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.

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

in a very isolated area right now,

returned and

teleported a couple of times until they

the Sect Master. However, the Sect had an unreal number of

disguised Gravis and

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

deep breath

him. In their

you," Gravis shouted as he pointed at a Body Tempering Disciple that

disciple uttered as he

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

trying his best to hide the pain

is something one of my disciple needs.

WHOOOP!

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

of the

far less valuable than

take advantage of Elder!"

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

exhilarated and quickly chose

hand,

They didn't react.

breath and vanished

he had a piece of ore. He didn't know why he had it, but it was only natural

many other

at some point,

to hand Gravis a piece of ore she found, one of the mosquitos looked at

Silence.

Elder

entire Energy that comprised her

a mathematical equation equal on both sides, her existence

teleported away

can interact with beings below the Immortal Realm. Anything above that,

teeth. "That makes things way harder. I need Star Gods, but I can't even interact with Immortals. That means that I have to become the master of Law Comprehension Cultivators and hope that they can become Star Gods.

Mortis said as he scratched his

to see what

a

Sin Monsters, and they might

it worked, Gravis could

BZZ!

transformed into Heavenly

looked at the Heavenly

them was finished with munching, it simply

transformed back, and the three mosquitos went back

changed nothing, but this was good

the mosquitos had

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

Lightning Fork," Mortis said. "If that also

Gravis nodded.

the disciples," Mortis added. "Go

BZZ!

and kept

Splash!