Liliruca, with an Ice Element shield hovering over her body surface, walked out from the sea of fire.
Walking up the stairs to the second floor, she simply cast a calm glance at the guard beside Zanis. In the next second, the latter raised his hands with a look of terror and very consciously vaulted over the railing, jumping down to the first floor.
As the saying goes, within the Soma Familia, things like friendship and loyalty have always been luxury goods.
It was not that they didn't exist, but they clearly wouldn't appear around Zanis.
As for the 'Wine Keeper'...
Originally looking respectable, in the face of death, he directly discarded all dignity.
"Don't kill me! I beg you, don't kill me!"
"I have money! I also know many nobles!"
"As long as you are willing to let me go, I can contribute my entire treasury!"
"That's right! There's also Divine Wine, I still have hidden stashes in a secret warehouse outside the residence..."
"Heh~"
Hearing this, Liliruca let out a scornful chuckle. "If I kill you, those things will be mine as well."
Zanis: "!!!"
"No! My money is all deposited in the bank, and only I know the location where the Divine Wine is stored."
"Without me, you won't get a single Valis or a drop of Divine Wine."
He was still arguing on the basis of reason.
Regarding this, Liliruca couldn't be bothered to refute him anymore.
With a wave of the long spear in her hand, accompanied by a squelching sound, a miserable scream of "Ah!!!!" rang out once again.
The last limb on Zanis's body was also severed.
Liliruca raised her foot and kicked Zanis, who had collapsed in the chair, onto the ground.
After that, she no longer looked at him, but turned her head calmly and looked towards the hall on the first floor.
"From today onwards, I will serve as the Captain of the Soma Familia. Who approves? Who opposes?"
The scene was completely silent.
No one would be like a fool and continue to stand on the side of Zanis, who had already become a cripple, when the situation was so clear.
Even Chandra, the other Lv.2 of the Soma Familia who had arrived at the scene more than a minute late after receiving news from others, honestly raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender after hearing Liliruca's declaration.
Seeing her ascension proceed so smoothly, Liliruca couldn't help but smile.
She took out two bottles of sparkling wine from the leg bag she carried with her.
One bottle was thrown directly onto the floor of the first floor, turning into a blue-white ice mist that instantly extinguished the still-burning flames.
The other bottle was held in her hand. As Liliruca returned to the hall, she poured it drop by drop onto the bodies of the Soma Familia members who were lucky enough not to die but were severely burned.
What Liliruca used was the sparkling wine that only circulated internally within the Hestia Familia.
Because the concept of 'Perseverance' inherent to 'Heaven's Feel · White Grail' was integrated during the mixing process, the healing effect was undoubtedly more outstanding. Just a few drops allowed a Soma Familia member, who was suffering from severe burns all over his body and looked like he wasn't going to survive, to return to health.
Seeing the scene before them, those with faster-turning brains had actually already guessed where Liliruca had gone during these two months of disappearance, or rather, by whom she had been taken in.
And what purpose she had in returning to the Soma Familia now.
But smart people, even if they discovered the truth, would choose to honestly keep their mouths shut.
As for the slightly duller ones, they were easily subdued by Liliruca's behavior of 'hitting with a stick and giving a sweet date'.
—Although, if it were for the sake of Divine Wine, the vast majority of them would still betray her regardless.
Three minutes later.
Having successfully saved the last living wounded person with the sparkling wine, Liliruca then stated her first and second tasks as Captain.
"Tomorrow morning, I want to see everyone from the Soma Familia gather in the hall."
"As for the former Captain on the second floor, someone go up and bandage him, then throw him into the confinement room."
"Yes!"
Liliruca didn't say what punishment she would mete out if everyone didn't complete their tasks, but the Soma Familia members who had fully witnessed how she crushed Zanis clearly didn't want to be the chicken used to scare the monkeys.
One after another, they patted their chests and made guarantees.
Liliruca nodded upon hearing this and casually pulled a person over. "You will be responsible for the subsequent matters. If you do it well, I will have a reward."
After finishing speaking, she walked towards the room of the main god, Soma.
Speaking of the relationship between Liliruca and Soma, it was actually quite complex.
When she was little, she was actually considered to be raised by her own main god.
It was just that later she was coaxed by Zanis into drinking the Divine Wine, and feeling she had no face to see the god again, she would only find the other party when updating her Falna.
Then she discovered she had no talent, and slowly, she didn't even go to God Soma's room anymore.
Now coming back to the front of this wine god's bedroom and workshop, to say there were no complex emotions in her heart would obviously be a lie.
However, Liliruca was, after all, a Lv.4 adventurer now.
After taking two deep breaths, she regained her calm.
—Knock, knock, knock.
"Lord Soma, I am Liliruca Arde, here to report to you about the change of the Familia Captain."
After her voice fell, about ten seconds passed before a male voice sounded from within the room: "...Come in."
As a god, even though his Divine Power was sealed after descending to the Lower World, Soma could still sense the intense battle fluctuations inside the villa just now.
It was just that, being an otaku even more senior than Hestia and Hephaestus, he simply couldn't be bothered to pay attention to these trivial matters.
Receiving the main god's permission, Liliruca pushed the door open and walked into the room.
Then she bowed to the god in front of her whom she hadn't seen for a long time: "Lord Soma, from today onwards, Lili will replace Zanis as the new Captain of the Soma Familia."
Hearing this, Soma's action of brewing wine paused slightly.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the brown-haired girl standing not far away.
As the main god, no matter how much he ignored affairs, Soma still clearly remembered the detailed situation of all members engraved with his wine god Falna.
Among them, the attention he poured onto Liliruca was undoubtedly not small—after all, she was a child he had raised—but it was a pity that as a Pallum, she could only be considered mediocre in all aspects.
But at this moment, looking at the girl whose spirit and energy were vastly different from the past, Soma suddenly revealed an unexpected expression.
"You've become stronger."
Liliruca did not deny it, mainly because she couldn't lie in front of a god. "Thanks to the deep love of Goddess Hestia and her Familia Captain. I received their rescue when I almost died, and precisely because of this, I can stand here steadily today, instead of appearing on a portrait in the cemetery."
Soma heard the resentment in the girl's voice but didn't care at all.
On the contrary, regarding the Levi Bright mentioned by Liliruca, he was instead more curious.
"Go tell the 'Hero King', if he wants to control the Soma Familia, let him come see me personally."
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