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

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

band arrived

Unity

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

them, but the remaining three started to

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

meant that killing an

he had used to accomplish that was

of that, these Cultivators had

exhausted to death in the face of

first time in

his

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

some mistakes along the

majesty, you need to make

looked at his advisor

not the true goal. The band of

'I need more power!'

Gravis what they should do, but instead of getting an answer, something

BANG!

he flew

idea

hour, Gravis reached

annihilated the three future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the

have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to

'I need more resources!'

had come to the Kingdoms on this

went through every Kingdom, killing the most powerful Cultivators and grabbing

Gravis had accomplished what had taken

nearly 15 years left,' Gravis thought as he checked

needed to become a

'I need more!'

towards the east since he had already

And then, death arrived.

went past a mountain, he

even

BANG!

again, back in the

immediately left the hall

time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

an even

again, back in the

itself, but

with too much

repeated again, and this time,

there

noticed that there

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

month of searching, Gravis found nothing that could help

Gravis thought. 'There are not enough resources to make me become a Mid

like I have to

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

have enough power

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

later, they betrayed