Question

Achilles would have surely been killed by Axius if not for two "things" - what is one of them?

Answer 1

Axius tried to kill Achilles, and one of the reasons why he did not achieve his goals was because of Hephaestus. Hephaestus helped Achilles when Axius tried to kill him, basically what he did was drying up Axius rivers with a great fire.