Lightning Is the Only Way

"It worked," Mortis said. "The 100,000 God Stones have bought you six days the last time. We can delay it."

"Great, how do we continue?" Gravis asked while sweat ran down his back. As time progressed, it only became worse.

"We need to test something else," Mortis said. "Become a level two Star God."

Gravis looked with shock at Mortis. "That would eat up over three million God Stones!" Gravis shouted.

"You're really becoming stupider when under pain," Mortis commented in annoyance.

"You try being in my place! It's not easy to focus with fucking Sin Monsters munching on your fucking will!" Gravis shouted.

Mortis didn't react to Gravis' comment. "If you are a level two Star God, the Sin Monsters might need longer to consume the pieces they eat. They are probably consuming a set amount of Energy, which will increase with time."

"Right now, one Sin Monster needs one minute to take another bite. If you are a level two Star God, they might need four minutes to take another bite," Mortis explained.

Gravis immediately understood and took out more God Stones.

This would make the pain less frequent!

Gravis quickly consumed enough God Stones to become a level two Star God. Gravis felt his power increasing, but he couldn't feel happy right now.

As soon as the Sin Monsters took their first bite, they started chewing.

And…

Success!

They took four times as long to take another bite.

Gravis released a sigh of relief.

It was impossible to imagine how much relief Gravis felt at this moment.

The bites were truly terrifying.

Mortis nodded. "Consume another million God Stones for another test. Then, feed the Sin Monsters your remaining God Stones."

Gravis had already realized that it was hard for him to make correct decisions under such pain. His Emotions were on the apathetic side, but that didn't protect him from the pain.

Because of that, Gravis decided to simply listen to Mortis.

Right now, Mortis was the one that had a clearer head.

The first Sin Monster ate the 16 million God Stones in an instant before going back to consuming Gravis.

"We need to do three more tests," Mortis said. "First of all, we need to check if the Sin Monsters allow absolutely no one to help you or if they will only stop the powerful Cultivators. After all, the best way to repay the debt is to accrue more Karmic Luck, and that's basically impossible to do if you can't interact with anyone."

"How should I test that?" Gravis asked.

"Wait here. I'll scout the surroundings," Mortis said.

SHING!

Mortis left, and Gravis was left alone.

Gravis activated his Law of Perceived Reality and tried to keep himself hidden. Until now, Mortis had kept the two of them hidden since every bite Gravis endured shook his concentration violently.

domain of Perceived

was in a very isolated area right

and gestured

and Mortis teleported a couple of times

Master. However, the Sect had an unreal number of

disguised Gravis and made himself

with a Body Tempering Cultivator. Try to make a trade or something,"

deep breath and entered the

him. In their minds, Gravis looked

pointed at a Body Tempering Disciple that

as

the disciple's mind, Gravis wore the robes of someone in the Spirit Forming Realm, and the disciple immediately became respectful. "This disciple greets

to hide the

needs. I'm willing to exchange it for this,"

WHOOOP!

used for weapons in the Energy Gathering Realm. With all of Gravis' Laws, creating something like this was

the disciple widened in

was far less valuable than this piece

advantage of Elder!" the

snort. "I need it, and that makes it worth the trade

became exhilarated and quickly chose to trade

held the flower in his hand, he looked at the mosquitos on

They didn't react.

a deep breath and vanished

disciple immediately forgot his meeting with Gravis and continued doing whatever he was doing. He only knew that he had a piece

thing repeated itself many other times

some point, things

started to hand Gravis a piece of ore she found, one

Silence.

Immortal Elder

entire Energy that comprised her being was canceled out

a mathematical equation equal on both

and Mortis immediately teleported away since

you can interact with beings below the Immortal Realm. Anything above that, and the Sin Monster gets angry,"

but I can't even interact with Immortals. That means that I have to become the master of

scratched his chin. "We need to test

I want to see what happens," Mortis

a deep

and they might kill him

Gravis could heal himself

BZZ!

transformed into

Sin Monsters left Gravis' body and only looked

simply took a bite out of the lightning and continued

and the three mosquitos went back

changed nothing, but

mosquitos had created had

seem as inescapable now," he

Fork," Mortis said. "If that also works, our best plan can be put into

Gravis nodded.

the disciples," Mortis added.

BZZ!

body and

Splash!