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.

bite, his domain of Perceived

a very isolated area right now, and no powerful

Mortis returned and gestured for

and Mortis teleported a couple of times until

a Sect with a Peak Immortal Emperor as the Sect Master. However, the Sect had an unreal number of disciples, and they all had

disguised Gravis and made

to make a trade or something,"

deep breath

In their minds, Gravis looked like

shouted as he pointed at a Body Tempering

the disciple uttered as he turned to

Forming Realm, and the disciple immediately became respectful. "This disciple greets Spirit Forming

nodded respectfully, trying his best to

disciple needs. I'm

WHOOOP!

for weapons in the Energy Gathering Realm.

of the disciple

less

advantage of Elder!"

worth the trade for me.

quickly chose to

hand, he looked at

They didn't react.

took a deep breath and

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

other

some point, things

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

Silence.

Elder stopped

comprised her being

mathematical equation equal on both sides, her existence was reduced

Mortis immediately teleported away

with beings below the Immortal Realm. Anything above that, and the

I need Star Gods, but I can't even interact with Immortals. That means that I have

his chin. "We need

I want to see what happens,"

a deep

anger the Sin Monsters, and

if it worked, Gravis could heal himself from their

BZZ!

into

looked

when one of them was finished with munching, it simply took a bite out of the lightning and continued

transformed back, and the three mosquitos went back

nothing, but this

mosquitos

doesn't seem as inescapable now," he

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

Gravis nodded.

you've done it with the

BZZ!

body and kept it levitating with

Splash!