I ran back to Earth so fast it seemed like I teleported. The time was blur. Finally, now I didn't have to deal with overbearing emperors, sentinel assignments, and all that sort of stupid nonsense. Out in the asteroid belt, I didn't have to deal with nobility in any shape. It was just a break. I had been tensed up for almost the last four hundred billion years, even when I was a kid. I had been tense. I decided to relax. I had seen another planet when I was scouting from Earth.

Apparently, natives called it Mars. I actually had a contingency in place for my plan, which I doubted most people would think of. For commoners, I thought only geniuses would think of it. At least, that was for commoners. But as the intelligence stat got into gold-section, which was the dividing line between commoners and others, it became blindingly obvious. Once I got to Earth, I made another speech.

"I will be leaving this planet. Contact me by throwing this item."

I gave a few former world leaders items they could throw into the air to get me to come to Earth.

"I will be on Mars. It won't take much time for me to come. I wouldn't come until I was gold-section, if I were you, though, because anyone below gold-section can be killed by the slightest movement of those monsters. Well, okay, there are exceptions, but they don't matter to you. I will be leaving this mana construct I control in charge of Earth. Treat it like you'd treat me, your king, because it sends reports of anything even slightly major to me, and it, in my absence, is basically your king.

"I will be leaving for Mars now."

I sent out a tiny pulse of mana, probably less than ten billion, to the entire world as a reminder I was superior to those commoners. It wasn't much, yet, power wasn't just endurance.

If I had just increased my quantities, which was a very painful process, I'd end up with over a hundred times more mana. Technically, every five levels was a benchmark level, where instead of just increasing your mana by adding one to the part before the zeros, it would do both that and add a zero. However, naturally, if that happened, eventually, if too many people leveled up, it would overload the system. So, the system, at some benchmarks, just took that mana, added it briefly, and compressed your mana pool, making it 1/10 of the size. So, because of that, my pools were a thousand times more dense. Because of that, one mana from me was as powerful as ten of a level 0's mana pool, seeing as they had 100 mana.

So, skills still cost the same amount, but they'd be better. As an example, take fireball.

A level 3 weakling who had just unlocked it could cast a fireball, doing 50 burn damage and 10 force damage, and another one damage for each second the fire stayed lit. Let's say this fire stayed on for ten seconds. 10+10+60=80. They'd do 80 damage. That was about standard for a level 3.

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However, with mana compression, things were different. Let's say I put the exact same amount of mana into an attack.

Because the fire was 1000 times hotter, it took 1000 times longer to put out, and it did more damage. So, I'd do this much damage:

(60x1000)+(10x1000)+(1x1000x1000)=60,000+10,000+1,000,000=1,070,000 damage.

So basically, with the same attack that a level 3 did 80 damage with, with the same amount of mana, I'd do 1,070,000 damage. 13375 times as much as a level 3, with the same amount of mana. That's how powerful mana compression is.

Also, this applied to health. An attack that might kill a five normal humans in one centralized blast of power might do 500 uncompressed health, and that, rounding to the nearest even number, 0, wouldn't do any damage to me with health compression. Or, to be precise, would do half a health of damage. Quite precisely, the sort of things no-level idiots with a death wish employed to annoy me.

Stamina was an interesting thing. Since I had a stamina compression factor of 1000, I'd exert myself a thousand times as hard to burn one stamina. If I didn't have attributes.

If I was in an area where attributes and magic were sealed off, I'd still be above commoners. Not only because of my health, but also because of my stamina. I'd have to exert myself a thousand times as hard to burn a stamina point. If, to simplify it, although it was more complex, lifting a 1-pound weight for a second took 1 stamina, because my stamina was higher quality, it would take a thousand second to burn that one stamina. I could also exert myself a thousand times as hard. For example, if everyone was strong enough that the one-pound weight was all they could lift, I could lift something a thousand pounds heavy, and burn as much stamina as the commoners lifting the single-pound weights.

Factor in attributes. Let's say that the attribute restriction was lifted. The effect of endurance was to make stamina last longer. Because my endurance was 72,000,000,000,000,000, I'd have to divide that number by ten to get my increase. I'd get 720,000,000,000,000,000% as an increase. So that means, factoring in my stamina improvements, I could lift it for 720,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds to burn one stamina. And that doesn't even factor in strength. Because of that, I would get another increase in how long I could lift it.

Effects multiplied. So, I'd have to take out a zero from my strength, due to the percent, and then I'd multiply the factors.

720,000,000,000,000,000x720,000,000,000,000,000,000=518,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

I'd be able to lift that one-pound weight for 518,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds. In scientific notation, that would be 5.184x10^35. Ten to the damn power of thirty-five.

Thirty five. Or, I could lift something that many pounds, and burn 1 stamina a second. So, the max weight I could lift was 3.73248e+56 pounds. 3.73248x10^56. Yes. Over three hundred nonillion pounds.

I went to Mars. I scouted out the land. I found the best spot to transcend. I built a platform there. I went to the center of Mars, then increased Mars to a level 60 planet. I moved my house to Mars, with a contingency that I don't think any commoner would think of. My house had wheels for that.

Here's how it worked:

I would pull out a flap on the wall, which would cause wheels to come out. Now everything was ready. It was time to transcend.