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

His Kingdom prospered.

after Gravis had arrived

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

band

made up of five Early Unity Realm

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

of them, but the remaining three started to exhaust

beast body, and he

that killing an enemy didn't replenish

he had used to

top of that, these Cultivators had

but he was eventually exhausted

in

his eyes,

as I've thought,' Gravis thought. 'Death is not the end in

I made some mistakes along

need to make a

looked at his

at the beginning. It seems like dealing with the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of

'I need more power!'

should do, but instead of getting an answer, something

BANG!

forward as he flew out of

no idea what

less than an hour, Gravis reached the

three future Unity Realm Cultivators and

a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly,

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms on this

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful

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

years left,' Gravis thought as he checked

half of what he needed to become a Mid Unity Realm

'I need more!'

had already killed all the

And then, death arrived.

mountain, he ran into a Nascent

even defend

BANG!

eyes again, back

left the hall

time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even more powerful

again,

itself, but

beast with too much

again, and this time,

time, there was no

he noticed that there was no

became. The Energy density

of searching, Gravis found nothing

for real!?' Gravis thought. 'There are not enough resources to make

like I have

back to his Kingdom and killed the "new king"

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 two Early Unity Realm

have enough power to resist

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

later, they