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.

should have already been a delayed one. Now, we need to see what happens when you don't give

breath. "Okay. I don't like it, but we need more

Mortis got an interesting thought

right?" Mortis said. "Their nature is also very different from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they simply slowly consume you and

I noticed," Gravis

assign that behavior to Heaven, but it should also be similar

but his mind

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

war

have powerful bodies. Yet, is their body the only thing that makes them so incredibly powerful that even Divine Gods fear them? I'm not sure how

want to look at them since it was a terrifying feeling to watch something

don't think that's everything," Mortis added. "Maybe the pain it is inflicting on

test the hypothesis, but he

and terror this beast inflicts on others, the more powerful it becomes. It's even absorbing your Will-Aura. Eventually, when your Will-Aura has been emptied, you will also have no will anymore. At that point, you would be just like someone that has

beast then have squeezed every bit of anguish and pain out of you? This would be the eventual logical conclusion, and it would also explain how a more

Monster would probably be happy when you went through another form of tempering. It would only mean that it would have even more to consume," Mortis

going to

imagining his father's

it look

be a walking mouth. Some of them

more, Gravis imagined parasites like the Sin Monster littering these monsters. These monsters might be too

more aggressive. They would attack absolutely everything

in such a world would be

spat out a smaller version

was covered by a mass of small, continually battling

probably only cover