BREAKER OF INFINITIES 1-33
Chapter: 1
“Au Vam chose his royal guard thus: he would whip the men fiercely for two hours. Any man that could endure such a hellish flogging was strong enough to protect the God-King and receive his blessing.
The men that endured this ordeal in complete silence were not appointed to the guard – they were instead banished from his realm. Au Vam did not trust any man who had become so intimate with pain. A man like that must be fed with blood.”
– Chronicles of the Yellow City
The solution is simple!
Just keep hitting him. Forever. Shouldn’t be hard, right?
Consecutive normal punches, the forbidden hand art
I think things are more serious than that. So serious that it’s time for a Serious Series: Serious Punch.
you fuckin’ nuts, that’s risking smacking YISUN itself.
Better option: Spoon.
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Allison — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the scare of defeat, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is omnipotent. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on Jagganoth’s face — forever.
You can’t fight your own rage, you can’t fight your own trauma.
Not even Daddy Salami’s *holier-than-thou* attitude can fight the sun with fire.
You could also imprison him, perhaps. You might not be able to defeat a foe, but if you can lure him to somewhere from which he can not escape, that is the next best thing.
Isn’t that what the other demiurges are trying (emphasis on “trying”) to do right now?
Okay, so my theory about losing on purpose to kickstart another great war seems less likely now.
Hey, there’s still room for an upset. 🥳
Terrifying, thanks!
Agreed. I’m thinking the reason it doesn’t really hurt him is becuase the pain from inside is much stronger than the pain from outside.
Aww, you’re making me feel bad for him. :'(
Cycles of abuse are a great reason to feel bad.
I still think he’s just constipated.
Pity the man whom the angels themselves appointed to be the devil. Being sorry for him would have sufficed millenia ago, when he was just looking into the abyss and not becoming the Abyss itself.
Tbh if I was invulnerable to death I’d just wait for my opponents to tire themselves out too.
“Yep, killing blow, right there. Oh, nice one. Ah! That move… A frankensteiner, is it? Well, sir, you are a rather resourceful gentleman, are you not? I would… oh, wow, those are a lot of blockbuster-like punches, like, ten thousand? Say, should we stop and have a drink? I am really in the mood to share a last moment of human connection and merriment with fellow bastards before I vaporise all of you.”
Joke’s on them, he is just really kinky
🙁
That net is literally 1000s of simultaneous whips and Jaggy looking the happiest we seen. Look at that smile.
“Climax”
You’re trying to tell me that this whole time, he’s been Jagganoff?
Oh, my god. Jagganoth is overpowered af. This was the perfect page to read while zonked on an edible.
So that’s why Mottom’s lightning attack stunned him. Getting electrocuted must hurt.
“The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty, privation and want are the school of the good soldier.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
I don’t remember the wam silk sheets on the soft beds. They were drowned by fire, snow, and frozen blood and mud.
*laughs in russian winter*
*laughs in white death*
Au Vam really out here whipping dudes for two hours just to fuck with them.
There are people who pay good money for that kind of treatment.
Or so I’ve heard.
White Chain does a good job of hiding it, but I can tell – she’s just delaying, because she doesn’t know how to swim.
In fairness, living statues filled with fire aren’t renowned for such a skill.
“Each whip consisted of a stick with three knotted thongs hanging from the end. Two pieces of needle-sharp metal were run through the centre of the knots from both sides, forming a cross, the end of which extended beyond the knots for the length of a grain of wheat or less. Using these whips they beat and whipped their bare skin until their bodies were bruised and swollen and blood rained down, spattering the walls nearby. I have seen, when they whipped themselves, how sometimes those bits of metal penetrated the skin so deeply that it took more than two attempts to pull them out.”
– Heinrich von Herford (c. 1300-1370), Chronicon Henrici de Hervordia
Either the solution is to pry off all thirty nails from the Red God’s skin or remove his Key of Kings and shove him outside the Wheel so he may not return. Either solution will require oceans of blood to accomplish.
I fear Jagganoth resemblance is reminding her of an inmovable soulhaunted tree, and going for her powermove: spearheading Jaggs release and some demiurge losses, and the scorn of the Universe that needs her road to ascension. After all, al great changes came with blood and sacrifice. Then again, it doesn’t fit with Zoss Revelations final part. Ugh, love how this comic makes brood
They got him tied up right now. We should shortly find out what happens when the nails come out.
tossing the world eater to the depths of the world will only make him chew his way up from the bottom
So they’re really just gonna swim across the ocean huh
also, that’s his “i’m not flinching” face huh
I had the same thought. Grimacing like that doesn’t seem to be bearing it without flinching.
But yet, if all that changes is his expression to one of distaste to blows that would fell whole armies, that’s still a lot better than I.
Look again. That’s not a grimace.
Jagganoth is smiling.
That smile — I finally recognized him.
On a little backwater world called “Earth”, I encountered a distantly remembered visage of Jagganoth. They called him “Acala”, and worshipped him as a wrathful king.
The old images of Red Acala are not far off from the last panel here.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acala
Could also say Bhairava, Mahakala, or one of the other wrathful deities
I think Acala might be a better fit for Jagganoth, considering the wonky eye in some representations of Acala. Specifically the Japanese envisioning, also known as 不動明王 (Fudō Myōō, “Immovable Bright King”), possibly with some crossover in visual style with the oni for the dentition, and the specific stylization of the scowl.
One is also minded of Mara, the ‘demonic celestial king’, certainly associated with death, and who tried to stop Buddha being liberated from the cycle of rebirth.
Amusingly, mara gained a sense in Japanese, as slang for penis.
Still apropos, I suppose. 🙂
Personally I’m getting VERY strong Japanese oni impressions from that second to last panel, or the war masks samurai wore based on the same.
Ya, many of these armor masks were apparently based on Buddhist statuary. See also Google Image search for 阿吽 像 (you’ll have to copy-paste, I can’t add the URL) for the “A Un” pair of guardians at temple gates — the “A” for the beginning, the “Un” for the ending, Alpha and Omega.
I’m thinking of Balinese demons.
That’s what I was thinking, too! But there are similarities in how some gods, demons, supernatural lions, etc. are depicted across SE Asian, Indian subcontinent & nearby cultures. All pretty frightening.
Agreed! If anything, Solomon seems to be at least as good at not flinching. He got stabbed into the ground and withstood the blood-draining sword soul for quite some time, and immediately went back to punching when Jag got distracted. Plenty of grimacing but he doesn’t seem to have taken any actual damage, nor has he shown any hint of exhaustion.
Time to hurt his feelings.
A dead man has no feelings you can hurt.
I resent that.
Take a page out of another web series and bully God with pictures of his dead wife into committing suicide?
So he wants death for himself and everything because all he feels is pain. He views death as a release, hence he said not to mourn them. From a young age he was a dead man, but he’s never truly been dead.
Suicide is a false peace, and death a false release. At the moment of YISUN’s self-annihilation, there was no serenity–only everlasting War.
A haiku.
Tallow wombs decide,
One cauldron’s drought yields seared thoughts,
Discourse nets dry tears.
If he is invulnerable, who or what cracked his left eye?
Once upon a time, he was mortal.
More telling is that once he attained godhood, he chose not to mend his prior injuries.
That’s an interesting choice, as one who thrives on knowledge, information, and intellectual pursuit, i can’t possibly imagine becoming a “god” and not being able to see everything. Or, if not everything, as much as I could ever want.
The ability to see everything around me, to see every spectrum of light/EM, to be able to process it all at the speed of light, the ability to know and react to everything around me, even without the ability to take no harm, the ability to know all is surely more powerful.
So, if jagganoth is a god, either he does not care for omniscience, or he is already all-seeing. Odin keeps one eye blank because what’s the point of sacrificing something you can just grow back, but who knows what it means for jagganoth.
Perhaps Jantis, Storm-Crowned, he who rendered Yaun, dead.
It could have happened prior to nailing the 30 iron feathers into his skin.
One of the nails which renders him invulnerable could’ve been hammered into his left eye.
probably some martial arts that made him sacrifice an eye for one of those all seeing eyes he has
that’s pretty metal
EVAC / REDEPLOY
Nyave needs an Evac and an EMT,
Zaid needs to be clear of Ground Zero,
Cio needs a power level that’s out of reach.
Princess Jack is helping with the Evac .
Vigilant Gaze is transporting Nyave out of
The Combat Zone ( hopefully ! )
Can Allison and White Chain
even manage to Touch the Untouchable Jagganoth ?
Not as they are….
“We have to Do the Impossible.”
“Um, Okay – HOW ?”
“By doing the Improbable and…the Impractical.”
From somewhere beyond,
YISUN intones,
“DRAW A WILD CARD….NOW !”
time to open a betting booth
Taking any odds.
Mired in blood
Wade through the flood
‘pool talks. That’s good.
The Red God snarls and sneers. And in his agony, all shall fear.
I admit that the Knights Belligerent have always been a bit…uncouth for my tastes, but they certainly have chosen quite the god to worship.
The backup evac plan is to just walk into the ocean with a half dead person hanging on the probably-not-floating angel?
Waait. Read that , slowly : “he really invulnerable to harm” . Not simply invulnerable or invulnerable to everything , but specifically “to harm”.
Time to defeat him with Power of Frienship ! Or Love ! Or laughs and comedy ..oh .. Yes , Gog Agog gonna save the day !
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
You could still try restraining him for good. He may be invulnerable but making him unable to move should work.
Anybody have about a mountain´s worth of divine concrete?
The Demiurges’ plans seems to be along those lines: “You shall be cast down, and your power stifled by words of sealing”, “your body cast into the eternal void beneath throne”.