Victor was slowly losing his mind, he had a hundred things he needed and not enough time to do any of them. Again the cause of all of his problems was the child who seemed to be trying his hardest to make his life as difficult as possible. But the little bugger was being extremely cute in his arms so it evened out.
Speaking of the baby, little Simon was already six months old despite it being a little over a week since his birth. Another nasty gift from the Great Collapse.
His eyes hardened thinking of the Final Twilight, the worst day in human history and the most terrible event during the Great Collapse. So many lives were lost and turned to dust as though they never existed. In a single day, the massive recorded human population of over 100 million strewn across the entire continent of Phunine was reduced to less than 1. In that population, the vast majority were females who by virtue of being born the opposite sex had the power to resist the terrible curse.
The male population... was neutered and for a time it was mostly women inhabiting the world. The few that survived, including him were irrevocably changed. The most egregious of these changes was the fact that the time between birth and complete sexual maturity of a male child was reduced to one year before they resumed their normal aging behavior. Sure, in terms of numbers, it was very beneficial, and in the half millennia since it was probably the biggest reason the human populace did not die out. That and the fact that unlike women who despite trying so vehemently cannot ever live past the age of a hundred whilst men could live indefinitely if they bonded to the right monster girl.
Every surviving male was turned into a breeding horse(most of whom were [heroes]) and it was only his accomplishments and personal power that saved him from the same fate, not that it would do any good, the more powerful the man, the harder it is for him to conceive and as one of the strongest on the continent, let's just say it took him five hundred years for him to get his first son despite him not caring one way or the other and being very sexually active with his bonded.