- "May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins."
- ―Natalie, Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Genesis is a Holy-elemental Limit Break available for Natalie in Epic Battle Fantasy 3, 4 and 5.
Description[]
When Genesis is cast, a stylized white cross with wings appears in the middle of the battlefield. Next the ground shatters and screen whites out until a view of the entire planet can be seen. Finally, a huge winged crucifix appears in a blast of motes, feathers, and shock waves, blasting the surface of the planet with its base. The imagery is effectively an inverted Doomsday (or perhaps Supernova would be more accurate).
Genesis deals high Holy-elemental damage to all enemies, making it a rare example of an area-of-effect Holy spell accessible to players, yet the spell is used primarily for its utility function — providing Auto-Revive to the living players (which will automatically revive them with all stat buffs and status effects still active if they die in subsequent turns) and reviving the dead ones, which is very helpful against stronger enemies and bosses.
Foe Users[]
Epic Battle Fantasy 4[]
- Diamond Golem (applies Defend instead of Auto-Revive)
Epic Battle Fantasy 5[]
- Slime Bunny (counter-attacking foes only)
- Natalia (applies Curse to foes on front, doesn't buff the user's side)
Epic Battle Fantasy 3[]
Using Genesis for the first time will award the player with the Genesis medal.
It should be noted that the Revive casted by Genesis scales based on Genesis's own Power, and is thus not affected by the actual Revive spell's level/power.
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Genesis | |||||
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| Limit Break! Deal massive holy damage to all foes. Level 3: Casts revive on all party members. | ||||||
| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
| All | 
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100% 
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-- | 100% | 10% | 10% |
| Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | MP | AP Cost | |
| 1 | 100 | -- | -- | -- | 300 | |
| 2 | 130 | -- | -- | -- | 900 | |
| 3 | 160 | -- | -- | -- | 2000 | |
| 4 | 200 | -- | -- | -- | 4000 | |
| 5 | 250 | -- | -- | -- | 8000 | |
| Requirement(s) (all) |
 
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Note: Starting from level 3, also gives living players 5x  Auto-Revive while reviving dead ones with Power% of their max HP (with 100% RdF).
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Epic Battle Fantasy 4[]
Genesis now has one more utility function: a chance to Weaken foes, slowly debuffing their Attack and Magic Attack.
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Genesis | |||||
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| Limit Break! Targets all foes. May weaken targets. Revives or gives auto-revive status to all allies. | ||||||
| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
| All |
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100%
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200%{150%} | 10% | 10% |
| Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | MP | AP Cost | |
| 1 | 50 | 40% | 4x | -- | 300 | |
| 2 | 100 | 45% | 4x | -- | 900 | |
| 3 | 150 | 50% | 4x | -- | 2000 | |
| 4 | 200 | 55% | 4x | -- | 4000 | |
| 5 | 250 | 60% | 4x | -- | 12000 | |
| Requirement(s) |
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| Note: Also gives living players 5x Auto-Revive and revives dead players (including backup in both cases). Stats in braces (below/right from actual) are for its pre-v2 update version. Before the v2 update, didn't affect backup players. | ||||||
Epic Battle Fantasy 5[]
Genesis no longer applies Weaken.
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Genesis | |||||
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Limit Break! Deals massive Holy damage to all enemies, and revives or gives Auto-Revive status to all allies.
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| Target | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF |
| All |
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100% 
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-- | 200% | 10% | 10% |
| Level | Power | Status Chance | Status Strength | AP Cost | ||
| 1 | 100[90] | -- | -- | 100 | ||
| 2 | 150[160] | -- | -- | 300 | ||
| 3 | 210[200] | -- | -- | 1000 | ||
| 4 | 290[270] | -- | -- | 3000 | ||
| 5 | 380[360] | -- | -- | 10000 | ||
| Note: Also gives living players 5x Auto-Revive while reviving dead ones with 33% (with 10% RdF) of their max HP. Stats in brackets (below/right from actual) are for its pre-v2 update version. Before the v2 update, didn't affect backup players. | ||||||
Trivia[]
- In EBF3, Natalie quotes a line from The Animatrix when casting Genesis for the first time: "May the sins of man and machine be forgiven."
- The name and animation of this Limit Break are an allusion to Genesis, the first book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
- It also shares its name with one of Natalie's Skill Bonuses in Epic Battle Fantasy 2; fittingly, it's the bonus that improves the power of her Judgement spell.
- Natalie uses a shortened version of Genesis as her Bomb attack in Bullet Heaven.
- Genesis would appear to either be striking the United Kingdom or somewhere in the vicinity of Greenland or Iceland. However, the image used is just a stock image from NASA, and has no connection to any in-game locations.
- In EBF5, when the final boss deletes the world, using Genesis will cause a black circle labelled "ERROR 404 NOT FOUND" to appear where the world would be.
- Genesis' animation, like that of Seven Swords, was inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion.