussing whether to help Matilda reclaim the Winged Tribe territory and use it as a base to wage war against the Beast Tribe, or directly attack the Beast Tribe.

Roy sighed, “That merman’s attitude toward us is too ambiguous. Without a knife directly at Leia’s throat, he can ignore all reasoning about mutual destruction.”

“As for me, I want to directly attack the Beast Tribe.” Matilda joined the conversation, but she still hadn’t revealed the location of the Council of Elders.

“I think the same way. In the short term, the Beast Tribe will definitely have some of their forces transferred to the Winged Tribe territory they’ve conquered.” Egbert nodded in agreement. “Rather than face a new Winged Tribe battlefield that’s even more brutal than what Lord Su Li saw before, attacking the Beast Tribe with some of their forces transferred would be more suitable.”

“Add my vote for attacking the Beast Tribe.” Lan Zhe stated his position.

“Regardless of whether the little master and I agree, your three-to-two operation doesn’t look like you’re giving us a choice either.” Roy put his arm around Egbert’s shoulder with a roguish expression.

Egbert pushed his arm aside with a slightly disgusted expression. “When facing choices, Lord Su Li always has the deciding vote.”

“I may not trust myself, but I would never not trust Lord Su Li…”

Before the last word could be spoken, a large whirlpool appeared on the sea surface that even humans at the beach’s edge could see.

“What happened?” Matilda was startled.

Bartholomew, who knew something about the merman’s control over the sea, became an automatic positioning encyclopedia. “Leia stirred up a whirlpool in the ocean’s depths.”

“Probably before long, there will be a tsunami here.”

Roy slapped his forehead hard. “Please don’t tell me that just as we’ve prepared to attack the Beast Tribe, the merman suddenly goes crazy and wants to attack us… What is this? Being caught between two fires?”

“He’s gone mad. Why would he suddenly do this? Don’t forget that whether it’s the Water Tribe or…” Matilda vaguely glossed over the monster beasts brought by the dragon and unicorn respectively, then continued, “all of your powers are in a sealed state. Without sufficient elemental power to resist, even with your strong physical bodies, you might not be able to withstand a tsunami’s attack.”

“You can’t tell me that merman has really gone so mad that to kill all of you, he wouldn’t care about sacrificing large numbers of his own kind, right?… Clemens clearly hasn’t had time to act against the Water Tribe, yet he wants the entire Water Tribe to perish?”

“My suggestion is that you go underwater to take a look.” Elvi, sensing a certain familiar aura, frowned slightly.

“The water elements at that whirlpool’s center have extremely violent nature changes. The aura is also full of destructive flavor. If it can’t be stopped, even though Leia has always centered everything on himself, even if he can’t control the transformed monster beast’s pathological changes, what he would do couldn’t possibly be just suicide.”

“Trust me.” Elvi’s mouth curved into a cold smile. “Leia would only make everyone present accompany him in death.”

After speaking, the dragon turned her gaze to Su Li.

“Or is it that for humans, the death of large numbers of monster beasts is inherently a good thing?”

“Without lifting the control over our bodies, all monster beasts will die in the coming tsunami. In the quiet of midnight dreams, carrying so many lives on your back, I wonder if you’ll have even a moment of guilt and pain.”

“The answer is no.” Su Li stood up. He raised his left hand, index finger upright before his mouth, and in the depths of his green eyes was the same calm as always.

The young man’s height only barely reached the human-form Elvi’s lip level.

When he spoke and raised his head to look directly into Elvi’s eyes, the dragon could clearly see that tender face. The aura rising around the youth continued to climb. In a flash, Elvi could only see Su Li’s figure running quickly toward the sea surface with his back to her.

The Raven moved accordingly, catching his body as the youth leaped high from below the boulder. Then, the two flew resolutely toward the whirlpool center filled with violent aura.

Su Li used facts to tell the dragon that he would neither lift the control over them nor allow the continuously brewing tsunami to truly appear.

This left Elvi standing in place with a dazed expression, her ears filled with a series of human cursing.

“Damn crow! Compared to him, that kind of bird whose combat power drops significantly when his wings get wet, we humans are most suitable to follow and participate in battle!”

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Below the whirlpool.

The Raven instantly became a small crow and stood steadily on Su Li’s shoulder, while the youth-like Su Li chose to leap down, rushing into the very center of the whirlpool.

When facing control skills, purification should be most suitable.

How to use elements to achieve effects comparable to purification, no longer being affected by control skills? As soon as this thought appeared, the elements in the ring directly created… a shield on Su Li’s body.

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Elements: I think super armor is better.

In this instant, the elements seemed to have self-optimal selection.

Entering the seabed without being suppressed by the environment, Su Li fell into a moment of contemplation.