Quest Mode Current Essences
Essence of the Generic Isekai Protag
by cliffc999
This pastel-colored Essence seems to be very familiar as if you've seen it somewhere before. Also, for some reason, it smells faintly like truck exhaust.
Whether you dropped in, reincarnated into a "local", were summoned, or whatever else, you will still have a young, healthy, and athletic body that is highly resistant to common diseases with an appearance that is somehow just how you've always wanted to look, within the genetic limitations of your race. You may be any common race, not just human.
You will be able to maintain your mental focus and think clearly even despite potential stressors such as being stranded in an entirely new world, being forever separated from all your friends and loved ones, being forced to fight for your life, or being responsible for saving the world. This will also help you quickly learn and adapt to your new life, allowing you to master new skills, abilities, customs, etc., as easily as a very young child would pick up language skills.
Regardless of your appearance, you will possess a blandly inoffensive charm and generic appeal that's so broad that it seems like people just can't help but like you. Unless they are explicitly your enemy, bear a significant grudge against your race/faction/etc., or are just the type to hate everybody, anyone you meet will have an initial favorable disposition to you and will likely be open to a lasting friendship if you put in the effort. Even some of the latter types might be brought over to liking you depending on time and circumstances.
Even without your putting any effort into it you are still prime waifu bait. If you wish you can easily attract one or multiple romantic partners that you find attractive and be able to keep them all satisfied and at least tolerant of each other with relative ease. You will also have perfect fertility control and other minor, related buffs.
As an outsider, things that everybody else has been overlooking all along just seem that obvious to you. You can think outside the box, you can readily spot flaws or oversights in local cultures, strategies, tactics, etc., and you can point these flaws out to other people and unless they were already set against you they'll probably listen.
You will, of course, be granted the plot armor that is due you as the protagonist. Things will generally go your way and opportunities tend to fall into your lap as you need them. Unless you deliberately seek them out, your life will follow a progressive escalation structure where you will not encounter challenges or foes until you have 'levelled up' enough that you have a feasible chance to win against them. And even if you are defeated then nothing short of deliberate self-sacrifice or suicidal idiocy will actually get you killed as opposed to just beaten.
Finally, you will get two cheat abilities of your choice as an apology gift for your sudden case of isekai. Whether that be some type of Dark Wolf Shiro-worthy Gamer system, instinctive mastery of magic plus unlimited mana, half the stats of the most powerful creature in the world, being a super powerful race such as Kryptonian, Primarch, etc., Spiral power, or whatever else, you will receive a thematic power (or narrow powerset) that makes you the most important person in the story. You may not take anything that would start you as a peer of the ROB who sent you here.
The Essence of ROB Insurance
Any of your powers, skills, and abilities can never be drained, reduced, or otherwise limited in any form or fashion unless you will it so.
You have complete control over all of your abilities and can dial the strength of anything you are capable of or turned off completely.
No entity can precog, double cross, betray, force their will, or otherwise try and cheat you in a contract, deal, or empowerment like a CYOA. Those that try implode to nothingness or some other punishment you might fancy. Nothing happens if you cheat them, however.
Essence of the Broken Limiter
By consuming this essence, you shatter all obstacles on your path to power.
Your natural limiter, the factor that dictates that all beings can only grow their strength to a certain level, has been entirely broken and removed. This doesn't just apply to your physical strength but to all aspects of your being, whether physical, mental, spiritual, etc., and also applies to all abilities, powers, skills, etc. you may come to possess. Your body has been released from the constraints of normal logic - your muscles no longer dictate how much you can lift, the size of your brain no longer limits how much information it can store or how rapidly it can process things, etc. Given sufficient time or effort you there is no barrier you cannot pass, no level of opposition you cannot surmount.
Even when doing absolutely nothing you still passively grow your power, surpassing each previous day's version of you by a small increment. This rate of growth continuously increases exponentially whenever you are training or practicing your abilities, or are even slightly challenged by any opposition.
Your vast strength allows you to resist or outright ignore the abilities of those weaker than you. Whether it be a punch to the face or something as esoteric as an archmage's spells or an eldritch being's soul destruction, all such things are futile against you if not backed by sufficient power to overwhelm your limitlessly expanding might. If you wished you could rapidly evolve past the frailties of mere mortality, even to the point of being able to breathe in space (or beyond).
Your strength will always be a blessing, not a curse. You are entirely immune to the "world of cardboard" problem and may always perfectly restrain yourself to precisely the limit that you wish to exert yourself and not more. You are immune to madness or insanity of any kind and your mind and soul may not be controlled, leashed, sealed, etc. by anyone. You are still capable of feeling emotions normally, but they will never overwhelm your ability to exercise sound judgement. Lastly, unlike a certain bald man, you are never more than mildly bored and may still take pleasure from life regardless of how much you grow.
Essences of Empowering Charges
By drinking this sparkling soda like essences you gain the following benefits.
This essence grants you 5 charges per day which can be used to amplify every possible thing you possess. Your strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, your powers, weapons, skills, perks and everything you possess that you can imagine.
Each charge's enhancements can be considered to essentially double your abilities per charge(A two point bump in PRT rating of that power per charge). So a normal human can invest a few charges into physical attributes and become as strong as or perhaps even stronger than Spider-Man easily. You can enhance charisma, looks, voice, luck, wisdom and anything you can imagine. You can make your weapons sharper, durable/indestructible.
If you wish, you can have all your attributes, traits, skills, perks etc be shown to you like a Stats/Skill Tree in RPGs or like a Status/Skills page in The Gamer Webtoon. It can help to decide accurately what you want to improve.
The only limitation of this power is that you can't grant yourself powers. You can only enhance what you possess.
A secondary power you have is that you are completely immune to any power that can sense and manipulate your emotions or thoughts such as Empathy or Telepathy etc. Even technology cannot detect it regardless of how sophisticated and unbeatable it is. You are always in full control of your thoughts and emotions. You can lie to lie detectors and make people sense what you want them to sense from you. This power will protect you from those who would use you for their ends.
If you choose, you can use these charges on others to enhance their abilities and growth.
Anything you enhance can be undone but you will not get the charges back. You can even undo enhancements done on others regardless of distance.
You can also spend charges to reduce or eliminate weaknesses and disadvantages.
You gain an additional 5 charges per year. This increases the total number of charges you get per day every year. This means that In the 1st year you have 5 charges per day, in the 2nd year 10 Charges/day, in the 3rd 15 per day and so on.
Any unused Charges are stored and cannot be lost.
Essence of the Supernatural Organization
You gain ownership of your very own supernatural organization that is dedicated to whatever goal you may have in mind whether it is the protection of humanity, keeping the supernatural a secret or simply being your own band of fanatical minions.
This organization starts out with a single headquarters with no other holdings beyond it. The headquarters is a sprawling complex fitted with advanced manufacturing facilities, cutting edge labs, medical facilities, well stocked armories and supply storage, and other vital sections you would expect. This headquarters can take the general form of what you prefer whether it be out in the open, a hidden bunker complex, or a well disguised front. The headquarters is protected from effects that might destroy or effect it such as reality warping, magic, psionics, and any other exotic thing you can think of. It is similarly hardened against conventional attack or indirect such as cyberwarfare.
The organization can supply all the manpower required for itself by default all personnel being highly skilled clones that are educated to the top of their fields within the range of what is humanly possible. Any killed including you can be recovered as they can be re-cloned with the memories, soul, and other essential bits they had up until death with any damage no matter how exotic repaired. So fret not, anyone re-cloned unless you create a new clone will indeed be the same entity that bit the dust. All personnel will be loyal to you even more so depending on the nature of the organization. You can even have the whole organization be semi autonomous drones with you controlling them like an Overmind if you are really paranoid. The machinery used can also give pre-programed skill packages just in case you wanted to learn how to do mongolian throat singing. The only restriction is that the skills are things humans are capable of, as you add more races or capabilities to your organization this can be rectified.
Your organization has already developed or acquired several key capabilities.
The first is your organization has a way to accurately plot and teleport or open portals to different locations and entirely different dimensions or universes. It can bypass any defenses or protections that would otherwise stop this travel unless it is overwhelmingly powerful. The organization can build stable portals for easy and continued access to these locations.
The second is that your organizations scientists can develop and rapidly reverse engineer technology, supernatural abilities, items, magic, psionics, and races if they have access to samples. The larger the sample the easier it is to replicate but the more powerful it is the longer it will take. These breakthroughs can be used to upgrade your personnel or develop new technology based on these powers and races, even creating your own superbeings. With enough effort you might even be able to rid any major vulnerabilities from whatever you managed to get a hold of. It has already developed top of the line technology decades ahead of your world such as honest to god fully enclosed power armor, man portable fusion reactors, reliable and mass produced cybernetic augments, gauss and railgun technology and autonomous drones among other things.
The third is that your organization has developed shielding that can block the strongest of supernatural powers. Devices that project fields that cancel reality warping or chaotic magic and restraints that can reduce beings of middling power to being just as helpless as an average human. Study can improve the effectiveness of these restraints. The organization can further safely store otherwise volatile or supremely corruptive individuals or items without issue once.
The fourth is your organization and you by extension are filthy stinking rich. You always seem to have more then enough money and it practically falls into your lap. The economy never seems to go wrong whenever your organization interacts with it, any outside interference is not covered. Your organization can change its currency as required converting in part or whole its money for whatever locality it is considered legitimate.
Optionally you can send you and your organization to a different world then your own, retroactively if you prefer.
Essence of the Binder
By consuming the essence of the binder you gain several boons
Have the ability to mark targets with a sigil of your own design. This sigil manifests wherever you want on their body and may even be full body tattoos should you wish. The Mark can become invisible without active use. At its base lets you telepathically speak to each other and know the exact location and status of whoever marked. This mark is completely immune to any sort of tampering save yourself and is otherwise permanent though you may remove any mark with but a thought.
Those bound by the mark gain access to weaker versions of the essences you have, even this one. You may choose which essences they are empowered with. They may also be granted weaker forms of other powers you may possess at your discretion. If the mark is removed they will retain some but not all of this power just wisps of it.
Marked beings who mark others will give weaker versions of their own powers to their marked
Marked beings have infallibly loyalty hammered directly into their mind, body, and soul. They will not and cannot consciously or unconsciously choose to hurt you or go against your will unless you allow it or outright order them to. This loyalty may be dialed from slight trust all the way to complete and total devotion.
This function only rests with you and those you explicitly give it to. You may optionally discard this function permanently this once.
The Binder has the ability to invoke 'commands' which are absolute orders the marked is compelled to follow to the best of their ability even temporarily ramping up abilities or forcing their body to do something it isn't normally capable of to achieve it. This function only rests with you and those you explicitly give it to. You may optionally discard this function permanently this once.
Those marked may be summoned and dismissed by you at will and even stored away in a void inaccessible by all but you for safe keeping when not needed. They will be in a sleep like stasis when in storage and will not suffer from the passage of time or basic needs.
If a marked individual is killed even down to the soul they will instead respawn safe and sound inside your storage. Dead beings can be marked if you have remains, a object heavily associated/meaningful to them, or a soul to interact with, they will reform alive as if they had died as one of your marked.
You and others marked may set conditions and requirements for certain powers or essences, even restrictions that lock down powers should they violate a restriction or other punishment.
Those marked can have their appearance, traits, attributes, and mark changed by the binder to anything possible within the limits of their species or abilities. You can reset any changes made or revert to an earlier change.
Essence of the Hentai Protagonist
By drinking this Essence, you will become the Hentai Protagonist.
•You are incredibly attractive and your body is an almost horrifying instrument of sexual prowess. You have delicious, stimulating and almost addictive fluids, a pleasant and arousing scent, a voice that will make your paramours weak in the knees and more.
•You possess powerful charisma and charm, being capable of talking just about anyone into a relationship, or just into a bed, with you. You can easily ignite love and other tender emotions in the heart of even the most frigid or repressed individual. What's more, you'll find that your hooks are extremely hard to remove and it would take extreme abuse for a prolonged period before you see the figurative spell you weave begin to falter.
•There is no resistance you can't break down, no bond you can't subvert and no taboo you can't effortlessly bypass. There is nothing that can avoid being seduced and ensnared utterly by you.
•Your talents in the bedroom are outright supernatural, as is your stamina and endurance. You can fuck forever, though you will always feel satisfied when you decide to stop, and can reduce a frigid ice queen to a drooling mess with just your body. Actually applying your incredible skill will see far greater results.
•Your incredible talent tends to rub off on your partners. A few rounds in the sack with you could turn a blushing virgin into an incredibly skilled lover. As well, your "teaching" lends itself well to bringing out the lewd desires of your partners, allowing you to train them into mewling sluts, hook them on your fetishes and enhance the natural sensitivity of their bodies even further.
•You won't ever get bored of sex or burn yourself out from too much of a good thing.
•You benefit from relaxed or even completely altered physics where sex is concerned. Improbable insertions, cervical orgasms, erogenous zones where there were none before, ludicrous cum, selective fertility/virility, non-existent STDs, etc. Whatever you want and can justify to yourself will fall under here.
•You find it entirely effortless to bend any abilities you may have towards lewd and sexual ends, even if it doesn't necessarily make sense. Like using a thermokinetic or pyrokinetic ability to drive your lover into heat, achieving weird and wonderful things with shapeshifting (even lacking any knowledge of biology or similar) or utilizing telekinesis with a level of unseen skill to stimulate your partner with vibrations, clutching hands and much more.
•You can easily form and maintain harems and similar kinds of relationships. The people within these relationships will naturally gravitate towards a state of harmony amongst one another, resolving issues and conflicts naturally, perhaps even to the extent of entering into their own relationships with one another. You will remain the center around which the entire thing orbits, but the resulting relationship chart might become a tad mind-bending.
•The world will run itself like a particularly lurid story wherever you are concerned. Everyone you meet will be some flavor of attractive to you, wear skimpy or sexy outfits, have interests and fetishes that align with yours and a taste for men such as yourself. Your opponents can be seduced and overpowered with comparatively little effort, as if the narrative was working against them, and any resistance they put up is token at best. If you decide to blackmail someone then they'll go along with you rather telling you to go fuck yourself. Your promiscuity and sexual escapades will never be stumbled upon or break the light of day if you don't want them to, be it fucking a man's wife in his bed, having someone service you beneath your desk or ducking into an empty room for a quickie. And basically anything else you can think of. All of these effects can be toggled or toned down to any degree you wish.
•You will never be the victim of NTR. Your partners will utterly resist any and all forces that attempt to subvert their relationship with you or steal them away from you, no matter the scale. And nothing will attempt to assault your partners in that way. Bastards might appreciate them in an entirely lurid way, but they'll never make anything of it. Unless that's your thing, in which case you can turn off or tone down this protection.
•You will never have any trouble with the law because of your escapades, whether or not they're actual crimes (which will find themselves passed over by the police or see you getting a slap on the wrist if the one reporting you is persistent) or simply things like underage lovers, polygamy or exhibitionism.
•And finally, you may at any time choose to have your face fall into shadow in such a way that your eyes can't be seen.
You may choose whether or not this makes you impossible to recognise or not. This effect looks best with hair, but it'll work even if you're bald.
You have a Hentai Nullifier field making you immune to hentai plots like getting drugged and raped by fat old bald men or getting blackmailed to do sexual favours behind the back of your spouse with a CEO. These plots will fail spectacularly in the face of the wouldbe plotter either ending with them suitably punished, ruined, or worse. Body warping drugs and mind affecting abilities are less than worthless against you and you will know exactly who or what attempted to use them against you. Tentacle monsters will lose their grip on you, aliens will target someone else, or they will conveniently be killed by a passing super hero or environmental damage. You can project this as a field to extend its protections to others or just specific people like your loved ones or friends.
Drinking this essence, which looks like a strange distorted fluid, grants you a Reality Marble
This essence grants you a peak human mind and body by the standards of Modern Era Fate universe. This means that you have a Genius intellect along with perfect memory, recall and indexing. Your body is strong enough to tear through buildings and can easily survive the same and can with training move faster than sound with matching reflexes.
With training however you can even reach physical and mental abilities only possible in the Age of Gods allowing you to eventually stand as an equal to all but the strongest servants and mentally you may even be an equal to Leonardo Da Vinci and Sherlock Holmes etc.
You have a total of 200 Magic Circuits of the absolute highest quality a human can possess both in Modern Era and even in the Age of Gods. Your circuits significantly surpass even the most talented members of the Blue-Blooded Barthomeloi family and even most Dragons will be found wanting and your talent in Magecraft is similarly at the peak of what humanity can achieve. At the beginning, your spells can vaporize entire buildings without effort and this can be trained up even more.
Both the quantity and quality of magic circuits along with your enormous magical energy can be passed down to your descendants without them degrading over generations and may even increase. This shall make you desirable indeed to the mages of the Clock tower who wish for powerful children.
This also grants you exceptional endurance and makes you an exceptional lover and sexual savant to the point that even the biggest thots in history such as Medb could be fully satisfied. You can reduced every woman into a puddle of pleasure. Have it as a freebee.
You gain a one time customization to your appearance and regardless of what you choose you'll be a 10/10 even in the older eras.
You possess a Magic Crest that is 3000 years old indicating that you family originated from the Era of the King of Magic. The focus of your family's magecraft, how many members there are, the spells in your crest, how loyal they are to you, their wealth and everything else about your family is completely up to you. Fanwank.
Note that the number of circuits you possess cannot be increased naturally but there are other options that you can figure out. While your circuits cannot be increase, in defiance of the normal rules the amount of magical energy can be increased through training, magical experimentation etc as though working a muscle. Your magical energy regenerates from zero to full in 30 minutes regardless of the size of your pool.
You may also decide whether you possess a pair of Mystic Eyes and a Sorcery Trait. However neither of them can surpass what the Modern Era's Mystic Eyes can do.
Now we finally come to the crème de la crème of the essence, your very own personalized Reality Marble. Before we get into this, however, it should be mentioned that you have enough magical energy available to keep up your reality marble for a total of 3 days at maximum usage and more if you're conservative. This is significant as even the strongest Dead Apostle Ancestors cannot maintain the reality marble for more than one night.
The rejection of the world on partial manifestations of your RM is significantly lowered such that Traced Noble Phantasms can lasts for weeks before disappearing and other similar benefits.
Reality Marbles are a manifestation of a beings soul, An inner world manifested through the power of your magecraft. As such the strength and abilities of them can vary from person to person. Your soul is exceptional and so is your reality marble. Whether in terms of strength or variety or efficiency your reality marble stands at the top among the strongest reality marbles.
You can have a cool chant or manifest it simply by saying the name or even without one.
You can customize your reality marble as you please this once after drinking this essence. You can add whatever features you'd like to your reality marble as well as combine multiple different Canon reality marbles to make your own. However you can only do it this once and once set you can neither increase the strength nor the abilities through the essence. Only the variety and applications can be increased and improved.
However this essence is compatible with other adventure formats like Jumpchains and CYOAs, so any RM gained from those can be combined into this essence to increase not just your own raw power but also all aspects of your Reality Marble as well as gaining all of the aspects from the ones combined.
For example, you can take Emiya's Unlimited Blade Works and improve the strength and efficiency to the point that it can match the Gate of Babylon in power while costing less magic or even reduce the cost of tracing the weapons outside to be negligible. You can have death become meaningless while your reality marble is deployed similar to Solomon's Ars Paulina allowing you to resurrect those who died in your world. Hell, if you want you can have your Reality Marble be a memorial where Heroic Spirits live allowing you to draw the power of those Heroes into you granting you their strength and noble phantasms or simply calling their weapons to your hands in a manner similar to UBW or simply calling those Heroes to your side to fight as Servants while also allowing the powers of UBW and Ars Paulina allowing to even create your very own personal Throne of Heroes Reality Marble. If you want you can even have Crimson Moon's RM.
There is however a limitation. While it is simple to grant you a Canon RM with increases in strength,efficiency etc where applicable, to grant you a customized RM you need the experiences that are required to grow the RM. For example to grow the Memorial RM you need to meet Heroic Spirits or at least know their stories significantly such a Emiya Tracing which allows you to know the History of the weapons intimately to the point of reproducing them or perhaps you can journey through Grand Order with the Servants and create memories with them allowing you to manifest them much easily than you would otherwise.
Of course there are ways to bypass the journey needed to grow the RM but that will have to be figured out by the user.
As a benefit, this grants you a form of reincarnation based immortality that allows you to reincarnate yourself over and over into different worlds of the Nasuverse such as Apocrypha or Grand Order.
You can replace Canon characters if you wish and regardless of all else you can keep all your memories, physical abilities, experience and powers into subsequent lives without issues. However, this reincarnation is restricted to only Nasuverse.
Your powers and abilities cannot be stolen, copied, suppressed, damaged or affected negatively against your will in any way. So feel free to punch Kiritsugu while taking his Origin Bullets to the chest. Your circuits won't get destroyed.
Also no matter what, nothing in your RM can harm you or go against your will in any way. Everything works as you like.
Essence of the Archmage
By consuming the essence of the Archmage you gain several boons
Perfect memory with infinite storage
Beyond genius-level intellect
Capacity to learn any 'magic' even unique ones upon seeing it once or understanding enough about it. This also includes things like Ki, Chakra, soul power, etc.
Possess a supernatural reactor that can adapt to any supernatural energy to fuel spells, enchantments, powers, etc. this reactor provides a steady supply of power that will grow over time, right now you could use high consumption abilities with wild abandon and still not make much of a dent after a few hours.
Can teach others systems even if they previously lacked the capacity.
Manipulate entire systems or combine then with experimentation.
Are capable of casting any spell as long as you have the energy not requiring any extra element like a focus or materials. The time required to cast if any remains, however.
Essence of the Throne of Heroes
You have a multiversal Throne of Heroes and may call forth the power of heroic spirits. This encompasses all legendary beings, those present in myth or composed of myth, and any entity that has as qualified as a Servant as well as all parallel universe versions of said beings. By default you can only call upon those present in the Nasuverse. Traveling to new universes will add those legends to your multiversal Throne of Heroes.
Your body is altered and becomes a perfect vessel for any Servant weak or strong. You can summon any Servant into yourself and channel their power no problem. You can also fuse totally with a Servant and in essence become them with all that it entails. Their memories, biases, and any potential curse will only affect you if you wish it to. Note that they will still exist recorded in your throne.
You can opt to summon the actual Servant or fuse them with another into a Demi-Servant.
Your throne will provide for the mana and upkeep of your Servants. You can also make your summoned Servants fully living letting them recover mana on their own.
Your charisma is massive, you could become an incredibly influential figure if you put that talent to use in the public sphere. Your compatibility with getting along with others is off the charts. Even the most egotistical or human-hating Servants recorded will work with you at the very least. If you put effort into actually interacting with someone you will notice they will rapidly bond with you.
Servants you summon are bound by your command seals which you have a seemingly limitless amount of. You cannot lose these command seals.
You may alter the parameters of any Servant you have in your throne and have them manifest in said spirit. Something like making an Alter or genderswapped a Servant for example would be child's play. You can also take two or more Servants and cram them into the same container, even different versions of the same person. You could have this create a new dominant personality, a split personality, or some sort of fusion of all the personalities. These altered Servants are saved separately from the original so none of the original is ever lost.