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.

exactly 15 years after Gravis had arrived

more prosperous area went through the

the end, this band arrived in

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten Initial Unity Realm

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

two of them, but the remaining three

didn't have his beast body, and

killing an enemy didn't

enemy, the Energy he had used to accomplish that was

of that, these Cultivators

eventually exhausted to death in the face of

first time in

his eyes, which quickly

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

like I made some mistakes along

need to make a

his

not the true goal. The band

'I need more power!'

what they should do, but instead of getting

BANG!

exploded forward as he flew out of

advisors had no idea what

than an hour, Gravis reached

he annihilated the three future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the

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

'I need more resources!'

come to the Kingdoms

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators

one week, Gravis had accomplished

have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis

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

'I need more!'

the east since he had already killed all

And then, death arrived.

as Gravis went past a mountain, he ran

couldn't even defend

BANG!

again, back in the

immediately left

last time, Gravis annihilated all the

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even more

his eyes again,

itself, but this time, he

with too

and this time, Gravis went

there

noticed that

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

Gravis found nothing that could

'There are not enough resources to make me become a Mid Unity

I have to find

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

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

have enough

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

later, they betrayed