Like I said, Lida was the worst victim.the MILF might as well kill their children and make some new children with Ceres if they hate their children so much. The reason they accept 3 girls back is probably to bully them or flex their power/superiority (So what about the 2 girls aside Lida fate?) i feel so sorry about the Zecth party. they're young and make mistakes and they already got punished by it. Zecht especially learned from his mistakes, trying to make amends for all his mistakes and be a better person by helping poor people in the slum and went solo adventures and finally achieving his status as a True Hero and even bringing peace between the Demon and Human (something mc incapable to do). Meanwhile, mc enjoying some MILF's pussy grip and becoming the dragon god for no reason .
The others are not physically abused, but the author just put them in the story to show them as "inferior" versions of the mothers.
For example, Maria (the current saint), Shizuko, and the former saint, once went to the church to heal people, and Shizuko and the former saint finished their quota faster than Maria. Then, they left her and go have a tea and brag about how they are more talented than the girl but will never teach her anything.
I was really disappointed by the former saint and sword saint because I had anticipated that they might have felt some empathy towards the kids. The former Hero's party had been defeated by the Demon Lord's army, the former Hero and Sage had been killed and former saint and sowrd saint captured. So they had an experience similar to what the kids had been through. But as the MILFs had been their mentors and they had been the one who rescued them, they put MILFs on a pedestal and also treat the girls like trash.
Ceres will meet the Black Dragon we see at the end of this chapter. This Black dragon is a dragon god and he wants to punish Ceres for killing so many of his kind. He is way stronger than Ceres and offers him a challenge to let him live. If he can flee into the forest , then the black dragon will let him live. Ceres throws some pepper at his face to distract him and runs towards the forest. The black dragon is pissed, his vision is blurry, and he kills Ceres just as he had reached the border of the forest. The black dragon is embarrassed as Ceres should have survived. So to honor him after his death, he put a drop of blood in his mouth and that resurrects him and turns him into a dragon god. To be clear, the black dragon didn't think it would resurrect him. It was only symbolic and absolutely not on purpose.
At the same time, the fact that Ceres has overhunted dragons in the area has caused a massive dragon migration (aka a stampede) that goes towards where the Hero's party is. They have to organize the defenses of the city to stop the stampede, but they have no idea how to strategize the defenses of a town, they only worked as a team, never on a massive scale battle. Unsurprisingly, the stampede is not stopped and the city is destroyed, and everybody blames the Hero.
But nobody will ever hold Ceres accountable for the thousand of deaths due to his stampede. However Ceres stops hunting dragons, not because he reflects that he was careless and that that killed thousands of people, but because as a dragon god, he considers dragons as his children (LOL) and doesn't want to harm them.
So, because of Ceres's carelessness, thousands of people died, Zecht was the only one blamed fo it and Ceres ends up turned intp a dragon god.
At the same time, the fact that Ceres has overhunted dragons in the area has caused a massive dragon migration (aka a stampede) that goes towards where the Hero's party is. They have to organize the defenses of the city to stop the stampede, but they have no idea how to strategize the defenses of a town, they only worked as a team, never on a massive scale battle. Unsurprisingly, the stampede is not stopped and the city is destroyed, and everybody blames the Hero.
But nobody will ever hold Ceres accountable for the thousand of deaths due to his stampede. However Ceres stops hunting dragons, not because he reflects that he was careless and that that killed thousands of people, but because as a dragon god, he considers dragons as his children (LOL) and doesn't want to harm them.
So, because of Ceres's carelessness, thousands of people died, Zecht was the only one blamed fo it and Ceres ends up turned intp a dragon god.