-A poison recognized throughout Orario.
Even a high-level Adventurer could become a slave to Divine Wine after touching a single drop, controlled for life by that ultimate flavor, their very soul twisted.
She had grown up in the Soma Familia and had seen far too many lunatics kneeling on the ground, licking dirt just to beg for a mouthful of Divine Wine.
Those people had no dignity left. They would even swallow excrement just to obtain a drop of residue.
Her parents, too, had become addicted to Divine Wine. Desperately short of money, they had charged into the Dungeon like madpeople and ultimately died horribly beneath monsters' claws and fangs. Face that stuff herself? And drink it?
That was ten thousand times more terrifying than being told to assassinate Zanis! She couldn't do it. Absolutely not! Fear quickly filled Lili's eyes. Her breathing grew heavy, her chest heaving. Haimo saw the resistance in her eyes clearly, but he did not force her to give an answer immediately.
"This is a gamble."
"But think it over carefully."
"As long as you win, you can wash away all the filth on you and gain a chance to breathe freely in the sunlight."
"If you lose, you can keep living the way you did before. Nothing will change." "I'll give you one night to think."
"If you want to remain a bug someone could crush at any moment, you can quietly leave this Mansion tomorrow morning."
"I won't stop you, and neither will they."
"But if you want to seize this chance to turn things around, wait for me in the first-floor hall at sunrise tomorrow."
With that said, a click sounded.
The lock turned.
Haimo pulled open the door and stepped outside.
He did not close the door all the way, leaving