"What made you come here man?"
Benjamin sipper the wine and said, "I need some quick money. I do not want my family to know about it."
Levi smiled and asked, "Did you find a mistress and want to keep the news away from your parents?"
Benjamin smiled and said, "I plan to get married and I want to do it as soon as possible. I do not want to wait for my family to allow it."
Levi asked in doubt, "Why? You could marry anyone better than her. You should know each level gap of social hierarchy here is thousands of times higher than that of outside. Above a cadet is a soldier but a cadet from the home planet when leaving the planet to other planets can command ten thousand men but a soldier when leaving our home planet can command 3 cities. I have seen many like you who forget about the federation and live simply as if the city is all there is to it. You think that your subordinate is just a step below you and your boss is just one step above you. Believe me man, she is not worthy of you marrying her now. I did not speak too much when you held back from other women and waited for her to make some achievements to promote her to make her your equal. If she had enough talent that was another case but she does not seem to have that much talent. It is your presence that makes her achievements known and let her get promoted."
Benjamin looked at Levi and did not speak as he knew that this was the truth. He looked at Levi and said, "Forget about it. I plan to marry her now. Help me get some money."
Levi sighed as he kept compressing the cube he held. He spoke in fear, "Elena will attack me as she holds you dear. She keeps herself pure for you. Even if you can hold her back and protect me, you cannot hold back your parents and grandparents. Even if you send me outside the planet, my sister will not leave me alone."
Benjamin chuckled and said, "There is no need to worry about it. I will soon get promoted and do not want to wait any more longer before getting married. I will let you come along with me."
Levi shook his head. Benjamin smiled and used aura control to control the cube he held and took it to his hand through the air. He smiled at Levi and said, "I am an Aura master. Would you like to join me Levi?"
Levi had shocked expression. The number of aura masters of the federation was about 30,000 among all of humanity. Each one was valued and give the position of captain at the first native planet. He stood up in happiness and excitement and being attached to such aura master was what he wanted. He did not have any talent in business like his sisters nor had any talent in research like this Benjamin. He could only live and wait to die or get demoted and marry someone of lower status than him. So it was good enough for him.
Levi smiled and asked, "How much money do you need?"
Benjamin smiled as he thought about how much money he needed. He needed as much money as he could get. There were differences in intent level among intent lords. He just had level 13 intent. He was sure to reach level 50 within a year and level 60 within 10 years as that was the flow of money in the account of an intent lord. But he planned to make a strong announcement as a strong lord. There are still some foolish alien races who think that they could eliminate a newly born intent lord.
Since he had level 13 intent, he could use one joule of energy to corrupt 6,227,020,800 joules of energy. A ten ton strength type aura was roughly about 100 million joules as such aura could attacks thousands of times with the strength to lift ten tons of mass. So a person having 100 kg of aura held about 1 million joules of energy which was roughly the energy stored in an ordinary human without any genetic optimization.
He currently had 4 aura rings and held about 10,000 tons of aura in his body which was about a trillion joules. So he could use all his intent to corrupt about 21 digit amount of joules of energy per second as unlike other intent lords he had unlimited aura. No matter how much energy he had corrupted, as long as no one else claims it, the intent lord could control it. Theoretically speaking, even the worst intent lord if there was one could corrupt a whole star if given enough time and could threaten a civilization if he needed.
Luckily his intent was strong and his energy was strong. But each increase in level could could increase the amount of energy he could corrupt by more than 10 times as currently his intent was at level 13. He had to always ready. He planned to get at least a million coins so that his basic intent would reach about level 20 allowing him to have 18 digit number of times the corruption and with the current energy he held, he could destroy a planet within seconds. That was the basic security he needed.
So he simply said, "I plan to mortage my house and my spaceships. That should get me about 100 million coins." although he just had 10,000 coins in his personal account, he had inherited enough property. He needed money more than such property.
Levi looked at Benjamin and asked, "Are you going on a private expedition to make some money. Do you plan to buy enough buildings?"
Benjamin smiled and said, "Something similar to that."
Levi said, "I am willing to donate 10 million."
Benjamin looked at Levi in doubt. He never expected Levi to mortage his property to support him. So he said, "I want it within three days. Do you have any other means of getting some money. "
Levi spoke, "There is an alien prince who has immigrated here. He is strong so he opens a ring which allows anyone to challenge him. The people are paid as per the strength they have. The prince simply wants to give away money to make more connections and since he cannot simply give away the money, he acts as an experience pack."
Benjamin thought and said, "What is the maximum one could get after defeating him?"
Levi spoke, "A million coins."
Benjamin asked, "Why is he so rich?"
Levi smiled and said, "His planet produces mira fruit."
Benjamin sighed and said, "I thought that was just a legend."
Levi shook his head and said, "It isn't. Only his race when living in that planet can cultivate it. "
Benjamin nodded and said, "I will challenge him after the money comes in."
Levi nodded. Both of them clinked their glasses of wine and drank from it.