Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked with horror at the new mosquito.

One Sin Monster was already painful enough, but now there were two!?

Gravis immediately felt the terrifying pain of the new bite. Even worse, the Sin Monsters seemed to bite in an alternating pattern, giving Gravis double the instances of pain.

He would have preferred for them to do it simultaneously.

Mortis looked solemnly at the new mosquito. "I don't believe that this is normal," he said.

"What do you mean?" Gravis asked, his voice shaking slightly. His mind wasn't in the best of shape. Otherwise, he would have noticed the same thing.

"It's too fast," Mortis said. "If they keep doubling, you will die in less than a century. That's not a reasonable timeframe to deal with your Sin Aura. If they keep doubling, this would be a death sentence."

"However, I can imagine one getting added every week. With this, it would take the Sin Monsters around 10,000 years to fully consume you," Mortis said.

"That's still too short!" Gravis said with a nervous voice.

"There may be a way to slow them down," Mortis said. "These Sin Monsters exist to push you towards paying back your debt. I guess that the more you pay back, the slower they multiply."

"How can we test it?" Gravis asked nervously. Usually, Gravis would have found a way himself, but the pain was making it nearly impossible for him to focus.

Right now, Gravis fully relied on Mortis' mind.

"We need to wait for the next addition," Mortis said. "We need to check if the time has shortened."

"Shortened? How? Why?" Gravis asked.

have already been a delayed one. Now, we

"Okay. I don't like

got an interesting thought a couple of

humans. Instead of killing you directly, they simply slowly

Gravis said. "What about

that behavior to Heaven, but it should also be similar to something else,

what Mortis meant, but

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there

powerful bodies. Yet, is their body the only thing that makes them

them since it was a terrifying

is inflicting on you is

the hypothesis, but he could imagine

when your Will-Aura has been emptied, you will also have no will

This would be the eventual logical conclusion, and it would also explain how a more powerful target would be more useful. Being more powerful means having a stronger will, which means that more will and sorrow can be

Sin Monster would probably be happy when you went through another form of tempering. It would only

started going to a dark

was imagining his

it

a world filled with monsters with indescribable appearances. Some of them may only be a walking mouth. Some of them might be tentacles filled with eyes. Some

imagined parasites like the Sin Monster littering these monsters. These monsters might

monsters would still feel the unreal pain, which would make them even more aggressive.

would be insane, which would

simply spat out a smaller version of

covered by a mass of small, continually battling monsters that kept consuming

probably only cover the Death side