Title: Essence of a Dragon (1)

Fandom: Essence CYOA/Multiverse/SI

Summary: Self-Insert where I am reborn as a dragon thanks to an Old Man giving me bottles of Essences with one of them being obvious, and now I am going through the multiverse making a hoard not out of gold but heroines and genderbend heroes.

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"Argh, what happened?" I asked out loud as unconsciousness returned to me, and is it did my own question was quickly answered, as a memory of being hit by a truck resurfaced in my mind.

I died, didn't I?

"That you did young man." A male voice spoke.

And I my eyes fully opened and I took in my surroundings which was just a black void that surrounded me, a table, a lamp that lit it up and a wise old man sitting in front of me. He kinda looked like a Greybeard.

"So, if I am dead are you, God then?" I asked. I also didn't think that I would be this noncaring since I you know died? Or maybe this was just all me as if I was, what reason was there to angst about it? Yes, my family would be so fucking sad, but they would move on in time. I was probably on my way to get reincarnated or something, and this was just the checkpoint before then.

"No I am not, and you're kinda correct in that last fact. You will get Isekaied as it were to another world, as you died before your time and so you get to chose a few powers on this list you get to have before I send you on your way."

"Wait, if I died before my appointed time, how did before when and not 'that time'?" I asked.

"It's more like your maximum possible life, and those that die before they reach that limit. Get this as a consolation prize. And if you chose the reality walking ability, you won't be able to go back to your original reality. As your soul has been barred from it." The old man answered.

"Ah, that makes sense," I responded. "Well, can I get the list with my Isekai cheat powers now?"

"Youth so impatient in your century." The old man grumbled as he took out a scroll and a pen. "Just mark the five abilities that you want."

"Thanks." I thanked him as I took the scroll and rolled it out to see what I could get.

Essence, huh? I read the title. That seemed familiar wasn't that a CYOA?

Well time to select.

Well, the first was obvious the Essence of the Dragon for as the saying goes 'You can be anything you want unless you can be a dragon, always be a dragon' or something like that. And of course, my chosen Element was Fire. You could never deny a classic. Number two was Essence of the Archmage because magic fuck yeah, third, fourth and fifth was Bredder, Harem Protagonist, Binder. Cause I had died a fucking virgin and I wouldn't let that fucking happen again even if I had to cheat a little, with a little bit of mind alteration though that would still leave them, them.

And that was that I had considered choosing Nomad over Binder, but with Archmage, I could easily devise my own multiversal travel spell and get to where ever I wanted.

"I'm done," I said as I handed the old man the scroll.

"Checks out," He said as he closed the scroll after having checked my choices presumably, a second later the scroll was switched out with an ornate flask containing a gold liquid. "Just drink this, and you be on your way."

"Well, not like I've got anything else to do," I said as I took the flask and uncorked it. I looked at the fluid and took in a single breath before I downed the entire thing.

"Urgh, fuck this taste terrible," I said while coughing.

And when I blacked out.

Xxx

"Finally a little adventure of my own," Arturia said as she walked through the forest, Caliburn at her hip waiting to be drawn and used on any unlucky beast that decided to pick her as their next meal.

Though right now she was fullying enjoying the nature around her, as there wouldn't be much of that for her soon. The year of free adventuring that Merlin had promised her was soon going to come to an end. And she had to start her campaign to reunite the lands as its King. She would soon no longer be Arturia but Arthur.

But that was still two of what Merlin called months away, from when the day would be the longest.

And right now she had left Merlin and Kay, to go exploring the forest on her own, while two of them were cleaning up the latest mess she had accidentally created.

She was getting better at solving a situation than at the start of her journey.

"Huh, is that cave?" She asked herself out loud as noticed the open cliff that sloped downwards. "It is," Arturia said in confirmation as she ran towards, and as she got closer, she began to feel like something was resonating within her. Her body started to get a little hotter, as flush appeared on her face.

But she ignored that with a shake of her head as she wanted to see what was inside.

Thankfully the light from the sun was able to reach inside, so there was no need to bring a torch with her.

Though it was really not a cave, cave but more like a singular room, that had been carved out by time itself.

And in the center of the room was…

"Holy shit it's a dragon!" Arturia shouted as she saw the scaly beast laying on the ground, and it looked to be about the same size as Llamrei even had the same color scheme.

"Who the fuck is yelling." Said a male voice, and Arturia quickly realized where it came from. "And it can talk."

And the dragon was now looking directly at her, its red eyes shining like gems.

"Well, this could have been worse." It said.