Accepting the Blessing of the Gods: Wood!

Watching Wood stride away, Loki's expression was about as ugly as it got.

Aside from marveling at how Hestia had gotten incredibly lucky and found such an outstanding child, Loki couldn't help feeling a headache coming on at the thought of having to praise her old rival in front of all the gods, just as they'd agreed.

With Wood gone, the Water Magic restraining the Amazonian sisters naturally disappeared as well.

Looking at the sisters, who were just as dejected, Loki asked unwillingly, "Did you really give that fight everything you had?"

The Amazonian sisters understood what Loki meant. Tione lowered her head and said, "Aside from the skill we use for a final counterattack when we're on the verge of death, we really did everything we could."

After hearing her sister, Tiona sighed too. "I could tell that little Wood hadn't shown us everything he had.

Even if I'd used 'Great Heat' and my sister had used 'Great Counterattack,' we probably still wouldn't have beaten him. We really did lose completely this time."

That was right. The Amazonian sisters still had one last trump card, but their remaining abilities weren't suited for a spar. They were skills to save their lives by fighting back when death was imminent.

Tione's "Great Counterattack" could greatly increase her strength when she was close to death.

Tiona's "Great Heat," meanwhile, could raise all her abilities when she was close to death.

Since both were passive skills that only activated when they were on the brink of death, Wood couldn't push them that far during a spar, so neither ability could be used.

Besides, the Amazonian sisters' wild instincts told them that even if they used their last-resort skills, their chances of winning would still be slim.

They could sense that Wood, too, had