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.

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

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

Mortis got

Death, right?" Mortis said. "Their nature is also very different from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they simply slowly consume you and put you in as much pain

I noticed," Gravis

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

Mortis meant, but his mind quickly made

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there

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 Gods are, but

looked at the mosquitos. He didn't want to look at them since it was a terrifying

"Maybe the pain it is inflicting on you is

test the hypothesis, but

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.

would also explain how a more powerful target would be more useful. Being more powerful means having a stronger will, which means that more will and sorrow can be extracted out

Sin Monster would probably be happy when you went through another form of tempering. It would only mean that it would have even more

started going to a dark

was imagining his

did it

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

monsters might be too stupid to realize that

aggressive. They would attack absolutely everything and might even consume their own body in

world would be insane, which would require an equally fast

out a smaller version of itself, which

by a mass of small, continually battling monsters

only cover the Death side