What about the guy in the dead center

"Nix was dead quiet as she led the way right onto what I couldn't believe it, a little slice of Empire City. Though a pained voice Nix described what had happened here. She told me about Bertrand with Ray Sphere and a ring of outcasts, they were prostitutes and swamp dwellers, anybody who's death he thought would go unnoticed. Nix watched as her family was swallowed up in the blast. Afterwards only the two of them remained. Clearly nix had been a conduit, her body capable of absorbing the Ray Sphere energy, unleashing her powers. Same things gotta be true for that supposed human purist Bertrand. Heading back to town i couldn't stop thinking about it, if nix at the edge of the blast was made into such a powerhouse what about Bertrand? The guy at the dead center" - Cole MacGrath