“Humans, to certain beings, hold the sa value as roadside weeds. The power levels we struggle so desperately to reach are, in essence, rely the bottom tier of another hierarchy.”
As Su Li said this, his body trembled almost uncontrollably.
Although these so-called power levels had little to do with him, as always.
“…What does that an?” Egbert frowned.
“It ans that ‘gods’ truly exist.”
“However, these gods aren’t like the legendary beings passed down through human folklore.”
“On the contrary, as I suspected, they’re simply intelligent beings who live longer and possess greater power.”
Su Li took a deep breath and exhaled heavily.
“One hundred percent elent affinity, in the terms used by the powerful, essentially ans growing stronger just by breathing.”
“And the reason elent affinity can be calculated as a nurical value isn’t actually about a person’s relationship with elents. The true aning of elent affinity is the proportion of elents a person can absorb.”
“The elent content in the air has always been one hundred percent.”
“That’s impossible.” The interruption ca from Mavis, who had pulled back the curtains.
Su Li was montarily startled when he turned to see where Mavis was standing.
Mavis continued, “The elent content in the air cannot possibly be one hundred percent. Otherwise, there’s no way to explain why volcanic regions are more convenient for fire elentalists, while lakes and rivers are more beneficial for water elents.”
“No, these two concepts are related but not completely equivalent.” Su Li shook his head. “Elent affinity refers to the proportion of elents a person can absorb from the air. Different elental affinities represent which attribute a person is more inclined toward. For example, a light elentalist naturally finds light elents more compatible when utilizing the elental power within their body.”
“And elent affinity isn’t simply a concept divided horizontally or vertically—it exists in both dinsions.”
It’s like air—air is a broad concept, but the different gases distributed within it are nurous.
“Moreover,” Su Li looked at Mavis who had walked to the side of the table, “what’s important isn’t the aning elent affinity represents, but what one hundred percent elent affinity signifies.”
“What can it signify?” Mavis asked, puzzled.
“One hundred percent is equivalent to all elental factors being absorbable and convertible—in other words, growing stronger just by breathing.”
“I think you all know this concept. But what I really want to say isn’t about what elent affinity entails, but rather that there exists a group of intelligent beings in this world whose minimum level is one hundred percent elent affinity.”
“And the Pope has confird that these beings are the monster beasts.”
Mavis was stunned.
“But that man only admitted that the power classification we use originated from monster beasts.”
“That’s enough.” Su Li told Mavis.
“In ‘The Birth of Elents,’ a book I’ve criticized many tis for being incomprehensible, it clearly states that elents were initially bestowed by gods.”
“Wandering poets in taverns, when discussing legends related to gods, have also praised how everything developed today stems from the gods.”
“Furthermore, I believe the royal bloodline of Amikbi inherently contains monster beast blood.”
“What should humans look like? Personally, I think they should be like .” Su Li voluntarily extended his palm.
Ignoring the crescent marks his fingertips had pressed into his palm, the three lines on his palm were particularly distinct.
“Humans, originally, perhaps had zero elent affinity.”
Why say this?
Because of lifespan, and also because of developnt.
When physical strength is enhanced to a certain degree, the body undergoes many changes. Muscle density, bones, cells, internal organs, tabolism—all these are intimately connected.
Conversely, everything enhanced by elents should undergo corresponding changes with this enhancent.
The simplest explanation is: could Tyson and Lin Daiyu be of the sa specification?
Surfaces made of natural rock slabs, untouched by elental enhancent, can be shattered by elentalists with a single kick, even without using elental power.
If we calculate strength in tons, people possessing such strength who want to maintain a normal human physique while using this power would necessarily need to employ elental power.
And if they can achieve this without using elental power, their physique would definitely change accordingly.
But in reality, the people of this world compared to before Su Li’s transmigration haven’t changed much at all.
So the question arises: what has broken the normal conservation of mass?
Su Li could only associate this with the non-humans already existing in this world.
That is, the monster beasts.
After all, Su Li hadn’t seen people from other worlds who could change size.
Even if one reached Egbert’s level, to make him smaller would require breaking all his bones and forcibly reshaping him… though at that point, Egbert would be no different from a dead person.
Conversely, why can the Raven, who is only one level stronger than Egbert, defy conservation of mass, change size at will, and even transform?
And level three monster beasts can already change size.
This might be the source of this anomaly.
Su Li voiced his speculation. “I believe humans in this world are intelligent beings that erged slowly through natural developnt. But before this, other intelligent beings already existed in the world.”
Prehistoric creatures—the animals on Earth before humans.
What if, in this other world, animals—that is, monster beasts—had developed intelligence, even inheritance, or even civilization before humans appeared?
What would the later-arriving humans an to monster beasts that already possessed intelligence?
Nothing at all.
When people see clever cats, they might say, let’s enroll them in a study program.
But in reality, even if soone really did sothing so bored and idle, it would be an exception among exceptions.
And who would believe that a cat’s intelligence could match the intellectual ceiling of humanity’s genius figures?
A vision-like scene appeared before Su Li’s eyes.
–These new ones seem sowhat similar to us.
–But they’re too weak.
–Nothing particularly worth noting.
–Just fence off so land for them and see how far they can develop.
–But they’re so weak, they die too easily.
–So what should we do?
–Fusion.
–Fusion, fusion, fusion, fusion…
And then, the disregarded life forms took root, and civilization began to sprout.
Su Li brought out all his thoughts and shared them.
Without concealnt, without stinginess.
Although Mavis crushed the corner of the table, and Egbert’s eye sockets were filled with bloodshot veins.
But he still had to speak.
Because…
“Humans, in this world, have completely beco ‘pets’ of the ‘gods’.”
Su Li smiled bitterly. “I thought the most disgusting thing would just be the opposition between human rights and divine rights, the indifference of like-kind toward each other, mutual killing, sches and plots…”
“But in fact, there exists sothing I simply cannot accept.”
If the current self who suddenly transmigrated to this world were to learn all this information without personally exploring, Su Li couldn’t be certain whether he would still take Egbert’s hand.
Perhaps at that ti, he would rather choose to fall into dust.
But now, the truth of this other world, like an onion, was being peeled away layer by layer by his own hands.
What should be done? What can be done? How should it be done?
Su Li said, “I don’t know any of it.”
It was like before his transmigration, when a bizarre client asked him to edit a story unconstrained by any existing ga plot.
The resulting issue wasn’t whether he could write it, but that it was fundantally impossible.
Any individual’s thoughts, in history, in the long river of the past, have surely been equaled by intelligent beings who thought of similar concepts.
Never consider yourself special.
Su Li said hoarsely, “I originally thought about whether to pretend I knew nothing, whether not to tell you. Then, ignoring everything that will happen next in this city, we could return together to Sadina City.”
“Return to that red brick building, return to the ordinary days when Lan Zhe gave money to study, and made delicious food for every day.”
Eating rice was truly happy, and when eating other foods made from rice, Su Li would also feel that the gap between himself and this other world wasn’t so deep.
“But it’s not possible…”
It can’t be done.
Just thinking that it wasn’t just one person, but an entire race, all within a cage, Su Li felt as if his heart was being squeezed by an invisible hand.
Unable to breathe.
That’s why Su Li had previously told the Pope that it would be better if the Pope were truly a person who craved longevity and kept stirring up trouble.
But what that man truly wanted was for humans to see another world with their own eyes, rather than being kept in the dark.
Why would Leirela fall in love with a man twice her age? Even willing to die with him?
Su Li suddenly felt that this might have nothing to do with being love-brained, Stockholm syndro, or simply being brainwashed or manipulated.
Leirela had just seen another possibility—unbelievable, yet anticipated.
She simply chose suicide, giving up on seeing that possibility co to fruition.
One hundred percent elent affinity was rely the…
Minimum. Threshold. For. Entering. Another. World.
BOOM——
To everyone’s surprise, Roy kicked open the cabinet door that had confined him.
The man, whose stubble had grown considerably thicker, hunched his back, with an inexplicably roguish expression. He said, “You know, little master, you’ve said so much, but you seem to have been ignoring a key point.”
Roy tossed up the clothes that had originally belonged to the Raven, who instantly transford into human form and put them on neatly in a flash.
Roy continued, “The so-called key point is—”
“What’s the difference between the world you see and the reasonable world you understand.”
“And, to what extent do you want…humans, to achieve.”
Roy’s tone was sowhat ambiguous when he said the word “humans.”
What he really wanted to say was what Su Li wanted them to achieve.
But this “them” definitely didn’t include the Raven.
So only humans remained.
But what followed wasn’t Su Li’s answer, but Lan Zhe who kicked open Egbert’s door at the sa ti.
“I originally thought I was the only one secretly hearing secrets, which made feel a bit embarrassed, but seeing you all here makes feel much better.”
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