LEFT JOIN order and limit

Try replacing:

LEFT JOIN ps a ON a.account_id = fr.author

with:

LEFT JOIN ps a 
  ON a.PrimaryKey                         --- the Primary Key of ps
     = ( SELECT b.PrimaryKey 
         FROM ps AS b 
         WHERE b.account_id = fr.author
         ORDER BY b.level DESC
         LIMIT 1
       )

Replace the LEFT JOIN clause with something like:

...
LEFT JOIN (SELECT b.account_id, b.name
             FROM (SELECT c.account_id, MAX(c.level) AS level
                     FROM ps AS c
                    GROUP BY c.account_id) AS d
             JOIN ps AS b ON b.account_id = d.account_id AND b.level = d.level
          ) AS a
       ON (a.account_id = fr.author)
...

This will still return multiple rows if there were several rows in ps with the same account ID and the same level and that level was the maximum level:

NAME  | LEVEL
Test1 | 1
Test2 | 120
Test3 | 2
Test4 | 1
Test5 | 120

If this situation can arise, then you have to decide what you want to do - and tune the query appropriately. For example, you might decide to use MAX(b.name) with a GROUP BY clause to arbitrarily select the alphabetically later of the two names.