Essence, more dense than it had ever had, rushed through my limbs.

Finally, I was level 80. I reveled in the rush of power. Level 80 was a big milestone. Doing it within a week of arriving in the light realm proved that this was a truly great realm.

Soon, the essence started to feel normal. With a compression factor of 22.5, level 80 me was truly monstrous, being 7.5 levels up. The essence compression of between level 87 and 88.

This new class was pretty much the best class I had ever heard of, but that wasn't too surprising, considering that legendary class users were protected by imperial order.

"Wow. Your compression is impressive. I didn't notice until now, but it's the best I've ever seen for a level 80."

"My class has a benefit improving compression. It's the best benefit."

The level up was the best there had ever been so far, considering benefits were exponential.

The king summoned another shield. I hit it, and it actually worked. I broke it with my vastly improved strength (Because of odd compression, I was 5 times as strong as a level 87 with my attribute distribution, but 1/2 as strong as a level 88).

After that, I went home. I had some things to do.

First, this armor. It was good, but it needed to not be some rank-and-file armor.

Four layers wasn't enough. I added a fifth, chainmail layer, loosely fitted, but now it would be hard to change the runes.

I linked the realms I used, with mana and essence. It was hard, but it vastly improved my combat abilities.

I knew that my transcendence was falling behind. Monsters got the first one at level 65, and the next one at 75, so I was far ahead there, but by level 80, most monsters were almost done with their third transcendence. I wasn't even 1/4 of the way through.

I knew that I needed more practice than physical application, so I skipped a day. I went back to the lesson area. "I need to work on my transcendence."

"Okay. You have to alter the laws of physics on a planet. That's easy. Raw power will do that. Just, you know, smash leptons or whatever. That will get you through."

"But I'm working on getting to the capstone."

"Ahhh...

"Sure, you can just spam-use it, though that will be inefficient. The best way is by breaking the laws of physics. Just smash through some quarks."

I checked my skill list for any other glaring weaknesses.

Skill Name: Level Skill is Unlocked At: Skill Cost: Mastery Level: Convert Resource 1 100% of resource being converted 20/20 Resource Burn 2 Resource being used, and stamina cost for everything becomes 150% 20/20 Fireball 3 50 Mana 20/20 Great Smash 3 30 Mana, 10 Stamina 20/20 Warhammer Mastery 5 N/A 25/25 Strength Increase 5 N/A 20/20 Bladed Warhammer 5 50 Mana 25/25 Physical Increase 10 N/A 20/20 Radiant Warhammer 10 100 Mana 25/25 Arc of Perfect Power 10 N/A 25/25 Gravity-Defying Hammer 15 1,000 Mana 25/25 Arcane Hammer 15 10 Mana/Second 25/25 Broken Town By Hammer 20 10,000 Mana 25/25 Hammer Wham 20 100 Mana 25/25 Cut 25 1,000 20/20 Flight 25 100 Mana/Second 20/20 Power Regeneration 25 1,000 Mana/Second 20/20 Skin Armor 25 Channel, but costs vary, with more mana meaning a stronger effect. Max cost is 100,000,000 20/20 Conjure 25 Cost Varies (1 mana/gram of matter, and 1 stamina/gram of antimatter) 20/20 Power Channel 25 1,000 Mana/Second 20/20 Planet Shatter 30 100,000 Mana 25/25 Mana Control 35 N/A 20/20 Elemental Magic 35 10,000 Mana 20/20 Basic Physical Transcendence 40 100,000,000 Mana 50/50 Elemental Hammer 40 100,000 Mana 25/25 The War Hammer 45 10,000,000 Mana 25/25 Empowered Heal 45 Cost Varies, Minimum 5,000,000,000 Mana 20/20 The Mortal Rocket 50 N/A 30/30 Physical Form 50 N/A 30/30 Arcane Bolt 50 155,000,000,000 Mana 30/30 Wisdom of the Hammer 50 N/A 30/30 Harvester of the End 50 1,000,000,000 Mana 35/35 Berserk 50 1000-100000% stamina cost 30/30 Arcane Reaper of the Hammer 55 N/A 35/35 Magic Berserk 55 Skills cost 10x more mana 30/30 Physical Transcendence 58 50,000,000,000,000 Mana and 500,000,000 Stamina (Passive bonus .01%) 75/75 Magic Mastery 60 N/A 24/30 Timesight 65 10,000,000,000,000,000 Mana on a level 0, and that times whatever level the person that it's being used on is if that person is higher then level 2. 7/30 The Fine, Endless Warhammer 70 10,000,000,000,000,000 Mana 32/35 Truth of the Warhammer 72 N/A N/A Truth of the Warhammer Active 72 5,000,000,000,000,000 Mana/Second N/A Physical Transcendence 2 72 60 Willpower 29/100 The Peak of Power 75 N/A 30/30 Plane Manipulation 75 5 Willpower 35/35 Barrage of Power 75 60,000,000 Mana 35/35 Essence Hammerist 75 N/A 34/35 Pinnacle Emperor 75 2 Willpower 35/35 Beacon of Light 79 N/A

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Light Magic Mastery 79 Mana Cost Varies

2/50

Chosen of the Light One 79 N/A

7/100

Strike Though Plane 80 1/20 of total mana

33/35

Some of the newer skills were really lagging behind. The light magic ones were going to be hard, but me, a great Emperor with a legendary class about hammers-leveling that would be easy.

Both seemed to be about essence. "I want to practice using my hammer with other planes. I have two skills, Strike Though Plane and Essence Hammerist, which will need me to practice my hammer in other planes."

"No. Pureite will do that for you."

"Okay. I guess I'll just have to work on using light magic though my hammer to warp the laws of physics."

"Let me see your skill list."

I summoned it and showed the king.

"Yep. You should be right."

"Okay. Summon some inferior monsters."

Some level 75 common monsters spawned. I tried to use light mana to warp the laws of physics around them.

It didn't work.

"Among people around level 120 and higher, the transcendence where you have to change the laws of physics is considered a joke. Technically, you could just move all items up with your mana. Technically, it breaks the laws of physics by defying gravity. Just do that, even a level 1 with enough mana at their disposal could do that."

I pulled a random piece of paper out of my inventory. I levitated it with mana.

I broke the laws of physics. I had technically done the challenge. It really was a joke. It really was about knowledge.

That was out of the way.

"Another thing you could do is put the world in your inner world, and remove gravity there."

That was good enough.

"I guess I'll just work on normal hammer abilities then."

The level 200 started spawning hordes of level 75 commoner mobs. I, as a great Emperor, just hit them with my hammer, killing them.

Level 80s started spawning in normal numbers. Of course, I had a legendary class, and killed them like the bugs they were.

Four level 90s appeared. I knew a tactic. I used mana to isolate one, and then I just swung my hammer into it repeatedly, killing it quickly, as I had also covered it in mana to immobilize it. I let one through the separation, covered it in mana, and killed it. Once I had killed all four, I knew I was in trouble, because of the king's evil grin.

God of Shadows

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