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.

had four

His Kingdom prospered.

years after Gravis had arrived

through the Kingdoms, annihilating all

this band arrived in Gravis'

Unity Realm Cultivators and ten

against Gravis, while the remaining ten dealt with the other

two of them, but the remaining three started to exhaust

body, and he didn't have his

killing an enemy didn't replenish

killed an enemy, the Energy he had used to accomplish that was

these Cultivators

best, but he was eventually exhausted

time in his life, Gravis

then, Gravis reopened his eyes,

thought,' Gravis thought. 'Death is not the end in

like I made some mistakes along the

need to make a decision

his advisor

is not the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is far more

'I need more power!'

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

BANG!

he flew out of the

had no idea what

than an hour, Gravis reached

three future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the

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

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the

through every Kingdom, killing the

Gravis had accomplished what had taken

15 years left,' Gravis thought as he

he needed to become

'I need more!'

had already killed all the

And then, death arrived.

a mountain, he ran into a Nascent Nourishing

couldn't even defend

BANG!

his eyes again, back in the

immediately left the hall

annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed their

Then, Gravis went north.

even more powerful

again, back in

same thing repeated itself, but this time, he went

with too much

again, and this time, Gravis went

time, there was no

ecstatic when he noticed that there

The Energy density also fell severely, as did

searching, Gravis found

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

like I have

and killed the "new king" that had been

Early Unity Realm. There might not have been enough resources for Gravis to reach the Mid Unity Realm, but there were enough to

they would have enough power to resist the

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

later, they betrayed