During their clash.
Komoz's form was anything but fixed.
To counter Orsaga's attacks.
Countless processes shifted ceaselessly inside Komoz's body at every moment.
Operating at the absolute limit of efficiency, Komoz constantly made adjustments in response to the situation outside.
Thus.
Komoz's appearance could be entirely different from one instant to the next.
One second, Komoz was a many-armed giant of flesh and blood; the next, a golden giant serpent of pure energy. A second later, Komoz might even lose all physical form, becoming a hazy, semitransparent cloud...
Yet the one constant was that Komoz's power never weakened.
Instead, it rose without pause.
Komoz was invariably countless times stronger in the next instant than in the last, even though their battle consumed enormous amounts of power!
Thus.
After every attack.
Komoz's speed and strength continued to rise without end, growing fiercer with every exchange.
Perfect adaptive evolution.
Perfect automatic advancement.
Without a single flaw.
This was the foundation that allowed Komoz to crush weaker beings with ease.
Yet even with both these advantages, Orsaga still held an absolute edge as Komoz's opponent.
Because Orsaga grew stronger far faster than Komoz!
Even with countless bloodline factors interweaving and undergoing endless changes within Komoz's body!
In fact.
Through his primary ability—eternal metamorphosis.
Komoz's progress could, in essence, also be counted as Orsaga's progress.
Unless his opponent was already stronger than Orsaga.
Otherwise.
No being could become stronger than Orsaga within the range of eternal metamorphosis.
Aside from granting Orsaga ceaseless, ever-accelerating growth and the continual refinement of his own being.
The ability's main function was to forcibly add other life-forms' growth and progress to his own in equal measure, much like copying and pasting.
It could even forcibly interfere with an opponent's rate of growth, leaving them stagnant, unable to make the