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.

multiplication should have already been

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

got an interesting thought a

are made of pure Death, right?" Mortis said. "Their nature is also very different from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they simply slowly consume

Gravis said.

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

but

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

heard, father's Cosmos is made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there is

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

to look at them since it was a terrifying feeling

is inflicting on you is increasing its power. Have

hypothesis, but he could

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

This would be the eventual logical conclusion, and it would also explain how a more powerful

tempering. It would only mean that

going to a dark

imagining his

it look

appearances. Some of them may only be a walking mouth. Some of them might be

the Sin Monster littering these monsters. These monsters might be too stupid

make them even more aggressive. They would attack absolutely everything and might even consume their own body in hatred and

number of deaths in such a world would be

simply spat out a smaller version of

mass of small, continually battling monsters that kept

probably only cover the