It amplifies his absorption power and he absorbs every prodigy power in the world. At the end of the book, he gains Nova's bracelet. Later, at the fight at the cathedral, Max attempts to fight Ace Anarchy and is defended by Sketch's team.

When he wakes up from his coma, Max tells Adrian that Nightmare didn't try to kill him, but instead was trying to save him. Adrian says that even though he was already small, he looks even smaller in the hospital bed.

He is later seen in the hospital by Adrian, who has been sneaking in to visit him. Ruby comforts Adrian by saying that Max is a strong kid and that he'll be fine. Max is first mentioned when Sketch's team is surveying the damage done to Renegade Headquarters. Adrian takes Max to the hospital where they get him a non-prodigy healer to help him. Adrian sees Nightmare leaning over Max and assumes that she is trying to kill him. To save him, Nova forces Frostbite to give up her powers to Max so that he can stanch the bleeding. Max is trying to steal the helmet back from Nightmare/ Nova, and during the fight, he ends up being stabbed by Frostbite when she was trying to hit Nova. Max also discovered Adrian's being the Sentinel after he rescued Nova. Adrian made a dinosaur named Turbo for Max to prove he hadn't lost his ability. He also took a portion of Adrian's ability, but the ability is too weak for Max to actually use efficiently. After the incident, Max took some of Nova's power making him sleep less. Adrian, upon hearing Max, rushes to save Nova from him. Nova rushes into the quarantine unaware of Max's ability. While Max was practicing his telekinesis ability, which he took from Ace Anarchy, Nova was watching him - which startled him - and caused him to fall on top of a pointed building, injuring his hand. Adrian treats him like a brother and spends his time making glass structures of the city through the quarantine walls for Max. Max lives in quarantine by himself without any contact besides his father, Captain Chromium, and scientists who draw blood from him while wearing hazmat suits. When he met Adrian Everhart, he began creating a scale model of the city in his home, using Adrian’s unique sketching abilities to make the buildings. Max grew up in a homely quarantine, where he wasn’t able to harm any other prodigies. Being invincible, Max’s abilities didn’t work on him, so he took him back to Renegade Headquarters. However, in a stroke of luck, Captain Chromium happened to spot him and saved Max from imminent death. His parents threw him into a river at just two weeks old. Max was born with a very powerful ability which caused him to grow up in a quarantine.

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