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

His Kingdom prospered.

after Gravis had arrived in

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

this band arrived in Gravis'

were made up of five Early Unity Realm Cultivators

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators united against Gravis, while the

quickly killed two of them, but the remaining three started to

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

meant that killing an enemy didn't replenish his

an enemy, the Energy he had used to accomplish

of that, these Cultivators

but he was eventually exhausted to death in

first time in

Gravis reopened his eyes,

Gravis thought. 'Death

like I made some mistakes along the

need to make a decision on

looked at his advisor and

with the Red-White Kingdom is not the

'I need more power!'

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

BANG!

exploded forward as he flew

advisors had no idea what

an hour, Gravis reached

annihilated the three future Unity Realm Cultivators

with a frown. 'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses

'I need more resources!'

apocalypse had come to the Kingdoms

the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing

one week, Gravis had accomplished what had

left,' Gravis thought as he checked

what he needed to become a Mid Unity Realm

'I need more!'

towards the east since he had already killed all the Kingdoms

And then, death arrived.

past a mountain,

even

BANG!

again, back

he immediately left the hall

Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms and pocketed

Then, Gravis went north.

an even

his eyes again, back in

itself, but this time,

beast with too much

repeated again, and this

there

when he noticed that

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

of searching, Gravis found nothing

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

like I have to

went back to his Kingdom and killed the

to the Early Unity Realm. There might not have been enough resources for Gravis

have enough power

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

three years later,