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 in the Unity

His Kingdom prospered.

15 years after Gravis had arrived in

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

end, this band arrived in

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten

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

killed two of them, but the remaining three started to

beast body, and he didn't

killing an enemy didn't replenish

he had used to accomplish that

Cultivators had quite refined

but he was eventually exhausted to death in the

first time in his life, Gravis

reopened his eyes, which quickly

'Death is not

some

to make

his advisor and

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 far

'I need more power!'

should do, but instead of getting an answer, something else

BANG!

forward as he flew out

idea what

less than an hour, Gravis

annihilated the three future Unity

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

'I need more resources!'

had come to

Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing their

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

years left,' Gravis thought as

was about half of what he needed to become

'I need more!'

went towards the east since he had already

And then, death arrived.

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

couldn't even defend

BANG!

his eyes again, back

left the hall

annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed their

Then, Gravis went north.

an even more powerful

his eyes again, back in

thing repeated itself, but this

beast with too

process repeated again, and

time, there

was ecstatic when he noticed that there was no

he traveled, the weaker everything became. The Energy density also fell severely, as did all the

Gravis found

not enough resources to make me become a Mid Unity

have

his Kingdom and killed the "new king" that had been crowned in his

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

they would have enough power to resist the

his two new helpers. They had to become as powerful

years later, they