(Heartfelt thanks to 'Youyouzi's Lament,' 'Long Lian Qingxue,' 'Wings Shroud the Firmament,' and 'Q Yongjiang Yiku Q' for their tips!)
Near Southeast Main Street, one of Orario's eight major thoroughfares, lay a Pleasure Quarter.
As its name suggested, it was a night district where men could lose themselves completely.
Nearly every establishment on that night street was a brothel.
Naturally, almost everyone living there was a prostitute.
The Familia that claimed the Pleasure Quarter as its territory was the Ishtar Familia.
Most members of the Ishtar Familia were Amazons.
The Familia's male-to-female ratio was one to nine, and it operated brothels throughout the district in the city's southeast.
It was said that the Ishtar Familia's brothels accounted for more than forty percent of the entire Pleasure Quarter's daily income.
Moreover, aside from being a commercial Familia that operated brothels, the Ishtar Familia was also a very famous exploration Familia.
Among its members, the Amazons responsible for combat were known as battle prostitutes, and most were adventurers of Level 3 or above.
Among them, the captain of the Ishtar Familia was even a first-class adventurer at Level 5.
Of course, that was not the most important matter.
The most important thing was that the Ishtar Familia's patron deity, Ishtar herself, was a Goddess of Beauty like Freyja.
In other words, Ishtar was also a Goddess of Beauty.
A Goddess of Beauty with the innate power of charm, capable of making both men and women fall head over heels for her.
Yet despite both being Goddesses of Beauty, Ishtar had always targeted Freyja.
There was no other reason. As fellow Goddesses of Beauty, Freyja's Familia possessed vast influence and was publicly recognized as one of Orario's two strongest Familias.
Although Ishtar's Familia was likewise among Orario's top Familias and far surpassed Apollo's