"So what made you want me to come here. I am pretty sure it is not for some common business alliance."
The emperor smiled as the dinner had gone well. He had ensured that he did not bring any meat related to a humanoid living being or intelligent living being as many humans were disgusted with such approach. The empresses, princes and princesses and other lords, ladies and minsters had indeed seen this lord and had talked with him and introduced themselves before leaving. He knew that just like the orc lords, the intent lord will never forget anything. If they wanted to do a business with this intent lord, the intent lord may accept it due to the now good impression.
But that was not the main problem here. He looked at the intent lord and his secretary and his commander sitting together. It seemed that he could not fool this intent lord. But since this intent lord has taken the intent of money as his intent, he would surely love money and would want to trade with them. So he looked at his daughter who was to be the next emperor of this empire as she outsmarted everyone else.
Amira nodded and projected a screen and said, "We always knew that our universe was not the only one. Other than creating an trans-dimensional collapsing bombs, we never cared as we had not observed the whole universe completely yet. Humans were the not the only ones to come to this universe from the outside. Other than the first void lord, sword-swinger, who made the first abode as per your announcement of the history, no one in this universe had found any possibility of void rules. We did find the boundary of the world or the universe which is made up of a layer of void particles. Void appears to be nothing and something at the same time. The horse-clans were a race who were connected to time and hence could prophecy although that did make them kill the most potential ones every now and then, they did make the infamous elf race. But even from the ancient runes of the horse-clans or from the record of the runes of our creator, the elders, we have not found a method to protect the universe nor heal the boundary of the universe. We have observed the arrival of an external race that appears to be 20 light years long and is made up of strange matter who has broken through the protection and had entered this universe. We want your help."
Benjamin observed the image. He had level 50 intent so it was indeed easy for him to observe the whole universe at one. When an intent lord can corrupt n amount of energy by using the 1 point of energy, all the time it takes to corrupt is what a moment is for that intent lord. So when he observed the universe he found that the void particle protection was indeed torn if what he had observed was indeed made up of void particles. Strange matter was not theoretical as he had indeed seen it and its nature was predicted and proven while no one had any record about the void particle.
He observed the other side of the world and found that it was a multiverse with each universe having multiple planes with space super-positioning. This did make him understand why the records said that 'You shall head to another world whether it be the universe, multiverse or a plane as thou has sinned against your lord, your deeds has sinned against your oath and your actions sinned against your ancestors wishes. None shall help you until you spread your seeds and conquer the demon and gets the acknowledgement of the history of human civilization.'
He could clearly see that the other world was indeed a multiverse while this world was nothing more than a single universe. But that was indeed better than having to live in a small plane with a few star systems. How else can someone reach the generation 2.3 to create the genetic continuant medicine that does not affect the genes but would strengthen the body as if the genes were strengthened without affecting human genes.
But what was he to do with this. The monster was indeed strong. He could feel energy strong enough to destroy a galaxy within the monster as he could sense the energy stored to be driven in a streamlined manner. Such energy concentration would indeed tear apart space and the energy quantity is enough to tear apart a galaxy.
Benjamin smiled when he found that the creature he was observing noticed that he was observed. Benjamin smiled as this had meant that this life was a real life with will rather than some crude machine. There is a reason why the Normandy humans are not respected even though, genetically they are humans as they have no will of their own. The whole race used illegal genetic reagent, making them remain human but one without a will. The last Normandy human died as they were ordered not to reproduce and they who had no will of their own simply acknowledged the order.
Races with will can drive power and energy as was seen among the orcs and elves who could drive dark energy and life energy respectively. So, he smiled and said, "You are in a bad situation. The other side is a multiverse with multiple universes having multiple possible planes. I have observed energy present there in corporeal form that was easily absorbable by many living life. That energy is more active than the dark energy you use."
The emperor asked, "Are there any other life other than living life absorbing such energy."
Benjamin nodded and said, "I found many bodies having remnant thoughts of the mind when they were alive being fed with energy and the body developing into another kind of life form. It is something akin to live corpses or something. Not all kind of energy can be absorbed as the not all energy is suitable for the body and what is suitable for the body may not be suitable for the self. But after death, there is no self to keep away energy for such qualification necessity. It is something akin of intent ghosts born from the body of the dead intent lords. There is a reason why the intent lords destroy their own body, self and even energy to the most basic limit so as to not produce such ghosts."
The emperor nodded and said, "Our race too has the custom of cremating the bodies and respecting the dead. Since we have indeed got the confirmation about the other side of the universe, will it be all right if I announce the news with your name as a guarantee."
Benjamin looked at him and said, "Sure. Also write a note that I would prefer if they paid me for me warning them and I would also like you to pay me for my service of having scouted over the other side to my personal account."
The emperor smile and said, "Sure."
The emperor did not lack any kind of money. What he and the empire lacked were resources. If not for the attachment of the intent lords to their race, he would have bough this human lord.
Benjamin sighed and said, "You should expect a war. That creature has a energy ray strong enough to tear apart space across a galaxy. That creature is also positioned in that manner to tear this galaxy from Sagittarius 2-B to the Akriel nebula. I do not see that monster having any intent. Its willpower is shorter than many children I have seen. I did not observe it capable of absorbing any kind of energy."
The emperor nodded and said, "We will take care of it. What would you need to kill it. Can you kill it."
Benjamin smiled and said, "I am sad to inform you that I have about 12 aura rings and just by the outputting energy I can destroy a planet without using any tactic. With enough tactic, I can destroy a star. With my intent level of 51, I can corrupt the whole galaxy with just a thought and with the support of 12 aura rings, I can do more."
The emperor's eyes twitched. He did not want to see it. Intent lords do not lie and he knew that this man was indeed saying the truth. They had observed the corruption rate and speed to understand the intent level. As for aura ring, as this intent lord had taken the path of aura circulation strengthening direction rather than the physical strengthening direction, the reaction due to energy could be seen and sensed even from far away.
12 aura rings had meant that this man at least had about 19 digit numbered amount of joules in his body. He could leverage that amount of energy to corrupt about 66 digit numbered energy for each joule he leveraged with having more than enough power to corrupt the energy in 85 digit numbered amount of energy. That was more than the energy of the whole universe even if the dark matter and matter is converted into energy. This man with level 50 could already corrupt and control space to a certain effect and could surely corrupt the whole universe within a moment of thought for him. No, 81 digit numbered corruption was all that was needed to corrupt a universe so this man could corrupt about 10,000 similar universe to this universe per moment. With his intent strength and his high number of aura rings, a moment of thought for him might even be less than 1 trillionth of a second. How were the supposed to survive.
He should have simply used the warthog-222 to destroy the universe when Gerald, the level 43 intent holding lord had exterminated the elders. But after his death, no orc was brave enough to activate it. Even if he uses the dark matter discontinuer to cause a space time anomaly, this human lord could just let the functioning stop. This man could just corrupted enough energy to make up a whole universe. No as per what the humans had announced, for creating a space attached to an universe with an established time, they needed to reach about level 60 as they could not corrupt time and could not establish a flowing time for their space world they had created and they could only make space planes and let it attached to such universes. The orcs had created more than enough planes for safety but now it seems that it will no longer be useful.
But since this man had not conquered the world, then it means only one things, he does not plan to be a conqueror and neither does he plan to be a soldier or commander under any system. So he asked for one final confirmation, "Are you surely walking on the path of the businessman."
Benjamin smiled and said, "If I wanted to live a rogue life, I would have already corrupted this world and had made all the beings my slaves. I would just need to kill other intent lords, though that would be really hard as they might have created their own escape paths from this universe. I just want to live in this society in a happy manner and for that, money is the best option to maintain some sort of equality. You pay money, I will give you my specialties. I will pay to gain your specialties. At least this is better than receiving money for just being strong. I take money from the human federation as I being in the position of an intent lord of the federation than an independent lord is enough for them to pay me as my name alone is good enough for them. You do not need to pay me for nothing."
The emperor nodded and said, "We are willing to offer 300 trillion central coins to have that monster eradicated and 1 quadrillion central coins as a deposit for revenge for the empire. If any being does destroy my empire, or if the orcs are exterminated, use this money as payment and take revenge for us."
Benjamin nodded and said, "I will not take revenge on any civilization controlling more than 7 galaxies or on another intent lord or similar influencers with personal strength capable of influencing a galaxy as that is what the worth of the money you have given me is. As for that creature, should it be killed or is it necessary to simply remove them. "
The emperor asked, "Why, are you planning to use it for research?"
Benjamin shook his head and said, "No, I plan to enslave it. Anyway, energy is what I have the most and corruption does not consume anything related to the intent."
The emperor nodded and said, "Since the main problem is over, what are your plans about the other world. Our empire will be undergoing a planar shutdown. We are going to cut off the space of our galaxy removing the space of the galaxy as part of this universe to make it a plane attached to the universe. We cannot risk an all out war. Humanity should have done the same but you are strong enough to face the whole world at the other side and protect humanity. Do you plan to attack them first because if you plan to do so, we are willing to ally with you and even send army to conquer and give up the plan of planar lockdown."
Benjamin laughed and said, "The civilization there works is purely tilted without any proper tech tree. They use controllable energy in a manner similar to how the elders used to make runes to make items. Even then their technology is flawed. I am sure that your army can conquer that world as the army there is inefficient as if they are living in the technological times of 0.3 with feudal ideas and without any innovation. The biggest groups I have observed are religious groups with trillions of people per religion. Your empire has 17 digit numbered civilians as you have conquered the planar technology and is the civilization of this universe with the biggest trained army. You can beat them down. If you really want to care for your safety, just hire me or some other intent lord to take down the special creatures or living being with power enough to tear apart the galaxy."
The emperor nodded and said, "Will the federation sent an army to attack there?"
Benjamin swirled the glass of wine and asked, "What does controllable energy driven by the will of a living being make you think about secretary?"
The head secretary stopped taking the notes and said, "Dark energy for orcs, vitality of elves and races like ancestral tortoise, electromagnetic energy control by beings like red whales, aura control of humans, rune-script energy of the younger ones inherited from the elders. A useful energy to skip the tech tree to make intent programmed tech."
Benjamin nodded to her and turned his head to the emperor and said, "You are strong among many I have seen. The energy in your body is more than the energy in my body. It should be about 23 digit but you should have the defect of not being able to control it precisely. If you could, you could have just used it as energy blade to cut off the Deneb-Δ instead of having to reach out to each planet and then burst out your energy to destroy the planet."
The emperor smiled with sadness and said, "We can only unlock full control over the energy if the elders are alive. But unlike the intent lords, I can live for billions of years and my lifespan is still increasing. I have heard that you intent lords can forge your body and use any kind of energy. Why don't you try using the dark energy instead of aura. Anyway, intent is what makes you stronger beyond the limit of this universe, not energy."
Benjamin shook his head and said, "Aura is good enough for me. I do not plan to forge the body to have excess physical strength. I practise the path of energy circulation flow rather than the pure physical strength path like yours. Anyway, our resilience and defence remains the same. Have you ever used any other energy other than dark energy for practising."
The emperor smiled happily and said, "Why do you think the 17 inter-galactic war was fought. I was forging my body using pure life force as I needed it for my secret method. The elves held back the supply and we waged war."
Benjamin nodded and said, "Aura alone is enough for me. Human federation might not go to the other side as the resources there are not so useful. The intent slaves among the producers can use the energy provided by the federation. The excessively active energy there which is available in crystallized form will be useful for many energy consuming producers who are not made into intent slaves such as the ancestral tortoise, or the Gibbon of your orc race or the tree of life of the elven race. But humanity does not lack it much and I am pretty sure that federation will not sent an army but some merchants might go there with a private army. You may not need much resources like humans and might only sent some nobles who are involved in the Gibbon breeding industry but that is not the case for the elf race. They want such crystals. How about we hold them back?"
The emperor smiled and said, "Why? I do have problem with them as the horse-clans and the elders were mortal enemies and we orcs and elves were made to face each other. The tree of life was made to face you intent lords. What is it that you plan to gain Lord."
The secretary came near Benjamin and spoke in a low voice after activating the space block for smaller areas and said, "My lord, you can not taken a lord title yet. Even in such situations, the emperor was unable to call your title as you had none. It is better to find one soon. You name cannot be called always directly."
Benjamin sighed and said, "I will find one later." He unfroze the space by directly controlling the space and moved her to her seat. He looked at the emperor and said, "It has been a year since I have tried to make a deal with them to provide me with a tree of life sapling. They still have not given me one yet. I wanted to slaughter all of them or enslave their whole civilization and sell them off to the inter-galactic union but sadly I wanted to live a peaceful life and no matter how much I am disgusted by their way of life, I do like their appearance."
The emperor nodded and said, "So do you plan to send an army to the other side."
Benjamin smiled and said, "I have an army. I have pure strength. I have the right to wage war. I have the right to conquer. I got these due to my pure strength and I will use all of these rights. Give me another ten years without any external world ready for conquering not protected by the treaties and regulations of being a member of this inter-galactic society, I would have surely used the excuse of the elves being rude to me to exterminate them. I now have a whole new world to conquer that is a multiverse. Why would I not send my army there?"
The emperor had a trace of fear. This madman kept talking about being a calm and peaceful businessman but he too was like other intent lords who were just acting as if they were above the whole world. But this man was indeed above this world. He took a deep breath as he was sitting opposite a man who could destroy their civilization with just a thought and leave nothing behind or even enslave their whole civilization with just a thought. There was nothing holding this man back. No permanent union member of the inter-galactic union will hold this man accountable and humans and other intent lords will only cheer. These were the dark times for non-human races like him as there was no universal peace loving intent lord or an intent lord with the concept of universal love without any boundary of species.
So he said, "I am willing to support your war."
Benjamin smiled and said, "No need Emperor Crusher. I have a strong army of my own. I have facilities to provide each one of them with aura food and I will train each one of them. If needed, I am even willing to bless with using intent to increase their attack strength. As for commanding, my intent related skill will allow me to sense the right and optimal path to victory. I am a researcher related to army commanding and arrangements myself. I even created the infamous strategy against the mind-slayers."
The emperor smiled and said, "The money will be sent to your account. As for suppressing the elven race, I will surely support you. If you need anything else, do inform me."
Benjamin smiled and said, "I plan to sell planes. Would you want to buy it?"
Emperor smiled and said, "I am sure that humanity has not reached even the basics related to planar separation let alone planar compression or coordinate hiding."
Benjamin shook his head and said, "While what you said is true, I can use my personal power to cut off a space plane from an existing space-time and can attach it to the needed part of another space time. The multiverse at the other side is full of such planes. Unlike the pure planes with just space created by your technology which later needs to be filled up, the planes cut off by me will have more than enough matter, energy and order of things. You would not need to send off expeditions to find some planets with unfounded ores or wage wars for needed resources. Just buy a plane from me and I shall attack it to the space time node you want and you can mine as many resources as you need. If you want life in such planes, I will not slaughter the rest of the beings there."
Amira interjected and said, "It will be waste to simply slaughter such life. You should have broken through the limit level of intent needed to corrupt matter into energy and surely will not need such carcass to get life energy. Wouldn't it be better if you give such life to us. We can get more than enough materials from the plane given to us and keep it as a farm for the life kept there."
Benjamin nodded and said, "As you wish. Sent me the number of life and the kind of life you need before I conquer there. I have no plans to keep anyone alive under me. I will slaughter all of them and sell the rest of the plane for money to you and to other civilizations."
Amira nodded. The emperor thought for some time and nodded. He said, "Since you are personally going to participate in the war and does not need our help, we shall not disturb you by participating in this war."
Benjamin waved his hands and said, "If you wish, do participate. Just your lack will noT make it easier for me as many other civilization will surely sent the army. If there is nothing more to speak off, how about we stop here."
The emperor nodded and said, "I hope you stay here for a few days and enjoy here. I shall arrange all the needed facilities. Please stay for as long as you want."
Benjamin nodded and stood up and nodded to him and said, "Well, good night then. See you tomorrow."
The commander of the personal army of the lord followed the lord as per the protocol. The head secretary after ensuring that her lord had gone away said, "My lord will expect the money to arrive as soon as possible. Let us talk about the possible cost of the planes. He does not like to discuss about such details."
She was indeed informed as such in the generic direction. No one could manipulate an intent master as they can indeed forcibly read the mind of other beings and even if they do not read the minds, each action of a person will surely be seen straightforwardly bypassing all acts and actions to the core meaning what that life wants to express. So she does indeed know her lord and knew what her lord wanted and it was her job to make it easier for him. So she smiled as her lord liked money, she shall ensure each type of plane is quoted the right amount to earn maximum profit.