Chapter 1119 - 1119 – Glimpse (1/2)

Gravis looked with horror at the new mosquito.

One Sin Monster was already painful enough, but now there were two!?

Gravis immediately felt the terrifying pain of the new bite. Even worse, the Sin Monsters seemed to bite in an alternating pattern, giving Gravis double the instances of pain.

He would have preferred for them to do it simultaneously.

Mortis looked solemnly at the new mosquito. ”I don't believe that this is normal,” he said.

”What do you mean?” Gravis asked, his voice shaking slightly. His mind wasn't in the best of shape. Otherwise, he would have noticed the same thing.

”It's too fast,” Mortis said. ”If they keep doubling, you will die in less than a century. That's not a reasonable timeframe to deal with your Sin Aura. If they keep doubling, this would be a death sentence.”

”However, I can imagine one getting added every week. With this, it would take the Sin Monsters around 10,000 years to fully consume you,” Mortis said.

”That's still too short!” Gravis said with a nervous voice.

”There may be a way to slow them down,” Mortis said. ”These Sin Monsters exist to push you towards paying back your debt. I guess that the more you pay back, the slower they multiply.”

”How can we test it?” Gravis asked nervously. Usually, Gravis would have found a way himself, but the pain was making it nearly impossible for him to focus.

Right now, Gravis fully relied on Mortis' mind.

”We need to wait for the next addition,” Mortis said. ”We need to check if the time has shortened.”

”Shortened? How? Why?” Gravis asked.

”You fed the Sin Monster 100,000 God Stones earlier. If this counts towards your payback, the last multiplication should have already been a delayed one. Now, we need to see what happens when you don't give it anything,” Mortis explained.

Gravis took a deep breath. ”Okay. I don't like it, but we need more information.”

Gravis and Mortis continued planning, but Mortis got an interesting thought a couple of minutes later.

”Sin Monsters are made of pure Death, right?” Mortis said. ”Their nature is also very different from beasts or humans. Instead of killing you directly, they simply slowly consume you and put you in as much pain as possible.”

”Yes, I noticed,” Gravis said. ”What about it?”

”We could assign that behavior to Heaven, but it should also be similar to something else, according to the information we have heard,” Mortis said.

Gravis wasn't sure what Mortis meant, but his mind quickly made a connection.

”Father's Cosmos,” Gravis said.

Mortis nodded. ”From what we've heard, father's Cosmos is made of sheer brutality and a war between Death and Energy. Apparently, there is a way to harness brutality to create incredible force.”

”Look at them,” Mortis said as he gestured to the Sin Monsters. ”They don't use Laws. They don't have feelings. They only have powerful bodies. Yet, is their body the only thing that makes them so incredibly powerful that even Divine Gods fear them? I'm not sure how powerful Divine Gods are, but I don't think that their power is that simple.”

Gravis looked at the mosquitos. He didn't want to look at them since it was a terrifying feeling to watch something gnawing on one's body.

”I don't think that's everything,” Mortis added. ”Maybe the pain it is inflicting on you is increasing its power. Have you ever thought about that?”

Gravis couldn't test the hypothesis, but he could imagine that.

”Maybe the more pain and terror this beast inflicts on others, the more powerful it becomes. It's even absorbing your Will-Aura. Eventually, when your Will-Aura has been emptied, you will also have no will anymore. At that point, you would be just like someone that has died to Samsara.”