Fu You had not really wanted to leave. All Huali had to do was ask him to stay, and he would.
The sight of Huali's injuries gave Fu You a slight shock.
Although danger was inevitable for a Magical Girl, he had not expected anyone to get hurt so soon this time.
Looking out from afar, he could tell that the scale of this battle had not reached anything awe-inspiring. It seemed little different from an ordinary Fierce Beast appearance.
Although the distance was too great to judge the intensity of the battle purely by the damage to the surroundings, Fu You believed that powerful Fierce Beasts should have caused a more spectacular disaster.
Injuries sustained in Magical Girl form generally did not manifest on the physical body. So many physical injuries meant either their magic had been completely exhausted, or they had been attacked in human form.
Judging by their wounds, the latter was far more likely.
Fortunately, neither Huali nor Huang Xing was in mortal danger. Though covered in wounds, they were ultimately only superficial injuries.
After asking, he received an answer that largely matched his guess.
They had not lost in a head-on fight. They had been ambushed after undoing their transformations.
There had been more than one Fierce Beast, and even more than one wave of them.
Of their group, Huang Xing had the most experience. Yet even she had thought all the Fierce Beasts were dead at the time. Then a fourth Fierce Beast had burrowed out of the ground.
If Huang Xing had not reacted quickly, Huali, who had been completely unguarded, might well have died when the spikes suddenly shot out of the ground and struck him.
The fighting that followed had taken place underground.
Fortunately, thanks to the Magical Girl squad's tenacious