Zenith Tempest

**Zenith Tempest**, also known as the **Prison of Bright Heavenly Thunder**, is the second Longinus. It is currently wielded by Dulio Gesualdo of Michael's Deck, however, an alternate version of it also exists and it's currently wielded by an alternate version of Dulio.

## Summary

Zenith Tempest is the second of the original Longinus, exceptionally powerful Sacred Gears that have the potential to kill immortal gods and even destroy the world.

In 20XX, because of a ritual performed by the Nilrem Faction, a rift was opened between this world and an alternate world where a 50-years World War II was won in the pyrrhic victory of the Axis powers as the world became a post-nuclear fallout wasteland after the United States released all of the nuclear weapons in a vain attempt of revenge.

Through the rift, Nilrem was able to summon an alternate version of Dulio Gesualdo who possessed an alternate version of Zenith Tempest due to a "bug" within the Sacred Gear System, and brainwashed him into a soldier for their faction in their fight against Team D×D.

Eventually, the Nilrem Faction's leader, Euclid Lucifuge, was captured and the faction disbanded, with the alternate Dulio being taken in by Michael as his original world was destroyed by Dulio's Balance Breaker. Because of this, Michael had made certain modifications within the system to allow two Zenith Tempests to simultaneously exist in the same world for as long as the alternate Dulio lives.

## 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, in which the user makes a giant bubble by blowing through a circle formed by their hands which would 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

### Cortile Infernale del Principe Celeste

**Cortile Infernale del Principe Celeste** (神々の墓地、堕落した副王の憂鬱コータイル・インファーネール・デル・プリンチペ・セレスト, *Kōtairu Infānēru deru Purinchipe Seresuto*), also known as the **Graveyard of Gods, Melancholy of the Fallen Viceroy**, is the Alternate Dulio Gesualdo's Balance Breaker.

He creates a giant ring of heavenly 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, and the greater it expands, the more its the landscape within it will change and the more hellish it would become.

### 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 Crest 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".
* "Speranza Bolla di Sapone" means "Hope Soap Bubble".
* "Cortile Infernale del Principe Celeste" means "Hellish Yard of the Heavenly Prince".
* "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".