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Lily: "..."

“How come I don’t know about this?”

"Then you didn't even ask!"

"But it has always been like this in the family. Even asking a god like you to renew his favor requires money." Lili asked back.

For the entire Soma clan, the clan leader is the only bridge connecting Soma and the people below. Only after the people below hand over a certain amount of money will their favors be renewed.

...So, the fact that the clan leader didn't even collect information about the clan members, and didn't even know that someone had awakened a rare magic, made this person's actions even more strange.

All I can say is that he probably had no intention of using the money that his clan members wanted to hand over to him to make money. He just enjoyed the servile look of others when they asked him to do things for him, and enjoyed the feeling of being superior.

Su Mo looked at Lili strangely and said, "That's for those who joined the clan later. The contract was determined that way from the beginning."

That's why he said that those who joined the clan later had nothing to do with him.

That is the business of the clan leader and subsequent members. He will only renew the favor to those who are recommended by the leader. From the very beginning, the person with whom the later joiner signs the contract is not him, Soma, and he is not the beneficiary of the contract.

Lily pursed her lips and smiled bitterly: "I have never heard of such a thing."

Su Mo asked, "Didn't you come to me to renew your favor?"

Lily recalled that it was when she was immersed in the charm of the divine wine. In order to get the money to drink the divine wine, she entered the dungeon to fight regardless of her safety. After coming out of the dungeon, she went to beg Soma to renew his favor for her and did not hand over the money she was supposed to pay.

Now that she thought about it, she realized that her behavior was a bit rash.

After all, the right to distribute the divine wine lies in the hands of the clan leader. In order to pay enough money to her superiors to obtain the divine wine, she actually ignored the rules set by the clan leader. Anyone who wants Su Mo to renew his favor must get his permission.

——This is somewhat naive.

If he were the kind of person who enforces the law impartially, there would be no harm in provoking him. But for a person like the leader of the Soma clan who has little ambition and a small mind, if you provoke him, revenge will surely come from morning till night.

Lily didn't quite remember how Su Mo updated her favor at that time, but anyway, after the update, she gained rare transformation magic... and the ability value on her back didn't seem to increase.

He immediately realized in despair that he had no talent as an adventurer.

As a result, she was unable to drink the divine wine later on, and therefore woke up from her alcohol addiction.

At that time, she did not hand over any money to the clan leader, but she was granted a new favor. She even wondered for a while whether the God still had some mercy and responded to her prayers.

…But is that totally normal treatment?

She had been saving money until now, hoping to redeem herself from the Soma clan with a large sum of money...

Lily smiled bitterly. What was that for?

It is obvious that if she just tells Su Mo, he will let her go?

Su Qing frowned slightly, thinking about what happened in the original book.

In the original book, Lily cheated Bell several times, but Bell helped Lily regardless of the past grudges, so that Lily was infected by Bell's personal charm.

But at that time, Lily did not join the Hestia family, but changed her identity and faked her death in the Soma family.

Until the war game between the Hestia family and the Apollo family, in which non-family members were not allowed to participate, Lily was discovered by the Soma family and kidnapped back to the family base.

Lily begged Soma to let her leave the family and join Hestia's family to participate in the war game.

...Suma did not agree directly at that time.

Su Mo took out the magic wine and said to Lily, if you can drink the magic wine and still say the words of leaving the clan, I will agree to your request.

...Could it be that the Moon Goddess was just showing concern? She felt that if she joined Hestia's Familia at that time, she would have no chance of winning. Anyone would think that Apollo's Familia had a big advantage at that time, and she would just die in vain if she joined?

After Lily drank the divine wine, her will did not waver at all. Su Mo was sure that she would not change her mind, so he had to fulfill her wish and allow her to convert?

Su Qing curled her lips and looked at Su Mo with disdain. The arrogance of a big man was not cute at all.

Lily sighed and accepted the cruel test helplessly. Apart from the real misfortune of meeting those irresponsible parents, all other misfortunes in her life could have been avoided.

But she happened to embark on the most difficult path in the most coincidental way. She was bullied miserably and dared not even spend the money she had saved.

But Lily did breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this was good news.

Artemis looked at Lily with a smile and asked, "Is the misunderstanding resolved?"

Lily bowed and said, "Thanks to you, Goddess, for your help."

Artemis smiled again and said, "Now, do you still plan to leave the Soma clan?"

Lily was silent for a moment.

She really didn't have a good impression of the Soma clan, but...

Lily shook her head slightly and said, "Since I can leave the Soma clan at any time, I plan to take a look inside the clan."

A smile appeared on Artemis' face. The gods and their followers who had misunderstood each other resolved the misunderstanding and reconciled. What a beautiful scene it was.

"…Then it's time for me to take action." Artemis said dimly.

"Soma, the god of wine, was involved in spreading the dangerous controlled substance of divine wine, and his personal behavioral ability was seriously impaired. He was sentenced to three years in prison. After the guild training and passing the assessment, he can continue to operate the clan in Orario."

Artemis said calmly, "Come with me."

Chapter 76 Arrest

Su Mo: “???”

Lily: "???"

Just now there was a touching picture of two people resolving their misunderstanding, but within ten seconds, the scene suddenly changed.

Su Mo looked at Artemis and said calmly: "...The divine wine is a dangerous controlled substance?"

Artemis said without hesitation, "Yes."

"That's what the rule says. Who made that rule?" Su Mo asked back.

They are all gods, so who is afraid of whom?

...Suma admitted that his followers were a little weak, but their numbers were huge. There shouldn't be any strong people in Artemis' followers who could ignore numbers.

Su Qing raised his hand and said, "I just ordered it."

Who are you?

Su Mo thought about it, but didn't dare to say it.

He could tell that Su Qing was not a god, but he couldn't tell Su Mo's true colors.

If it were any other god, he might have come up to provoke him, but Soma was different.

The other gods are used to being invincible, walking sideways in the world, but they have never encountered any creature better or more perfect than themselves.

Without any actual evidence, people instinctively think they are much stronger than people whose origins are unknown.

But Su Mo was used to staying at home, which made him ignorant of the ways of the world. Besides making a mess of his own family, it also made him more alert when facing the unknown.

There is no life in the world that is higher or more perfect than the gods... Other gods all think so and say so, but Soma has doubts.

You are not related to me, and Somo has never explored the edge of the world or the starry sky and universe. I can't just believe everything you say.

Intuition told Soma that there was no life in the world more perfect than gods.

But his intuition also told Su Mo that there was no life in the world that he could not see through, and that was not a god.

In this situation, he felt that he'd better be a little timid.

Artemis was indeed a little distressed about the Soma matter, and if she really wanted to make a fuss about it, it would be quite difficult to deal with.

Lily's incident is just a microcosm of the consequences caused by Soma.

If we must say something, Somo himself did not do much wrong. He just failed in managing his clan. According to the underground rules, he caused problems that only involved his own clan, so naturally he could not blame the gods.

Instead, they can target the victims, the members of the Soma clan.

As for the divine wine, Su Mo naturally does not need to take any responsibility. Su Mo did consider the problem of addictiveness. The divine wine is simply a wine that is extremely delicious.

In Food Wars!, after eating food prepared by a top chef, food prepared by other people afterwards tastes like chewing wax. We can't judge that the top chef is harming other people's digestive systems and making them suffer from anorexia, right?

But that is from Soma's perspective.

From another perspective, aren't those who drank the divine wine innocent?

If some of them were mentally sounder, found their own life goals, found their own partners, and had their own children, then even if they drank the magic wine, they might be able to resist its drawbacks.

Didn't Lily also become crazy and intoxicated after drinking the magic wine? In the original novel, she met Belle and was influenced by him, so she could no longer resist the temptation of the magic wine, right?

This thing called divine wine... Artemis really didn't know how to judge it.

But in short, even if we put aside the issue of the divine wine, the Soma clan is definitely not innocent, and it is a very simple thing to make the Soma clan pay the price.

Most members of the Soma clan are mentally unstable. For the sake of other clans in Orario, the Soma clan is forbidden to participate in inter-clan activities... This high-sounding reason is enough to make the Soma clan suffer.

But if you don’t take it too seriously, you wouldn’t be the Moon Goddess.

When the Soma clan members are trying to obtain money, they are not afraid to even kill members of their own clan, and naturally they will also launch sneak attacks on other clan members.

If you look around, you will find many reasons to target the Soma clan.

But the Moon Goddess, who is a fussy person, first thought about who made the mistake.

Soma?

Family members?

When Lily was drinking Soma to communicate, Artemis thought for a long time and felt that they were all quite innocent.

It is certainly wrong for a clan member to indulge in the divine wine and then do something extreme that violates the union's code of conduct to others, but the fact that a clan member drinks the divine wine itself is not wrong, right?

Is there no harm in the divine wine?

Looking at Artemis who was in distress, Su Qing thought for a moment and handed Artemis a booklet on the spot.

The current law.

Su Qing didn't think this was something worth worrying about at all.

It's a bit too much to regard the magic wine as a drug. This thing has almost no side effects, but no matter what, it is still wine.