After Psykos came away empty-handed from the New World Group headquarters, the Monster Association went quiet. Its covert activities, however, never stopped.
Ohm's Nanobots continued to monitor the Monster Association's every move.
Great Eye and Psykos secretly sought out fallen people consumed by obsession, then used Monster Cells to turn them into monsters.
Most became only Tiger-class or Demon-class monsters, but by casting such a wide net, they still added a few Dragon-class monsters to their ranks.
What Great Eye and Psykos didn't know was that the Human Reform League behind the New World Group was growing stronger by the day in the One-Punch Universe.
When it came to building strength from the ground up, the Human Reform League feared no one.
Even with Monster Cells that could rapidly produce monsters, the Monster Association couldn't keep up.
Their rates of growth weren't even in the same league.
Just over seven months after Kurapika's team entered the One-Punch Universe, it had recruited 84,000 full members and 420,000 provisional members.
The New World Special Forces, formed and led by Huai Kong, could now train Dragon-class fighters in small numbers. It had thirty-seven of them.
They were all at the lower end of Dragon-class, but the Human Reform League had one crucial advantage: it could turn its methods into technology and scale them up.
Unlike Monster Cells, which relied on luck, the Human Reform League's approach to training its members was more like Geno's House of Evolution. Once it understood the process, it could mass-produce not just Dragon-class fighters, but God-level fighters too.
Science was the Human Reform League's foundation.
Before they knew it, another half month had passed.
Then came that day.
Ohm's Nanobots, which were monitoring Saitama, Genos, and King, sent back the latest news.
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