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If a wealthy person uses violence or property to forcibly plunder adventurers who are not that powerful, regardless of the wishes of his clan, he is intending to make enemies with the adventurer group. But if the clan takes the initiative to offer a female adventurer, that is another matter.
In fact, some wealthy people are also considering this.
Look for a clan that is in trouble and crisis, then find the clan's goddess... then spend money to get out of the crisis.
If the goddess cares enough about her followers and doesn't care about chastity, the person concerned might be able to understand what a goddess is - but such opportunities are rare.
In the past, Ishtar took charge of the sex trade in Orario, which more or less helped Orario maintain a certain order.
If other families want to bypass the Istar family and communicate with the wealthy businessman, it may be fine once or twice, but if it happens too many times, they will need to consider the reaction of the Istar family.
To some extent, the Istar Familia guarantees the status of female adventurers in Orario. The worst that can happen to them is that they are sold to the Istar Familia or to Happy Street.
——This is already a nightmare for women, but at least they still maintain a certain degree of freedom.
Ista doesn't make money from Happy Street. In Ista's eyes, the relationship between men and women is the law of nature and the continuation of life. She doesn't think that it is something that cannot be discussed openly.
With such a boss, it is almost impossible for ordinary businessmen to do whatever they want to the women in Happy Street by spending money, or even turn public property into private property.
It is indeed a tragic fate for women to fall into the Happy Street, but if we compare the sex industry horizontally, those who work in the Happy Street are much better off than those who work in this industry outside of Orario.
Moreover, because of the existence of the Ishtar Familia, an industry was prevented from appearing in Orarie.
Nobles or wealthy businessmen provide female slaves to join certain clans, and after becoming adventurers, for example, they grow to level 2 and then return to the nobles or wealthy businessmen.
Most of the clans would not do such a thing, as the gods could not afford to embarrass that person. However, given the quality of the gods in Orario, there are naturally some gods who have lost their shame long ago and have no one to embarrass even if they want to.
The gods provide divine blood and divine favor. The rich or nobles choose qualified slaves and offer money to the gods. The gods guarantee that the grown-up adventurers will not rebel against their former masters... They can even seal the favor of upgraded female adventurers.
Anyway, there is no need for female adventurers to fight, and adventurers around level 2 do not have the power to ignore numbers.
This is an industrial chain, but no one in Orarie dares to do it.
During this thousand years, Hera and Zeus's followers ruled Orario for most of the time. Who is Hera?
How could the defender of monogamy, the patron saint of marriage, allow such a thing?
Hera didn't kill Ishtar, the one who created the Happy Street, because Zeus stopped her in time.
After Loki and Freya were replaced, Freya was the type who kept aloof from everything that did not concern her, and she did not actually contribute much to maintaining the order of the city, but after all, the order had already been established.
——Anyone who dares to do similar business, no matter what Freya thinks or does, will indeed harm the interests of the Istar family.
As long as there is that sign, the union can just give a warning and the clans doing this business will naturally give up.
But something happened to the Ista family, and the premise that hindered all this no longer existed.
The union also thought about stopping it... but after all, they don't have that many people.
Things have their priorities. Compared with the big things concerning the gods, the small things here seem not so important.
If all the gods of pleasure in Orario were dealt with, and only the gods who cared about humanity were left, the problem in this regard could be easily brought back on track.
No one cares, but even though it's only been a few days, Orario has already started to show signs of chaos in this regard.
For example, for the members of the Soma clan, selling Lily to Happy Street previously only earned them a small fortune.
But without Ishtar as a middleman to make a profit from the price difference and maintain market stability - before this, the people of the Soma clan had no idea how much money the rich could pay for their interests.
After all, the rich also know that if they miss this village, no one will be waiting for them in the next one.
Orario is in a bit of chaos right now, with some clans wanting to sell out their own clans. This is essentially an internal affair of the clans, and the guild cannot exert sufficient force to interfere, so the clans can just ignore it.
But when the chaos in Orario is over...
The guild is not a clan that cannot interfere in its internal affairs.
The premise for not interfering in the clan's internal affairs is that other gods will be dissatisfied.
If some gods do something too outrageous, then the situation will be the opposite. If this kind of business appears openly in Orario, will the gods still have any face?
Faced with a clan that caused unanimous dissatisfaction among the gods, the guild could interfere in any way it wanted.
——At least one must have the strength of the Ishtar clan, so that other gods will feel that it is not worth provoking them, in order to conduct this kind of transaction in Orario.
In the shadows of Orario, human trafficking is slowly becoming a thing.
——The opportunity is ready. Human trafficking is a big industry in Orario.
Nowadays, with the chaos in Orario and Gaista's accident, Orario was originally only involved in the human trafficking of ordinary people, covering some low-level female adventurers.
Low-level male adventurers also participated, but relatively few.
Although there are many goddesses and female adventurers in Orario, and Loki and Freya who stand at the top of Orario are both goddesses, most of the world's wealth is still in the hands of men.
This world is only at the level of development of the European Middle Ages, and this is thanks to Orario raising the average. Outside of Orario, the world may not even reach the level of the Middle Ages.
Slavery, war, and other factors mixed in, it was natural that outside of Orario, men generally had a higher status.
There is no essential difference in physical strength between male and female adventurers, but between ordinary men and women, men's physique is more suitable for participating in battles, whether it is invasion or defending the country.
It’s not that there are no female nobles, but there are relatively more male nobles and businessmen, and they can afford to pay more for their interests.
——But this is also out of stock.
There are many conditions that need to be met when selling female adventurers.
The first and most important factor is the permission of the gods. This behavior can only proceed if the gods allow it.
The gods of Orario are rotten, they are just having fun, but the premise of having fun is that they find it fun... If they do such a thing, selling out their own clans for money, they will be scolded to death by their fellow gods when they go to the gods' meeting, and they will lose face for the gods.
Secondly, the safety of adventurers is actually difficult to guarantee. The gods can seal the attributes of their own clans, but how can the nobles believe in the gods' guarantees?
What credibility can a god have who makes such a deal?
At the very least, we have to wait for a few more transactions like this before the merchants and nobles will find it credible and believe that this is not a trap set by the poor god to kill him and plunder all his property.
After all, as for adventurers... the nobles and wealthy businessmen, at least they would be capable of doing something against low-level adventurers, but the premise was that they kept a certain distance.
If it is the person next to him, even if all the attributes of the adventurer are sealed, the adventurer can probably find a chance to prevent the rich businessman from activating his various magic items just by relying on combat skills.
——Relatively speaking, little people like Lily are so precious.
Adventurers who have trained a little bit will have stronger attributes than ordinary people, but the dwarfs are born with physical disadvantages. They are only level 1 and their attributes are not very high, so their strength is just so-so.
This dwarf human body is both a disadvantage and an advantage.
People who don't like it won't even look at it, and people who like it... are really willing to pay a high price.
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The man couldn't help but shook his head.
As a clan gathered around the sacred wine, the Soma clan has been extremely short of money recently.
As a result, many people in the family finally took that step.
Illegal – Violating the union’s principles.
There were many dark sides to the Soma clan in the past, including Lily herself. They were not very clean types and served as volunteers in the dungeon to harm other adventurers - however, apart from the parties involved, few people cared about such things.
This is an area where a few unions have made demands but have not taken action.
The guild has rules prohibiting adventurers from fighting each other in dungeons, but once they really enter the dungeon, no one cares, and even if they want to, they can't do anything about it.
This probably falls into the grey area.
Not all clans are qualified to ignore the guild. A clan like Ishtar that has a level 5 adventurer can certainly do so. As long as they don't do anything too outrageous, the guild can't control them.
But the Soma clan's strength is just that little bit.
The Soma clan is not on the side of the dark faction, and Soma does not want to cause trouble, he just wants to obtain materials for brewing wine.
Moreover, this is a divine wine brewed by gods, and the profit margin is incredibly high. No matter how expensive the raw materials are, once they are handled by gods, they will be sold at an outrageous price.
To be honest, the situation of the Soma clan is very special, so special that you don’t know who is exploiting whom.
Soma himself is a wine-making machine. The leader of the clan converts the money obtained by the members into materials, and provides the materials to the Soma clan in exchange for the magic wine.
According to this business process, outsiders will inevitably have a question in their mind.
How could the Soma clan be short of money? They must be ridiculously rich, right?
For example, the Hephaestus family, the god of forging herself, announced that anyone who wanted to forge a weapon could come to her, but it would cost a high price.
Or, Ista declared that he would welcome anyone to Happy Street, no matter who they were or whether they were human or not, the only prerequisite was that they had to prepare a large amount of money.
Can Hephaestus forge equipment for adventurers from other clans 24 hours a day?
Of course not. In fact, if Hephaestus could just let it slip that she was willing to customize equipment for adventurers, even a few times a year, she could make a fortune.
The main god has come out in person, with his god-level skills, so wouldn’t the wealth of his clan skyrocket?
But the Soma clan is not like that.
The god of wine brewed the divine wine day and night, but the Soma clan was not rich at all.
Why would they need their so-called followers to go on dungeon adventures when they run a business selling the divine wine brewed by the god of wine? Why would they need little girls like Lily to volunteer to make money?
In essence, the Soma clan seems to be particularly short of money, not because they really are short of money, but because they are addicted to the divine wine.
Just a small bottle of failed divine wine is worth 60,000 in the store, and the weapons in the hands of high-level adventurers such as Ai Si are only worth hundreds of millions.
Ten thousand bottles of failed small bottles of divine wine were converted into successful products that would satisfy Su Mo, and then converted from small bottles into jars... hundreds of millions did not seem to be a large number.
——Of course, when it comes to magic wine, we have to consider the market, but in Orarie, the wine market is really not small.
Adventurers, after staying in a dungeon for a long time, want to relieve stress after coming out, and the only thing they want is wine and beauties.
The Soma clan can completely dilute the divine wine with water. The pure divine wine can go for the high-end route, while the diluted divine wine can go for the mass market and dominate the market.
The Soma clan relies on Soma, the cash cow, but they are still extremely poor.
——After all, within the clan, their own members drink the divine wine.
Just a small bottle of failed product can be sold for 60,000 in the outside world. Inside the Soma clan, what they drink is the real divine wine.
The adventurers of the Soma clan, without any decent equipment and in tatters, risked death to enter the dungeon and obtained a sum of money with great difficulty - and then, they obtained a small portion of the magic wine, which was worth at least hundreds of thousands, enough for them to buy decent equipment.
To satisfy their taste buds, they drank.