Vast power surged as its muscles swelled, compressing the viscous air until it burst with a shrill howl.
An arm thicker than an adult's waist was like a blue-gray pile hammer, turning into a blurred afterimage as it crashed down.
"Bang!!!"
An explosive boom detonated through the hollow cavern!
The solid rocky ground was blasted into fragments almost in an instant, countless tiny shards bursting outward.
It was no exaggeration to say that ninety percent of Barracuda Bay's residents would be reduced to mincemeat and burst apart in a mist of blood if that punch landed squarely on them.
Even the Adventurers in the Association, unless they specialized in defense or had a sufficiently high Profession Level, could hardly be said to be able to withstand that punch.
Xia Nan couldn't either.
Defense had always been his weak point. In a sense, this was also why his armor write-off rate far exceeded that of Adventurers at the same level.
In high-intensity battles that matched his actual combat strength, if he wanted to make up for this shortcoming, he could only rely on more expensive and more durable armor to increase his margin for error.
Rich in combat experience, he naturally could not use his own weakness to clash head-on with the enemy's strength.
As the two highest of his current six attributes, they were displayed to the fullest at this moment.
12 points of Perception allowed Xia Nan to sense that suddenly condensed killing intent even before the Shark Beast in front of him swung its fist, and through the minute movements of the other party's waist, abdomen, arms, bones, and muscles, make a precise prediction;
11 points of Agility further enabled him, after sensing it, to drive his body with an extremely fast reaction speed and exert force to