"Hmm? Interesting! So you taught yourself how to increase the destructive power of Life Energy through compression too?" Allen studied Isley a short distance away with amused interest.
In nature, a massive body often meant tremendous strength and destructive power.
That much was clear from elephants, Earth's "Kings of the Land."
With an average weight exceeding two tons and adult males reaching as much as eight tons, these behemoths had no equal among animals in Earth's natural terrestrial environment.
Even fierce predators such as lions, tigers, and brown bears, hailed as kings of beasts, would flee at the sight of an elephant rather than risk angering these giants.
As for river bullies like hippos and rhinos that dared charge almost anything, they did not even have the courage to fight an elephant.
This was also why many Claymores grew several or even dozens of times larger after awakening.
Without any significant change in muscle and bone density, increasing strength inevitably required increasing size.
That was why Awakened Beings were usually enormous.
This was especially true of the Abyssal Ones, virtually every one of whom possessed a massive body.
That guaranteed both their destructive power and their vitality.
Only a sufficiently large body could hold more flesh and blood, as well as more Yoma power.
Before Allen appeared, battles between the strongest Awakened Beings had essentially been wars of attrition.
When their strength was roughly equal, whoever was larger, hit harder, had stronger defenses, and healed faster would gradually gain an advantage over the course of a prolonged battle, until the opponent could no longer hold out.
In the original story, that was precisely the tactic Isley used when he headed south to kill Luciela.
Their battle had only ended when neither could maintain their awakened form.
As a result, they