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How the Lord God deals with his own clan is entirely up to the Lord God himself. As long as it does not threaten other gods, there are no laws or guild regulations that can interfere with the Lord God's jurisdiction over his own clan.
Lily glanced at Artemis and suddenly felt some hope in her heart.
If she could follow this goddess to see Soma... maybe she wouldn't need to save money anymore?
As long as I tell Su Mo that I want to leave the clan, maybe Su Mo will agree?
Lily didn't know whether she should hope to be able to leave the clan, or hope that this matter would not be as simple as she thought.
Otherwise, it would seem that her previous way of saving money was really... a detour that was too far, right?
Chapter 69: Pride
Growing vegetables, making wine, immersing oneself in one's own world, and ignoring worldly affairs.
Su Mo's life is so ordinary and boring.
He has been living like this for hundreds of millions of years in heaven. If you have to say, he is somewhat similar to Hestia.
After Hestia came to the mortal world, she lived in the home of her friend Hephaestus. After a few months of being lazy and gluttonous, Hephaestus, who could no longer bear her, drove her out. She had to form her own family.
Soma is more thorough.
During the hundreds of millions of years in heaven, he occasionally provided some divine wine to the gods, but most of the time his fellow gods took care of him and provided him with materials.
Using divine power, one can obtain materials out of thin air, but that is of no use to the growth of his skills. Relying on divine power can skip the process and reach the result, but in that case one will not be able to understand the process.
He gradually understands the habits, growth cycles, and characteristics of brewing materials and how they influence each other. The more he knows, the more ideas he will have for brewing wine, and his skills will improve through constant experimentation.
Even if it is the most ordinary plant growth, if he looks at it again after tens of thousands of years, because his skills have improved over the years, he can also gain new insights from the simple germination and growth of plants from a whole new perspective.
In addition to the god of wine and the moon, he also holds the divine power over medicinal herbs.
Soma stayed well in the heaven, rarely going out, and had no interest in the games played by the gods in the lower world. He did not find life in heaven boring at all.
Then he was kicked out by his fellow gods.
According to Brahma's explanation, the gods in their village have been busy recently and have no time to take care of him, a burden, and prepare various materials and conditions for him to make wine...
It just so happens that many gods have come down to the mortal world. Soma, you should go to the mortal world and find someone to raise you. Come back after a few hundred years.
Soma didn't take it too seriously at the time. The concept of time of gods is different from that of ordinary people. The long period of hundreds of millions of years makes the gods not sensitive to time.
If I really want to describe it, it's like my mother, who has taken care of me for many years, suddenly says she has something to do...
For lunch today, Su Mo, you can go to your relative's house for a meal. Your mother and I will be back tomorrow.
Soma went down to the mortal world.
After coming down to the mortal world, Su Mo was a little surprised.
Haha, after sealing the divine power, it feels a little different?
When in heaven, the gods do not feel sleepy, hungry or thirsty, and they eat only to satisfy their appetite.
After entering the underworld, all experiences are new and novel.
——Suma felt that this seemed to be an opportunity.
He knew what kind of person he was, and he was far from being as indifferent to everything as the gods thought.
For gods, the priesthood often greatly affects the character of the gods - character is born on the basis of experience, and identity cannot but affect character.
Without experiencing a life-changing blow, gods are generally unable to escape the influence of their divine duties.
Gods have many different sides and many divine duties, among which there must be a primary and a secondary one, some that are more important and some that are relatively less important.
Soma controls the powers of sacrifice, asceticism, medicinal herbs, the moon, etc., but what he cares about most is winemaking.
The ability to brew wine actually has a prerequisite -
Wine is for people to drink.
The purpose of wine is definitely not to be stored after being brewed. Whether it is an excellent winemaker or an excellent chef, anyone who has reached a very high level in these fields may have some quirks, such as selecting customers - but at most they are just selecting.
The ultimate goal of brewing wine must be for people to drink it. For eccentric winemakers, the most they would think is "You are not worthy of drinking the wine I brew", but they would never think "No one is worthy of my wine".
The essence of selecting customers is to demand high-quality customers, not to refuse to serve customers.
The essence of Soma is this kind of service-oriented personality.
In their Indian village, not many people knew his true identity. Most of them thought that he joined India in exchange for divine wine, and asked Brahma to protect his safety and provide him with the convenience of brewing wine.
In fact, his real purpose was to let the gods taste the wine he brewed.
If it really comes to strength, he is not afraid of anyone in the heaven.
It sounds like the god of wine cannot fight, but he is not only the god of wine. Most of the moon gods in heaven are also very powerful and will not be bullied easily.
However, as the Moon God and the ascetic priest, the divine power held by Soma led to... Soma's character.
The Moon Goddess's independence and indifference, as well as her high tolerance for asceticism, made Soma occasionally think about making three or five drinking buddies and discussing winemaking experiences with each other during the hundreds of millions of years in heaven. However, he did not want to move and thought that it would not be a problem for him to stay there alone.
——It’s just like joining a new class. When others invite you, you reject them reflexively, and then you envy them for having friends to play with.
But he couldn't save his face and couldn't open his mouth, and others thought he was aloof and didn't invite him at all.
He has been struggling like this for hundreds of millions of years.
Moreover, I have great patience and can endure this little inner conflict.
It has to be said that for the gods in the Earthly World, Soma’s divine composition is absolutely amazing.
What bothers the gods most in this world is that their lives are too long and this world is too small.
The world can explore the endless starry sky upwards and explore the more microscopic world downwards endlessly, but the gods just don’t have that potential for growth.
Over time, many gods will be tortured by boredom.
Gods with personalities like the sun, thunder and lightning, and fire are mostly lively by nature and can't sit still. Especially Hermes's travel. Being born in such a world is simply torture for the god of travel.
Comparatively speaking, the Moon Goddess is better. Her naturally cold and aloof nature means that even if the things in front of her remain unchanged, she will not be too boring.
Soma also has the authority to perform ascetic duties.
I don't get bored easily to begin with, and the ascetic duties provide me with a high level of endurance.
Among the gods in heaven, other gods are deeply tormented by the character traits brought about by their divinity, such as Astraea's justice, Hermes' travels, and even Loki's pranks actually have a certain impact.
For the gods who don’t care about life or death and can be resurrected anyway, pranks don’t have much meaning and won’t cause much waves.
But Soma's divine authority directly helped his character, so that he would not feel bored in his boring life as a god, and could study the characteristics of plants painstakingly and improve his winemaking technology.
Even after tens of thousands of years of painstaking research, only minimal progress was achieved... Other gods might not be able to tolerate this, but Soma could totally accept it.
After pretending to be cool in the heavenly realm for hundreds of millions of years, it happened that he came to the lower realm this time, and most of the gods in his own pantheon were in the upper realm, which meant that the lower realm didn't recognize him. Somo planned to start over and manage his clan well in the lower realm.
——When I return to heaven, and my fellow gods ask me about it, I will just think that I was infected by the children from the lower world and my personality has changed.
In short, I can’t say that I was thinking about making some friends when I was in heaven, but I was too embarrassed to say it.
Su Mo naturally knew his own conditions. How could a wine god of his level not be accepted by that clan?
There are other wine gods in heaven, but apart from their divine power and authority, there are not many who can brew divine wine with only ordinary technology and materials.
Not only is he a natural god of wine, but his power over herbs and asceticism also allows him to spend countless energy on brewing wine in heaven. Other wine gods do not have such divine power as him.
In the heavens, other wine gods are no worse than him. The wine of the wine god is similar to the beauty of the goddess of beauty, which is already a kind of divine power. But in the underworld where divine power cannot be used, Soma does not think that his wine will lose to any god.
Other gods who hold the power of Dionysus must have studied how to make wine over hundreds of millions of years. Even if it only took tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, the accumulation of knowledge would far exceed the scope of human comprehension when brought to the lower world.
But Soma was able to exhaustively list all kinds of reactions among various plants just to create a brand new flavor of wine when he could not see the way forward for tens of thousands of years. Other wine gods... without ascetic divine power, it would be basically impossible for them to persist.
After arriving in the underworld, even among the gods of wine, Soma's skills had an overwhelming advantage.
No matter which clan he joins, he will be a cash cow and will never have to worry about the materials for making wine.
It's just that Soma felt very lonely after spending hundreds of millions of years in heaven. He wanted to find some companions to discuss things, to talk about his interests and life, so he created his own clan.
It’s not that he can’t stand loneliness, Su Mo has a very high tolerance level.
But with such a good opportunity, why should he continue to endure it? He didn't really think that he could do it alone.
——Since so many gods have created their own clans, I should not seem out of place if I blend in as if nothing has happened, and my stubbornness will not be seen through, right?
That’s what Su Mo thought.
then……
Su Mo thought to himself, how could I have managed to turn my clan into such a mess?
Su Mo was very confused, thinking that if I could just take care of some miscellaneous things in the heaven, I would be able to handle them all and even manage a clan.
Among the gods in the underworld, some try hard to manage their clans but cannot find potential members, while others manage their clans but do not want to manage them properly and just play around.
Soma is different.
He thought to himself, I really can’t.
His theocracy has its own advantages and disadvantages. Other gods feel bored in heaven and will experience all kinds of new things. The most basic thing is to manage a force, which is the foundation of the foundation.
Most gods are proficient in a variety of miscellaneous matters.
Hundreds of millions of years, even if the gods only spend a few decades on each thing they are interested in, that experience is enough to guide the people in the lower world.
When it comes to earthly affairs, the gods simply don’t want to get involved, but there are very few things they don’t understand.
——Suma really doesn’t understand.
In the heaven, he brews wine when others are bored, he brews wine when others are in a slump, he brews wine when others are having fun, and when others are proficient in all kinds of miscellaneous things, his attainments in brewing wine far surpass those of other wine gods, but he knows nothing about miscellaneous things.
Managing a clan... Su Mo thought to himself, how should one manage a force?
Since the clan was founded, the only time he interfered with the clan was when he awarded the clan with the divine wine after the clan achieved certain results.
Doesn't he know the dangers of the divine wine?
But he has tried hard to improve the magic wine.
A kind of wine with an extreme taste that can intoxicate the soul. Drinking too much will reduce the addiction, and a long period of abstinence from alcohol can get rid of the addiction. There is no possibility of being completely addicted to it... If he simply pursues making the wine more delicious, regardless of its addictiveness, wouldn't it be much easier?