Chapter 660: Uncanny transformation
Listening along, Riva looked impressed without quite understanding, but he still could not grasp what Youyi meant by the Earth expression "struck gold."
Youyi still offered no concrete explanation. Instead, the more she looked at the wounded soldier, the more she liked him.
No wonder I felt something special about him. My innate intuition was telling me he was a real talent!
The wounded soldier, Gurian, naturally heard Youyi's muttering, but he deliberately pretended he had not and continued using his eloquence to persuade the others.
"If we blindly skirt the city now, we could easily walk straight into a mass of Savage Beastmen. Then we're dead. Staying behind this area of fighting might actually be safer, but that's no long-term solution. Judging by how the Savage Beastmen are acting this time, I'm certain more of their armies will come. And then we'll still be dead!"
At this point, Gurian looked at Riva.
"Lord Black Ranger is a formidable fighter. He might be able to fight his way out alone, but he could take at most one person with him. The rest of us would never escape. We'd probably even hold him back."
As for whom Riva would take with him, everyone present believed without question that it would be Youyi. They all thought that was only right, too. They had at least that much generosity of spirit.
"No way, Gurian. You're saying the Savage Beastmen will send reinforcements? Have they gone mad?!"
One soldier finally could not help asking. The wounded man's prediction was simply too horrifying.
"That's what you think, and what the kingdom's generals think. Its nobles and royal family think so too, and even the neighboring countries will think the same. But they will definitely send reinforcements. If I were their commander,