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.
