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.

four Cultivators

His Kingdom prospered.

had arrived in this world,

robbers from a more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating

end, this band arrived in

up of five Early Unity

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

two of them, but the remaining three started

his beast body, and

meant that killing an enemy didn't replenish

an enemy, the Energy he had used to accomplish that

that, these Cultivators had quite refined

best, but he was eventually exhausted to

in his

Gravis reopened his eyes,

thought. 'Death is not

some mistakes along the

need to make a

looked at his advisor

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 far more dangerous than the

'I need more power!'

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

BANG!

he flew out of the

had no idea what

than an hour, Gravis

future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the remaining

Gravis thought with a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become more powerful since

'I need more resources!'

to the Kingdoms on

Kingdom, killing the

had accomplished what had

years left,' Gravis thought as he checked

what he needed to become a

'I need more!'

went towards the east since he had already killed all the Kingdoms he

And then, death arrived.

went past a mountain, he ran into a Nascent Nourishing

even defend

BANG!

eyes again,

he immediately left the hall

last time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

an even

opened his eyes again, back

repeated itself, but

with too much

and this time, Gravis

time, there was

when he noticed that there was no

traveled, the weaker everything became. The Energy density

a month of searching, Gravis found nothing that could

'There are not enough resources to

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 two

they would have enough power to

his two new helpers. They had to become as powerful as possible for the

years later,