"I'm offering you virtual immortality lived as a plutocrat, and you're turning that down?"
Recruits who agree to work for "the Company" gain not only virtual immortality but also such useful powers as superhuman strength and speed.
It's the trade-off he's made for virtual immortality and a limitless capacity for knowledge.
Remember, the largest change has been the granting of virtual immortality.
He possesses virtual immortality, bolstered by treatment with "delta-rays" (though Watchers can die by losing the will to live).
His chance for virtual immortality was slipping through his fingers.
But Pelias could still hope that it would bring him virtual immortality.
Which means that you have to be dying of a rare blood disease in order ,to gain virtual immortality from the same disease.
Bolstered by treatment with "delta-rays", Uatu possesses virtual immortality, although he can die by losing the will to live.
Vampires age significantly slower then humans, granting them virtual immortality.