Schiller took a sip of wine and let out a slow sigh.
For a long time before this, he had been busy making all sorts of people miserable. From the moment he became interested in Death because he wanted Valhalla, all the way until OAA hung this universe outside the greater world, he had been occupied with long-term planning and had neglected a very thorny issue at hand: the growth of young heroes.
A little thought about Earth's current situation made it clear that what human civilization lacked most now was talent, not superheroes.
The category of talent did not only include scientists who possessed knowledge and technology. In fact, technical and inventive talent was not in particularly short supply. What was mainly lacking now were core leaders with strong organizational skills, a sense of justice, and abundant physical strength and energy to devote to proper work.
To some extent, how much water a bucket could hold depended not only on its shortest and longest staves, but also on the density and hardness of most of the other boards. If the vast majority of those boards leaked and lacked screws, then there was no point discussing how long the longest stave was or how short the shortest one was, because it was bound to leak.
The problem humanity faced was that, aside from Schiller, almost no one had imagined that the times would develop so quickly. Young heroes represented by Avengers interns, Matt's trainees, and independent youth hero teams like the New Warriors had, for a long time, still been trained as superheroes.
They carried justice in their hearts and brimmed with vitality. After long periods of guidance and training, they also possessed considerable combat ability and strategic minds. The only problem was that there was too much muscle in