BREAKER OF INFINITES 2-65 to 2-67
Chapter: 2
“And all together, upon the dim dawn of the battlefield, the thin pearlescence of the bloody horizon washing over us – there we heard the clarion. Descending was the armies of the rising king, and behind her a thousand thousand banners. Upon the banners was writ the word YSUN.”
-Unknown, post third conquest
So Mottom, who more than any other demiurge felt trapped by fate, is the first to seize the opportunity to change it.
I think Jadis would have something to say about that if she didn’t need to prioritize what she says due to being almost completely paralyzed inside a giant crystal due to her perfect knowledge of fate
oooh. That’s a shit ton of cubits…
“The king of all creation fell out of heaven, usurped by a seven headed beast…”
That’s how Jadis’s prophecy starts off. Everyone assumed it referred to Alison kicking the butts of the seven Demiurges…
…but doesn’t Jagganoth have seven heads in this form?
No, sorry, he’s got many more now. Too bad, really. That would have been a great reinterpretation of the prophecy!
Oh YAY the genocidal slaver tyrants are using the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP. Tom you fucking hack.
do you think that “mottom helped, for any number of her own reasons, to huck a spear at the extremely big and powerful dude who wants to kill her (and everyone else) and who she’s been fighting for upwards of 60 pages, everything’s cool now, nothing more about her needs to be addressed” is going to be where tom leaves it?
that’s kind of a weird way to take things
Now now, back to your favorite youtube comment section you go little troll.
It ought to feel bad, but in a world where demiurges rule and only the most tyrannical sociopathic demiurges survive, there’s nobody else to have this fight. Pretty much a thing else would be
Part of the beauty of this arc of the comic being one intense battle with little plot is THAT IS WHAT WAR DOES. Whatever important stuff in your life was going on, whatever plans you had, whatever evil you were going to undo… it’s all interrupted by violence and chaos. They become the plot, whether you like it or not.
I’m on of those that wish the fight had been much shorter, though the visuals have been astounding. But, artistically, even that is an impressive impact.
The fight is actually pretty short. The last few months of updates will probably take upwards of a couple of minutes to read in the actual book because of all of the big setpiecess and minimal dialogue.
The fact that this is not a webcomic is more relevant than it has ever been before. If this was paced well for those of us reading as the pages are done, the pacing would be bad in the the finished book.
ye but like we all knew this why u rantin dee oh single gee
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Do you think the pact between Jagganoth and Incubus is almost fulfilled? Which way will the Flame burn?
Hell yes!! Team up!!
Reminder, if an unknown number of universes of time and total dedication to one singular subject is beaten by the cooperative work of nine individuals of comparative amateurism in that field, then investment into multiple fields seems tactically and strategically recommendable.
IRL it appears that a complex society that allows specialization in things other than combat, but in which citizens can be proficient in combat, is quite strong. It doesn’t always beat the Barbarian horde of physically impressive warriors, but it often does. Historically, this was often because a squad of citizen-soldiers who know how to handle weapons is quite difficult even for Conan to defeat.
Even the Spartans were subsumed by empires that balanced martial prowess with economic might. They might cut through true peasant armies like a hot knife through butter, but a Roman Legion (or any organized, trained, and equipped Force), is a different beast altogether.
Spartans lost to Athens because they didn’t value shipbuilding, fortification building, logistics, or economics.
Real men don’t farm, or build things or learn.
If you fight good, you can make your slaves do that stuff.
Suddenly, your army is marched halfway to Athens and their fleet is unloading troops in your unwalled, unguarded capital.
Turns out, even war is more than just fighting good.
You have my Cubit Spear, and my Cubit Spear,… and MY Cubit spear!
Ah, so once again the true way to defeat tyrany is a great number of peasants all getting ready to pass along the same spear. I saw it once before where such an art leveled an entire country.
I believe it’s creator called the maneuver the Peasant Railgun
Step on me mommy Om.
That’s some real shounen style “the real strength is the friends we made along the way” drivel.
If that’s what you call a bunch of Power-mad sociopaths, barely managing to cooperate long enough to save themselves from imminent doom, sure. Same same.
Everyone together now… Except Mammon because he doesn’t have hands!
I think Mammon may be the most important one, as he’s the only one of the Servants there, and Servants are the one “race” not present in Aliciano
I thought they were called “Kind People.”
Only to their faces.
you are correct, but to be exact, all Kind People are Servants, but not all Servants are Kind People. the goblins are also Servants, for example
It is interesting that The Fool only contains 3 of the 4 Orders of Inheritors.
Fate is Not a Cage…
…If you can accept that life is a mess of change and hope and fear and confusion and always still seems to end much too soon.
It’s on all of us out here in the black, my assorted birds both queer and elsewise.
Hold out a hand. Grab the Spear.
It’s interesting how much Jag resembles a Thorn, for one who fancies themselves as anything but Metatron’s pawn.
And lo the heads of the beast are slain by uniting under a new banner.
Cut yourself into still greater forms.
Destroy the great enemy called I.
Has anyone made a dancing queen reference yet……………. I’ll rewrite that portion of the lyrics, see if I won’t.
I don’t envy Jagganoth. Even for one whose whole existence is pain, that spear looks like it’s going to hurt.
don’t worry he’ll bear it without flinching
*insert the most pained grimace in at least 111,111 universes*
Anyone else getting a sinking feeling that Incubus is either going to betray the demiurges or get backstabbed by maya now that the fight is about to be won?
But Maya’s down on Rayuba. (Still wouldn’t surprise me though).
Seven against one
And that’s why you have adventuring parties.
May the gods find pity on whoever will end up ANIMATING THIS ORGASMIC FIGHT SCENE when this story ever gets turned into an animation series.
Orgasmic?
…
Okay, I can see it.
You can hear the anime music
NADIA OM USED *CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT*
ITS… SUPER EFFECTIVE??
*The power of Friendship*.