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 Cultivators

His Kingdom prospered.

exactly 15 years after Gravis had

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

the end, this band arrived in

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten Initial

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

quickly killed two of them, but

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

an enemy didn't replenish

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

of that, these Cultivators

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

first time in his life,

Gravis reopened his eyes, which quickly

'Death is not the end in

like I made some

you need to make

at his

Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is far more dangerous than

'I need more power!'

had just asked Gravis what they should do, but instead of getting an answer, something else

BANG!

he flew out of the

advisors had no idea what

an hour, Gravis reached the Red-White

annihilated the three future Unity Realm

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

'I need more resources!'

to the Kingdoms on this

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing their

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

still have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as

needed to

'I need more!'

he had already killed all

And then, death arrived.

a mountain, he ran

even defend

BANG!

his eyes again, back in

he immediately left the hall

all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even more powerful

eyes again, back

itself, but this

beast with too

and this time,

there was no

when he noticed that there

became. The Energy density also fell severely, as did

Gravis found

thought. 'There are not enough resources to

I have to find another

his Kingdom and killed the

trusted advisors to the Early Unity Realm. There might not have been enough

they would have enough power

Gravis did his best to teach his two new helpers. They had to become as powerful as possible

three years later, they