Shit.

A level 99, with the greatest treasures this realm could offer, shot a blade of flame at me. I blocked with my hammer, which slightly started to melt.

I unsummoned it. I cast a light shield with 500 layers. It was being burned through, 50 layers a second. That gave me enough time to click my ring. Almthar would come in and kill this guy.

I used a light blast which knocked the emperor back by a few million miles, which the emperor quickly crossed. With that time, I had resummoned my hammer, and slammed it into the emperor's face.

"I squash your life, and I reap your death."

I hit the emperor again. His face was visibly skewed towards one side. I sensed the emperor was level 99 only then.

The emperor started transcending. I knew someone who was transcending couldn't be attacked.

A hole into the void opened.

Almthar stepped through.

The realm shook. When Almthar took a step, the whole realm trembled.

So that was the true power of a level 200 in a tier 1 realm.

Almthar turned into his true form. He picked the transcending emperor up.

He was done transcending. The system tried pulling him towards a tier 2 realm.

But Almthar said no.

He simply smashed the ascending emperor. A bolt of pure void lightning hit the emperor. It was a level 145 attack. It didn't even leave a scratch on the infinitely strong skin of a level 200, with a compression factor of 50 more than the system.

Almthar faced me. "Why did you need help with a level 99? Oh, I forgot, that level 150 trying to stop you from attacking. I don't know how a level 150 would pull someone through the fabric of the realm, though. Anyways, I'll leave now."

Almthar left the realm. I rose to the sky. I manipulated my voice box so everyone in the whole Holthar empire or Sasomac Empire could hear. "The Holthar empire has been subjugated to the Sasomac Empire. The corrupt emperor of Holthar is dead, killed by my patron, Almthar. All diamond sections from Holthar shall train the nobles with 1 on 1 lessons in combat. Any resistance will be utterly crushed, if not by me, then by Almthar. The entire Holthar empire is now part of the Imperial Province, though Holthar's provinces will become sub provinces. The rest of the Imperial Province will be a sub province."

I was done with the speech.

I wanted a realm to fall back on, so I would subjugate the other empires once I aspected my cores. I went to Venus. I fought a few fire elementals, but it was too easy. I then remembered when I was gold-section. The monolith of hell had been a general. It was time.

I would fight the leader of the monoliths of hell.

I went to the cave where I found the monolith of hell. It was charred. I hit the wall once with my hammer.

It shattered.

Behind it stood an imposing figure, made of pure flame, on the verge of godhood.

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It glowed white like Almthar himself in his true form glowed gold. The heat it radiated probably heated up Venus by 500 degrees on the other side of the planet. It was time for a good fight, and if anything, Almthar would smash it.

I turned my cooling rune to maximum capacity. I slammed the monster with my axe.

It charged towards me.

It was so fast I was burned badly. My health was plummeting at quintillions per second. My armor was completely melted, and my hammer looked like I wouldn't be able to use it for a week. I teleported away.

In the end, my life was more important.

I ended up in interstellar space. My body burned so badly I was brighter than a star.

My summon Almthar ring was unaffected. I clicked it.

I didn't know a healing spell. I was stuck in interstellar space, with level 95 spatial monsters rapidly approaching (I had sensed them), burning hotter than a level 90 star. Pathetic. I would not die. "I shall thrive."

Something clicked.

I didn't know what it was. It was an actual click.

Fuck.

Mana.

A jaw closing...

Sharp teeth...

Guts splattered. A beam of light hit me. I was no longer on fire, if very charred.

Almthar stood like a beacon in the endless vastness of space. He wordlessly picked me up and brought us through the void into the realm of light. The light was blinding. I couldn't see. Almthar cast a strong healing spell. That was the last thing I could tell before I blacked out.

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I woke up bleary-eyed. Some town crier was screaming that the emperor was dead. What kind of bullshit was that? If that damn emperor actually had died, well, that would be the greatest thing that had happened since the Patron of Fairness was created.

I teleported clothes on. It was time for a few more centuries of boring guardwork.

The level 20 town crier screamed that Tighyt Sasomac had taken over the position of emperor.

Tighyt!

I thought he was dead. He had disappeared a few hundred thousand years ago. There were rumors he had committed treason, but that couldn't be my student. I had known him since he was my eight year old student. Because we came from the backwater planet of Kalshaman, Tighyt reaching silver section a few hundred years after I had taught him was the greatest thing that had ever happened to me. I knew his parents were visiting silver sections from Kantala, but Tighyt had stayed on Kalshaman, as one of the silver-section guardians, of which the planet could only support six, until level 39, where he got bottlenecked as there were no monsters he could fight which posed even a small challenge, besides the level 65 boss at the center which he wasn't strong enough to fight.

Still, he was one of the greatest heroes of the backwater planet. Even more so once he was generous enough to donate 20 pounds of liquid essence to the planet, allowing me to reach level 30, where I could finally go off world.

That wasn't possible. How could Tighyt have become Emperor?

I assumed it was probably some mage whipping his mind.

As I was level 53, I had free access to the capital of the province. I would go there and check if these rumors were true.

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How exactly had Tighyt burnt so badly, and gotten inside the stomach of a monster? I hadn't asked because speaking would probably be very painful, but it was something I needed to know. I would ask later.

I went into a tier 3 realm. I went to a low level planet. It was a level 210 planet.

I went into a low level area. A singular level 203 monster stood.

I hit it with a beam of light. I caused seven explosions, and blood was falling from it.

It was a water elemental. So, it was time for plant spells.

I summoned a large area of plants with mana aspects.

I wasted 3/4 of its mana. From there I just spammed it with light beams.

When it was on 1/4 health as well, the main effect of my legendary class kicked in.

It was drained to 1/8 mana and health, and 1/4 stamina. I got those things.

I put all the mana I had got from it into a blast, and hit the monster.

It died.

I reached level 201.