Essence of theUltimate Ascendant

By drinking this Essence, you will receive multiple boons.

• Your potential becomes limitless. You can learn any discipline or skillset, even if you shouldn't be capable of it, without forgetting it and practice them into mastery, no matter how many you learn. Any abilities you have in your possession or might gain in the future, will increase where possible and develop in ways beyond their initial purpose.

• You are at the pinnacle of mental prowess with beyond genius level intellect and a perfect memory with infinite storage.

• You are now capable of calculating and processing things faster than quantum super computers. And if that wasn’t enough, you also have the ability to accelerate and form multiple independent thought processes, though by how many and how much completely depends on you, as these abilities grow stronger with more use.

• You have a near-limitless capacity to acquire and master skills of any variety, create genius inventions and techniques, and attain within a few days or weeks what mastery regular people might in lifetimes. Moreover, you require no extra knowledge to begin learning these skills. So long as you have sufficient time and materials you’ll be able to easily develop FTL starship and spacecraft, cure mankind's deadliest illnesses, make paradigm shifting discoveries, and eventually, after amassing an immense amount of knowledge to the point of absurdity, you’ll even be able to invent your very own brand of Clarketech. While the most obvious application of these abilities is in science and technology, you are by no means limited to it. In mere weeks, you could become a master of martial arts, and in days later create your own fighting styles. A week’s practice could make you humanity's greatest detective, its finest doctor, its most talented artist, or its most charismatic leader. But if you’re so impatient and decide that weeks or days is still too long, you can just outright cheat by obtaining knowledge and information from any data storage device or book just by touching it. You’re also able to analyze, discern, understand, and comprehend the truths and workings of any and all non-concealed concepts, mysteries and phenomena with but a glance. But if you decide you actually want to put in some effort, these cheats can be turned on and off.

• You can reverse engineer anything with enough time and resources.

• You are immune to insanity and memetic hazards. "Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" becomes more of a guideline than a rule. When you acquire new skills and expertise, you will never forget or become incapable of your peak performance. This means with time you will inevitably become a veritable swiss army knife of incredible scientific knowledge, Olympic feats of physical strength and skill and much more. In a matter of months or years, your technologies could advance civilization to its extremes or make you into a transhumanist god. Nanobot enhancement, genetic recoding, cybernetics, quantum computing, and more may be in your grasp. Only you can imagine what might be possible in a decade, or a century later. Your talent in all disciplines is quite literally all-encompassing.

• You are to become the overman.

• Your psionic potential has been unlocked.

• You can produce psionic energy from your thoughts, emotions, and your very consciousness. You’re able to manipulate psionic energy to affect both the physical world and the astral plane, the minds and perceptions of others, even enhancing your own body to a level beyond the peak of your species. You’ll start out as a novice psychic with high level output but low level proficiency and the intuitive knowledge of most basic techniques (telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, clairvoyance, etc.). You can easily enter the minds of those with a weaker psyche than yourself, allowing you to easily and subtly manipulate them. Your extrasensory perceptions allow you to perceive any and all forces/energies, including time and space, allowing you to control them with enough effort.

• You gain the ability to use Astral Projection and Clairvoyance, which allows you to traverse the astral plane and observe distant events. You keep your other powers while in this state, allowing you to exert your abilities from an even greater distance.

• You have an uncanny intuition for developing new psionic techniques, refining existing ones, and can essentially copy any psionic powers/abilities you have seen.

• You possess, within your mind, a library of memories about psionic techniques.

• You will need to meditate and experience the memories to understand them but all the knowledge you need is at your fingertips. Your psionic potential is immeasurable and can train yourself to, not only increase your skills and proficiency, but your output and capacity as well. The latter two should be impossible as, for most psychics, they are fixed at birth. With enough time you will be able to develop into a psychic god capable of rewriting reality on a whim but the road there will be long and arduous. Be careful not to lobotomize yourself on your journey.

• Your ability to manipulate Magical Energy, one of the fundamental energies governing the mystical side of creation, is unlocked. You have the capacity to learn and use any magic, even unique ones upon seeing it once or understanding enough about it. You’re capable of utilizing a transcendental magic system not reliant on any mystical foundations, esoteric laws, or exotic metaphysics. With this magic system, you can reproduce any spell from any magic system from first principles. This allows you to still cast them even without the necessary mystical foundations, esoteric laws, or exotic metaphysics from the spell’s place of origin. This magic system has three major branches, they are Spellcraft, Enchantment, and Alchemy.

  • Spellcraft: The shaping of Magical Energy into constructs that produce an effects. More commonly known as spells, your library contains information about many different systems of magic and with perseverance you might discover the secrets of True Magic.

  • Enchantment: The creation of objects powered by Magical Energy, capable of producing the same effects as Spellcraft but anchored to objects.

  • Alchemy: The creation and transformation of materials and liquids with Magical Energy. From potions producing effects when ingested to esoteric metals and gems to use in Enchantments, the creation of devices, or armour, etc.

• A library of grimoires about these three major branches has been implanted into your mind. You will still need to read them in order to understand them, to experiment if you want to acquire new skills, and practice to raise your proficiency, regardless all the knowledge you need is at your fingertips. You’re capable of casting spells without requiring any extra materials like magical foci, arcane artifacts, or mystical catalysts, the only thing you require is Magical Energy to fuel the spell. The time required to cast, if any, remains however and the library also contain spells from several broad magic systems to get you started. While this ability has no theoretical upper limit, the more complex and powerful spellcraft will test your knowledge, understanding, skill, proficiency. With enough time you will be able to reach heights only the gods can dream of but be careful not to break reality or destroy your soul on your journey there.

• Your Meridians are now unlock, enabling you to circulate and cultivate your Qi. This slows down the aging process, and eventually culminates in complete agelessness.

• You will begin at the first stage of cultivation, and through arduous efforts you can refine your body, mind, and soul, to purify your very essence, distilling it to attain higher levels, raising your overall physical, mental, and spiritual attributes. Each advancement, grants you access to increasing tiers of wuxia & xianxia themed powers & effects. Though the exact nature and level of these powers & effects depends on the cultivation method, technique, and the degree to which they are cultivated. Your talents and aptitudes are raised beyond the maximum possible, the speed and ease at which you learn all things pertaining to cultivation (martial skills, mystic spells, alchemy, formations, artifact creation, etc.) is beyond ludicrous.

• You have the option of utilizing any already existing cultivation system or you can pioneer a new one.

• Your soul has been fused with an ancient spirit of knowledge. You can commune with this spirit to access their knowledge and learn new techniques or acquire knowledge of how to advance your path. Cultivation is not for the idle, but instead for those who struggle and overcome challenges. Regardless of how powerful you grow you may always find things that challenge you if you make a sufficient effort to seek them out, until you finally stand among the highest of beings.

• You are the embodiment of the concept of a warrior. Your martial talent is supreme amongst all others, in a fight you are peerless.

• Your body and skill can be trained with no limit, even breaking the laws of physics and accomplishing seemingly impossible tasks with pure skill and might.

• You gain strength and skill at an accelerated rate as well and grow in response to whatever threat you are facing. You possess a heart that is adamant and unyielding, able to stand up to any seemingly insurmountable obstacle with a truly unbreakable will.

• You are pure undiluted badass.

• You have all the talent and skills to be a natural born genius at fighting, spatial awareness, tactical thinking, you name it.

• Furthermore you will slowly but surely develop skills and martial arts designed to fell whatever foe you are fighting as long as you are training to fight them or fighting them actively, fighting will make the process go far quicker. For example, if you are fighting an immortal foe you can create a martial arts technique which imparts the concept of mortality upon whomever you strike or slash, however such a technique would likely take long to develop if you don’t already have something similar developed. This does not mean you will win against anyone in a fight however, merely that you have the potential to do so.

• You are also able to master any form of martial techniques or martial arts in a matter of days to the point where you could be called a grandmaster at it. However the more supernatural the martial art the longer it will take to master.

• The boons granted to you by this Essence cannot be drained, suppressed, weakened, stolen, copied, altered, or otherwise manipulated against your will in any way shape or form. You may extend this protection to any other Essence or Essences in your possession.

• Optionally, you may turn this entire Essence into a bloodline, inheritable to all your offsprings and their descendants. Though they inherit the power and potential, they will not be able to inherit the knowledge that came with the original. However, those knowledge can still be pass down through the more traditional methods.