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Chapter 127 - Essence of Hypercompetence

By drinking this perfect Essence, you gain the ability to operate at memetic peak performance.

*This Essence grants you hypercompetence, a level of ability where you can always operate at your absolute peak with trivial ease. You have immense natural talent for anything that you are potentially capable of doing. Likewise, your execution of anything is flawless to the absolute limits of your skill and knowledge, and will not have any fumbles, slips, unforced errors, or anything of the sort.

*Your perfection will not be hampered by a weak or imperfect body or mind. At the time you drink this Essence you are cured of any and all physical ailments and disabilities. You are also made aware of any mental illness, disorders, disabilities or other conditions you may be suffering from and may have any or all of them cured at your discretion.

*Your body is now like a perfectly optimized machine. Your muscles simultaneously have the power of a champion weightlifter and the fast-twitch speed of a master martial artist, your speed, agility, and coordination are top of the charts, and your stamina and resilience are downright cinematic. It would take a truly prolonged period of no exercise to even begin to compromise your physical fitness, and your body will respond as if receiving optimal nutrition so long as you're consuming sufficient calories of any kind.

*Your mind is similarily optimized, with your intellect being augmented to the highest levels that your species could naturally attain on your birthworld. This includes but is not limited to such things as perceptiveness, reaction time, learning rate, pattern recognition, and creativity. Your willpower is now dauntless and your memory is perfect in all respects, although you can still choose to selectively let things fade.

*You also receive a one-time appearance upgrade based on your wishes and idealized self-image, with the exact details of your build and "endowments" being up to you.

*Even your most instantaneous reactions may be undertaken as if you'd had all the time you needed to extensively plan out your next moves. You are likewise immune to being emotionally compromised; you may always think, judge, decide, and act as if you were entirely calm, collected, and focused regardless of whatever emotions you might actually be feeling at the time. You will immediately process any mental harm or trauma in the best possible way for you.

*You also gain an increased capacity for self-awareness and self-reflection. You can clear-headedly process and resolve your guilt and truly learn from both your successes and your failures, and then use what you've learned to make yourself a wiser, stronger-willed, and generally better person. You are immune to PTSD and unwanted value drift, and can retain an essential 'youness' about yourself even as you change and grow.

*Finally, your skills and abilities never degrade regardless of disuse, lack of practice, etc.

*Your hypercompetence may be fully or partially toggled whenever you wish, and may be automatically toggled back on during a life-threatening emergency even if you disabled your instantaneous reactions. Indeed, your instincts for when your hypercompetence may be safely toggled off and when it would be a better idea to leave at least some of it running will themselves be hypercompetent.

*As a special bonus, you receive full control over your fertility and other related buffs.

*This Essence immediately becomes part of your most inherent and innate nature upon first consuming it, and from that point on its benefits will permanently and irrevocably be with you at all times unless voluntarily toggled by you as per the above benefit. Nothing else can ever remove or weaken your hypercompetence in any way; curses, magic, Clarketech, even the will of ROB or equivalent beings, nothing.

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