Essence of theSwarm Man (Update)

By drinking this Essence that tastes of the dirty water you got after you remove rust with lemon juice, you gain the following perks:

• Each and every cell that makes up your body are techno-organic units, with both biological and mechanical properties. You can perfectly mimic Humanity, to the point you can even reproduce like a normal human. But your true nature is a swarm of nanomachines. You can decide how much Human you are at any moment, anywhere from a complete mimicry of human form to something that just resembles a human but possesses uniform insides with no inner organs or systems. You can take inhuman forms, be it of weapons, machines, animals, or anything you can think of. Your body is powered by a connection to a dimension with infinite energy, and you can make connections to that dimension at will to power your technology. If you decide to create human offspring, you can extensively modify it however you like it, creating a designer baby. You can do this no matter what parent you are.

• The entirety of your mind is always stored in each single of your units in a way that is completely undecryptable and uncopyable. All these units are always connected, so there won't ever be more stances of you. Your body is completely black-bloxed.

• You can absorb anything to recover your biomass, both organic and inorganic. This can be done either through your mouth (If you are in a form with one), or through absorbing it directly into your body. By increasing your biomass, you can increase your physical strength and speed, although there is a limit on how strong you can get this way. You can analyze, replicate, and improve the properties and abilities of anything you absorb, be it biological or technological. When it comes to biological beings, just absorbing a single drop of blood would be enough to reproduce all of their abilities.

• You possess a small, thumb-sized core that can move around in your body. This core isn't a physical thing, but a wheel of energy that connects to a pocket dimension, where your extra biomass is stored. By rule you should always keep at least 10% of your biomass stored within this dimension unless it's an existential threat, although you can ignore that if you want. Considering that as long as a single unit of yourself is alive, you are effectively immortal as long as you follow that rule. Destroying the core will only destroy your connection to the pocket dimension, which can be recreated at will at any time.

• You can use your biomass to produce technology or organic material. Your units are capable of producing anything you can think of as long as it's feasible, and you can use your biomass to perfectly replicate living tissue and heal others. You can also introduce your units into someone's body to increase their biological defenses, destroying any defense they have and repairing any damage they might have. You can decide if this is permanent, or temporary… Although if it is permanent it will increase their metabolism many times.

• By absorbing someone's brain you can acquire all of their memories and knowledge, even acquiring a copy of their intellect that you either add to yourself or keep as a separate intelligence to help you. These intelligences will never betray you, nor will they even think about it.

• You possess an eidetic memory, as the ability to create multiple threads of thought, each one having the processing power of multiple Matrioshka brains. This allows you to instantly design technology based on ideas you have via limitless trial and error. Due to your processing power, you can also accelerate your thoughts, up to the point it almost seems like time has stopped. You can make improvements to yourself on the fly, adding new functions or removing weaknesses by creating technology. You can even acquire "superpowers" by creating technology inside your body.

• If you have enough biomass, you can create drones that you can control, even ones that are identical to you in nature. They will still be you, just as connected with each one of your units as you are. Alternatively, you can create a being like you by not adding your mind into the vessel. You can either program a new Artificial Intelligence to use it, or use one of your separate intelligences. As they originate from you, you can still take control over their body from them if you need.

• You can similarly turn others into being similar to yourself by infusing them with your biomass. Initially, you can create two types of beings this way: "Evolved," which possess your abilities to a much lesser degree but still keep some of their humanity, and "Swarms" similar to yourself, who would work exactly as if you had created another drone.

• You can freely change your nature. So for example, when faced with an attack that will "harm only inanimate objects" you will count as an "animate object" and vice-versa. Or similarly, when facing an attack that will harm only "androids or cyborgs" you will count as a "human," with the reverse also being true. You can consciously control this, but it will also automatically act on itself to protect you.