Three days had passed since the Nemesis terror incident, and Night Haven was still ablaze with discussion about it.

It was no surprise.

The Nemesis-hosted banquet had taken place in a towering hotel in the middle of the city. Suddenly, the building experienced a blackout, followed by plumes of gas billowing from within.

That alone would have been enough to send police and journalists swarming, but the fact that signs of combat were visible on the higher floors made the incident an irresistible spectacle for the news and social media alike.

The sudden revelation about Nemesis’s large-scale human experiments dropped …