By some of the things that happened with Zoe... his powers seem to be in a class of their own even for gorgons, and I think it has something to do with his father being human.
Difficult to know how much this is true, for starters we don't know if his "gorgon" blood comes from The Gorgons, and even which version of them, even Medusa has many different versions, knowing this series... all of them might be true in different levels.
But by how he was treated by some of the things they dealt with... he has some heritage with the divine side of those legends, and his father being human might have stimulated his mystical genes by being an unstable element.
Things are moving, this new arc will be interesting... but absolutely heartbreaking too i bet.
At this point, it is really just me being petty, but I really don't like this reader, and I feel a lot of people dropped this series since the change, it doesn't help that after some time the chapters are taken from MD and the comment sections from those chapters disappear too, so the engagement becomes kinda null.