The Polymath is Right
By the time the Secret Department finally dumped a huge amount of confidential information and speculative guesses into his mind, Ves felt awfully tired.
His body remained in peak condition, but his mental condition had deteriorated quite a lot.
He learned too many secrets, a proportion of which exposed the true side of the people and organizations he thought he understood.
How they presented themselves in public was multiple times cleaner and more upright than how they acted in reality.
It was hard for Ves to come to terms with the reality that the heroes and exemplars he looked up to had their own dark pasts.
Still, he was realistic enough to know that not everyone at this level could keep their hands clean. There was too much competition and not enough resources to go around.
This trend only worsened after the start of the Age of Dawn. Getting cut off from the Milky Way Galaxy screwed over a lot of people.