Benjamin looked at the people who were fighting on the news. They were indeed strong and they were the reason that humanity won the war. While others had technology, there was a reason why humanity stood above all races as the predator.
Humanity was one of the few races who could control energy in the primitive form. Although the form it had formed was namely called aura, it was possible for many humans to activate aura when they get skilled in any one of the skills too much. The aura is converted from digested energy and can even be projected as any known and observed item and can be used to feed any known item or living being although force feeding another being reduced the probability of that being awakening aura.
So when humans who could project items such as guns and shoot fought against biological weapons of triangular-heads that were hundreds of meters tall by simply using a sword, they could not speak too much. They were not arrogant enough to use the planetary destroyers as the inter-galactic union would never allow it and humans had their own measure to destroy the galaxy and die out with everyone else.
Aura could strengthen the body in all manners increasing intelligence in multiple magnitudes and hence most designs of humanity were indeed beyond most other race. But that was not the biggest reliance as human had a power beyond aura named intent. The name intent was not something other races could hear without shivering as it destroyed many empires and kingdoms. Humanity was hence named not to be touched unless necessary.
Intent was in the most rudimentary understanding just a projection of will. But when a human lord with aura names the term intent, he does not refer to the intent of thought but the intent projected through the power of will through energy to the external world. Intent was simple. A level 10 intent could increase the power of an attack by 10 times breaking the energy conservation of energy, could increase the defence and all strength by ten times, effectiveness as needed of any object or property as understood by ten times. There was a time when the sword lord simply used the intent to speed up the calculation speed of Zen supercomputer. There are some things that even humanity cannot understand but intent was indeed strong.
But one cannot teach how to use intent as hundred people carrying the same intent will have different understandings and meanings of the same intent. But that was not the biggest feature of intent.
Aura could be said to be the best type of energy in the universe as even the weakest human body could theoretically hold up to infinite energy and utilize it without any side effect including harm. But not all aura reached the ideal state but even then, it is possible to hold millions or even billions or times more energy. And the longer a person holds such aura, the effectiveness of aura keeps increasing. So the strength of the body is usually defined in 2 terms, physical strength and aura circulation speed.
Not many practise the direction of physical strengthening as those who become lord wants to live and enjoy life with their friends and family. They do not want one of their uncontrolled touch to kill their loved ones.
But aura circulation was better in all manner as it does increase all body features and has higher control over the self and the body than the physical strengthening path. The other advantage of aura was that unlike the physical defence that was higher in some areas and lower in other areas, the defence due to aura was over all points as per the precision of aura control with the maximum defence as the maximum aura held in the body. Hence aura masters had millions or billions of times defence than their real strength.
Another advantage of aura circulation type of strength was that even if the energy in the body bottoms out, the body can survive in a hibernation state of a long time but the physical strength route does not have this advantage.
So lack energy was the core thing that limited the advantage of aura. But not all kinds of energy could be absorbed. Humans had to eat food and then digest it to form into aura. There were limits to how much budget could be spend developing food with higher calories and even if there was such food, it could not speed up the digestion speed.
Here was where the intent showed the fangs. Intent could corrupt energy. A level 1 intent could corrupt 1 unit of energy into the energy of aura into that of level 1 type. This meant that any intent master could survive in the universe for years till death without eating. But that was not all as level 3 intent could corrupt 2 units of energy using 1 unit of energy filled into that of 6 units of energy filled with level 1 intent. A level 10 intent could corrupt 36,28,800 units of energy into that of level 1 intent. This had meant that a human with higher level intent could take over the interstellar fortresses of other races just by using a small amount of energy and they could not even detect it. The human did not even have to be near that place as such intent corruption bomb could be made into objects. The corruption was not limited to objects and energy not under the will of others. Humans could corrupt other living being and make them into intent slaves. They would do what they usually do without having any other change as usual except that they have a new master above them.
Hence humans were one of the most respected race.
The lifespan when aura activates is only increased by ten times when aura is of ideal state. But the intent increases the lifespan further. A level 20 intent increases lifespan by20 times on the increase of lifespan due to aura which meant a total increase in lifespan by 200 times.
So a person with aura was called a master in the human federation and a person with intent was called lord. Such intent lords were acknowledged by all races as even though there were rules prohibiting use of intent based corruption in warfare as per the inter-galactic treaty, such rules only held back the federation. It did not stop from the same lords who held power in the federation from taking action personally.
So he was filled with honour and respect towards such warriors. He smiled thinking about the standing position of his race and how he too was part of this race. But a tinge of sadness filled his eyes. His grandfather was one of the few who had awakened aura and hence had made enough merits even though he had not had intent.
He always wanted to be like his grandfather too who could just mimic any items into the world with all functions using aura. He also wanted the power to just use aura to charge his bike rather than having to pay for the nitrite crystals. But he had indeed not activated aura.
Hence sadly for him, the only thing he could do was to live happily in a good society, earn enough money and then live a good life till 300 years old. How he wished if he could activate aura as then he could simply be named a master. He could even drive his bike to work like other masters. He could even get the unreal mechanical drive that was forged with intent forged materials and was a weapon purely used for war.
He closed the app and continued doing his work as the lunch break was over.