"How is our best employee doing?" a covered black entity with a deep voice asked as he entered the room filled with similar-looking entities but with white covers.
The one in charge of monitoring Zeno, an Ascendant named Slash, raised his hand. "He's struggling, Apex. He is slowly losing time, and his gap is getting larger."
Apex looked at the holographic screen and smirked. "Well, 25 is too good at fulfilling his missions. This is a good challenge for him."
Just then, new notifications to 25's stats appeared, causing the Apex to smile.
"Ooh, would you look at that! His stats increased even more. This is amusing."
Slash, however, didn't find it amusing. He felt like 25 was straying too far from his mission.
He was the counterpart of 25, so if he managed to finish this mission, he, too, would get 10 years of rest!
"Do you think we should tone it down a bit with the penalty quests?" Slash asked.
