By the ti dinner was over, it was actually quite late, and normal people would have been ready for bed.
But for a group of rcenaries who had casually drunk so alcohol during the al, sleep was not an option! They felt there were many more important things to care about – how could they possibly sleep?
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Ever since the leader of the Lion’s Club had his mind awakened by Su Li’s words, countless thoughts suddenly sprang up in his head.
The alcohol made him excited, but it also made him clearly sense that when he verbally expressed his trust in Su Li, deep down he was actually filled with unexpressed fear.
Su Li’s gaze, devoid of any special aning, was like a blade cutting through to the essence of reality. If aid at a person’s heart…
The Lion’s Club leader was convinced that Su Li could easily see through him as well.
He believed that even without elental powers, such a person would never allow himself to be in an inferior position.
What did he want? Why did he say so much? Telling him about those nobles who were secretly targeting him, yet whose actions he had never detected, must have so other purpose…
Without hesitation, the Lion’s Club leader trampled the correct answer underfoot and ran headlong in the completely opposite direction, as if ten horses couldn’t pull him back.
“Do you have thoughts of controlling the rcenaries? No, do you have thoughts of grasping this city in your hands?”
The Lion’s Club leader didn’t give anyone else a chance to ask how his brain had jumped to this conclusion.
He even excitedly gesticulated as he said. “Your wisdom is on a level far beyond our reach. If you truly have any designs on this city, I am willing to beco the sharpest blade in your hand, and the Lion’s Club will beco your supporters.”
As he said this, it was unclear whether his brain had truly been pickled by alcohol or if he had simply abandoned his brain altogether. He stared with excessively flushed and bright eyes as he said, “Anything Euphia cannot do, you can entrust to to accomplish.”
Euphia imdiately went “Huh?” and in the next second she raised an eyebrow, flipping over the empty wine glass on the table onto the Lion’s Club leader’s head. The flas gradually igniting in her eyes were only noticed by Su Li when he looked closely…
It was actually fire elent materializing!
“What nonsense are you spouting, you idiot! How could there possibly be anything in this world I can’t do? Talking about Su Li giving you tasks and whatnot, who do you think you are, you baldy!” Euphia’s words quickly devolved into personal attacks.
“How dare you entertain thoughts above your station. Do you want to burn a layer of skin off that already balding head of yours?”
Cyril’s eyes sparkled as he looked at these two. Su Li would bet a bag of spicy strips he didn’t actually have that even in this other world, Cyril’s mindset was definitely: “Fight! Fight!” – that desire to watch the drama unfold.
He probably also wanted to learn ways to improve his own strength by observing others’ battles, after all, the Lion’s Club leader was also a well-known wind elentalist in this city.
The Lion’s Club leader made a contemptuous noise, then even his gaze began to attack Euphia as he retorted. “You think you’re so great? ‘Fla Lady’ or whatever – you don’t actually think that’s a good nickna, do you? It’s just those guys who hang around the tavern equating you with a tigress.”
“Co to think of it, Mr. Su Li hasn’t heard of this title of yours, has he? Euphia, isn’t this a sign that you’re trying to hide sothing from him? I’m not like that – if Mr. Su Li is willing, I can even tell him what color underwear I’m wearing today!”
Su Li imdiately waved his hand. “No, no, that won’t be necessary.”
“This is very necessary!” The Lion’s Club leader looked at Su Li with a disapproving expression, but the red gradually spreading across his face proved that this man was truly intoxicated and beyond reason.
“This represents my wholehearted trust in you. I dare say there is absolutely no one in Sadina City who believes more than I do that you will definitely bring the cleansing of the natural wind to this world!” The Lion’s Club leader’s excessively emphatic tone made people feel that this man was perfectly suited to perform on stage in a theatrical production. Compared to his deep, boss-like deanor from not long ago, it wasn’t just night and day – there was at least an ocean trench between them.
However, when he said the words “natural wind”, Egbert countered.
“The aning represented by the light elent is clearly more suitable for the lord. He can guide on the path I should follow even better than the God of Light.”
Su Li: ...
Euphia sneered. “Hah, as everyone knows, light elents are always entangled with those greedy dogs from the church. What makes you think the aning represented by the light elent is more suitable to describe Su Li? If you ask , the fire elent is better. Fire is the starting point of human life. In the past, without fire elentalists, the number of people who died from eating raw food is incalculable in your lifeti.”
Su Li: …
The Lion’s Club leader firmly held his point. “Mr. Su Li would be better likened to the wind elent. The natural wind participates in every corner of the continent at all tis, possessing the eternal freedom that all rcenaries yearn for.”
Su Li: That won’t do, that won’t do. How could a hobody like him be compared to the wind?
“Clearly, the light elent is better. Don’t bring up those church trash to pollute Lord Su Li’s ears, they don’t qualify to be the spokespersons for the light elent in the human world. Light should be like Lord Su Li, guiding others forward, showing direction, making everything better and better.”
Su Li felt complicated. Although he knew Egbert had always been good at praising him with things he didn’t understand, this was the first ti he realized Egbert could openly say such things that were ant to ease his own state of mind.
Su Li had always thought Egbert loved to praise him because of too much pressure in the past, gradually becoming eccentric.
The Son of Light was often a reserved person, except for his stalking behavior. But now that he was drunk, how…
How could he be so ridiculous?
Ridiculous upon ridiculous, and there was even more ridiculousness to co.
Euphia slamd the table and stood up, propping one leg on the table surface, pointing at the two n and shouting. “Fire elent is clearly more important. You’re all focused on giving aning to Su Li, but you haven’t thought at all that those anings aren’t for you to give. Even if you didn’t exist, he would still be an extrely important existence. You stupid n, stop being so presumptuous.”
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The Lion’s Club leader sneered. “Heh, even if you argue this point with , so what?” He tilted his chin up, “You will never understand what height the sir is at when he gazes down at us standing in the dust.”
“Don’t use your brain, which looks no different from an aquatic monster’s, to secretly speculate about the lord.” Egbert’s expression was serious, but his eyes were so unfocused that one could tell at a glance he was drunk too.
“You must be talking about yourself. Do you even understand what it ans when he says, ‘People may act as tools, but they must never view themselves as no longer human’?”
“When the lord said this, he was already hinting to us that all of us, except for him, are being treated as tools by others.”
Su Li: ???
The Lion’s Club leader spoke righteously and indignantly. “Those nobles who seem to be sending money are actually just wanting more and more mbers of the Lion’s Club to die! Until one day no rcenary is willing to join the Lion’s Club anymore.”
“And those commoners, Euphia, do you really think that even if they post normal tasks that aren’t war missions, they can treat rcenaries as normal professionals?”
“I’m telling you, that’s absolutely impossible!” The leader of the Lion’s Club glared with wide eyes.
“As long as we are rcenaries, we are just tools in everyone’s eyes! Regardless of status or age. The nobles use us for their profit, the commoners make us do things they can’t easily do themselves. Money has beco the only condition for communication between rcenaries and others, but in reality, we rcenaries are human too!”
“If it weren’t for Mr. Su Li, I wouldn’t even have understood the concept of being treated like animals by others. Do you understand?! You two don’t look like you would understand, huh.” After saying this, he grabbed a bottle of wine and started drinking.
As for Su Li…
????
How did he not know his words had such aning?
No, he really didn’t an it that way!
However, in the blink of an eye, Su Li saw Egbert with an expression that said “what you said actually makes sense.” Don’t ask him why he developed the ability to read people’s expressions in another world, because Egbert actually said it out loud.
He even added. “I didn’t expect you to have your own understanding of what the lord said. But I think, whether you’re a rcenary or not, as long as there are different classes of people, as long as the gods can assign people to different classes, those in the lower classes will always be tools, unworthy of being called human. So, I believe this world needs a wave of change big enough to transform it.”
The Lion’s Club leader nodded. “What you’re saying makes sense too.”
“Nonsense!” Euphia deliberately interrupted their conversation with a crude word.
“Su Li’s aning was clearly that if we rcenaries consider it natural to treat ourselves as tools, then we don’t even qualify to be independent, freedom-seeking rcenaries… no, at that point, rcenaries who consider themselves tools wouldn’t even qualify to continue being human.”
At this mont, everyone at the dining table was dumbfounded by the conversation between these three.
Cyril was thinking that his own thoughts were so shallow, while Su Li had considered so much.
Mark was thinking that they were all far smarter than him and could better understand the deeper aning behind Su Li’s words.
Dean Asa and the rcenary Alliance Guild Master exchanged glances and raised their glasses together. “Let’s be thankful that we are still human.”
Su Li: ..................
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He rembered that his mother tongue was Chinese, with over 90,000 characters, not speechlessness.
But he still insisted firmly. “You’re all just overthinking it.”
The Lion’s Club leader solemnly declared, indicating he understood. “I know the sir’s aning is that he’s worried we might leak this idea, but please rest assured, having understood the profound implications of what you’ve expressed, I absolutely won’t commit such an act of betrayal.”
Euphia: “Are you pledging your loyalty now? I’m clearly the one who cooperates best with Su Li.”
Egbert: “You don’t even know what Su Li likes to eat, so stop talking as if you understand him so well.”
“I, I’m the one who has recorded the most of what Lord Su Li has said from beginning to end!”
As he spoke, Egbert prepared to take out that notebook, which he regarded as a treasure, but which Su Li couldn’t bear to look at a second ti.
Egbert’s action was desperately blocked by the latter.
— So, would a normal person take soone’s words spoken while having diarrhea as a maxim, and write a dozen pages of reading comprehension essays about it?!
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