TOMWDET Chapter 191.2

Idiotic Fish (part 2) 

 

He could specifically reference the elemental videos that the Holy Son group had once produced.

 

Although that thing was never promoted later and didn’t spread much beyond the small building’s scope, since it existed, Egbert wouldn’t be stingy about informing Castor—this researcher under Su Li’s command.

 

“Powerful surveillance capabilities, ultra-long-distance precision strikes. From the very beginning, humans never needed to consider defense. Moreover, I believe that offense is the best defense. Eliminating the enemy is the best way to prevent oneself from being eliminated by the enemy.”

 

Snowy Owl…

 

The Snowy Owl had become dumbfounded.

 

“…Could such a thing actually be created?!”

 

The Dark Pope’s originally high spirits suddenly became somewhat dejected.

 

He said in a low voice: “…It’s just that no one had ever considered it before.”

 

The Snowy Owl sensed that this dejection stemmed from the fact of humanity’s previously narrow vision.

 

After all, who could have imagined that the power standards used by humans and monster beasts were completely different things?

 

“Because it was never considered, they assumed that everything they currently possessed was sufficient for use.” Asgari commented coldly, “Complacent emotions made everyone believe that elements were everything. But for humans, everything that could be categorized by elements was, in the eyes of monster beasts, something that could be easily destroyed.”

 

What humans took pride in, monster beasts completely disdained.

 

Recognizing this reality was, for everyone, no less than a spiritual destruction and reconstruction.

 

But fortunately, the upper-level people had unified goals, and the lower-level people had firm beliefs.

 

They were all walking on the correct path forward.

 

“Reality is as you say, but everything isn’t as absolute as you think, otherwise how could we possibly appear here?”

 

“Humans coming to monster beast society, launching resistance against monster beasts who had never regarded humans as worthy of attention—even if you had the most skilled wandering poet who specialized in writing hero stories compose it, they might not be able to tell such an exaggerated and unrealistic story.”

 

“But reality is just this exaggerated—” The old man restrained his dejection, and the wildness that had previously shown on his face also disappeared. His turbid eyes held the composure that came from years of experience, and also the clarity that came from seeing through everything.

 

They said the longer one lived, the more clear-headed one became. As a result, living to this age, the Dark Pope could clearly perceive that every day’s version of himself was growing.

 

This gaze made Asgari stunned, and after a brief daze, he couldn’t help but smile knowingly.

 

“Not harboring confusion about the unknown path ahead, but always remembering that exploring the unknown should possess extremely high desire… is that it?”

 

“What a strange race that never forgets its own ugliness, yet can always transform that ugliness and the demons buried deep in their hearts into the energy source for moving forward.”

 

Before ending the conversation, the Dark Pope said with his back to the monster beast: “But I don’t think that just because you’ve lived a few more years, you’re no longer human.”

 

Afterwards, the Dark Pope went directly to find Dean Asa.

 

Inside the semi-enclosed tent that was simply constructed to provide humans with a place to discuss monster beast society’s structure.

 

The two old men deliberated and both felt that actively launching an attack on the Beast Tribe was a good thing.

 

The Dark Pope said: “First, it can demonstrate that humans possess the power to confront monster beasts. Second, after humans display their strength, we can immediately express our dissatisfaction with the current persecution of humans by monster beast society.”

 

“But if we clearly demonstrate human strength, even monster beasts would temporarily avoid confrontation, right?” Euphia said. “I actually want to confirm how many transformed monster beasts still want to harm humans when humans haven’t shown their strength.”

 

“Only this way can we maximally target and solve those enemies specifically, rather than facing the obviously disguised performances of those transformed monster beasts after displaying our own strength.”

 

When Euphia was in the human internal environment, she was extremely protective of mercenaries. Facing nobles, she wished they would hurry up and die.

 

At this time, when dealing with both humans and monster beasts, she also had undisguised bias toward humans.

 

“You can’t say it like that.” Dean Asa disagreed and shook his head. “Judge by actions, not by hearts. The words Su Li spoke were properly recorded in the manual that Egbert created.”

 

“Whether monster beasts or humans, if we only consider from the perspective of [heart], there really wouldn’t be many existences who could be as perfect as that child Su Li.”

 

Far away in Tasahe City, Su Li sneezed hard.

 

Su Li, who spent his days thinking about not wanting to work and only wanting to retire, had no idea that he held such high regard in the eyes of several elderly people.

 

Dean Asa continued: “Choosing to confront with high military force, rather than begging for monster beasts’ mercy from a weak position, is itself meant to allow humans and monster beasts to coexist on equal footing.”

 

“Of course, this equality also incorporates a kind of respect that humans have for transformed monster beasts who were once human.”

 

“If those monster beasts, after understanding human strength, still foolishly display attempts to continue oppressing humans, then at that time we can also choose—” Dean Asa deliberately drew out his tone.

 

Subsequently, this old man who charged shocking tuition fees but never lowered educational standards showed an extremely gentle expression and said: “To ensure those monster beasts never again have the opportunity to express wrong opinions.”

 

Euphia showed an expression of “that’s so like you.”

 

Indeed, the longer one lived, the more corrupt one’s heart became.

 

“Then shall we… begin the operation?” Mavis raised an eyebrow.

 

“No, no, no.” The Dark Pope smiled, making his left index finger wave in front of his lips.

 

“Those birds flying in the sky observed the phenomenon of the Water Tribe attacking the Beast Tribe’s battle situation before, didn’t they? They said the entire Beast Tribe’s territory had already been completely conquered.”

 

“This doesn’t demonstrate that mermaid’s strength, but rather the power of Su Li, who was cooperating with the mermaid’s side.”

 

“Furthermore, rather than letting Su Li discover early that we, as his companions, have grown to this extent, what I’m more looking forward to is making a rear encirclement attack that would leave the Beast Tribe dumbfounded during the phase when the Water Tribe and Su Li launch their attack on the Beast Tribe—”

 

Ophelia nodded in agreement. “This method is good. However…”

 

“Haven’t you forgotten that those birds also mentioned that although Beast King Clemens lost all of the Beast Tribe’s territory, essentially, those powerful monster beasts under his command didn’t suffer obvious combat power losses?”

 

“Regarding this special phenomenon, my team studied it for a long time. I won’t elaborate on the various conclusions we reached, I’ll only mention the most likely one.”

 

“That is, Clemens was actively screening the Beast Tribe. Choosing to let the entire Beast Tribe be attacked rather than defending his own territory was because he was actively selecting powerful monster beasts while also filtering out those with insufficient strength.”

 

“You and I both know that a person with excessively powerful strength can easily influence a city, or even multiple cities, or even an entire country.”

 

“In other words, not letting Su Li know about the power we possess as human companions basically equals actively weakening part of humanity’s strength.”

 

“Going into battle against those elite among elite monster beasts with this level of strength, are you certain we can achieve the imagined advantage?”

 

“Having power is good, and Castor’s research is indeed like a meteor that lights up the night sky, comparable to the bright moon. But this action of actively avoiding the sun’s brilliance is simply comparable to a solar eclipse.”

 

Ophelia could not accept such idiotic actions.

 

“Hmm?” The Dark Pope looked innocent, tilting his head, then revealed a cunning smile and said: “I never said that rear attacks were only for surprise strikes. We’re attacking the Beast Tribe’s rear, but this doesn’t mean the Beast Tribe’s rear can’t become the Beast Tribe’s frontal battlefield.”

 

“The action of actively drawing fire and confronting it is enough for Su Li to discover the situation. That child doesn’t even need to see all of us—he only needs to catch a glimpse of Euphia or Mavis, and I guarantee he can figure out in one second that the opponents on the Beast Tribe’s frontal battlefield are us.”

 

“And at that time, what Su Li needs to do is lead those Water Tribe monster beasts to attack the Beast Tribe’s ‘front’ whose defensive power has obviously been weakened.”

 

Ophelia frowned tightly. “But wouldn’t this steal Su Li’s credit?”

 

“He was the first to discover monster beast society, he was also the first to choose resistance, and he was also the one who participated in war and bore the pressure. Yet at the final battle, it’s us who fight the frontal battle…? I believe we will win, just as Su Li absolutely cannot lose. But doing this, isn’t it willfully depriving him of the crown he should rightfully receive, taking advantage of the fact that Su Li doesn’t care about so-called honor?”

 

“I didn’t expect you to have such thoughts.” Mavis looked at Ophelia with surprise.

 

Being stared at by those eyes made Ophelia feel somewhat uncomfortable, and she said angrily, “What’s wrong with me thinking this way?”

 

“No, I mean, I didn’t expect you to actually consider Su Li’s honor. You know, the one who added the first major trophy to his life resume was you—the Grand Princess who brought a hundred thousand troops, preparing to attack Mercenary City. Oh, now called Your Royal Highness the Prince, although you no longer have inheritance rights to the throne.”

 

Ophelia became even angrier.

 

Mavis found teasing this little girl who wasn’t even half her age quite interesting.

 

But afterwards, she didn’t forget to say: “No one wants to steal the glory that belongs to that child. I’m not surprised at all that His Holiness the Pope has such thoughts, and I can even understand where his thoughts come from. Fundamentally, he just wants us humans who have spent time with Su Li to let Su Li personally witness our true growth from a factual perspective.”

 

“I will never forget when that child confronted the Pope of Light.”

 

That youth who had no elements yet fiercely seized everyone’s attention could become the light in memory that illuminated all darkness.

 

Seeing that Ophelia was about to show a refuting expression again, Mavis couldn’t help but say: “Our Pope was the earliest to show that rather than believing in the God of Darkness, he’d rather believe in Su Li.”

 

Ophelia thought of the incident that had almost drained the Inner City nobles’ wallets…

 

During that period, the capital of one nation had completely become an ocean of Su Li portraits.

 

Nobles also had troubles, or rather, as long as one was human, one would definitely have troubles.

 

With Cyril’s great artist power, the works he drew, combined with appropriate marketing (the youngest believer of the king in history) and advertising effects (personally promoted by the Dark Pope) (personally cooperated in promotion by the Grand Judge), plus the elevation and relaxation genuinely felt after speaking troubles to the portrait…

 

At that time, many nobles even treated Su Li’s portrait as healing medicine.

 

If the Dark Pope, who had cooperated with the Grand Judge at that time, had promoted not Su Li but someone else, Ophelia also felt that the Dark Pope could have created a large number of God of Darkness believers.

 

However, when promoting Su Li, there were also parts of political needs that the Grand Judge desired.

 

The Light and Dark Churches had tremendous suppression over the king’s governing rights, and believers were extremely prone to fanaticism and could easily disturb social order. At this time, transferring faith to make the consistently rational Su Li (portrait) become the new object of faith could better promote the new elemental strengthening model nationwide.

 

Various complex things intertwined to truly enable Amikbi, with over ten million people, to become a power collective that could contend with monster beasts at any time in such a short period.

 

But no matter how complex those things were, Ophelia had to admit that Mavis wasn’t lying.

 

The Dark Pope indeed didn’t think the God of Darkness was anything particularly worth believing in.

 

That old man’s thinking was: having to make statues for the God of Darkness and offer various tributes to the God of Darkness, going through all this trouble every day praying for Him to save dark elementalists oppressed by the Church or Light, yet it was completely useless…

 

That was worse than having everyone believe in Su Li, who could bring actual benefits and even had prophet-like wisdom.

 

Take Castor as an example.

 

A guy who had previously focused on mainstream research in elemental affinity transfer experiments could ultimately deviate to creating elemental absorption and conversion device-type high-risk weapons—this wasn’t an influence his own thinking circuits could bring.

 

The difference in consciousness was like the difference between worlds.

 

“I understand.” Ophelia finally said this.

 

In Tasahe City, on the night when it was confirmed that Clemens was equivalent to the God of Darkness.

 

“That’s about it. That mermaid asked me to tell you all that tomorrow he plans to attack the Winged Tribe territory, which is now the Beast Tribe.” Matilda said while rolling her eyes.

 

Egbert looked confused. “What is all this? Just when we can clearly see that the enemy is too powerful to resist, not only does Leia not want to retreat, but he actually wants to actively attack in such a short time?”

 

Matilda’s entire face was somewhat twisted. “Even though I really want to say I don’t know the reason and can’t deny it, that idiotic fish previously told me…”

 

“‘Rather than letting my heart, which knows the truth, constantly endure the torment of wanting to retreat, I’d rather convert this torment into fear of possibly not being able to defeat Clemens. After all, mental torment is endless, but physical torment is at most just death.’ That’s what he said.”

 

“After saying this, Leia directly stated that he was going to control the Water Tribe soldiers to confirm attack routes, deploy operations, arrange troops for battle and such, then had me come inform you all.”

 

Matilda’s face was twisted.

 

This Winged Tribe Queen had never been able to understand Leia’s absurdity.

 

“Starting battle tomorrow… isn’t that too hasty?” Even Lan Zhe, who usually didn’t participate much in warfare and only considered himself support, felt it was excessively rushed.

 

“But it’s not impossible either. Speed is precious in war.” Roy had good acceptance of all kinds of absurd operations. “This way, even Clemens wouldn’t necessarily expect that the Water Tribe, having just finished fighting Tasahe City, wouldn’t give themselves any time to stabilize the Beast Tribe cities.”

 

“Furthermore, these Beast Tribe cities themselves aren’t something that Water Tribe monster beasts can completely control. Just lining up the monster beasts in these cities and chopping off their heads one by one would require an astonishing amount of time, not to mention that aquatic monster beasts living in the ocean naturally have obvious aversion to life on land.”

 

“Directly taking the resources created by those Beast Tribe members, then using those resources as power to attack Clemens?” Egbert showed a contemplative expression.

 

“Excessively rapid battles would indeed create great pressure for the Water Tribe, but the mermaid would definitely tell those aquatic monster beasts that as long as they defeat the Beast Tribe currently occupying the Winged Tribe Queen’s palace, the Water Tribe would become the strongest among the unifiers.”

 

“I dare say this kind of statement would definitely be the most inspiring to monster beast hearts.”

 

After Matilda’s mouth twitched several times, she said, “So you’ve already decided to fight?”

 

She wouldn’t say she was resistant, but Matilda actually wasn’t ready yet.

 

She had prepared to die, but this didn’t mean she had prepared to reclaim the Queen’s palace as a counterattacker.

 

Life was always contradictory.

 

Not afraid of death, yet timid about various miscellaneous external affairs.

 

And these humans…

 

Matilda took a deep breath, forcibly ignored those delicate inner thoughts, restrained her twitching mouth corners, looked seriously at several humans, and repeated, “Are you really certain?”

 

The humans looked at each other, including Su Li, and nodded in unison.

 

“As the Winged Tribe Queen, shouldn’t you now also tell us some territorial intelligence?” Su Li asked easily, making Matilda, who had maintained a tense posture ever since learning that the mermaid wanted to start war immediately, relax considerably.

 

Afterwards, this Queen also began to describe the territorial information of the land where she had lived for hundreds of years.