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Then, they continued to be poor, continued to risk their lives going down to the dungeon, engaged in all kinds of fraud, and struggled to obtain the materials needed to make wine.
This situation is very dreamy.
Moreover, the divine wine is not a one-off product.
As for drugs, even if someone has trillions of dollars, that little money is just a drop in the bucket for him, and it will still harm his body in the end.
But this magical wine not only does not harm ordinary people's bodies, but is beneficial to their bodies after drinking it.
Theoretically speaking, the magic wine is a completely harmless good thing. If some people become addicted to it after drinking it, it is not a problem of the magic wine, but a personal problem.
Similar to Lily, as long as she didn't drink the magic wine for a while, although it was difficult, she did sober up and had no aftereffects.
The business model of the Soma clan is essentially that Soma uses his own technology to increase the income of the clan, and he does not take a penny, as long as there are enough materials for brewing.
The leader of the Soma clan, as the intermediary between Soma and clan members, also has no ambitions.
He was not thinking about how to use Soma to generate profits, expand power, and create glory. Instead, he was very satisfied with the status quo. He did not expand his clan, nor did he build his clan into a purely commercial clan. Instead, he was focused on stabilizing his own position.
——All the huge profits of the clan were distributed to the members of the Soma clan.
That is, divine wine.
In terms of value alone, the small leaders of the Soma clan are the beneficiaries.
The rare materials obtained by Loki's family after going into the deep layer for adventure are only worth tens of millions. However, for members of the Soma family, a sip of high-quality divine wine can be worth hundreds of thousands outside.
The problem is that the Soma clan distributed the divine wine instead of paying the clan money equivalent to the value of the divine wine after selling it.
Maybe he is the leader of the Soma clan, and he thinks it is safer to use the magic wine to control the members?
But in essence, in the Soma clan, all value is created by the god Soma himself, and the leader is only allocated a small part of the value created by Soma. Most of it is distributed to the clan members, but in the form of divine wine.
As long as what was distributed was not the divine wine but money equivalent to the divine wine, any member of the lower class of the Soma clan would have a net worth starting at one million, and members with a little status could even have a net worth of hundreds of millions.
Even if you turn Orario upside down, you will never find a god like Soma.
007 is in business, brewing wine day and night, and all the wine is handed over to the family for disposal.
From Lily's perspective, the Soma clan is a terrifying clan dominated by divine wine. However, there is actually another way to interpret this.
——Except for Lily herself, who has not drunk the divine wine for a long time because she is young and cannot make money, those in the Soma clan who have a slightly higher ability to make money can get some divine wine every now and then.
In the entire Soma clan, Lily was the only one who had gotten rid of her addiction to the divine wine. Lily only drank the divine wine once in a while, but that was only considering her ability to make money. In the eyes of other Soma clan members, the divine wine was not as rare as it was in Lily's eyes.
It is true that the Soma clan is addicted to the divine wine, but it is not as difficult for others to obtain the divine wine as Lily thought.
——If it were really too difficult, the Soma clan would have dispersed long ago.
Lily was able to get rid of her addiction to the divine wine, perhaps because she had great potential, or perhaps it was a problem at the soul level. After all, she was a dwarf who could awaken magic.
Even if other members of the Soma clan cannot get rid of their addiction to the divine wine, but... if the addiction strikes and the person concerned goes crazy, who will care about the authority of the clan leader, who will care about any gods?
If the divine wine was really too rare, the Soma clan would have fallen apart long ago. Adventurers who couldn't satisfy their craving for alcohol would find ways to plot against the leader.
The leader of the Soma clan is a man without ambition, who goes with the flow and lacks a sense of security.
Holding Soma, a 007 god that produces divine wine, he could easily become one of the top assets in Orario and become a wealthy man. However, he was sharing the divine wine with his subordinates, and he only gained a small part of the profit that would not make people jealous.
If the Soma clan were run as a purely commercial clan, all the divine wine was sold, and large sums of money were used to buy off one's own clan members, this would certainly be safe, but not as safe as using the divine wine to control people.
Moreover, if the divine wine is sold, the profit will be too high and will attract the envy of others.
With a 007 wine god like Soma, the Soma clan naturally has the capital to dominate the Orario wine industry.
But in Orario, Ishtar dominates the pleasure streets, and Hephaestus dominates the forging industry.
The matching of priest positions is only one aspect. What is more important is that there are level 5 adventurers among their clans, which is the only way to keep the situation under control.
The Soma clan does not have that strength, and expanding outward will attract the attention of other clans.
——In fact, many non-combat families have come this way.
Earn money through the business you run, use the money to buy advanced equipment and medicines, buy magic swords, and some of the clan members with potential enter the dungeon to upgrade. After the clan's combat effectiveness is improved, the clan will further expand its market share.
Non-combat clans do not focus on combat, but that does not mean they do not need combat power.
No matter how many friendships you have forged with other clans through running your business, outsiders are still outsiders after all, and when faced with emergencies, you need at least the most basic fighting power.
With conditions like Su Mo, the Su Mo clan doesn't have to worry about business development at all, but the clan leader is content with what he has and has never thought about developing the clan.
With the character of the Soma clan leader...it is naturally impossible for him to do anything illegal.
He is the type who makes small mistakes all the time but never makes big ones.
Orario is a bit chaotic and disorderly now, but the leader of the Soma clan has never thought of taking advantage of the current situation to cause trouble and cross the guild's red line.
——What if the guild settles the score later?
Things like selling female adventurers in the clan as slaves... this kind of thing is not completely impossible.
This is actually legal. In Orario, slaves are legal. There has never been any guild rules stipulating this. Adventurers are superior and are not allowed to be sold as slaves.
But at most they can be sold to Happy Street.
Selling it to the Istar clan is an internal matter between adventurers and adventurers, and between clans.
Selling to someone other than Orario?
The money given by the nobles and wealthy businessmen is enough, but the Soma clan - if they really wanted to make money, wouldn’t it be better not to let the members of the clan become addicted to the magic wine from the beginning?
After selling those magical wines, how could the Soma clan still be short of money?
The leader of the Soma clan was a coward.
But he was scared, but the other members of the Soma clan were not. They used to rely on the divine wine to control their subordinates and maintain their positions. Now their subordinates were cut off from the divine wine...
How can I care about so many things?
The man holding Lily by the collar was already screening who to sell Lily to in his mind.
Lily bit her lip. The other person's eyes, as if he was sizing up the merchandise, made her shudder.
Reality is never gentle. Not every time you shout, a hero will come to save you.
Even so...it would be nice if heroes really existed.
The dwarfs smiled bitterly in their hearts, lamenting their own weakness for actually looking forward to such an illusory thing.
“…Who should I sell it to?”
The man muttered to himself.
Lily thought, as expected, it is necessary to grasp the opportunity to sell well...
Lily: "?"
wait?
Isn't it sold on Happy Street?
A glimmer of light suddenly appeared in Lily's dull eyes.
How should I put it...this isn't entirely a bad thing, right?
If she went to Happy Street, her life would definitely be ruined.
But if it was sold to 'someone'.
First of all, if we look at it optimistically, this 'someone' may have a conscience, although the possibility is not high.
Secondly, even if this 'someone' is really a bad type...she has almost no fighting ability, but she has transformation magic.
Having almost no combat power means that the person who buys her does not need to worry about his or her own safety, nor does he or she need the grace of God that sealed her.
Transformation magic... Whether it's sold to wealthy businessmen or nobles, this ability can be used as a spy, right?
Lily's heart suddenly became active.
She had heard that the nobles and wealthy businessmen outside were much more shameless than those in Orario.
The gods of Orario have no taboos and are just looking for fun, but most of the gods of fun have passed the stage of playing around.
The God of Fun can naturally think of all the strange and bizarre ways of playing that humans can think of.
The God of Fun is harmful, but the harmful part is that when faced with new things, he just doesn't treat people as human beings. The God of Fun has long been tired of playing with him.
On the contrary, nobles, wealthy businessmen, etc. are very interested in those inhumane ways of playing.
Normally, when a female adventurer is sold to Pleasure Street, she is still a human being after all.
But if they were sold to nobles or wealthy businessmen from the outside world... you could only rely on luck and see if you could meet someone who would buy slaves but had a good character.
…It’s no different than a miracle.
But she is different.
Lily thought to herself, the female adventurer is dangerous, but she is not dangerous and is of good value.
Can this be the same?
Sold to the outside world...
Lily thought that this might be a way out.
In the best case, she might just need to help her new master and use her magic to do something.
At least it won't be like it is now, working as a supporter in the dungeon, risking my life, and going hungry, right?
Or maybe, she might lose her virginity, but…
So what if it’s lost?
It's not like we went to Happy Street.
Lily thought to herself, could it be possible that she still expected so-called true love?
Forget it, it’s good enough to be alive.
As long as she can demonstrate her worth, the new owner will at least give her slightly better treatment, right?
Becoming a nobleman's concubine is not completely unacceptable.
Besides, she also has the magic of transformation?
Lily was a little confused. It seemed that this was a decent way out for her?
...If a person is miserable for a long time, can he really encounter a miracle?