I blamed Ares for hiding his level when things went south, high level can fill gap in trust, or it should be...
Not anymore.
I couldn't even imagine any sane, none OP girl that would gladly form a party with a guy that strong as a single guy that have level equal to all of them combined and combat experience couple worlds apart.
And that stupid chest growing would realistically deny all women from using bows nor plate armors. Feminist go berserk for sure.
About hero lifting mace, totally understandable. Ares was too busy but ideally he should warn them from the start. Hero does not using weapon as catalyst to cast prism, right? But how can she pick the mace? I thought barrier would go down if she trespass it, and that mace should be inside as the vampire did try to pick it.
Hero is to be blamed for that last stupid pride. But from reader pov we knew that Ares rejoining is near impossible. Still, not gonna hurt asking for lessons.