The battle ended quickly.
A fighting style gradually forged through extensive real combat, combined with highly adaptable Combat Skills, gave Xia Nan extraordinary mobility that ordinary adventurers did not possess.
He roamed and supported.
The "Gnoll Archer" hidden in the shadows of the jungle was found by him right at the start and had its head chopped off.
He drifted through the battlefield, helping Abi break out of his desperate situation, then used his Combat Skill and dealt with the most troublesome "Elite Monster" among the enemies together with Adeline.
As for the only two gnolls left, without their "Flesh Eater" leader, though they did not completely lose their will to fight like Green-skinned Goblins, they were no longer worth worrying about.
Attack and defense changed hands.
Their individual strength far surpassed the enemy's, and they even had the advantage in numbers.
Berg provided ranged supporting fire, while Xia Nan and Adeline fought up close.
In just a few minutes, the entire battle reached its end.
Whoosh—an iron club came smashing down from above his head, moving so fast that in an ordinary person's eyes, only a blur would have been visible.
But in Xia Nan's vision, it appeared exceptionally slow, and he could clearly capture the path of the club as it fell.
His steps were light, and his body tilted to the side in an especially nimble posture.
The iron club that should have landed on his head instead scraped past the tip of his nose and smashed into the empty grass.
He looked unusually relaxed, firmly controlling the rhythm of the battle.
Xia Nan used the momentum to take a light step forward, closing in, and gently thrust the longsword in his hand upward.
"l."
The sword tip instantly pierced through the gnoll's soft lower jaw, broke