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nothing?
That's just a small thing, just...
Why does it involve guild rules?
As for the good god, even if he knew about it, he was unwilling to care.
After all, the Orario of today is not the era of dark factions rampant a few years ago. Even though Freya does not do much work, overall, it can barely be considered peaceful.
There are many dark places where light cannot penetrate, but they are not visible in public. On the surface, order does exist.
Under the premise of the existence of this order, some people live miserably and feel that their world is full of darkness... There is often only one real reason.
It's not a big enough matter.
If a three-dollar lollipop is stolen, no one will help no matter how much you ask for help. But if it is a serial murder case, the relevant personnel will respond faster than anyone else.
It’s not that no one in the Soma clan seeks help from the guild. Occasionally, there are people who are still sober and can seek help without falling into alcohol addiction... Not Lily, but other clan members.
But the guild didn't respond at all.
The level of the Soma clan is very embarrassing.
Going up, to the level of the Dark Faction, as long as someone provides clues, the relevant personnel will arrive and take down the Dark Faction.
Going down, like the level of Hermes' family, the main god does not care at all and even persecutes his own family from time to time, but that is all a joke, Hermes will not really put his family in danger - or rather, even if the family is in danger, at least there must be a necessity.
Soma is neither white nor black, it is stuck in the middle.
The situation of the Soma clan is quite unsolvable. It’s not that it’s unsolvable but that it’s difficult to deal with.
——It’s like, some unsolved cases are not without clues, and they are not absolutely unsolvable, but there are not enough police force.
In the park, someone robbed a child of a lollipop worth three dollars. When the relevant personnel arrived at the scene...all they had to do was investigate the people who bought tickets to enter the park, compare their external features with the features described by the child, select the important suspects and call them to the police station, and the case would be solved.
But if anyone really wants to waste resources and time on this, then he is simply out of his mind.
The situation of the Soma clan was certainly far from the extent of robbing a three-dollar lollipop, but the order and stability of Orario was certainly far from being comparable to that of the 21st century.
Orario also has a blind spot called the dungeon which no one can control.
Although there is a relatively stable order in Orario, it cannot even be specific to the level of one or two lives. It is unlike the 21st century, where any case involving human life is treated as a big deal.
At least it would take serial killings or a single but massive death to attract the guild's attention.
——It’s not a question of whether this is a good idea or not, but under the premise that the divine power is sealed, with the productivity at the medieval level, it is already good enough to achieve this level.
To put it bluntly, Lily's situation...she was bullied, beaten, and demanded money by her fellow clan members, and she was facing the situation of being sold to Happy Street.
Is it very miserable?
...If you think this is tragic and shouldn't happen, why don't you go to the Fun Street and have a look? Are there any female adventurers from other families who were sold to the Fun Street?
There are more miserable people out there who are worth saving.
Lily's final fate was, at best, that level.
This is certainly not tragic, but there are too many similar situations.
Look at the slave market in the distance. The slave market is still legal and exists. As for Lily's treatment in the Soma clan... can it be worse than that of the slaves who were bought back?
Lily was right. She couldn't find any gods willing to help her in Orario.
It's not that the gods are so cold-blooded that they are indifferent to her situation, but that the kind gods who are willing to help her don't even notice her. They have already focused their energy on other things. There are too many places that need their help.
Lily had long since given up praying to the gods.
Sighing deeply, Lily waited for the goddess's reply. Even if she felt sorry for her, once she heard that the one who planned to sell her was a member of the same family, she would not want to get to know her better, right?
"How could family members from the same clan do such a thing?" Artemis looked a little cold, turned her head and looked at Lily, and said faintly: "Let's talk about it if it's convenient... If it involves the internal affairs of the clan, then forget it."
Artemis, never thinks too much.
Whether it was the slave market, Pleasure Street, or Lily's situation, Artemis would not consider which one was more worthy of care and would leave the less valuable ones behind.
The moon never thinks of completely illuminating the darkness, but it is also radiating light to the world in its own way.
The moon goddess Artemis doesn't care about making choices or not. She will help whoever is in front of her.
Will this interfere with the internal affairs of other clans?
Not to mention that she is going to another world, even if she stays in this world, would she care?
Rules can only bind individuals or groups that live under the rules.
If you stay in Orario, you may need to care about the opinions of the guild and other gods.
But what does this have to do with my Artemis Familia who are active outside of Orario?
My clan rarely even goes into the dungeon.
Artemis would not care about things that were beyond her control. Even if she knew that there was a slave market in Orario and that there must be all kinds of brutal behavior there, she was too lazy to go to the slave market to administer justice.
It is the sun, not the moon, that makes it its mission to illuminate the world.
She will only take responsibility for things that happen to her - provided that she feels she is capable of taking care of them.
Perhaps because of the inherent indifference of the moon deity, Artemis could not tolerate all kinds of injustice, but also lacked the subjective idea to actively look for injustice.
If she encounters someone, she will help. If she doesn't encounter someone, she will not regard upholding justice as her mission.
In all of Orarie, there aren't many people willing to take action for Lily's situation... Considering the magic she knows, there might be more gods willing to help her.
Artemis is one of them...maybe even the only one, who doesn't care about Lily's own value and will help anyone who asks for help.
Chapter 67: Hypocrisy
After learning the general situation from Lily, Artemis was full of questions.
She was not familiar with Somo. In the entire heaven, there were probably only a few gods who were familiar with Somo.
A homebody like Hestia is considered to be well-known in the heavens, but she still has many acquaintances.
To the gods, heaven is equivalent to a small village with only a few hundred people living together. The villagers have lived together for hundreds of millions of years. Even the most eccentric people know a thing or two about each other.
But Soma is really a homebody, he is so simple and easy to understand that he is even more of a homebody than Hestia.
The moment Artemis learned from Lily that she belonged to the Soma clan, an idea came to her mind.
"Are you really from the Soma clan?" Artemis looked at Lily in confusion and explained, "Sorry, I don't mean to doubt you, it's just..."
Artemis looked embarrassed and said, "This is Soma, who is only known in the heavens but never seen. How could he have a clan?"
The reason most gods descend to the mortal world is because they are bored, but this reason does not apply to Soma.
Normally, if you feel bored, you would want to go out for a walk, but even Su Mo is not known by many gods in heaven, so why would he come to the lower world if he feels bored?
The gods and scenery in heaven were all new to Soma.
Artemis seldom stayed in Orario, and really didn't know anything about Soma's family, but the fact that Soma could establish and run a family was already very strange.
Lily smiled bitterly and replied, "That's a little strange for me to say... But for Master Somo, the meaning of the clan's existence is probably just to obtain enough materials for brewing wine, right?"
"No, no, no, that's even more wrong."
Artemis shook her head quickly: "Then there is no need for him to establish a clan. Wouldn't it be better for him to seek refuge with other gods? He is not a dead otaku like Hestia who has no skills. Who wouldn't be jealous of the wine of the god of wine?"
"Maybe there are no good friends?" Lily tried to guess.
"Impossible. The heavens are not that stable. Soma is indeed simple and profound, but he also has decent friends. The relationship between Ganesha and Soma..." Artemis hesitated for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be bad."
In the heaven, the gods also form groups. A god who doesn’t even have half a friend will be bullied by other gods.
No matter how low-key Su Mo is, the premise is to ensure that no one will bully him.
There are many divisions of gods in the heavens. Soma is the god of wine in India. Ganesha and Soma are in the same system...
Apart from anything else, within the Indian system, the gods know each other.
Although Artemis didn't know the inside story, she thought that the relationship between Soma and Ganesha... couldn't be too bad, right?
It was so bad that Soma wanted to surrender to Ganesha and only needed Ganesha to provide him with materials for making wine, but Ganesha was unwilling?
Artemis thought that was unlikely.
Lily was also stunned. She naturally knew how rotten the Somo clan was. As the main god, Somo was the main culprit. Somo did nothing, did not listen to anyone, and did not care about the life and death of his clan, but...
She really hadn't thought about a single question.
Why did Soma want to establish a clan?
In the past, she thought that this was Su Mo's way of obtaining enough materials for brewing wine in order to meet his own needs.
Now she is also a little confused.
Existing ideas are not so easy to shake. Lily tried to guess: "...Maybe the materials used by the gods to make wine are very expensive?"
"But the wine can be sold at a higher price," Artemis complained. Even she knew this.
“That means the failure rate is high?”
"Don't we sell the failed products?" Artemis continued to complain: "That's winemaking. If it fails, it just means the taste is not perfect. It's not an elixir. If it goes wrong, it can be poisonous."
Although it was not mentioned much in the original book, but... the world of Dicuo not only has elixirs, but also immortals.
In the original book, when Loki met Soma, she talked to Soma, but Soma ignored her and was only thinking about brewing wine. He lived purely for his own purpose.
At that time, Loki complained that Soma did not look like a god, but more like an enlightened immortal.
In this weird world, immortals are also a kind of gods.
In the long life, there is a god who knows what you should pursue and write. When you work hard for your goals and think that is the meaning of your life, you will have a great enlightenment.
Immortals would not find such a life boring at all - instead, they would regard those thoughts of "relaxing" as external demons on the road to pursuing their goals, and regard them as distractions that corrupt their own spiritual hearts.
Therefore, immortals will never descend to the mortal world.
In the wrong world, the gods are troubled by the concept of eternity and it is difficult for them to grow in strength.
There is almost no need to think about practicing, but there is no limit to cultivating the mind.