Chapter 208 - 207. Hive, King of the Inhumans
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"Sir, Nightshade reports a sharp spike in high-energy target activity someone’s actively rounding up superhumans."
Nolan had just finished dismantling the last of Hydra’s inner circle when Al’s voice chimed in.
Oscorp’s AI surveillance division, Nightshade, had flagged dozens of energy spikes across the East Coast. Mutations, energy fluctuations, Terrigen resonance patterns.
"They’re hunting Inhumans," Nolan muttered.
Ever since the Terrigen crystal fallout had contaminated Earth’s waters, mutations had surged within fish-based food chains. People who ingested them and those with latent Inhuman genes began to change.
It wasn’t just random.
These were clean mutations. Purified. As if nature itself had refined the Terrigen Mist.
To Nolan, that meant genetic opportunity.
He didn’t want every power. He was past that.
Now he was after precision: abilities with synergy. Potential that served a greater structure.