The Mech Touch

6935  Phasewater Organ Cartel

So far, so good.

The implantation surgery proceeded within expectations.

Even if the surgeons encountered a few oddities inside Ves' enormous true body, the deviations did not affect their overall plan.

The only major concern they had to worry about was whether their actions caused so much pain and disruption that Ves lost control over his own body.

After all, the process of cutting open his body, displacing existing organs while trying to put in foreign organs was an inherently traumatic experience for almost every organic life form!

While it was true that phase lords gained inherently stronger compatibility to all of these potentially damaging steps, none of them could become completely immune to these events.

The corpus still needed to retain the sensation of pain and other universal physiological processes in order to sustain and regulate itself.

An organic body would completely lose the spark that made it different from a lifeless mechanical construct if a life form lost all of those physiological processes.

Even phase whales, who the phase lords tried to imitate, could still feel pain and suffer from rejection reactions after implanting foreign organs into their bodies.

While it was known that phase leaders possessed a certain degree of tolerance towards all of the problems that came with directly implanting raw alien organs into their bodies, many problems would definitely ensue as a result.

Only the passage of time or targeted remedies could suppress the sequelae borne from all of these crude and dangerous operations.

This was the situation that many phase lords faced. So long as the rejection reaction from their true bodies was not too violent, they would rather grit their alien teeth and endure the pain for a number of years or decades.

If they did not outright die somehow, their true bodies would eventually assimilate the foreign organs, transforming them while adapting in turn.

This was one of the special qualities of phase lords. Their genetic code was no longer static and absolute. As their bodies transformed due to phasewater into a more multidimensional life form, they gradually transcended the basic concept of race.