For once, the time before the beginning of the next torture cycle was longer than a brief moment, if only to increase the mental torture Lex was going through. The name of the last cycle was Infinity, but it would last for a total of one second.
So then, why was it named as such? It was because within that one second, Lex would be exposed to the absolute and inalienable personification of infinity. Within that one second, he would experience unending time. In theory - at least as Lex understood it - there was no technical end to it. Time would go on forever.
This time, the torture cycle gave him plenty of time to completely fathom what he was about to face, as if pushing him to his very limit. Maybe the trick would be to break out of it somehow, or maybe it would just keep on going until the retribution ran out of energy or…
