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.

time Gravis received a bite, his domain of Perceived Reality would

was in a very isolated area

later, Mortis returned and

couple of times until they were near

However, the Sect

disguised Gravis and made himself

Try to

breath and entered the

disciple seemed to react to him. In their minds, Gravis looked like a very

Gravis shouted as he pointed at a Body Tempering Disciple that just left

the disciple uttered as he

robes of someone in the Spirit Forming Realm, and the disciple

to

something one of my disciple needs. I'm

WHOOOP!

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

eyes of the disciple widened in

Anis was far less valuable

advantage of Elder!"

it, and that makes it worth the trade for me. I don't care about this mere piece

and quickly chose

held the flower in his hand, he

They didn't react.

breath and

he had a piece of ore. He didn't know

repeated itself many other times with Cultivators of different

at some point,

piece of ore she

Silence.

Immortal Elder stopped

Energy that comprised her being was canceled

on both sides, her existence was reduced

away since their

Realm. Anything above that, and the Sin

gritted his teeth. "That makes things way harder. I need Star Gods, but I can't even interact with Immortals. That means that

over quality," Mortis said as he scratched his chin. "We need to

want to see what happens," Mortis

a

and they might kill

worked, Gravis could heal himself

BZZ!

transformed into Heavenly

left Gravis' body and only looked at the Heavenly

munching, it simply took a bite out of the lightning

transformed back, and the three

nothing, but

the mosquitos had created had

"The situation doesn't seem as inescapable now,"

also works,

Gravis nodded.

done it with the disciples," Mortis added.

BZZ!

Tempering body and kept it levitating

Splash!