Essence of Training
By drinking this Essence, you will receive a number of boons.
You possess tremendous talent and affinity for any field that you set your mind towards, allowing you train, improve and comprehend in any field of endeavour, be it physical, spiritual or mental, far faster than normal. You can easily make progress in a month that would take others a lifetime of study and training.You require no upkeep or continued training to maintain any of your abilities or traits. No matter the time between uses, your skills and abilities will remain as sharp and developed as ever.You suffer no penalties from lacking a teacher. You may easily instruct yourself by observing others or reading from a book, easily and intuitively addressing issues that would normally crop up from training on your own with no oversight.The only limitation on your talent is that you cannot create information from nothing and you cannot train traits and abilities that you do not possess or do not have any potential to use. If it exists within you, then you can train it.Genius is wasted without a good work ethic. You are now easily capable of dedicating yourself to self-improvement for its own purpose, if not for an actual goal. You have the will to spend days and days studying, training, improving and actually find it personally fulfilling to do so.
Essence of the Unlimiter
By drinking this Essence, all limits on your capabilities have been lifted.
All powers, skills, traits and stats that you possess are now limitless in potential. By continuing to push yourself to the edge of your capabilities in any area, you will find that there is no longer an upper limit to your progress. Continue to lift objects of ever increasing weight and your strength will increase without limitation. Continue to hone a skill past the point of mastery and you will continue to see improvement. The size of your muscles no longer dictates how much you can lift nor does it restrict how flexible you can become or how quickly you can move. The size of your lungs no longer dictates the amount of air that you can store in them. The size of your brain no longer dictates how much information it can store, no how fast it can process information. So long as you continue to push your limits, you will be always be able to improve yourself further. Learning skills, developing certain types of muscles or acquiring certain kinds of abilities will typically make learning others difficult or even impossible. A physique designed for strength will not lend itself to speed/agility and some types of abilities are simply incompatible on a metaphysical level. You no longer have this issue. You can learn any number of abilities and develop any number of traits without harming your potential in any other field. It is possible for one's potential to be crippled in one way or another. Perhaps a soft-tissue injury would put any dreams of an athletic career to rest or damage to your spiritual structure would hamstring your progress through cultivation. This is no longer the case for you. Any injury or damage that you receive that would ordinarily permanently cripple you will no longer do so. With time, you may recover your full potential regardless of how crippling the damage taken. The details of how skills manifest when honed beyond mastery, be it impossible competence or supernatural displays and effects, is up to you.
Essence of the Hercules Method
By drinking this Essence, you will obtain the Hercules Method (Luther Strode).
● By following this method and bringing your mind, body and spirit into alignment with your will, you will begin to walk the path of Cain and become a supernatural force to be reckoned with.
● There are multiple stages to the Method that will be outlined below:
○ Pre-Initiate: This is the level that most people will reach, lacking a true affinity for the Method. Flexibility on par with gymnasts, speed, strength and toughness befitting an accomplished athlete, honed senses and a resistance to sickness, poison and disease. Nothing worth mentioning.
○ Initiate: This is the first stage of the Method, when one can be considered to have started walking the Path of Cain. The practitioner can perceive the world as a canvas of blood and flesh, seeing straight through the skin of their fellow man to accurately discern the placement of organs, muscles, nerves and veins. Their physical power increases markedly, enough to outdo Olympian athletes in all areas and easily tear both flesh and muscle apart with hands or teeth.
○ Adept: The second stage of the Method enhances the practitioner's senses massively, allowing them to perceive the world with far greater clarity than before. At this point, they can see the world in clear shades of blue that highlight the movements of the people around them. By focusing on someone, you may perceive a multitude of blue shadows that indicate possible actions a person might take. The more advanced a practitioner is, the less shadows there are to perceive, thus projecting greater certainty, and the more easily they can obscure their own shadows from the Blue Vision of another practitioner. At this point, a practitioner's physical power has increased even further, conferring far greater resilience and speed, as well as the strength to bring down wood and steel buildings with some effort.
○ Competent: This stage is when a practitioner becomes truly formidable. They can tighten their muscles to catch bullets or blades in their fibers, as well as force external and internal injuries to close and heal through force of will. They can rip apart steel like paper and shatter stone with ease, accurately navigate their surroundings via hearing or feel the heartbeat of nearby people. Their physical resilience, speed and flexibility continues to rise.
○ Expert: This stage is when a practitioner becomes capable of living forever. Their ability to heal themselves has advanced so far that they require no exercise or maintenance to stay in prime condition, nor do they suffer from age or infirmity, though a small amount of sustenance is still required from time to time. Physical potency continues to increase, with the speed and reflexes to dodge bullets in mid-air and outrun cars on the freeway.
○ Mastery: Only one has reached this stage of the Method, the creator of the Path himself, Cain. At this stage the practitioner's regeneration is so powerful that the only thing guaranteed to kill them is the destruction of their brain or truly terrible trauma to their entire body. More than no longer aging, the practitioner is now so beyond the needs of the body that being restrained in complete darkness for millennia with no sustenance will cause no harm or detriment. The master's body is now of a level that can't be compared to the lower stages, easily capable of killing scores of expert practitioners without blinking. At this level of mastery, even stranger methods of murder can be discovered, such as causing brain hemorrhaging through eye-contact and similarly strange things.
○ Beyond Mastery: There are no known examples of stages beyond Mastery, but if you follow the Path dutifully, meditating and training for long enough, who knows what new fields of blood and bone you might find?
● You can instruct others in the Method, though only one in a million people will have the competence necessary to make true progress along the path.
● You possess talent equal to Luther Strode.