It took a full minute for everyone to break off in the fighting and back off to a point where they didn’t feel immediately threatened.
So is this just halftime, or did the still-fighting population of the arena reach five, or…
So many injured. How many of his own people had Skidmark just lost in this stunt?
Probably a lot, both injured and dead. We’ve seen some of the deaths happen, after the trigger event, and the narration, rules and people involved make it seem like there’s been more.
But hey. A single parahuman can be worth a lot of mundanes in some people’s eyes.
(I’m still 98% certain there are parahuman supremacist terror organizations out there whose primary goal is to cause as many trigger events as possible for the public. Doesn’t matter whether they show up in the story or not, I’m just pretty sure they’d exist in the setting.)
Did he care? He stood to gain five new parahumans for his group. Six if you counted the guy who’d had his trigger event.
To be fair, he could’ve gained the other five without this mess, but as I described last chapter, this whole thing is a pretty solid way to find the most useful people to give the super juice to. (With the exception that it doesn’t account for loyalty.)
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