Khan took no time to reappear before the alien King and stopped a few meters from him, finally allowing a proper mutual inspection.
Except for the additional horn, the King looked no different from the scouts Khan had fought in the past. He already wore scarlet eyes despite those protuberances on his forehead being intact, but the real differences lay underneath the surface.
The conclusions George had reached through a mixture of tests and guesses were plain to see for Khan. The King naturally wielded the dense, glowing True Chaos that the scouts had harnessed only after breaking their horns.
That alien was unmistakably superior to the warriors Khan had fought, and the vastness of his existence put him several levels above them. Yet, Khan had also changed in ways he wasn't completely aware of.
The sudden escape from the Nak's home world and the subsequent rush to reach Earth had given Khan little to no time to absorb his gains from the white-azure sphere.
