Chapter 21: Take My Final Blow

But right now, he had no time to spare to check his injured left hand, because that wild boar beast was charging at him once again.

The charging wild boar beast was incredibly fierce, concentrating its psionic energy into its two sharp tusks.

It knew very well that the fair-skinned human before it was extremely fragile; as long as it could pierce him once with its psionic-infused tusks, the human would surely die.

"Hmph...?"

The charging wild boar beast found that the fair-skinned human was actually standing still, which left it somewhat puzzled. Had the opponent been scared senseless by its ferocious charge?

*Thud.*

Lin Li raised his injured left hand. A faint golden psionic light flashed in his palm, and then a small fireball, the size of a pigeon egg, appeared in his hand.

Infusing it with more psionic energy, the pigeon-egg-sized fireball in his palm expanded rapidly, growing to the size of an apple in the blink of an eye.

"Take this..."

Clenching the apple-sized fireball in his hand, Lin Li swung his left hand violently, throwing the small fireball toward the rapidly approaching wild boar beast.

"Hmph..."

Only now did the wild boar beast realize why the fair-skinned human had been standing still; it turned out the opponent had a trump card.

The small fireball, radiating scorching flames, came flying straight at it. Although the wild boar beast wanted to dodge, its momentum from the charge was already too great; it was simply too late to evade.

*Bang.*

The small fireball struck the wild boar beast squarely on its forehead. The explosion sent the beast reeling in confusion, and the splashing flames scorched the hair on its back.

*Step, step, step...*

The sound of rapid running approached continuously. Although the wild boar beast could clearly hear the hurried footsteps, its head was spinning and throbbing with intense pain after taking the fireball hit, making it unable to open its eyes.

Closing the distance, Lin Li arrived in front of the wild boar beast. He raised his right hand, and his spiritual weapon longsword, glowing with faint golden light, stabbed fiercely toward the beast's head.

*Puchi.*

The spiritual longsword pierced into one of the wild boar beast's eyes. Heavily wounded, the beast let out a loud howl stimulated by the piercing pain and frantically shook its head.

It was at this moment that the newcomer's lack of experience showed. The wild boar beast's sudden, violent head-shaking generated such immense force that Lin Li failed to maintain his grip on the spiritual longsword.

To lose one's weapon in the middle of a battle with a beast was the most inexcusable mistake one could make.

Lin Li knew this mistake was unacceptable. He quickly retreated to create some distance.

The spiritual longsword, lodged in the wild boar beast's eye socket, lost its connection with its master, and the faint golden light on the blade immediately extinguished.

"Hmph..." The heavily wounded wild boar beast wailed in agony.

It tossed its head up and down, turning it left and right, trying to shake off the spiritual longsword deeply embedded in its eye socket.

However, Lin Li's previous strike had been delivered with considerable force, and the spiritual longsword was wedged tightly within the socket.

Blood dripped steadily from the eye socket onto the ground, staining the lush green grass a shade of red.

"Take my final blow!"

The wild boar beast, suffering unbearably, suddenly heard the roar of the human who had wounded it. It hurriedly used its remaining eye to look toward the source of the voice.

*Swish...*

A fireball the size of a soccer ball flew into the wild boar beast's eye. There was no need to even calculate its power.

The previous apple-sized fireball had already left it dazed and disoriented; the power of this fireball, several times larger, was easy to imagine.

The wild boar beast tried to dodge the incoming massive fireball, but just as it stepped forward with its right front leg, its body suddenly went limp, as if it had lost all strength.

It turned out that the spiritual longsword lodged in its eye socket had damaged its nerves, causing its body to lose coordination.

With such a sudden turn of events at this critical moment of life and death, the outcome was predictable.

The fireball, radiating intense heat, struck the paralyzed head of the wild boar beast head-on.

*Boom!*

The explosion of the fireball produced a deafening roar, and the heatwave expanded several meters outward, scorching all the fresh grass on the ground.

*Thud.*

Having taken the full brunt of Lin Li's fireball attack, the wild boar beast collapsed sideways, hitting the ground heavily with a dull thud.

It was dead. This peak first-tier wild boar beast had been blown to death by Lin Li's fireball.

A large hole had been blasted in its head, the wound charred black and emitting an unpleasant burnt smell.

"Whew..."

Lin Li gasped for air. This intense battle with the wild boar beast had severely depleted both his psionic energy and his physical stamina.

Having kept his mind constantly tense throughout the fight, the psychological pressure had also been immense.

"If I didn't have this fireball attack as my trump card, I would have had no choice but to flee in disgrace to the mysterious small island when facing that fierce charge," Lin Li muttered to himself as he looked at the dead beast.

This harrowing battle had given Lin Li a much deeper understanding of the ferocity of these beasts.

"Chirp, chirp..."

A group of birds watching the spectacle from a distance looked on in surprise at the human who had emerged victorious.

That fierce wild boar beast was the most powerful beast in this area; they never expected it would be killed today by this seemingly thin human. It was truly unexpected.

...

*Puchi.*

After catching his breath, Lin Li approached the dead wild boar beast. He reached out, gripped the spiritual longsword lodged in its eye socket, and pulled it out with force.

Immediately after retrieving the sword, he went to the edge of the muddy pond and used the water to wash the bloodstains off the blade.

After cleaning it, he carefully inspected the spiritual longsword. Finding that it was undamaged, Lin Li let out a long sigh of relief.

After all, this spiritual longsword had cost him half of his savings. If he had broken it in this battle, he might have been too heartbroken to sleep tonight.

Once he confirmed the sword was intact, Lin Li turned back to look at the two beast carcasses, and a wide grin spread across his face.

"Haha, that rabbit beast probably weighs about twenty to twenty-five kilograms, and that wild boar beast... a conservative estimate would be at least 150 kilograms!

Before, I bought three pounds of wild boar meat at the market for three hundred yuan. After removing the inedible parts, these two carcasses should be worth at least twenty to thirty thousand yuan!"

He needed to hurry and get these two carcasses back to the city... With only thirty yuan left to his name, Lin Li desperately needed a sum of money to fill his empty wallet. The feeling of being broke was simply too miserable.

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(End of Chapter)