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...But when this happened, something went wrong.
Perhaps the lv1 who has not fully grasped his potential is more likely to indulge in the divine wine? Is he being eaten away by his own potential?
She was so immersed in it... Su Mo didn't know why, but Lily even forgot that she had ever met this God.
He should just brew wine?
In Lily's case, it even served as a prop to clear her memory?
It's normal for him to forget his drunken skills after drinking, but he has been taking care of Lily for quite a long time, right?
Lily forgot everything.
When Su Mo found out about it, he was also full of questions.
What on earth is the mental state of the children in the netherworld?
It's such a long memory. I even covered you with a quilt when you fell asleep in my room. How could you have forgotten it all?
...Then why don’t you forget the earlier memory, the memory of your parents forcing you to beg for food?
Chapter 72 Misunderstanding
The dwarf girl took a deep breath. Facing her god directly, she found it difficult to calm down.
Our own God...
Sometimes, when she was walking on the street and saw other gods communicating with their followers, Lily's heart was always filled with envy.
In Orario, although the majority of gods are pleasure-seeking gods, most of the clans live quite well.
When adventurers join a clan, it is almost like handing their lives over to the gods - it would not hurt to spread this information to everyone in Orario.
Many people would be extremely cautious when joining a clan. If they only think about it for a moment, they would know what kind of person is it if someone has hundreds of millions of years of experience and the ability to see through the potential of people from the lower world, but still cannot manage a clan.
There may be many gods with extremely bad personalities, but these gods will not have many followers. Normal people who want to be adventurers will only try their best to get into large followers.
The worse the god's personality is, the more he likes to play tricks, and the smaller the size of his clan tends to be.
Can't run the business.
The larger the clan's business, the less likely the clan's gods will act recklessly. Even those who like Loki, who likes to play pranks, or those who, as long as they see a child they like, will ignore the guild's rules and will get him/her, are in most cases law-abiding and good-natured.
Moreover, not all gods with extremely bad personalities would want to find normal people as their followers.
The not-so-normal clan and the not-so-normal God are, in a sense, a perfect match.
Like Apollo, although in the original book he also did something like cheating Hestia's family, trying to forcibly snatch the child he liked to his own family...If Apollo really succeeded, it would naturally be a nightmare for the person who was snatched away.
But among Apollo's family, there are actually more people who worship Apollo, even though Apollo is a male god and a homosexual.
For those who don't have this fetish, joining the Apollo Familia is a torture, but for those who have this fetish, the Apollo Familia is actually his safe haven where his fetish will not be discriminated against.
There aren't many reliable gods in Orario.
If the followers of a god were considered as a single entity, there would be too many of them suffering. However, if the number of adventurers was used as a criterion, most of the adventurers were actually living quite well.
Treating joining the gods' clan as a ritual... No one is a fool.
In uncivilized times, there were countless cases of offering boys and girls as sacrifices to the gods, and pushing young girls into rivers to sacrifice to the river gods.
But the main reason why this situation can be established is that the scale of victims is not large.
As long as they are not the victims and they are not at risk of being harmed, many people will turn a blind eye.
But if the scale of victims is raised, proportionally speaking, there is a great chance that it will be your turn, and no one will sit and wait for death.
In Orario's case, it's natural that when a newcomer joins the clan and encounters a malicious deity, their entire life is ruined.
But most people still try their best to get into Orario, wanting to become adventurers.
It is because the proportion of misfortunes is actually very small that many people do not think that the chance of that happening to them is high.
Most of Orario's families may not be called happy.
People often want to join a large clan, but for a large clan, the gods are bound to be negligent and cannot take care of everyone, so some people in the clan will inevitably be ignored.
——Even if they are born to the same parents, parents’ favoritism can sometimes be unreasonable.
But the treatment of most adventurers in Orario is actually quite good. There are very few people who can be favored by the gods. As an adventurer, most people have a decent life.
It was impossible for Lily not to be envious and jealous.
Don't worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality.
She tried her best, struggled, tried every possible way and even risked her life to fight. In order to live a normal life, she tried every possible way she could.
But she still lives in hell.
Most people didn't put in even half the effort she did, and just muddled through their days without any awareness. When they entered the dungeon, they were careless and had no consciousness at all. They were completely unpresentable from beginning to end, but they could live the life she had always dreamed of.
The reason for all this...
Lily took a deep breath, her voice trembling.
"God-sama...what do the members of your clan mean to you?"
When she asked this question, she realized what kind of result she was longing for in her heart.
It's expectation.
If it wasn't the Supreme God who caused all this, and the Supreme God was just deceived by the people below, and was just immersed in brewing wine, mistakenly thinking that the clan was doing well...
Even so, her unfortunate experience would seem somewhat ridiculous.
But she could accept it.
Su Qing watched from the sidelines. This was how the world was. Some people in lower positions would always try to make excuses for those in higher positions.
If you encounter corrupt officials who are sucking your blood out of you, then it is entirely the corrupt officials' fault. If the army kills innocent people to claim credit, then it is only the general's fault. The emperor is just deceived.
They would never think that corrupt officials could squeeze people dry and the army could kill innocent people to claim credit. When such things happened in this dynasty, the emperor could not be without responsibility.
Whenever the corresponding person was executed, the people would even shout, "Your Majesty is wise."
Su Mo's expression remained calm, and he never stopped working for a moment, pounding the plants that would be used as brewing materials, with the pounding stick making a creaking sound.
What does the clan mean to you?
A favorite child? Someone he had to take responsibility for because he had made someone addicted to alcohol?
Have it.
Su Mo did not stop the movement of his hands at all, and said casually, "Fragile puppet."
Su Mo thought that no matter what, the children in the lower world were not people he could respect or treat as equals.
Whether physically or mentally, the children in the underworld were too fragile, and they would even become addicted to the divine wine that he had specially adjusted to be addictive.
Children in the underworld are too fickle and can become a completely different person in the blink of an eye, but this is not the case with eternal gods.
Some evil gods are interested in this and like to see heroes fall and persuade girls to become good people.
But he is not an evil god.
Precisely because children in the underworld are fickle, they should be well protected. Before they grow up enough to resist the temptations of this world, the gods should take on the obligation to help the children grow and prohibit them from being exposed to those temptations in advance - this is what Soma thinks, but only for his own family.
He never thought of doing this to people outside his clan, even those who joined the clan after he stopped taking charge.
Those who he recruited into his clan and became addicted to the divine wine because of the divine wine he provided were the ones that Soma was willing to take responsibility for, and he should help his clan avoid temptation as a god.
Precisely because the person being asked was Lily, Soma would answer about his attitude towards his earliest followers. Her parents were Soma's early followers.
We must always pay attention to the psychological state of our clan members and not let them come into contact with high-level temptations too early...Suma also felt a little regretful. When he was in heaven, a school of spiritual practice in India was popular, but he did not pay much attention to it.
Whether it is the Kyushu school or the native Indian Buddhist school, they all have their own theories about the so-called temptation, but unfortunately he doesn't know much about it.
Lily fell silent after hearing this.
She was still thinking in her heart that her own God might have some hidden story or difficulties.
But in the eyes of the gods, the clan members are only regarded as props?
Lily took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and continued to ask: "Everyone in the family is immersed in the temptation of the divine wine because of your behavior. They are willing to do anything for it. Do you really not care?"
"I express my sympathy." Su Mo said lightly.
After all, even if you ask him to take care of it, he doesn't know how to do it.
The thinking of people in the lower world is too changeable. Even when their alcohol addiction has subsided, they can still frame their companions because of the magic wine. He is too lazy to talk about this. As for the fact that people lose their memory after drinking the magic wine, Su Mo still doesn't understand why.
It was just a guess that Lily had great potential, but her body was too young, which caused a backlash.
But the specific principle is unclear.
Su Mo thought, with my level of skill, if you let me manage it, there must be a direction, right? Otherwise, what if the more you manage it, the more chaos it will cause?
In heaven he was obsessed with brewing wine, and managing his family in the lower world was one of his rare worldly experiences.
He learned a lesson from this - that when you mistakenly think you are being nice to others, you are not actually being nice to them.
When he offered the divine wine as a reward to his clan, he didn't expect this result, right?
Perhaps it was because of his mysophobia as the Moon God that Su Mo thought that if he was not sure that his actions were truly beneficial to the clan, then he should not interfere in the clan's operations.
The consequences of my first mistake were somewhat serious. Suma became a typical example of someone I would rather not do than make a mistake.
Moon gods generally have similar qualities, being more introverted and lacking the inclination to take the initiative to do things, but wanting to pursue perfection when they do.
Lily felt a chill in her heart.
"...As the supreme god of the clan, in your heart, are the children of the clan just strangers who have nothing to do with you?"
Lily's voice was a little bitter. After Artemis's speculation, she still held a bit of hope in her heart.
But after hearing what Su Mo said, her heart sank completely.
Knowing that everyone in the family was in pain because of the sacred wine, Su Mo, as the head of the family, actually said lightly, "I sympathize", as coldly as if he was evaluating an outsider.
Su Mo raised his eyebrows.