I broke through to level 75.

However, after that, what happened was not expected. When I broke through to level 75, my essence compressed, as was normal. However, all the essence from the monster went to feeding the compression. I remembered some seemingly useless information from school:

When you broke through to level 75, your cores compacted so much to get them to normal size you needed to have killed a monster at at least level 85 to break through. Now, my essence compression was set to a baseline factor of 10. That meant one of my resources was worth 10,000,000,000 of someone without compressions' resources.

I flew back to that star system. Sure, my skin was burnt, but I barely felt it. I was content with finally not having to worry about age. Or food. Or sleep. Or pain. And plus, with the outlandish amount of essence required to break through to level 75, I was almost on full health.

Now, I finally had granular control over my body. The first thing I did was make myself a couple inches taller. I needed it, as height made hammer technique better. I moved from good at the hammer to great at the hammer.

I made my muscles a bit bigger, so now the amplifiers for my strength were even higher. I could do that at diamond-section, but there was a limit to how big you could make yourself, so people didn't measure power by size.

I ran to the star system which I was going to conquer, then easily conquered it. I set all the planets to level 15, as they would be planets for residents, except the outermost one, which was going to be an industrial planet. And the innermost one, a level 25 military base.

I went to Earth. I had left some portal frames in the flags I had used to conquer the other solar system. I put portal frames in the flags I had used for this solar system. I established a link between them, meaning that anyone could travel between any planets in the Empire by using the flags. I made an announcement to the denizens of the Empire. I used the power to alter my vocal chords so anyone in the Empire could easily hear, even if it was a near-deaf commoner.

"I have passed gold-section, an entered the final section, diamond-section. Also, I have conquered some new planets for the Empire. Commoners can travel to these planets with the portals I have placed on each planet's conquering Sasomac Empire flag.

"They will lead to a portal room. In this portal room, there are portals to each of the planets in the Empire, along with the planet's level beside it, along with the planet's purpose. Some portals will appear gray to you, meaning that you can't go into them. For example, there is a portal to my private planet, but to all commoners, it will be greyed out. You can, however, pass through purple portals."

The portal room didn't really exist, and it was just made with the spatial magic I had had engraved into the flagposts back on Kantala, and anyone over level 50 would be able to tell that it didn't exist.

I had felt a feeling in my head ever since I broke through. I only then remembered to choose my class.

Class options:

Master Arbiter of War-Epic

You have mastered the art of the Warhammer. Your power is so great that the Earth rumbles as your hammer destroys all, turning all into a field of desolation. Your name itself causes war.

Great Hammerist-Rare

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You have mastered the art of the warhammer, so much that you can target a single piece of essence with your warhammer.

Essential Hammerist-Arcane

You have brought your hammer into the very foundation of being. Your hammer' power is so great that it can manipulate essence.

Arcane Hammerist-Rare

You have learned to bring your hammer, a tool of physical destruction, into the arcane arts.It can manipulate anything, real or not, arcane or not.

Hammerist of the Peak-Legendary

You stand at the peak, wielding a hammer. You stand alone in a field of corpses. You stand inside the soul. You stand at the very pinnacle of being, almost a godlike entity. Your hammer brings justice to your subjects. You can change the very nature of being, able to manipulate essence. A slight move of your hammer destroys entire universes. You stand at the pinnacle, unchallenged, untested, truly a great at everything. Those who dare to slightly annoy you die at a thought. You stand with the gods themselves.

Legendary classes were the things of myths. Rumor was that most gods had legendary classes. No commoner could ever get one. I was the 17th person in Kantala history to get one before godhood. I chose to see more about it.

Hammerist of the Peak-Legendary

You stand at the peak, wielding a hammer. You stand alone in a field of corpses. You stand inside the soul. You stand at the very pinnacle of being, almost a godlike entity. Your hammer brings justice to your subjects. You can change the very nature of being, able to manipulate essence. A slight move of your hammer destroys entire universes. You stand at the pinnacle, unchallenged, untested, truly a great at everything. Those who dare to slightly annoy you die at a thought. You stand with the gods themselves.

Bonuses:

Resources get automatic 1.5x compression, without decrease

Your hammer is given a 235% power increase

Your subjects will always obey you

You can control essence

Strength is highest stat, followed by all physical stats, followed by perception, followed by mental stats.

This was the best class I had ever seen, and I had read through books of tens of thousands of commoner classes. I chose it.

I went to Mars. The projects were done. I started getting commoners to build houses in the residential planets, factories on the commercial planets, and all that stuff.

I went to Mercury. I was going to have a party there, as I, the great emperor, was level 75, with a legendary class. I made today, which, incidentally, happened to be my birthday, Tighyt Sasomac day, which was a national holiday in my Empire. Now that I was standing toe-to-toe with the gods, I made it so that legally, everyone in the empire had to worship me, and no other.

All subjects would have to have a celebration on Tighyt Sasomac day. I, on Mercury, conjured a room for a giant party every Tighyt Sasomac day. I had all nobles come to the celebration. It was a giant celebration.

The next day, I had a pure gold statue of me erected on each planet in the Sasomac Empire. The crown was to be made of diamonds. All commoners were to help erect the statue. On Venus, all nobles were to erect the statue, as I watched. After the statue was erected, each time, there was a celebration.

Now that Mars was done, in the throne room in the palace there was for me on Mars, a crown sat. made of pure gold, with diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and topazes in it. There were also platinum tips, and a Greatite frame-yes, on Mars, which had been found to be metal-rich, the Empire had found Greatite, which, as like the other empire, was reserved for the Emperor. Me. A bit of Greatite stuck out of the crown in the four directions, and in the four diagonal directions, there was a bit of arcanite.

I was sitting in my throne. I put the crown on.