Brian Carter tapped the ground with the tip of his foot before the lizardman's claws arrived, the muscles on both sides of his back stretching and vibrating. Although he had no wings, the exquisitely coordinated muscle movements allowed him to change direction at high speed, and Brian Carter soared up like a bird.

His right hand wielded the Sifeng Sword, extending and sweeping with the lightness and agility of a bird's wing, the sword's gleam slicing across the lizardman's neck like a feathered blade.

With high speed and full explosive power, the lizardman's thick and tough scales were torn apart as easily as thin paper. The lizardman's head was sent flying by this single strike.

"Whoosh..." The sharp whistle of the sword cutting through the air rang out at the same time.

The headless lizardman, having lost its support, staggered and lunged forward, tumbling more than ten meters before coming to a stop.

Brian Carter maintained the posture of extending both arms with the sword, landing steadily in front of everyone. Like a crane descending, his stance was graceful and elegant.

Everyone was dumbfounded, completely shocked by Brian Carter.

Previously, although Brian Carter had killed a lizardman, he was too far away for them to feel it directly. Just now, the lizardman was only a few steps away from pouncing on them, and its ferocious appearance had scared everyone out of their wits.

In their hearts, they all thought they were doomed this time. Especially Mark Harris and the others at the front, who were so frightened they nearly wet themselves. Their limbs went weak, and they didn't even have the strength to run.

But in the blink of an eye, Brian Carter, who had been dozens of meters away, descended like a god and killed the lizardman as easily as slaughtering a chicken.

Witnessing this strike up close, it was truly soul-shaking. For the first time, they truly realized what terrifying power was hidden within Brian Carter's thin body.

After a moment of shock, everyone cheered at once. Brian Carter had arrived just in time—if he had been even a second later, they would have been in danger. Having narrowly escaped disaster, everyone let go of their fears and shouted with genuine excitement, releasing the terror they had just felt.

Brian Carter's single sword strike that killed the lizardman also greatly shocked the other lizardman. Although their intelligence wasn't high, they could sense that things were going badly. That lizardman hesitated for a moment, then tried to turn and flee, but Jason Clark seized the opportunity. He controlled his spiritual power and activated the heavy strike rune on his gauntlet.

The light armor was essentially built with a spiritual core, source energy as the framework, and lightstone materials as the flesh, forging a kind of armor that defied normal physical laws.

When forming the spiritual core, the light armor rune was fundamental. The standard technology for the War Wolf gauntlet used in the military had only one light armor rune: heavy strike.

When the spiritual power activated the rune, it could unleash a heavy blow with three times the usual force. The increase in power also boosted speed to some extent. Heavy strike was only a level-one rune, but it was very practical.

A flash of white light appeared on the gauntlet, and suddenly he lunged forward and punched. Jason Clark's punch was like drawing a bow and shooting an arrow, fierce and swift, with a flurry of blows like a rain of arrows.

The War Wolf gauntlet itself had the special ability of heavy strike, which was triggered by Jason Clark's spiritual power. Its raw strength even surpassed that of the lizardman.

The more than one-foot-long fanged punch spike not only pierced dozens of deep bloody holes under the lizardman's ribs, but also shattered an unknown number of its ribs.

After the flurry of punches, Jason Clark's breath caught, and he quickly ducked and rolled along the ground. Jason Clark's alertness allowed him to dodge the thick tail that swept across. The lizardman let out a strange howl, ignored Jason Clark, and fled madly in another direction.

The lizardman escaped extremely quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it crashed through a glass door and rushed inside, the sound of shattering objects quickly fading into the distance.

Jason Clark hesitated for a moment, but the lizardman had already disappeared without a trace. After thinking it over, he decided not to pursue, and hurried over to join Brian Carter and the others.

But when Jason Clark arrived, Brian Carter was still holding the landing sword pose, unmoving.

Jason Clark asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

He saw Brian Carter grimace and whisper, "Muscle cramp, I can't move..."

Jason Clark couldn't help but want to laugh—so that was it. Only now did Jason Clark realize that Brian Carter was a normal person, just a teenager.

"Don't worry about me, hurry and lead them into the shelter..." Brian Carter saw Jason Clark coming over to help and quickly stopped him.

Jason Clark thought for a moment and nodded, "Alright." Then he turned to Mark Harris and the others, who were still standing there in a daze, and said, "Go call everyone over. Let's get into the shelter quickly."

The shelter was on the third basement level of the Anfu Building. Jason Clark went ahead to scout and found a few scattered green dwarves, which he quickly took care of.

When they reached the third level, the shelter door opened automatically. It turned out there were already quite a few people hiding inside. They could see the situation outside through surveillance and, seeing everyone arrive, rushed out to help.

More than five hundred people entered the shelter smoothly.

The shelter was built to accommodate ten thousand people. It had clean food, water, and medicine, as well as many daily necessities, an independent generator, and extremely high-level triple-layer protection.

Inside, it was very safe. No matter how powerful the underground monsters were, it was impossible for them to break in quickly.

Jason Clark settled his wife and daughter, then hurried out of the shelter. Brian Carter was still outside. Although he was so formidable, after killing so many strong enemies in a row, he was also exhausted.