CHAPTER 2
While life remained the same for Bob, he found with a newfound power. He had never expected powers that were similar to fantasy to exist in this world. He was not a person who believed in fantasy as he preferred the scientific view of the world. Ever since the scientific renaissance, science had indeed overthrown theocracy. So what was he to do when he found with a power that was more like occult and mystery rather than some kind of scientific powers that were expected to rise from humans as due to mutation of genes or variation in the body structure such as better sight, super memory or even hypnosis.
But he found himself having a power named unlimited aura and aura control. Although he understood what aura was and what its use was, the problem remained that, he did not get a codex explaining what aura was but the power had an intent on in explaining what it was. The intent was the purest means of communication as it was nothing more than what a thought intend to convey and it was more like telepathic communication and he was sure that even a fool would understand what the intent meant in proper terms.
But luckily it appeared that his power and the intent conveying its meaning was not created by another living being. But he could never be too sure as if he could have such power, others could have power to let him have the power he now held.
But at least as per the explanation that came with the power when he awakened the power, was related to his own origin ever since he came into being making his origin solidified and powerful making him get this power.
He was happy to have such power as for once, aura was a better kind of energy than most other energy that was used by a living being such as physical energy, mental energy and even vitality. Not all energy was controllable and could be made into forms such as gases or liquid and could be used to apply force on objects without direct contact but when coming into contact with the energy he radiated. Here the control refers to the ability to directly manipulate energy as per the will of the person.
But aura was different as the body would hold about thousands of times than most other kinds of mysterious or supernatural energy in the body and a proper aura could be held in an ordinary body in an infinite amount.
For example, for now who just had the strength of 100 kg which meant that he could lift up 100 kg of mass against the gravity of the planet which was calculated by counting his body mass as he could stand against gravity and the excess mass he could hold, 100 kg of aura meant that he could use full attack of that strength by at least a 1000 times and that meant that he can move 100 kg by one meter against gravity if he did not have to keep his body against gravity and could use all his power with perfect control. Such case would mean that his 100% attack would crated a force of 1000N (newton) whether it is applied over a sharp edge of a sword or through the clenched fists. So such a person has about 1 million joules of energy at the beginning and with each increase in aura, the strength of the body does increase.
He found that for now he had 100 kg of strength and hence he had unlimited among of 100kg or a million joules of aura. His unlimited amount of aura would be produced in that upper amount he held (100 kg of aura for now), in every moment where a moment of thought was the unit time taken by him to have the most basic thought. Some smart ones or trained ones will have a shorter moment about 0.1 seconds or lower while the dumb ones may not even have a a much longer moment of 0,5 seconds.
So for him who had 0.2 seconds as a moment, if the aura in his body was consumed, he could keep producing 100 kg of aura per 0.2 seconds or 500 kg of aura per second.
Aura would strengthen the body beyond limits and he knew that with this aura, his body strength and all features including genetic strength should reach theoretical limit of the human body. He knew that aura would strengthen his body and features even beyond such limit and as he had perfect instinctual control over aura which came with his power as he had awakened it, he could use aura to control items from farther away to move them and even let aura materialize as solid structures and could use it to feed others body to strengthen and optimize them.
He found that every time his upper limit of aura is increased by 10 times, like when his aura reached 1 ton per moment and 10 tons per moment and so on, he would get a new feature which would be added to his aura, still with him maintaining perfect instinctual control over such features alongside previous features and aura.
He found that the way he could increase his upper limit of aura was to feed any other living being. When he feeds any other living being with 1 kg of aura, he will have his upper limit of aura increased by 1kg. He did not have to worry too much about the outflow of aura as unlike for him, others did not have unlimited aura and the ones fed with aura will digest the aura sooner as their body and will is not strong enough to manipulate it or understand the aura fed to their body to learn to create aura from physical energy and manipulate aura..
But before increasing his aura feature, he checked his first aura feature that came when he awakened his power and found that the feature was named necessity construction. He found that this feature would break the limit of mass energy conservation to use the aura in his body to create matter needed to feed his body. While aura would indeed fill all his cells beyond uncontrollable physical energy powering up his biological body and running it, the fact remained that the energy was stored in the form of ATP and broken down when needed. So there was no way to enrich a particular group of cells with excess energy and excess energy stored in materialistic form would only form fat that is to be stored in the body.
But aura was direct pure energy that would feed each part of his body, strengthening the body and optimizing it as the excess energy fed was of higher quality that normal physical energy and in higher quantity. But the body needed matter such as when the body was optimized to have more muscles or when the hair needed to grow longer and when the skin needed to shed and when the skin needed to grow, he would have needed to eat food that the body was structured to absorb even when he had aura. Aura would have just strengthened all parts of his body such that every new food eaten would be deconstructed and added to the body in a faster manner into a newly optimized design which the instinct of life with higher level of energy had led to.
But his feature allowed 1kg of aura to created 1kg of matter needed specifically for his body. This had meant that he would not need to eat any kind of food and he could just feed his aura to another living being or any living being and that living being would not need to eat food. Not only that, this feature would ensure that his body would not have any deficiency. There are certain cases when living bodies suffer due to deficiency and not all can get enough resources. He smirked when he thought that he just needed to feed a small amount of energy to make another living being drop the problem of deficiency.
But the nature of using just 1 kg of aura or 10,000 joules to create 1kg of necessary matter when 1 kg of matter was equivalent to a 16 digit number when represented in joules was indeed good enough for him.
He liked this power although this power did not allow him to make items such as gold or jewels, it did ensure that he would never be deficient of anything and he would not need to eat any more food.
He smiled, hoping to increase his aura and get more features while increasing his strength. He knew that when the upper limit of his aura is increased, if his body is not strong enough to hold the aura, the body would be instantly strengthened to hold his aura. So if to hold 3 ton of aura, a limit perfect body was needed and even if it would have taken a year or so for letting the 100kg aura in his body quench and refine his body into a limit perfect body, he could just feed different living beings 2.9 tons of aura such that his upper limit would be increased to 3 tons of aura and his body would instantly become a limit perfect body.
But he did not plan to increase his aura limit by ten times for now. Increase in aura meant that his body would be optimized. He did not care what would happen after the body is optimized as when the body is at limit perfect state, even charm of the body would be at the peak of a material body. Beyond that, energy flows within the body structures within the circulation system or humans needs to undergo genetic improvement. Either way, such being are known as higher level beings and hence their charm will surely be beyond what normal beings who rely on instinct can endure.
Bob smiled thinking, this might have been the reason why the sages of the past were said to be attracted by animals as a higher level life form from the viewpoint of cells and genetic life was seen.
He did not have to fear about the changes to be noted after he achieves limit perfect body as then, the charm cannot be quantified by another normal human unless there is a human with a body beyond limit perfect body just like what he would have by then. So he had to take it slow till his change in body to limit perfect body is seen as a normal change.
So he who could already feel his body getting lighter, his fatigue being reduced, his power being more controllable and his skin getting rosier and his cloudy eyes getting more clear, chose to use the excess pocket money he used to buy food and snacks every once in a while to rent a single bedroom apartment outside and got a refund from the hostel.
He also announced on his Circe communication that he was undergoing a workout under a traditional martial artist and was undergoing a specific routine to strengthen his body.
Unless he shows of his aura control, no one would question him. Humanity always had legends of sages who could talk to animals and who could fly over hills and who could heal others by using touch. He had to doubt if those were true as he could do all these when his aura limit increases and he has enough aura in quantity. They had other legends about warriors who could control each part of their body and his nation Circe, had legends about various warriors helping the king and being admitted as the royal warrior of the court. The positions of royal warrior was recorded and Ben thought that the history should have some truth to it. What if someone else had awakened aura then. Just because he awakened aura due to some kind of origin being awakened does not mean that others can only awaken aura when their origin is touched. Aura can be awakened as long as a person takes a skill he practices to the limit of what is called a human and breaks through the limit. This will awaken aura within the body.
He had announced such news many people still believed in the legend of warriors. So he just needed to announce as such and with his body, which although taller than 6 foot was with a heavy belly and some fat on his face and limbs would become leaner, stronger and with perfectly built muscles and when they find that his skin which was not anything special becomes more rosy and of perfect appearance and quality, they will think that what he said about being trained by a hermit warrior was true.
As for if someone tested his strength, he did not need to worry as aura gave him perfect control over his body and his strengthened body, his strength, his strengthened reflex and his strengthened senses will be enough to defeat all normal humans even if they had built their muscles using the most nutrient food and exercise and even if their combat skills was beyond what was human as strength stood above all skills and he had the power to become stronger.
And that was how he appeared to outsiders while he bought a few pot of plants with certain tea plants and fed aura to them, increasing his aura by 100 kg per week.