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.

years later, Gravis had four

His Kingdom prospered.

Gravis had arrived in this

more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms,

band arrived in Gravis'

were made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten Initial

the remaining ten dealt with the other Unity Realm

of them, but

and he didn't have

killing an enemy didn't replenish

killed an enemy, the Energy he

of that, these Cultivators had quite refined

but he was eventually exhausted to death in the face

time in his life, Gravis

reopened his eyes, which

Gravis thought. 'Death is

some mistakes

majesty, you need to make a decision on this

his advisor

the way back at the beginning. It seems like dealing with the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is

'I need more power!'

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

BANG!

he flew

advisors had no idea what had

an hour, Gravis

Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the remaining

a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to

killing the most powerful Cultivators and

had accomplished what

years left,' Gravis thought as

was about half of what he needed to become a Mid Unity Realm

'I need more!'

since he had already killed all the

And then, death arrived.

mountain, he

even

BANG!

eyes again, back in

he immediately left the hall

all the

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even more powerful

opened his eyes again, back in

but this time, he

with too much

repeated again, and

time, there was

was ecstatic when he noticed that there was

became. The Energy

of searching, Gravis found

thought. 'There are not enough resources

like I have to find another

went back to his Kingdom and killed the "new king" that had

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

enough power to resist

teach his two new helpers. They had to become

three years later, they