The Sabbath

was a mass human sacrifice that resulted in the birth of the Phantoms. It was arranged by Sou Fueki who planned to use the ritual to revive his daughter Koyomi who had recently died. 
==1st Sabbath==
The first Sabbath was performed by Fueki on the day of a solar eclipse. The ritual involved the gathering of many Gates, humans with magical potential, which were forced into deep despair and sacrificed, giving birth to the Phantoms. Fueki had hoped that the mana created by the emergence of the Phantoms would bring Koyomi back to life.
One of the Gates who was sacrificed was Haruto Soma, but he survived thanks to the promise he made as a child to his parents, when they were on their deathbed after an unfortunate car accident, to keep hope alive in his heart. He was able to keep his inner Phantom, Dragon, from tearing him apart from the inside through sheer willpower. As a result, Haruto was the only survivor and emerged with the ability to perform magic. 
=== Aftermath of the 1st Sabbath ===
The Sabbath failed to completely revive Koyomi, as the mana generated from the Phantoms wasn't enough. Although she was now conscious, she was essentially a doll left with no memories of her previous life and was dependant on magic to survive; if she ran out she would become inanimate. Moreover, Koyomi would eventually die again regardless. Immediately after the sabbath, Haruto was attacked by a Phantom but was saved by Fueki (who had assumed the identity of a White Wizard) who was entrusted with Koyomi's safety (Haruto was led to believe she was another survivor from the ritual) while giving him the Wizardriver to fight the Phantoms that had been created as Kamen Rider Wizard. Fueki had another identity, Wiseman, with it being believed that he was behind the ritual to create Phantoms.
Fueki recalculated his plan, realising that Phantoms wouldn't create enough mana to completely revive Koyomi. Instead, Haruto's survival and ability to perform magic caused Fueki to decide to hold another sabbath but with wizards powering it instead of Phantoms. Realising he'd need another three wizards Fueki assumed his Wiseman form and he recruited Phoenix and Medusa to try and drive people to despair seemingly to add to their number when really he wanted to see who would survive.
==2nd Sabbath==
Several months later, Wiseman reveals that in order to execute Sabbath on a non-solar eclipse day, he must gather vast amounts of mana which are emitted by Phantoms. Also, it was revealed that the Sabbath's true purpose had not been to create Phantoms as this was simply a side effect. 
After Wiseman's identity was revealed to be Sou Fueki, aka White Wizard, he continues to kidnap more wizards, even Haruto and Koyomi in order to recreate the Sabbath. As stated earlier, however, the purpose of the Sabbath was not to create Phantoms but was actually for Fueki to fully revive his daughter Koyomi, who died of an unknown illness before the first Sabbath, through the Philosopher's Stone. Through the birth of Phantoms, large amounts of magic are released, Fueki then fed this magic into his daughter in the hopes of reviving her. However the first Sabbath had failed to fully revive Koyomi, as it had left her without her memories and also dependent on magical energy (without which she would die). Fueki recalculated his research and planned a second, much larger Sabbath, one that would use everyone in Tokyo. Haruto's survival from the first Sabbath made him alter his plan, and now instead of using the mana from Phantoms he intended to draw it from wizards. Working out that he needed at least four wizards for the Sabbath to work, Fueki unleashed Phantoms around Tokyo to drive people into despair waiting for other people who had the ability to naturally fight them off like Haruto had to emerge. Once he had the four wizards he needed, Fueki captured them all and began the Sabbath again drawing out their mana to revive Koyomi. However this had the effect of not only threatening to turn every Gate in Tokyo into a Phantom, but would kill everyone who wasn't a Gate. The only person unaffected was Kosuke (whose magic was ancient and incompatible with Fueki's goals) who rushed to stop the White Wizard. However Fueki was too powerful for Kosuke arrived and was about to finish him when Kosuke stole White Wizard's Hamel Cane and used it to destroy his Beast Driver, sacrificing his powers to free Beast Chimera who flew over the city devouring all the mana which stopped the Sabbath and saved everyone.
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