"Are you planning to heal the 'Warlord'? But the relationship between your Hestia Familia and the Freya Familia isn't exactly..."
Ganesha, his face full of surprise, had not finished speaking when Wood interrupted him as he began unfolding a Healing Magic array with both hands. "This has nothing to do with the grudges between our familias. I just don't want to see an excellent Adventurer come to such an end.
"Originally, I was the one who proposed this wager, although I was caught off guard by my feelings for Goddess Freya.
"But until today, Goddess Freya hasn't done anything to me or the people around me, has she?
"Since I've already won the wager, there's naturally no need to make another enemy of the Freya Familia."
Under Wood's Emperor-level Healing Magic, Ottar was merely badly carbonized and on the verge of death. Even if he had truly been left with only his final breath, Wood was confident he could bring him back to full health.
As he watched Ottar gradually recover beneath the green light, Ganesha looked at Wood, who seemed to have merely done something insignificant before slowly walking down from the arena. Looking at his back, Ganesha said softly, "Now I finally understand why Freya is so obsessed with you."
Within the green magic array, Ottar's body gradually recovered, and his consciousness slowly cleared as well.
The moment he regained consciousness, he heard Ganesha loudly announce beside him, "I hereby declare the final winner of Orario's first Martial Arts Tournament to be the Hestia Familia's 'Great Sage'—Wood Grand!"
To be honest, quite a few gods and Adventurers present were unwilling to see the final result Ganesha announced.
That wasn't because they had anything against the Great Sage himself. On the contrary, the Great Sage's final act of repaying