My one fear now is that Jagganoth will return from this completely unhurt. (Then again, HE seems tot hink Solomon David CAN kill them both… that would throw a nice spanner in the works.
I think he’s hurt already. That “ghk” of his from a couple pages ago seems to at least indicate he’s having some issues, that some level of damage has been done
Still wondering why SD didn’t go all out with a 10 point attack? (Though that would probably have vaporized all of Throne – and he’s always tried to avoid colateral damage.)
BTW: I’m betting most of us still expect Jagganoth to walk away from this – but somehow it seems just like Abbadon to completely surprise us by having them BOTH die here!
If you look back at the last page you can see that this is a previously unknown 77 point strike, were the fight taking place somewhat closer to the ground he probably would have vaporised Throne.
What the other guy said: this is way more than a 10 point strike, he’s just using 5 fingers to do it because that’s how this one works (it’s probably just rule of cool here).
Well I made my fire in flesh
And I keep time inside of my head
Like a stone God, I drink from the moon
But it’s far away and over too soon
I can crush a thousand stars and drain your love
But it never ever seems to be enough
Rape my mind and use my body up
A thousand stars, and your love
When the sun dies, I find a new sun
When the bird flies, I call a new one
When the sea dries, I make a new sea
And I can’t stop the hunger in me
I could eat a thousand stars and drain your love
But it never ever seems to be enough
Rape my mind and use my body up
A thousand stars, and your love
I’m jumping into a big black void
Just let me sleep away
I can’t hurt a soul except myself
No telephones, no broken hearts
No numbers crushing time
It’s the top of the world where no-one dies
What is relief if not a sigh, wind rushing from the mouths of those burdened with thoughts of the past and future. A sepulcher city, tomb to the unknowing aeons, is stirred by the rushing wind, the final breath of the unwavering dead gods. Thus the mighty may find peace, and abandon their claim to royalty.
Salami just nuked himself in order to also nuke Jag, since apparently burning himself from within to punch him between dimensions wasn’t enough.
Last post was just him revving up for the real big black hole nuke thing he’s doing on this page, with a brief look into his mind to see what he’s feeling: he’s pretty miffed that Jag destroyed like half of Rayuba, since failing to protect things he cares about is kind of his whole thing; Salami’s origin is that his wife and daughters were killed in front of him and he couldn’t stop it, so he joined the Ki Rata monks (who were sworn to peace in spite of the omniviolence that basically destroyed old Rayuba), and then after learning everything he murdered them because they did nothing to help Rayuba when Rayuba needed help. So the woman calling him pathetic last page is him thinking of what his wife would tell him in response to him failing to protect Rayuba again.
And so, he’s half doing seppuku because he failed to protect Rayuba, and he’s half legit just trying to stop Jagganoth from trashing the multiverse. And it turns out he has a technique that does both of those things!
This briefly made me forget that I haven’t seen a sword in a while and that’s just bonkers. I hope Jagganoth, despite his many swords, is dead and we get to see Bad Jadis get some screen time. Who knows, maybe SHE’LL have a sword to look at and think about and we can all say nice supportive things about the sword too.
Place your bets, everyone! Is Jagganoth:
1. Dead, and less invincible threats can be explored for the rest of the book.
2. In another binding, but one that actually works, so Allison can get some character development in before she has to fight him again, but alone.
3. Unharmed but kind of annoyed that he got teleported back to Throne and has to hunt down the rest of the demiurges instead of finishing them all off then and there.
4. Just gone. Dead? Alive? Floating through space? Thrown into the sun? Nobody knows.
And is Solomon:
1. Dead.
2. Very dead.
3. More dead than anything that could have died.
4. Just alive enough to spurt out a witty one-liner to Jagganoth and then die
5. Also just gone, with implication that he might not be extremely dead.
6. Alive, but kinda not doing so hot as he’s literally burning himself to death from the inside.
And is Thone:
1. Perfectly fine. That’s all just dust.
2. Just kidding, there’s a ton of people in with that dust.
3. Throne is very not fine, black hole intensifies and sucks up a bunch of stuff.
4. Gone, and this was all Jagganoth’s plan.
Solomon is atomized by his own power, Jagganoth gets meteor smashed off the stage so hard that it’s impossible for him to come back, throne is fine, the other characters are left to put the pieces back together with most of the demiurges gone along with all their power, cast into the abyss below throne. Alison retains the one key but is weakened so she needs a timeskip to regain her strength, during which Inky Goggy and Jadie make everything worse.
Alternate choices: Jaggy is extremely messed up but not dead, but is incapacitated or out of the picture long enough for the protags to get their shit together ahead of whatever the final showdown looks like. I don’t think the finale of this comic is going to be Alison and Jagg sharp-rocking each other to death, so something must happen to him in the interim to keep him from being able to pursue her endlessly.
Solomon…. Solomon is definitely dead. Along with a sizable chunk, sadly, of Throne’s residents most likely.
Guess 1 : Transmigration suggests to me that Solomon is attempting to push Jagganoth right out of the known planes of Existence – a kind of Ultimate Banishment. However – Jagganoth was being to flare – which signals the power-up to his Chakravartin multi-armed Wheel Destroyer form. – So it seems the Red god may yet claw his way out of the Abyss which Solomon is attempting to hurl him into.
Guess 2 : I get the impression that Solomon is trying to channel EVERTHING he has into this last strike. If it takes his life to banish Jagganoth he seems ready to give that too. We’re going to see two stars in the sky for a moment – one purple. I don’t know how he’d come back from unleashing his power to such an extent.
Guess 3 : From the stories of the Universal War, there was mention of several orbiting cities which were destroyed in the conflict between maddened demiurges. I think the technique being unleashed is just ONE of the many ways those cities could’ve been obliterated. Even if those floating cities were large, they surely weren’t as large as Throne. If that energy sphere explodes or implodes, it may well leave a hole in the disk
? : I do wonder if Solomon intentionally blasted Jagganoth through the dimensions to Throne – or was that simply where they ended up by accident. I don’t see any advantage for Solomon in delivering his ultimate attack strike in this place. If it was simply meant to be – then a, final showdown appears to be taking place here -and may continue in the Void.
Option 1bis: Jagganoth dies, but is reincarnated as a young girl in a fantasy world where he can mysteriously see the stats of all living things, along with his own. He must now raise to level 999 and seduce his many suitors by cooking as many fantasy dishes as he can, reawakening his dormant powers to do so.
“Jagga-chan no bouken: I have been reincarnated as a girl into this fantasy world and must now bake 6 million pies to fulfill my destiny” will be available in all good bookshops from next week.
We never learn what happened to the rest of the KSBD’s cast.
Looks a little like Solomon made a Gog-sphere equivalent to hold down Jagganoth while he beats him. But this sphere is made of the inhabitants of Throne and it’s very, very non-consensual.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
Another interpretation: this is not an Ominous Orb, but a portal into Somewhere Else, where Solomon is moving 800 million souls for safekeeping. He and J. are OK for now, but the serious trashing of Throne is about to begin.
♫ I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down… ♫
My one fear now is that Jagganoth will return from this completely unhurt. (Then again, HE seems tot hink Solomon David CAN kill them both… that would throw a nice spanner in the works.
Honestly, I kind of hope that this at least leaves Jagg crippled, sparking a new war as EVERYONE is now is a mad rush for 4/7ths of the Keys of Kings.
I think he’s hurt already. That “ghk” of his from a couple pages ago seems to at least indicate he’s having some issues, that some level of damage has been done
Still wondering why SD didn’t go all out with a 10 point attack? (Though that would probably have vaporized all of Throne – and he’s always tried to avoid colateral damage.)
BTW: I’m betting most of us still expect Jagganoth to walk away from this – but somehow it seems just like Abbadon to completely surprise us by having them BOTH die here!
If you look back at the last page you can see that this is a previously unknown 77 point strike, were the fight taking place somewhat closer to the ground he probably would have vaporised Throne.
What the other guy said: this is way more than a 10 point strike, he’s just using 5 fingers to do it because that’s how this one works (it’s probably just rule of cool here).
Well I made my fire in flesh
And I keep time inside of my head
Like a stone God, I drink from the moon
But it’s far away and over too soon
I can crush a thousand stars and drain your love
But it never ever seems to be enough
Rape my mind and use my body up
A thousand stars, and your love
When the sun dies, I find a new sun
When the bird flies, I call a new one
When the sea dries, I make a new sea
And I can’t stop the hunger in me
I could eat a thousand stars and drain your love
But it never ever seems to be enough
Rape my mind and use my body up
A thousand stars, and your love
I’m jumping into a big black void
Just let me sleep away
I can’t hurt a soul except myself
No telephones, no broken hearts
No numbers crushing time
It’s the top of the world where no-one dies
What is relief if not a sigh, wind rushing from the mouths of those burdened with thoughts of the past and future. A sepulcher city, tomb to the unknowing aeons, is stirred by the rushing wind, the final breath of the unwavering dead gods. Thus the mighty may find peace, and abandon their claim to royalty.
Ice beneath the stadium
you already know what’s gonna come.
The waves will roll, the lights will hum.
Watch Dave no-sell this
Solomon, after staring at the Jaggahog, decides the only thing that could defeat two large brown balls is a larger black ball.
Technique of relief? Sounds like we’re in for a happy ending after all.
Peace I’ve heard is for the dead.
“This unending violence is a singularity upon the firmament; it nullifies that that it draws to itself.” said somebody earlier in K6BD.
Oh shit, he’s gone Ushabti…
bro what is going ON
Salami just nuked himself in order to also nuke Jag, since apparently burning himself from within to punch him between dimensions wasn’t enough.
Last post was just him revving up for the real big black hole nuke thing he’s doing on this page, with a brief look into his mind to see what he’s feeling: he’s pretty miffed that Jag destroyed like half of Rayuba, since failing to protect things he cares about is kind of his whole thing; Salami’s origin is that his wife and daughters were killed in front of him and he couldn’t stop it, so he joined the Ki Rata monks (who were sworn to peace in spite of the omniviolence that basically destroyed old Rayuba), and then after learning everything he murdered them because they did nothing to help Rayuba when Rayuba needed help. So the woman calling him pathetic last page is him thinking of what his wife would tell him in response to him failing to protect Rayuba again.
And so, he’s half doing seppuku because he failed to protect Rayuba, and he’s half legit just trying to stop Jagganoth from trashing the multiverse. And it turns out he has a technique that does both of those things!
This briefly made me forget that I haven’t seen a sword in a while and that’s just bonkers. I hope Jagganoth, despite his many swords, is dead and we get to see Bad Jadis get some screen time. Who knows, maybe SHE’LL have a sword to look at and think about and we can all say nice supportive things about the sword too.
And now I’m crying like a river again
the world already ended or it will take too long?
Place your bets, everyone! Is Jagganoth:
1. Dead, and less invincible threats can be explored for the rest of the book.
2. In another binding, but one that actually works, so Allison can get some character development in before she has to fight him again, but alone.
3. Unharmed but kind of annoyed that he got teleported back to Throne and has to hunt down the rest of the demiurges instead of finishing them all off then and there.
4. Just gone. Dead? Alive? Floating through space? Thrown into the sun? Nobody knows.
And is Solomon:
1. Dead.
2. Very dead.
3. More dead than anything that could have died.
4. Just alive enough to spurt out a witty one-liner to Jagganoth and then die
5. Also just gone, with implication that he might not be extremely dead.
6. Alive, but kinda not doing so hot as he’s literally burning himself to death from the inside.
And is Thone:
1. Perfectly fine. That’s all just dust.
2. Just kidding, there’s a ton of people in with that dust.
3. Throne is very not fine, black hole intensifies and sucks up a bunch of stuff.
4. Gone, and this was all Jagganoth’s plan.
I bet it’s nr 1. Jaggy’s dead, SD is dead, Throne’s fine.
Solomon is atomized by his own power, Jagganoth gets meteor smashed off the stage so hard that it’s impossible for him to come back, throne is fine, the other characters are left to put the pieces back together with most of the demiurges gone along with all their power, cast into the abyss below throne. Alison retains the one key but is weakened so she needs a timeskip to regain her strength, during which Inky Goggy and Jadie make everything worse.
Alternate choices: Jaggy is extremely messed up but not dead, but is incapacitated or out of the picture long enough for the protags to get their shit together ahead of whatever the final showdown looks like. I don’t think the finale of this comic is going to be Alison and Jagg sharp-rocking each other to death, so something must happen to him in the interim to keep him from being able to pursue her endlessly.
Solomon…. Solomon is definitely dead. Along with a sizable chunk, sadly, of Throne’s residents most likely.
Guess 1 : Transmigration suggests to me that Solomon is attempting to push Jagganoth right out of the known planes of Existence – a kind of Ultimate Banishment. However – Jagganoth was being to flare – which signals the power-up to his Chakravartin multi-armed Wheel Destroyer form. – So it seems the Red god may yet claw his way out of the Abyss which Solomon is attempting to hurl him into.
Guess 2 : I get the impression that Solomon is trying to channel EVERTHING he has into this last strike. If it takes his life to banish Jagganoth he seems ready to give that too. We’re going to see two stars in the sky for a moment – one purple. I don’t know how he’d come back from unleashing his power to such an extent.
Guess 3 : From the stories of the Universal War, there was mention of several orbiting cities which were destroyed in the conflict between maddened demiurges. I think the technique being unleashed is just ONE of the many ways those cities could’ve been obliterated. Even if those floating cities were large, they surely weren’t as large as Throne. If that energy sphere explodes or implodes, it may well leave a hole in the disk
? : I do wonder if Solomon intentionally blasted Jagganoth through the dimensions to Throne – or was that simply where they ended up by accident. I don’t see any advantage for Solomon in delivering his ultimate attack strike in this place. If it was simply meant to be – then a, final showdown appears to be taking place here -and may continue in the Void.
Option 1bis: Jagganoth dies, but is reincarnated as a young girl in a fantasy world where he can mysteriously see the stats of all living things, along with his own. He must now raise to level 999 and seduce his many suitors by cooking as many fantasy dishes as he can, reawakening his dormant powers to do so.
“Jagga-chan no bouken: I have been reincarnated as a girl into this fantasy world and must now bake 6 million pies to fulfill my destiny” will be available in all good bookshops from next week.
We never learn what happened to the rest of the KSBD’s cast.
KANEDA!!!!
Unchained
Feel it burnin’ up the heat
See the flames
Scorchin’ everything it seeks
We got a chain reaction
It needs immediate action
This furnace is about to blast
Systems (systems)
Are going down
Systems
Are burning out
And they all fall down
Hmm. Not sure creating a singularity right above Throne is the best way to save as many people as possible there, ol’ Solomon…
Looks a little like Solomon made a Gog-sphere equivalent to hold down Jagganoth while he beats him. But this sphere is made of the inhabitants of Throne and it’s very, very non-consensual.
Another interpretation: this is not an Ominous Orb, but a portal into Somewhere Else, where Solomon is moving 800 million souls for safekeeping. He and J. are OK for now, but the serious trashing of Throne is about to begin.
IT ALWAYS ENDS IN A SINGULARITY.
“For the immortal gods, what is death but the end of the burden of their duties?”
Living in Orb’s City of the Dead suddenly seems smarter …
Hope that worked.
‘Cause if it didn’t, then the MC’s may have some issues.
I hope Jagganoth didn’t Jagganope that.
AKA dustruction