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

His Kingdom prospered.

had arrived in this

went through the Kingdoms, annihilating all the powerful Cultivators and

this band arrived in

of five Early Unity Realm

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

them, but the remaining three

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

meant that killing an

he had

top of that, these Cultivators

eventually exhausted to

the first time in his

Gravis reopened his eyes, which

'Death is not the

some mistakes

need to make a decision on

at his advisor

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 more dangerous than

'I need more power!'

advisor had just asked Gravis what they should do, but instead of getting an answer, something else

BANG!

he flew out of the

advisors had no idea what had

less than an hour,

annihilated the three future Unity Realm Cultivators and

used most of the resources. Sadly,

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms on

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators and

week, Gravis had accomplished what

have nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as

what he needed to become a Mid

'I need more!'

since he had already killed all the Kingdoms he

And then, death arrived.

past a mountain, he ran into a Nascent Nourishing

even

BANG!

opened his eyes again, back in the

he immediately left the

all the Kingdoms

Then, Gravis went north.

even more powerful

opened his eyes again, back in

but this time, he went

with

process repeated again, and

there

he noticed that

further he traveled, the weaker everything became. The Energy density

searching, Gravis found nothing that

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

like I have to find another

Kingdom and killed the

might not have been enough resources for

they would have enough power to resist

did his best to teach his two new

years later,