I’m surprised by how many people are standing around talking. One would think that anything capable of obliterating the arena while Solomon David is present is something you should obviously flee from as quickly as you can. Is everyone just used to thinking that Solomon David can handle anything?
In fairness, none of these guys look like locals. Besides, let’s be honest: standing around and taking pictures of the nearby explosion is unfortunately pretty standard for people of every nationality, gender, age and species.
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They’re some of the 108 followers. They have form for running in to dodgy situations.
Also, note how the arena is destroyed but the waterfront buildings are intact, and even one of the causeways to the arena is still there. So evacuating the city is still a live issue.
All their lives they’ve stood static watching Solomon David achieve greatness. Their entire world was built upon his broad back, perhaps they don’t know to do anything but watch him. Or maybe they secretly want to see their god fail, just once.
it’s the Protector God argument. the populace would sit back on their laurels watching great feats be accomplished by their gods and not even deign to struggle to attain even a modicum of their gods’ greatness.
Well all they saw was the arena blow up and they seem to be a very safe distance away from the destruction. They have no idea what caused the explosion nor do they know that explosion was only the first of many. Also that explosion only happened a couple of minutes ago, so they still processing what just happened.
Regarding the pictogram on Auntie Maya’s back (which also is used by Incubus as demiurge and Sword King of the Middle Army of course, and no surprises it’s also on their throne), just if any other flame would find interest in it.
One always just took it as zhōng, the chinese for middle (tho’ one realises it has more likely come here via the japanese kanji), with the bonus that if mispronounced slightly it sounds like the word for a bell tolling, zhòng.
One has encountered it elsewhere tho’, with meanings pleasingly also quite apt: to hit the mark or to have success or win – but strangely also to be hit, or to suffer. Fitting for both of them then perhaps.
Thou speakest truly; methinks also that the mark could, to minds unknowing of Kanji, represent cutting, division, as the middle line divideth the rectangle.
That’s different. The artistry of the cups was appreciated in a rather violent and avant garde way. The noodles, however, are not appreciated. They are abandoned, ignored. The cups at least get someone hating them and are granted a merciful swift demise, but the noodles get nothing but a slow painful cooling into obscurity.
Our beloved customer must make do with a bowl, but please accept it with our compliments. The broth is especially rich today. Alas, as this is not a special, the tea is extra.
Most kind, most kind. One makes promise to furnish your enterprise with many different and some rare varieties, upon our most proximate visit. If Rayuba still exists of course. One does recommend the Ya-at morning blend, quite bracing.
Jagganoth was unsuccessful the first time around because of the combined efforts of every other demiurge. With Incubus on his side, that is less than six demiurges. We will see if Allison, White Chains, Vigilant Gaze, and Cio can make up for it.
This is complicated because of Allison’s reliance on Incubus for more power via her key. I think these chains will not hold her for long, once she focuses on breaking them, though.
I do not think Allison was using any power of Incubus’ except for his lessons in wielding the power of her Key. She rejected Incubus’ power when it caused her to have a case of split personality.
Jagganoth is the second strongest sorcerer among them, he’s crazy strong. Thorn knights have blessed him with invulnerability. Hard to see how he could do anything to the woman With future sight, but he can only be at best contained.
I think conversation with white Chain might be their best bet.
You are correct in terms of the lady Jadis’ desire to cease living but as an omniscient being she already knows the part she has to play in upcoming events and as such has no choice but to continue living.
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Well if she still wants out, standing in front of Jaganoth in one his “little moments” is a good way out.
I’m wondering how Jagganoth’s alledged invulnerability is tangled up with Jadis’ future sight. If he’s truly, metaphysically invulnerable (instead of just ridiculously OP), does that imply some editing of futures that invalidates her precognition?
I like how they all have their own animation for teleporting onto the battlefield.
So if Seeker of Thrones was a dungeon crawl and King of Swords was an anime tournament arc, is Breaker of Infinities going to be a crossover-fighting game?
Oy! Whats kind-o big-un messy ‘as tha poxerly lady king made now?? We’s been gone since them girlies fused to fight tha o’er girly; an’now te wholesale fighting circle be sploded?! Ufff. Us’s needs ano’er drink.
The last time we saw him was in the arena dungeon. Since the arena was obliterated then he could have ended up having to work his way toward the surface.
That was Dream Incubus Though, and we’ve seen dream Incubus project from his spire before so my guess is he teleported and coming up rom the mud is his regular entry, since his spire is also themed with mud and decay :v
Hey, you are right! However, he _did_ colour his words (one particular word, to be precise) once, through his meeting with Jagganoth back in… it was the beginning o book 3, I guess? Unless it was the end of book 2, which is pretty much close, yet seems unlikely somehow. So, presumably Incubus can have his demiurge voice well enough, but rarely bothers himself with this shit, as well as with halo (isn’t it the first time we see him crowned as well?)
Now that I think about it, it feels like Abaddon might be rushing the story, considering Alison bore a sword similar to Maya’s on that big prophecy picture from way back, and currently, she’s had 0 training and barely any interaction with Maya.
I guess it is not a key in her brow, but a ley-stone. Check the chapter in the second book where the are devils’ types explayned, the lore concerning ley-stones also lurks there, somewhere in the alt-text.
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Clearly that’s not the case as Maya’s forehead lights up when she takes it out. I do think we haven’t seen her do this before, at least in the present.
So…the thing in her forehead is her leystone, which is like Cio’s and isn’t a key.
However, there’s also speculation that her hair tie, shown here in her hand, is a dormant Key of Kings. Notice how it’s shaped like the other keys/power symbols we’ve seen before.
So the thing in her forehead isn’t a key, but it is shining due to her atum. The thing in her hand MAY be a key, but we’re not sure, and even if it is it might not be powered.
Given it looks like a Maya/Incubus fight is coming, I’m sure we’ll find out which it is soon.
Her hair tie is the same shape as the tip of Queen Mottom’s wand. Both are the same general shape as the symbol of Zoss, the splitting of infinity. coincidence? Most likely. Not everything is meaningful. But, then again, that is is what perceivers are for: Creating meaning from the absurd.
Can Maya win this fight? She can cut an angel in half with one serious attack.
Davy is unable to destroy a damaged angel shell using his two point blow, through White Chain is a master of an internal style while Juggernaut uses an external one which I think increases White Chain’s defence.
My take is that Maya has just dumped all her stat points into attack and might take Incubus by surprise and decapitate him. Or Maybe they’ll just talk for a few panels, who knows?
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Maya has no chance against Incubus in the same sense that White Chain had no chance against Solomon. This story has a running theme of transcending limitations.
Time will tell the outcome of that fight. But whatever form it takes, I expect Maya to triumph, even if Incubus lives, even if Maya dies.
Except that White really did have no chance. As Gog-Agog pointed out, white chain didn’t really win but won anyway. White chain needed to draw blood to win and she didn’t. However the audience found her performance grand enough that they basically treated her like she won which put pressure on solomon to bend to the will of the masses to just give her the win.
Ending Incubus is not the great success that it sounds like it would be. She has been just as stuck in her revenge as Incubus has been stuck in his filth. Defeat the grand enemy I.
it has not been unknown for non key wielders to kill demiurges and steal their power, as it was the case of how Solomon obtained his key. Ki-Rata was is, of course, the most devastating martial arts known to man, but I wouldn’t put it that much over Maya’s Cutting prowess which I believe surpass Incubus’.
Incubus however has the power of the key, which we still don’t know how he would and could employ
Also, SD killed his Demiurge early in the Great War. Incubus is one of the survivors of that War. Presumably he’s a lot more powerful than that guy SD got his first key from.
Meti never wielded a Key. Also, she wanted to die that way, and Maya knew it. Apparently she never accepted Meti for the cynical b*tch she was. (She’s like a female, super-powerful Socrates – living in a barrel and wanting her corpse to be eaten by dogs.)
OverlySarcasticProductions just did a vid on who you mean, but I think you’re thinking or that contrarian who lived to over 100.
Alexander the pretty all right went to him to learn saying, ‘do you know me?’, and he responds, ‘yes, you’re blocking my sun. Move.’
The audacity amused him, apparently.
It’s like the beginning of a chess game. First make space for the game. Then you set up all your pieces. Then the board explodes. Well, it’s how we played chess in my household at least.
”Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:
I’ll kill my horse, because I will not fly.
Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,
Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;
And look upon, as if the tragedy
Were play’d in jest by counterfeiting actors?
Here on my knee I vow to God above,
I’ll never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Or fortune given me measure of revenge.”
I wonder. The Demiurges all well know how Incubus stole his power and throne (through trickery and betrayal most surely) and Definitely known from whom! Does their disdain from Incubus insinuate respect for it’s previous wielder? How will they react when they see Old Aunty Maya again 😮
They are quite common. He is a “Kind one” One of the many races in one of the 4 categories of beings crafted by the gods: The servants. We have seen them before in the background of many many pages.
Mammon killed his family, friends and clan, not his entire species.
That second panel is the stuff of nightmares. Does Incubus travel through mud or was he forming himself from it? Because there’s something unfinished looking about what’s rising out. D:
Which face? The B side of a two faced one? A hidden plan? “Show your face” as in “Play your hand”?
Face it, all we have here is a seven count of survivors, being “victorious” only by happenstance, who are bored out of their gourds. ALL of them. There’s no reason for any of them to keep going. Finally the age of gray drab blah living is over and now they finally get to live in interesting times again.
All he did was unleash her ego, which promptly got out of hand and was way to massive for even incubus to control. After that bed been training her to use her key better.
My favorite depiction of the Pit King thus far (and i mean no sarcasm, really).
It saddens me greatly that this is the final chapter. Nor Jadis nor Gog-Agog will get their own books, and it is always sad to know something one cherishes is nearing its end.
That said, i’m positive this will be a final arc to remember. I only hope the girls and 10 Vigilant kick ass, Zaid earns the respect of the fanbase and Solomon David lives (the last one is a stretch, but it would be a nice surprise, I’d like to see what he does after the whole thing is over)
I think SD got some honorable respect in the last book.
I admit I’d like him to live and hopefully find some closure from his past and mend his ways, but if the story demands that he has to go, then so be it.
I am gladded that the destruction was limited to the arena and while no doubt wiping out much of the population (particularly the military and possibly all of the higher classes) it did not spread into the city as I feared it had.
Friends! It has been so long since I set foot in this public forum. And I finally did it! I got a new name and made my way home.
But alas, when I returned, I found that it was no longer home. It had changed. Or perhaps… I had changed. Now I cast off these trappings and return to this void.
Calling it : Maya is an envoy of Jagganoth, and has made a pact with him for power and revenge agains the fool. Strenght for service in the war to come.
That seems unlikely, because Incubus is allied with Mick Jagger, because she seems to abhor pointless violence, and because her last name is literally “Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones”.
While I do believe this is indeed unlikely, in all fairness, her last name does line up with what Jagganoth intends to do for most part. One is made to wonder however: What happens in Jagganoth’s plan, once he is done with the universe?
Will he continue to exist in an empty universe? Will he go down with the flames as well?
I wonder if Solomon’s big “power up” page was less him charging up like a Dragon Ball character and more a call to the other Demiurges as they all started showing up after that.
…Well… Except for slothy who kind of saw it coming… which is probably why Solomon switched so quick from wondering WTF she was doing there to realising exactly why she was there.
I wonder what the connotation is when every master of the principal art of cutting has uncut hair and Maya plans to confront Incubus with a hairpin and a sword?
Masters of the martial arts often focus on their discipline to the exclusion of all else, including personal grooming. Many are notoriously disheveled. Meticulously-groomed Solomon David is a notable exception to that trend, but then again, his whole thing is capital-P Pride…
Allison’s halo on the first page of this book is shaped like Maya’s tuning fork/hair clip, and Allison’s outfit is sporting a number of sigils and patches showing the same image.
Maya is going to be Allison’s next (final?) master.
It occurs to me here that the hairpin of our esteemed Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones is the inverse form of a key of kings, no? Though we so rarely see the full shape of those most accursed and heavenly weapons, they are known to resemble their namesake – a circle with a stem extending from it. I am led then down a meandering path of wonder, for if this is the basis of its form it seems she carries the absence of a key with her, a negative space perhaps filled with Royalty. Or if not, I would have to dream it a Sword. One that semiotics cannot contain, its whispering blade held softly on the tongue of its Division. But no matter what it may yet prove to be, there is certainty in this: one who joins battle with a Cut Circle in hand will swiftly separate their foes’ blood from their foes’ veins.
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The King of Swords
Maybe.
And which fool is being referred to that is doing things too soon?
…someone has gone off-script.
Jagoff’s the fool…, thinking back to previous events…
Actually, Incubus may be the fool as his tool makes his move without him.
I count at least seven fools.
A Queen, methinks?
She should be called the Queen of Maybe.
Royalty cares not for gender.
That’s only applies if it’s a monarchy. Otherwise the titles are gender specific, power is the same however.
Incubus is King of Cups, check out his throne room.
Maya is more of an ace to me.
I’m surprised by how many people are standing around talking. One would think that anything capable of obliterating the arena while Solomon David is present is something you should obviously flee from as quickly as you can. Is everyone just used to thinking that Solomon David can handle anything?
There’s no way you can run far enough. Might as well enjoy the scenery
In fairness, none of these guys look like locals. Besides, let’s be honest: standing around and taking pictures of the nearby explosion is unfortunately pretty standard for people of every nationality, gender, age and species.
They’re some of the 108 followers. They have form for running in to dodgy situations.
Also, note how the arena is destroyed but the waterfront buildings are intact, and even one of the causeways to the arena is still there. So evacuating the city is still a live issue.
All their lives they’ve stood static watching Solomon David achieve greatness. Their entire world was built upon his broad back, perhaps they don’t know to do anything but watch him. Or maybe they secretly want to see their god fail, just once.
The last one probably. Remember how eager they were to cheer White Chain’s victory? I still think that came as a shock to Solomon David.
it’s the Protector God argument. the populace would sit back on their laurels watching great feats be accomplished by their gods and not even deign to struggle to attain even a modicum of their gods’ greatness.
Well all they saw was the arena blow up and they seem to be a very safe distance away from the destruction. They have no idea what caused the explosion nor do they know that explosion was only the first of many. Also that explosion only happened a couple of minutes ago, so they still processing what just happened.
Judging by her arms, Maya has indeed mastered or at least comprehended Meti’s 6th Precept – the continual self-annihilation when cutting.
I wonder, between the master of the Maybe Sword and Incubus who clings to sword like a crutch, which shall have the truer cut?
Defensive Marks. Where blade bit flesh but failed. Marks of failed deaths.
Truest cutter be the blade yet seen.
Indeed. If one cuts and does decapitate their foe with the cut then they have not cut at all.
Hey now, this is hardly a story where truth is seen as a positive
Truth is Scorned where there’s profit to be made from a lie
Regarding the pictogram on Auntie Maya’s back (which also is used by Incubus as demiurge and Sword King of the Middle Army of course, and no surprises it’s also on their throne), just if any other flame would find interest in it.
One always just took it as zhōng, the chinese for middle (tho’ one realises it has more likely come here via the japanese kanji), with the bonus that if mispronounced slightly it sounds like the word for a bell tolling, zhòng.
One has encountered it elsewhere tho’, with meanings pleasingly also quite apt: to hit the mark or to have success or win – but strangely also to be hit, or to suffer. Fitting for both of them then perhaps.
Thou speakest truly; methinks also that the mark could, to minds unknowing of Kanji, represent cutting, division, as the middle line divideth the rectangle.
Shocking waste of perfectly good noodles.
This is how you know Maya means business
The greatest atrocity in this comic so far.
Never forget the teacups though.
That’s different. The artistry of the cups was appreciated in a rather violent and avant garde way. The noodles, however, are not appreciated. They are abandoned, ignored. The cups at least get someone hating them and are granted a merciful swift demise, but the noodles get nothing but a slow painful cooling into obscurity.
Chiefest amongst the great sins is wasting food, for shame.
Chef-ist of sins, I think you mean.
The Chef-ist of sins, for which a person will be sent to the lowest circle of Flavortown
Alas, it’s true. Those olives were expensive, too. Not sure where we’re going to get them now.
Surebaet Noodles–it’s a “sure bet” we weren’t blown up! Weekly specials with free tea!
A plate of your best please, noodle vendor.
Our beloved customer must make do with a bowl, but please accept it with our compliments. The broth is especially rich today. Alas, as this is not a special, the tea is extra.
Most kind, most kind. One makes promise to furnish your enterprise with many different and some rare varieties, upon our most proximate visit. If Rayuba still exists of course. One does recommend the Ya-at morning blend, quite bracing.
Pretty sure those are soy sauce eggs there, chief, judging by the fact that’s it’s’ a ramen joint.
But why is there a frame picturing it in the comic? What mysteries does the Ramen hold?!?
Maya, we missed you! May you get your chance to slay a god yet.
AWWWWWW YEAAAAH!!!!!!!
Meti’s about to open a can of whoop-ass on Incubus there.
Though his words about it being “too soon” intrigue me. Just what could Incubus be worrying about, when the odds seem so stacked in Jagganoth’s favor?
Maybe is less that they are stacked in Jagganoth’s favor,and more that incubus’s own odds are not looking as good as he hoped they would be
The odds are not stacked in Jagganoth’s favor.
6 key holders + White Chain, Cio, and Vigilant Gaze VS Jagganoth
Incubus will be too busy with Maya to do anything useful.
If anything, they have an advantage.
Jagganoth was unsuccessful the first time around because of the combined efforts of every other demiurge. With Incubus on his side, that is less than six demiurges. We will see if Allison, White Chains, Vigilant Gaze, and Cio can make up for it.
This is complicated because of Allison’s reliance on Incubus for more power via her key. I think these chains will not hold her for long, once she focuses on breaking them, though.
I do not think Allison was using any power of Incubus’ except for his lessons in wielding the power of her Key. She rejected Incubus’ power when it caused her to have a case of split personality.
Jagganoth is the second strongest sorcerer among them, he’s crazy strong. Thorn knights have blessed him with invulnerability. Hard to see how he could do anything to the woman With future sight, but he can only be at best contained.
I think conversation with white Chain might be their best bet.
correct me if i’m wrong but doesn’t Jadis McFuturesight just want to die?
You are correct in terms of the lady Jadis’ desire to cease living but as an omniscient being she already knows the part she has to play in upcoming events and as such has no choice but to continue living.
Well if she still wants out, standing in front of Jaganoth in one his “little moments” is a good way out.
I’m wondering how Jagganoth’s alledged invulnerability is tangled up with Jadis’ future sight. If he’s truly, metaphysically invulnerable (instead of just ridiculously OP), does that imply some editing of futures that invalidates her precognition?
*SSB Announcer Voice.* EVERYONE IS HERE!
I like how they all have their own animation for teleporting onto the battlefield.
So if Seeker of Thrones was a dungeon crawl and King of Swords was an anime tournament arc, is Breaker of Infinities going to be a crossover-fighting game?
I hope so. But who will pop out of a box and say “Kept you waiting, huh?”
FUCK him UP MAYA!!!!!
@2 Tranquil River, There he is! Hiding in the mud, just about as expected for a slimy lad like him.
Oh, crap. That’s the thing that will upset people, innit? Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones is going to die.
If by “die” you mean D.I.E.: Defy Incubus Eternally? Or just plain old death ~ being CUT from mortality and REBORN?
I dare say, Maya will enjoy at one least one bowl of soup on the ruins of a particularly murdered god’s toppled throne.
Looks like Maya is about to get her Key back. I wonder how that will affect the war? Sux to be Incuboy right now, and he doesn’t know it yet!
well it may certainly turn poorly for Jagganoth. and i just assume it always sucks to be Incubus, in a general sense.
Oy! Whats kind-o big-un messy ‘as tha poxerly lady king made now?? We’s been gone since them girlies fused to fight tha o’er girly; an’now te wholesale fighting circle be sploded?! Ufff. Us’s needs ano’er drink.
Too soon to succeed at destroying the world, or… too soon for Allison to be able to stop him?
Incubus little entry wasn’t not disturbing at all
question: did he teleport in beneath the ground in order to be less obvious? Or was he just.. already down there?
The last time we saw him was in the arena dungeon. Since the arena was obliterated then he could have ended up having to work his way toward the surface.
That was Dream Incubus Though, and we’ve seen dream Incubus project from his spire before so my guess is he teleported and coming up rom the mud is his regular entry, since his spire is also themed with mud and decay :v
I guess Mud is just Incubus’s preferred mode of transport.
That’s not mud, it’s blood gravy.
Ah, but we are dirt, and mud is just dirt gravy.
Mmm, delicious. *pours some on the meatloaf*
Add grated spleen. Is lovely.
Hims spire named Lethyx, of Lethe and Styx rivers of the Underworld – an’ din’t thum rivers end in a muddy swamp?
Incubus learned how to color the text in his speech bubbles! What a development!
Hey, you are right! However, he _did_ colour his words (one particular word, to be precise) once, through his meeting with Jagganoth back in… it was the beginning o book 3, I guess? Unless it was the end of book 2, which is pretty much close, yet seems unlikely somehow. So, presumably Incubus can have his demiurge voice well enough, but rarely bothers himself with this shit, as well as with halo (isn’t it the first time we see him crowned as well?)
You won’t know what hit you
This is axiomatic
Oh dear. No rhyme? These are dire times indeed.
It’s not my imagination
I’ve got a gun on my back.
MAYA – Yeah, baby! Fasten your seatbelts, there’s some serious slicing & dicing in store.
Now that I think about it, it feels like Abaddon might be rushing the story, considering Alison bore a sword similar to Maya’s on that big prophecy picture from way back, and currently, she’s had 0 training and barely any interaction with Maya.
so mr. long white hair might be correct
Hey, the chapter is barely beginning.
And isn’t this to be the longest chapter?
Explains why Incubus hadn’t shown up yet, he was sitting there cussing and stomping around before deciding he just HAD to show up after all.
So, Incubus is usually sitting in max-security in his throneroom on Throne, right?
That could be the reason for Maya to not be able to reach him… until now of course.
David Bowie used Muck Walk.
Is Maya’s sword growing back? It looks a lot longer than it used to be :0
Maybe I’m just forgetting, but was Maya shown to still have her key before? I thought she gave it to Incubus…
I guess it is not a key in her brow, but a ley-stone. Check the chapter in the second book where the are devils’ types explayned, the lore concerning ley-stones also lurks there, somewhere in the alt-text.
Possibly the empty husk of a key after Incubus sucked out the power.
Clearly that’s not the case as Maya’s forehead lights up when she takes it out. I do think we haven’t seen her do this before, at least in the present.
It lights because of her ATUM, it is known she had her key, power, throne and army stolen by Incubus
So…the thing in her forehead is her leystone, which is like Cio’s and isn’t a key.
However, there’s also speculation that her hair tie, shown here in her hand, is a dormant Key of Kings. Notice how it’s shaped like the other keys/power symbols we’ve seen before.
So the thing in her forehead isn’t a key, but it is shining due to her atum. The thing in her hand MAY be a key, but we’re not sure, and even if it is it might not be powered.
Given it looks like a Maya/Incubus fight is coming, I’m sure we’ll find out which it is soon.
Thanks! Honestly I’ve completely forgotten most of the lore.
Her hair tie is the same shape as the tip of Queen Mottom’s wand. Both are the same general shape as the symbol of Zoss, the splitting of infinity. coincidence? Most likely. Not everything is meaningful. But, then again, that is is what perceivers are for: Creating meaning from the absurd.
Eyyy, someone’s going to cut a bitch.
Incubus raising out of the mud like my nephew on a rainy day
STOP! I CAN ONLY GET SO HYPED!
Can Maya win this fight? She can cut an angel in half with one serious attack.
Davy is unable to destroy a damaged angel shell using his two point blow, through White Chain is a master of an internal style while Juggernaut uses an external one which I think increases White Chain’s defence.
My take is that Maya has just dumped all her stat points into attack and might take Incubus by surprise and decapitate him. Or Maybe they’ll just talk for a few panels, who knows?
I think Maya has no chance against Incubus, if Incubus is ready for her. And she knows it; recall her musings about seeking honourable death.
But if Incubus were massivley distracted by a violent argument inside Allison’s mind, then maybe…
Maya has no chance against Incubus in the same sense that White Chain had no chance against Solomon. This story has a running theme of transcending limitations.
Time will tell the outcome of that fight. But whatever form it takes, I expect Maya to triumph, even if Incubus lives, even if Maya dies.
Murder the gods, and topple their thrones.
Except that White really did have no chance. As Gog-Agog pointed out, white chain didn’t really win but won anyway. White chain needed to draw blood to win and she didn’t. However the audience found her performance grand enough that they basically treated her like she won which put pressure on solomon to bend to the will of the masses to just give her the win.
Ending Incubus is not the great success that it sounds like it would be. She has been just as stuck in her revenge as Incubus has been stuck in his filth. Defeat the grand enemy I.
it has not been unknown for non key wielders to kill demiurges and steal their power, as it was the case of how Solomon obtained his key. Ki-Rata was is, of course, the most devastating martial arts known to man, but I wouldn’t put it that much over Maya’s Cutting prowess which I believe surpass Incubus’.
Incubus however has the power of the key, which we still don’t know how he would and could employ
Also, SD killed his Demiurge early in the Great War. Incubus is one of the survivors of that War. Presumably he’s a lot more powerful than that guy SD got his first key from.
Maya didn’t cut an angel in half, she cut a manifestation. Remember that it was not Juggernaut Star’s true body, but something else.
Idk, Juggernaut Star is jank.
They were both taught by the last key wielder and one of them killed her. The key apparently doesn’t factor into direct combat ability for them.
Meti never wielded a Key. Also, she wanted to die that way, and Maya knew it. Apparently she never accepted Meti for the cynical b*tch she was. (She’s like a female, super-powerful Socrates – living in a barrel and wanting her corpse to be eaten by dogs.)
OverlySarcasticProductions just did a vid on who you mean, but I think you’re thinking or that contrarian who lived to over 100.
Alexander the pretty all right went to him to learn saying, ‘do you know me?’, and he responds, ‘yes, you’re blocking my sun. Move.’
The audacity amused him, apparently.
Au Vam ’twas, had star in thums brow afore Maya thinks us. Nae explicit seen, yet otherhand thums quotings call demiurges kin.
Aunty! At last! We missed you :3
Love Incubus’s intro, that’s really something. As well as his meta-joke about “too soon”. We really didn’t expect a war that early, did we?
Really Incubus? You travel by mud pit instead of astride the lightning? This is why the other Demiurges don’t like you.
look, if he had known Jagganoth was attacking today, he’d have scheduled his spa day later in the week.
I would imagine this is part of the reason he’s held in such low regard by the rest.
Get his ass.
The hair clip came off. It is getting serious now.
It’s like the beginning of a chess game. First make space for the game. Then you set up all your pieces. Then the board explodes. Well, it’s how we played chess in my household at least.
ah yes. the Tavish Finnegan DeGroot Strategem. practitioners of it are few and far between, what with the precision required to execute it perfectly.
One of the few chess strategies that works more effectively if you’re drunk and have one-eyed. Definitely makes it more entertaining.
Henry VI Part III, Act II, Scene 3
Warwick :
”Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:
I’ll kill my horse, because I will not fly.
Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,
Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;
And look upon, as if the tragedy
Were play’d in jest by counterfeiting actors?
Here on my knee I vow to God above,
I’ll never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Or fortune given me measure of revenge.”
~ by William Shakespeare
I wonder. The Demiurges all well know how Incubus stole his power and throne (through trickery and betrayal most surely) and Definitely known from whom! Does their disdain from Incubus insinuate respect for it’s previous wielder? How will they react when they see Old Aunty Maya again 😮
Auntie Maya time?
She gonna introduce Incubus to the pavement?
We got your front row seats for the Apocalypse right here! A waitress will be by in just a moment to take your order.
Looks like that mud’s doing wonders for his skin
Wait, I’m sorry, what is another member of Mammon’s species here?
What the FUCK?
They are quite common. He is a “Kind one” One of the many races in one of the 4 categories of beings crafted by the gods: The servants. We have seen them before in the background of many many pages.
Mammon killed his family, friends and clan, not his entire species.
I’ll take the moment to not that there is more sword on that hilt than there was previously.
Incubus all:
>Never Trust Anyone
>Especially Yourself
“What is the fool doing?! Its too soon! He wasn’t supposed to attack for another two books!”
“What do you mean this is the final book?!”
“Always has been”
ok real talk, is Zaid even remotely capable? did they teach him anything or was he just kept?
You know Maya means business when she abandons her noodles
We still haven’t seen Jagg’s and Jadis’s title cards
Maya’s hair needs a big “FLOOF” FX
Looks like Maya’s story is nearing its resolution. I wonder if she’s got time for a haircut before she goes off to do something foolish?
It’s onnn
Incubus is going to use his sword like Strider Hiryu does. That will be delightful to watch, at least until Maya cuts him down.
That second panel is the stuff of nightmares. Does Incubus travel through mud or was he forming himself from it? Because there’s something unfinished looking about what’s rising out. D:
You know, his head is clearly uncovered in the second panel, but by the third he’s wearing a hood…
Which face? The B side of a two faced one? A hidden plan? “Show your face” as in “Play your hand”?
Face it, all we have here is a seven count of survivors, being “victorious” only by happenstance, who are bored out of their gourds. ALL of them. There’s no reason for any of them to keep going. Finally the age of gray drab blah living is over and now they finally get to live in interesting times again.
I’m maybe in the minority here but I’m more interested in Incubus than Maya
Incubus is my favorite character so I’m pretty interested in what his deal is too, though I wouldn’t mind terribly if Maya cut him in half just once~
I hope they both survive until the end, they’re both interesting characters we know far too little about!
I would. I want Allison to end Incubus. He deserves it for what he tried to do to her, and she did promise.
All he did was unleash her ego, which promptly got out of hand and was way to massive for even incubus to control. After that bed been training her to use her key better.
Look at him, burrowing out of the ground like some kind of divine gopher.
My favorite depiction of the Pit King thus far (and i mean no sarcasm, really).
It saddens me greatly that this is the final chapter. Nor Jadis nor Gog-Agog will get their own books, and it is always sad to know something one cherishes is nearing its end.
That said, i’m positive this will be a final arc to remember. I only hope the girls and 10 Vigilant kick ass, Zaid earns the respect of the fanbase and Solomon David lives (the last one is a stretch, but it would be a nice surprise, I’d like to see what he does after the whole thing is over)
I think SD got some honorable respect in the last book.
I admit I’d like him to live and hopefully find some closure from his past and mend his ways, but if the story demands that he has to go, then so be it.
I am gladded that the destruction was limited to the arena and while no doubt wiping out much of the population (particularly the military and possibly all of the higher classes) it did not spread into the city as I feared it had.
*Collapses to the ground*
Friends! It has been so long since I set foot in this public forum. And I finally did it! I got a new name and made my way home.
But alas, when I returned, I found that it was no longer home. It had changed. Or perhaps… I had changed. Now I cast off these trappings and return to this void.
And not a moment too soon, I see.
HIMSELF probably. God I need to see that now.
I am very ready for Meti to come and wreck Incubus’ shit.
Calling it : Maya is an envoy of Jagganoth, and has made a pact with him for power and revenge agains the fool. Strenght for service in the war to come.
That seems unlikely, because Incubus is allied with Mick Jagger, because she seems to abhor pointless violence, and because her last name is literally “Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones”.
While I do believe this is indeed unlikely, in all fairness, her last name does line up with what Jagganoth intends to do for most part. One is made to wonder however: What happens in Jagganoth’s plan, once he is done with the universe?
Will he continue to exist in an empty universe? Will he go down with the flames as well?
Will it be something different?
Jaggy’s plan involves at least one (1) god not being murdered.
I wonder if Solomon’s big “power up” page was less him charging up like a Dragon Ball character and more a call to the other Demiurges as they all started showing up after that.
…Well… Except for slothy who kind of saw it coming… which is probably why Solomon switched so quick from wondering WTF she was doing there to realising exactly why she was there.
Today empirical testing shows the speed of sloth is surprisingly F A S T !
And there’s the eighth of the seven.
A roaring rampage or revengeance
you should know that a soul can’t be cut, no matter what blade you wield
I wonder what the connotation is when every master of the principal art of cutting has uncut hair and Maya plans to confront Incubus with a hairpin and a sword?
Masters of the martial arts often focus on their discipline to the exclusion of all else, including personal grooming. Many are notoriously disheveled. Meticulously-groomed Solomon David is a notable exception to that trend, but then again, his whole thing is capital-P Pride…
Wevenge!
It’s K-k-Ken, c-c-c-coming to kill me!
*gets feet stuck in mood*
Incubus’ words are red. I believe they used to be black in all of his prior appearances?
Lets see if she could do what Meti could never do: Stop swinging when it is time
Allison’s halo on the first page of this book is shaped like Maya’s tuning fork/hair clip, and Allison’s outfit is sporting a number of sigils and patches showing the same image.
Maya is going to be Allison’s next (final?) master.
…or has someone already said that before?
It occurs to me here that the hairpin of our esteemed Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones is the inverse form of a key of kings, no? Though we so rarely see the full shape of those most accursed and heavenly weapons, they are known to resemble their namesake – a circle with a stem extending from it. I am led then down a meandering path of wonder, for if this is the basis of its form it seems she carries the absence of a key with her, a negative space perhaps filled with Royalty. Or if not, I would have to dream it a Sword. One that semiotics cannot contain, its whispering blade held softly on the tongue of its Division. But no matter what it may yet prove to be, there is certainty in this: one who joins battle with a Cut Circle in hand will swiftly separate their foes’ blood from their foes’ veins.
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