Essence Of TheDemon Slayer

By drinking this burning golden essence, you become a warrior against monsters and a sword-sage of the highest order.

• You receive a strong and powerful body, hale and healthy as if honed to lethality in the prime of its life. Though this technically grants no lifespan extension or superhuman physique in itself, you will remain ready and fit to fight up until the very moment of your death.

• You are a grandmaster of esoteric breathing techniques which allow you to push your body to extremes. Your cardiovascular and respiratory systems are tempered and overclocked to absorb and circulate far more oxygen than should otherwise be possible, greatly boosting your strength, speed, and stamina, and you know how to instinctively maintain optimal breathing patterns at all times.

• Furthermore, you possess a ‘Demon Slayer Crest’ - a marking, unique to each individual, which signifies that they’ve attained and unlocked greater reserves of prowess. With your Crest on top of your breath techniques, you could easily fight at supersonic speeds and shatter buildings with ease. You suffer no penalties to your health and lifespan as a result of this crest, contrary to those who might think otherwise.

• Your perception in particular is greatly elevated by your Crest, granting you immense prescience. You’re always able to think even faster than your body can move, giving you an edge even in battles with other speedsters. Furthermore, your senses lay others bare with such force as to comprehensively expose their bodies and movements; you could react to the subtlest of internal muscle twitches as if by x-ray vision, or identify the anatomic vulnerabilities of grotesque monsters at a glance.

• You possess sublime, peerless talent with an ordinary weapon of your choice, whether it’s a traditional muscle-powered weapon like a sword, or a more modern tool of murder, such as a firearm. Your talent is so great that you could defeat grandmasters who have trained for countless lifetimes from the very first time you pick up your weapon of choice.

• You may also accept a masterwork copy of your savant weapon, including everything you need to maintain it for the next century, if you didn’t own such a thing and its accoutrements already.

• You possess ideal harmony of thought and action on the battlefield. When executing specific, well-defined attack forms - with your savant weapon, or otherwise - you never make mistakes or errors without being deliberately forced, misled, or crippled, as if acting with perfect muscle memory and absolute focus.

• Your weapons are likewise empowered in the course of your attacks, acting in ways less like material things and more like vectors of pure killing intent. You could split impenetrable boulders with the cheapest blades, without so much as chipping their edges, or hurl projectiles without regard for air resistance and gravity. In the hands of a Crest-bearer, weapons can even glow with cauterizing heat and power - or, in the hands of a master like you, leave scouring burns that scar on a level far beyond the physical.

• You possess comprehensive expert knowledge not only of ordinary metalworking and the construction of your savant weapons, but of how to mystically imbue banes - like sunlight - into common materials such that they carry a measure of that bane’s power. Your knowledge of weaponcraft will naturally expand to incorporate other forms of supernatural forging if you happen to encounter them and make even a token effort to learn them.

• You are capable of passing on all of your knowledge as granted by this perk (whether for purposes of demon slaying or otherwise). However, you can’t spark an equivalent to your talents within other people - most of your pupils will struggle just to learn reduced and rote forms of your effortless breath techniques, and you can only give them the opportunity to unlock a Demon Slayer Crest.