At this moment, when the brain’s receptors are overloaded, they send out pain signals, and when the neural circuits are overwhelmed, the limbs receive chaotic signals.

The body begins to secrete large amounts of calcium and potassium, and a storm of electric charges is enough to temporarily paralyze the entire system!

The man cried out in pain and collapsed to the ground, even convulsing. By the time he realized what had happened, he no longer had any ability to resist Jason Carter.

Jason Carter stood quietly beside him, seemingly deep in thought. After catching his breath, the man pleaded, “I won’t hold a grudge. Let me go, and I’ll forget what happened today.”

At this point, any smart person would know they were at someone else’s mercy. The last thing he should do is keep acting tough; it’s better to wait for another chance.

Jason Carter looked at Emily: “Who is he?”

“He’s a foreman at the coal mine. The person who was stabbed to death in town last night was killed by him and his gang. He heard that guy had a habit of saving money, and since he owed the casino, he got greedy,” Emily repeated what the man had bragged about the previous day.

Jason Carter walked over to the road, picked up the man’s iron weapon, then returned to stand over him, looking down from above. He calculated that the man would regain movement in four or five seconds at most.

Suddenly, the long-silent palace spoke again: “Mission: Spare your enemy’s life.”

But before the palace finished speaking, Jason Carter decisively crouched down and drove the iron weapon into the man’s abdomen. The sharp sound of the weapon tearing through flesh made all the onlookers and eavesdroppers shudder, and then the man’s blood began to gush out.

“You probably have about three minutes left. If you get to the clinic in town in time for stitches, you might still have a chance to survive,” Jason Carter said calmly.

The man didn’t care about the pain anymore. Without saying a word, he immediately got up and ran toward the clinic.

“Mission complete. Reward: Basic-level learning chart.”

“Mission complete. Reward: Basic-level learning chart.”

“Due to your lack of a weapon, a side quest has been activated…”

Jason Carter was stunned before he even finished listening. The first mission should have been to save Emily, which he understood. What surprised him was that the second one also counted as completed.

How exactly does this palace determine things?!

Brian Cooper, curious, asked from the side, “Bro, you just let him go like that? What if he gets stitched up at the clinic, recovers, and comes back for revenge? He’s not a good person.”

Jason Carter looked at the night sky. “That crappy clinic in our town? They can’t even do stitches…”

“Bro, seeing how ruthless you are, I feel relieved…”

That’s exactly why Jason Carter was amazed that this counted as completing the mission. The man was basically doomed. Even if he survived, that iron weapon was so rusty it was practically a tetanus delivery device—he’d be crippled even if he lived.

The man did have a weapon, but it was the cheapest kind. If it weren’t, Jason Carter probably couldn’t have broken that iron knife.

Someone like Jason Carter only follows his own firm principles. Even with supernatural powers, he can’t change his way of dealing with people.

If there’s to be a change, it has to come from himself—no one else can do it.

So, the criteria for mission completion aren’t strict. What the palace cares about… is just the attitude Jason Carter shows?

At this moment, people in the roadside shacks were whispering. In fact, over the years, they’d long known what a ruthless person Jason Carter was, but today they were shocked once again.

Because the size difference between the two was so great, yet the strength Jason Carter displayed was in no way inferior to the man’s—he even surpassed him.

That was truly unbelievable.

Someone in a shack muttered quietly, “I told you not to mess with him.”

Jason Carter went to pick up his bone knife. This bone knife had accompanied him for over a year and had finally reached the end of its life.

He turned to look at Emily. In the night, Emily seemed a bit fragile. In fact, Emily was eight years older than Jason Carter, but at this moment, she looked eight years younger.

Jason Carter said bluntly, “Can you quit smoking?”

Emily nodded vigorously.

“That stuff isn’t that addictive. They probably just added a bit of poppy husk. Old Martinez said the amount is really low. If you want to quit, you can,” Jason Carter said as he walked to the entrance of Emily’s shack, crouched down, and stabbed his half-broken white bone knife deep into the dirt, leaving only a small part exposed.

Some people by the roadside who had been harboring bad thoughts about Emily immediately gave up.

In the town, that half bone knife was like a symbol of willpower. No one wanted to risk offending the ruthless Jason Carter on a whim.

Jason Carter turned to Emily and said, “But I have to say this up front: even though I’m very handsome, even though… but there’s no way anything could happen between us…”

Emily’s expression instantly turned to shock. “I only see you as a little brother.”

Now it was Jason Carter’s turn to be stunned. “Hahaha, this is so awkward.”