Every character in this story is so dumb that it's pretty painful to see an attempt at development. The speech Ceres had towards the Pope isn't some sort of amazing insight...it's something that would be extremely obvious to everyone involved. At least, if their brains worked. Which is too much to ask from this story, I guess.
I don't think there's a single plot point in this story that holds up if you try to think, "wait, had no one ever considered this before?"
I just don't know what I'm doing here anymore. There's basically no chance a chapter is going to come out at some point that makes me go, "oh wow, what a good chapter". But my curiosity will keep me reading anyway. I'm just amazed at the people looking at this trainwreck and actually thinking that the author has written a compelling twist or made a good point about...anything. I mean it's literally a story where exceptionally beautiful and capable women are treated like trash and sold into slavery to do the lowest of jobs. Even if you could somehow argue that it makes cultural sense (which I can't see that it does, other than simply being told it's how the culture is), it certainly doesn't make economic or military sense. Any country actually acknowledging the capability of the barely middle-aged women would have an overwhelming advantage and conquer the world. This scenario makes no internal sense, and all the characters are idiots for not realizing that.