Goblin Dependency

Being able to see, within the black wolf’s phantom those two long legs moving rhythmically due to the sprint, the stepping frequency suddenly changes!

Light step with the left foot, heavy step with the right foot.

"Bang!"

Gravel erupts like an explosion.

Leaving one shallow and one deep footprint on the sandy soil surface.

The physique far surpassing ordinary adventurers, exceptional combat talent, and skilled use of battle skills allowed Xia Nan to complete a narrowly-angled turn in a sprint without any reduction in speed, defying common sense.

With his shoulder facing the ground and his chest turned sideways in mid-air, he brushed past the shark beast’s side.

While evading the anchor’s heavy strike, aided by the Gravity Control skill to adjust his body’s center, landing on both legs, his boots creating two depressions on the sandy soil surface, stabilizing.

Thus, Xia Nan, having completed the evasion, seamlessly moved to the unsuspecting side and rear of the enemy.

While the shark beast was in a rigid state after its anchor swing.

Without any hesitation.

Buzz—

The gray-black straight sword turned into a slightly distorted perfect arc in the air, directly slicing towards the side of the shark beast’s ribs.

Because the sacrificial ceremony was interrupted, the shark beast was significantly weakened at its initial appearance, with overall physical quality reduced, and its skin surface full of wounds.

Faced with Xia Nan’s sword, imbued with Heavy Tide and Vortex Slash, the seemingly thick and tough shark skin provided no defensive effect, easily broken open, revealing the underlying fat granules and bloody flesh, even leaving a nearly fracture-inducing deep sword mark on the surface of the pale bone deep inside.

The shark beast’s body size is nearly five meters. Though Xia Nan’s height has grown recently to 1.9 meters, the height difference requires him to take a substantial leap to briefly float if he wishes to behead.

Xia Nan certainly wouldn’t carry out such high-risk, low-margin-of-error operations.

In fact, after executing that slash, he promptly and decisively retracted his sword, and with the force of his legs, transformed into a black wolf phantom disappearing from the original spot.

Because just the next moment, the shark beast’s broad and sturdy long tail with spine blades swept across where he originally stood.

Brief confrontation in a single round.

Xia Nan, familiar with the opponent’s combat tactics, seemed to have the upper hand, not only dodging the shark beast’s anchor hit but also taking advantage of the opportunity to inflict considerable injury on the enemy.

Yet considering Xia Nan’s nearly depleted stamina reserves, the spread of injuries on him, and the fact that the shark beast itself is hardly affected in its thick health after this hit.

The victory scale has already gradually tilted towards the Sha Hua Fishman side.

His physical state no longer supports Xia Nan in achieving final victory through prolonged wandering, dodging, and counter-attack.

"A breakthrough must be found!"

Find a way to inflict massive damage on the shark beast in a short time, thereby affecting its combat ability!

But...

The pitch-black wolf eyes in high-speed movement reflected the strong and massive bloody figure before him.

Like a "Bear" among demons, the Blood Skin Shark Beast in front, though not in its prime state, significantly weakened, and despite fighting until now has not shown any combat ability beyond physical strength.

Yet precisely due to this, such enemies relying purely on physical prowess in battle, make Xia Nan unable to find any flaws for a moment.

The combat rhythm is extremely fast, leaving no time for Xia Nan to think of countermeasures.

Just landed, the heavy anchor again smashed down.

Feet moving, narrowly dodging the heavy anchor falling towards him.

Suddenly, the melodious sound of the lute echoes beside him.

"Drip — Buzz..."

As the ground beneath the feet suddenly became lighter, the originally depleted stamina also begins to gently recover like soaking in revitalizing rain.

Not far off, half-elven Alton, under Ellison’s protection, has already shifted onto a towering rock, once more strumming his small and exquisite lute.

And taking advantage of Xia Nan holding the enemy in place, several teammates from the Vengeance Blade Squad, previously repelled by the shark beast, also rushed back.

"Boom — Hiss!"

Orange-red sharp blade light leaves a gradually fading fiery streak in the air.

The flame-like red long curly hair violently shakes on the shoulders due to intense bodily movement, the captain Lorin, covered in sand and the bright blue fishman’s blood, wields the Scale Fire Saber, leaving a charred deep wound on the shark beast’s thigh;

With agile and nimble posture, a spotted cat race leaps lightly to the shark beast’s flank, the short blade in hand repeatedly piercing along the previous wounds, attempting to further amplify the enemy’s injuries;

Druid Hai Yin’s magic power reserves almost exhausted, yet in a state of dizziness and pale complexion, forcefully casting a spell to wrap water weeds and vines around the shark beast.

Of course, it’s impossible to bind it to death, but even that less than half-second of restraint is enough for the last member of the field, named Akken the barbarian, to fiercely swing his giant axe.

Learning from past lessons, Akken did not choose to over-extend the time preparing to strengthen force, thereby only he managed to seize this precious half-second, deeply embedding the axe blade into the shark beast’s flank.

Specializing in strength, the barbarian class’s Akken delivered such a mighty blow that even half of the axe was lodged into the opponent’s flesh.

——It’s now!

Already searching for a breakthrough to end the battle, how could Xia Nan possibly miss such a perfect opportunity.