After a moment's thought, Armstrong made what he believed was the most appropriate decision.
He immediately seized Joanna's hand and rapidly arranged, "Take Chu Yuxun back to the ship right now. Have the wandering merchant Ilya take you away!"
"Away?" Joanna froze for a moment and instinctively asked, "What about you?"
"I'm staying here to support Wild Hunt!" Armstrong shifted his gaze from Joanna's face to Sun Ying, who had already approached the gauze veil in the distance. "Once the gauze veil surrounding Ragnar is breached, you and Chu Yuxun will be in serious danger."
"As non-combat personnel, your own safety should be your highest priority. Leave this place immediately!"
"But if we leave, what will you do?" Joanna continued asking.
Yet her hands never stopped moving. She had already gathered and packed the various items spread around her, preparing to retreat.
"We're combat personnel. Naturally, we have our own ways!" Armstrong stared into the distance, speaking even faster.
Within his sight, Sun Ying seemed to have employed some unknown method. She had actually torn a gap in one layer of the gauze veil as though she were cutting cloth.
The glowing words flickering across the surface of her weapon seemed identical to those that had appeared when the Yellow-clad Trader enhanced [Angel's Feather] earlier.
"Anyway, hurry up and go!"
"If you keep dawdling, you won't be able to leave!"
As his final words left his mouth, Armstrong could not help reaching out and giving Joanna a push.
Watching the woman he loved accelerate toward the still-dazed Chu Yuxun, the Spirit King's personal guard finally set aside his last lingering concern. He turned and chased after Sun Ying.
The battle within the gauze veil had long since reached a fever pitch.
However, Sun Ying's attempt to breach the veil from