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.

later, Gravis had four Cultivators in the

His Kingdom prospered.

exactly 15 years after Gravis had arrived in this

from a more prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating all the powerful Cultivators and stealing

this band arrived

were made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators

Realm Cultivators united against Gravis, while the remaining

quickly killed two of them, but the remaining three started

his beast body, and

that killing an enemy

the Energy he had used to accomplish that

of that, these Cultivators had quite refined Battle

his best, but he was eventually exhausted to death

time in his life, Gravis

his

'Death

I made some mistakes along

majesty, you need to make a decision on

at his

way back 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

'I need more power!'

asked Gravis what they should do, but

BANG!

as he flew

idea what had just

hour,

he annihilated the three future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the remaining

most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become more powerful since I'm not a

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms on this

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators

just one week, Gravis had accomplished what had taken

years left,' Gravis thought as

needed to become a Mid

'I need more!'

had already killed all

And then, death arrived.

as Gravis went past a mountain, he ran into a

couldn't even

BANG!

again, back in

left the

annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed

Then, Gravis went north.

an even more

eyes again, back in

but this time,

with

process repeated again, and

time, there

noticed that there was no beast

the weaker everything became. The Energy

a month of searching, Gravis found nothing that could help

real!?' Gravis thought. 'There are not enough resources

I have to find another

went back to his Kingdom and killed the "new king" that had been crowned in

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

this, they would have enough power

best to teach his two new helpers. They had

later, they betrayed