TOMWDET Chapter 194.1

The Fall (part 1)

 

Su Li discovered that the remnant forces of the Beast Tribe and Winged Tribe had started fighting each other.

 

The previous small explosions had no way of reaching Tasahe City.

 

However, the subsequent attack that seemed to possess world-destroying power was sufficient to make even the distant Tasahe City feel obvious tremors.

 

“What happened?” Egbert quickly sprang up from his bedding.

 

His gaze locked tightly on Su Li’s direction, and after confirming that Su Li had no obvious injuries or abnormalities, he breathed a sigh of relief while kicking Roy, who was slowly sitting up beside him.

 

“Are you sick?” Roy rolled his eyes at him.

 

The Dark Holy Son, who had chosen a corner to sleep on the floor early on and didn’t want to participate in the dark competition for the left and right sleeping positions next to Su Li, said speechlessly, “Don’t start with two questions at a time like this.”

 

“Anyway, there will always be monster beasts coming to report the situation to us.”

 

As soon as the Dark Holy Son finished speaking, the door to their resting place was knocked rapidly.

 

Standing outside the door was Matilda.

 

This queen looked anxious, and after the door opened, she said hurriedly, “The Winged Tribe and Clemens are fighting again!”

 

Matilda had discovered the commotion earlier than the humans.

 

Being able to fly made gathering intelligence much simpler and faster.

 

Although she hadn’t approached the main battlefield directly, when Matilda flew up to investigate after discovering the disturbance, she had immediately spotted the ministers among the many humans.

 

The figures of those three monster beasts – Matilda was certain she would never mistake them.

 

Finally, the queen’s mind was filled with panic.

 

Were they insane?!

 

With most of the Beast Tribe’s strong warriors gathered around them, to actively launch an attack against Clemens, who was himself a monster…

 

This could no longer even be described as madness.

 

Matilda’s eyelids twitched. “When I went to investigate the situation, Clemens had already transformed into a [Tiger]. Besides that, the original site of the Winged Tribe’s Queen’s Palace had also become ruins. Just as I was returning to inform you of the situation, that sudden explosion sounded…”

 

“Now, I have no idea what stage the battle between those two tribes has developed to.”

 

However, Egbert pointed out the flaw in her behavior. “Rather than saying you don’t know the battle situation between those two tribes, it’s better to say you’re worried that the Winged Tribe will be directly annihilated by Clemens.”

 

“Moreover, even ignoring all this, you came to find us instead of directly going to find Leia, who has absolute control over the Water Tribe soldiers… Doesn’t this again indicate that compared to the cooperation between the Winged Tribe and Water Tribe, you’re more inclined to let us humans, who might have the capability to fight against Clemens, confront him directly?”

 

Egbert emphasized the word “humans.”

 

“Knowing very well that our strength is insufficient to compare with Lord Su Li, yet coming here at this time and actively telling the truth to humans rather than explaining the situation to the mermaid, no matter how anxious you appear, you’re actually just wanting to push Lord Su Li out and have Lord Su Li face Clemens directly.”

 

Egbert’s gaze was particularly sharp.

 

Matilda felt as if she had been seen through.

 

She couldn’t refute it.

 

When she discovered that the Winged Tribe was fighting Clemens again, all Matilda could think about was that the Winged Tribe would be completely annihilated.

 

She had to find a way to prevent that outcome.

 

Seeing the queen’s increasingly ugly expression, Egbert sneered.

 

This method of wanting to push others out after realizing one’s own incompetence, and even understanding that sacrificing one’s own life couldn’t make any meaningful change to the current situation…

 

It was truly dirty.

 

Looking at problems realistically and throwing the terrible consequences of reality onto others to bear were two completely different things.

 

Matilda finally took a deep breath. “I’m sorry.”

 

“There’s nothing to be sorry about,” Su Li simply said this.

 

Under normal circumstances, he should have added, “Eg was being too harsh.”

 

But in the actual situation, Su Li only told Matilda, “Any existence with thinking ability, as long as they haven’t completely lost their thoughts, will definitely feel shaken by sudden accidents.”

 

These words seemed too much like comfort, yet Matilda strangely felt that Su Li would say this simply because she was insignificant to this young man.

 

If it were someone close to him, facing a disaster-level calamity with an attitude that Su Li should go out and handle it, could he still show such an unconcerned appearance?

 

—But of course not.

 

People close to Su Li would never let Su Li face disasters alone.

 

If strength was insufficient, they would desperately improve their strength. If wisdom was lacking, they would think of every way to increase their knowledge.

 

“I’m very sorry I had such thoughts,” Matilda straightforwardly admitted her mistake, then continued, “I’m sorry for subjectively pushing this responsibility that shouldn’t be specially borne by you onto your shoulders.”

 

“Also, thank you for listening to such a long-winded speech from me.”

 

Matilda suddenly smiled.

 

“What are you going to do?” Su Li’s intuition told him that Matilda wanted to “seek death” again.

 

“I’m going to kidnap that mermaid and start the operation early,” Matilda said, holding onto the door frame.

 

“Don’t worry, I won’t be foolish enough to directly confront Clemens.”

 

“I just feel that the thought that rushed up from the depths of my heart just now was too selfish.”

 

“I’m sorry for treating you with such an attitude.”

 

As Matilda said this, she also reflected that if someone wanted to push her toward a battlefield where she might very well die, and it wasn’t her active choice, Matilda would only want to throw that person into a garbage dump.

 

And Su Li…

 

He was instead comforting her.

 

Even though she, this Winged Tribe Queen, was insignificant to humans, even worthless.

 

But Matilda couldn’t ignore what Su Li had done because of personal feelings.

 

As for the mermaid who was about to be kidnapped…

 

After Leia came out from the rest area, he stood in the dark open space, looking at Matilda with cold eyes.

 

That gaze was strange; Su Li admitted he couldn’t read it.

 

Then Su Li heard Leia say, “After discovering the situation, instead of exploring the circumstances and collecting intelligence first, you came back in a panic to report unverified news. Matilda, how did you manage to sit in the Winged Tribe Queen’s position for so many years?”

 

Matilda didn’t intend to argue with the mermaid, only saying, “When I saw Adonis earlier, I found there were also some human figures around him.”

 

“After Rota County’s dissolution, apart from the bodies buried on the spot, the surviving humans had probably gathered with the Winged Tribe. Additionally, those humans seemed to be operating strange weapons to launch attacks.”

 

“Combined with what I said before, the above is the intelligence I gathered after discovering the distant nighttime battlefield.”

 

Su Li pondered thoughtfully.

 

“What should we do now?”

 

Matilda had no personal heroism; she looked at Su Li and actively gave the decision-making power to the young man.

 

“Then let’s advance the operation against the Queen’s Cosmic Palace that we prepared last night to now,” Su Li said calmly.

 

Leia had originally wanted to mock Matilda a few more times, but hearing Su Li had already spoken, he simply nodded in agreement.

 

Later, the combat team that was scheduled to begin operations in the morning was uniformly awakened early.

 

The situation in the distance was not good.

 

Rather than waiting for the entire team to reach the scene, Su Li decided to arrive early.

 

Although the Raven disagreed, it didn’t make any obvious moves to stop him.

 

Regarding this, Egbert gave him a “can’t you be useful” look.

 

Immediately after, he saw the Raven directly transform into a large crow capable of carrying Su Li and soaring through the sky.

 

The Raven, giving no face whatsoever, seriously told Su Li: “Going there early to understand the situation certainly has benefits. But if there’s an obvious disadvantage for one of the two warring tribes—that is, if the Winged Tribe is at a clear disadvantage—you also can’t rush over recklessly.”

 

Su Li helplessly held his forehead. “Do I look like such an irrational person?”

 

“Moreover, if you don’t cooperate, my so-called early understanding of the situation will just become understanding the situation early but being unable to act.”

 

After the Raven took flight, let alone being thousands of meters from the ground, even at thirty meters from the ground, Su Li didn’t think he had the courage to jump down.

 

“Understood.”

 

“Then let’s begin the operation.” Su Li climbed onto the enlarged Raven’s back.

 

No matter how much the other humans didn’t want Su Li to put himself in danger, seeing they couldn’t stop him, they could only choose to follow.

 

Although after getting on the Raven’s back, Roy directly exposed Egbert’s attitude.

 

“You clearly also have thoughts of wanting to test your strength,” Roy said, certain that he was thinking the same way.

 

The monster beasts’ practice of not making obvious hierarchical divisions of power seemed to blur the distinctions between strong and weak forces.

 

In the current situation, as members of the same tier—that is, power holders above tenth-level monster beasts—Roy was clear about the vast difference between himself and those top-tier monster beasts.

 

But sometimes he would wonder if combat techniques could make up for this pure difference in power.

 

Coincidentally, Egbert and Lan Zhe thought the same way.

 

The three exchanged glances where Su Li couldn’t notice.

 

They tacitly decided that when facing crises, unless they reached an irreversible dire situation, they would absolutely not let Lord Su Li/little master/Su Li take action.

 

Su Li suddenly felt his back getting cold. After touching the back of his neck, he attributed it to the high altitude temperature being too low at night.

 

Before long, the four people and one Raven arrived at the battlefield where the Winged Tribe and Beast Tribe were fighting.

 

The perspective from high above could show most clearly the traces left by that earthquake-like powerful offensive.

 

The ground that had originally grown with green grass and vegetation had become a barren, sunken wasteland where not a blade of grass could grow.

 

The scene looked too desolate, but in contrast, the place where life confronted each other was full of “liveliness.”

 

On Cyril’s side, the sharp-eyed snowy owl was the first to discover the black figure high in the sky.

 

Asgari signaled to Cyril beside him.

 

The dragon-blooded youth looked up and immediately spotted the Raven.

 

But what he focused on was not the Raven, but Su Li sitting on the Raven’s back.

 

The youth’s platinum-colored hair appeared very bright even at night, as if it had its own reflective quality.

 

Upon seeing Su Li, Cyril’s eyes lit up.

 

“It’s Su Li!”

 

The others looked up one after another.

 

Euphia suppressed the excitement in her heart, took a deep breath, and said, “Does this count as showing Su Li our growth up close?”

 

“Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t,” Dean Asa joined the topic. “Even if you children joined together to cause the maximum damage to Clemens, it doesn’t change the fact that most of you are already powerless to continue fighting.”

 

“Acting only once, without even having sufficient subsequent retreat power—this isn’t proper ‘growth.'”

 

The Dark Pope laughed instead.

 

“Growth is growth, whether wrong or right. As long as one doesn’t stay in the same place, then what that child sees will only be the positive effects produced by change.”

 

A riddling attitude.

 

These people had never spoken this way before.

 

“It’s been so long since I’ve seen Su Li,” Qi looked longingly at the figure high in the sky.

 

More than a month might not amount to anything compared to a human lifetime.

 

But compared to the new life that had just begun after awakening, this was already quite a long period.

 

“Instead of paying attention to these things, you’d better keep your eyes on that [Tiger],” Ophelia poured cold water on them. “Do you think we’ve already achieved victory just because he temporarily has no ability to act?”

 

“He has no ability to act, and we, who are now severely lacking in elemental reserves, similarly have no ability to act.”

 

“That’s wrong,” Mavis stared heavily at the front.

 

Just as His Royal Highness the Prince commented that Clemens had no power to act, the injuries on the [Tiger’s] body still hadn’t recovered. This massive figure that had never fallen raised its claws again when the humans thought victory was assured…

 

“Not good!” Julius’s face immediately turned ashen. “Clemens intends to ignore his physical condition and force himself to act!”

 

“You’ve got to be kidding,” Diz said with his mouth slightly open. “This was an attack that gathered one million people. Not dying on the spot was already something, but he still has the ability to act?”

 

But actually, when they saw the [Tiger] create a defensive shield, some people had intuitively felt that the results might not be as wonderful as they had expected.

 

That is to say…

 

The current humans still couldn’t actively solve such a powerful monster without relying on Su Li.

 

“Damn it!” Castor’s face was pale.

 

“Never mind all that,” Cyril’s expression also gradually became ugly. “You’d better take a good look at whether that monster’s action of raising its claws is intended to jump up and attack Su Li!”

 

Compared to the humans’ distant observation, Su Li in the sky could see more clearly.

 

Clemens’s wretched appearance truly surprised him, but the [Tiger] with half its body blown apart yet still able to control its limb movements also made Su Li, who had always maintained his thinking, raise his guard.

 

Just like the humans who had previously cooperated with the Winged Tribe had thought.

 

Su Li immediately speculated whether what the [Tiger] was currently experiencing was the masterpiece created by Cyril and Julius after they subsequently arrived in monster beast society.

 

The thought flashed by, and a large number of negative and overturning speculations kept churning in his mind. Until the final possibility, through a series of elimination methods, completely pointed to Su Li’s first thought.

 

How could such an attack be launched?

 

What kind of price would need to be paid to launch such an attack?

 

This was Su Li’s immediate follow-up thought.

 

Unlike his special constitution, the people of this world truly absorbed elements from the air step by step to strengthen themselves.

 

If they used tools as Matilda had previously mentioned, then the energy needed to drive those tools would require an unimaginable quantity when launching such an attack.

 

They couldn’t expect a second attack to appear!

 

Su Li quickly made his decision.

 

He told the Raven: “Use dark elements to attract Clemens’s attention.”

 

“We need to prepare for the counterattack of an injured fierce beast.”

 

As everyone knew, the most dangerous time for a fierce beast was not when it was well-fed and in its so-called optimal state, but during its ferocious counterattack after being injured.

 

The humans ahead had no power to block the attack that could appear at any moment.

 

At this moment, Su Li could even hear his own heartbeat.

 

Too terrifying.

 

A group of guys who hadn’t found him, hadn’t discussed anything, with unknown tactics, who just directly charged at a world-class boss…

 

Had the divine-level equipment shocked their brains stupid?

 

Or perhaps…

 

Too many words of reproach ultimately turned into just a sigh.

 

“I understand.” After Su Li finished speaking, the Raven immediately took action.

 

Regarding combat awareness, although he didn’t know where it came from, ever since he had previously joined with Su Li to shock Clemens bloody, the Raven was very certain that this youth who had never participated in actual combat with humans possessed terrifying combat awareness.

 

Rather than having “self-awareness” in this so-called battle, the Raven was more willing to instinctively cooperate with Su Li to achieve maximum effect.

 

Even though it was using dark elements to attract Clemens’s attention.

 

Being targeted by such a monster could easily make even a raven’s wing-flapping movements sluggish.

 

But just thinking that this monster was targeting not only himself but also Su Li on his back…

 

The Raven felt that all intimidation and suppression became insignificant.

 

“Didn’t we agree earlier not to act hastily?” Lan Zhe’s eyelid twitched, his hands uncontrollably clenching tight.

 

“That statement became your own question and answer the moment the little master got on the Raven’s back,” Roy shrugged.

 

“But things haven’t developed to the worst situation you imagined,” Roy indicated. “The Raven’s behavior of attracting the [Tiger’s] attention is just to show our presence to that guy.”

 

“And also…” Roy’s eyes held uncontainable amazement, “If I were standing on the ground facing such a massive monster directly, I think I couldn’t even muster the slightest will to resist.”

 

Too absurd.