By consuming this essence you gain the potential to become the strongest summoner.
*You now possess "slots" which dictate the number of summons you can have called to you at the same time. You start with two slots.
*More will be gained by strengthening your powers through usage. This does not limit how many you can design.
*Summoning:
Your core ability and the first you will gain.
You can create and materialize summons of your own design.
Design references not only visuals but also their (supernatural) abilities, skills, and every other attribute.
Summons do not have to be meticulously crafted in every aspect but can instead be archetypes based upon their abilities.
If not designed otherwise, summons are fully sentient beings with their own personalities, goals, and wants, based on their design.
They are by default one hundred percent loyal to you and will not take actions you would disapprove of.
Every summon possesses their own supply of mana, ki, chakra, or similar energies.
They require no sustenance and can be kept out permanently.
Their starting strength is at a respectable level for the setting you're in.
Summons grow in power alongside you or even on their own.
If they remember the last time they have been called is up to you.
You are NOT creating actual living beings with this power. Summons are mere constructs build by this power.
Should the be "killed" or unsummoned, they will not wait in a separate dimension or similar, but be unmade and, in case of a resummoning, recreated.
They take up a single slot per summon.
*Partial Summoning:
The second ability you will learn, after getting familiar with normal summoning.
This will allow you to summon specific parts of summons to replicate their actions.
Like a dragon's head for their flame breath or a giant's foot to stomp your enemies.
You will not have to design a summon to use this. An archetype will be created temporarily.
Partial summons are not permanent.
This doesn't take up a slot.
*Fusion:
The third and last ability you will gain after mastering normal and partial summoning.
*With this, you can fuse with your summons and gain their abilities, skills, knowledge and/or even mannerisms should you desire.
*It will require some getting used to, but after a while, this state can be kept indefinitely.
*In the beginning, you can only fuse with one summon. This limit can be increased with training.
*This takes up a slot per fused summon.
*The esthetics of how summons arrive is up to you, just bear in mind that different methods may take them longer to get ready.
*This power cannot be suppressed, altered, removed, copied, etc.