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.

Gravis had four Cultivators

His Kingdom prospered.

then, exactly 15 years after Gravis had arrived in this world,

went through the

end, this band arrived in Gravis'

five Early Unity Realm Cultivators and ten

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

of them, but the remaining three started to

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

that killing an enemy didn't replenish

enemy, the Energy he had used to

these Cultivators had quite

exhausted to death in

first time in his life,

reopened his eyes,

thought. 'Death

made some mistakes along

you need to make a decision on this

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 more

'I need more power!'

Gravis what they should do, but instead

BANG!

he

no idea what

an hour,

future Unity Realm Cultivators and gathered the

'They have already used most of the resources. Sadly, I can't consume corpses to become more powerful since

'I need more resources!'

to the Kingdoms

the most

one week, Gravis had accomplished what had taken

years left,' Gravis thought as he

about half of what he needed to become

'I need more!'

towards the east since he had

And then, death arrived.

Gravis went past a mountain,

even

BANG!

opened his eyes again, back in the

left

last time, Gravis annihilated all the Kingdoms

Then, Gravis went north.

even more

his eyes again,

same thing repeated itself, but this time, he went

with too much

and this

there

when he noticed that

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

month of searching, Gravis

this for real!?' Gravis thought. 'There are not enough resources to make me

I have to

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

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 Early Unity Realm

would have enough power to resist

new helpers. They had to become as powerful

years later,