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——Level 3 adventurers, even the Soma clan can hardly be defeated by a round-robin battle, as the number of level 2 Soma clan members is not large.
No matter how you look at it, the expansion of the Soma clan is only to satisfy the ambitions of the parties involved.
This ambition is not to become stronger or richer, not to explore the world or solve puzzles or dominate Orario, but something simpler... I feel comfortable managing so many people.
To the leader of the Soma clan, Soma is his trump card to reach a high position no matter what.
Su Mo has no interest in interacting with outsiders, so he should be happy about this.
But he expanded the size of Soma's clan, and did not invite the clan members to see Soma, and he did not even care about his own clan.
If the leader of the Soma clan had been a little more careful and had a little more vision, Lily wouldn't have been treated the way she is now.
The members of other clans were mostly chosen by the gods. According to the gods' vision, most of the chosen clans would have good potential qualities.
There are many people in the Soma clan, but there are no high-level adventurers at all, and this is the reason.
The members of the clan are not selected by Soma, but are selected as clan leaders by ordinary people.
But with such a large number of auditions, won’t there be any new and highly qualified people emerging?
If the clan leader cared a little about his own status, the best way to maintain his rule would be to force every clan member to update their attributes and submit the updated values to him.
This is probably impossible to do in other clans, as a personal favor is the adventurer's life, and clan mates are not certain to betray.
But for the Soma clan, this is not difficult to do. The members of the Soma clan are immersed in the divine wine, and sometimes they don’t even take safety precautions when entering the dungeon for adventure.
It is not difficult for the clan leader who controls the divine wine to ask the clan members to hand in their updated attribute tables.
If the leader of the Soma clan had a little more self-awareness, Lily wouldn't have to beg on the streets.
The one with potential in the toy clan is not Lily, a weak little human, but someone else?
Lily is immersed in dungeon battles, but her racial limitations prevent her from awakening combat abilities. Her talents tend to be special and auxiliary.
But what if there is a new member in the clan who has talent in combat, and someone has awakened a rare combat skill?
I'm afraid he doesn't even need to upgrade to lv2. With the awakened combat skills and growth to the limit of lv1, he doesn't even need a great achievement to be able to hold down the leader of the Soma clan.
Whenever Lily awakens a killing magic, such as Libel's magic in the original work, she doesn't even need the limit of lv1 to beat her own leader.
With a little idea in mind, the leader of the Soma clan also knew to observe the attributes of his own clan to ensure that his position would not be shaken.
If he really did that...
Lily's awakened magic would have been discovered earlier.
In the original novel, the leader of the Soma clan, after discovering Lily's magic, wondered if her magic could transform him into a monster.
After getting the exact answer, he decided to use Lily as a cash cow and go to the dungeon to lure monsters to capture and sell them.
Even with this result, it was better than Lily being abused by her own family. After all, she had enough food and drink, and she might even be able to drink enough of the divine wine to get rid of her addiction.
Lily's transformation magic... She only used it to transform and steal, which was a real waste.
Just because magic cannot be used in combat doesn't mean it has no value. The ability to transform can be utilized in so many ways.
But among the countless possibilities to escape from her predicament, Lily avoided them all perfectly and chose the worst outcome.
Su Qing wasn't even sure whether this was bad luck or good luck.
Lily, Somo, and the leader of the Somo clan, if any of the three parties make a mistake in operation, the treatment that awaits Lily may not be very good, but it will definitely be better than being beaten and bullied by her clan members.
Su Qing tried to search in her mind whether there was a prototype of Lily in mythology or legend, which caused her to be so unlucky in theory, but she couldn't find it for the time being.
Haruhime was really in a desperate situation. She didn't have many options. She might be able to obtain certain privileges in the Istar clan for a short period of time by upgrading the importance of magic. At least before being made into the Killing Stone, Haruhime could theoretically enjoy the treatment of a princess in the Istar clan instead of being a prostitute.
But if Haruhime relies on herself, the final outcome will probably not be good. After living the life of a princess for a while, she will die in the Killing Stone Ceremony. She has to pray that the Killing Stone will not be broken in the plan of the Ishtar family against the Freya family, then she still has a chance to survive.
But Lily is different. She has a way to escape from the clan on her own.
Even if she escaped from Orario and became a traveler, what if she didn't stay in each village for more than a month?
The gods can sense the location of the Divine Grace on her back, but can they also keep chasing after her?
With transformation magic, she only needs to be a little careful to change her identity. Even with the perception of the gods and the pursuit of the guild, there is no guarantee that they can catch her.
If the gods only provided the guild with Lily's approximate location, there would be absolutely no chance of catching her - this transformation magic could even transform the monsters in the dungeon.
If they only knew the approximate location, why would the guild risk their lives to hunt down an individual whose appearance, gender, and even whether he was a human were unknown?
Among countless ways to get out of trouble, Lily went for the worst outcome...
Su Qing thought, someone should come and tell him that this was actually a conspiracy deliberately designed by someone, so that he would find it more reasonable.
But no matter how much Su Qing thought about it, he didn't detect any trace of calculation. This level of coincidence existed in the world.
If it was really calculated, it would only be full of irrationality. How could it be so natural? It was so coincidental that it didn't seem like a coincidence.
Su Qing and Artemis looked at each other, with a hint of mental power in their eyes to convey information.
Is it really necessary to let Lily know about such a cruel thing?
When you are really in a desperate situation and overcome it with great difficulty, you will feel happy when you think about it afterwards.
I was in what I thought was a desperate situation, but in fact, if my operation had been even slightly different, I could have escaped from it. But when I thought about it after I had overcome it... the more I thought about it, the more ashamed I felt.
Artemis gave Su Qing a firm look in return.
Of course, this is what has already happened, and it is not good to avoid reality.
The Moon Goddess showed her own characteristics. She was indifferent to things that she didn't care about, but she would do her best to take care of things. She took two or three steps forward and said without any courtesy -
He hit Su Mo's head hard, forcing him to stop brewing wine.
He pulled Lily over again, closing the distance between Su Mo and Lily.
Artemis took a deep breath.
"From now on, I am the one making the decision here, and I will not accept any rebuttal."
"If you have any questions for each other, you can ask them and I will translate."
Su Mo tilted his head. Was there something unclear in his expression?
Lily forced a smile on her face and said to Artemis: "...Thank you for considering my feelings, Lady Artemis, but it is not necessary. I am not surprised by this result."
After all...
Lily thought, if the God took even the slightest responsibility, the clan wouldn't be managed like this, right?
If Artemis had used her fist to make Soma say that he actually cared about this clan... Lily thought, I wouldn't be able to believe it, right?
Artemis nodded slightly: "You feel that your own God has completely given you no expectations, right?"
Lily nodded slightly and forced a smile: "Yes, and it's not a bad thing for me."
The little human girl bowed slightly and said to Soma: "Lord God, I want to leave Soma's clan."
She also thought it through. If Su Mo was really completely irresponsible and didn't care at all, then there was no need for her to worry about it.
Just get out of it directly.
Soma didn't care, and naturally wouldn't stop her from leaving the clan. Perhaps he would even remove her divine grace because she and Artemis were both gods.
If Soma ignored her family to the point that he was too lazy to even remove her divine favor, he would definitely not have entrusted the guild to track down her whereabouts.
Lily thought about it and thought, can't she just leave?
Artemis waved her hand and said, "Let's put aside the issue of you leaving the clan and talk about the previous question first."
The Moon Goddess smiled at the dishevelled Dionysus in front of her and said, "You have completely disappointed your own family. What do you think, Somo?"
Su Mo replied: "Yes."
The corners of Artemis' mouth twitched slightly, and a nameless anger surged in her heart.
Artemis clenched her fists until they creaked, took a deep breath and said, "Say what's in your heart completely."
Su Mo tilted his head, thought for a moment, and expanded his words: "Goodbye."
Artemis gritted her teeth and said, "Expand it to more than fifty words, or I will send you back to heaven today."
I want to shoot you to death with an arrow of Orion.
Su Mo tilted his head and thought, is it necessary?
But facing Artemis's look that seemed to want to kill him, Somo still chose to follow his heart.
Su Mo said bluntly: "I didn't think enough. It's my fault for providing the clan with divine wine. If someone is really disappointed in me because of this, I can accept it. If they can't accept it, I plan to treat those who join the clan in the future as a pure transaction. If they want to leave the clan, I won't stop them."
Lily blinked in confusion.
Lily thought for a moment.
Lily: "???"
Does this have anything to do with what we were just talking about?
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Artemis let out a long breath and smiled with satisfaction.
She is not actually a serious god. Compared with Somo, she just has a few more friends in heaven.
She also had the characteristics of the Moon Goddess pretending to be aloof and unwilling to waste words. Most of the words she spoke were full of omissions, implying that the other party could understand what she meant.
The difference is probably that she at least has a few friends and visits them from time to time. Su Mo may also have some like-minded close friends in the heaven, but it is very likely that they are just like-minded and they don't even communicate much.
After all, Soma was also obsessed with brewing wine in heaven. She was actually the type of person who did nothing in heaven, occasionally breaking up some impure love relationships.
This may not be a big difference in the heavens. After Artemis came to the lower world, she quickly adapted to the concepts and logic of the people in the lower world, but Soma still hasn't been able to figure things out.
Artemis estimated that Soma was used to not speaking human language in heaven, and perhaps his fellow gods had also adapted to his habits. As soon as Soma spoke, his words were directly translated and interpreted in the ears of his fellow gods.
Even after coming to the underworld, he still hadn't changed his bad habits.
Artemis thought to herself that if only Soma could talk seriously, everything would be fine.
As the moon goddess, Artemis firmly believed that there were no bad people among the moon gods. There might be some who were completely neutral and didn't care about worldly affairs, but there were definitely no ones who did whatever they wanted without caring about anything.