It was only after a minute and a half when Miles reappeared in the streets below, dressed in a new set of clothes.
"No one would've recognized me just now, I think..."
He rubbed his eyes, which were still feeling slightly uncomfortable due to the intense light. Mumbling to himself, he looked out.
By then, Benjamin had already flown from high up in the skies to the north of the town. The barrier was as good as new as well. Large amounts of mud water accumulated outside the Runic Defense Technique, encircling the entire small town, but the turbulent strength they had at the beginning was no longer there. Also, the mudslide was not pouring down from the northern mountain slope anymore. They seemed to have already withstood and gotten through this wave of attack.
The original Chinese idiom used is 缩头乌龟, which literally means a turtle with a retracted head. It is used to describe a coward.