The Mech Lord

Leo looked at the Awakener's card in his hands feeling a bit excited but that excitement soon came down when he realized that he didn't know how how to use it. He had seen Kyle using it in the past, he just had to pass his aura through it and it would lit up showing all his stats and skills.

But, Leo literally had no idea how to use aura since he hadn't taken your normal route to awaken like every other person did.

Awakening was a natural process in which every race could form a connection with the Universal energy, Arora.

This Universal Energy was very important for any race to enter the Interstellar Era. And without it, it was impossible to travel through galaxies and survive the interstellar competition. All the different races in the universe heavily depended on this energy for different purposes.

Every Galaxy had several planet system like the Solar system in the Milky way Galaxy. And every system had single living species inhabiting them. For the Solar System, it was humans which originated from Earth.

When the Mother Planet of this living species reaches a certain age limit, it would go through a certain change and form a connection with Arora energy. This led to a varying changes to a planet's flora, fauna, topography etc.. All the living creatures would evolve and adapt themselves to it. Among these living beings there were a few whose connection with Arora are stronger than rest. These people would later form connection with Arora and energy to became Awakeners.

Aside from the changes in living being, the planet gives birth to various source of Arora energy with Arora stones being the most valuable of them. This Arora energy is the only thing capable of fueling the long distance travels of the Interstellar era at the speed of light.

Humans had gone through this process.

Before the humans entered the interstellar ages, there were many myths all over Earth relating to different creatures through out the history. Most people usually didn't believe them. But when the interstellar era arrived, these people turned out to be wrong.

Most of these creatures existed as Alien Races. Even though the Interstellar Racial Alliance had set it in stone that no one was to interfere with the development of of these planets which had yet to enter the Interstellar period as it was harmful for their natural growth and evolution, there were still instances of rules being broken, otherwise one wouldn't be able to explain the records of this mythical creatures.

No one knew what they had done when they appeared but they definitely had left a mark in the planet's history.

Every Race which had entered Interstellar era had to go through this changes and hence the one similarity between all this races was the use of Arora energy and Awakening.

There was no particular age for awakening in all races but most people likely awakened between 10 to 20 years of age.

Once the connection with aura was established, the bloodline characteristics within one's body would strengthen beyond limits and retrieve knowledge form their lineage to form skills.

The Awakeners then had to train and strengthen themselves. There was no fixed path for them to level up and it usually varied for people depending on their skills and potential of their skills.

The Levels were simply calculated based on numbers. As much as Leo knew, every 10 levels fell under a category and passing that would be present a huge barrier. But as long as one did so, their Arora connection would turn stronger and they would be able to draw in purer energy resulting a change in the color of their energy.

As for how the levels and Arora energies were classified?

Well each nation had had differences, but universally, people followed the Interstellar Races Alliance's standards for ease…

Lv 1-10 : Awake : Yellow Energy

Lv 11-20: Elite : Cyan Energy

Lv 21-30 : Magnate : Green Energy

Lv 31-40 : Titled : Red Energy

Lv 41-50 : Noble : Indigo Energy

Lv 51-60 : Royal : Violet Energy

Lv 61-70 : Prince : Black Energy

Lv 71-80 : King : White Energy

Lv 81-90 : Emperor : Silver Energy

There were still levels above as numbers just didn't lasted till 90 but Leo had never heard anyone surpassing the Level 90 cap. Even the Heroes were all around Emperor categories. Hence he didn't know what the above level was called. But there were rumors that the Demon King was an existence to have gone beyond that point but with his death the secret was buried.

Anyway, leveling up was not an easy task and rank of skills one awakened heavily determined one's potential.

These skills were divided into 9 ranks. Starting from Yellow Rank, Cyan Rank, Green Rank, Red Rank, Violet Rank, Black Rank, White Rank, Silver Rank and Golden Rank.

They were divided on the basis of colors as it was easy to identify their potential. A Yellow Rank Skill had only a potential to let an Awakener reach Lv 10 while a Blue Rank skill had the potential let you reach Lv 20 and similarly the rest of the skills had their own level cap as well.

But just because one had a potential didn't mean they would necessarily reach the level cap. It wasn't that easy, especially with Higher Rank skills. They were harder to level up than lower rank skills but had far greater potentials.

And one important thing to note here was that only people at Lv 30 and above were the true fighting force of every race as this people could pilot the strongest weapons of the Universe called Mechas or Mechs as the younger generation preferred.

Mechs were not some ancient relics but had appeared only 200 years ago. It was the time when the reign of terror had started and that man called the Demon King had brought forth destruction and the fear of extinction to each and every races.

He had brought a massive arm of mechanical looking living creatures with him called Reapers.

The Reaper's were gigantic creatures, no matter how strong Awakening made one, the people of different races found themselves weak in front of those thing and could only use spaceships to fight them off.

But that obviously wasn't good way as it had many downsides with restriction in movement and expensive being the major ones while production rate and a lot of technical manpower to power it were some other problems.

In the end, every race came together and set up the Galactic Science and Technology Union which after some intensive research finally managed to produce an Exo-Skeleton with Arora cores in them. It not only boosted people's combat ability but even allowed them to use their skills through Arora cores, multiplying their effectiveness.

This changed the situation at once, the Exo-Skeleton were then further intensively researched and developed. Their structure change over time, size and strength were enhanced to improve their combat powers. Special weapons were designed for this Exo-Skeleton Pilots to wield and allow them to fight to the best of their capanility.

And then these things were later finally termed as Mechas…

The war raged on for 200 years before finally ending 30 years ago with the death of the Demon King.

After that peaceful era began, were every other person didn't have to pick weapons up.

But, even though things had changed, Awakeners were still treated more valuably then the averages masses in the world and that was a fact.

And now Leo was wondering what Rank of skill did this body possessed and at what level he was. If he had a Red Rank Skill then he might even be able to realize his dream of piloting a Mech built built by his own two hands.

But, no matter what Leo did, he literally had no idea what was he supposed to do in order to find out his kill.

"I will ask Kyle later..." Leo shook his head as he kept the card back into his pocket and prepared for leaving the base.