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

His Kingdom prospered.

had arrived in this

prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating all the

this band arrived in

were made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and

united against Gravis, while the

killed two of them, but the remaining

and he didn't have

killing an enemy didn't replenish

he killed an enemy, the Energy he had used to accomplish that

top of that, these Cultivators had quite refined

was eventually exhausted to

time in his

Gravis reopened his eyes, which quickly

Gravis thought. 'Death

like I made some mistakes

need to make a decision on this

at his advisor and

like dealing with the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes

'I need more power!'

just asked Gravis what they should do, but

BANG!

as he flew out of

idea what had

less than an hour, Gravis

Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the

enough,' Gravis thought with a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't

'I need more resources!'

had come to the Kingdoms on

went through every Kingdom, killing the most

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

left,' Gravis thought as he checked the

what he needed to become a Mid Unity Realm

'I need more!'

he had already killed all

And then, death arrived.

as Gravis went past a mountain, he ran

even defend

BANG!

opened his eyes again, back

immediately left the

annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed

Then, Gravis went north.

an even more

again,

itself, but this

with

repeated again, and this time, Gravis

time, there was

when he noticed that

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

searching, Gravis found nothing

not enough resources to make me become a Mid

I have to find another

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

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

they would have enough power

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

three years later,