Valur shouldn’t have expected his transformation would be over after only a few rics (hours). He probably shouldn’t have even expected it to only take only one procedure. What he had thought he could have taken for granted was that it wouldn’t have taken two rictos (4 days). When the pain had become too much and he had needed to sleep, he had forced his unwilling surgeons to take large doses of the general anesthetics he refused to take so that he could recover and sleep without fear of treachery.
His world had become nothing more than pain and sleep, but he persevered, and now was more powerful than even he could have previously dreamed. No longer containing any biological components but those most vital which he refused to allow his surgeon’s to touch on pain of death, it was as strong
