The moment Little Otter touched the enormous stone blocking the passage, it rapidly shrank.
Little Otter picked up the stone, ran a few steps forward, then turned and threw it. The stone rapidly grew, blocking the passage once more.
"So it makes things smaller? No, wait—it might make them bigger and smaller!" Nameless's eyes widened slightly as he muttered to himself.
He had thought Little Otter had passed through the stone. Now that he had seen it for himself, he knew it had instead shrunk the rock blocking its way, then enlarged it again after getting past.
"That makes it harder to guess!"
Nameless slowly walked up to the rock, his head beginning to ache.
He could make objects smaller himself, but that superpower was less useful than simply taking an enemy out with one punch. He almost never used it.
Now he pressed his hand against the rock and activated his superpower, Shrinking Art.
But matter in this world was exceptionally hard. It even gave him a strange feeling he could not put into words, and most abilities worked poorly here.
Once Shrinking Art took effect, the rock shrank bit by bit, nowhere near as fast as it had for Little Otter. Nameless increased his power output, but it still took him a full ten minutes to shrink the rock by a small margin.
The rock was too hard, its mass too great.
"Forget it!"
In the end, Nameless gave up.
To shrink the rock as much as Little Otter had, he would need at least three or four hours. By then, Little Otter would be long gone.
Little Otter was nearing the edge of his perception, so he passed through the rock and quickly left the burrow.
Meanwhile, Little Otter scrambled through the grass in a panic. But