Chapitre 1001: Declaration(1)

[Task received. Allocating resources. Creating plan of action. Assessing number of targets. Please stand by. Estimated time of completion: five minutes.]

If Daneel hadn't already been prepared for such an outrageous time period after seeing all of the magical things that the system had done so far, he would definitely have adopted an expression of extreme surprise again after seeing that it only needed five minutes to accomplish something that should normally be impossible.

Legends has always stated that the potential that one was born with was their lot in life: they had to live with it and do their best within their bounds, as there was no way for them to increase it no matter how much they wished for it to happen, or how much money they spent on it. True, there were fringe methods to go around this limitation, but even in the Order, there was some or the other sacrifice that had to be made if one wanted to improve in this fundamental area.