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.

If this counts towards your payback, the last multiplication should have

took a deep breath. "Okay. I don't like

and Mortis continued planning, but Mortis got an

very different from beasts or humans. Instead of

noticed," Gravis said.

that behavior to Heaven, but it should also be similar to something else, according to the information we have heard," Mortis

what Mortis meant, but his

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

is made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy.

the only thing that makes them

mosquitos. He didn't want to look at them since it was a terrifying feeling to watch something gnawing on one's

is inflicting on you is increasing its power. Have you ever thought

couldn't test the hypothesis, but

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 died

a more powerful target would be more

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

started going to a

imagining his

did it

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

Gravis imagined parasites like the Sin Monster littering these monsters. These monsters might be too stupid to realize that the parasites were even

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

such a world would be insane, which would

smaller version of itself, which

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

would probably only cover the Death side of the