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.

15 years after Gravis had arrived in this world,

went through the

end, this band arrived in Gravis'

up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and

Unity Realm Cultivators united against Gravis, while the remaining ten dealt with the other Unity Realm

of them, but the remaining three

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

meant that killing an

Energy he

that, these Cultivators had quite refined Battle

was eventually exhausted to death in the

time in his

reopened his eyes, which quickly

Gravis thought. 'Death is

I made some mistakes along the

make a decision on this

looked at his advisor

all the way back at the beginning. It seems like dealing with the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal.

'I need more power!'

just asked Gravis what they should do, but instead of getting

BANG!

exploded forward as he flew out of

had no idea what had just

an hour, Gravis

the three future Unity Realm

thought with a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become more powerful since I'm not

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms on this

the

one week, Gravis had accomplished what had taken him 15 years

still have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought

half of what he needed to become

'I need more!'

towards the east since he had

And then, death arrived.

as Gravis went past a mountain, he

even defend

BANG!

opened his eyes again, back

he immediately left the hall

all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

an even more

opened his eyes again, back

repeated itself, but this time, he went

beast with too much

repeated again, and this time, Gravis went

time, there was

was ecstatic when he noticed that

became. The

Gravis found nothing

for real!?' Gravis thought. 'There are not enough resources to make me become a Mid

I have to

to his Kingdom and killed the "new king" that had

Early Unity Realm. There might not have been enough resources for Gravis to reach the Mid Unity Realm, but there were enough

enough

did his best to teach his two new helpers.

later, they betrayed