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

　　3/20The author`s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.

　　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

　　Level 100