The Ultimate Punishment

The Ultimate Punishment was a complex and long event that started rapidly escalating in the beginning of 2023. It involved the Seven Punishments.

Events

First Confrontations

Ever since gaining physical form, Put'bi has always stated his resentment for Humans. While not holding any particular grudges against SP creatures, he believed that people were hypocritical, claiming to be civilized while still having "negative" or aggressive behaviors. Because of this, he partially hijacked M.O.G.'s imagination to create 6 allies that were proclaimed the Seven Punishments to fulfill a goal; remove/neutralize M.O.G. and any humans living in SP, and claim the land as his own. His plans also included cleansing the world and all possible realities after his initial phase was completed, as he is a very ambitious creature.

Meanwhile, the SP creatures figured out that Put'bi is a relic of the late Kosmotvar Crisis that was brought in from an unidentified reality and point of time. He had been created without a physical form, and had to build one by himself as time slowly went on. While initially being corrupt and under the influence of what used to be Cloud, he partially broke free of the corruption and developed his own unique ideologies and reasonings for how the world works. He was advancing very quickly even before attaining a permanent form, inventing the Portal Magic SP creatures use today. This is why he was immediately identified as a huge threat, as he was not able to be "purified" in the same way other past mischievous creatures were and he developed an extra layer of his own protection.

Leading up from December of 2022, in January 2023 the Unreal Crater was still surrounded and closely monitored. It was suspected that the Seven Punishments were looking for ways to breach into other realities to source and draw their powers even further. Upon attempts to close in, Stroika (the rebuilder) came out of the invisible and impenetrable barrier to face the creatures. She was very strong, and while defenses were good for the creatures fighting her, any attempt on weakening her failed miserably. Shortly after, the battle was interupted by Put'bi who was very visibly irritated. It was revealed that he was looking for ways to traverse realities and draw their powers without breaking the Master Sync. After a long argument where he was stating how selfish and hypocritical M.O.G. is (including the Master Sync being seen as a selfish rule), he starts to relentlessly attack him managing to weaken him a lot before making the independent decision to break the sync. This actually heavily confused and concerned Stroika, who felt Put'bi was losing his grip on his sanity.

Put'bi's disappearance

After a long break, Stroika re-emerged on February 21st to talk to the creatures. When she confronted M.O.G., she seemed to be completely non hostile, and more on the curious and concerned side. She started to explain that she thinks Put'bi has done something that none of the other Seven Punishment's thought he'd do by breaking the sync. They haven't seen him since his disappearance in January, and that his absence gave her a lot of time to speculate. She also explained that their original vision was just to punish those who do wrong by them, but Put'bi slowly started to develop more and more hate as well as a desire to simply remove humanity and anything of the likes. By becoming hypocritical of his own original vision, he started to lose his identity and drive, turning him more and more into a creature driven by madness. She hesitated while explaining for a brief moment when M.O.G. asked her if she's going against herself by using negative and aggressive methods to stop what they see is wrong with the world, stating that there need to be creatures like her who sacrifice themselves for a brighter future. But after more convincing, she started to realize her wrongs. Stroika further elaborated that she tried to convince her allies that maybe what they were doing is straying them from their goals, but that made the others start to resent her more until she decided to leave on her own. When M.O.G. proposed a truce, they shook hands, which unexpectedly caused the complete purification of her heart.

It was revealed that unlike creatures that were purified in the past, the punishments must be purified by their own independent will and desire to change for the better. It is more difficult because of this condition, but this gave the SP creatures hope and a strategy to save and purify the punishments for them to gain their fullest potential.