Two Familia Recruiting Members

After the rules and format of the War Game spread from the gods' meeting, many people in Orario began mourning the Hestia Familia.

After all, even an omnipotent god would have shaken their head and sighed if they were in the Hestia Familia's shoes, given those rules.

Of course, there were also people who took delight in their misfortune. Wood had appeared in Orario like a rising star, and because he had risen so quickly, his dazzling presence had naturally made many people jealous.

So what if he was Orario's "strongest fighter"? So what if he had the gods' favor? Faced with such an unfavorable situation, he was still going to get crushed.

While the adventurers who gloated over Wood's predicament did so over him, the target of the gods' gloating had shifted from Wood to Hestia.

In the eyes of Orario's gods, Hestia had won Wood's affection through nothing more than sheer luck.

But now, her good luck had run out, and she was finally about to have a run of bad luck.

Over the past three days, "Wood," "Great Sage," and "Hestia Familia" had become hot topics all over Orario.

In Modern Society, they would absolutely have been trending.

Meanwhile, amid all the gossip outside, quite a few visitors had come to the Hestia Familia in the past few days.

The first visitors were Hephaestus, who shared a troublesome history with Hestia and was her only divine friend, and a red-haired adventurer from her Familia named Welf.

Then came the god Takemikazuchi and a black-haired samurai girl from his Familia named Yamato.

Takemikazuchi seemed to have some history with Hestia. They were both stall clerks at a branch of the fried-potato-ball shop.

Other gods they knew often teased them, calling their Familias paupers and saying they always looked