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

His Kingdom prospered.

years after Gravis had arrived in this

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

this band arrived

made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and

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

quickly killed two of them, but the remaining three started to exhaust

beast body, and he didn't have his affinity

meant that killing an enemy didn't replenish his

enemy, the Energy he had used to accomplish

of that, these Cultivators had quite refined

best, but he was eventually exhausted to death in the

time in

then, Gravis reopened his eyes, which

thought,' Gravis thought. 'Death is not the

like I made some mistakes along

majesty, you need to make

at his advisor

the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is far

'I need more power!'

asked Gravis what they should do,

BANG!

forward as he flew out

idea what had

less than an hour, Gravis

future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the remaining

of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become

'I need more resources!'

had come to the Kingdoms

Kingdom, killing the most

week, Gravis had accomplished what

left,' Gravis

needed to become a Mid Unity Realm

'I need more!'

he had

And then, death arrived.

as Gravis went past a mountain, he ran into a Nascent

even

BANG!

opened his eyes again, back

he immediately left

last time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

even

eyes again, back in

but

beast with

again, and this time,

there

when he noticed that there was no beast

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

Gravis

Gravis thought. 'There are not enough resources to

have to find another

Kingdom and killed the "new king"

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

this, they would have enough power to

Gravis did his best to teach his two new helpers. They had

years later,