Essence ofAkumetsu

Upon imbibing this Essence, you are granted the power to become a one-man army, a legion of clones, eternally replacing their numbers and growing in both power, knowledge and skills.

• You are granted ownership of a secret, high-tech laboratory. This lab is located in a pocket dimension, which can only be accessed by you (via secret doors/passages that appear anywhere you desire) and those that you explicitly invite.

• You have knowledge instilled into you on how to maintain and repair any and all technology inside the lab, should it need it, as well as the tools to affect those repairs.

• And speaking of technology, the laboratory comes supplied with all the devices and mechanisms required to grow any number of clones of yourself, which can be any age you wish and will be at any form of fitness/body type. The internal space of the lab will always hold enough pods to grow exactly the number of clones you wish to create.

• You can also have clones created of other people, provided you get a sample of DNA from them at some point.

• All clones will get along well with you, not suffering from any mental issues from their identities as clones.

• You can splice clone bodies with foreign DNA to create stronger bodies and potentially grant new abilities.

• Upon the death of you or any clone, all of your memories, experiences and knowledge will accumulate into a central database, which will then be distributed among all other clones, including ones that are already active.

• Optionally: Upon your death as the original, your stream of consciousness will be maintained separately from the clones, even as you acquire the knowledge from the central database, and will seamlessly awaken in a new body at the lab with no loss of self. Even in this new body, all clones will still defer to you as the original.

• Each successive generation of bodies will become more and more powerful physically, even without adding more DNA to the mix.

• The lab can be set to decant clone bodies automatically by any form of criteria, including if all of them and yourself die.

• Optionally: Should you and all clones die, you may have the laboratory travel to another universe, whereupon it will decant you (and any number of clones you wish) and exit into this new world. Should this world possess any form of superpowers or magic, you will be able to devise a method to obtain it and add it to your/your clones' repertoire.