BREAKER OF INFINITIES 1-27 to 1-28
Chapter: 1
“I heard among my travels whispered rumors – spurious, I am almost certain – that nearly all Ki Rata techniques could be doubled in power and intensity by a particularly skilled master. The idea alone is so ludicrous as to be silly. To start, who among the whole wheel would need to harness the use of that scale of destructive power?”
-Musko Reeve, Manual of Hands and Feet
Best he’s feeling pretty silly now taking on 6 at once
“by the twelve suns, i do believe i feel a little itching.”
The eight-finger technique would hurt a lot worse with the addition of eight pimp rings.
(As I said last page, Solomon is still only warming up.)
Solomon’s arm bands are basicly just bronze knuckles. They give each punch more mass.
Last panel.
Observe how Sausage David spares Jagger’s balls.
See, this is how we know Solo Mon isn’t taking this fight seriously.
He ISN’T aiming at McJagger’s balls.
Nah, I bet he will brush it off within next couple of issues with a “nice warmup” grin. No way this will end so easy.
You fools, the pain just makes me hornier!
“Fear not the man that has practiced the same blow a thousand times. Fear the man that has practiced the same blow a thousand times at once.”
Fear not the cruciferous vegetable, nay, serve him with Velveeta for sooth.
Fear not the fist that bears your name, for it is but one.
Rather, fear the fist addressed “to whom it may concern”, for they are legion.
Man literally froze time while freezing time. Can’t even call that overkill with this.
yo dawg
I heard you liked freezing time
So i froze time while i was freezing time so you could oh
Oh youre
Your frozen in time arent you
He froze time while freezing time to deliver ten thousand individually city block-leveling death punches at the same time within the same time. And I’m sure Mr “I made myself an armor our of the feathers of the unfallen angel” guy here will hardly notice it too.
“You broke my favorite helmet! Tell me, how would you feel about exploring the mantel of this planet? Because when I get out of this timefreeze I am going to punch you there!”
Swoleman already spent a few episodes setting himself up a nice man-cave down there. I think everyone here agrees that he deserves a lil break now and then.
I see from your appellation you are also “a friend of Gog,” as it were. Well met.
Even the weakest of feathers can be made to strike with the force of a thousand Light-Speed cannons if one spends a lifetime in frozen time adding miniscule pushes to the back of the feather.
Now imagine a man who can live forever spending a hundred years punching with all his furious might and power the same unyielding rock.
This is the force being exerted here, sacrificed time to annihilate one’s foe.
However, as amazing as this is, even to the scarab who killed Zion, it pales in comparison when one remembers that allegedly the six other demiurges are barely equal to this one demiurge about to be allegedly annihilated. If Solomon can do this technique now… Why didn’t he earlier? Chances are he did, and it did nothing, so either Solomon is willing to cut his own life short to ensure a swift victory and a handing of the key to a worthy opponent, or it will do nothing.
GET HIS ASS
He definitely hit him in the ass at LEAST once.
However he didn’t hit him in the balls, not even once, Jagganoth avoided the worst of it.
But, eternally classy, not one shot to the groin
Demiurges Rated By Likelihood of Berry-Booting:
Solomon: Never takes a nut shot.
Mammon: Aims for centre-mass but may hit the nuts by mistake.
Jadis: Goes for a nut shot only as an absolute last resort.
Gog-Agog: Only goes for a nut shot if she thinks it’d be real funny.
Jagganoth: Hits everything indiscriminately, including the nuts.
Incubus: Goes for a nut shot then pretends it was “totally an accident.”
Mottom: Unapologetically targets your nuts and only your nuts.
I was going to try and refute this, but no, this is completely correct.
Allison: All of the above, depending on her mood and whom the nuts belong to.
To analyze a little: I believe Alison is still unused to throwing hands and prone to panic if pushed even slightly, at which point she will either go straight for the nuts or not even think about it depending only on if she feels like the other guy will take revenge or not. So, basically as long as she believes she’s invincible.
I 100% believe Alison would have gone for a nut shot against Kill Boss if White Chain hadn’t stepped it.
This is great and feels very accurate.
Jadis will use a nut shot as a first attack, but only if she foresees it as necessary to beat you. If you fight Jadis and do not immediately get hit in the nuts, either your victory is assured or your defeat shall be swift.
As I was reading and agreeing with this list, I knew who would be last on it.
Okay but as a woman and a ballbuster I must note that Gog Agog would probably always consider nutshots funny. (Sympathie-pain is part of the fun btw)
In the school from which I hail, the question of groin strikes is hotly debated: many parties argue that the “nut shot” can be considered a merciful attack, yea it almost always incapacitates the opponent, thus avoiding further violence and death; others dismiss this on the claim that no matter the context the crotch should not be targeted except as a last resort. They often elaborate by saying that a well placed strike to genitalia not only deals an unnecessary degree of pain to the victim, but also a catastrophic amount of damage to their pride.
I would argue that testicular damage can be fatal, if applied with enough force it can be fatal to your heritage, even if you live.
I wouldn’t advocate for damage to the reproductive organs even if it wasn’t potentially lethal, but because it is, even less so.
A compassionate observation, worthy of recognition. Violence should always be shunned if possible and probable; violence comes in degrees, and so the more violent should be avoided out of deference to the opponent, the self, and the universal reality.
Yet it must be remembered that violence is inevitable, with whichever name it monsters itself. Yea it is the task of the good warrior to force the lesser names of violence.
Will the Queen of worms feast upon the Red God’s corpse or has the Lord of Rage a gambit left to play?
Remember that he cannot take damage by any means
Ushabti Omingun versus Jugs’ invincibility?
Well, it’s not a rule in the LANCER books so…
Maybe, maybe not. An uncertainty between universes might not be within the Eye of RA.
Hey 15 Misfires Outwit the Skills,
I don’t remember that. Where is that stated, please?
It was when he was introduced. “An angel spoke to him in a dream and gave him 7(?) Iron feathers which he forged into nails and drove them into his flesh after which no harm could come to him”
Yo dawg, I heard you like stopping time…
How can one demiurge carry the fight so hard?
Because while the other demiurges chose to simply ‘devour’, pillage and plunder their seventh part of all Vreation, Salami Dave decided he would carry it. That weight, that determination to carry, to elevate your part of existence gives you great incentive to be better. Zoss was his only superior, only because that man believed he could rule, carry and save the entire Wheel. Atlas Complex being a serieus issue with serieus perks here.
What’s crazy is that Abaddon ranked Solomon David as the third strongest demiurge, behind pre-disability Jadis and Jagannoth. Makes you wonder what over the top techniques they can bring to the table.
Jadis might have some crazy sorcery powers. But Jagganoth? He probably just has some decently destructive techniques and the ability to No-Sell pretty much anything.
I fully expect him to no sell this somehow.
It’s called Heavenly Guardian Defence, and any rookie exalt who wants to live has that charm on their character sheet.
Seven Shadows Evasion says what
Adamant Skin Technique would be the better comparison, and unlike a perfect parry or dodge is fully effective against even unexpected attacks or falling damage.
I wouldn’t be caught dead without at least one level Ox Body Technique.
If I remember correctly Abaddon said Gog-Agog was actually the most powerful in theory. But because she’s “not all there” she’s not as powerful in practice. Also I feel that Gog is powerful in a defensive sense, she literally survived Jaggy’s atom blast. Like a cockroach or tardigrade, she is not “strong” but she’s also kind of unstoppable.
That may be why she’s the only one who hasn’t done anything so far.
Discordance Of the Demiurges: Gog-Agog wins by doing absolutely nothing
By not seeking to strive, it conquers without effort.
So Gog-Agog is Royalty?
It’s the weirdest thing: the only action we’ve seen Gog take is trying to stack the tournament in Allison’s favor. But why would that be her sore point? At this moment, Allison’s success or failure at the tournament seems to be moot. If Gog meant Allison to be bait for attracting Jagganoth, as some have suggested, then why would Gog care whether Allison won or not? And in fact, Allison did lose, and Jagger came anyway.
By the way, what does all this have to do with a statue that got punched so hard it grew boobs?
There’s an old trope of cinema that if a giant be fought he will be utterly unassailable until kicked in the nads, at which point his eyes will cross and he will topple like a falling tree, lying unconscious for the rest of the scene. That would really help them here, but nobody’s doing it.
The problem is that five take themselves too seriously and don’t do comedy. What luck that they brought along a jester!
Also, there are literally entire planets full of copies of Gog that she chould throw at you, if she was actually angry at you. And all of them basically unkillable.
But they are all linked, in this universe I wouldn’t be surprised if someone struck Gog with an attack that caused every linked body to spontaneously combust at the same time by striking them through the Hive Mind.
Maybe. But I thought that were only a few worm-built “true Gogs” with access to her key of kings. The others are trillions of worm-puppet Renfields: very killable, but you need to bring more bullets.
I got the sense that she can kill and replace any of her followers with herself. Might be kind of a ‘worm infestation suddenly multiplies out of control and consumes you’ deal.
Where IS Jadis?
Glad to see someone totally missed the point of Solomon David’s entire deal.
It’s like when you’re playing a team game, and at the end of the match, you’re pretty happy you got the “First Strike” award, but then you look at your partner’s awards, and they have all the other awards.
“Gah! My one weakness: being punched ten thousand times at once!”
At least it wasn’t bullets from a gun!
Wish he’d spent those two time stops pulling out those nails, though I do love a flashy play.
Truly a terrible fate for any self respecting Ninja.
Now this, this is battle that I wish to see! Where fates are decided, oras are ora’d, and the power of a true holder of word can be shown. It. Is. GLORIOUS!
“All that, for not even a drop of blood.”
Jag doesn’t have blood, if you cut him Meshuggah just falls out
Old dragon and old hag (can’t remember their names) are just sitting back going: “So glad we didn’t go to war with him.”
Need? You speak of NEED?
Once the mortal mind concocts such a grand vessel, in the next instant does it become full with their ambitions.
I fear that Metatron’s gift, is not the initial invurnabillity we heard Mottom describe in the past. I think it lies more outside of whatever existential loop Zoss has created. Like, literally nailing himself into permanent being. The reasoning behind this, is the given explanation that the Master Key is the Voice of God, and the demuirge keys are the parcelled out names of God. Everything is spoken into existence, like the Multiplicity and the Wheel. Maybe Metatron is not God’s Scribe, but perhaps more like his original namesake, the living embodiment of the Voice of God? Would also explain the state Metatron is in. A literal shell of his former self.
I reckon Jagganoth’s invulnerability may be relatively literal to explain his reputation when the others do not seem any more cognizant of the loop. And yet it does seem all but certain that by those means or another Jagganoth specifically has a peculiar awareness and relationship with the loop. Your theory does not seem implausible, in that both may be byproducts of Jagganoth becoming a “static existence”, and the symbolism’s certainly match the nails well.
symbolisms*
Ahhh yes… The famed, lost “Chicken Storm Oni” technique.
I know it’s crass… but all those punches and not one to the jewels. smh
But I also think that we’re about to find out he just took all those hits and is going to do the classic wipe the blood from his lips ready for round 2. Game on.
How bold of you to assume that there will be any blood for him to wipe from his lips. I believe he’ll do the classic “standing tall while smirking, before asking if that was all” move.
Don’t speak too soon mate, the next update could be the the long-awaited dick-punch
The true sign of an honorable man: even though Jagganoth is an invulnerable, omnicidal maniac who just reignited the Universal War and massacred Rayuban citizens, SOLOMON NEVER PUNCHES JAGGANOTH IN THE BALLS.
Even in his fury and grief, Solomon knows that some punishments are just too severe. *nods approvingly*
I dare presume that the “instant death” part may be not 100% guaranteed in this particular case.
Instant death or your time investment back*!
*Since time is stopped within a time stop, no time is invested
So now we finally get to find out what flavour of invulnerable Jagganoth is.
AFAICS, any one of the Seven is invulnerable to mundane attacks. Their control of space-time allows them to deflect anything, provided first that they have time to see it coming and second that no stronger mind overrides their space-time meddling. Solomon is exploiting the “time to see the attack coming” loophole by freezing time.
If Jagganoth is metaphysically invulnerable to all harm, then he won’t mind this. But if his invulnerability lies in always deflecting damage by having the strongest will, then these unabated punches are going to hurt. A lot.
I’m suddenly very sure that this battle is going to be happening through the whole backdrop of this book.
That’s gonna be the only way to contain someone impervious to harm, and I presume the power of the keys will at least allow the Demiurges to resist the mortal needs of the flesh even if it doesn’t stop mortality.
Excellent strategic thinking! If you can’t beat him, you may still be able to pin him down under constant attack and thus render him useless. While Allison and Cio and statue-with-boobs-person go on to do the deed at hand, if we actually knew what that was.
Fragmenter, I think you’re right. It depends upon the definition of “harm”, and in this case, it’s the definition of the angel (Metatron, I’m guessing?) who gave him the feathers to nail into his flesh.
Metaphysical deals like this always have a catch, like wishes from a genie. Someone asks a genie for an enormous cock and gets a giant rooster. Well, that one’s kind of silly, but you know what I mean.
I think the angel feathers will allow Jaggy to avoid Instant Death, but it’s going to hurt like a motherfucker. It seems he’s in constant pain anyway. Maybe that turned out to be part of the bargain, too.
Having been told Jaggy nails angel feathers into his flesh
That’s gotta sting a bit.
Prolly gonna leave a mark.
Whelp. Looks like this is over, guess we won’t need Alison to ascend…
You kidding? Alison needs to kill Metatron.
A haiku.
Winter hunts Polaris,
Smothered pole, nostalgic kings:
Uncrown war- kinship blaze.
TIME STRIKE
PURPLE DIAMOND LORD’S
STRIKES REVEAL TITAN’S
ANGELIC NAIL CHARMS
OF INVULNERABILITY
Solomon making Dio look like a casual.
Who needs The World when you’ve got Gold Experience Requiem powers
Plus D4C
I appreciate that, while Jagganoth’s armor appears to disintegrate (as, unlike his body, it is not angel-feather invulnerable), his tighty-whities remain undamaged despite a direct hit.
I dunno, it appears more as if he hit Jagganoth’s belt. Even with all his rage and fury, Solomon refuses to go for the crotch. Perhaps there is SOME good left in him.
More likely Solly doesn’t want to have to see it. Which he would if a direct strike vaporized Jaggy’s underwear.
The Codpiece of Invulnerability repels all. To say nothing of that which it covers.
His codpiece repels all, you say? Not me…
Killing a man is one thing, but a nut shot? Solomon knows where to draw the line!
I made a list of which Demiurges would take the nut-shot if given the chance somewhere above.
Finally decently close to the top, btw why not a blow to the “tenders”? I think it would have been Uber devastating.
Please! Solomon has class, even when aiming to obliterate you atom-by-atom.
“Class” ??!! It’s WAR …… to stop yourself in the middle of a flurry of blows is already losing….. let me fire my machine gun at your and avoid your “private parts” ….. class he says …….
Hm. How was Allison supposed to beat any of the Demiurges in combat? She couldn’t overcome Mottom, couldn’t bring herself to kill Mammon, would have been futile to fight Gog-Agog and clearly outclassed by Jagganoth and David.
Unless she was never meant to dethrone them that way? YSUN may approve of violence but methinks its not the answer in removing the 7 Black Emperors.
Yisun was a liar, so what they approved of may not mean too much.
Simple: she wasn’t!
Nerissandra is observant.