The two exchanged uneasy glances, their expressions somewhat ugly.
Thinking they were pursuing a defeated enemy, they didn't expect the foe to transform so spectacularly; just one look at its form was enough to tell it wouldn't be easy to deal with. After all this effort, the two of them might have ended up just delivering themselves.
The assertion that the "water person was wounded and couldn't get far" wasn't exactly objective.
In essence, the water person did not actually exist; it was a magic summoned from seawater by an energy crystal core. The water person could be destroyed, but it couldn't be injured.
The crystal itself wasn't cracked or damaged, but Guigui's previous punch had been too fierce... Since the crystal was an aggregation of energy, to resist that punch, it had almost completely depleted its energy. Its charging efficiency was clearly insufficient; it couldn't recover and fight simultaneously, so it had to flee.
