Zenith Tempest

**Zenith Tempest**, also known as the **Prison of Bright Heavenly Thunder**, is the 2nd Longinus Sacred Gear, considered the most powerful Longinus only after True Longinus.

It is currently wielded by Dulio Gesualdo, an exorcist from the Vatican and member Michael's Brave Saints. However, another version of this Longinus also exists and is also currently wielded by Dulio Gesualdo of an alternate world.

## Summary

Zenith Tempest is ranked as number 2nd among the Longinus, exceptionally powerful Sacred Gears that can potentially kill gods and destroy the world. It is considered to be only beneath the True Longinus in terms of raw powers and versatility.

The most infamous past user of Zenith Tempest is Kleito Brayth, an Edenith magician who managed to survive the great flood through unknown means and escaped to Earth eons ago. She used her Longinus to separate a large peninsula from the ancient continent of Mu and create an island civilization of her own, known in ancient Greek records as the civilization of Atlantis, where she ruled as a god-empress for thousands of years until her natural death when she was over 2.5-billion years old.

Its current wielder is Dulio Gesualdo, a young exorcist from the Vatican and now reincarnated angel within Michael's Deck. He awoke his Sacred Gear when he was 7 years old when his village was destroyed by a group of Italian fascists, accidentally summoning a supernatural storm to kill off the fascists and ravage the entire region in the process. Noticing the appearance of the powerful Longinus, the Vatican sent people to come and recruit him into their ranks, training him into an exorcist.

In 2013, thanks to a ritual performed by the Nilrem faction, a small drift was oepened between this world and an alternate world where a 50-years-long World War II was won in favor of the Axis powers and, as a last attempt of victory, the American government decided to launch hundreds of nuclear bombs all across the world, turning it into an apocalyptic nuclear fallout wasteland.

Through this drift, they were able to summon an alternate version of Dulio Gesualdo, who also possessed a Zenith Tempest due to a "bug" within the Sacred Gear System that accidentally allow a Longinus to exist in more than one world in the same time, and brainwashed him into a war machine for their faction during their fight against team D×D. Eventually, Nilrem was defeated and its leader, Euclid Lucifuge, was captured and imprisoned, the alternate Dulio Gesualdo was taken in under the seraph Zadkiel's wings as his world was destroyed by Dulio's Balance Breaker.

Because of this, certain modifications were made by Michael and Uriel so that two Zenith Tempest could simultaneously exist within the same world, though the alternate one will disappear once the alternate Dulio dies.

## Appearance

Zenith Tempest has no physical appearance, though it is a telltale sign of a user activating its powers when their eyes turn into an unnatural shade of melting gold.

## Abilities

Zenith Tempest is most well-known for its atmokinetic powers, which allow its user to sense, create, shape and manipulate weather, i.e. the meteorological patterns, creating rain, wind, hail, lightning, snow, sleet, fog, and temperature changes. This includes the ability to generate various natural phenomena or control the intensity of the weather in highly concentrated (inside room) or vastly extended (continental) areas. However, this is only the surface of the Longinus' true power.

They can also sense, create, shape and manipulate climate, allowing them to change the climate of an area and even make changes to climate over entire areas over a long period of time. They can also create and manipulate their own personal weather system, allowing them to generate different types of meteorological phenomena in their immediate vicinity, usually limited to their specific space, and locations where they live or usually visit also tend to experience great weather, regardless of their natural environment.

In its entirety, it allows its user to be connected directly to the natural world, and thus, can communicate, influence, manipulate and control nature: all living beings and plants and natural phenomena, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed.

Because they can communicate directly with nature, they become instantly familiar with their surroundings. In fact, the connection is so deep that the world can respond to their emotions and desires, resulting in phenomena such as flowers blossoming and the weather calming down when they are happy, the sky becomes stormy or earthquakes happening when they are angry, the entire landscape automatically shifted for a better advantage during battle, etc.

They can purify, heal and generally influence the health of nature, and considering that they're helping the environment, plants and animals often act favorably towards the user, to the point where they would gladly sacrifice themselves to save the user from danger. They also have access to every living species of animal in the world - or rather, ones native to the planet they inhabit - and can also draw strength from them and acquire their abilities. Nature obeys their every command and operates on a "hive mind", meaning that the users can control entire armies of animals.

They can create, shape and manipulate the environment, whether natural or artificial, and everything within it; including all the aspects, natures and systems of the environment, including all of its inhabitants, from the purely physical ones and also the mythical/conceptual ones.

They can also create, shape and manipulate the elements of an primordial nature, so ancient that they are from the beginning of the universe. Due to its sheer powers, they can easily override any other forms of elemental manipulation, whether it is based on divine powers or through Elemental Magic. Because of this, users can use this power for a variety of powerful and catastrophic effects, such as altering the very concept of the elements, change how the elements interact with the world, and perform planetary or even cosmic-level feats with ease.

## Techniques

### Speranza Bolla di Sapone

**Speranza Bolla di Sapone** (虹色の希望スペランツァ・ボッラ・ディ・サポネ, *Superantsa Bora Di Sapōne*), also known as **Rainbow Colored Hope**, is a technique that Dulio created, the user makes a giant bubble by blowing through a circle formed by the user's hands which then explodes into smaller bubbles. Whosoever touches the bubbles remembers the things that are most important to them, resulting in them either losing the will to fight or clearing their mind. However, those who are constantly thinking about the things they cherish the most in their lives are unaffected by this ability.

## Forms

### Tartareus Aureus Coliseum

**Tartareus Aureus Coliseum** (地獄の夢の風景の燃える円形劇場タルタレウス・アウレアス・コロシアム, *Tarutareusu Aureasu Koroshiamu*), also known as the **Burning Amphitheater of the Infernal Dreamscapes**, is "Nero" Gesualdo's Abyss-Side Balance Breaker. "Nero" creates a giant ring of gold fire which he could freely manipulate anything within, from the landscapes to the living beings to even the rules of reality existing inside the ring. The ring gradually and consistently increases itself in size, starting from a 4-meter radius to eventually the size of a small country.

### Flagello di Colori del Arcobaleno, Speranza di Briscola

**Flagello di Colori del Arcobaleno, Speranza di Briscola** (聖天虹使の必罰、終末の綺羅星フラジェッロ・ディ・コロリ・デル・アルコバレーノ、スペランツァ・ディ・ブリスコラ, *Furajero Di Korori Deru Arukobarēno, Superantsa Di Burisukora*), also known as the **Inevitable Punishment of the Holy Angel's Rainbow, Shining Star of the End**, is Dulio Gesualdo's Cress-Side Balance Breaker. Dulio creates countless bubbles, trapping his opponents within them, and controls the climate within these bubbles to attack those trapped within, creating intensely swirling flames, violent hurricanes, freezing cold air and vicious torrents of lightning.

## Trivia

* Zenith means "when something is most powerful or successful" and Tempest mean "a violent windy storm" so Zenith Tempest literally means "the most powerful/successful violent windy storm".
* "Tartareus Aureus Coliseum" means "Hellish Golden Coliseum".
* "Speranza Bolla di Sapone" means "Hope Soap Bubble".
* "Flagello di Colori del Arcobaleno, Speranza di Briscola" means "Scourge of Colors of the Rainbow, Hope of Trump".
	+ Briscola is the name of a popular Italian card game so the meaning of "Trump" in this case is a reference to trump suit in the game which would refer to Dulio's nickname "The Trump Card of Heaven".