The little Nas, who could not even come up to the length of Dragon-Lex's chest when standing up straight, suddenly started to grow in size. The original difference wasn't because he was short, but rather a result of the fact that Dragon-Lex had grown in height when he transformed, almost reaching 10 feet (3 meters) in height.
But now, with his body covered in some kind of synthetic, skintight suit, Axios' size began to grow larger until he was the same height as Dragon-Lex. The Nas race, able to absorb all kinds of energies, actually cultivated slowly because increasing the size of their energy shard was far from easy or simple.
Comparatively, they could saturate their bodies with a lot of energy very easily, drastically increasing their temporary strength and energy pools proportional to their original strength - all without any drawbacks.