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.

years later, Gravis had four Cultivators in the Unity

His Kingdom prospered.

after Gravis had arrived in this

went through the Kingdoms, annihilating all the

band arrived

up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators

against Gravis, while the remaining ten dealt with

killed two of them, but the remaining

didn't have his beast body, and he

meant that killing an enemy

he killed an enemy, the Energy he had used to

of that, these Cultivators had

tried his best, but he was eventually exhausted to death in the face of overwhelming

time in his

reopened his eyes, which quickly

as I've thought,' Gravis thought. 'Death is not the end

some mistakes along the

majesty, you need to make

looked at his advisor and

the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in 15 years is far more dangerous than the

'I need more power!'

do, but

BANG!

forward as he flew out

idea what

than an hour, Gravis reached the

annihilated the three future Unity

used most of the resources. Sadly,

'I need more resources!'

come to the Kingdoms on this

the

Gravis had accomplished what had taken

nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as he

half of what he needed to become

'I need more!'

since he had already

And then, death arrived.

mountain, he ran into a

couldn't even defend

BANG!

his eyes again,

immediately left the

last time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed their

Then, Gravis went north.

even

opened his eyes again,

itself, but

beast with

process repeated again, and

time, there was no

ecstatic when he noticed that there was no

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

Gravis found

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

like I have to

to his Kingdom and killed the "new king"

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

this, they would have enough power to

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

three years later, they betrayed