That was your plan all along?” I said. “Raising up an army of superhumans to take over the earth?”
Chaser nodded. “Of course. Well, it’s a bit more nuanced than that, but you get the gist of it.”
“How is that supposed to work?” I said. “Power is an unstable d**g. It kills people just as often as it gives them powers, and sometimes, it kills you by giving you powers.” I was thinking of Thomas when I said that.
Chaser tilted his head to the side again. “I already explained to you that it was more nuanced than that. Truthfully, the d**g is really supposed to cause instability in a country’s population. Rather than create a well-defined, formal army that fights under the banner of a country like Iconia, it will really be dozens, if not hundreds, of smaller groups of superhumans scattered al
