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.

last multiplication should have already been a delayed one. Now, we need

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

continued planning, but Mortis got an interesting thought a couple of minutes

very different from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they simply slowly consume you and put you in as much pain

noticed," Gravis said. "What

to Heaven, but it should also be similar

sure what Mortis meant, but his mind quickly made a

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

we've heard, father's Cosmos is made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and

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

since it was a terrifying feeling to watch something gnawing on one's

added. "Maybe the pain it is inflicting on

hypothesis, but he could imagine

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

anguish and pain out of you? This would be the eventual logical conclusion, and it would also explain how a more powerful target would

another form of tempering. It would only mean that it would have even more to consume," Mortis

mind started going to a

imagining

did it

may only be a walking mouth. Some of them might be tentacles filled with

parasites like the Sin Monster littering these monsters. These monsters might be too

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

of deaths in such a world would be insane, which would require an equally

some monster made out of mouths simply spat out a smaller version of itself, which would run into the distance to eat other

a mass of small,

would probably only cover the Death side