"Just don't let them get involved," David warned Otto. "Andy is an important prototype of ours, and a great way for us to draw in funding and interest from the guilds."

And if the guilds funded more of their work and research for the purposes of injured heroes, they could in turn do more for other people.

Still, he double tapped Andy's base to convey that the little one should cue up the right program. Then he kept his fingers near what looked like an emergency button.

"If it hurts tell me immediately. Not that it will."

He had programmed this subroutine and run it countless times today. So he let Andy start the initial testing to figure out how much strength he could use.