Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked at his mother with interest. From what he could see, she probably had a great use in mind for his Law.

The Economistress smiled widely. "Gravis, you're about to earn a lot of money!"

"Am I supposed to increase the Will-Aura of other people with the True Law of Suffering?" Gravis asked.

"That's one application, but there's an application that brings even more money," the Economistress said. "Assuming you're willing to dirty your hands."

Gravis raised an eyebrow. "Continue," he said.

"There are two things you can do besides increasing someone's Will-Aura, but both of them are a bit cruel," she said.

"First of all, you can act as a torturer. Some Sects are very interested in taking over other Sects, and they obviously want to gather as much information as possible before attempting anything. Capturing someone of another Sect without being noticed or without it being linked back to them is already very difficult but siphoning the information out of the captured person is even harder."

"Time is of the essence when it comes to information, and the captured Cultivators know that. As long as they manage to resist divulging any information for about 50,000 years, their knowledge will already be very outdated at that point. They know that the longer they survive, the less their information is worth."

"Additionally, the captured Cultivator knows that they will die, which is why a lot of them just commit suicide after a bit. Committing suicide is very difficult, especially for a Cultivator. After all, we all hang on to our lives very much. Because of that, the suicide often only happens many years after being captured."

"Of course, there are Cultivators that know Soul Laws and Mind Laws, but the really powerful Sects have countermeasures for these Laws."

"That's where a torturer comes into play. First of all, the Cultivator needs a chance to survive, or they will just kill themselves as soon as the pain gets too powerful. Because of that, your client will ask you to torture their captive person for the maximum duration, which should be 15,000 years. If someone can survive 15,000 years, they won't succumb to the torture."

gives the captured person a slight glimmer of hope. They know that they only need to survive that long in order to be released. Of course, only very, very few people can survive something like

resisting pain will muddle their minds, making it very difficult for them to make rational decisions. Most of them will just shout out

top of that, the Cultivator knows that their Will-Aura would become more powerful after having resisted the torture for so long. It's a carrot and stick thing. On one side is one of the cruelest deaths, while on the other side is an increase to their Will-Aura, and the thing that keeps them going is the eventual hope that they can live

"What about the

all the Karmic Luck debt. So, if your client dies, you will get all the accumulated sin assigned to

bad thing initially, but I have actually so much Karmic Luck saved up due to my previous actions that it doesn't really

that your Karmic Luck storage is vast. You

"What about the other

paid to torture someone to death. That's

an eyebrow. "Why?" he

some people are just that angry with another person that they want to torture them

the resources of their opponent,"

brows furrowed. "And how is that

deem appropriate for their target. Then, you start the torture. During the torture, the Sect of the victim will probably find out that you have one of their

will never see the

of the victim, they were attacked by several masked and cloaked figures. Then, they were knocked out, and the next time they open their eyes, they are in

to purchase the victim's freedom. The generally accepted price is ten times the payment the captor has given you. So, if the captors paid you

pay, the person will be tortured to death. If they can, the victim will be released. When the victim gets released, you keep half of the payment, and your client gets the other

original and effective applications for the True Law of Suffering. Sects always had

of taking such a job were not very nice, but Gravis didn't really care about that. He

It was just money.