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

His Kingdom prospered.

exactly 15 years after Gravis had arrived in this

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

band arrived

Unity Realm Cultivators and ten

the remaining ten dealt with the other

but

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

killing an enemy

he had used to accomplish

these Cultivators had quite

his best, but he was eventually exhausted to death in the face of overwhelming

in

reopened his

Gravis thought. 'Death is not

like I made some

majesty, you need to make a

his advisor and

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

'I need more power!'

what they should do, but instead of getting an answer, something else

BANG!

exploded forward as he flew out of

advisors had no idea

hour,

three future Unity Realm

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

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms

every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators

Gravis had accomplished what

left,' Gravis thought as he checked the

of what he needed to

'I need more!'

he had already killed all the Kingdoms he

And then, death arrived.

went past a mountain, he ran into a Nascent Nourishing

even defend

BANG!

eyes again, back in the

he immediately left the hall

all the

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even more

opened his eyes again, back in the

same thing repeated itself, but this time, he went

with

again, and this time,

there

when he noticed that

everything became. The Energy density also fell severely, as

a month of searching, Gravis found nothing that could help

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

I have to find

to his Kingdom and killed the "new

his most trusted advisors to the Early Unity Realm. There might not have been enough resources for Gravis to reach the Mid Unity

have enough power to

next fifteen years, Gravis did his best to teach his two new helpers. They had

three years later, they