The Hydra? He had Iolaus burn the stumps. The Augean stables? He diverted two rivers. He didn't suffer the stench; he engineered a solution. The algorithm flagged him as "Efficiency-Oriented," which was bureaucratic hellspeak for soulless grind .
Marcus watched the data stream. The ISQ was skyrocketing. Suffering achieved. Compensation complete. compensar hercules
But here, in the endless, hopeless stench, there was no future to run toward. Only a past to sit in. The Hydra