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Whatever TalOS thought of it Fulgrim seemed to think the opposite, “Are you questioning my intelligence?”
That was an easy accusation to set aside with a genuine answer, “No Fulgrim. I simply wished to have the knowledge that you possess. To have knowledge is to approach divinity, and if we both can gain that divinity together then that would be my objective.”
That got a small chuckle out of Fulgrim. It was a condescending one which seemed directly at insulting TalOS’s ethics upon the situation. As he felt the malice being eaten by his soul TalOS knew that it was in fact a sort of slander. The slander did taste good, which was beside the point.
“If wish to know so much it is simply that I did my research.” Fulgrim announced as he gave a devilish smile, “It did not take me long to read all the textbooks that you read. The concepts, the genome, while not the most entertaining facts helped me to sharpen my senses.”
Fulgrim reached down and picked up a fork which he pointed in a random direction, “Brother, you simply stay within the laboratory too much to feel it. When I laid eyes on those who would become my sons I knew for a fact that they were compatible. With my research we were able to root out any weaklings as the Priest thought my intuition was wrong like yourself. But I was right, and now my numbers swell.”
Time slowed within the mind of TalOS as he fed that information into his Machine Spirits. A Lyngo-decoder quickly tore the machine apart as TalOS studied what was within the words himself. It seemed that both TalOS and the Machine Spirits were coming to similar conclusions. TalOS quickly took a survey of the local datastacks to confirm it.
There were two factors that possibly gave Fulgrim the advantage. The first was the Warp, which was a fickle thing that gave beings like the Primarchs insights that no normal Mortal would have. Such a thing was obviously said. The second was that the batch was small relative to what someone like TalOS or Dorn went through.
TalOS knew that many of his brothers engineered their trials to be deadly, but TalOS saw a ninety six point three percent failure rate among Dorn’s alone. Fulgrim might have simply played his game conservatively just to give a taunt like this at this moment.
>Applaud him for the foresight
>Accuse him of playing conservative
>Stay out of this game.
