BREAKER OF INFINITIES 2-62 to 2-63
Chapter: 2
THE GLORY, THE TOWER, THE FLAME, THE BEAST, THE DIAMOND, THE BLADE, THE MIND
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
THE GLORY, THE TOWER, THE FLAME, THE BEAST, THE DIAMOND, THE BLADE, THE MIND
I am suddenly reminded that Jadis has not popped off yet.
Very interested to see what she can actually do
She cast the Spell of Binding.
I think Aspected Chaos, our Three Banger friend, did that. And you can still see the glimmer of it on Jagger, so it’s likely to turn out to be crucial momentarily
Nope. Witchlady riding Mammon asked Jadis to cast it, then she and everybody else wove it around blazing sword-boy.
Threesome hasn’t done anything yet, aside from lift the battle arena into orbit. (How are they keeping air up there? Ah, the poetic license of comic strips. They’re all godly-powered, of course, but you’d still need air for the sound-waves to yell at each other.)
Yes, Jadis cast the spell (i don’t think Jadis has much control over her strength she just whispers and things. she is basically being held together by that glass), Mammon intertwined and “condensed the energy, Solomon wove it around Jagger, Aspected Chaos looked like she charged the spell even to a higher level, then it seemed that incubus nailed and attached the binding. Quite the group effort.
Why would she pick up the ground and leave the air behind? Air is lighter than dirt, and more inclined to vertical movement to begin with. It would be no trouble at all to levitate a portion of the atmosphere.
The purpose of this sky-bound battle is to allow the demiurges their true power without fear of destroying everybody on the ground. Perhaps taking a large chunk out of an atmosphere would have severe consequences on nearby life and structures.
Ya’ll can literally go a few pages back and see what happened, guys, please. Mottom asked Jadis to give her a “six-hells trigram” (whatever that is), which Jadis did, then Mottom weaved it into the binding spell, gave it to Solomon who placed it around Jagganoth, who almost promptly started escaping from it, then Aspected Chaos touched one of the snapped strings of the binding and seemingly empowered it (see the rainbow colors that traveled along the string and seemingly managed to knock Jagganoth back a bit), allowing Incubus to finish the seal by stabbing the point where Aspected Chaos’ empowered string was touching him.
I didn’t interpret it that way, and I’m still not sure it fits the facts. For what it’s worth, this is what I thought I saw: the demis put together a rope looking thingy that Solomon lassoed Jagger with. After a few moments, Jagger stood up and gave the impression that he was about to shake it off. Then the three banger did something that seemed to be quite effective, as Jagger’s skin hardened like cooling lava. At that point Jagger tells Aspected Chaos that this is a strong binding which will last 60 seconds, etc. so it seemed like Jagger was referring to the Allichaino’s magic. Add to that the fact that the rope is long gone now, but Allichaino claims the binding is still active, as we can see from the panel above.
Don’t ask about what Incuboy did or his weird double-take reaction to it, because I have no idea.
it’s the way you were so annoyed at something so small you made it your username but then had no idea what incubus did for me…the comic can be confusing for people with so much action going on.
no need to act so hostile over something so small.
What if they are just louder than physics?
Glory to Glorzo is Glory to me!
Do you think about death?
No.
Death thinks about me, sometimes.
<channeling_Royalty/>I have a bad feeling, if Jadis’ powers are around divination & prediction. when she pops off she’s going to tell the gang some bad news.
Jadis signaling the battle’s end would be a neat parallel, as her arrival in Rayuba immediately preceded the fight’s beginning.
That, or what we’re seeing IS her prediction, and when the battle ends badly, we’ll pop back to before the fight so Jadis can tell them what they did wrong.
“We have 14600605 ways to lose.”
I see that she’s charging something up there at the bottom. She’ll get to it eventually!
Oh, well spotted!
The Jadis version of Cutting might be to cut the future into two threads. One where it’s just another cycle, and one where things actually get sorted. And thereby cut herself into sad, doomed Jadis and happy, restored Jadis, one version for each future. It’s time.
Also, how impressive is it that Abbadon drew so much happening on this page, and yet he got it to where everyone’s eye is immediately drawn to the tiny speck of Jadis poppin’ off in the corner? Bravo.
THE GLORY, THE TOWER, THE FLAME, THE BEAST, THE DIAMOND, THE BLADE, THE MIND.
forgot the FOOL Hahahaha
i think so too
Meanwhile, there’s Jadis…chilling on the ground and glowing it up.
Young Mottom…?
Yeah, last page she seemed to revert to her prime, probably because she’s just so in the groove now.
Nice – hell yeah I missed her cool retroversion!!!
An us din’t see em page afore, but thems is un young maiko’s geta clogs ont end o they stockins. Dresst ta kill obvs.
Aye, aye. They do be that, me good Ebon. Twer moity strong’un, that.
Still in MILF form, not a twenty something yet.
I don’t think she ever needed the tree and its youth conferring fruit at all, guys. Just used for the sake of cruel spectacle.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Turns out all she needed to attain true immortality was a hand from Allison.
Immortality? No, I think she’s decided she wants to go out with a bang and then leave a good looking corpse.
She is out with her old gang, having a bang. So is it a gang bang?
If by “cruel spectacle” you mean “guilty conscience” you’re probably right.
It has been said the fear of Death begets Mottoms age.
But how could a King fear Death while in battle, where Death is kept closest to the heart. Here, Death is her only confidant. A great supplicant and generous lover.
I don’t think the tree was kept for cruelty’s sake.
I think Mottom honestly believed she needed the peaches to keep young.
Trapped by her own mind. Much as we’ve seen these past few pages, where Incubus found himself without a sword — trapped by his own belief that he needs one.
Mammon believes that he is old and declining.
Solomon believes that he must be honorable and ordered. (Perhaps something else too?)
Jagganoth believes that he must end everything.
Jadis believes that she has seen everything already.
Gog Agog believes that everything must be fun and that no one appreciates her.
What does Alison believe? What is her prison?
And will we see all eight break free from their own minds?
AWESOME
Nay, Solomon believes he bears responsibility for the rest. He believes he must bear the weight of all creation, and control all that exists. Likely he is terrified that everything he has done was needless, and that he is in truth insignificant.
Allison *dis*-believes in her abilities and in her right to use them. She has (had?) the multiverse’s worst case of imposter syndrome. That is her prison.
So in disbelieving in her own power and using it anyway, does she not lie to herself, and thereby the universe? Is not self-deception the greatest and least of all lies? The truest lie is the one you tell yourself. By being unsure of her worth to wear the crown, does that not make her worthy?
The greatest power in the universe may very well be doubt…
Doubt, or belief, two sides of the same coin.
Consider Alexander the Great. So convinced was he that he was of godly blood and descended from Achilles, and so convincing of others to follow him, that he was able to carve out a sizable empire within one lifetime of undefeated campaigning.
Beware the zealot — certainty such as that is dangerous.
I’ve had a theory for a while now that because the seven use their keys to force their will on reality this also applies to their beliefs; subconscious or otherwise.
Mottom truly believed she was not immortal without the fruit and her key made it true.
We’ve seen that the fruit truly does reverse the ageing process with Alison, so Mottom’s simple assumption combined with the power of a Key of Kings made her the architect of her own prison.
Comments about the power of doubt vs. the power of belief here are fantastic. What is the sum of Alison’s, Cio’s and White Chain’s doubt? Cio and WC have enormous self-belief. Cio believed her way into a ranking as top devil. WC self-believed herself into a new physical form. Those must outweigh Alison’s imposter syndrome and thus Aspected Chaos should have access to an unrestrained Key of Kings, no?
Yes, that follows. Aspected Chaos should be free of internal, mental restraints.
Which means that she can do pretty much anything, if she so chooses. Which means that she’s actually going to have to choose.
To me, this means that Allison is going to have to make the big choices (Cio’s ideas and White Chain’s ideas will tend to cancel out) and that’s a new thing for her; she’s been dodging choices all her life. Further, she gets to _craft_ the choices herself, not pick from the ideas of others. This is massive.
Not only must she choose, but finally she really can choose.
All of her life so far, she has been in the wake of others, left with (at best) small choices, like how specifically to make the latte that the customer ordered, or how specifically to defend against Eris Lo-Kai’s attacks. She has been under the surface, away for the frothing edge of events, left to respond to the choices of others.
Now, she is nearing the crest of the wave, the edge of the blade — and, soon, at long last, she can finally choose.
Will she?
She’s too angry to be old.
Local Woman Too Angry To Be Old
Oldness Doctors Hate Her for this one secret trick!
Age is a state of mind, and she’s just not feelin it right now
S I C K
Jadis is sparking. We’ll get her name before this kalpa ends.
“Phenomenal Cosmic Power! Itty Bitty in comparison with Jagganoth”
Excellent reference.
The power per cubic inch of our good Jagganoth may actually be quite low comparatively. He is as a giant club while they are pinpricks (and Gog is the ocean).
Consider that, regardless of perspective, his arms extend outwards for eternity. So he’s got infinite volume, but finite (although overwhelming) power. Therefore his power per cubic inch must asymptotically approach 0 with some variance based on perspective.
GOGCHAMP
Gogchonp
c’mere (envelops you within screaming mass of worms massing the population of one-seventh of the seven-part world)
Gog uses headbutt
Gog uses bite! It’s super effective!(?)
She misunderstood the “death from a thousand paper cuts” story.
Maybe Incubus loosens that grip on Ruin
CLASH! AT! DEMONHEAD!
“HE PUNCHED THE HIGHLIGHTS OUT OF HER HAIR!”
-if Jaggy punches Mottom back into an old crone
It seems possible, especially after seeing Solly punch a cooch into White Chain
Holy shit lmfao
Technically white chain punched Solly so hard she spontaneously became a real boy, I mean, girl.
You ever had those moments you punch someone so hard and you incarnate yourself?
My mother reports quite a bit of kicking in the womb. Does that count?
What are you still doing in there? And can you all stop it with your soccer game for a moment.
Glory, Tower, Flame, Beast, Diamond, Blade, Mind.
Fool.
The Admirer is Observant.
Dear Preem Zoss,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice countless kalpas in time-looped detention for our immeasurable wrongs. But we think you’ve lost your head, to make us write an essay telling you which syllable of Royalty we think we are.
You see us from across the length of the blade of Want — in the simplest division you make of infinity, plum and pit in one stroke; but we found out that each one of us is a Glory, and a Tower, and a Flame, a Beast, a Diamond, a Blade, a Mind… and a Fool.
Does that cut your wheel?
VM ITTR A VSK PRET,
The Successor Club
HOLY SHITBATS
The holy fecal bats of Sha’arvuuten are indeed quite the sight to behold. Seventy metre wingspans and mouths at both ends absolutely inspire awe.
I love this community
On a separate note, I really want a poster of this
Seconding
THIRDED!
Fourthd
fifthed
sixthed
Seven-syllabled-name-of-God-thd
More than all the digits on one hand!
Just put me down for however many fingers Jag is currently sporting
I’ll take anathematic’s number + 1
I can count to 20 with my pants on
Lord Jaggy do be lookin mighty non-plussed at te farces arraigned agin’tim
“Lord Jaggy” faw. That bloated red fool is simply overconfident.
I’m not sure the multitude of snarling demon skull faces he has as a head now is capable of expressing any emotions beyond all-consuming rage
Aye, ye do be truthish. Trick’s all en te particulate style of glow en ‘is eye. More glowishness do be meanin sump’m
At last, our boy Jaggsy is having some fun. Proper fun
An e’s roight peeved methinks. Hyukhyukhyuk..aye, me do be thinking theez wannatobe godlings be in for un soreish type nighty night, wot wiv all ‘is unlikability an oll.
Is that the Eye of Thundera on Mick’s sword?
I think this is a *particularly* exquisite moment to compare the current page to the first one, and think, “How the fuck did we get from there to here?”
It started out with a kiss how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss! Now I’m felling this geek, Now she’s slaying a Jag! Just look at this bloke, NOW SHES SLAYING A JAG!!
And that kids, is why you should never play around with sex. The risk of STIs, STDs, and sudden convergence of the demagogue titanic devas and world eating authors of destiny are just some of the risks you face. Remember: prevention is better than a cure. And if that fails, just restart the universe until you get it right.
Unironically still better than American sex ed.
I think anything would be…
Just say no to godhead.
Is this the first we’ve heard of Jadis bearing The Word Mind? I can’t remember it coming up anywhere before
It was recorded in the wiki so it must have been mentioned somewhere.
Bearers of the other six words have already been revealed, so it’s deduction.
Where is the ten thousand cubit spear?
I think our heroines may be charging one now, judging from their pose.
Well this is all very pretty. Those demiurges are not impressing much, they haven’t even made a scratch. Jag seems to be enjoying being Huge too much to actually hit anyone. Are they all going to keep doing cool action poses for the rest of time? Will anything interesting ever happen again?
That was not meant to be a reply. This comment system is. Imperfect.
The 8th demiurge at the battle of bleeding stars remains unidentified, but all witnesses agree their was an 8th shining bright and prismatic in the sky. Even the loyal subjects of Solomon David couldn’t help but have their eyes drawn to it, they spoke of the feeling of hope it gave them.
Of course this was interrupted by the field being apparently consumed by a mass of flesh we can only assume was was queen of worms. Reminding all onlookers of the base reality of electrified empowered meat the princes of the seven part world actually are.
As YISEN says, “thems the breaks”
The fact that anyone ever refers to this battle, at the supposed end of time, in the past tense, is something of a spoiler, methinks.
The red god thinks his plan is foolproof, but the Fool will shew him his folly.
Jagganoth had a foolproof plan.
Allison et al brought a better fool.
Every line of attack is focused on the binding.
When one knows where every attack is focused, defending and counter-attacking becomes much easier.
And then there’s Incubus, doing his best to disarm Jaggy, one infinite line of hands at a time.
Umm when did rotting white incubus dude get a new sword?
he has none after the seal spell, so some wanna tell the artist he messed up on drawing him attacking with a sword when clearly defined 2 or 3 pages back that he needs a sword repeatable saying this out loud..
Last page, he took it from Dragon’s stomach.
Someone’s not paying attention, but to be fair there was a lot going on
How the hells did i miss that.. Guh, oh wait giant planetoid worm of gog of angry green faces, thats my story and i’m sticking to it
Is inky trying to steal Jag’s sword? Properly ambitious of him I suppose.
so good
**SIX BILLIONTHED**
This is the first time I’ve noticed that Jagganoth’s swords have eyes on them
And the surrounding Gog-Agog is closing in like a huge hand with fingers made of faces that have teeth.
ant the Eye in the Sword is staring at AliCioChainson…
Allichaincio?
It’s the Eye of Thundera.
Freakin’ epic.
Truly tubular
DUDE. So much. I am beyond words right now.