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.

later, Gravis had four

His Kingdom prospered.

exactly 15 years after Gravis had arrived in

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

the end, this band arrived in

made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten

Cultivators united against Gravis, while the remaining ten dealt with the other Unity Realm Cultivators

them, but the

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

meant that killing an enemy

the Energy he had used

these Cultivators had quite

exhausted to death in the face of

first time in his life,

his eyes, which

'Death is not the end in

some mistakes

you need to make a decision on this

looked at his advisor and

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

'I need more power!'

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

BANG!

he flew out of the

idea what had just

hour,

Unity Realm Cultivators

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

'I need more resources!'

to the

every Kingdom, killing the most

one week, Gravis had accomplished what had taken him 15

years left,' Gravis thought

what he needed to

'I need more!'

since he had already killed all the Kingdoms he

And then, death arrived.

mountain, he ran

couldn't even defend

BANG!

again, back in the

immediately left the

like last time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed their

Then, Gravis went north.

even

his eyes again, back in the

thing repeated itself, but

with too much

process repeated again, and this time, Gravis went

there was

was ecstatic when he noticed that there

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

searching, Gravis

thought. 'There are not 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

that, Gravis pushed two of his most 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

enough power to resist

best to teach his two new helpers.

three years later,