Although the Soma Familia has been constantly recruiting, due to their obsession with Divine Wine, internal relations have never been harmonious.
Situations of mutual entrapment and killing are quite common.
Combined with those who had no clue about their own strength and died in the Labyrinth... calculating all the various situations, the total number of Familia members has never broken through two hundred.
That being said, the next morning, thirteen people still did not appear in the first-floor hall of the Soma Familia residence.
According to the informed source, Chandra, they were, without exception, Zanis's direct subordinates. Out of various considerations, none of them planned to switch their allegiance to Liliruca.
Standing on the second floor, the girl let out a sneer upon hearing this.
Having once been entrapped by Zanis, she knew all too well what that guy would do to his subordinates. Even if they chose to pledge loyalty to him, they couldn't escape a cup of Soma Divine Wine. Even in terms of dosage, it would exceed the drinking amount of ordinary members.
Seeing that the new Captain did not bother with the subordinates of the former Captain, many people in the hall quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
The Soma Familia certainly does not lack so-called 'smart people'. Even if they are captive to the Soma Divine Wine due to drinking it, their ability to calculate has not disappeared.
It was just so at this moment. Among the thirteen absent Soma Familia members, a small handful were actually instigated by them.
The purpose was to use the resistance of others to test the new Captain's character.
If Liliruca's character was relatively soft, then naturally it would be 'hello, me, hello, everyone', and the Holy Captain would rule by doing nothing. Conversely, the unlucky ones would only be others, having nothing to do with themselves.
However, everything that happened next exceeded the expectations of these self-righteous guys.
They saw Liliruca go down from the second floor to the first floor and uncover the wooden cork of the wine barrel placed in the center of the hall.
She opened her mouth and said, "Get your own cups. Line up in the order of Lv.2 first, Lv.1 last; Humans first, Half-bloods middle, and Demi-humans last. Come over and drink the Divine Wine."
Divine Wine?!
Hearing this term, let alone those ordinary Soma Familia members, even the 'smart people' had their eyes shining with intense light.
It was that same old saying: the Soma Familia is a faction maintained by Divine Wine.
Seeing Liliruca display different measures from Zanis on her first day of taking office... even knowing she was buying people's hearts, the crowd of members present still couldn't help showing excitement.
As for lining up to drink, no fool planned to disobey—a true fool cannot survive in the Soma Familia.
Without Liliruca needing to intervene, it took less than ten seconds for a long dragon to appear in the hall.
The first to walk up to Liliruca was Chandra, the only Lv.2 on the scene besides Zanis.
This guy was actually found by Liliruca last night and forced to drink a cup of detoxification wine. Afterwards, he was personally certified by Soma, confirming he had not participated in any transactions with gray industries or the Evils—the Soma Familia has a total of three Lv.2s. Unless Zanis had a brain aneurysm, he wouldn't let the other two Lv.2s unite against him.
Precisely because of this, compared to the other Lv.2 who had a closer relationship with Zanis, Chandra's status in the Soma Familia was actually quite detached.
Except for needing to act as Zanis's thug, he could mostly ignore other matters.
This strong man wasn't an idiot either. After discovering that Liliruca had even moved Lord Soma, he immediately chose to surrender.
At this moment, he was prepared to act out a big play with Liliruca.
After taking the 'Divine Wine' with a cup, Chandra did not drink it immediately. Instead, after hearing the new Captain's order to "go into the room to drink," he nodded.
Then, feigning a look of impatience, he quickly walked into a room where several Ganesha Familia Lv.3s and God Soma were waiting.
Ranked second was the 'lucky guy' Liliruca had casually grabbed yesterday.
According to Chandra, this guy had no relationship with Zanis and was just the most common type of oppressed person in the Familia.
That being said, Liliruca still decided to test the other party. If this guy was truly clean, she wouldn't mind helping him up to become a mid-level cadre. Conversely... Orario's prison might be his home for the rest of his life.
Liliruca's luck was very good.
The person she casually grabbed was impressively a hidden pawn Zanis usually hid among the bottom-tier members.
After following Chandra into the room and seeing the Ganesha Familia's high-level adventurers and God Soma, this guy almost immediately realized that Liliruca planned a purge of the Soma Familia.
He immediately wanted to turn and run out of the room, shouting incessantly.
Unfortunately, everything he did was futile.
Without the Ganesha Familia's Military Police needing to act, just Chandra alone successfully suppressed him.
As for the sound... a Silence Talisman left by Levi was enough to divide the inside and outside of the room into two worlds.
Chandra activated the fragmentary Teleport Rune Stone gifted by Levi and threw the controlled person into the confinement room.
Conversely, if the person entering the room passed God Soma's questioning test, he would teleport them to the restaurant on the second floor. There, several Ganesha Familia Military Police were also stationed and would answer the doubts of those who passed the test.
In the time that followed, people constantly entered the room from the hall.
Upon seeing God Soma and the Ganesha Familia Military Police, the vast majority of them would reveal expressions of astonishment. And after hearing God Soma's question, "How is your relationship with Captain Zanis?", they would subconsciously give a reasonably logical answer.
As for the remaining small handful, their reactions varied.
Some just wanted to escape regardless, some cried bitterly expressing they would truly change, and some stood dazed on the spot...
Facing this group of people, Chandra would not be soft-hearted.
All were sent to the confinement room. There, Lord Levi and Lord Shakti would personally confirm them.
The basement of the Soma Familia.
Looking at the cell in front of her where one more person appeared every half minute or so, even though she had anticipated it, Shakti couldn't help but shake her head.
"The situation in the Soma Familia is even worse than I knew."
Levi shrugged his shoulders: "Normal. In Orario, there aren't many gods who truly hold goodwill towards humans."
"You saying this, aren't you afraid... Forget it, even if those gods knew, they couldn't do anything to you."
Shakti originally wanted to advise the youth beside her to be cautious in his words and actions. But on second thought, the other party could defeat the Freya Familia's 'The Fierce' when he was Lv.4. Now that he has risen to Lv.5, his strength will only be stronger.
Under the circumstance where the gods do not release their Divine Power, the Captain of the Hestia Familia is the strongest adventurer in the entire Orario, and even the Lower World. Bar none.
Many unspoken rules naturally do not need to be observed.
She then pointed to the people in the cell and asked curiously, "What do you plan to do next?"
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