The tram graveyard shrank the further he ran, alarms now a distant noise as he climbed onto a building's rooftop, before dropping down. Flares shone in the sky as they searched. Nikolai slipped through a drainage ditch and crawled up a wall, the city's silhouette finally within reach.
His breathing was erratic and ragged.
Not from exhaustion alone....
But the sudden influx of power from the enhanced humans he killed.
A raw, gnawing tide of it, crawling through every nerve.
Nikolai's muscles twitched without his command, his claws flexing in and out, bone creaking with each involuntary spasm. The force of fifty lives, fifty hearts all beating inside his ribcage like prisoners.
Too much…
To absorb this much power at once, he would surely become stronger... but at the same time, he would undoubtedly enter a blood frenzy, different from the night before. A more dangerous and extreme frenzy.
The werewolf inside him licked its chops, thrilled at the gains.
