TOMWDET Chapter 194.2

The Fall (part 2)

 

This was different from the Raven’s ability to change size.

 

Monster beasts changed their body size by relying on elemental power.

 

Once this continuously supplied elemental power was removed, monster beasts would directly revert to their true original form.

 

Most of them were only about two to three times larger than the animals of modern society.

 

The true original form of this [Tiger] that hadn’t used elemental power to enlarge its body at all…

 

Just one glance at it would make anyone feel that their brain had stopped thinking.

 

“Compared to being shocked by these things, you obviously care more about the fact that Su Li had previously fought against him and even managed to inflict effective damage with his personal strength.” If they weren’t high up in the air, Lan Zhe would have already distanced himself far from Roy, who had been building up to praise Su Li for so long.

 

“Aren’t you surprised?” Roy asked back.

 

But Lan Zhe no longer answered.

 

Egbert beside them pressed his lips into a straight line, and after a long while said, “Instead of paying attention to these things, we should think about how we, with just ourselves, should fight against such a monster.”

 

“Don’t tell me you want to face him yourselves,” Su Li said. His intuition and perception of reality were both telling him that these people beside him wanted to court death.

 

“We can’t rely on Lord Su Li forever, otherwise how can we talk about growth?”

 

“As bodyguards, although our value is cheap and we only receive ten gold coins per month, we still can’t just not work because the salary is too low and instead let the person we’re supposed to protect face danger directly.”

 

Lan Zhe felt the gazes of the other two, and after glaring back at each of them one by one, he said, “Two to one, even if I had other ideas, I couldn’t just watch the team lack crucial healing.”

 

“Besides, these two are also my precious test subjects. Compared to watching my tools die here, I’d rather let them have sustained developmental utility value.”

 

Su Li was momentarily helpless. “…Is this your explanation to me?”

 

“No.” Egbert shook his head firmly, but still didn’t dare to meet Su Li’s gaze. “This is our willfulness, knowing that what we’re about to do isn’t correct, yet still planning to implement it.”

 

“We humbly request your tolerance.”

 

Su Li looked seriously at Egbert.

 

Even while sitting, the young man kept his back straight, yet his head was lowered.

 

“Time doesn’t give me the chance to hesitate repeatedly either.” Su Li chuckled softly. Below them, the [Tiger] who was watching them like he was looking at dead objects, opened his mouth and said, “You’ve come, Su Li—”

 

Su Li didn’t choose to respond. Instead, facing the three of them, he smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, his eyes filled with gentleness like flowing water. His tone was natural and his attitude clear. “Go ahead and do it.”

 

“Just don’t die.”

 

Subsequently, excitement appeared in all three people’s eyes.

 

This was agreement, and also a decision to provide backup for them if they might fail.

 

Clearly, during the enemy’s injured phase, the best choice would have been to strike while the iron was hot and kill him completely…

 

But just as Egbert had said, he wanted to be willful once.

 

Fortunately, Su Li didn’t refuse.

 

Perhaps even more fortunately, from the moment they made their request, the specific content of that request didn’t matter at all—as long as a request existed, Su Li would choose to agree to it.

 

Submission and obedience, following orders and being tamed—these were everything that Egbert thought he should dedicate to Su Li.

 

But the truth was, the young man never needed those things.

 

This was simply all that Egbert could think of to give.

 

It was too profound, so profound that Su Li didn’t think he could bear it.

 

Yet it was also too shallow, too shallow to be something a complete human being possessed.

 

Perhaps in the eyes of those unfamiliar with him, Su Li was even cruel to the point of being unwilling to accept dedication.

 

But in fact, what Su Li had always been doing was letting Egbert have a sense of self.

 

A person’s entirety could never be defined by just a few simple words.

 

Entirety was boundless.

 

It was…

 

“—It was the courage to challenge the unknown again even if I failed.” This was the confidence Su Li had given him.

 

Egbert gazed at Clemens, those [Tiger] eyes covered by dark elements, their original color obscured, their emotions indiscernible.

 

“These inexplicable words actually moved me somewhat,” Roy said, actively jumping down from the Raven’s back.

 

Compared to the [Tiger], humans as tiny as insects shouldn’t have attracted his attention.

 

But whether it was the traces of Su Li’s platinum hair fluttering in the wind, or the injuries that humans had recently inflicted on the [Tiger] using tools, all of these made Clemens unable to underestimate them, and all made him…

 

Want to kill any human who approached him!

 

The bloody smell was so thick it was almost pungent.

 

Roy, who had actively jumped down, fell rapidly toward the ground under the effect of gravity.

 

But he didn’t crash into the ground as expected. Instead, in mid-air, he suddenly stopped.

 

It was ice.

 

The upward thrust of elements, the supporting force formed by ice elements condensing into solid form. This allowed humans without wings to stand steadily in the void.

 

Egbert suddenly understood. “So Roy had created such a thing.”

 

“You talk as if you couldn’t do it yourself,” Lan Zhe said, looking at Egbert with disdain.

 

Previously, the unicorn, Bartholomew Christian, which had only developed physical strength to its extreme, had completely become a walking experience pack tool.

 

Without needing to defeat it, under the condition of the opponent actively granting knowledge, Egbert had gained too many new inspirations for using light elements.

 

Words that had once been ignored came to mind again and again.

 

—This was a world constructed by elements.

 

Elements composed everything visible and invisible.

 

Did the human body count as part of the elements?

 

The answer was yes.

 

At this time, the concept of elements was no longer just a power system, but molecules.

 

What were the combat methods of light elements? Strengthening weapons? Using oneself as a strengthened weapon? Increasing thermal reactions? Compressing elements to cause explosions?

 

These were all possible, but they fell far short of the intensity Egbert wanted.

 

He felt that light elements should have a development path that other elements couldn’t compare to.

 

Bartholomew had previously told Egbert: “Light is something that any life, as long as it exists, will definitely possess.”

 

This didn’t refer to a form of consciousness, but actual, tangible light.

 

The inspiration Egbert drew from this statement was that the “light” possessed by any life could become something controlled by a light elementalist.

 

Control didn’t mean being able to attack with light, after all, light elements could equal light, but light didn’t equal light elements.

 

What Egbert wanted to do was make light elements equivalent to light, and make himself equivalent to light elements.

 

To make it so that wherever light existed, he could approach at the fastest speed.

 

That was the “speed of light” that humans couldn’t reach.

 

If described in science fiction or supernatural terms, that would be the ability of time and space.

 

If defined in mystical cultivation terms, that would probably be the materialization of spiritual consciousness.

 

The ultimate form of wind elements was Elvi Bessemer’s materialization.

 

This could be considered a path forward that any wind elementalist could reference.

 

Compared to wind elements, at this moment, Egbert was the developmental prospect of light elements.

 

Almost the instant Lan Zhe’s words fell, Egbert appeared directly on the [Tiger]’s back from the Raven’s back.

 

The weapon previously stored in his alchemy ring appeared in his hands in the blink of an eye, used for attack.

 

The blade passed through fur, but only caused minor damage to Clemens that really couldn’t be considered an injury.

 

Then he saw that wound healing at a speed visible to the naked eye…

 

On the other side.

 

“It’s begun,” Roy said, excitement appearing on his face.

 

The hunt had started.

 

For mercenaries, no one understood the value of monster beasts better than those in this profession.

 

After all, the value of monster beasts that human instinct recognized truly needed to be realized by professional mercenaries who fought against monster beasts.

 

Kill monster beasts, and their fur became wealth, their sinews and bones became the source of strength enhancement, their blood became a strong stimulant more throat-soothing than barley wine.

 

Lan Zhe had no intention of getting mixed up with these two lunatics who desperately wanted to experiment with their new abilities.

 

After politely greeting Su Li, he had the Raven fly lower and jumped down from about three meters above the ground.

 

At that time, Egbert had already raised his heavy sword, trying to attack Clemens’s eyeball.

 

He had originally aimed for the abdomen, but Egbert suddenly discovered that there…

 

“No light.”

 

Roy continuously fired various ice needles from high above.

 

Large range, wide area, aimed at the positions where Clemens had been previously injured.

 

The temperature of ice created by ice elements could be continuously lowered by additional force.

 

Once ice needles pierced Clemens’s wounds, the extremely low temperature would freeze his flesh and make it necrotic.

 

Those ice needles could even use these frozen areas to directly affect the [Tiger]’s entire movement speed.

 

Of course, this was only the best possibility that existed in imagination.

 

The reality was that Egbert neither hit Clemens’s eyes, nor were any of Roy’s attacks successful—they were all blocked by dark elements that had somehow gathered again.

 

Clearly a [Tiger] with a massive body and serious injuries, with weaknesses visible everywhere at first glance.

 

But once they actually engaged in combat, they discovered that those so-called weaknesses were all just assumptions.

 

The recovery speed was astonishingly incredible.

 

If it weren’t for the mobile elemental cannon having compressed too much mixed power, Clemens would probably have already cleared that power and begun recovering his body…

 

“Theoretically, dark elements don’t have the ability to recover the body,” Lan Zhe thought again of the “god” that Su Li had mentioned.

 

Only gods would stand above common sense.

 

How could monster-level things possibly be defined by common sense?

 

The monster in human mouths blocked the attacks of the gnats. Clemens’s gaze was as sharp as a blade, staring fixedly at Su Li who had flown back to high altitude.

 

“Not choosing to fight me directly, but letting these insects pester me… Are you afraid, or do you think that exhausting my power with these people’s lives can give you a chance at victory?” The [Tiger]’s voice was so massive it spread throughout the night sky.

 

Su Li showed a surprised expression.

 

He probably hadn’t expected that Clemens, who clearly had an attitude of despising him like an ant, would still want to talk to him during battle.

 

Su Li didn’t have a chance to respond, as the three people below had already started their verbal attacks.

 

“Not choosing to fight you directly is simply because there’s no need.”

 

“Exhaust your power with our lives? We had no idea your power was so noble.”

 

“Talking about a chance at victory—I don’t mind declaring here: today is destined to be your death anniversary next year.”

 

The targeted rebuttals, one person per sentence, made the already pitch-black [Tiger] look even blacker.

 

“Ugly humans too weak to engage in direct combat,” Clemens chose to ignore the jumping insects beside him, focusing on mocking Su Li.

 

“It seems my past displays of strength weren’t obvious enough, making you think you had the qualifications to defeat a god.”

 

That voice spread throughout heaven and earth.

 

“Humans, stop trying to influence me with words. Before absolute power, you are nothing but worthless insects.”

 

“Is the fact that you once injured me already enough to make you smug?”

 

“Insignificant beings who dare not accept direct combat…”

 

This series of words set off too many people.

 

Of course, one could also say, who told Clemens to open world chat while fighting.

 

The veins on Euphia’s forehead were throbbing. “Calling him weak, maybe Su Li himself could accept that. But calling him ugly—no one could possibly accept that!”

 

“Is that the point?!” Ophelia glared at her. “That guy is saying he’s a god!”

 

“Who cares if he’s a god or not? You, someone who previously wanted to hold both throne and divine authority in your hands, still care about gods you’ve never even seen?” Euphia squinted her eyes, gazing toward Su Li’s direction.

 

“Besides, that thing,” pointing at the [Tiger], “what kind of god would look like that monstrosity.”

 

“And talking about not wanting to engage in combat—how rotten would this world have to be to need Su Li to fight directly!” Euphia voiced the thoughts of all humans present.

 

Who would think Su Li was some kind of direct combat personnel?

 

This wasn’t underestimating him, but a heartfelt recognition.

 

Combat, such trivial matters, didn’t need to be brought before him at all.

 

Combat that needed to be brought before him could only indicate the uselessness of other combat personnel, causing this phenomenon.

 

“Kill him! Kill the [Tiger]!” Willard had somehow gotten hold of a flag and was waving it while shouting.

 

Qi decisively raised his hand. “I agree.”

 

Diz joined the excitement. “I agree too.”

 

“No matter how much you agree, it’s useless. What power do we have now?” Julius looked at the mostly prostrate humans behind him.

 

This kind of one-time ultimate move couldn’t possibly be realized a second time.

 

“Of course we do,” Castor said loudly.

 

When Julius’s surprised gaze was directed over, he realized he had voiced his previous thought:

 

“Then how can we realize it?”

 

The researcher said confidently despite being in the wrong. “Use the Winged Tribe monster beasts!”

 

“Collaborators who can only watch and eat dust have no value whatsoever. Unless…”

 

Adonis & Asgari & Adison: ?

 

“Unless you guys also want to experience a 100-million-person-level, super mobile elemental cannon.”

 

No monster beast, after seeing Clemens and the Queen’s palace’s tragic state, still thought they could withstand that elemental nuclear weapon.

 

The three Winged Tribe monster beasts immediately began to act.

 

To avoid being nuked, they could only choose to make the [Tiger] peaceful. 

 

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At the other end, the joke-like battle ended with Clemens’s action of instantly hiding in darkness like ink.

 

What was the advanced development of dark elements?

 

The conclusion was that as long as shadows still existed in this world, darkness was everywhere.

 

Clemens’s disappearing figure was accompanied by…

 

The platinum-haired young man continuously falling from the Raven’s back.