Crucible of Ideas

Chapter 61: Essence of Transcendent Adventurer (Essence Meta CYOA)



Basically, this is an Upgrade of Essence of the Survival Adventurer mixed with Essence of Transendence Self, both of which are made by the Triggerhappy Jaberwocky.

Drinking this five colored Essence (white, black, red, blue and green) will grants you this set of abilities:

● You gain a body that is the peak of your species mentally, physically, and spiritually sculpted to your tastes.

You are immortal and undying, and will not succumb to the ravages of age and can continue to live in perpetuity not requiring any form of sustenance to live.

Your body will never degrade, decay, or weaken even if you sit alone in a void for eons.

This also makes you immune to all poison, disease, mundane or supernatural as well as any form of corruption or curse.

You have limitless amounts of stamina and life force.

Any supernatural energies you can manipulate or tap into are internalized allowing you to generate those energies independently of the original source.

Any supernatural energies you possess are incredibly pure and always filled to its full capacity allowing you theoretically limitless endurance with any powers or techniques using those energies.

Any energies that come with negative side effects of their use or existence are blunted so you won't be accelerating entropy of the universe by harnessing the cosmic abyss or twelve you might have crammed into your body unless you want to. You are also self-cleaning, and dirt and grime roll right off of your body, you will never smell bad either, at worst being odor neutral.

● Your memory is perfect with infinite storage and indexing with potentially limitless trains of thought and multitasking ability as needed.

You are immune to all types of mental and spiritual attacks, control, or manipulation.

Your mind and spirit will never degrade, decay, or weaken even if you sit alone in a void for eons.

You cannot be erased from reality, killed through time travel, or retconned from existing.

Your singular existence renders things such as luck, fate, prophesy, narrative force, plot armor and similar things as weak as tissue paper.

These things can still function if you allow them too, only surviving within your proximity at your leisure.

Your body, mind, and soul is shielded from hostile or detrimental form changing, body control, or modification from any source

including transformations as the result of one of your own powers.

● You have the ability to grow more powerful via 'experience', by going out completing quests, helping the others, defeating enemies, discovering new locations, and otherwise going out and living an adventurous life.

By concentrating you can direct your experience to specific areas (like growing physical strength or nurturing magic) and grow stronger, faster, smarter, more skilled, etc in that area.

Experience can even be used to gain access to supernatural abilities by looking at a person who could use them.

● You can review your condition by taking a moment and concentrating.

You can get a clear idea of what is going on both positive and negative with your body, mind and soul.

This can also show you how much 'experience' you have and how much longer until you 'level up' or learn a new ability.

● You have the ability to learn and train in anything you have the capacity for at a blistering rate.

You could go from an untrained novice to a master of a profession or set of skills in a few weeks, effectively growing in leaps and bounds to achieve the same sort of prowess it would take others a whole lifetime or more.

● This speed increases if you have a teacher or some form of instruction cutting it down to

under half but you can get by just with experimentation on your own and figure it out.

Your self-experimentation is self-correcting and you won't have to worry about accidentally giving yourself lasting injuries, suffering catastrophic failures, or introducing an unnoticed flaw in whatever you want to develop.

You can also bend or even break established rules with things like magic or other supernatural powers with enough improvement.

For example, you can make a real life, breathing Digimon just from your mastery over your programming skill or you can reverse engineer an Ancient Godly Artifact and rebuild or even improve it with modern technology.

● You have a personal pocket dimension inventory for which you can store and retrieve things.

There doesn't seem to be a limit on how much you can place into it and whatever is placed into it will be held in perfect stasis while inside.

Your inventory is bound to your existence so wherever you go it goes with you even if you wind up in another form or get reincarnated.

You are always aware of what is inside your inventory when interacting with it and can use it to almost instantaneously equip items.

Items will also automatically resize and shift to fit you as if they were tailored for you specifically.

This change persists after you take them off.

● You can at will make time seem to slow down to nearly a standstill but this is purely

mental.

While in this state you can use your inventory, assess your condition, or spend

experience or simply use it to think and strategize but not much else.

This pretty much feels like you are pressing "Pause Button" on video games.

● You have mental recipes for anything you know, how to craft, make, or modify and you can also unlock more recipes with experimentation.

Once unlocked you will always know and remember how to craft them again and you can even teach them to others if you wish.

Gaining a recipe isn't just having the recorded steps to create said thing but the entire knowledge needed that is ingrained into your mind.

Crafting with recipes is quick almost like time is rapidly sped up as you work, cutting the time it would normally take to a bare fraction.

For example it will let you slap together a sword in moments by hammering on an ore or build a house in less than an hour with provided materials.

● You are able to find and rapidly harvest resources whether they be ore, wood, fruits, herbs or parts of a creature which will be placed into your inventory automatically.

You can also break items down into smaller components and materials, even deconstructing large complex structures given a bit of time.

Breaking down items will also give you their recipe.

● You are able to tame things quickly, all you really need to do is make them submit (by defeating them in combat or game) and

you will find something or someone becoming a loyal thrall for you.

You can also substitute the usual methods by simply clubbing your target hard enough to knock them unconscious or disable them.

It might take more than once if they have a very strong will.

Once you tame something or someone, they will basically stick for you for the rest of their life.

● You can get a basic idea of how someone feels about you just by looking at them.

By interacting with them you can get a clearer picture, cutting through deceptions and even tell if they are purposefully lying.

You can rapidly befriend someone who is at the very least not hostile.

Those you befriend this way will actually be your friend and very unlikely to stab you in the back short of extreme circumstances or you betraying them first.

Also works for romance.

● You are able to bring mind shattering levels of pleasure to any of your partners just by natural talent.

Hentai orcs, tentacle monsters, and faceless fat old bastards have nothing to compare with you.

You have all the benefits of porn physics on your side when you desire, letting you perform inhuman feats of lewdness.

● When it comes to your preferred sex it is not so much a question if you can but if you

want to court them.

There is no being, no matter if they are holy, unholy, eldritch or abstract that you couldn't eventually get into a relationship with.

With the same absolute destruction your presence brings to fate, narratives, and prophesy the red strings that bind lovers together no matter how strong are vulnerable to yourself.

You could successfully woo someone that has only ever had eyes for one person, effectively usurping the position of their old partner or even go so far as to drag both of them into your bed.

● You have complete control over your fertility/virility.

Neither you or those you have children with will suffer negative effects of pregnancy including delivering offspring.

You can set the parameters of what your children will inherit from you and the mother

including any particular abilities, physical characteristics, and even skills or genetic

memories.

None of your descendants will ever suffer from any genetic flaws or complications related to their makeup even if you are doing incests.

They will instead have idealized genetics, inheriting all of the best traits while outright expunging the worse ones leaving them very impressive specimens regardless of their heritage.

Your offspring have a strong genetic loyalty to you, it would take heavy and pointless abuse to see them turn on you.

● You are able to accelerate the healing, growth, and maturation of living things. Crops? You can have those planted from the seeds and they will be ready to harvest in at most one to three days.

Somebody take a bullet wound? If you have the skills you can dig the bullet out and have them semi-recovered in moments.

Animals that you domesticated? Grown and ready in a week.

People? You can do that too.

Also affects reproduction.

Things you accelerate do not suffer any negative consequences from the speed up, any animal or person will be just as they had developed normally without shortening their overall lifespan.

This can't be used to age things past their prime.

Things you accelerate will be able to take care of themselves and have basic knowledge like being able to speak, read, and write in your language if they are sapient.

● Should someone or something managed to kill you, you will simply revive a short time later in a new body at a nearby random safe location with anything that was on your previously (or they will be stored inside your pocket dimension).

You can also set a spawn point where you will revive instead.

You can revive from anything, even getting deleted from reality by some cruel god or cosmic mishap you will pop up good as new.

Reviving resets you to your prime condition and removes any illness, curse, or other malady your previously might have been suffering.

You are able to painlessly kill yourself at will which will allow you to free yourself from a predicament you otherwise cant escape from, no one can force or compel you to kill yourself.

● You can grant parts of this essence ability to another being just by touching them and concentrating on it, you are limited in how many you can grant this to by how "strong" you are.

With just this essence starting out you may be able to grant it to a handful of people or slightly more creatures.

You can retract this boon simply by touching the person and concentrating as before.


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