All in all, our time out in the Dungeon and time spent training back at the Palace was immensely helpful for getting us stronger, and it had only been a month since I had gotten back to the Empire.
Already I was seeing a gigantic increase in stats, from mid 70's to 90's in just a months time; before, a handful of points in a single stat would take me multiple weeks to get, and that wasn't excluding any level ups I might have gotten.
Before the war, we simply never pushed ourselves as hard as we were now, and it was understandable; the worst we had to deal with was Jillian's pettiness that we thought wouldn't go past minuscule political attacks and the occasional hit squad; in other words, typical Noble attitude regarding not getting what they wanted and seeing someone else thriving that they deemed beneath them.