Xia Nan's first attempt to find ideas for self-developed combat skills through actual combat ultimately ended in failure.
The facts proved that "Shield Counter"-type combat skills could not be perfectly integrated into the combined combat skill of [Whirlwind Slash] and [Tooth Hunt].
By comparison, simple "Shield Bash" or "Shield Charge" types might be more worth attempting.
But no matter what, Xia Nan had not come away from this battle entirely empty-handed.
On the one hand, looking on the bright side, he had at least eliminated one wrong option. Through practical testing, he had confirmed that "Shield Counter"-type combat skills were not suitable for him at present.
On the other hand, Xia Nan had also truly determined the direction for developing combat skills in the future.
Sitting around and thinking was useless. He needed to make the fullest possible use of his Perception and keep sensing and experimenting in real combat.
To put it bluntly, even if he only used the most basic process of elimination, as long as he could eliminate one wrong option in every battle like he had just done—
After a few months, he would eventually be able to find a combat skill direction suited to his current fighting style.
As he pondered this, Xia Nan looked again toward where the survivor had been leaning earlier, only to discover that the man had disappeared from his original spot.
His gaze swept over the area.
The short, sturdy bald Ranger had actually dragged his heavily wounded, dying body over to the corpse of his already dead Swordsman teammate nearby.
His fingers shook violently from exhaustion. Completely ignoring the horrific state of his teammate, whose lower half had nearly been crushed, he painstakingly dug a bottle of Healing Potion out of the man's waist pouch. Only a third of