Devourer Of Saburo (Dawn of Madness Mini-Event series)

T H E - D E V O U R E R

Above the forsaken city of Saburo, a dark line carved away at the crimson sky above. The traditional problems that plagued the few civilians that remained in the undead place would soon be amplified. The cut in space remained in place for several minutes, building tensions taking place as to what was locked behind the slowly manifesting gateway. The rip began to open, a new dark power overshadowing the cracked energy that had been dominating the sky for a brief time. It was unlike anything most had known before it, not quite fitting of a Demon or a Hollow, but nefarious all the the same. Sparks of purple lightning crackled in the rift, the noise intensifying as something darted through the portal and aimed to pierce into the world of the living. A spear-like object cut through the gateway, heading for the town square and heart of the decaying city like a bullet. Streaks of lightning followed behind it and painted an arc of destruction in the sky.

Just as suddenly as it debuted, the portal diminished, fading to nothingness as its conduit of madness got closer to the ground. As it got closer, the details of the piece would become clear. It was a staff adorned in odd shomin-like designs of the north. The skull of a goat marked the middle of the construct with sharp spear-like protrusions coming from the twin ends of the Advocate. It hit the ground with great force, the spiked end cutting through the floor and the earth. It embedded itself in the ground, cutting a few inches deep and lodging itself in the Earth. A small wave of kinetic force split across the town square, but no major damage had been done. The staff remained there, the origin of its spawn unknown and the gateway returned to nothingness.

All seemed normal until the skull's eyes began to glow a menacing black. The space around the staff seemed to distort, until its power was wrought upon the landscape all at once. The ground around the staff was consumed by an ethereal blackness, A black hole manifested for dozens of feet around the weapon, forged directly around it with only the faintest bits of earth left in place that it was stuck inside. The second and vastly more destructive rift expanded rapidly, taking up as much space as a small house across the town's surface. While not growing any further after that point, it did not mean anyone was safe from the sudden creation.

The hole in the ground cast immense pulling force on the majority of the destroyed city around it. The more rebuilt segment of Saburo began to break, houses and structures of all sorts being broken apart and absorbed into the eternal darkness of the gravitational construct. It crushed everything to the smallest of particles, immediately killing any unfortunate living soul of inferior power that was consumed by it. The force pulled without any sign of end, threatening to consume large chunks of the entire city given enough time. The closer one got to it, the more immense this force became, seeming inescapable at point-blank range. The appearance of the entire town slowly distorted, the light that allowed it to be perceived being absorbed into the dimensional fissure as well!

While it pulled and absorbed as much as it could, the event did exude one element. A vile energy poured out from the staff, fueling the void and casting its corrupting flow of unease and despair to any that could feel it. The gravitational force existed on all sides, pulling in things from every direction without bias or remorse. It had no conscious, only the will of destruction. Though if one paid attention, it could be noted that the force was notably weaker along the middle of the veil. In such chaos, such a factor would likely be overlooked for some time though.The screams of the remaining inhabitants filled the air with dismay, the odds of rescue shortened even further by the other incarnation of evil taking its own unique effect near the foothold of the Vanguard itself, Karakura.