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People like Lily, who are at the bottom of the Soma clan, can only obey the orders of the clan leader - but that has nothing to do with Soma and is not Soma's order.
Su Mo has never used his status as a god to prohibit other clan members from rebelling against the leader.
If you have the ability to kill the current leader of Su Mo's clan and become the leader yourself, Su Mo doesn't care, as long as you can provide him with enough materials for brewing wine.
Although what Soma did could not be called justice, it could definitely be called lawful.
As a god, he has the right to dispose of his own clansmen at will, but Sumo has never used even a little bit of this power. Instead, he only treated his own clansmen as strangers and conducted fair transactions with them, with one party providing materials and the other providing divine wine.
This can be regarded as a breath of fresh air among the many gods in the underworld.
We can't expect all the gods in the underworld to have the same moral integrity as Artemis or Astraea, right?
Soma's attitude and actions are far more harmless than those of the group of fun gods.
No matter how you criticize him, Su Mo is at best a watcher who does not help. After witnessing the tragedy, he had the ability to deal with it, but he just let it go.
——To die of fullness means being condemned on a moral level.
Helping the weak, eliminating tragedies, etc. have always been moral constraints, not legal requirements that must be followed.
——Even if it is required by law, there will be no law in the world that interferes with the gods' treatment of their own families.
but……
Given Soma's situation, any responsible and kind god would want to punch him in the face.
After Freya gave a brief account of the situation, she looked at Astralia.
"What will justice do in this situation?"
"...I will talk to Su Mo. There should be a safe solution."
"That's not what I'm asking." Freya shook her head and said, "Your method is the most reasonable, but what I want to know is what you really think."
"If you had enough power to decide this matter without caring about the consequences, what would you do?" Freya asked.
Astraea was silent for a moment, then said, "If I had that kind of power, I would never have allowed this to happen from the beginning. I would not have given the gods the possibility to dispose of my family members at will. I would have done my best to guarantee the most basic human rights of my family members."
Freya sneered, "You escaped, justice."
A smile appeared on Astraea's face.
"Freya, have you ever heard a saying? When you can't solve a problem, you can try to solve the person who raised the problem."
Freya: “Huh???”
Astraea clenched her fists and smiled, "After descending to the lower world, the gods can only show the part in the heaven... Then I will make an assumption."
"You can display a certain degree of beauty and charm, but in terms of physical fitness, you may be the weakest among the gods?"
Freya quickly said: "...I shut up."
"late!"
Astraea suppressed Freya with her backhand, then looked at Lily who was thrown against the wall, and Artemis who was rushing over after noticing the chaos.
With a sigh in his heart, Freya was quite accurate in her predictions.
She is an old hand who is used to going against her conscience, but Artemis...
It would be fine if he didn't have the ability, but since he couldn't take care of the wrong things, Artemis would just let it go and pretend not to see it.
But the strength of the Soma clan is really average.
I have the ability to manage it, but it is difficult to find the right way to deal with it...
Maybe Artemis would really fall for it?
Chapter 63 Business
As she was suffocating, Lily's face was full of pain.
But compared to the possible consequences, this little physical pain is nothing.
The man wiped the dust off Lily's face, revealing a clean face.
"Take a closer look. Isn't this also a remarkable beauty?"
A smile appeared on the man's face.
In fact, there are very few ugly women among adventurers. After being engraved with God's Grace, each attribute update is a process of gene optimization. The originally mediocre adventurers will have good looks, even if they are only level 1.
There are very few who don't look like human beings, such as the toad-like leader of the Ishtar clan. To put it simply, he is ugly to the core, which is essentially a miracle.
All I can say is that when it comes to the appreciation of beauty, Ishtar really understands it.
Beauty comes from contrast. Every time Ishtar travels, he is followed by a toad. Outsiders may be shocked at first sight.
Even a small human like Lily, who has low attributes and goes hungry one day and full the next, and does not have a sufficient and reasonable diet, actually looks very good.
God's Favor is a locked attribute. The upper limit is absolutely locked, and the lower limit also has an impact, which can prolong the peak period of the strong.
But the lower limit is not absolute. When a person ages to a certain extent, his or her physical attributes will decline.
In appearance, God's Grace is similar.
It can preserve the adventurer's best appearance, the best and most reasonable facial muscle structure, the skin's ability to perceive the outside world, etc. during growth.
These are not just appearances, but part of strength and weakness.
Adventurers generally maintain a good appearance until they grow old.
Lily opened her mouth and wanted to say something.
"…Who can I sell you to for a good price…"
The man Nan Nan said to himself.
He was also a little surprised, but meeting Lily was actually a good thing.
The situation has changed. He had never thought of selling Lily before, but just regarded selling Lily as a threat.
Because Lily is not worth much even if she is sold.
But now it's different.
I don't know what kind of trouble the Istar family has encountered. Now Happy Street has been closed, and the former combat prostitutes of the Istar family are now facing trial by the union.
A large share of the market suddenly became vacant in the flesh trade.
When it comes to making money, you can't get rich just by making money from the poor. You can get rich overnight by making money from the rich.
How can you make money from rich people in the sex industry?
…Of course, it’s the female adventurers.
Orario is the center of the world, but that doesn't mean the Orario family is the richest in the world.
In a world where extraordinary power exists, strength is the basis of everything.
The truly wealthy ones are those who obtain various resources from Orario and sell them at high prices to royal families, nobles and merchants around the world.
Powerful clans can easily obtain money if they want, so they don’t care about money and instead focus on gaining power - entering dungeon adventures.
Those merchant nobles who have no gods behind them, precisely because they cannot gain power, instead focus more on accumulating money.
If you have money, you always have to spend it.
For some businessmen or nobles, what they want most is naturally the noble goddess.
The fact that the goddess is noble is not the point. Being retaliated against is not a big deal. There are always people who don't care about those things. After their brains are controlled by their lower body, they don't even care that their souls fall into the hands of gods after death.
But, the goddess cannot be forced.
There was a time when Liu was the only one left in Astraea's family. In order to seek revenge, she killed all the hostile families, including possibly innocent merchants...but she failed to kill the gods of the hostile families.
It wasn't that she didn't want to do it, but she couldn't. Liu, who was not afraid of death at the time, naturally didn't worry about what would happen to her soul after death, but facing the gods, Liu just couldn't do it.
Faced with divine power, it is difficult for intelligent life forms to do anything that would harm the gods.
For those wealthy businessmen and nobles, they may be interested in certain goddesses, but it is too difficult and risky.
In essence, everything in Orario is dominated by gods. If anyone displeases the gods and is killed by them by mistake, the follow-up will most likely be resolved by making a big thing small.
Once you die, you are really dead.
Apart from the gods, there are adventurers.
Most high-level adventurers look down on the rich, because if they want, they can easily become rich.
Low-level adventurers and merchants were all somewhat envious of each other.
Adventurers envy merchants for their wealth, and merchants envy adventurers for their ability to become stronger and gain power.
And essentially, adventurers have a higher status than merchants.
Merchants are the best among ordinary people, and low-level adventurers are the bottom among adventurers.
This is somewhat similar to nobles and commoners. A powerful commoner is just a commoner, and a fallen noble is still a noble.
In the flesh trade, those wealthy businessmen and nobles with enormous wealth are naturally interested in adventurers... but not many dare to take action because the risk is too great.
Firstly, even if some female adventurers were captured, the adventurer's superior god could sense the approximate location of the missing children through God's grace.
Secondly, even if some clans are weak, capturing some female adventurers and conducting some kind of transactions is not a provocation to a certain clan, but a provocation to the adventurers as a group.
Thirdly, the union is still there after all, and it is difficult for the union to interfere with the decision-making of the gods, but the merchants and nobles... what kind of losers are they?
Therefore, there is a reason why Happy Street is so popular. The target customers of Happy Street are not Orario, but wealthy people all over the world.
If you are wealthy but have no power, how could you not want to comfort yourself by thinking of those powerful adventurers who used their hands and bodies to enter dungeons and kill countless enemies?
But... in essence, the ones who hold the dominant position are still the female adventurers and Happy Street.
Many wealthy people or nobles would feel that this is not enough and would like to take the initiative themselves, but that is only possible in their dreams.
What troubled Lily and prevented her from escaping Orario was the god's perception of God's grace. It was also this perception that prevented the rich and noble from attacking the weaker families. In the face of this perception, if they took action, they would most likely be exposed.
But there are a few rare cases... For example, when the gods and their followers are unwilling to pursue the matter, there are exceptions.