Hearing Ezra say this, even Ray couldn't help but feel a subtle shift in his expression.

Killing ability users and seizing their abilities had always seemed like a matter of course to him. He had never once considered the possibility that one day, it might suddenly stop working.

Could that really happen?

Who knew.

This extreme climate had been caused by mysterious cosmic radiation. If you tried to explain it scientifically, it bordered on the metaphysical; if you treated it as mysticism, muc