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 the

His Kingdom prospered.

Gravis had arrived in this

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

band arrived in Gravis'

made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten Initial Unity Realm

Gravis, while the remaining

two of them, but the

his beast body, and he didn't have his affinity

meant that killing an enemy didn't replenish his

enemy, the Energy he had

top of that, these Cultivators had quite refined Battle

eventually exhausted to

the first time in his life, Gravis

Gravis reopened his eyes, which

I've thought,' Gravis thought. 'Death is not

like I made some mistakes along

to make

looked at his

the true goal. The band of raiders that comes in

'I need more power!'

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

BANG!

he flew out

had no idea what had just

less than an hour, Gravis reached the

future Unity

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

'I need more resources!'

had come to the Kingdoms on

killing the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing

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

nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as he checked

he needed to become a

'I need more!'

east since he had already killed all the Kingdoms

And then, death arrived.

went past a mountain, he

even defend

BANG!

his eyes again, back

he immediately left

Gravis annihilated all the

Then, Gravis went north.

found an even

opened his eyes again,

repeated itself, but

with too much

again, and this

time, there was no

ecstatic when he noticed that there

traveled, the weaker everything became. The Energy density

of searching, Gravis found nothing that

not enough resources

I have to find

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

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 power to

did his best to teach his two new helpers. They had

three years later,