"How's it, darling?" Sarah hooked her arms around his neck upon reaching home and greeted him with a kiss.
"No progress on the bottleneck. A theory on Architect seems probable." Varian wrapped his arm around her shoulder and walked in.
"Sia is the last to break through." Sarah giggled as she led him to a large training hall.
"She'll get mad if you keep this up."
"Sometimes, I like seeing her mad." Sarah said with a devilish smile.
Sia was still seated in a meditative posture, focused on hitting rank 2. Enigma was keeping a watch on her, just in case something went wrong.
There's no bottleneck problem since they benefitted from Synergy. The sheer power of a peak rank 2 enabled monstrous progress.
In those five years, they all reached peak rank 1. Going from rank 1 to rank 2 was a different thing.
Taking thousands of years was considered fast. People could spend millions of years without any progress.
