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From any angle, Su Mo would not take the initiative to sense the location of the missing family members and report it to the guild, asking the guild to help bring the missing family members back.
Generally speaking, once you join a clan, you are handing your fate over to the gods, and it is impossible to leave without the gods speaking.
This is the common sense that has been formed in the underworld during the thousand years that the gods have been here.
This is of course true. There is a conversion potion in Orario that can forcibly erase the mark of the gods, but it is extremely precious to Freya's family, the strongest in the city.
In terms of conventional means, it is impossible to forcibly leave a clan, and it is even more impossible to escape secretly. You will only be found and arrested by the union.
But the prerequisite is... the gods want to investigate.
If the gods don't want to pursue the matter, that's another matter entirely.
Without divine inspiration to tell them the approximate location of their God's favored ones, and without the Guild that has connections with most countries in the world, with the level of development in the Middle Ages, after escaping from their clan, they could just find a random village to live in, relying on only the dozens to thousands of other people in their clan, and they would never be able to find their way back even if they died of exhaustion.
The old man who adopted Lily was attacked, and the reason was completely opposite to what Lily thought.
That does not mean that the Soma clan has the means to hold accountable those who leave the clan without permission. On the contrary, the Soma clan has no means to hold those people accountable, so they used violence right from the start.
——Because if there are more incidents like Lily’s, it will not be a good thing for the Soma clan.
Although all members of the Soma clan are craving for the divine wine, the clan's cohesion will not drop too quickly, but some members of the clan will inevitably have ideas such as "leaving Orario to do business in the outside world" or "simply not doing business, and relying on their own level 1 strength to rob nobles or wealthy businessmen outside of Orario."
The magical wine Soma is not the magical pill of the Three Corpses’ Brains. If you do not drink the magical wine for a period of time, your alcohol addiction will automatically go away.
The departure of the clan members from Orario was a real complications for the leader of the Soma clan.
Members of other clans cannot leave their clans, but members of the Soma clan can. Soma is not involved in this matter, and the Soma clan has no means to track down missing clan members.
The clan leader will naturally take slightly more drastic measures against members who want to leave the clan.
What happened to Lily back then was entirely because she was in Orario, and the Soma clan had a large number of people, so she was discovered.
If she used transformation magic to escape from Orario and found a village to live in, the Soma clan would be unable to find her even if they worked themselves to death.
Including the subsequent bullying of Lily by her companions in the Soma clan, there is actually this reason as well - people who escape from the clan without permission have to live a miserable life in order to suppress the thoughts of other people in the clan who are similar to her.
Overall, there was indeed some chaos within the Soma clan, with countless robberies and frame-ups among clan members.
But Lily is different from other people in the clan. Other people in the clan are unlucky to encounter such things, but Lily was given special care by the clan’s top leaders because she tried to escape from the clan.
She would be bullied by her fellow clan members, not because of bad luck but because it was inevitable.
If someone in the clan escaped secretly, it would be fine if he really escaped, but now that he has been exposed, no organization will let the traitor off easily.
In addition, Su Mo seldom communicates with his clan members, and the lower-level members of the clan do not know Su Mo's specific personality. They only know that he seems to be obsessed with brewing and has handed over the management rights of the clan to the leader... Lily, a lower-level member of the clan, naturally does not know whether Su Mo can sense other clan members.
Overall, Lily's life is full of malicious coincidences.
Generally speaking, her tragedy can be divided into three stages.
In the first stage, when Lily was just born, she met parents who didn't care about her daughter. They even made Lily beg on the streets just to get more money to exchange for the magic wine.
At this stage, her tragedy was caused by her parents.
In the second stage, Lily's parents died in an adventure in the dungeon. She had to rely on begging and was hungry. When she was starving, Su Mo took her to his brewing room to take care of her.
Until every time the clan held a banquet to celebrate, she drank the divine wine.
From then on, she did everything for the sake of the divine wine and took the initiative to fight the monsters in the dungeon. After discovering that she did not have the talent to be an adventurer, she began to be a supporter, taking risks just to get the divine wine she longed for.
In the third stage, Lily failed to obtain enough money, and she stopped drinking the divine wine for a while and sobered up.
After she left the Soma clan, an elderly couple adopted her, but their house was smashed by the Soma clan members.
Lily had no choice but to return to the Soma clan, where she was bullied by her fellow clan members and saved money by performing transformation magic.
In the second stage of the adventure, she relied on fighting monsters in the dungeon, and gained very little experience, but it allowed her to awaken the rare transformation magic.
She relied on transformation magic to steal and earn a lot of money, and wanted to use the money to make a deal and break away from the Soma clan.
In Lily's short life, she encountered irresponsible parents, which was her real misfortune.
But apart from that, whether she was taken care of by Soma for a period of time in the second stage or after she acquired the transformation magic in the third stage, she could have easily escaped from the Soma clan, but she has been suffering in the Soma clan until now.
I can only say...if fate exists, her life has indeed been treated too maliciously.
If there really was no possibility of escaping the Soma clan, then she could only lament that she was powerless.
She clearly had the ability to escape, but because she was discovered the first time she tried, she mistakenly believed that if she didn't leave the clan first, she would be caught... She had the ability and the method to escape the clan, and she could succeed as long as she paid a little attention, but she didn't dare to try. She could only work hard to save money while being bullied.
Fate played such a cruel joke on me.
Since Su Mo doesn't care about things, the Su Mo clan cannot enjoy many rights that other clans should have, which makes the Su Mo clan very cowardly.
When other clans are threatened or encounter difficulties, they bring it up at the gods' meeting. No one can say what exactly will happen, but in any case there will be a certain reaction among the gods.
It is hard to say whether the reaction is good or bad, but other clans will also care about the reactions between the gods.
I know that the gods might take care of it. Although I'm not sure what method they will use, I can still feel more confident.
In the Soma clan, if someone in the clan is bullied or threatened by other clan members, they basically have no choice but to swallow their anger.
In Orario, the Soma clan is probably one of the clans that respects the gods the most. The reason is that their own gods are insignificant, so they realize how important the gods are in Orario.
In the worst case scenario, normal gods would not allow their followers to kill gods.
After the adventurer dies, his soul will return to heaven, but it doesn't end there.
Most of the other clans would not worry about Loki's clan using violence against them. After all, there are gods who can survive.
But the Soma clan, the clan leader, was very worried that after the Loki clan used violence against his own clan, the Soma clan still ignored them completely.
Then they died in vain.
It's not that the guild will completely ignore this kind of mass murder, but this is not the 21st century, and Orario has been accompanied by many deaths.
There is a spirit urging the guild, and the guild will do its best to find out the result as soon as possible.
If the gods don't care... if the victims don't care, the guild may just deal with it slightly, and try hard to investigate if there are clues, and let it go if there are no clues.
Arriving at the door of the Soma clan and saying that she wanted to visit Soma, Artemis keenly sensed the strange feeling from the attitudes of the Soma clan members.
She is probably one of the gods who understands the underworld the best. Other gods can only answer questions and take care of their daily lives, but she goes on adventures with her family and faces various monsters together.
The attitude of the Soma clan...
It's not like after getting close to and understanding the gods, respecting the gods' life experiences or god-level skills or personality. Instead... the attitude is similar to those of people who have rarely seen gods.
Artemis had been adventuring in the outside world for many years, in various villages and towns, and might not have seen gods a few times in her life. The expressions they had after seeing her were almost the same as those of the Soma clan.
The more we understand the gods, the less unconditional respect we have for them, and it will gradually transform into other emotions such as love or even disgust.
Even if Su Mo rarely appears in front of clan members, doesn't he occasionally attend large clan gatherings? Clan members shouldn't have this attitude, right?
Artemis was suspicious.
One or two would be fine, but the few clansmen guarding the gate that she came into contact with were all too gentle towards her.
Artemis shook her head slightly and said to the gatekeeper, "Please go and inform Soma again. We are both moon gods, and I have something important to discuss with him."
She was also a little worried.
As the goddess of the moon, she was always the type to speak her mind and rarely hesitated, but the situation of the Soma clan...
Reason told her that she should take care of this matter, and she had the ability to intervene in this injustice...but she really hadn't figured out how to deal with this matter.
Soma, as a supreme god, cannot be completely without responsibility, even though he sold his fellow clan members as slaves.
But...if Su Mo really had any bad intentions, she wouldn't have to worry about it.
Artemis sighed internally.
Headache.
Facing her request, the gatekeeper shook his head slightly and said helplessly: "Lord God, please don't embarrass me... The higher-ups have rejected your visit, and I still report it, which would be a dereliction of duty."
The gatekeeper thought to himself, just rush in directly. Loki rushed in just like that anyway, and no one dared to stop him.
The clan secrets belong to the clan. If other gods really keep an eye on them, then they belong to you. Your own god will not stand up for you.
Artemis sighed and turned to look at Su Qing.
He spread his hands slightly, the peaceful visit failed.
Su Qing took out the guild's identity card.
"I have received a tip-off that the Soma clan is suspected of mixing addictive substances into the wine. Please cooperate with the investigation."
Chapter 71 Immersion
Su Qing glanced at the situation within the Soma clan.
When he said he was a staff member of the guild, the guard at the door immediately went inside to report.
And when he said that he wanted to further observe the specific situation of the Soma clan and that the whereabouts needed to be kept secret, the guards really didn't even report it.
It's magical to be able to walk into one's own clan's residence with confidence.
Maybe it's because there's no proper order?
Today's Soma clan is completely based on the sacred wine. Under this premise, if the leader and the manager are clear, and give the sacred wine to those who do things that benefit the clan, and punish them when they do the opposite, then the clan may still be able to be stable and create a reasonable order.
But if the leader acts recklessly, does things based on his own subjective judgment, and does whatever he wants...it is impossible to expect the people below to perform their duties conscientiously.
It is only natural that the gatekeeper ignores his duty to guard the gate. This is certainly a dereliction of duty, but who cares?
In this kind of clan, dereliction of duty and punishment are not linked.
Failure to do one's job will cause dissatisfaction among the leaders, and then one will be punished. This is the logic of most people in this kind of clan.
When faced with the choice, the guard at the gate will naturally have no bottom line between failing in his duty and blocking the guild's law enforcement officers.
Anyway, you will not necessarily be punished for dereliction of duty. You just need to apologize to your leader as quickly as possible and try to please him.
To put it another way, even if there is no way to please the leader... if I diligently and responsibly stop the guild's undercover investigators from entering the clan, will I be rewarded by the leader?
Instead, your clan is being investigated by the union, and the leader is angry and also dislikes you as the gatekeeper.
The more ambitious you are, the more you care about order. The bigger the goal you want to achieve, the more external forces you need and the more people's strength you need to gather.