"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?"
Medusa and the others dispersed. Perhaps they had gone to prepare the ceremony for Black Bolt to take the throne. Only an alien monk remained where they had been standing, while Su Ming moved over to Black Bolt under Carol's baffled gaze and whispered in the dazed man's ear.
The big dog watched Deathstroke warily. Its beastly instincts could sense the terrifying pressure coming from him. That Symbiote was far too powerful.
There was a saying that it had originally been a child, mutated into a dog by the Terrigen Crystal.
But that was merely a rumor. Lockjaw's origin story had nothing to do with Deathstroke. It looked like a dog now and behaved like a dog, so it was a dog.
Black Bolt's ears twitched. He turned toward Deathstroke with a puzzled expression. Though he clenched his teeth tightly to keep from making any sound, tears and snot covered the lower half of his face.
Deathstroke inconspicuously took a step back.
Black Bolt bit his lower lip, and the way the corners of his mouth drooped was honestly a little disgusting.
"You know who I am, right?"
He asked because Agon had always raised Black Bolt as his successor. Though Black Bolt had been locked in a special room, Agon would always visit him, tell him many things, and share intelligence from across the universe.
That was why Maximus had grown dissatisfied, wanting to overthrow both his father and brother, and had made contact with the Kree.
Maximus was not only a madman, but also an Inhumans supremacist. He advocated for the Inhumans to wipe out humanity and seize Earth, and he had always worked tirelessly toward that goal.
In the comics, he had