The legs lay neatly arranged on one side, each one carefully separated and refined, their joints removed and their forms smoothed into straight, usable segments. On the other side lay the abdomen, no longer a single structure but divided into numerous fist sized pieces.
These fragments carried the same dense spatial energy, waiting to be shaped and repurposed. The components were now ready and the next phase could begin.
Assembly.
At first glance, it seemed like it would be simpler than what they had already accomplished. The hardest part, after all, had been separating and preparing the materials. Now they only needed to put them together.
That assumption did not last long.
Lin Mu stepped forward and picked up the first of the longer legs. He began by arranging them in descending order, selecting pieces that would fit within one another based on their thickness and length. One by one, he attempted to insert them, testing how they aligned.
