Aside from Amina, the rest of the mutants were just hitting their stride, reaching the peak of the Mutant Brawl when a figure appeared among them - silent, sudden, and out of nowhere.
Nobody had seen him coming.
Their instincts kicked in immediately. All of them had sharp senses trained from weeks in the wild, and they locked onto the stranger without a moment's hesitation.
Strike first, ask questions later.
They didn't know who or what it was. A scout from the Association? One of Nyx's freaks? Some mutated monster? Whatever it was, its presence alone was disturbing.
But what alerted Kai the most was this:
His Blood Vision didn't work on it.
No flow. No pulses. Nothing. As if the figure either had no blood... or had shrouded itself in something that completely concealed it.
Kai hadn't thought that was even possible.
'Something to investigate later, after we kill it.'
Takeshi and Sven moved first, naturally. They were the fastest of the bunch.
