Ray furrowed his brow.

Mary's ability was… nasty, almost disgustingly so. It seemed tailor-made to counter his spatial severing ability. The thing about spatial severing was its subtlety—it hit without warning, but its raw power was limited.

Ray believed every ability had a ceiling. Even if Mary's power truly was a devour-type, there had to be an upper limit: maybe she could consume the force of 100 tons, maybe 200—but the small, precise cuts of spatial slicing were hardly anywhere near that m