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.

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

don't like it, but we

but Mortis got an interesting thought a couple of minutes

made of pure Death, 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 we have heard," Mortis

but his

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

"From what we've heard, father's Cosmos is made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently,

them," Mortis said as he gestured to the Sin Monsters. "They don't 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

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

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

test the hypothesis, but he could imagine

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 explain how a more powerful target would be more useful. Being

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

going to a

was imagining his

it

a walking mouth. Some of them might be tentacles

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

feel the unreal pain, which would make them even more aggressive. They would attack absolutely everything and might even consume their

deaths in such a world would be insane, which would

a smaller version of itself, which would run into the distance to

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

that would probably only cover the Death side of