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,

don't like

and Mortis continued planning, but Mortis got an interesting thought a couple

Monsters are made of pure Death, right?" Mortis said. "Their nature is also very different from beasts or humans. Instead

noticed," Gravis said. "What about

could assign that behavior to Heaven, but it should also be similar to something else, according

wasn't sure what Mortis meant, but his

"Father's Cosmos," Gravis said.

a war between Death

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

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

added. "Maybe the pain it is inflicting on you is increasing its power. Have you ever thought about

test the hypothesis, but he could

Eventually, when your Will-Aura has been

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

tempering. It would only mean that it would have even more to

going to a

imagining his father's

it look

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

imagined parasites like the Sin Monster littering these monsters. These monsters might

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

world would be insane, which would require an equally fast method

monster made out of mouths simply spat out a smaller version of itself, which would run

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

would probably only cover the Death side