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.

Gravis had four Cultivators in

His Kingdom prospered.

had arrived in this world, the

robbers from a more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating all the powerful Cultivators and stealing

this band arrived in

were made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators

united against Gravis, while the remaining ten dealt

them, but the remaining three

didn't have his beast body, and he

killing an enemy

killed an enemy, the Energy he had used

Cultivators had quite refined Battle

exhausted to death

first time in his life,

reopened his eyes,

'Death is not the end

I made some mistakes along

you need to make a

his advisor and

the way back at the beginning. It seems like dealing with the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is far more

'I need more power!'

what they should do,

BANG!

forward as he flew out of the

had no idea what had just

less than an hour, Gravis

the three future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered

with a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become

'I need more resources!'

come to the Kingdoms

Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing their

Gravis had accomplished what

have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as

of what he needed to

'I need more!'

he had already killed all

And then, death arrived.

Gravis went past a mountain,

couldn't even defend

BANG!

his eyes again, back

left the hall

all

Then, Gravis went north.

an even

eyes again,

thing repeated itself, but this time,

beast with too much

again, and this time,

there was no

ecstatic when he noticed that there was

the weaker everything became. The Energy density also fell severely, as did all the

of searching, Gravis

enough resources to make me become a Mid Unity

like I have to find another

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

There might not have been enough resources for Gravis to reach the Mid Unity Realm,

enough power

next fifteen years, Gravis did his best to teach his two new helpers. They had to become as powerful as possible for the eventual

three years later,