Longinus

Divine Dividing, one of the 13 Longinus

The **Longinus** (, *Ronginusu*) also known as **Tools that Destroy God** are the thirteen original top-tier Sacred Gears with enough power to kill Gods, as well as five additional Sacred Gears that evolved to the same level.

## **Summary**

This class of Sacred Gears is specifically named after the True Longinus, the first and most powerful, and unlike other Sacred Gear, that has more than one of the same type, the Longinus are utterly and completely unique, and only one of each may exist at a time. The Longinus are also known as the **Embodiments of God’s Destruction**, the **Divine Destruction Tools** and the **Supreme Sacred Gears**. Azazel has stated that all Longinus is just a combination of one ability with another. Essentially, they combine powerful abilities that aren’t supposed to be combined. All of the Longinus are considered the strongest Sacred Gears in their respective categories such as Dimension Lost being considered the ultimate barrier-type Sacred Gear or Annihilation Maker being considered the ultimate creation-type Sacred Gear.

According to Azazel, the Longinus are highly scalable and expandable Sacred Gears, especially after attaining the Balance Breaker, their power would significantly increase, and the abilities that they could manipulate also increased. Azazel had hypothesized said that Longinus absorbs their wielder’s abilities and creativity, and then becomes a vessel for their realization. According to Azazel, the current generation of Longinus wielders is unique in the way that they use their Longinus, as it isn't the same as how it was until now, as most of the new wielders are finding new and different ways to use them and increase their strength in ways that weren't seen previously with the exception of Megumi Mitsuzuri, Kurai Nara and Kana Namikaze.

Out of the thirteen (now eighteen) Longinus, four of them are known as the **Holy Relics**, they are: the **Holy Spear** - ***True Longinus***, the **Holy Grail** - ***Sephiroth Graal***, the **Holy Cross** - ***Incinerate Anthem***, and the **Holy Nail** - ***Alphecca Tyrant***.

All thirteen original Longinus have appeared in the series. In addition, 5 new Longinus were born after the Evil Dragon War due to the abnormality on the Sacred Gear system, and the Sacred Gears' ability for growth and change.

The Longinus and their users are strictly monitored by the Three Factions, as due to the Kuoh Treaty, the discovery of a Longinus requires a members of the alliance to report their discovery to the higher-ups of each faction or face inquiry from the other members of the Three Factions. This is demonstrated when it is revealed that the Great King Faction forced Sairaorg Bael to hide the fact that his Pawn; Regulus, is the avatar of Regulus Nemea. The Alliance of Hell was later formed largely out of fear for the Longinus users.

## **Original Longinus**

The first 13 Original Longinus made by God of the Bible.

## **New Longinus**

These consists of Sacred Gears, which evolved into the new Longinus because of all the abnormalities within the Sacred Gear System following the Evil Dragon War achieving powers and abilities which differs from other sacred gears. This includes the Forbidden Balor View which evolved into Aeon Balor because of having the dark powers of the Celtic Evil God, Balor.

## **Trivia**

* Three of the four High-Tier original Longinus users have Sub-species Balance Breakers.
* Four of the thirteen (currently eighteen) Longinus contain powerful creatures, three of which have had roles in the storyline.
* Among the Longinus, the True Longinus and Canis Lykaon were used to either wound or kill a god prior to being made into Sacred Gears.
* In Volume 10, Sora stated that despite that Ame-no-Ohabari which Sasuke possess is considered to be a Longinus weapon despite not being a Sacred Gear.
* Among the Longinus possessors, there are 11 male Longinus possessors and 8 female Longinus possessors.
	+ Megumi Mitsuzuri is known to be the most powerful Longinus possessor due to her comprehension and divine level mastery of her Longinus.
* During the "Kyoto Incident", the original Sun Wukong tells Georg that he needs to talk with his Longinus to better grasp its abilities. This suggests that the remaining Longinus that don't have a creature sealed inside them, instead have some other form of consciousness.
* The name Longinus is based upon the legendary and mystical figure of Christian mythology. Longinus, according to multiple Christian communions, is said to have been the soldier who pierced Jesus' side with a lance.