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 in

His Kingdom prospered.

then, exactly 15 years after Gravis had arrived in this

from a more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating

this band

Unity Realm Cultivators

the

but

and

meant that killing an enemy didn't replenish

an enemy, the Energy he

that, these Cultivators had quite refined Battle

best, but he was eventually exhausted to death

in

Gravis reopened his eyes, which

thought. 'Death is not the end in this

some mistakes

to make a decision on

looked at his advisor

Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of

'I need more power!'

do, but instead of getting an answer, something

BANG!

forward as he flew

advisors had no idea

hour,

Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the remaining

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

'I need more resources!'

had come to the Kingdoms on

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful

accomplished what had

still have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as

half of what he needed to become a Mid Unity Realm

'I need more!'

had already killed all the Kingdoms

And then, death arrived.

as Gravis went past a mountain, he ran into a Nascent

even

BANG!

his eyes again, back in

immediately left the

annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed their

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even more powerful

eyes again, back

itself, but this time, he

beast with too much

repeated again, and this time, Gravis went

time, there

when he noticed that there was no beast

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

searching, Gravis found nothing that could help

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

like I have to find

the "new king" that had

the Early Unity Realm. There might not have been enough resources for Gravis to reach

they would have enough power to resist

to teach his two new helpers. They had to become as

three years later, they