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.

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

breath. "Okay. I don't

Mortis continued planning, but Mortis got an interesting thought a

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

Gravis said. "What about

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

wasn't sure what Mortis meant, but his

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

father's Cosmos is made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there is a way to harness brutality to

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

at the mosquitos. He didn't want to look at them since

added. "Maybe the pain it is inflicting on you is

test the hypothesis,

others, the more powerful it becomes. It's even absorbing your Will-Aura. Eventually, when your Will-Aura

out of you? 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

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

mind started going to

imagining his father's

it

a walking mouth. Some of them might be tentacles filled with eyes. Some might be made of

monsters. These monsters might be too stupid to realize that the parasites were

aggressive. They would attack

a world would be insane, which would require an equally fast method of

made out of mouths simply spat out a smaller version of itself, which would

mass of small, continually battling monsters that

probably only cover