I went to Earth. I made a longer speech, finally.

"Commoners, I have an opportunity for you. I will move my house from Mars to Venus, and on Mars, you shall set up a capital city. Build walls for the city within the red flags, as those will repel monsters. Along with that, in the deepest crater, set up a platform with a jail under it. The platform should be large enough to hold a hundred trucks. On the other side of the planet, within the orange flags, set up a training ground. I shall create the monster spawners, but you shall create the walls, floor and ceiling. Set up the platform within the yellow flags. This project starts in three months, and will last two years. Materials shall be provided, and all workers will be excused from taxes for the duration of the project, and will be paid a pound of gold per hour."

I went to Mars. I pulled out the handle of my house, and yanked it through space to Venus. If anyone besides me tried to enter Venus, they would pay dearly. I would force them to pay essence.

After I set down my house on Venus, and claimed it as a private planet for me in the Empire, I went back to Mars. I had three tasks to accomplish. Well, they were easy, but only I, a king, and maybe a few nobles, at least in the Sasomac Empire, could do it.

The first place I went was to the spot where my house had been. It was in a place called the Jezero Crater. I marked off the entire crater with red monster-repelling flags. I used conjure to make a bunch of materials for the commoners to build the city. I made a barrack for those commoners with conjure, and made a log of who had done what in the construction.

I moved to the second spot. The place where I had ascended. I marked it off with the same flags, except they were yellow. I summoned the materials, the log, and the barrack. I did the same with orange flags at an extremely high-magic spot. I made spawners that would automatically start when construction of the place was done.

I left Mars, and set off for my next target to conquer. As Earth, Mars, and Venus had a Sasomac Empire flag, that would be the way to conquer a planet for the Sasomac Empire-put a Sasomac Empire flag on it. I realized I was forgetting something: magic on Venus.

I went to Venus's core, then raised it to level 70. I was basically out of mana now.

While I waited for my mana to regenerate, I used my physical stats to conquer the rest of the solar system, by putting flags on the rest of the planets. Now, the Sasomac Empire had eight planets:

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There was also a heat-resistant flag on the star, called the Sun, but I didn't linger there too long, as it was uncomfortably hot. It was like a 90 degree Fahrenheit day for a level 0 commoner-survivable but unpleasant.

My mana was fully recovered. I had set the sun to level 15, but instead of going to the core, which I had heard was even less pleasant, I brute-forced it and just covered the star in a huge blanket of mana, which were attracted by the core. I set Mercury to level 49, as I wanted Mercury to be a noble-only planet, mainly for level 50 parties, war strategy sessions, and that kind of stuff. I had instructed the former president to set Jupiter to level 20, as it was a training planet for people from level 15-25.

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Saturn was set to level 45 by the general, as it was supposed to be a planet for higher-levels. Uranus was level 35, and it was being used as a training planet. Neptune was level 50, and used for farming materials. I decided to conquer one more planet. As I had conquered the sun, as interempire law said, I would have all the comets and asteroids to myself. I set all of them to level 7-so they'd generate mana on their own. Pluto, the final planet, was another training planet, for levels 35-45, so I set it to level 40.

It was time to go train.

I started the project for the three sites on Mars. I then went to train.

Those commoners could toil at the projects I had designed to let me train, and I would reap the rewards. I went to Venus to train, though. I found a horde of 37 level 68 monsters. I slammed my warhammer into one, instantly crippling it. It crumpled to the ground, bones cracking. I did a spin attack, making eighteen more break their bones. I ran through the crowd, crippling all, and killing some with headshots, then killing them. The monsters seemed to be fire magic focused, so all they had done to me was shoot some firebolts, which did some damage, but it wasn't that much damage, and it wasn't painful. They barely had barely any exp, and seemed to be the weakest of level 68 monsters. The bottom of the food chain, almost.

I knew I'd need to kill stronger stuff then fodder. I found another horde of them, this time with them being level 67, with 49 monsters. I killed them just as easily.

In total, while checking out the area, I found seven hordes. I figured that those, and these level 85 bosses I had seen but resolved to stay away from were all that spawned on this area of the surface. However, I couldn't just run to another continent. Sure, planets were small on the outside, but high level planets were spatially expanded. Level 35 planets had a 1.5:1 ratio, meaning that they were 1.5 times bigger. Level 50 planets had a 176:3 ratio, meaning they were 58.666... times bigger. Level 65 planets had a 500:1 ratio, meaning they were 500 times, or 500/1 times bigger. There was no formula to this, though.

A level 70 planet like Venus would have a 10000:1 ratio. It was roughly 178 million square miles on the outside, but ten thousand times that on the inside. That would be 1.78 trillion square miles. No commoner could possibly pass that in a lifetime. It would even take me, the great emperor of the Sasomac empire a long time. So, I used the efficient way:

I left the planet. I found another spot, a bit away, and moved there. I checked the local monsters. Venus was already taking a slight fire affinity. There were solid-bodied level 73 fire elementals.

Elementals were run-of-the-mill monsters. I knew that solid-bodied elementals were one of my favorite monsters to fight. They were commoners, and they would be put down. By me, the great Emperor. I found a small group of three, and killed them. The fight wasn't that hard, but it was time for me to let loose and have some fun. I hadn't done anything fun in the last 25000 years or so, so I decided I would grind to level 75 in this area, then throw a huge party.

An elemental charged. I slammed my hammer into it, throwing it sideways. And, the elemental activated the effect I hadn't seen in so long. One of my favorite effects, too.

The fire elemental's intensely attuned mana activated a rune in my hammer. It lit on fire, but then the inverse rune paired to that activated. My hammer was doused in water. I charged at the second elemental, killing it in just three hits. The water was more intense now, and the second one was killed in two hits. I just tapped the other one lightly, killing it.

I killed thousands of elementals that way. I was at the peak of level 73, and in an elemental den (yes, fire elementals lived in dens). I had cleaned out all the elementals except one. I stood in front of it.

Fire Elemental of Venus General

Level 80

There was no escape.