He gave it everything, using every trump card he had.
One punch after another.
At the end of the battle, Xia Nan had nearly squeezed out his last shred of stamina and spirit.
When [Ember Echo] had just been activated, he could still formulate battle strategies on the fly according to the situation and adjust the direction of his attacks.
But once both main weapons had been thrown away, forcing him to use his pocket knife and even fight barehanded.
In the state he had been in then, he had been fighting entirely on instinct.
The only thought in his mind had been to smash the skull of the monster before him.
And as the facts proved, he had indeed done so.
Looking at the Bloodskin Shark Beast's head below—a lump whose face was now completely unrecognizable, its original round shape utterly destroyed and almost hammered into minced meat.
Xia Nan's stern face, spattered with blood and sand, still held an expression devoid of any emotional fluctuation.
But upon closer inspection, his dark eyes had already grown dazed and vacant from overexertion.
His ability to control his body had weakened because of his excessive mental exhaustion.
He had already realized that the battle was over and that the enemy was completely dead.
The bones showed starkly through his knuckles, yet his raised right arm remained bent and tensed, driven by muscle memory. It looked as though he was about to deliver another heavy punch to the thoroughly dead mass of flesh beneath him.
Just then, a gentle force suddenly came from his arm.
The Halfling Alton had somehow jumped onto the Shark Beast.
At that moment, he was standing on tiptoe, clinging tightly to Xia Nan's raised arm with both hands.
"It's over, Xia Nan."
"It's all over—"
The familiar