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Chapter 3 - [Potential] Link

Essence of the Transcendent Human

By consuming this Essence, you become a transcendent human, the ultimate version of Humanity.

• You gain a perfectly healthy, evolved human body that takes the shape of your ideal self or whatever form you would find most aesthetically beautiful for yourself. As a physical baseline, your body start out at roughly fifty percent above peak human in all abilities, and through training can grow even further. You will recover at least several times more rapidly than normal from any injury that does not kill you outright, additionally you possess total immunity to all poisons, and diseases.

• Your intellectual baseline has likewise been increased; you're a single-repetition learner, capable of absorbing weeks of experience in days, months of experience in weeks and years if not decades of experience in months. In addition to this, you are gifted with perfect memory, including infinite storage and perfect indexing; your skills will never degrade, even if you let them sit idle for a decade or two. You will be a true Renaissance Man, able to apply the full force of your intellect to any and all fields or endeavors that might strike your fancy with equal ease, study political science and come up with ideas on how to vastly streamline and re-engineer administrative systems, devise new and highly effective martial arts by working from basic principles of biology, anatomy, and applied physics, create new languages that allow speaking or thinking with greater efficiency, or use your study of mathematics and harmonics to compose wondrous new music; all this and much more is possible for you. Likewise, you will always be capable of approaching new concepts without being unconsciously biased or constrained by what you already know, and instead will judge them fairly upon their own merits.

• Your potential is boundless; the only limits on your talent are what resources are available for you to work with and the inherent physical laws and limitations of the universe you currently inhabit. Any powers and abilities you obtain will grow and improve where possible, and in time may even develop in ways beyond their initial purposes.

• Your charisma and social skills are likewise boosted massively, when observing someone; you will within minutes gain a good understanding of their personality and will intuitively know exactly what to do or say to make them do your bidding. You can instill teamwork and cooperation between even the worst of rivals, and are able to inspire those around you even in their darkest hour. Your compatibility for getting along with other people is off the charts. If you put effort into actually interacting with someone, you will notice that they will rapidly bond with you.

• You can survive and thrive in desperate situations and will adapt accordingly, even if logically you would most likely die an ignoble death. Getting killed by a stray bullet or falling rock isn't in the cards for you. If someone wants to kill you, they will have to do it the hard way.

• As a transcendent human, you are a harbinger of what all humans may one day become. With sufficient effort and time, you will be able to uplift other humans to your level. 

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Essence of the Genius

You are incredibly, impossibly intelligent.

● Casual comprehension and manipulation of arbitrarily large, complex and strange numbers, figures and concepts.

● Capable of comprehending any subject matter or material and never forget anything unless you choose to do so.

● Can frequently and on focus get into state of inspiration and have ideas about how to improve things, even beyond the limits of possibility.

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Essence of the Manipulator

By consuming the Essence of the Manipulator, you gain several boons:

● You gain conscious control over your charisma. You can switch between being the most fascinating person in any room to having so faint a presence only the most attentive people will even notice you're there.

- You can also apply your charisma selectively, becoming a dazzling presence in the eyes of your targets while others would be unable to describe your appearance if questioned, and decide how they perceive you, if you seem charming or intimidating to others.

- You can also make your charisma fade in the minds of others, so that while they listened to you with rapt attention, over the span of the next few days they will forget the impression you left on them until they forget you completely.

- This however doesn't mean your words fade from their memory if you don't want to, instead they'll merely forget that the ideas you planted in their mind weren't their own.

● You become a masterful actor, able to play any role and present any personality you choose.

- You will instantly be aware of anyone attempting to read your mind or sense your emotions and can immediately create false thoughts, feelings and even memories that will show any mental scan exactly what you want them to see.

- You also gain great oratory skills both for simple conversation as well as in speeches before immeasurable crowds.

● When observing someone you will within minutes gain a complete understanding of their mind, how they think, what motivates them and how they tick is revealed to you.

- You can read people like books, their deepest secrets and most hidden thoughts may as well be written on their foreheads.

- Their subconscious thoughts and biases can be revealed with but a glance.

- This also works on large crowds, though to a lessened extent when the crowd as a singular entity is targeted.

● Any person you focus on, you know how to remold them to your liking.

- You can break them with but a few words, you know how to tear down their ego, how to use cruel insults and sweet promises of relief to wear down even the most stubborn resistance.

- You can also uplift them, give them the greatest confidence in the bleakest circumstances.

- You can make the most stubborn and bullheaded man see reason, or turn the most open-minded and accepting person into a close-minded bigot.

- You can turn people into simpering slaves completely dependant on you or manipulate them freely without them even being aware that you exist.

● You can also manipulate crowds of people on a larger scale, with only minimally less fine-control.

- You could lead a hopelessly-outnumbered force into a heroic charge without a single man breaking ranks, as well as demoralize a force with an overwhelming advantage to the point of making a well-armed army of thousands to take flight when charged by children wielding sticks.

- You can fan the population of a utopian society into complete revolt, or make the population of the most tyrannical dictatorship adore the boot that crushes them.

- Social engineering on all levels is child's play, you could start a political movement or even a religion and turn it into a universal belief, no matter how drastic or ridiculous.

- You can turn a noble caste consumed by greed and hedonism to altruism and selflessness, convert a group of radical feminists into a patriarchal faith preaching that a woman's reason for existence is to please men, or simply make the act of wearing a plate of cooked spaghetti as a hat into the latest fashion-trend.

- The time needed to mold others to your will depends on the extent of your change, from a few moments to encourage someone to act on their impulses, a few minutes to rally a group of men into an action they believe correct but lacked the courage, to a few days to completely reshape their world-view into something that goes against everything they were before.

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Essence of the Gamer's System

• You are now a Gamer, with a system of your own design. You are fully free to design it however you want, from something like the System from Solo Leveling to DarkWolfShiro's ISIS and the original Gamer ability. You may mix and merge however you want, or create something completely original, or do something else. You are completely free to create and design it however you want, even deciding the limits of its potential, if there even is a limit. Does the system have the Gamer's Mind and Body, does it have a Gacha function, does it have a relationship function, does it have an inventory, does it have classes, is it sentient, is it inherently broken or limited, does it have Instant Dungeons, do they have time dilation, etc. However, once you have finished created your own system, you cannot change it ever again. Unless you design it in such a way that you can alter it.

• Not only that, but you are able to turn others into Gamers/Players as well, granting them their own system of your design. Once again, you are free to create and design it however you want.

• You can even create and grant systems to entire worlds, should you so desire it.

You can also grant items access to systems, allowing them to grow over time similar to a gamer, or perhaps granting whomever wields them access to a system while wielding it.

• You can take back any system you give away whenever you want, even create failsafes should you feel the necessity. You may also alter, change and manipulate any system you have created (other than your own personal one) whenever you want. You can at any point seal or take the powers that the system have accessed. You can even permanently separate others from their System once they have matured enough with their powers without them losing their powers, or with them losing their powers.

- Optionally, you may choose to receive any of the following people as your companions. You can pick as many as you want. The relationship between you and them is whatever you want it to be, and you can even choose exactly how romantically and sexually experienced they are. This can be different for each of the characters but they will all be irrevocably loyal to you.

- Any characters you want from any universe.

- Optionally, you may at any time choose to take a one way trip into any Universe of your choice, or a variation of it. This can be any alternate universe, like a fanfic or a universe made perfectly for yourself. You can either simply be dropped in or reincarnated into the body of an existing character or someone new.

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