Roger smiled while sitting on top of the horse. Most of the leaders were standing at the side as they had sent their representatives to hunt. Roger was riding the horse easily as he had enslaved the horse. He had let it hide it as he had no interest in showing that he would not even need to touch it to impart intent within a moment.
Roger was riding the horse easily in the fores cultivated by Athens. It held various kinds of animals. He was approached by the dictator who smiled and said, "I heard that you stayed to watch the whole ceremony from beginning to end."
Roger smiled and said, "I like ceremonies."
Edison said, "I have got news that the aircraft carrier and warships of Dynalis was destroyed by some animals. Their fighter jets were also shot down by some birds. I never thought that your intent when imparted on such animals made them stronger.
Roger smiled and said, "Intent alone is not strong enough to make them strong. They have huge aura. You should not be like that nobles who know nothing about the history of aura and intent, right?"
Edison chuckled and said, "Your revelation of being an Intent lord made all of us check the records. What are your plans for humanity? Even if you do not use weapons of mass destruction, you can simply let humanity not progress as you and your subordinates live long enough and this is when considering that you have no imparted your intent onto animals, making them stronger and powerful. What if they evolve over generations, getting more intelligent and powerful with higher affinity to aura."
He liked that idea. He planned to choose a race that would reproduce in huge amounts fast enough while is still big enough to cause an impact on humanity. He thought about mice but was disgusted by them. He then decided on ants as enslaving an ant queen and lettig them grow stronger over time was indeed a good method. He would also feed them with excess aura and let them keep reproducing and expanding.
There was also the fact that intent beings does not need to eat food as even the weakest person with intent will convert matter surrounding him to make the matter needed for the body. Energy alone with run the body and hence matter such as food or converted matter will only be needed when they have injuries. They would also need no air and hence can survive in space. So he planned to let them live on Ganymede the planet near Gaea and let them live there and reproduce there. They would die when time comes and their carcass will fill the world. He also planned to sent some plants there. The dead bodies should mix on the planet and change it. If it does not, let it be a failed experiment.
Roger was happy with Edison who gave him a good idea. Intelligent people are present in all eras but inspiration is hard to find. It might be from a story or from the words of an old man, but it will let you remember all that you have learnt till now to come up with a new idea that is useful for you.
He said, "I plan to let humanity develop in the manner it wants to. If humanity one day decides to blow itself up to the stone age, I shall simply watch it do so. I am strong and so are my subordinates. We are strong enough to survive radiation and live in harsh environments. All of us will never forget so even if we will hold the technology needed. As for changes in society, as long as I am rich and my money is not taken away, I do not care what they do."
Edison asked, "But shouldn't you try to make humanity rise since you are stronger."
Roger smiled and said, "While that is true, it is also true that humans only listen to what they want to listen and see what they want to see. Even if I let this humanity reach intergalactic era within 300 years, letting all of them live for more than a 1000 years, the moment they find that they can kill me, they will attack me even if the chances are not sure. There will be many who will keep speaking bad things about me as if I the evil king controlling their freedom. I would just like to live a simple life. I am not interested in helping the world as I would not do anything without gaining something in return. When I let humanity gain hundreds of times more than what they already have, will they make me their emperor in return. They will not. You will not. There are many lords in this humanity who still wants to stand alone. Why should I fight them. Let humanity go where it goes."
Edison smiled. He felt that Roger was too arrogant but he still somewhat believed it as if all his people could live 24000 years long without forgetting anything, then within 4000 or so years, intergalactic era should come. But he doubted if Roger could do it within 300 years.
But since this was a casual conversation, he smiled and said, "I am sure of it. But we nobles sometimes likes to die and let the world be buried with us than bow down. What are your plans about this hunt? I have bought the special hunting gun gifted to me by my grandfather when I was a child."
Roger smiled and said, "I would not like to steal your thunder."
Edison smiled and said, "That is true. I am not sure if I can come up as top 5 person in this hunt. There are 2 aura masters here. Oliver is a good hunter who has won the competition many times even though he is not a warrior. Guns do help us become stronger. How about you give me a special gift different from others? Impart intent onto my horse. I want a really strong horse."
Roger shook his head, "First, imparting intent will make the horse stronger. It should be reach the physical limit of the strength of the horse. It will go beyond that strength by 8 times at the least in the next instant. The strength will keep increasing, more food you feed it. Even though I cannot control it, all being imparted intent by me will have natural affinity towards me. Humans will not be affected by it but animals does not have such higher level conscience. It will surely be attracted to me as it relies on instinct more than memory. It is not a dog that will follow its master who has trained it. Luckily you did not ask me to impart intent onto some tamed animal like tiger or lion. They will surely reawakened their peak bloodline powers and reach the limit strength of their body and go beyond it. What do you think a predator who was born to hunt, who had evolved to hunt will do when they find their instinct to kill being awakened. Will it remember the ones who tamed it and roll twice?"
He took a deep breath and said, "The only reason that I have still kept some intent imparted animals alive is that I know that humans are the most dangerous beings on this planet. Their body can fight in many manner by just using cold weapons. Intent will strengthen such instinct to the limit. The strengthened brain will be enough to let them plan in groups to kill bigger animals and create martial arts specific to hunt such animals. There is also the fact that the moment I die, I will take back all the intent imparted on such animals while retaining the intent imparted on humans. But still, the animals who had grown stronger will still have their strength. They will just lose their method of gaining more strength."
Edison was scared for some time. Then he came back to his thoughts as reason prevailed over emotion. The problem was already taken care off. So he smiled and said, "I still want a strong horse. This one was taken care by me for 8 years. I do not want it to die early. I heard that intent imparted can increase the lifespan by tens of time."
Roger nodded and said, "The lifespan increase is true. I can increase the lifespan by 80 times when simulated to the extreme. I will indeed impart it as a gift but you should let a shield should be by your side and you should wear protective equipment. We do need to test if it will listen to you as if not, I will need to kill it immediately."
Edison asked, "How did you let the octopus and sharks attack ships?"
Roger smiled and said, "Bio-chip technology which can be implanted into their brains. Such animals are first caught and then implanted with such chips. Then they are imparted with such intent. I am sorry to say that I cannot let out such bio-chips."
Edison nodded. Roger saw a bear and killed it using a aura by letting it shot as a laser beam.
They both smiled and rode away while the ones following both of them on jeeps took away the body of the bear.