The progress that had happened was enormous. Due to the education system, the people started to almost worship Dante. He had twisted most of the people's perspective to believe him to be the most powerful and merciful leader.
This worked mostly because he had both "fixed" the empire and helped the poor and giving them the chance to climb the ranks. He had also used the people's lack of education to push in his greatness making him seem to be the only thing making the empire prosper.
The people however that didn't want to follow him were called heretics that abandoned his kindness and made them slaves.
He had also begun to fill in the positions of power with the most zealous people that he helped from being poor to become rich. This further boosted their belief. He then used these people to spread the words of his kindness to other people.
He had also taken over three-thirds of the continent by causing revolutions and then swooping in as the great leader killing the king and "freeing" them. He had also created giant statues of himself spreading more and more propaganda. He also recruited promising people to become knights.
When he turned thirty he had imprisoned different monsters from dungeons and had them work instead of slaves. The most used monster slaves were the undead and goblins.
He had captured Elder liches and forcing them to resurrect corpses of peasants and fallen soldiers and had them work in the machines. He also used goblins most as free corpses due to their extreme breeding speed and killed them and made them undead.
The machines were now getting bigger and bigger and had machines driven by the undead help in the fields and transport goods.
This made the lives of the peasants even better. But he didn't let them get too lazy because he saw what happened on earth when you had the humans have too much freedom.
He had the humans be both overseers and have them research magic. He had furthermore had them create new spells that could increase the effectiveness of their mines and farms.
The normal thing to see on a farm was now some undead and some nature mages. The mages boosted the growth and health of the plants while the undead harvested them.
He now often wore a giant golden armor that was engraved with diamonds and jewels that covered his whole body. This was mostly done to boost his own image and to put on the throne if he leaves.
When he turned thirty-five he was already bored with being a leader so he had his most zealous devotes become the pillars of the empire. These were called the ten pillars and consisted of ten people that represented different jobs.
These were told that the emperor must rest and told them that they shall be the people making the empire progress. He then put his giant golden armor on his giant throne and locked the doors to the throne room.
Then he began his journey. He wore only robes and because he was going to see the rest of the world he took with him the collector box that he kept.
The journey began on the west continent by using a boat that he had created boosted by magic. He started in a coastal village that was filled with primitive technology.
This continent was first mostly populated by orcs. These orcs had developed quite a weird type of society when the dungeons were created. They had begun to mix in with the trolls, goblins, and other types of greens lined monsters.
These two races easily blended together due to the orcs only seeing them as fellow orcs due to their same skin color. They had also killed the other dungeon monsters that were not green due to them being highly aggressive toward none green skin creatures.
The skill books obtained from these dungeons were then given to the leader of each tribe and made them stronger. The orcs believed that this was an act of their gods blessing them with power by doing trials.
After arriving in the village he disguised himself by having a robe cover his whole body. When the green skins saw this creature that arrived that wore strangely colored clothes.
They were first aggressive towards him but upon seeing that he had no bad intentions they calmed down. The first thing he did was take out a skill book that he gifted to the chieftain. He did this because he wanted to see how the change in power would affect the neighboring villages.
The skill book was a fire magic book that was quite rare among humans but was among green skins due to their low affinities with magic. This didn't mean that they couldn't use magic but it meant that they had a lower chance of getting a magic book in a dungeon.
When the chieftain used the book he suddenly got knowledge about this strange magic and tried it. When he saw that he could manipulate flames he was about to thank the strange person but when he looked back he was gone.