Lightning Is the Only Way

A week passed, and most of Gravis' advisors had left.

Yet, that didn't matter to Gravis whatsoever.

The ones with shaky loyalty had left, and that was good. Oftentimes, internal dissent was a Kingdom's downfall, not external enemies.

Gravis' approach was similar to back when he had raised the River Tribe, but for different reasons.

Back then, Gravis had not suppressed anyone since beasts wanted to gain power more than anything. Suppressing their power would only make them leave.

This time, Gravis let the humans leave because of loyalty issues.

As long as someone was the most powerful, no beast in one's tribe would betray them.

However, when it came to humans, this wasn't the case.

Humans liked to use a lot of schemes to circumvent power and gain an advantage.

Because of that, unity in one's ranks was more important than with beasts.

When a week passed, the thing that Gravis had expected finally happened.

BOOOOM!

Gravis' castle was blown apart, leaving only Gravis on a throne.

The rest of the castle had turned into rubble.

"Would you have ever expected that this day would come?" a young man with a crown said with authority from above Gravis. Two other Unity Realm Cultivators flanked him.

"Yes, I did," Gravis said with a smirk.

WHOOOOM!

Then, Gravis activated his Will-Aura, making it impossible to move for anyone else.

Immediately, the invaders felt like they had committed a grave mistake.

And then?

There was no then.

The three invaders died quickly under Gravis' royal sword.

This hadn't even been a fight.

'Humility, huh?' Gravis thought with a smirk.

'I've used Humility to destroy my enemies.'

'That's what this is all about, right?' Gravis thought.

Over the next couple of days, Gravis' Kingdom annexed the other Kingdom, becoming more powerful in the process.

Sadly, the entire fortune of the other Kingdom was only enough to create one more Cultivator in the Unity Realm.

Well, at least Gravis' Kingdom had two Unity Realm Cultivators now instead of one.

Unfortunately, the trial still continued since Gravis hadn't comprehended the Law of Humility yet.

For the next couple of years, Gravis did his best to use Humility to get rid of his enemies.

Gravis deliberately made his Kingdom look weak, even fooling his own new advisors.

Eventually, another Kingdom had decided to attack them, and Gravis dealt with them just like he had dealt with the previous Kingdom.

had four Cultivators in the

His Kingdom prospered.

years after Gravis had arrived

robbers from a more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms,

band arrived in

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten Initial Unity Realm

Gravis, while the remaining ten dealt with the other Unity Realm

them, but the remaining three

beast body, and he didn't have his affinity towards

an

he killed an enemy, the Energy he had used to

of that, these Cultivators had quite

tried his best, but he was eventually exhausted to death in the face of overwhelming

first time in his

Gravis reopened his eyes, which

as I've thought,' Gravis thought. 'Death is not the

I made some mistakes

need to make a decision on

at his

not the true goal. The band of raiders

'I need more power!'

just asked Gravis what they should do, but

BANG!

he flew out

no idea what

an hour, Gravis reached

he annihilated the three future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the remaining

already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become more

'I need more resources!'

to the Kingdoms

through every Kingdom, killing the most

one week, Gravis had accomplished what had taken him 15

have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as

half of what he needed to

'I need more!'

the east since he had already killed

And then, death arrived.

a mountain, he ran

couldn't even defend

BANG!

again, back in

immediately left the

all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

an even more powerful

eyes again, back in the

repeated itself, but this time,

with too

repeated again, and this time, Gravis

time, there was no

was ecstatic when he noticed that

further he traveled, the weaker everything became. The Energy density also

Gravis found nothing that could help

not enough resources to make me become

have to find another

his Kingdom and killed the "new king" that had been crowned in

been enough resources for Gravis to reach the Mid Unity

enough power to

two new helpers. They had to become as powerful as possible for the

three years later,