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Training kicked off with basics of what TalOS learned to be Chronomancy. Such knoweldge was the specialty of Orikan and thus he wished to make sure TalOS was capable of using it. Such lessons were roughly a month’s worth of time, for much to Orikan’s bewilderment the Primarch took in the knowledge like an emulsifier with oil.
“Now that you know the engrams and how to complete a true Hex, you must manage the flows of time with them. I have seen your pitiful attempt to slow down time, and it is pitiful for it is dull without the centuries of trial and error I possess.” Orikan said as he began making a series of gestures that were too fast for a normal mortal to complete, “Watch and study, then repeat. We will continue this lesson when you match your temporal reality with mine.”
TalOS did not speak and simply did. The insults that Orikan delivered on a constant basis he simply began ignoring at this point. The Necron’s tongue was sharp and dangerous in such a way that it surely got him in trouble in the past. For TalOS, the pragmatism of learning was beyond a stubborn teacher.
The one issue TalOS had with Orikan was that he was a true machine. Orikan did not need to eat or sleep as hours of hand motions went by. As a Necron Orikan did not need to eat, sleep, or defecate which were functions that TalOS as a mortal should need. It was roughly a week into training that TalOS had to make modifications to his body to fix these facts.
Now most of his motions were not managed by his muscles and blood but his machines. A third mechanical heart pumped his blood through his body. Oxygen was only used for cranial functions as TalOS needed his brain to work, and any other cells were to not function at this point.
In the simplest of terms the mortal half of TalOS was clinically dead. Their functions taken over by the mechanical half of the body of TalOS. To power this TalOS held within his body a power core, and any other forms of energy were consumed from the stars that surrounded them.
Was this some cruel jest by Orikan to make TalOS quit, maybe. But TalOS wondered if at some point Orikan had simply decided that TalOS would not be his student if he could not adapt to the same activities Orikan himself did.
And TalOS, through his genius, had a body built for this. The only thing to make his longevity last however was Calibre taking over most bodily functions on his behalf. A damning prospect to use an AI for such a task. But when one worked with an AI for what was a decade the AI was closer to an unusual friend.
TalOS had to cease these thoughts now and concentrate. He could feel the tug of time and if he failed to latch it he would be faced with failure. Failure at this point would lose TalOS three month’s worth of labor and he was not going to accept that.
