Chapter 713: To Avoid Attending Class, Preparing to Drag the Main God Along for the Encounter

Hephaestus only felt her temples throbbing; her own Familia captain had, without a sound, hooked up with that boy from Hestia's Familia.

"Chun, how am I supposed to explain this to Hestia?"

The red-haired Goddess rubbed her forehead, her tone full of helplessness.

"Eh, what needs explaining?"

Chun looked over with some puzzlement.

"You're already robbing the cradle; I wouldn't care if you robbed the cradle elsewhere, but the tender grass you're eating belongs to my dear friend Hestia in the heavens. I can already imagine Hestia pouncing on me like an octopus, clinging to me, and accusing you."

Hephaestus sighed with a headache.

"Surely not. Isn't Lady Hestia quite magnanimous? She even accepted Miss Liliruca."

"Hestia isn't magnanimous at all; there are things she can hold a grudge about for a long time. Accepting a Pallum girl was just because she dotes on her own child more."

"Uh, the matter of agreeing to become that kid Broly's wife — I only said it offhandedly when that kid conceded over ten million valis."

"It's just that kid Broly was also willing, so I went along and invited him to make me his wife. Ours should count as mutual affection, a mutual pursuit, right……"

The busty craftsman said with some uncertainty.

"Besides, Lady Hephaestus, weren't you always worried I'd have no one to marry and couldn't get married off? How come now that I've got a little husband, you're unhappy instead?"

Chun scratched her head, revealing a look of 【This Main God adult of yours is so hard to serve】.

"Fine then. We'll wait until Hestia comes seeking me out, then I'll talk to her about it."

Hephaestus sighed. What else could be done in the current situation? Naturally, she could only turn the mistake to advantage.

At worst, later she'd tell Hestia that Chun would be the concubine from now on, and all children born with Broly in the future would go to her side.

Hephaestus glanced at the rather carefree Chun and sighed again.

All in all, this isn't entirely a bad thing.

At least her Chun won't end up accompanying hammer and furnace for life, growing old alone.

【Only, will that kid Broly really be able to satisfy Chun in the future?】

Although Chun is a human-dwarf mixed-blood, she inherited more of the human's beautiful features — a tall 1.7-meter figure, rounded full hips, a voluptuous and gorgeous physique. One look and you could tell she was the type to bear children easily.

"Eh, Lady Hephaestus, why is your face so red?"

Chun noticed something off with her own Goddess and immediately asked.

"Cough cough, I'm fine. By the way, Chun, do you want to go audit a women's exclusive knowledge lecture?"

"What's that?"

"It's a course teaching you how to have children."

"Eh? Does that even need teaching?"

Chun looked at her with a face full of confusion.

"Uh, right. You're already thirty-eight; you should've heard of these things long ago."

Only then did Hephaestus react. Her own captain might never have dated, but with her age there, she ought to know some common sense.

"Since that's the case, then you tell me — how does one make a child?"

Hephaestus asked.

"That's obviously two people sleeping in one bed, and after a year or so, a child will grow out from the female's belly."

Chun answered without hesitation.

"Uh, the specific operation?"

"Eh, what specific operation is needed?"

Chun's matter-of-fact retort directly silenced Hephaestus.

"Forget it, Chun. I'll still sign you up for a women's special knowledge class."

Hephaestus said helplessly. A god is the Familia's parent; rounding off, that makes her Chun's mother.

But due to the scar on her face, back in the heavens she had never practiced procreation herself — only observed — and that was a long time ago.

Concerning her own Familia's chief blacksmith's future sexual happiness, Hephaestus decided to be careful. She prepared to find a professional who teaches this to give Chun a proper lesson.

"Ah, attending class feels like such a waste of time. I still have two forging commissions to finish this week!"

Chun immediately complained, wanting to refuse the class.

"This is my Divine Will. Refusal is not allowed."

But Hephaestus rejected her idea of refusing the class.

"Lady Hephaestus, how about you go attend the class in my place?"

"When Broly wants to have a child with me, you can just stand by and guide me on what to do, right?"

Suddenly, Chun thought of a good idea.

"Ah, how can that kind of thing be allowed?!"

Hearing this, Hephaestus's face flushed red at once.

"Eh, why not?"

Chun looked at her doubtfully.

"Between mortals, when doing the procreation thing, they all avoid outsiders."

Hephaestus explained in one sentence.

"True, they do avoid outsiders. But Lady Hephaestus, you're not an outsider. You're my Main God!"

To avoid wasting time on a procreation knowledge class, the One-Eyed Craftsman also found a reasonable excuse for on-site guidance.

【That makes so much sense I'm actually speechless……】

Hephaestus had this thought, but quickly shook her head.

【This is obviously just sophistry……】

"Reproducing offspring is a private matter between husband and wife; anyone else counts as an outsider!"

The Red-haired Goddess said.

"Then Lady Hephaestus, why don't you become Broly's wife as well? Wouldn't that solve it?"

Hearing this, Chun blurted it out without a second thought.

"This... how can that be allowed?!"

"Why not? Lady Hephaestus, you and Lady Hestia have a good relationship, and if you also become that child Broly's Encounter Target, wouldn't you be able to become even more intimate with Lady Hestia?"

"Ah, although I don't reject getting along better with Hestia, no matter how I hear it, that sounds like twisted logic, right?

Besides, I'm still the dignified God of Forge; no matter what, I have a god's dignity. If word got out about multiple women serving one husband, wouldn't I be mocked by other gods?"

"Would you really be mocked?"

Chun blinked her curious eyes and pursued the question.

"Ah, this..."

This question stumped Hephaestus. In the city of Orario, gods who mess around with male-female relations are simply too commonly seen.

Not to mention one man with multiple wives — that orthodox harem play left behind by Zeus many years ago — the reverse, one woman with multiple husbands, reverse harem play, exists too.

Even multiple women multiple husbands, multiple women multiple women, and multiple men multiple men...

Compared to those above who play excessively wild, her worry is simply not worth mentioning.

Estimated that even if she did it, she'd just be teased a couple of lines by some familiar gods at most.

"But even if other gods wouldn't mock, that child Broly might not necessarily be willing to have an Encounter with an ugly goddess like me, right?"

Hephaestus subconsciously touched the eye patch on her right cheek; beneath this eye patch lies an ugly scar.

"Lady Hephaestus isn't ugly at all, and that child Broly probably isn't someone who judges gods by appearance. Please have some confidence in your own Charm!"

"But... wait, that's not right, you're shifting the topic, aren't you?"

"Ah, let's leave it at that. Next time Broly comes over to This Side, I'll help ask Lady Hephaestus what he thinks.

If he has no objections and also wants to Encounter Lady Hephaestus, then troublesome matters like the practical operation of making babies, from now on I'll entrust Lady Hephaestus to conduct on-site guidance at the Crime Scene!"

Leaving these words, the One-Eyed Craftsman immediately ran out.

"Eh, I haven't said I'm willing to be Encountered by him yet..."

The Red-haired Goddess raised her hand, and the door was suddenly slammed shut.

【Sigh, how did I not notice before that this guy Chun runs away So Fast?!】

Hephaestus felt somewhat helpless, but just as she always indulges Hestia, she is similarly indulgent toward her Own Familia's Regiment Commander.

【Have an Encounter with that child Broly...】

Hephaestus thought it over and found that she didn't reject such an Encounter.

And perhaps this is related to that child taking very good care of Hestia.

Additionally, when the person he likes encounters trouble, that child also steps forward.

The Soma Familia matter, Hephaestus was also a close bystander and knower.

Therefore, this goddess's impression of Broly is actually quite good.

"No no no! What am I thinking! I mustn't be led astray by Chun!"

Hephaestus patted her heated cheeks, turned around, and took down an iron hammer from the wall.

She decided to use Forging to calm her currently chaotic thoughts.

Crisp striking sounds soon rang out in the workshop, rising and falling...

"Eh, Broly, you want to commission me to brew Divine Wine too?"

Soma Familia Headquarters, inside the Main God's Room, Soma directly asked the boy opposite him.

"Yes, Suma-sama."

Broly cupped his fists at the Male God before him and placed the Business Order for over a Hundred Million Valis on the Office Desk before Soma.

"Aren't you afraid of the Spirit degeneration caused by Divine Wine?"

Soma glanced at the Business Order on the desk, looked at the boy opposite, and couldn't help but ask.

"Spirit degeneration caused by Divine Wine isn't Divine Wine's problem; it's a human problem.

People who degenerate are merely because their own Capability is insufficient to bear the behavior of wanting to drink Divine Wine..."

Compared to addictive Drugs, Divine Wine is actually more like a luxury good. Ordinary People occasionally pursuing luxury goods isn't really a problem, but the fear is that after pursuing this kind of thing once, there will be more times wanting to continue pursuing it, and then triggering various irrational behaviors committed in order to pursue the luxury good itself.

However, for people with sufficient capital, so-called luxury goods are daily necessities. Therefore, Divine Wine's price is Expensive; buying one small bottle might Bankrupt an Ordinary Person, but for Broly, buying one bottle and throwing away ten is no problem.

"Also, I commissioned Suma-sama to brew Divine Wine not because I want to drink it myself, but to solve the problem of insufficient Wine Business Orders for the Soma Familia..."

Brewing Divine Wine requires a large amount of base wine for blending, and producing base wine can provide a large number of job positions.

"I understand. This commission is for Erde's sake."

Soma nodded.

"However, after the Divine Wine is brewed, how do you plan to handle it? You wouldn't intend to pour them out, would you?"

Soma asked in a Small Voice.

He is a god passionate about Alcohol Brewing; if the wine he painstakingly brewed were Wasted haphazardly, he would still feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Just like the fruits of hard work, yet Trampled Down haphazardly by others, Even If the other party paid the Corresponding Valis for it.

"Pour them out?" Broly shook his head. "How could that be? Those Divine Wines I plan to use myself, for example as Gifts, to bring to My Home's Goddesses."

Although in a different World, Broly dares Definitely say that if he brings this batch of Divine Wine back, a Goddess Master like Aqua who loves wine like her life would definitely be delighted to the point of dancing hand and foot.

"So that's how it is." Soma nodded and said, "Your commission, I've received it. Just the Business Order is a bit large; I need some time."

"No problem. As long as Suma-sama can complete my Business Order within two hundred seventy-three days, that's fine."

"It won't take that long. As long as the funds are sufficient and there's no shortage of various base liquor materials, it can be done in a little over half a month."

Soma calculated his own alcohol brewing efficiency and then gave a rough estimate of the time.

"Since that's the case, then two weeks from now, I'll continue to increase the divine wine orders worth about the same amount of Valis as this time."

Broly directly said that he decided to take over Goliath's subjugation rights from now on; as long as that Labyrinth Lonely King of the Middle Floors is nurtured by the Dungeon Labyrinth again, he will go on time to stake out and subjugate that guy, and use the Valis obtained from selling the dropped items and Magic Stones to continue exchanging for divine wine orders.

"Huh?!"

Soma tilted his head, his face behind his bangs full of surprise; he originally thought that after Liliruca's promotion, his own alcohol brewing business might face a funding shortage problem.

But now it seems that this funding is actually more sufficient than when Chanisi was the regiment leader; it's just short of turning him into a godly workhorse who works from early morning to late night every day.

"Suma-sama, is there a problem?"

Broly heard his surprised voice and couldn't help but look over and ask.

"No, no problem."

Soma hurriedly shook his head; entertaining a Major Donor like Broly who only wants divine wine, even if he's a bit tired every day, it doesn't matter.

The injection of a large amount of working capital directly revitalized the decadent Soma Familia, and those Familia members who were forced to abstain from alcohol were also arranged to various positions in alcohol brewing, busy and happy.

In the evening, the liquor merchants who had previously united once again sent Representatives, wanting to find the new Pallum regiment leader of Soma Familia to discuss matters of liquor wholesale price reduction.

However, Liliruca, who held nearly two hundred million Valis in liquor orders, was now full of confidence. Facing this group of merchant Representatives, she was not polite at all and directly scolded them thoroughly.

"Price reduction is impossible! If you don't do business with us, there are plenty of people willing to do business with us!"

After Broly brought over liquor orders worth over a hundred million Valis to back her up, the matter of not being able to offend liquor merchants had been completely thrown out of Liliruca's mind, because she had Broly-san backing her up; those liquor merchant Representatives who united to try to manipulate her were nothing.

The liquor merchant Representatives who originally wanted to finish discussing price reduction and then discuss divine wine acquisition matters didn't even say the words behind, and were thrown out in disgrace by Soma Familia members.

"How about it, did those liquor merchants manage to suppress Soma Familia's newly promoted Pallum regiment leader?"

In the deep night, the bright moonlight shone through the window lattice onto the swaying red wine cup. A handsome Male God with gold hair lazily leaned on the sofa and softly asked the black long straight elf beside him.

"Those liquor merchants failed; Soma Familia's new regiment leader directly threw out the Representative they sent to negotiate."

"So, the matter of divine wine has no progress?"

"On Soma Familia's side, they now only accept divine wine orders commissioned by real-name certified gods."

"This is truly somewhat of a headache~"

"My Lord, I will go and deal with that troublesome guy for you."

A cold glint flashed in the elf's eyes as she requested orders in a deep voice.

"Ye En, calm down." The gold-haired Male God waved his hand, "The change of regiment leader in Soma Familia this time is strange everywhere. Perhaps someone has detected our secret acquisition of divine wine and deliberately released a probe. Rather than rashly acting at the risk of exposing our identity, it's better for us to secretly brew divine wine ourselves in private."

"Yes, Enio-sama."

The elf respectfully accepted.

The gold-haired god narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself: "Uranus, have you actually discovered my actions, or is it that Hestia, who came to the Lower World not long ago but always likes to spoil my good deeds, has unknowingly disrupted my plans?"

(Chapter End)