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.

four Cultivators in the Unity

His Kingdom prospered.

after Gravis had arrived

band of robbers from a more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating all the

end, this band arrived in

of five Early Unity Realm

Early Unity Realm Cultivators united against Gravis, while the remaining

two of them, but the remaining three

didn't have his beast body, and he

that killing an enemy

Energy he had used to accomplish

top of that, these Cultivators

best, but he was eventually exhausted to death in

first time in his

then, Gravis reopened his eyes,

Gravis thought. 'Death

made some mistakes along the

make a decision on

looked at his

like dealing with the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is far more dangerous than the Red-White

'I need more power!'

should do, but instead of

BANG!

exploded forward as he flew out of the

idea what

hour, Gravis

annihilated the three future Unity

enough,' Gravis 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

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms

through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing

accomplished what had taken

nearly 15 years left,'

of what he needed to become a Mid Unity

'I need more!'

he had

And then, death arrived.

a mountain, he ran into a Nascent Nourishing

couldn't even defend

BANG!

his eyes again, back in

left the

annihilated all the

Then, Gravis went north.

even more

again,

repeated itself, but this

beast with

repeated again, and this time,

there was no

when he noticed that there was no beast

the further he traveled, the weaker everything became. The Energy density also fell severely, as did

Gravis found nothing that could

'There are not enough resources to make me become a Mid

have

went back to his Kingdom and killed the "new king" that had been crowned

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

this, they would have enough power to

teach his two new helpers. They had to become as

years later, they