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.

four Cultivators in the

His Kingdom prospered.

Gravis had arrived

prosperous area went through the Kingdoms, annihilating

this band

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten Initial

united against Gravis, while the

quickly killed two of them, but

have his beast body, and he didn't have

killing an enemy didn't replenish

he had used to accomplish that was

top of that, these Cultivators had quite

tried his best, but he was eventually exhausted to death

first time in his life, Gravis

Gravis reopened his eyes,

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

made some mistakes along the

to make a decision on this

at his

the Red-White Kingdom is not the true goal. The band of raiders that

'I need more power!'

they should do, but instead of

BANG!

forward as he

advisors had no idea what

an hour,

three future Unity

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

'I need more resources!'

had come to

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

Gravis had accomplished

left,' Gravis thought

he needed

'I need more!'

towards the east since he had already

And then, death arrived.

a mountain, he ran

couldn't even defend

BANG!

eyes again,

he immediately left the

all the Kingdoms and

Then, Gravis went north.

even more

his eyes again, back

repeated itself, but this time, he

with too

again, and this time,

there was no

ecstatic when he noticed that there was

everything became. The Energy density also fell severely, as did all

month of searching, Gravis found nothing that could help

'There are not enough resources to make me become a Mid Unity Realm

have to

the "new king" that had

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

enough power

years, Gravis did his best to teach his two new helpers. They had to become as powerful as possible

later,