303 Very Stressful

Max found himself seated between Nico and her mother for dinner, at the head table, while Dave laughed at him from the next table over, seated between Molly and Max's little sisters. On the other side of Nico sat Generals Yaakov and Ming, with a woman in her late thirties sitting between them flirting with General Yaakov.

The General looked quite smitten with his much younger suitor, but given that Max could tell that they both had rather powerful systems, they didn't look too different in age and could have many decades or even a century together before old age overcame them.

Neither were Alpha Ranked for System Compatibility, so multiple centuries might be asking too much, but they could certainly make it to at least a hundred and fifty before they started looking and feeling truly elderly.