King of Swords 10-131
Chapter: 10
“The ruling king must know the lay of his law as the lines on the back of his thumb. He must know it like a path he walks every day, like the house he grew up in. It is a beast he must nurture without fear of being consumed by it, as he surely will be some day if he is not attentive.”
– Au Vam
A reckoning for all! Will we mourn soon? Only time will tell.
While we may mourn, the Monarch Ascendant will not be satisfied. She will go the void, force a reincarnation and accidentally awaken all the prime angels as well. It has been foretold.
2 Sachiel, 2 Shamshel, 2 Ramiel, 2 Gaghiel, 2 Israfel, 2 Sandalphon, , 2 Matariel, 2 Sahaquiel, 2 Irouel, 2 Leliel, 2 Bardiel, 2 Zereul, 2 Arael, 2 Armisael, 2 Tabris..
I myself cannot wait to see such a fate unfold!
Well-cited, dear commenter.
Are not happy with 2 Michael.
Yes, yes it as been foretold! As I keep telling those foolish followers. They always forget about the 108 burning stars I saw that would follow her rise!
Only time will tell …
You’re leaving now,
It’s in your eyes.
There’s no disguising it.
It really comes as no surprise,
to find that you’ve planned it all alooooong!!! – Crescendo swells, Asia’s long hairsprayed locks begin bouncing rythmically, full instrumentals begin …
It seems that my desire to leave was hasty. I realized I forgot my bag, and lo! When I went back to my viewing location, I found that indeed–we will see whether a god bleeds!
(Again, I hope he doesn’t, or that the angel is willing to make drink contracts and hold future tournaments.)
I know of several angels who are fond of tea. Perhaps your future lies in iced tea. Free tips are worth what you paid for them.
Regretfully, one is not a fan; iced ovaltine on the other hand…
Now us knows tha’s lost it, tha’s been on the strange-smelling teas tha blithering beveragebrains. Make thaself useful an help the nice man make some ice, heateater, eh?.
Please do pop by one sunny afternoon, one should be most happy to entertain and enlighten.
When it comes to teas it all depends on what one considers tea.
Crushed and fermented or carefully dried leaves of the shrub so named or perhaps leaves, petals or the fruiting bodies of other species of flora. Then there is the water, be it distilled, filtered, mountain stream, spring, glacial or the ever popular aqua regia. The inhabitants of a certain island nation have a herbal remedy they refer to as a tea named after the island made by infusing the flower heads of a certain medicinal plant in the local distilled beverage within what they call a mason jarand leaving it on the back porch overnight.
Us only drinks aqua regia, cos royalty us.
Time for White Chain to lose one ashen shell and then get a cute new one?
Ah yes! The long awaited small chisels arc!
Something to match her new accepted sense of self? Nonsense! An angel’s shell is just another type of mask. It allow the angel to act like something they are not, in this case a creature of the wheal, close to the flame of Yisun.
To match ones mask with who they are underneath is a terrible lost opportunity.
No, not a lost opportunity. If your mask matches your face and you are in the company of liars, then the liars will think that your mask does NOT match your face. After all, all liars think everyone is a liar and there is no such thing as an honest man. When in the company of liars, be only honest…and your enemies will deceive themselves. This presents you with the greatest of opportunities: for the truth to defeat lies. There is no greater victory than an honest man defeating a liar with nothing but his own clear conscience.
The double bluff! Why limit one’s self to one lie at a time! It is I who am not living up to my full potential. Time for more divisions of self.
What a night! Enlightened by the Lawgiver and owe apologies to A. L. O. G. What will be next?
Live to fight another day…
I find it hilarious that when she shouted “Tyrant”, Solomon immediately knew she was talking to him.
Anyone who rules more than a small hamlet knows to answer to “Tyrant”, for men are fickle and quick to use such labels.
Superhero landing?
More of a… Casual, villainous float.
His is the desire to intimidate by displaying his control and dominance over the situation. This fits his bill better than the traditionally more impetuous three point thud, as it were.
It is a little known fact that the aforementioned three-point landing is, in fact, a Ki Rata technique.
What is the proper Ki Rata counter to a “Tyrant!” thrust? Perhaps the deflecting “I know you are, but what am I”? Or the subtle, stabbing, “Takes one to know one”?
I should think the proper response of a Ki Rata master to accusations of Tyranny is acceptance, acknowledgement, and questioning the accuser as to the nature of their doubt, for surely they can’t believe the truth they utter and seek challenge at the same time. What follows is education and certainty.
This looks more like a Mary Poppins descent, minus the umbrella.
I’m surprised he doesn’t ~teleport behind her~
Being able to casually float to his opponent, letting his integrity be exposed but not tarnished, is also a power move. The strong warrior shows off. The stronger one, doesn’t need to.
‘Tis a boast of the ages.
Good luck White Chain.
I have the distinct feeling that you will need every scrap and sliver of it that you can find.
HELL YES!
a millenia-old, battle-hardened god CAPABLE OF MOVING SUNS has nothing to fear from ANY of the plebs, despite what the some in these comments have repeatedly suggested.
white chain’s ’bout to get wrecked.
a millenia-old, battle-hardened angel who was resurrected more than 70 times has nothing to fear from any of the Demiurges.
Especially, once they fusion with Allicio the Demon Warrior to… Whitison Chion.
I read that as “Winston Churchill” and had to go look at that again
Now I want Winston Churchill to battle and defeat this purple poser.
They’re by the sea. After they level the arena, he can fight him on the beach.
I should think the proper venue would be a cocktail party. Though, should that sea be gin, and that brine olives, it may be enough to sate the guests.
Same here.
Totally had a brief vision of an angelic Churchill, complete with cigar, trading blows with Solomon.
Thanks for the mental inspiration
By your powers combined, I am Winston Churchill!
For plot purposes, White Chain need not be a real threat to Solomon, only to scratch him and shed a drop of his blood. She might just be able to do that by martyring herself in some weird kamikaze attack.
That’s my guess too. Or she’s planning to make a distraction. . .what’s Solomon going to do if Alison smites him when his back is turned, bleed at her with Ki Rata?
That’d be very illegal rules-wise, and probably get Allison smote in turn. Salami Dave can *probably* take a hit pretty well even if it’s an unpleasantry for him.
If we even think Allison is the sort of person that would strike when any opponent’s back is turned, even Preem Tyrant’s.
Well the last demon she killed was an immobile tree. Speaking of which she’s got to meet some quotas I think.
Au Vam assumes that people know the lines on the back of their thumbs well.
Hah. Most wouldn’t know those lines even if they were told that they should memorize them, in order to recognize thumb cancer early.
Somathing has changed in his art, I can feel it
The new stylus may be haunted!
Did the old one truly drown accidentally? investigations are in order.
Nay, arch-devil Jeff Bezos has tricked us yet again!
There is a certain striking appeal to a blazing angel standing tall with such a hollow wound emptying the core of their shape, but not their spirit. I find it inspiring and calling to mind a rotten spectrum of worlds familiar with similar iconography… Patience will tell if this feeling is warranted or not I suppose.
I cannot help but notice similarity between the composition of panel 6 and certain interpretations of number zero among the major arcana, “the fool.”
White Chain really said ‘I may have a hole in my chest but it won’t stop me from kicking your ass, old man’
Solomon seems confident, but as they say, “the only thing that beats an angel is another angel.”
Mayhaps White Chain can pull the same trick she did on Juggernaut Star.
Can humans bleed in the Void?
I’m wondering if we’re going to see the fabled Yisun’s open palm. It’s regarded as an unbeatable move, so for White Chain to have not used it so far – is she not capable of it, or does it have a cost?
(That wasn’t meant for you.)
One cannot help getting the feeling that the tyrant is about to appear.. considerate. Maybe even.. nice.
Thee agin. Heid clearin tho, cos Purplebollocks’ pride nae survive if’n ‘e just swats yon cracked stonyarse ifront all ‘is poplace, so cannae. Gotta be seeen t’be magnananimus.
Indeed, as others are supposing, one’s thoughts were that he would give our sister time for repair and recuperation, or even swap with brother Vigilant.
But the thought does come that if there’s anyone who can craft a much needed good new angel body it would be the demiurge. One wonders if White Chain’s new body is imminent.
Busty Abe Sapien is BAE and clearly TRUE CHAOTIC thrilled for the execution
Few indeed are the arts that might be gainfully deployed against such a tyrant in the place of his power. Temporal fugue, if a master of that abstruse art can even be located. Mayhap Ghost Palm of the Dragon, or perhaps not.
One might well wonder, however, if the internal fires of a demiurge can survive being gripped and dragged into the void by the bodiless hands of an angel.
This one questions the superiority of a fighter who watches another battle through countless enemies, and when that one emerges victorious but weary and battered from their multitudinous battles *then* challenges the champion, claiming that one last match will determine the master.
It is perhaps a clever strategy, but it is cowardly nonetheless.
DON’T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAAAAAAY
I want WC to go full HAN-KOH-DIE on his ass
And so the god-emperor descended, confident. Not a single being within or outside the wheel shall ever again draw his blood, for surely he have rid himself of such feeble mortal tie. Only beard flows in his veins now.
Only beard.
Oh boy, we’re about to see some hot angel/demiurge ultraviolence! Our cup runneth over! Actually, my cup is empty, where’s that icemonger?
I do not provide the drinks myself; merely the ice supply. It was quite difficult to keep the ice in good condition under the heat of a binary star system; when the concessions come closer feel free to have another drink.
Beard vs Bird
We are not ready, yet watch we must!
Welp. It was nice knowing tha, White Chain.
Executions take me far and wide, from the humblest of hovels nestled in the wasteland to the tallest spires built of the finest worksmanship on worlds built of diamonds – and yet, I have always made it my business to stay out of the business of Demiurges. I may be a big fish, but they’re the entire damn ocean.
Deep. Truly tha’s the Ominous Star of Depth.