Essence of theUnexplored Summon://Blood-Sign

Drinking this liquid filled with strange colors gives you a significant headache, an indescribable need to do some weird shit involving white orbs, and a minor feeling of obsessiveness.

• You gain a one-time resculpt of your body, so long as it is in human shape. Yes, you may even be a futa or a creature of countless tentacles in the form of a human being. Why human beings? All Unexplored-Class Materials are all humans, somehow.

• You are now an Unexplored-Class Material. An unfathomable, indescribable being from the other side. No, not an Outsider. That requires a different Essence altogether. Your powers function differently from other Unexplored-Class Materials as unlike them, you don’t have limitations and you have complete access to the powers used by Materials. Not only that, but you seemingly get new powers as time passes. Meaning you can imitate Anshin’in soon if you want to.

  • Yes, including the Powers of the White Queen and the Black Maw.

  • However, you need to train yourself to control them. Basically, you were given a vacuum collapse missile, but you don’t know how to detonate it at will because you don’t have the means to do so. You can still fire the missile but you don’t know if that’s safe for everyone in the area. That is basically how awful your control is at the start.

  • The above thing bypasses ANY essences you have. Meaning you’re on your own.

• An example would be using the White Queen’s power. Your radiance will decimate the omniverse by complete accident if you didn’t learn to control it. Get an essence that grants you a location where you are safe to use it before taking this essence, otherwise everyone will have a bad time. Or rather a light time since you use light. Get it.

  • Normally, you would be summoned by a Summoner into a Vessel but unlike those wusses (AKA other Materials) who need Vessels, you don't. You are strangely an independent Unexplored-Class Material.

• Optionally, you may already have a Vessel, but they are already dead when you get 'summoned'. Thus you are now in charge.

  • You can slightly turn off your Material powers if you choose this option.

• You gain access to the Blood Sign Ceremony, even though you are a Material. This is otherwise known as the most complicated summoning ritual to summon beings from the other side, AKA Materials. Also, you may use this in place of other summoning rituals. Only summoning rituals, one of the Essence Holders tried to replace another ritual with this and the get turned into a puppy. Permanently.

  • The Blood-Sign Summoning Ceremony is the culmination of summoning ceremonies. It completes and re-integrates the advantages of all kinds of rituals around the world to create a methodology to summon legendary beings into the real world with 100% certainty. The god is not assisting a human; the human has the god obey him.

  • The two main tools used in this ceremony are the incense grenades and the Blood-Sign.

• Incense Grenades are special grenades used by summoners. Instead of an explosive blast or fragments, the Incense Grenade sprays a transparent mist over the surrounding area, quickly changing the air to the one found next to a clear mountain stream. At the same time, complex symbols of light are drawn on nearby surfaces and a dim pale light fills the area. This creates a twenty-meter square cage known as an Artificial Sacred Ground.

• Blood-Sign are the staffs/rods used by modern summoners. Though its name varies from religion to religion, Blood-Sign is the name summoners use for them, and it also names the ceremony itself. Most summoners produce their Blood-Sign using magic, such as controlling sand to form a rod or constructing it using Japanese paper charms or ribbons. This is the most magic a single human can produce on their own, thus the extended use of the summoning ceremony to borrow power from the inhuman Materials.

  • Summoners can establish a contract with a vessel by making them ingest a drop of their blood in a special ceremony, so a summoner always has a certain “protective charm” on hand (a small blade, a pin, or even their own canine tooth) just in case. The single drop of blood uses magical power to explosively rearrange the vessel's entire body and establish their contract, binding them to the summoner. In order for a contract to be established, both summoner and vessel must fully consent to it. Thus, a contract does not work under duress, while unconscious, while hypnotized, or under the influence of other forms of suggestion. A new contract overwrites the previous contract and no thought is given to the other member of the old pair. There are many mysteries about this covenant system, so there is a possibility of unexpected side effects. A summoner can cancel their current contract with a vessel as long as they can see the vessel with the naked eye, unless their vessel is currently summoning a Material.

• While one cannot establish a contract with a vessel that's under the state of shock brought upon losing a summoning battle (it would be considered a type of suggestion and not fully consenting), a summoner who is in the same state can be ordered to break their contract with their vessel.

• The contract is accompanied by a small chant, which likely slightly varies from faction to faction since it involves calling upon the faction's Unexplored-class. What chant? It’s up to you. You can make it a poem, or some weird shit like it came from a chuunibyou.

  • After the artificial sacred ground has been created, something like a hologram will appear between the two summoner-vessel pairs. This is the Rose which has its roots in a symbol of Western magic that used a rose emblem to conceal the secrets of summoning archangels. At first glance, the Rose looks like a die with colorful patterns on its 60-centimeter sides, but it's a gathering of 216 spheres of light that are as big as apples and as red as blood. These are the Petals. All of the Petals have a single letter of the alphabet carved into it in accordance with a certain set of rules. Even from a distance, a summoner can intuitively feel the “meaning” just from seeing the light of the Petal. The Petal's letter belongs to a category of sounds: low, middle, high, and lowest.

• The low sounds are b, c, d, f, g, h, and j.

• The middle sounds are k, l, m, n, p, q, and r.

• The high sounds are s, t, v, w, x, y, z.

• The lowest sounds are a, i, u, e, and o.

  • After the Rose appears, three spheres of white light known as White Thorns will appear near each summoner. The summoners will hit their White Thorns to try and hit the Petals and knock them into a Spot, fist-sized holes that will cause something to “fall” into it no matter what direction it contacts it from. 36 Spots will appear across the space isolated by the Incense Grenade once the Rose is hit by a White Thorn. By knocking Petals into Spots, the summoner carves the name of the Material they want to call in, making it possess the physical body of their vessel. Once the Material is temporarily fixed there, it can be used. One White Thorn is replenished after a ten-second period, and a maximum of seven can be held at any given time.

  • Additional information for the Summoning Ceremony can be found here on this pamphlet that came with the essence bottle. Yes. This is so complicated, that the Essence Maker wrote it on an Archdeity-be-damned pamphlet. Now the Narrator is angry about how complicated this is.

  • Usually, when a Material is defeated in a Summoning Ceremony, they’ll go into a catatonic state due to the final blow. You don’t go to that state but instead lose access to your Material powers temporarily. This also makes you immune to those mental stuff unless you want it to be. But why do you want to feel pain? Are you a masochist?

• You can empower people to become Summoners or Vessels to allow them access to the Summoning Ceremony. It also comes with freaking pamphlets for them to read so they would know the rules. That’s how complicated it is.

• You also gain access to a Wonderland you own where Materials are constantly being created from legends, fiction, and the like. They won’t be as powerful as you unless they gain sentience from interacting with you a lot. They are also extremely loyal. So loyal, they would rather kill themselves than kill you if they, somehow, get controlled.

• Now for the creme de la creme of it all, you gain access to your very own White Queen. Unlike the original White Queen, she actually knows morality and won’t do what you didn’t want by the command and spirit of your word. Also yes, you can lewd her. But are you prepared to have your “D” be destroyed with her Lewd Mary Sue powers!?

  • In case you didn’t know, the original White Queen is literally an Archdeity-Class Entity but she is heavily downplaying it in the story.

  • Her looks are up to you. Make her look like Kiana and cause havoc in the Honkai-verse? Yep. You can.

• Also you get her other half, the Black Maw. She is literally her but instead of light, she uses the power of darkness. Expect the two of them fighting one another for you more than they fight their enemies.

• Optionally, you may get Wisdom. A being that looks like your White Queen but has direct access to true Omniscience. She is, by definition, literally a glass cannon. She is so smart, even Yog-Sothoth doesn’t want to be in a room with her.

• In case you didn’t know it already, you can go to other worlds as easily as thinking about said worlds.

• Due to your Material nature, only beings of the same class as you can damage you. Meaning you are immune to everything but your own kind. And that is too few and far between.

  • By definition, only Archdeity-Class Entities such as Archdeity of Eternity themself, Ein Sof, etc. are the only ones that can actually fight you on even ground.

• If you desire so, you may have a one-way trip to the setting of Unexplored Summons://Blood-Sign. Also your White Queen will be separate from the original. Now if you do manage to win and conquer the setting, including their version of Wonderland, you are hereby crowned as the Scarlet Red King who Dreams the Wonderland and Wields Out-of-This-World Essences. Yes. You are now a fucking chuuni. Have fun.

  • Do note that a fuckload of people who took this essence don’t want to go to that setting due to how people living there caused headache-inducing idiocy. In fact, all of them stared at the setting before going far away from it. Not sure why, though I'm pretty sure it's about how stupid the MC is as a kid. He literally has the White Queen as a summon. He could've asked her to let them escape from the labs. Sigh.﴿⦖⋙.