"We can't leave her like this!"
I then called a human technician: "Would you know how to 3D print a leg and a shell in the form of an exoskeleton?"
he replied that the volume was large and that the material to be printed was recycled due to lack of material.
But he suggested to make molds and to recover the mold to reprint other parts.
I could make it bigger, but it was beyond my strength at the moment. Maybe she had the solution.
We worked for 2 weeks to give him back a leg and his horns. Kate managed to give her eyes back and thicken the flesh and muscles at the ribs to stabilize her, but the size, the divine nature and the extent of the wounds made the restoration extremely exhausting and tedious; it would take months of care to make her more or less valid, without the wings, let alone the other heads.
Gradually, the moans were replaced by snores or she was recharging and her core was slowly coming back to life, the mana pushing and unblocking the damaged channels and activating the natural healing.
Then she woke up but didn't have the strength to open her eyelids. She didn't even know that she had regained her eyes and eyelids and thought she was still in eternal darkness.
Tiamat (Phantom pain): "Ahhhh... it hurts! Please... finish me off!"
The problem was that all his nerves came back to real life, reactivated and, through pain, told the brain what was working and what was still affected or amputated.. In addition to the painful tingling, there was pain in invisible limbs, such as his left leg, his missing wings and a stump of a tail.
His head hurt because the eyelids were back and the 2 eyes were repaired, one of them restored.
His cheeks were also back and his tongue was back, as well as his lower jaw, which was crushed.
The dental pains were atrocious and among the most painful.
Kate gave him soothing care and I put him on an infusion of anti-inflammatories and drugs to partially numb the sore areas, but the phantom pain was the most difficult to heal.
Electrodes were implanted in her stump and connected to hydraulic servos to simulate the movement of a dragon's hand/paw. This would allow her to rehabilitate and start walking again. She would no longer be grounded.
For her wings, I was looking at a hydraulic folding system with two plasma-powered runic engines to allow her to fly a little. but that would take months.
We were all busy resettling, fortifying the Village, the link with the dwarf fortress, and the two bases into a military-industrial complex with industry on one side and agronomic science on the other. Not to mention the technicians mobilized to transform the Doom and the Repressior.
We all felt a threat and an attack but we could not know that the Ummite empire was also on its knees and in full restructuring.
The Doom was almost finished but had to be adapted into a hellish hive of activity for the Vespalian conquest in space. A lot of equipment was tested to make space viable for the Vespalians, the possibility of hibernating for long years in the void, and to have weapons capable of piercing the armor of ships. The prototypes were left in the hands of the Vespalian fairies and they converted the plasma weapons into runes and then into spells that could be used by the soldiers, then the eggs, a parasite system and a latent magic capable of hibernating for centuries or more.
But always with the message of not hurting humans, at least those who worship the darkness or submit to the Hive.
It reminded me of the old Science Fiction movies "Alien" 3000 years ago.
