The Sabbath

"The Sabbath" was a ritual performed by the Wiseman on the day of a solar eclipse. The ritual involved the gathering of many Gates, humans with magical potential, which were forced into deep despair and sacrificed, giving birth to the Phantoms. These Phantoms who seek out to increase their number through using placing more Gates in despair to create more of their own kind so the Wiseman can perform the Sabbath once more.

One of the Gates who was sacrificed was Haruto Souma, but he survived thanks to the promise he made as a child to his parents, when they were on their deathbed after a car accident, to keep hope alive in his heart. He was able to keep his inner Phantom, Dragon, from tearing him apart from the inside through sheer willpower, Haruto was one of the very few to have survived the ritual and emerged with the ability to perform magic. In the aftermath of the ritual, Haruto was attacked by a Phantom but was saved by the White Wizard, who entrusted another Gate, Koyomi, who also survived the ritual but lost her identity, to the youth while giving him the Wizardriver to fight the Phantoms as Kamen Rider Wizard.