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.

God Stones earlier. If this counts towards your payback, the last multiplication should have already been a delayed one. Now, we need to

a deep breath. "Okay. I don't

got an interesting

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

I noticed," Gravis said. "What about

behavior to Heaven, but it should also be similar to something else, according to the information

what Mortis meant, but

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there is a way

use Laws. They don't have feelings. They only 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 powerful Divine Gods are, but I don't think that their power

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

everything," Mortis added. "Maybe the pain it is inflicting on

couldn't test the hypothesis, but

absorbing your Will-Aura. Eventually, when your Will-Aura has been emptied, you will also

This would be the eventual logical conclusion, and it would also explain how a more powerful target

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

going to a

was imagining his father's

it look

only be a walking mouth. Some of them might be tentacles filled with eyes. Some might be made of several human corpses that fused

littering these monsters. These monsters might be too stupid to realize that the parasites were even on

which would make them even more aggressive. They would attack absolutely everything and might even consume

such a world would be insane, which

simply spat out a smaller version of itself, which would run into the distance

the world was covered by a mass of small, continually battling monsters

that would probably only cover the