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. Now, we need to see what happens when you don't

"Okay. I don't like it, but

Mortis got an interesting thought a couple of minutes

is also very different from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they

I noticed," Gravis

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

sure what Mortis meant, but his mind

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

sheer brutality and a war between Death and

only

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

it is inflicting on you is increasing its power. Have you

test the hypothesis, but

the more powerful it becomes. It's even absorbing your Will-Aura. Eventually, when your Will-Aura has been emptied, you

then have squeezed every bit of anguish 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 having a stronger will, which means that more will and sorrow

you went through another form of tempering. It

started going

imagining

did it

of them might be tentacles filled with eyes. Some might be made of

these monsters. These monsters might be too stupid to realize that

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

in such a world would be

monster made out of mouths simply spat out a smaller version of

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

cover the Death side of the