With the upheaval in the Safe Zone, Starlight City had entered a strange, delicate phase.
He'd turned the Safe Zone into his personal dictatorship, pulling every Enhanced and Awakened under his command.
At the same time, he started winning people over, using the crystal cores in his hands to cultivate even more Enhanced.
Anyone paying attention could see it—his ambition was massive. He wasn't just trying to survive the apocalypse. He wanted to break free from the state government entirely and become a full-blown warlord.
When the world ended, most people fell into despair. But not him. He saw opportunity.
Because if the apocalypse hadn't hit when it did, that ongoing corruption investigation might've finally caught up to him.
In a twisted way, the end of the world had saved him.
From the very beginning, he'd been planning in secret—using Colonel Reyes' obsession with saving lives as cover while quietly eliminating dissent and building his own power base.
