Annihilation Maker

**Annihilation Maker**, also called **Demonic Beast Creation**, is one of the original Longinus. Ranked as the 3rd Longinus, it possesses the power to control shadows and create artificial monsters.

## Summary

Annihilation Maker is the third of the original Longinus - Exceptionally powerful Sacred Gears with powers capable of killing gods and immortals, as well as having the potential to destroy the entire world. It is considered the opposite of Absolute Demise, another Longinus with the power to create ice and snow that freezes even time.

According to Azazel, the majority of the Longinus' wielders have revealed themselves to be "mad scientists" in one form or another, with many of the beings they created with the Longinus still roaming the Earth and had made it into humanity's consciousness by integrating into folklore, fairy tales, and local legends.

One of its earliest recorded wielders was Solomon ibn Gabirol, an 11th-century Jewish poet and philosopher. To the supernatural world, he was a renowned magician, known for his works detailing the philosophy and usage of Kabbalah Magic. He is considered one of the starting points of the process leading up to the European Renaissance through bringing Greco-Arabic and Jewish lore and enlightenment to the cultural circles of Europe.

Another of its former wielders was Johann Konrad Dippel, an 18th-century Pietist theologian, alchemist, and former headmaster of Durmstrang Institute. He was credited for many inventions across history, such as Dippel's oil or Prussian blue, though his greatest infamy came from his fascination with necromancy and the dark arts, enough for mundanes to believe he had sold himself to devils to gain occult knowledge. He is considered to be the model for the character of "Victor Frankenstein".

## Appearance

Although the Annihilation Maker doesn't have a physical form, upon activated, the wielder's shadow expands to an immense size before the created beasts and monsters emerge from it in dark-purple ripples. Often, these creations take the form of black armored monsters with glowing red eyes.

## Abilities

In its most basic form, Annihilation Maker grants its wielder the power to create, shape, and manipulate shadows and darkness. They can turn darkness into tools, objects, weapons, and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures or buildings of varying permanence.

With the Longinus, the wielder can interact with shadows as if it were tangible, which allows them to mess with the shadow's caster by messing with their shadow. This range from pinning a target to a single place to prevent them from having mobility or escaping, to taking control over motor functions of others against their will, to inflicting tremendous damage to their opponent through their shadow, which may instantly kill the target or greatly destroy their body in the process.

The wielder can also create a field of absolute and impenetrable darkness that completely negates all senses and detecting abilities, and a further intensified version of it, enhanced with the wielder's life-force, can completely obliterate all objects in its path. Upon implementing this field, the wielder can harness the dark energy of the Void, drawing them straight from the cracks between the worlds.

Only when the wielder has mastered the Longinus' Darkness Manipulation would they gain access to its most well-known power: The creation of demonic beasts. With it, the wielder can create beasts, monsters, and other creatures to serve them, ranging from a small companion such as cats or dogs to powerful monsters like dragons or sphinxes. Upon deciding which creature they want to create, the wielder's shadow will gradually grow larger and larger until their monstrous creations begin to spawn out of it.

The wielder is capable of creating nearly all kinds of creatures, though they are restricted by their imagination, their own stamina, and the mental strain the creating process puts on them. They are also limited by logic, being incapable of creating any being that can surpass them in power or any being that they cannot comprehend.

## Techniques

### Shadow-Based Magic

* **Rondeau des Ténèbres(Rondo of Everlasting Darkness)**: The wielder summons forth darkness from their own shadow which would swirl around their weapon or their hands, becoming more and more condensed with every passing moment. They can then fire the gathered darkness on a wide scale or focused at the target. The wielder can also summon the darkness from underground, heavily damaging the target from below.
* **Portes du Purgatoire(Phantasmal Portal of Dark Spirits)**: The wielder gathers darkness on their fingers and transforms them into numerous phantom-like spirits to strike at their foes to the point of them being engulfed completely by their sheer numbers alone. This spell has been claimed to be capable of erasing a person's soul and their very existence.

### Antithesis Monsters

**Antithesis Monsters**, also called **Anti-Monsters**, are special monsters that Leonardo del Vacca specializes in creating, which are monsters that have abilities that target the opponents' weaknesses and are highly resistant to the abilities of the species they are created against, Leonardo is currently capable of creating Anti-Monsters against devils, daemon, and dragons.

## Forms

### Bandersnatch and Jabberwocky

**Bandersnatch and Jabberwocky**, also called **Supreme Demonic Beasts of Ruin**, was the temporary Sub-Species Balance Breaker that Creuserey Asmodeus forcibly awakened in Leonardo del Vacco. Following Creuserey's death, his control over Leonardo disappeared and so did the Balance Breaker, possibly never appearing again.

It created twelve Anti-Monsters measured to be 150-meters tall called **Bandersnatchs(Smaller Beasts)** which could create smaller copies of themselves and were about God-class in terms of power, as well as one Anti-Monster measured to be 200-meters tall called the **Jabberwocky(Greater Beast)**, which could create hundreds of smaller monsters, including the Bandersnatches, and was roughly low-tier Primordial-class in terms of raw destructive power.

## Trivia

* Like other Longinus, it's categorized into multiple classifications:
	+ It's categorized as a Creation-Type and Attribute/Elemental-Type.
* There is an unknown connection between it and the Mother of Monsters.
	+ Daemon called wielders of Annihilation Maker "Mhysa", meaning "Mother" in their native demonic tongue.
* Due to Creuserey forcibly awakening his Balance Breaker, there is a big chance that Leonardo would never be able to form his own Balance Breaker.
* "Portes du Purgatoire" means "Gates of Purgatory".
* "Rondeau des Ténèbres" means "Rondo of Darkness".
	+ A rondo is a music form based on recurring elements, originating from the Classical period.
* "Bandersnatch and Jabberwocky", are references to Lewis Carroll's "Alice" series, "Bandersnatch" being a character from "Through the Looking Glass" and "Jabberwocky" being a reference to the eponymous poem.
	+ According to Azazel, Charles Dodgson - Lewis Caroll's real name - was one of the Longinus' previous wielders.