Were owls drawn to light?
A thought sprang into Nameless's mind as he watched.
He raised a hand slightly and, as a test, fired a blinding ball of light below. But the owl did not look at it. It kept heading toward the ground.
All right, then.
Nameless scratched his head. Apparently, it was not drawn to light.
Perhaps the owl had been born free and instinctively refused to stay in a tiny underground chamber.
Of course, the Near-God Being might also have sensed the killing move Nameless had hidden in the underground chamber.
Nameless had not planned to use it so soon. But if he waited any longer, the Near-God Being would escape, so he activated his ability.
In an instant, the underground chamber Flawless had stretched wider and larger contracted wildly, as though an invisible Black Hole were swallowing the surrounding space. The Near-God Being had already begun climbing upward, but it was still caught and sucked into the collapsing space. In the blink of an eye, the chamber returned to its original size.
The Near-God Being was enormous. The chamber's original dimensions could never have contained its body. If it emerged, the earth would burst apart, causing countless deaths and injuries.
That was why Nameless had used a combination of superpowers from the start to widen and heighten the space, making room for the Near-God Being's body.
He had also reinforced the surrounding ground to ensure their battle would not reach the other side of the planet.
Now those preparations had become his killing move against the Near-God Being.
When the space shrank in an instant, the hard ground did not burst apart. Instead, it compressed the Near-God Being into a lump. Any living creature crushed like that would die!
It was like squeezing a whale into