BREAKER OF INFINITIES 2-78 to 2-81 – BLOOD SATED SWORD SOUL
Chapter: 2
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Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
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well then
Re: Definition of good…
Not this.
well shit
darn
The king of all creation fell out of heaven,
usurped by a seven headed beast.
But the old King shall choose a new,
and He will ignite the Third Conquest.
He will be flanked by a white and a black flame,
his coming will be followed by 108 burning stars.
He will bear the terrible heat of the voice in his brow,
the mark of His Lordliness.
He will face the beast,
and He will annihilate it!
He will wield the terrible blade of want,
and the pillars of Heaven will quake from his coming.
And his name…
…his name will be…
K-
K-
KI-
KILL…
K I L L
S I X
B I L L I O N
D E M O N S !
Indeed. Good comic. Ending wasn’t what I expected, but the comic was a solid A. Time to go looking for something else to read.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
It’s not over ’till the fish jumps.
It isn’t over until the fat worm sings!
I hope you’re being silly! We have a long ways more to go.
PLENTY more limbs to go, after all! Why, both feet are STILL INTACT!
I see one foot.
How far back do you think the moment of the start of this vision is?
I just put it here, above this comment of yours.
KSBD 4-78
See? She’s fine.
Pain! It helps you know you’re alive.
The Key of Kings, meanwhile, facilitates the continuation of that state.
PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY!
ERGO, MORE PAIN = MORE WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY!
That “weakness” gushing out of her sure looks a lot like blood…
Look. Ad Mech have no or less blood and they are stronger than humans.
Likes the pain is correct
Remove sufficient weakness from a body and you end up with no body. A fact with interesting implications about weakness and bodies.
Pain is Pain entering the body.
One is immediately concerned for one’s two favourite hot flames, Cio and White Chain.
but what was the cost?
White Chain is a Cold Flame.
Ah indeed so, one had extremes of flame in one’s mind, but hot seems to have been written. One’s forbidden fondness and preference for the little Devil is exposed through an unthinking Freudian.
In the current cosmology of this particular wheel, all Flames are ‘extremes’. They’re either Hot or Cold, White or Black. Angels are Cold White Flame! I am curious as to the status of Cio and White Chain.
fine is a relative, subjective term at all times!
oh. FUCK.
Gotta hand it to Jag, he’s got his eye on the ball.
My main main the Jaggernator is good at things.
I on the other hand am not good at things if those things involve avoiding typos.
Gotta’ hand it to Allison actually.
Don’t wear it out.
I scrolled down just for this.
I was so wrong
fuck,
Ouch
for seeable, but damn.
Winnable!
Well that seems. Quite bad-like.
Oh… oh dear.
the prophecy is fulfilled
Allison is now Vriska
thats it ur goin in the pit
*nodding* vriska
Technically, she’s not, mutilated side is wrong. Buuuuuuuut yeah, close enough.
Just flip the sprite!
dude… you got to FLIP it. TURN-WAYS
…. what pumpkin?
What do you see when you look in the mirror
FUCK
She still has to meet the criterion of being extremely morally divisive within the fandom (“Alison did nothing wrong!” etc.), but I think this next post-battle arc could get there…
i know as little as possible about homestuck to take this as gospel truth at face value
Supreme Divine Art
Falling Star Graceless Exit
Pretty sure I see some spaces between swords there!
Yeah Jaggy’s been slacking.
I think the âall space is filled with swordâ is at the point of the Strike, and the damage to the planet is just collateral from the swings
I hope you saved the receipt on the 80,000-Cut Slicer. Looks like 5000, at BEST…
Amateur Hour over here…
Jag: “Why is she not instantly slain? I specifically requested it.”
Also on a more serious note, the most metal image yet
She is neither man, inmortal, not horse.
Nor good red herring.
The way to wisdom is often paved by sacrifice. It is merely a casual truth that some entities are more prone to sacrifice than others.
I bet that’s gonna leave a scar
Like….wow.
You hate to lose something important…where are my keys?
that shit hurted
Ah, the pain-
The song, it sings so-pristine.
The sword-tip is the throat,
And blood daubs the lips,
And life sates its tongue.
Well I mean I’m not a doctor but, uh, that cant be good.
And so it was, that the house that Zoss built was laid low.
Maya: “Would it be asking too much if Incubus died in that?”
She likely prefers it were done herself.
One was also wondering whether Auntie Maya might be impressed with all the cutting of the Blood-Sated Sword Soul, but one rather feels that she would not be; no finesse.
“I fear not the man who has practiced 80,000 cuts once, but I fear the man who has practiced one cut 80,000 times.”
– Maya, maybe
She should wear an eye-patch. Eye-patches are cool. Like Fezes, and bow-ties.
She’s going to retire to a small town in the pacific northwest, open a curio shop, and become Great-Aunt Allison.
Was thinking Dr. Who, but the tie problem boiled the whole thing town to Stan in Gravity Falls. No cool there at all.
Yeah, but Stan is inherently uncool by virtue of being a fat old con-man wearing a patch as a gimmick. Allison is a young female badass with a need to cover a jack-o-lantern pit in her face, so she makes it inherently cool.
And now it’s happened and we don’t have to be constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. What a relief.
Ah, but Allison is still alive and still has the key in her head. Abaddon has quite a few shoes, still.
Now I have an image of Jagganoth having an infinite corridor of legs with cool shoes that always seem to recede into the distance behind him from the viewer’s vantage point.
Drippanoth.
Bling Sated Drip Soul.
The other shoe may not drop anymore, but ALISON sure will
‘Tis but a flesh wound.
Death is nothing to a King
Oh nooooo what the fuuuuuck
Fuuuuuuckkkkkk!!!!
…………ouch.
If I am not mistaken, she chose to strike instead of a futile attempt at evasion.
And so, did her blow land?
(Since War for Rayuba is a thing instead of Jaggie just outright winning, I’m going to guess yes. But it may be a long, long time – a time skip even – before she can face Metatron.)
The arm she lost was the one that was holding the spear so maybe it did? Could also be that her fusion was the only thing that kept her alive.
I always have respect for a creator that can humble their main character. THIS is how you subvert expectations while maintaining an engaging, powerful narrative. The protagonist tried everything, and still failed. The demiurges could not overcome their fractious natures and doomed themselves.
Will Allison die and leave the cycle to turn again? Will she rise as the true heir and overcome? Or will she fall to her base nature, kill six billion demons, and dare the whole 7-part world not to “wear it out?”
We don’t know. And our ignorance is sublime and Royal.
Eh. She has the Key of Kings. She might be laid up for a week or two, but she’ll be fiiiine.
Well, guess the arm looks a little more *ripped* off than *sliced* off, so … good sign?
You’ll notice the hair on that side of her head is noticeably shorter, and in a rather clean fashion.
When a cut is the width of a mountain, is there really much of a difference between being ripped in two or sliced in two?
I find it both remarkable and baffling that people are *still* thinking Allison is gonna pull a win outta this one. This is Allison, the closest she’s allowed to get to winning is “barely escaped alive”.
To be fair, for once everything going to shit wasn’t actually Allison’s fault. She’d done pretty much everything right only for Mottom and Gog to fuck everything up out of mutual spite.
And if Jag outright wins, then that’s the end of the story.
Still, the universe of K6BD is maliciously unfair, and so I expect the only two demiurges who are going to be in good shape after this are going to be Mottom (somehow) and Gog (obviously).
Sure, Allison has been really flawed as a protagonist throughout the story, but a flawed hero is better than a perfect hero. Perfect heroes are boring and stupid, eg. Superman. Allison has grown throughout the comic. There are still all kinds of ways she could pull off a win. She could also die in the attempt and still win.
Abaddon has shown that he writes a great story, is not generally predictable, and stays consistent with characters and in-universe rules. I don’t think the ending will disappoint. Anything can happen, but it won’t be stupid.
i would say emerging from Ultra Mega Hyper Destructo Attack of 80,000 Cuts sans an arm and eye could be counted as a relative win, given the current state of things.
Uh. Where are White Chain and Cio?
I’m going to be sad if Cio is gone.
She just wanted to stay home and water her plants.
Ironically she mightâve already been obliterated (along with everything else) if she hadnât helped delay Jaggy.
Unless the results of the tournament itself were what caused Jaggo to go HAM at that moment instead of waiting.
Since Allison was cut from Aspected Chaos more or less complete (lost her arm while falling), we have to hope that there’s a devil-sized piece and an angel-sized piece falling nearby. And that they can survive a 100-mile fall into water.
Alternately, we sort-of know that White chain survives to fight on Rayuba, because of the OCT. We know nothing of Cio’s future history, except that she’s implied to write Allison’s story, finally, and then get Cassandra’d by future historians. So maybe she needs to survive to write it. Please!!!!!!
One was wondering whether she suffered two cuts: the severing of her arm on the way down seems a tad unlucky, but the (somewhat glancing) blow that lost her eye (instead of her life), and hair, half an ear, and possibly some skull and grey matter, would have been the one to dissociate the Fool – possibly as they dodged whilst launching the spear. We may expect to see one-eyed Cio and White Chain too, unless maybe as devil and angel they can regenerate.
Water rather than land at least, but it’s still going to feel rather hard.
From the first panel in which we see the hands they are pink, whereas AC’s hands were grey. The fusion has been broken before that panel.
FALL, MAGGOTS OF THE DIVINE CORPSE
It would appear that the maggots, in their wisdom, fled prior to this moment, and in doing so avoided this very fate.
There is still a reckoning to come though, which shall make a harrumphy little harlequin, from a jolly jester.
(Erroneously posted as a reply above)
I always have respect for a creator that can humble their main character. THIS is how you subvert expectations while maintaining an engaging, powerful narrative. The protagonist tried everything, and still failed. The demiurges could not overcome their fractious natures and doomed themselves.
Will Allison die and leave the cycle to turn again? Will she rise as the true heir and overcome? Or will she fall to her base nature, kill six billion demons, and dare the whole 7-part world not to âwear it out?â
We donât know. And our ignorance is sublime and Royal.
I don’t think this is one of those “You should see the other guy” type of situations.
Uhh… unfortunately I think Mammon might be a slightly bigger target.
But did the big-ass multi-cubit spear land on J-dog?
well, i guess we cant be SURE summoning 80,000 arms is a painless process, but he didn’t exactly have to LOSE any, or eyes, or anything else…
And when the planet itself falls apart like a 3D jigsaw-sphere, where will they land?
This one is positive that planets are held together by the gravitational interaction of their constituent parts. Said interaction being what causes planets in the first place.
This one is convinced that making a planet fall apart is not an easy-such task as is implied in your statement.
If the cuts go through the entire planet, I think the centrifugal force of the planetâs rotation, coupled with a planetâs inner pressure would cause it to fall apart rather dramatically. If it doesnât, then probably just lots of magma flowing from the mantle. But if the planet were to stop being one piece, the movement of the separate bodies arenât traveling together in the same spinning direction and would drift apart.
Speaking as someone with a master’s degree in physics (though admittedly not a professional scientist)… no; 27 Missing Rosary Beads Cause Enlightenment is quite right. If you slice the planet in pieces, their mutual gravitational attraction will be more than enough to hold those pieces togetherâlikely enough to fuse them back into one piece, in fact. Planets are round and in one piece precisely because anything with that much mass (whether it’s initially in one piece or not) will inevitably collapse into itself into a sphere; splitting a planet into pieces will certainly not cause it to fly apart. The “centrifugal force” wouldn’t be nearly enough to overcome the gravitational attractionâif it were, stars and planets would never form in the first place (the protoplanetary disks are already rotating at the time they collapse from dust into planets and stars). As for the “inner pressure”, the whole reason the pressure inside a planet is so high is because of all the gravitational force pulling the planet’s mass toward the center, so it doesn’t make sense to say that pressure will make the planet fall apart!
(Well, the interior pressure sort of can blow celestial bodies apart, if it becomes big enough to push the atoms together so forcefully as to cause runaway nuclear fusionâthat’s how supernovas happenâbut that’s a separate matter, and has nothing to do with cutting them into pieces.)
All that being said… I’m not sure why we’re talking about planets in the first place. Are we sure that Rayuba is really a planet, in the same sense as the Earth and Mars? Are we sure it’s subject to the same physical laws?
This one humbly agrees that speaking about physics-laws and about planets in context of a possibly magical plane, in a decidedly magical universe was out of place.
At the same time, this one expresses gratitude at your taking the time to explain so eloquently what I was thinking about.
hm that’s not ideal
Just rub some dirt in that and you’ll be fine.
‘Walk it off, kid. And stop crying.’
she need some milk
Damn I thought we were floating over Rayuba, not 218 Market St, Philadelphia, PA
Jagganoth’s a pretty nice guy, they say. I hear he’s got a manner that’ll put you at ease. One might even go so far as to say that he’s got a disarming personality.
Honestly, if there is No Space Left That Is Not A Sword and you only lose an arm? You got pretty lucky. Relatively speaking.
One gets the impression that we may just have lost a great deal of the supporting cast.
this is the point in the DnD campaign where you start making sure you have that secondary character ready to go…
Come on people, we knew this was coming.
Oh. Well that doesn’t seem all that bad.
amateur hour, you just gotta simultaneously block 80,000 times
parry infinite blows, gain infinite skill, become immortal until a bridge smashes you into nothingness
See, that’s the trick. Jagganoth was bulking up not to become stronger, but to surpass the size limit for bridges.
Their first strat of exploiting his lack of [WEBIMMUNE] could’ve worked, but half the demiurges do blunt damage and that’s generally ineffective against big creatures.
Shoulda used minecarts.
Nah, you just gotta block the one blow that’s coming your way (or the 10 or 100, whatever, I’d say 40,000 at worst), but at leats half were aimed elsewhere.
couldnt even summon 80 thousand simultaneous large rocks to beat his 80 thousand large scissors
The BLADE is swung, Ruin spread wide once more. The price of hubris and discord has ever been blood, paid a trillion times over as the cycles repeat. Yet the knife has only ever craved the life of the one who bids it kill.
Our host has scattered, but our hero remains.
I USED TO RULE THE WORLD
The end. No moral!
And so, she finally loses that eye.
âHead of John ainât shit.â
-Jagganoth
OMZ i hope Incubus survives as only a head, and someone will put him on their belt, like mimir in god of war
Doesn’t look more painful than the vines situation, to be honest.
The funny thing about traumatic injury is, it doesn’t hurt at the time. The pain threshold is exceeded by such a large margin that the brain refuses to let the mind feel any pain at all.
It’ll hurt later, once Allison comes down from her adrenaline high. But right now, it’s entirely painless.
truly, the shock won’t fade for some time, ‘specially after she hits that them WATER, I’m sure…
So this is what they mean by: “Death by a thousand cuts!”
Something tells me this chapter’s just getting started. There’s a lot more right arm missing in this scene than on the first page, but Allison’s definitely ready for the new look.
Just you wait until Book 5 Chapter 5 Act 5 Intermission 5 Act 5 Page 5
Welp, now we know how Allison loses her arm and eye.
Hm, how boring to succumb to her fate thus.
HE TOOK HER NIPPLES TOO
ABSOLUTE PRECISE CUTS
A NEW UNIVERSE WITHOUT AREOLAS
That quickly went from playing the main theme song too Jagganoth’s theme real fast.
On a side note: where did everyone else go? I sure don’t see any dragon shaped falling objects. Then again, I also don’t see any fully Allison shaped falling objects either.
That’s a good point. What IS the main theme song of this?
In reply to the side note:
Well, if they were in the wrong place, none of the others would have really-defined shapes, would they?
So, the power of friendship was not enough to overcome raw might and hatred. To be honest, I was sorta hoping for this outcome
The panel composition kinda looks strange, from start we see that Allison lost her eye by the side blindness, but then she makes strange gesture with her right hand and it looks like it is thorn away by some force or she torn it away herself and thrown it at Jag as some last desperate moment, cause that doesn’t look like a cut from Jag sword at all in such composition. Also if this is Allisson fate while she was basically the strongest with angelic and devil skins on combo I wonder what fate awaits other demiurges there, if the first page of chapter is a proper spoiler for the future they are all alright including Jag only missing WT and Cio sadly.
Imagine you just unleashed your strongest attack that decimates the entire realm and one of your mortal opponents BEANS YOU with their MORTAL NOODLE ARM
*Grows 79 998 extra arms*
*Cuts one of yours*
Jagganoth is such a jerk.
“all will be cut”
Does this inclued a certain block of indestructible glass?
SHE IS FREE FROM HER PRISON!
One moment of discord, one instant of flaring up emotions is all it took to turn hope for the impossible into a disaster.
If only the demiurges could get their shit together without acting like immortal children.
Men and horses will be split merely in _two_? When there is no place that is not a sword? They should be cut down to elementary particles, or separate cells at least.
However, that is incredibly badass. Allison has finally come through her own Eclipse (OH SHITE WE THAT’S WHY WE HAD GOG AGOG MIURA TRIBUTE SEVERAL PAGES AGO) and is about to go completely BERSERK, apparently.
Also, it is the first time I remember the author puts such a warning of spoilers. Since he didn’t bother with that for all the previous revelations of the fifth book…
…
…well NOW I’m pretty much scared.
A magnificent feeling.
The art of hyperbole is being employed, I do believe. To the onlooking, innocent bystander, it would look like everything was being cut at once.
Itâs the same as when someone who survives a house fire reports âIt was crazy, there was fire EVERYWHEREâ. Obviously, the fire wasnât everywhere, burning every atom instantaneously. But it seemed that way to the biased, excited eyes of the beholder.
If I am neither horse nor male, will I be spared?
This is what being non-binary is truly about, baybeeeee
0/10 sexist swords only cut men and horses.
…
That kinda sounds like an angel name.
Allison only survived because she was combined into Aspected Chaos. Jagganoth cut that being apart.
There is no defeat.
You’re either dead, or winning.
Would it be rude to point out that he missed a spot?
“You’re right, let me just apply another 80,000 cuts to rectify that real quick”
Well overall today’s been a bit of a bummer, hasn’t it?
80,000 blows at once. Fairly big blows, at that. One may wonder how many demons a single blow could kill.
The art of hyperbole is being employed, I do believe. To the onlooking, innocent bystander, it would look like everything was being cut at once.
It’s the same as when someone who survives a house fire reports “It was crazy, there was fire EVERYWHERE”. Obviously, the fire wasn’t everywhere, burning every atom instantaneously. But it seemed that way to the biased, excited eyes of the beholder.
Nevertheless, permit me to reply. A sword is not atomic, it is composed of other parts. Clearly, a sword cannot hit the parts it is composed of. Even if we ignore that most swords require a swing, if there is no space that is not a sword, there is nothing left to be cut. (We can disregard the option of multiple swords hitting each-other. Jagganoth wields multiple blades, yet he IS a sword. All his components are a single blade as well, striking at the entire world. Furthermore, the victims would notice if they become part of Jagganoth’s sword, and this would lead to a very different description, wordplay or not) Observing the devastation produced by this technique, the latter is clearly false. Hence, by reductio ad absurdum, there must be spaces that are not sword and destroyed by the swords.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there is no space that will not be swinged at with swords, within a very short moment of time. Furthermore, the swords are likely moved such that they cannot be avoided by those who traverse space-time by ordinary means. Maybe that is the only weakness of this technique.
Crap, I keep replying to the wrong comments. Please disregard!
Itâs so many swords, look, thereâs so many of them. Wowee zippy wow, thatâs a ding-dang lot of swords. TOO many, I think, I think that a smaller number of swords than the swords that there are would be fine. Itâs ok to have fewer swords than this I think, a smaller amount of swords is easier to count and you can look at them all with less difficulty. Geez thatâs a lot of them, the swords
I think Cio and Chain may have a chance. They were part of a composite being when the blades hit. The descriptive text says that all were slain. Aspected Chaos was the one that was slain, but it constituent entities may yet breath, despite being horribly maimed.
The demiurges, however, have probably been cut asunder.
I think that we will see another turning of the wheel, but Zoss will allow Allison to retain her memories. The cost of retaining them will be that she has to wear the scars of the last cycle as a reminder of her shortcomings. This will lead her to either: A)Become the final, wheelbreaking heir or; B) Fall to evil and become even worse than Jagganoth.
So, after all the training, pain, friendship, love, betrayal, redeeming, cleancing, unation with comrades into mighty being andrainbow glowing around your words you think you are tough enough to face the Cycle Ender? Let’s see. Dices says, you are tough, so you are alive, but not enough, so you are barely alive.
“Instantly” he said.
“False advertising” I said.
Thatâs far too many swords. Thatâs too many swords! Too many of them, swords that is. I think thatâs enough, thatâs enough swords for one day. You gotta calm down with the swords because thatâs so many of them, swords. Wow, look at them all! Itâs so many! Itâs so many swords, TOO many in fact. Jeezly crow, thatâs a lotta swords.
It takes a lot to break a realm. Especially when it cuts through gods! Too many swords!! Too many swords!…
As is to be expected of the bearer of name ‘Blade’, his cuts are terrible to behold. But what of the other master of the art of cutting? For she bears an even greater name:’ Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones’.
The end! I hope you’ve enjoyed Kill Six Billion Demons! Goodbye to everyone forever!
Allison should make sure she saves that arm, and preserves it, even in the likely event that it can’t be reattached (since visions of a future Allison show her to be missing it). Then, if it turns out that Mottom or Gog survived this particular cluster she should smack them with it. Hard.
Man she’s really gotten ugly.
Canât see what you mean. Even amid such a catastrophic failure, to me our fallen heroine shines like a star.
Russel’s right ’bout who is left
but there’s a certain charm to heft
that leaves the empty hand bereft
Still trying to figure out who or what this Russel is. A Jack Russell terrier, rustle as in to rustle something up, the philosopher Betrand Russell ( although what number theory has to do with this I have no idea). A quick Google search reveals a clothing company with the tagline “Russell Europe- Discover the world of Russell”.
Please tell me why? Now excuse me I have to scroll the Wikipedia article of the name Russell spelled, Russell, Russel or Rossell.
I meant Bertrand Russell, sorry for the misspelling.
(this is axiomatic)
Every end is a new beginning, but some hurt more than others…
Holy hells….
Aye, my dear lady
Like Odin ‘neath the tree
Thou hast lost an eye
And yet your knowledge has grown
#impromtupoetry
Looking forward to seeing how her roomates react once she returns to earth
“nowhere to evade…”
Well not with THAT attitude.
If anything, the ‘eye’ of the storm might’ve actually spared her from losing any other eyes or extremities… maybe… rest of the realm certainly aint looking too good…
sorry but holy shit!
She’s just a little armless. She’s still good. She’s still good.
The two parts of writing a story.
“I love my oc”
“They must SUFFER”
TEAMKILL
The End of the Deficiency.âš
( An Excerpt from Manichaean Scriptures )
This whole World stands firm for a Season,
since there is aâš great Building being erected outside of the World,âš
At the Hour when its Architect shall complete it,âš
the entire World shall be dissolved.
âšIt shall be set afire, that fire may melt it away.âš
All Life, the Remnants of Light in every Place
âšhe shall gather to himself and form of it a Statue.âš
Even the Resolution of Death also, the whole of the Darkness,âš
he shall gather in and make an image of itselfâš
along with the Archon.âš
In a moment the Living Spirit shall come.âš
It will succor the Light,âš
but the Resolution of Death and the Darkness
âšit shall lock away in the chamber that was built for itâš
that it may lie in chains in it forever.âš
There is no other means save this means to bind the Enemy,
for he shall not be received into the Light
âšbecause he is a stranger to it, but he shall also not be leftâš
in his Land of Darkness,âš
lest he may wage a greater war than the first.âš
A new Aeon shall be built in place of this World,âš
which shall be dissolved,âš
so that in the Powers of Light may reignâš
since they have performed and fulfilled the whole of the Fathers will.âš
They have overthrown the hateful one,
they have defeated him forever.
The End of the Deficiency.âš
A Manichean Eschatological hymn.âš
( Edited by Oneirimancer )
Thank Gog!
Thanks, Obamagog
So… that’s the end of the Demiurges, except for Gog-Agog? Seems at least Solomon-David should make it through, since he’s supposed to be invulnerable… and we STILL haven’t seen him use a ten-finger attack! Also, does this mean we’ll never see Incubus and Maya meet? Me no like.
Still, this would seem the perfect moment for Zoss to appear and give Alison some much needed advice.
(And honestly, Jagganoth p*sses me off no end. I just hate ridiculously overpowered characters that are completely unbeatable.)
Surprise plot-twist: ALL of the demiurges survive!
…however due to various injuries and/or time needed for recuperation, their kingdoms may not.
I’m curious, what is it about unbeatable characters that you dislike?
Maybe not just unbeatable charactes per sĂ©… but Jagganoth rubs me the wrong way. He’s portrayed as SO much more powerful than the other demiurges, that there’s simply no comparison. So far all the other demiurges plus Alliciochain haven’t even given him a little trouble. The best they could do was paralyze him for a minute or so, and they didn’t even use that to try and banish him like Salami Dave said they would. So far, the battle’s been entirely one-sided. If Jagganoth’s that overpowered, why was there ever a Pact to begin with?
When the pact was made, Jag was much less powerful and the others were more powerful (except Gog, she’s probably grown stronger too). He’s been amassing strength and making dodgy deals with Metatron while the others stagnated and decayed.
I sort-of understand what you’re getting at, I think. There’s a good way to present a really powerful, almost-unbeatable opponent, so that when your protagonist comes into conflict with them there’s a palpable sense of danger and effort to overcome this obstacle. And on the other hand, there’s about 1,000 ways to BADLY present such an opponent.
Of course, everyone is going to have their own belief or preference about what dividing line is. IMO, it’s about complexity.
Flash Thompson bullying Peter Parker is boring. There’s no reason for him to be a jerk other than for the main character to show off. Either by proving he’s better physically (with super-powers), or morally (by not responding to the antagonization).
But the demiurges have, to a one, proven to be more complex than they first appeared. Mottom could have offed Allison in an instant; instead she admitted fear of the result, and showed a bit of weakness. Mammon was made out to be this greedy, ruthless, mercenary type, but when we meet him he comes across as kind of pathetic, almost sorrowful. Incubus is an explotative, hedonistic tyrant, until we learn he’s got a MASSIVE inferiority complex, a frankly tragic backstory (this one could apply to almost any demiurge in fact), and his schemes never quite work out likehe thinks they will. Salamni-Dave is a tyrant, until we see he’s willing to resort to brute manual labor so his underlings can just get a day off, and is enraged by the deaths of his people. etc etc etc
I don’t even know where to begin Jaggonoth- he’s so many issues rolled into one that it would take an entire college of psychologists to sort out THAT hot-mess.
And then on top of all that, we’re slowly picking up bits and pieces of what exactly Zoss’ plan is, assuming he has some plan and isn’t just doing all this for gits and shiggles.
So yeah, I can see how Jaggy-boy being an overwhelming strong physical opponent might come off a little grating to some, but at the same time I think that Abbadon has earned some credit here- that’s not ALL that Jaggonoth is. From what I’ve see so far, he’s kind of like a puzzle. You’re NEVER going to beat him head-on a punching contest. In order to do that, you’d basically have to BECOME Jaggonoth, and that’s a bad road to go down. In order to beat him, our protagonist is going to have to figure out some way to come at his sideways. IMO, that’s sort of what this is showing us. Allison has hit as hard as she possibly can, and got slapped aside like yesterday’s rubbish. The interesting part of the story, is what happens when/if/how she gets back up.
Anywho, I’ve talked too long now. It’s my fatal flaw. Feel free to exploit it if/when we ever have to fight to the death.
You know, i think you’re right. I guess I just got drawn into the story too much, which is a compliment to Abbadon’s story-telling skills. He probably has some great twist set up for us that we still haven’t guessed yet. I just hope it’s not the ‘well, nice try, better luck next cycle’ ending that some people have been speculating about. That would be too much like the ending of the Dark Tower series or Mobius/Jodorowsky’s Incal series.
And all Gog wanted was just a teensy bit of appreciation…
If Abaddon wasnât close to ending this then he could start up next chapter with a rewind followed by Zoss back on the throne facepalming into his next design. Then we get the next hero!
Have a little faith! She’s not dead yet, and we are far from the ending.
And yet slain instantly she was not.
Nice, Allison is read to look as kickass as she does on the cover of this book. I KNEW it looked like she was missing an arm. And surely she wasn’t just winking.
im curious if she somehow gets the arm of zoss. look here:
https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/king-of-swords-10-140/
and look at the cover of this book. the gem and the tree emblem are literally the same, the fingers are also very similar, although hers have golden accents. or perhaps an arm made by the same person that made one for zoss? though i would expect him to have made his own arm. hmmm
Forgive me for this grievous blasphemy, but, I’ve been thinking… is it at all possible, hypothetically of course, for the sake of discussion, that the usurper Jagganoth could win? And Mammon could lose?
Well
It could be worse
Check the rain of gristle to see if any other loose keys are falling!
uh oh spaghettio
That’s probably not good.
Cut
The ‘viscerality’ on the final panel, to drive in the tone of the events, is really, really well done.
Panel 6 ; this new city roads expansion , sponsored by Jagganoth , is LIT !
*Honk*
Honestly a bit surprised that so many people are surprised by this outcome especially considering the title page for “Breaker of Infinities” literally is Allison with a prosthetic arm and sans an eye. If the entire message behind the continuous failure to beat Jaggsy through multiple cycles of reality is that violence only begets violence and you have to work together to make things better it was kind’ve foretold that even with high power levels the Demiurge’s were not going to win that way.
Hey, if you went through a semi-divine storm of infinite swords that cut you 80,000 times and came out the other side just missing an arm and an eye, I’d say you’re doing pretty damned well for yourself.
All Hail What’s Left of the Conquering Queen!
Puts a new meaning to YiSun saying “Destroy the greatest enemy that is I “
Alison: “I’ll take it!”
Alison, hitting the water at a million miles per hour and breaking all her bones: “I’ll take it, but even MORE regrettably!”
Well that explains the living wood arm….
.. and the Eye. Zoss eh what.
Missing an arm and an eye… I dunno, seems like she got off easy, all things considered.
Owned by worm-feelings and sword-logic
Spectacular pages.
And all because of that effing worm.
Xivu Arath would be proud. A chip off the old final shape block, that Jagganoth.
âŠAlso, yet again, worms cause problems for a whole planet.
was Zoss not also missing an eye and arm?
Sucks to be Rayouba.
Ahhh, there it is. What a disarming page.
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel angels, by whose aid aspiring
To set himself in glory above his peers,
He trusted to have equaled the most high,
If he opposed; and with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God
Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Well, this isn’t going anywhere nice…
I just hope the author doesn’t go Mass Effect on us – good story, unsatisfactory ending.
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs
Ouch
Now its time to teleport into a hospital.
(On a second tought, can she even do that? Returning to earth i mean, arent one of the uses of those keys to travel between universes, but now that i think about it i dont recall Alison ever using it that way.)
In one of the first books Alison teleported back to Earth. She then chose to go back to search for Zaid. But she can go there. Not that it would do the multiverse much good. That universe is also on Jaggy’s hitlist.
where’d her pants go
cut off?
Huh. She survived, so maybe the Demiurges did too. Probably worse for wear though, if Alison is any indication.
Well. That’s certainly a pity.
âYouâve met with a terrible fate, havenât you?â
A quote I was once patronized often with when I was but a puff of basic particles. Thought it was fitting here.
When Zoss first took out his helmet he also had a wood gauntlet and his right eye… It sparkled in red. There are no coincidences
Wow nice catch
Well, that answers the burning question of how she ends up looking like the cover art. So that’s one question answered.
Also the answer to the question “Just how many freakin’ arms does that big sumbitch have, anyway?” appears to be: 80,000.
So check that one off the list, too.
Considering what ol’ Jaggy “I’ve-got-a-buttload-of-swords-and-I-don’t-care-what-mom-says-I’m-gonna-use-’em” just unleashed, Allison’s not doing so bad.
Well, OK, plummeting through space toward the devastated planet below, after having an arm ripped off and an eyeball ripped out is not what one would call optimal. And being sliced out of the triumvirate being into which she was melded is pretty harsh. But coming out alive is pretty damn good under the circumstances.
I don’t think this is The End by any means.
I know Abbadon has said he’s going to wrap things up, but there’s waaaay too much unresolved for this to be over, at least from the story point of view.
We’ll see, but I think there’s a lot more to come…
This is definitely the most over the top “over the top attack” I’ve heard of ever. I’ll definitely wave my arms 80.000 times in the shower, leaving no space in my bathroom that is not a pretend sword. This shall be named “new and improved shower water kamehame-blow”
It’s worth asking.. If that’s Alison falling from the arena, where are the other members of Aspected Chaos?
something something CUT thats a WRAP *rim shot*
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Well, that is less than ideal and potentially uncomfortable.
So everybody’s wondering how Allison survives this … but maybe she doesn’t survive it physically. She could end up as a ghost in people’s minds, in the same way as Zoss persists.
This cycle is special in that Zoss arranged not only an heir but also a spare. If this sequence somehow turns into MAD, the story could finish with ghost-Allison retaining the power and puppetting Zaid as the nominal king.
While I could see that, it would be very strange.
Then again, a lot of this story is defined by ‘very strange’, so… Eh.
I mean the book’s cover straight up showed her alive with a prosthetic arm and an eye patch so I’d say she survives.
Maybe. But Zoss also appears in that form and he’s not physically there any more (if we believe Incubus).
Tis only a flesh wound!
I’ve had worse.
So Jags, that’s your finishing move.
Your ultimate technique, your power in absolution.
The most excessive expression of perfect violence in multitude creation
80,000 Swords, World-Sundering Fury, Death Inescapable
Cool and all. But she ain’t dead.
Brother if that’s your best, see, your best won’t do.
And that, actually, is the Optimistic view. An atom bomb of slashes has just passed through her, and she *only* lost one limb and one eye.
She could go take a beer with the guy who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Probably they can share some insights on what those experencies “enrich” you.
As many battles as drops in the ocean. He has never lost.
What’s next in Jagganoth’s bucket of overpowered attacks?
Consecutive Normal Punches perhaps, or maybe Knife Eye Attack?
Nah, Knife Eye Attack only makes you see everything as knives.
And then your head explodes because even the knives are made of knives.
It’s the sort of BS that I can see being used here… Or not see, because I don’t want my head to explode.
…hm, I did not realize the chapter cover would be so… prophetic.
By names thou cutteth the world and thyself into greater shapes still.
Well, at least the cover for this book makes sense now.
It’s like a nuclear explosion made out of swords
Indeed.
i’m fine with the men, but the horses too? đ
Yeah. That’s cold, man.
Let’s add another tally to the “super big attack from the heroes that we spend pages building up does absolutely nothing” count.
Because I’m too lazy to go back and check, the times we’ve seen Future Allison she still had two arms, yes?
I don’t remember where we could have seen “future Allisons” but she has a prosthetic arm on the cover of this book. Love your name btw
She hadn’t lost this much though. It was closer to the elbow.
Umm, it’s rewind time?
At first I was like, ‘Well, if there’s a way to subvert expectations, this is certainly it. DOOM!’ But then I remembered Allisons’ depiction in the cover art for this chapter – mostly her ‘Sky Captain of Tomorrow outfit – but also that she seemed to be missing an eye and DEFINITELY had a replacement limb.
So we’re actually still on track. Nicely done. I about peed
Y lady nekid tho
Well, I guess Jagganth is a koomer.
well fiddlesticks
you ever think to yourself, “hi self, I could do with one fewer eyes”
Are the tournament rules still in effect? Did Salami Dave get Cut?
She should have played more bullet hell, I mean sword slash hell, games.
She survived taking the hit point blank, so I’m sure she’ll be OK from the fall. There is healing magic after all. We don’t see Cio, Chain, or any demiurges either, so I bet they’ll be fine too!
Maybe.
I hope.
Looking back upon this, to actually come out on top of this unscathed, our Warrior Princess would have to have known God-Agoog would have attempted to garner respect the way they did, and this knowledge wouldâve been coupled by the fact that Mottom would be too set in her ways to âmove with the riverâ. The only kind of timeline in which they actually subsume Jagganoth on their first try, is by waiting for Gag to roll for persuasion, and then when Mottom inevitably makes her fail (because Dog-Agog would have to roll quite high to convince her) promptly slap her with the force of three very angry people, and while everyone is Agog, throw the spear with enough force to break their arms and generate enough inertia to very quickly kiss the earth with their whole body. There is no rhyme or reason to pointing this out, I am simply observing that âreaching heaven through violenceâ really is the only Way. By the way, I tremble with excitement at wondering what Auntie Maya is in the middle of. Probably getting wet from the rain of dirt and ash. And probably a little blood, though that is almost definitely ash by now.
Let’s see if Alison will finally awaken. Stop using the key like a sword, the hint is in the name.
Though I would note that the supreme master of the cutting art has yet to act.
80,000 cuts everywhere?!… finally someone released Jadis!
gimme more comick too reeaed
(!!!!!!)
Excuse me, miss Al-Is-One, but I think this arm is yours.
now allison might feel like she’s been Left in a bad spot, but from our perspective she looks All Right! Eh? Eh?
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“So you had all your opponents nicely lined up, like, one behind the other, like, in a single line, and then you…”
“Yeah, I know I could’ve gotten them all with a single sword thrust. But you know me…”
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