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 already been a delayed one.

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

planning, but Mortis got an

from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they

noticed," Gravis said. "What about

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

wasn't sure what Mortis meant, but his mind quickly made

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there is a way to harness

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

since

added. "Maybe the pain it is inflicting

hypothesis, but he could imagine

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.

and pain 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

of tempering. It would only mean that it would

started going to

imagining his

it look

of them might be tentacles filled with eyes. Some might be made of several human corpses that fused to create a

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

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

be

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

covered by a mass of small, continually battling monsters that kept

cover the Death side of the