The next morning they started their last six days in the training grounds, which got all of them to at least lesser-god rank. Out of everybody that got lesser-god rank during the week, only Alfred had an ability that was truly unheard of previously. It was an ability that improved the “rank” of other’s “god powers”. Of course, ranks only mattered when referring to the most common of powers, external “god powers”. They were the only ones that could have impact on the outside depending on the rank of the opponent.This meant that a person with lesser-god rank would still have their external “god power” work on a person of demi-god to full effect, and reduced effect on a lesser-god. Considering most of them had powers that were external, it was a very powerful effect for them. Lily gained the ability to boost everybody’s abilities by a 10x multiplier within her range of effect while she has the mana to do so. Jessica became a killing machine, with the ability to reduce all the stats of those within range by a 10x multiplier and also eliminate or reduce the external god powers of those near her that have a buffing effect.

Gregory managed to reach level 8 of Low-god, which was unheard of progress previously, due to gods not being allowed to use the training ground after becoming one because of cost requirements. Of course, this was allowed for the party only because of the threat that they knew Sean posed to the world. Between his unique classes abilities, his actual classes and their power, his “god power”, and the levels of those around him, they doubted even a strong well equipped party of lesser-gods would be able to stop him without difficulty. This held especially true for a group that had just attained their “god powers” and would be currently unskilled and underleveled in their use.

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Sean on the other hand had a powerful “god power” that could be used to actually control those around him as well as improve their fighting capability. On top of that, his honor guard and even some high commanders of the army also had their own “god powers” now, and one of them had a frightening internal power that enabled her to completely ignore the external powers of others regardless of their rank or other abilities affecting them. It was considered a very powerful ability, especially since she herself was also quite strong when it came to conventional classes available to her. She was almost on par with Sean, even surpassing him in some ways with regard to his lower number of high level actual combative classes. Of course, he made up for his lack of combat power with his immense potential granted by his politician unique class.

Altogether, Sean was more than prepared for any offense against him that he could think of. This didn’t factor in the combat force that Gregory’s new party would put against him, but with what he knew of the strongest people in regards to stats, none came close to him and his colossal gains in charisma from his achievements in controlling people and situations with nothing more than words and his unique class.

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After everybody had left the training zone, the lesser-gods controlling the world were surprised most by Gregory’s achievements. Despite having the lowest experience multiplier, he still managed to attain the highest level through a combination of sheer power and unmatched magical classes. Hearing some of the spells he talked about having created shocked them as well. Many of the spells were just from the classes themselves, which at his point were directly giving him knowledge of their spells. To top it off, he also used the Library of the Ancients to learn many spells that had been unused for many years prior due to a lack of skill and class levels. Spells that caused massive area destruction, but required very high level classes that until just recently nobody possessed were finally resurfacing in the “mortal” world.

Of course, it was hardly counted since it was possessed by a person who had just broken into the virtually immortal bracket. It was still quite the feat considering his age and the little amount of time he had spent in training to get to this point. Having a very high level of wisdom and using his wisdom as his primary spellcasting modifier also made him a very potent threat and made it much easier for him to learn higher level spells and gain higher level classes that most others couldn’t. Even the “gods” that allowed him to use the training area were concerned about him returning to the “mortal” world. Of course, as long as he didn’t do anything to threaten their “fun”, they wouldn’t really do anything to retaliate to him. Sean only got the ire of the “gods” by threatening the world before the merge even finished, which was quite the feat considering most of the time it took many years for things to become this corrupted after a merge began.

Regardless of the reasoning behind the acceptance of a full team of people on one planet with the level of lesser-god or higher, they knew it was presently necessary, and would not do anything to threaten the group until such time that the world was in a stable situation. Even then, they weren’t sure what they would really be able to do to the group considering that some of them were on par with a standard mid-god in terms of power. Aside from Gregory, none had reached low-god but some were very close. Eric, Elise, Lily, and Jessica had all made it to level 100 of Lesser-god, the others having reached the levels of around 70 at lesser-god. The closest to low-god was Elise, who seemed very likely to make it to low-god with just a little bit of a push. Eric also seemed likely to hit low-god, but none of the others seemed likely to hit low-god anytime soon.

To top it all off, three of them were the humans from Earth, and they had massive gains with regard to their stats through the skills they created. Gregory had the highest WIS they had ever seen, even among other god-leveled people. He wasn’t like a conventional person who would enter god-rank either, he chose to stay on the planet after becoming god-ranked. Even those specialized in magic had actual magic that was only roughly on par with Gregory’s. In terms of “god powers”, none of them truly wanted to fight him, since he not only was one of the few with creation abilities but also had internal powers. That, and they weren’t sure what his unique class would be able to replicate, and they weren’t willing to push him to find out.

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The entire group finally finished their training, and the group of gods who had brought them here finally brought them to Earth. They were informed by their superiors, that the overall strength of the group should be enough to take on any threat that had been created, and that there should be no problems as long as they go straight to Sean and take care of him. Gregory found it confusing that they said there should be no problem, but Sean had a strange power it seemed, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected either.

As they reached the central city, they found that the guards guarding the central city were all of at least demi-god level and some were even lesser-god level. It confused them that the levels had increased this much from what they were told, and in just two weeks time. Of course, from what they knew about Sean’s ability, he only had to improve himself and all those under him would be improved as well. To have such an ability seemed incredibly ridiculous, but at the same time, it didn’t help that they were no better trained in the art of combat or skills. Those people were basically given their power for free, and would not have the classes that others of their same level would have either.

Still, it didn’t mean they wanted to fight an army of people with that ranking. They also noticed that many people were being turned away from entering, even some people with high level passes from other cities were not being allowed entry without express permission. Of course, when one commands the strongest military force they had ever seen, and likely on the planet, it wasn’t unruly to make excess demands for entry. Standing on the outskirts, Gregory was feeling his way in using magic, and finally found something that may get them inside without alerting anyone. It required him to cloak the group with his mana, and use that mana to prevent the detection magic from discovering them. This particular ability is one he had learned after maxing out the class called ‘Master of Mystic Seals’. He used his mana to ‘seal’ the presence of those within a radius of him that he had selected.

After having used his ability to get inside without detection, he discovered that the military force had indeed risen in power. The weakest among them all were upper level demi-god, and the strongest among the standard military were at the lower lesser-god level. If this were where the standard military had gotten to, then it begged the question, where had Sean and his honor guard gotten to for levels and rank? This did not discourage Gregory though, it simply made him realize that Sean truly was somebody to hold with caution. Sean was capable of leveling up at unheard of rates, even when considering the rates at which the present group had been leveling up at with all their special locations. Of course, not many could use the same methods as Sean, considering he presumably had some very powerful unique class and a possibly powerful “god power”. Sean on the other hand likely knew very little about the present group, and would have no idea such a powerful “strike force” was aiming to get him out of his present seat of “power”.

Of course, if Sean were removed from the seat of power, it raised the question who would take over the human kingdom. While it wasn’t a good way of doing things, humans had achieved more over recent months than they had ever managed previously. They were higher leveled, further along socially, and there were fewer dying to war. Of course, there were more of other races dying to war, and the deaths would still be avoidable by selecting a new leader that wasn’t prone to war. Only humans on this planet loved violence like this, so it was entirely possible for them to achieve more if they were to become peaceful with some of the other races.