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Lily pricked up her ears. She had long been accustomed to everything in the Soma clan. To her, everything in the Soma clan was 'always like this' and there was no need to ask for reasons.

She hadn't thought much about the reasons.

Artemis noticed Lily's movements, touched the little human girl's head, and explained: "This is Orario, the center of the world, Orario, every inch of land is worth a lot of money, and the housing prices are ridiculously expensive."

Their Artemis family had a base in Orario, and the money they spent at that time still makes Artemis feel painful when she thinks back on it.

Those were all earned bit by bit by her and her clan. When going on adventures with her clan, she was the one who would stand on the front line. She knew how difficult it was for an ordinary person to face monsters, and she knew how difficult it was to make money.

Artemis asked Lily, "I remember you said that there weren't even a few level 2 members of the Soma clan?"

Lily nodded slightly: "That's right."

"Orario is not so friendly that even lv1 can afford to buy a house." Artemis' expression was a little bit stretched, and she sighed, "A very small number of lv2s, with a large number of lv1s, can actually afford to buy a large area in Orario as their base? If a good god really finds out, he will definitely think there is something wrong."

"But I just wonder if Su Mo is imprisoned by his clan, whipped if he doesn't work for a day, and hung up without food."

Artemis couldn't help laughing.

Orario is gradually expanding, and housing prices are rising day by day. There are indeed relatively poor humans and families in Orario, but those are the ancestors who have lived in Orario a long time ago.

Soma's time in the human world was not long, only a few decades.

In a few decades, a group of lv1 and a negligible number of lv2 can afford such a large base?

Anyone who has a rough understanding of the situation of the Soma clan will only think in his heart... to what extent have you exploited the Soma clan?

You know, there is absolutely no possibility that the winemakers in the Soma clan would learn Soma technology and support the clan's business.

God's technology is not so easy to learn. If humans want to get involved in God's realm, they generally need the ability of "mystery" as a medium.

Among all the abilities in the world of Dicuo, apart from the protagonist Bell's 'luck', 'mystery' is the most useful.

Forging high-level weapons and potions, crafting magic books, making wine so exaggerated that it makes people intoxicated, food so touching that it makes people cry, etc. These things are beyond the common sense of most people and all have elements of mysterious abilities.

In essence, mystery is the external extension of divine power. After adventurers bear the grace of God, a very small number of qualified people will more or less resonate with divine power and obtain the characteristics of divine power that have been degraded to the point where humans can control it to a certain extent.

Mysterious' ability is, 'I don't know how to use ordinary materials to make intoxicating wine, Mysterious, please help me quickly.'

A typical divine characteristic, the ability to respond autonomously to the wishes of the person involved.

However, it is much more convenient for gods to use their divine power than for adventurers to use their ability of "mystery". The adventurer's mystery has many limitations in its use.

After descending to the mortal world, many gods became powerful because, during those hundreds of millions of years, those gods who did not completely give up, such as Soma and Hephaestus, at least reached extremely high levels in the fields related to their own divine power.

Even without involving divine power, ordinary materials alone can produce results beyond human understanding.

However, it is too difficult for humans to learn the technology of the gods, and they need the ability of "mystery" as a medium to cover up their own shortcomings.

If the miracles that gods have accomplished with their technology are considered to be 100 points, the amount of knowledge that has led to this achievement... the higher the score, the more unattainable it is for humans.

An ordinary person who is not stupid can get a rating of 60 points after studying for a few years. A genius who is particularly good at this field may only reach 80 points. Those who can reach 90 points through learning and talent may be a genius that appears once in a thousand years.

The higher you go, the harder it is to grow.

It is not too difficult to brew a wine that scores 90 points, but it is not too difficult to brew a wine that scores 100 points... With every increase in the score, the level of sophistication, judgment and knowledge required in the winemaking process will increase exponentially.

Even if the smallest detail goes wrong, such as the outside temperature being one degree off or the humidity being a little off during winemaking, the parties involved must take countermeasures, otherwise the taste of the final product may drop significantly.

But this is not the case for the omnipotent divine power. Refinement or not is not important to the divine power.

On the surface, there is only one point difference between ninety-nine points and one hundred points, but in fact the difference in the amount of knowledge between the two may be astronomical.

But no matter how big the difference in knowledge is, the apparent workload is only one point, the difference between the correct and incorrect answers of one question.

What mysteriously interferes is not the disparity in the amount of knowledge that humans have over the winemaking process, which is much greater than that of the gods, but the amount of work required to achieve a given result.

Relying on the omnipotence of divine power, he corrected the wrong question and achieved a perfect score on the test - this is essentially how the mysterious adventurer's ability to develop works.

However, the ability of mystery requires the development of a tendency to be omnipotent. It is not as arbitrary as divine power, and adventurers also need to upgrade to increase the level of mystery.

Moreover, even if it is a mysterious force that dilutes the divine power countless times, its essence is still divine power after all.

The eternity of gods and the eternity of divine power can never be absolute in the face of the miracle of life.

As long as there is the bond of God's grace that connects humans and God, allowing humans to come into contact with God's power, as time goes by, based on a huge base, miracles will definitely occur, and some people will be able to adapt to God's power little by little.

But miracles are just miracles after all.

The number of people who can achieve this can no longer be described as very few. There are only a few people in the entire underworld who have this mysterious development ability.

The business scale of the Soma clan... Artemis had no intention of considering the possibility that a winemaker in the clan had awakened the mysterious development ability and assisted Soma.

Even if someone in the Soma clan really obtained a mysterious skill, the highest level 2 adventurer's mysterious value would not be that high.

The essence of mystery is a power that allows the parties to skip the process they do not understand and reach the result directly.

Strength is something that will be consumed. It is essentially a kind of empowerment. If a level 2 mysterious holder is allowed to brew divine wine, he will soon become exhausted and the mysterious development ability cannot be activated.

In fact, if there were really someone in the Soma clan who possessed mysterious skills, the divine wine would not be what it is now.

Soma is a god. To a god, power is meaningless, so Soma only seeks to brew more delicious divine wine.

But after the people of the underworld gained mysterious powers...the divine wine could be more than just delicious.

Boost morale before a battle, slowly recover from injuries during a battle, provide adventurers with resistance, add strength, and so on... With superb winemaking skills and mysterious abilities, all of these can be accomplished.

Compared with simple lip service, the profits in this area are obviously higher.

——This roughly counts as a shift from the traditional brewing industry to the health care products industry?

As for the situation of the Soma clan, even an adventurer of level 2 at the highest level could tell at a glance that the clan could afford such a grand settlement only thanks to Soma's magic wine.

If someone from Soma's clan really goes to the good gods for help, not to mention that the gods will not be able to easily interfere in the internal affairs of other clans, even if they can, other good gods will think that Soma is the one who needs help the most.

Ninety-nine percent of the value of the entire clan was created by Soma through his own brewing of the divine wine. You, a mere level 1 adventurer, have a decent large settlement to live in as soon as you arrive in Orario. Isn’t that enough?

The Astraea family could not afford to buy a house in Orario and achieve residential freedom until more than a dozen members of the family reached level 3. It was not a large settlement, but just a small settlement that could accommodate a dozen people.

The gods who worked hard did not complain, but the people who enjoyed the fruits of their labor began to complain - even if the gods could see through whether people were lying, if anyone from Soma's clan came to the good god to complain, the gods would see through that they were not lying and would only think that Soma had spoiled the children too much and they could not stand the slightest hardship.

The main god provides favors, and the clan supports the main god. This is one of the rules recognized by all of Orario, right?

Now in Soma, it is the Lord God who provides favors and brews divine wine to support his family. What else do we need from the Lord God?

Artemis didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She really thought Soma was sick.

How can there be such a person in this world? He works hard and gives so much, yet no one would think of him as a good person?

Lily's face darkened. She was born in Orario, but if you look more closely at the situation in Orario... the Soma clan is indeed a rare and special type.

There are many large families in Orario, similar to the Loki family, whose settlement is larger and more imposing than that of the Soma family.

But who are the Loki Familia? Even the new adventurers who have just joined the Loki Familia are elites with good qualities.

But the Soma clan really accepts everyone who comes.

All large clans are very strong, but the Soma clan is an exception. It is not strong, but huge.

Most of the Soma clan members are at level 1, and they are all very weak among the level 1 clans.

You only need to look at the size of the Soma clan, and then see that the Soma clan still has very few level 2s, and you will know what qualifications the level 1s of the Soma clan have.

You know, in order to obtain the divine wine, the people of the Soma clan are relatively not afraid of death.

If you are not afraid of death, you will not be stuck in achieving great achievements. Once the base is large, more people will challenge great achievements, and there should be quite a few who will advance.

For example, the three level 6 members of Loki's family have been stuck in the great cause for a long time and have not been promoted. That is because they are not confident enough - but if they don't care about death, all three of them will go to fight the powerful floor master, and they will not be completely destroyed.

It's not difficult to get a lv7.

The Soma clan is the type that is mostly not afraid of death, but very few of them advance to the next level.

The clan is very large, but there are few level 2 members, which can only mean that the people in the Soma clan are too poorly qualified.

There are few people who have even reached the limit of lv1 and reached the level where they can seek great achievements and upgrade.

Other clans choose their members very carefully, but the Soma clan accepts everyone.

——Because there is no need to consider revenue, they are just relying on Su Mo’s money.

Lily tilted her head in confusion.

In the past, she hated Su Mo. She hated Su Mo for creating such a clan, but only treating them as tools to accomplish his own goals and not caring about the affairs within the clan at all.

Now, she was a little confused.

To say that Su Mo doesn't care about the affairs of the clan, then it is true that he doesn't care. The clan leader created this kind of clan, which allows companions to plunder each other and even join forces with other clans to harm their companions.

When Lily was a child, her parents forced her to beg on the streets just to get money to share the sacred wine.

Later, her parents died in the dungeon as expected.

If Su Mo could show a little dignity as the Lord God, his clan would not have become so rotten.

But to say that Su Mo doesn’t care about the affairs of his clan at all... at least 90% of the clan’s income is created by Su Mo.

Inexplicably, Lily's resentment was slightly alleviated.

The little human girl thought to herself, maybe Su Mo didn't want to take care of it, but he was so drunk that he went crazy?

He clearly has the power to govern his clan...but the autistic Su Mo has no idea in this regard at all?

Lily, who had long been exploited and oppressed by her clan mates, suddenly developed a resonance with her own main god.

It’s like seeing a big fool being bullied by thugs on the street, with arms thicker than the thugs’ body, and he can just stretch out his hands to pin the thugs down...but that guy is really a big fool, a fool in the literal sense, and he doesn’t fight back at all.

Lily thought, it just so happened that she was also bullied by the gangsters, and she had to blame the big guy for not fighting back and knocking down the gangsters, which caused her to be bullied by the gangsters... It seemed a bit unreasonable, right?

If it were a normal person, they might have been angry at the person who had the ability to save her, but Lily was not that person.

She has been hanging around in the dungeon as a supporter for many years, occasionally trying to trick those newcomers who look easy to bully, and stealing precious items they accidentally obtained.

She did have a sense of guilt. Although she was born into the Soma tribe and was forced by her parents to beg on the streets since she was a child, she was somewhat resentful and did some improper things.

But she still hasn't felt at ease. She feels that she is a victim, so it is her right to harm other innocent people.

Or they may think that being cheated is their own fault and that they have let their guard down enough.

Even though she had taken the wrong path before, she was not so twisted as to justify her behavior. Although she cheated and deceived people, and did not have the ability to kidnap people, she knew in essence that her behavior was wrong.

She had been saving money just to negotiate terms, to leave the Soma clan, and return to a normal life.

Now, Su Mo’s image... For some reason, Lily associated Su Mo with the novice adventurers who had been tricked out of their equipment by her in the past.

They are very similar, both are enemies.

Although the Lord God did not manage the order of his clan well, common sense suggests that he should bear certain responsibilities...but in reality, no one has stipulated that the Lord God needs to bear certain responsibilities.