"You'd be surprised how rare that is." He leaned back in his chair, and the wood groaned in a way that suggested the furniture was as old as the man sitting in it. "I've placed seventeen souls in systems across nine realities over the past four thousand years. Twelve of them optimized perfectly. Built their harems, leveled their stats, cleared their gates, accumulated power with the ruthless efficiency of someone playing a video game they intended to complete one hundred percent. They treated every person around them as a resource node and every relationship as a quest objective."
"And?"
