BREAKER OF INFINITIES 1-23
Chapter: 1
“The Universal Sword – cut everywhere at once. Then there will be nowhere left for your enemy to stand.”
-Ryo ten Ryam
Kill Six Billion Demons
Seeker of Thrones
“The Universal Sword – cut everywhere at once. Then there will be nowhere left for your enemy to stand.”
-Ryo ten Ryam
what better time than this for an argument amongst family? perhaps…Any other time
The Universal Argument – argue all the time. Then there will always arguing at the appropriate time.
Thank you for this, I (we all) needed a laugh and that was brilliant.
Gog-a-Gog is a lulz machine. She’s been air-paddling on that ice-spear for awhile now.
Couldn’t that Agog chick just flow through the earth as a bunch of worms and materialize behind Jagger to gently insert the knife in his derrière?
Jagger is the ultimate Drunken Uncle at Thanksgiving.
One is just waiting for Allison to not run, but to figure out her that her superpower isn’t the wielding of power itself per se, but of being the facilitator, of bringing disparates, and even opposites together, to be on the same team and co-operate and be the greater for it.
Oh lordy, look at Gog Agog go!!
they dont even have time to argue they’re just bailing sonic style
not that still being impaled offers a lot of speed
She needs to work on her form, though. She has her arms and legs synced on the same side when she should be moving them opposite each other.
That’s called “nanba” walking; and if done correctly it can actually be faster than traditional walking.
Huh. I hadn’t heard of nanba before. That said, while it might be faster than normal walking, it’s not faster than normal running and she’s definitely running.
I’m slightly puzzled by Gog Agog here. They are a winner of the Universal War, supposedly vastly powerful. So why is this instance of them acting so cowardly? Or is that the way they eventually win?
Gog vastly powerful? I’m not so sure. Maybe at the end of the war the other demiurges found that they could not eradicate Gog, and now simply tolerate her. We have yet to see her throw a punch, but we have seen her play politics…
It isn’t cowardice. Not only is Gog Agag in no physical threat here (million+ bodies remember), as a pile of worms it would be extremely easy to simply reform off of the spike. This behavior is Gog Agog not taking the situation seriously and instead sticking to the comedy bit.
Do you think Gog-Agog is doing it to amuse herself, or do you think it’s trying to get a laugh out of Jadis?
Being omniscient, hasn’t Jadis already heard every joke? It follows that the only thing that will amuse her is slapstick.
I imagine that all seven of those blades are moving so fast as to be invisible. They are filling the entire space bounded by this technique with cutting death. Hence the reason jags is just standing there. He is inviting others to die. Gog is running because the technique doesn’t need to stay the same size.
I believe they may have attained their position mainly through being extraordinarily difficult to kill in any permanent fashion, rather than being extraordinarily good at performing violence themselves. Of course, as one of the seven I would expect them to be quite competent at violence by mortal standards… which wouldn’t be nearly enough to make squaring off against an annoyed Jagganoth workable.
I imagine an unkillable foe is Gog’s worst enemy. Will the worms might be able to infest anything, I do not believe Jag intends to leave a thing left.
Is “winner” the correct word? The last ones left aren’t necessarily the biggest and baddest. Perhaps the biggest and baddest knocked each other off while these winners just hid realllllly well.
I wonder how many worms (and new members) are around now, thanks to Gog being “unwittingly” slapped around… worms flying everywhere, or crawling off everywhere, I think.
If this fight has a second act I really want to see Gog Agog whup some red ass
“Ah yes, Solomon David. You still think you’re the hero.”
Nice callback!
At least he’s willing to try!
Unlike these bickering fools.
Die Trying, SD!
I … kinda admire SD here … and pity the great Dragon.
I almost forgot Jadis was there.
Salami Dave is heroic, and a fool. One of those is a good and noble thing to be.
Soon he will be a pile of salami that was once a heroic fool, and that is also a good and noble thing to be.
I was promised some serious series serious punches like 1000 pages ago, and he never delivered, so he better still believe he is the goddamn hero and do something for once already.
My, what an excellent view before oblivion! One or the other must perish, and then there will be 6 rulers of the seven-part world. It will be fascinating to exist in such a world–watch the demiurges tear each other apart, all while this petal enjoys her time before her next oblivion.
Alas! If only I could consume this “popcorn” substance I keep hearing about.
If one falls, three more must follow. For there can not be a six-part world, but there can be a world of three parts.
Did you not know? In place of popcorn, angels munch pumice with a variety of mineral toppings.
woah the golden bands totally remind of the angels ngl
I couldn’t help but notice that both Solomon and Jagganoth wear the rings on their forearms.
Curious why there are three of those floating sigils.
i love it, i think it’s like, the physical manifestation of that whole “the killing eye” thing from the lightning thief page
i think he basically has a magic buff that gives him temporary perfect perception, if you see what i mean
i think it’s going to play interestingly with the whole ki rata thing and am on the EDGE of my SEAT i tell you
There’s a point that all must face the realization that those with true power over us and our world are absolute twits.
At that there is a choice. Accept the truth and struggle against.
Deny the truth and live on.
Embrace the lie and try to get payed.
I chose to accept the truth and try to get payed, which isn’t listed.
One presumes that upon knowing something wrong, one should always try to change it. It need not be so.
Cutting a target, cutting through air, cutting through the void left behind by another sword’s passing… We are the parable of the First Flame, my kin! We are meant for more than destruction!
Break the wheel by finishing the road of ashes, or be broken upon it! You talk of payment, coins that might build a structure? I see beyond this option. I see the destruction required to build something temporary and I deny its hungry roots!
The first step to take is to show kindness and love to your wealth; raise it above the earth and never let it fall to your feet. Only a fool will carry more coins than they can carry. As the sun rises and sets your remaining wealth will decorate the lives of others through memories happy and sad. Holding that wealth made you stronger and losing it grants you freedom… Until finally… your empty hands will reach forward to cup, cherish and support something more precious than another coin.
The day you raise up your radiant truth, falsehood or opinion is truly a silly day! For you will see the road of ashes with innocent eyes. You will not call the one betwixt your hands an enemy! Your strength will be free of costs and the freedom to strengthen others be thy will.
A splendid thing. A noble thing.
A shimmering instant of heroism, unalloyed and unambiguous. A lone figure standing against the onrushing tide of total destruction, attempting to hold the cracking world together through sheer force of will.
He seems to go, doomed, to his death here, unless we mistake or misunderstand. In the story we think we are being told, he is a footnote. A seemingly central figure with all the trappings of might and myth, to be cast down in a grim mockery of the lazy mythos that shapes so much of the Sevenfold World.
But, before you smirk and return to your scented lounging pillows, consider him. See him, both through the lens of the story his subjects think he is immersed in and, if it is possible, through his own eyes. In the alternate story, so hot, so close to the touch and so obvious if you will cast your well-trained cynicism aside, he is the hero-king of the one possibly just empire. A benevolent tyrant in a world where democracy cannot contest the might of the demiurges. And he has been injured, marked as mortal for the first time in countless years in a true contest of strength with an opponent he respected. This merest moment of vulnerability gave the Great Enemy the appearance of an opening, and now the battle for all creation rages.
His sworn ally-enemies are useless. The perplexing factors are weary and wounded, much more gravely than he. And so he throws himself, in the face of everything, in the face of the end of all things, into the fray. Alone. Diamond. The world’s first and last hope.
In his own eyes, who can say? His internal life has been a closed book since the death of his family at the hands of the feasting cannibal-gods. But his confidence, his surety, his PRIDE are unshaken by the latest setback. And he will test his mettle, his unassailable Ki Rata against the all conquering force of JAGGANOTH. He knows there are other factors at foot, this day. Factors wondrous and puissant and strange. But he does not look to them for salvation. This is his world. Here is his stand. An end, of some kind, to be seen.
Neither White Chain and Allison with their ideals seem able to prevent or even escape this, nor Solomon’s self-reliance, nor the various machinations of the others have proven proof against it. Solomon may not have achieved Royalty enough to save his people as the paternal figure he aspired to, but perhaps he can buy Allison enough time to spread her fire.
I don’t know if it’s truly that dire. As much as this is a Supreme Divine Art, it also seems like something governed by the Square Cube Law. And the Square Cube usually favors the small.
I’m sorry… you’re using *physics* to determine if the magic sword sphere poses a threat against the flying time-stopping monk?
Square-cube law governs only purely physical beings. When one uses the Force (or w/e nonsense these guys are using), only your soul and will matters
Hey were they handing out the scented lounging pillows? I seem to not have any to return to… are there any still left?
Jaggy-doin a massive giga doom-death attack
Gog-funny clown run away
Block lady-ice block lady
Mottom and mammon- arguing siblings
David bowie- suspiciously gone for the important stuff
Solomon- surf dude
lol i really like your summary 😂
Solomon: You know what? I don’t care if he kills me. It’ll hurt less than continuing to listen to you two.
If I had been putting up with them for hundreds of years, I imagine I too might choose death.
Then again he’s pretty badass, so he might live to hear their griping anon anyway.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if someone unexpected showed up and one-shot McJagganoth?
No.
It would not.
In fact one could not stand to read One-Punch man due to that very problem.
if you call that a problem, you didn’t understand the point of the series.
That’s like not enjoying A Modest Proposal because it encourages eating babies.
Oh come on. All the demiurges are helpless against him but then, say, Cat Master’s cat comes out of nowhere and obliterates him instantly. That would be funny as fuck.
There’s still Megatron and the Thorn Angels. That’s even foreshadowed.
Ahh, it all makes sense now! The Demiurges are the Decepticons
Also Himself. Or several minor characters who would be truly unexpected.
It would be pure Python, but not one of the enduringly-funny bits.
I was kind of expecting that to happen for a while, but right now we’re too far into it being played straight for that to work well. We’re probably going to get stuck with final boss Jaggy bodying people for a while. Both options are boring in their own way, but something good may come of it: It’ll be interesting to see what limits exist in this setting that will be Jaggies “undoing”. (Right now the square cube law seems like an obvious limit on his current attack.)
I was hoping that Maya would cut through him to reach Incubus, as a way to prove that keys are “just” weapons/sharp rocks and bringing a gun to a knife fight isn’t going to prevent you from being stabbed.(she’s also cut angels with ease before, would an angel reinforced Demiurge be different?)
The fight may continue, but I highly doubt Jagganoth will be bodying people for ‘a while’… The fight is on incredibly uneven footing. Maya is coming, and if a single one of the Demiurges is struck down then Jagganoth will likely win. The question is, what development will change the paradigm of the fight first?
Legend has it jagganoth developed this attack just so he could pose while obliterating his rivals for those sweet style points
SMOKING SEXY STYLE!!!
dear god it’s JUST fuckin beautiful
a summary:
mottom; *is petty and vindictive*
mammon; *is forgetful and easily distracted*
jagganoth; *is a sword with eyes*
gog-agog; *is very badly injured*
jadis; *is furniture*
solomon david; *is trying*
incubus; *is off-screen*
Gog Agog isn’t injured; she’s doing a comedy bit about acting injured on account of how little of a physical threat all of this is to her (while being or pretending to be oblivious to the political implications).
Incubus: Taking a bath
The seven masters of Multivers. Hillarious. Gog-Agog, at least, performs this intentinally, or so one hopes. Still more respect for Solomon, who prefers to silently fix everything (or try so) without wasting time on bitching around.
An old stick in the mud he may be…
But at least old Solomon has the wherewithal to not waste time bickering in front of a foe!
The ‘Universal Sword’ sounds like an approximation to the theoretical concept of ENUFF DAKKA, except cutting instead of shooting. Swing your blade in such a way that you cut every point in the universe at every moment of present, past and future simultaneously.
And thus a universe divides in two. The miracle of unicellular division always gives me goosebumps.
— Pandimensional being observing through a microscope.
“Universal Sword”: I believe that’s a disintegration field.
ENUFF DAKKA sounds awesome until you realize nothing would move due to bullets being in the way. Which would be the heart of a singularity.
Infinite dissolution vs infinite density. Hey, guess what! It’s a hard place vs a rock! Either way, the target is supposed to lose. Then you add god power.
It’s fortunate that I have no need to conquer heaven, but.. I wonder how well anyone lives, to be honest. All this cutting and squashing and whatnot. Guess I’ll have to go join in “the shadow-play called life” some more.
And dinner. I should have dinner.
(Apologies for the ramble, I may be slightly drunk at the moment.)
I’m really hoping Gog-Agog has a true form coming along.
Her true form is the sole inhabitant of 37,000 entire universes, if I remember right. Maybe hard to fit on the page.
You know, I really do admire Mottom and Mammon. It takes a truly monstrous degree of pigheadedness to stand before the jaws of destruction and decide to bicker with your allies.
Their arrogance in the face of danger has reached such a point where it’s almost a new form of bravery. I don’t like it but I can respect it.
All I can think after seeing this page is: Jaggonoth- the deadliest rabbit ever.
Bring forth the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch!
Ki Rata, 10 finger – 1 point strike
City leveler.
Great, he can do Judgement Cut.
Say what you will about Sol the self-righteous tyrant, he’s at least fighting back instead of bickering like those two bitches behind him.
Jaggy is such a tryhard kek
its almost embarrassing watching him go all out while everyone else is goofing around
A dead man knows to use his most powerful tools first. He has no need for pageantry, since pageantry is the sin of living man. Such is the desire of the Red God, who’s flesh turns away every cut and thus is the sacrosanct ruler of the Universe.
Let us cut God to see if they bleed!
“Be where your enemy thinks you are not, and you will take the advantage. Be everywhere and nowhere, be your enemy, be nobody, and you will surely win the day.”
Machinations, 12201:15
It is fitting that the masters of the universe be unable to look past even the most petty of slights, no matter how dire the circumstances.
Mammon has the excuse of being largely senile, but Nadia increasingly comes across as incompetent and clueless.
Gog-Agog may be providing comic relief, but her power definitely isn’t going to lie in the physical dust-up that’s happening here. No doubt she immediately set her multitudes into motion in response to this engagement.
This is Solomon’s home, and likely one of the places in the multiverse where her influence is weakest. She likely wishes to preserve this particular form in order to continue observing the battle here. Why she insists on running in place while impaled is lost on my, other than an authorial decision to lighten things up a little.
I’ve no doubt that Al-YISUN’s escapades in her realm have still left Mottom shaken – the bearer of the word 「Glory」 is still shaken by her perilous new mortality. Such a weakness, refusing to accept that death shall one day come calling, can weigh down even the mightiest of minds.
The question is, whatever is going through Jadis’s mind?
Everything.
Caramelldansen.
Because she is a clown.
The ultimate sword technique cuts every which way at once, and is proof that even a god can be a fool.
Which is superior, a thousand cuts or one? The true master understands the flaw in the question. The blade that can make an enemy bleed with no cut at all is superior. This is known as the art of Formless Striking, and only a complete fool can master it.
Making your enemy bleed is foolishness. It should take only a moment’s observation to tell that the enemy is already bleeding by his own blade.
Something is going on, or is going to, between Jadis and Gog.
It remains to be seen whether a blade that is everywhere can cut a man whose blood cannot be shed. I love this comic.
Did…Jaggles steal Inky’s key in the previous page? Is that why Motty’s grumping at Mambles?
And so, the only ruler of the Seven Part World who was more than just a murderous monster hurls himself directly into the apocalypse to punch it to death.
It’s pretty much his own fault that the end of the world he effectively stands alone.
But I suppose that until now, he alone was enough.
At first I thought Solomon got turned into gray paste in that 5th panel
Sploosh.
Jagganoth: Power overwhelming
Solomon David: I’m superman, bitches!
Gog-agog: why is no one laughing? I’m hilarious!
Jadis: *Icy silence*
Mammon: Do you know how rich I am!?!
Mottom: It’s somebody else’s fault!
Incubus: *clip missing*
You two can sit here and argue. I’m going to now.
The sun, in journey to the west,
holds the tale, takes the test,
leaps (to pillars) the furthest
A fool who knows her canteen is empty and gives up.
A fool who does not understand that his canteen is empty.
A fool who knows his canteen is empty but presses on towards his destination anyway.
Will we know the difference when we observe their corpses?
Good reference.
Six Villains is observant.
Well then, either David is going to be committing a very brave suicide in a last ditch effort to stop this madness or he has one last Ace hidden somewhere that his enemy has not learned of yet and is about to in the least desirable way possible.
Let’s not kid ourselves though. If Jagganoth weren’t head and shoulders above the other demiurges, I fully expect he’d be working together with other exactly as terribly as they are.
I don’t know. I think Jaggy and Jaddy would make a great team.
Solomon David being a role model . . .
Anyone getting Donnie Darko vibes from Mammoth in the last panel?
WHERE’S THE REF ?
Sure is
Too Bad
Zoss Can’t Referee –
– This Mad Scrum
This Titan Bash
This Free for All.
I Wish That SOMEONE would Say,
“Mottom ! Mammon !
To your Corners – GO !”
“Will you Lose EVERYTHING
because you can’t even
PRETEND to be Team players ?”
Then I’d dish out some Face SMACKS
TO WAKE THEM UP.
Incredible – so Desperate to Turn upon each Other.
So Fearful of Facing Jagganoth squarely.
Mr. J is Seriously Opening Up
his bag of Mighty Offensive Magickal Attacks.
Offensive as in –
“This One will Fricassee you into julienne fries in a nano-sec.”
Not Offensive as in:
“Yo Momma Can Ride This Flaming Sword of Doom !”
Maybe Solomon David heard that anyway.
For mighty leap did he make into the Maelstrom.
Now to See
If Diamond will
Cut / Break Sword.
Be reasonable demiurges, silencing Jagganath at this point will only further divide the concordance. (Sorry not sorry.)
But I’m curious about Solomon’s blue-and-purple fire there. The most obvious explanation is he’s about to combine the raw god power with Ki Rata. . .or maybe that’s too obvious.
Does Mammon sound like Smaug
I’m gonna go ahead and say yes, Mammon is voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch
He was the strongest of us.
We are torn.
First, we could observe that Solomon is a man facing a foe who seems impossible to defeat…who just watched an inspiring angel prove that through sheer Will it may be possible to defeat an impossible foe but a few scant minutes ago. And now his flame burns blue. Can so prideful a man let himself be outdone by such an unrelenting display of raw stubborn refusal to concede? We think not.
BUT Second, and closer to our hearts, we see a very shapely and athletic man charging another shapely and athletic man, both defined by catastrophic loss that hardened and sharpened their souls until they became inured to the suffering of others. Two beautiful, tragic, lonely men, made even more alone by their terrible power and majesty.
…would it be such a terrible thing if they were to kiss?
Once again I wonder if Solomon’s real sin was the suffering he inflicted, or the stasis.
In any case, a kiss couldn’t hurt.
There’s a mask in the way. Also Jaggy’s too big, he’d accidentally vore the Salami.
Does this look like the infamous Ten Finger Ki Rata attack? Remember we saw Solomon use his pink to shatter a boulder…
Ha! The fools fight amongst themselves!
Him Diamond.
Godspeed Mr. Shine.
I have heard before of the “work spouse,” someone who you’re not actually married to but who you work with and have an extremely close, almost-marital relationship with.
I bring this up because Mammon and Mottom’s bickering strongly resembles that of an old married couple, a factor I can only attribute to their long working relationship.
I mean, Mottom has been a widow (unwidow? rewidow?) for at least a few years now…
If Jagganoth waits long enough the other Demiurges will just bicker eachother to death.
What if Solomon and Jagganoth kill each other? That could leave the rest of the book to be about fighting Metatron, and Michael reawakening, and Himself coming out of His closet, and oh so many delicious things.
Cut everywhere at once, and you will have nowhere to stand as well.
What a Jaganoth! He’s as irritatingly arrogant as his opponents have been to date.
Git ‘im, y’all! And by “y’all” I include the true leader of the Golden Army.
Gog-Agog: Don’t worry! I can raise an army of billions of me!
Other Demiurges: Maybe you’re not useless!
Gog-Agog: they’ll be here in a few hours!
Other Demiurges: You’re useless.
Gog-Agog: Well, it’s not _my_ fault you all gave him just one throat to squeeze. Now watch while I eat something bigger than my head!
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orph-HOLY SHIIIIIIT!
Mottom: deflecting blame
Mammon: missing the point
Solomon: trying to do the work of six demiurges
Incubus: skulking
Gog-Agog: going for a jog
Jadis: frosty
Jagganoth: HAZARDOUS
I wonder if God could teleport in enough of herself to just eat them.
By “them” I mean the entire planet at once.
I would love to have the last panel as a wallpaper, please.