Shifting your own movements to a time-stream too rapid for your opponent to register, much less to comprehend, to respond to? Nay, these are odds only cowards would set, and fools to agree to.
Cowardice has its own rewards, I fear! Though I do not know if I would call this action of his by that name. Other deeds he has done, yes. But this? This is a simple disregard for life. Just as disgusting, but what can we expect from a man who cares not even for his kin?
Getting yourself killed in a fight you know you can’t win is not cowardice, especially if the rewards for sitting out the fatal ass-whipping you were about to get are immense
True! Sometimes we must accept inaction as the wisest thing we can do to protect ourselves! And personally, I would rather not give Solomon David the satisfaction of my dying.
Remember; Solomon has very little but disdain for his children, who have taken positions and riches within the empire but refused to take their shot at glory. He may kill those who try, but I don’t believe he thinks them cowardly, only fools.
This emperor displays skill, not cowardice. He has the kindness to display to White Chain his skill, strike after strike. The emperor will strike many times, a different strike for each who has chosen to receive it.
The fighters who chose to delude themselves that it is wiser to draw blood than gold will not learn from the wisdom imparted to them on this day. After all, they didn’t learn from any of the predecessors, either.
Cowardice? Nay! For as the prophet Pietro of Maximoff himself once asked, “Why should I not avail myself of my power? Should a strong man not use his strength? Should a genius hide away his mind?” Why, then, should Solomon David not use the power of his beard to bend time and space to his will? Search your feelings! You know this to be true!
Salami Dave is a coward, not because of his power, or his will to use it, but because he is afraid that a similar power may exist. For if it does, he is not the most special person in Existence, and If he is not the most special person in Existence, he is (by his own reckoning) nothing.
Thus, he must destroy anything that even slightly resembles himself, holding all other things in contempt.
Cowardly? He competes using his own strength, no more, no less. That others contend with him knowing his power is their folly, not his. That they fall short is their sorrow; Solomon David cares not. His eye is on she who is named Al-Y-Sun and her symbiont spiritual, Cio Cioelle von Maxima VII. They represent a true threat to his hegemony. They must be dealt with.
Roger that. It is the art that passes understanding, and partakes more than a little of the vatras. If deleterious effects on causality and the nature of existence occur, seek help from a deity at once. Nay, from a whole pantheon.
My original form was a divine shard, an emanation of the goddess, forged into shape by the silver chisel of Koss, and given form and purpose according to a lost scripture of paradise.
What if the breath that kindled those grim fires,
Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage,
And plunge us in the flames;
or from above
Should intermitted vengeance arm again
His red right hand to plague us?
I’ve always said that someone like The Flash or Quicksilver would be 100x more deadly if they practiced martial arts. Even straight and simply karate would cause untold devastation when applied at those speeds.
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Japanese Language Moment
止まれ (tomare) is the imperative conjugation of the intransitive verb 止まる (tomaru). This cannot take an object, and can only be used when telling someone themselves to stop.
The transitive counterpart to tomaru is the verb 止める (tomeru). This can take an object, marked with the particle を (o). The imperative conjugation is 止めろ (tomero).
(Apparently any post including a link goes into limbo. Reposting without the links to the entries at Wiktionary.)
You have infinitely more grammar knowledge than me, however! I have seemingly more reference knowledge. That’s a Jojo quote, said when the dude *stops time*.
I’m guessing that’s necessary context by which that sentence won’t normally make sense but was deemed acceptable by the Japanese author, perhaps?
Admittedly, Jojo is a series where someone just spoutting gibberish is equally likely as ‘it being a sentence of stopping time justifies it’ but either way, it was a native Japanese speaker that put together that one.
Funfacy, he doesn’t say toki wo tomare but toki yo tomare, yo being in this context a calling suffix added to things like God or Time itself, so there is no grammatical error, he’s commanding time to stop, not saying “stop the time” or something like that.
My reaction as well, honestly. I got all the way to the bottom of the page, wondered what the “total life obliteration” part of this was, and then my eyes went up to reread it again and FINALLY noticed that Solomon was the only thing moving.
For all it’s anime-like flashiness, Abbadon’s storytelling can be terrifyingly subtle sometimes.
That’s the interesting part, he’s not using his god-power at all. The big square bracket “crown” of purple fire is gone, the glare from the key in his forehead is faint enough I suspect it’s just reflected sunlight. Maybe simply bending reality by the power of entitlement is less fun than exploding people with his fist.
The most remarkable feature of this breathing technique is the exquisitely fine control over space and time required to keep an opponent frozen in motion yet also have it explode in torrents of gore upon impact.
This is most certainly a demonstration of skill for third parties gifted with timeless vision.
Sonorous prose. This may be the Gilt Devil within me, but I sense such a world–untouched, as you say–would be quite the attractive one; full of sweet treasures. Like an exquisite, unguarded jewel box…
Time kills everything. Time makes poisons, weapons and assassins of the most unsuspected of subjects. Give it time, and it will end.
… of course, it works two ways, and this guy is already immortal thanks to Ki Rata Breathing Techniques, so there is a chance it will kill you first! Ha! Ha! Ha.
You…aren’t? I mean, yes, technically the winner of the tournament is supposed to have a chance to “fight” the Emperor, but I don’t know where you got the idea that any of them are “supposed to” have any actual chance of giving him a hard time of it. Literally every time for the past 6 millennia or so, the final match of the Ring of Power is basically just “contestant unleashes their greatest moves against Solomon. They are completely ineffective. Splat.”
This is a fucking DEMIURGE, not just some prissy stuck-up king. Other demiurges MIGHT give them an interesting fight on occasion (Jagganoth’s invincibility, Gog-Agog’s sheer mass and regenerative capabilities, etc.), but otherwise, as Allison has proved, the only way to not be killed by an angry Demiurge is to manipulate their flaws enough to distract and/or demotivate them so that you can successfully run away and hide.
Allison just barely survived Mottom because the old woman was still too busy wallowing in self-pity and shame to actually want Allison dead at the time, until just before she teleported out (which nobody knew she could even do at the time, including Allison). She survived Mammon because the aging Dragon was literally too senile to recognize her for who she was at first, and then Mottom came in and they distracted each other long enough for Allison to run away. Allison might have grown a lot since then, but as she herself just remembered a few pages ago, she is BY NO MEANS capable of giving a Demiurge an actual fight.
Keep in mind that one must attune to the power of their truth in order to use it.
Allison has the Ruling Key, Majesty. She could command Diamond to warp and soften, Ki Rata to disperse rather than focus its power, herself to attain infinite force (the Tower guards and contains, and we have seen her guard her body by the key’s power). But to do that requires understanding that Majesty is not merely a spear or a club: it is a *master*. It is not the Glory that radiates from power and mesmerizes the fool with Illusions and want, it is the controlled force that comes of being in charge of that power. Of knowing the way of rule. It shapes other things and aims them! Majesty used in this way IS the infinite sword of God, both cutting and joining with its power.
To use a mastery requires understanding how to guide and shape it, as well as the nature of its natural opposition. If one has not studied the nature of one’s own gifts… well, then, one has not done the necessary work to attain their true capabilities.
Most everyone (in the story) thinks that Allison’s key is destined for another. But it was placed within HER head by one who understands rule. When she believes that it is truly hers, I think with her hard-gained wisdom and now-better-experienced intuition, she will claim it and learn it for herself. At that time, Allison will be able to choose to acknowledge the true Word and wield it as a Demiurge, rather than a victim.
Perhaps… perhaps I overreach, but… does the key itself want something?
If so… Majesty could get it.
But first, it must be wanted, or it cannot be wielded in full.
Something tells me he’s just gonna one-hit-kill every single poor, foolish bastard who didn’t choose to sit this one out, probably before his rings and fancy scarf even touch the ground.
Everyone will blink, and somehow, the entire stadium will be covered in chunky gore.
The common joke in the Celestial Empire goes thusly:
“Hundreds of opponents arrayed themselves against the Emperor. The Emperor took off his many bracelets. He killed the entire crowd. Then the bracelets hit the ground.”
One’s realisation is doubtful. On a good day, one’s conscious brain is not aware of what one’s unconscious has already decided until several seconds later.
Who put the kettle on?
Oh thank goodness, one’s not losing one’s mind, it’s just a stalker. That’s all right then, one was worried there for a moment.
😀 No, no apologising necessary, you park yourself in the comfy seat, put your feet up and tell uncle, erm, Cuppa all about it.
One imagines a busy night sneaking into people’s houses, cleaning, tidying up, doing the dishes then slipping quietly out again. It can so take it out of one.
Mr. Pretending To Be A Martial Arts Teacher So Impressionable Youths Do The Chores For Me
I once was on the receiving end of brain pulverization via kick and let me tell you, it hurts a lot. Now, it might be true that i had a spare brain reserved for such an occasion, and they probably dont, but the principle still stands.
An edge of sufficient hardness, turned to the right angle and given a firm tap, will break a flawed diamond. Or you could use a grinder or cutting wheel inlaid with diamond dust. Not all diamonds are pure, and like can cut like.
Ki Rata made Solomon David pure. Diamond made him solid. But these things did not make him safe.
Well put. As the ancient prayer would have it, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, he makes me down to lie. Through pastures green he leadeth me, the silent waters by. With bright knives he releaseth my soul. He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places, for Lo! He hath great power, and great hunger.
One of Solomon’s greatest achievements is that when he opens his grand abbatoir every 3 years his sheep fight and maim one another for the chance to be first to slaughter.
Hrmm… Reckon that Time isn’t actually frozen. See all those little vapor trails he’s leaving? He’s moving so fast he’s condensing the moisture in the air around him. Figure him being at or near sea-level makes it even harder to generate contrails, cuz of the temperature and density of the air. Which means he’s moving crazy fast. Think jet-aircraft speeds, by a humanoid creature, on the ground. Wonder if he’ll go super-sonic?
I pray not. Mortals going beyond such limits run the risk of tearing through reality and getting sucked into the nothingness beyond. It leaves such a mess upon the ashen heaps of the Void.
Moving at a large fraction of c would slow down time for *him*, not the world around him (as well as increase his mass, mentioned below, plus flattening him in the direction of motion). It would also cause fusion reactions in the air around him via compression (ie – the air not being able to move out of his way in time), releasing a lot of energy in the arena, including gamma radiation.
Mach speeds + shockwaves, sure. Time dilation via high c velocities, not in this case (or, at least not yet).
Pree/m e-to-the-i-pi-bringing-a-guest, tha seems physikcyst.
Us hears dom dom dom dom dom when him be halfways to us viewpoint. That mean Salami half soundspeed?
Doubtful. Assuming atmosperic conditions and local physics are similar to those we find on worlds inhabited by humans (and human analogues) throughout the multiverse, as well as using both SI units and 24/60/60 timekeeping methods, 0.5 Mach 1 would be ~171.5 m/s, or 617.5 km/h; you should be able to convert those figures to your preferred method(s) of measurement and timekeeping, if necessary.
Notice that in addition to the dom-dom-dom (almost-but-not-quite doom-doom-doom, interestingly), the clouds of dust raised by his passing; yet the knives thrown at him have not visibly moved (neither have his armbands or purple garment, still suspended in the air). Also, others have noted the explosion of gore from what remains of the overly enthusiastic gent in the last panel. More like artistic license, I suspect. Of course, the Big Salami can presumably alter space and time at will, so he may be playing with local physics, moving within one frame of reference while objects he physically touches (the ground, the air in contact with his body, the exploding no-longer-a-head) move in another. Just a hypotheses, of course; we’ll need to observe more before attempting to draw further conclusions.
re: bringing-a-guest
Nope, just me I’m afraid. Do the math properly, and it’s even less than that. 😉
If you look closely, you can see the breath he released in the first panel throughout the rest of the page. First just past his forehead while he stretches, then left behind with his bracelets and robes as he moves to attack. As far as I can tell, it’s basically the only thing that changes at all other than what Solomon directly interacts with.
I’m a little surprised Abbadon didn’t do stuff like having the thrown daggers moving further away each frame. They aren’t moving at bullet speeds, but it still should be noticeable at the speeds Solomon is moving if a jumping warrior is seemingly frozen in midair.
Don’t know if it’s asking too much of Abbadon, who is already awesome with details, to make it the same but slightly different position which would give a better impression of moving extremely fast.
You can see the breath he released from panel 1 in the other panels, and it does change slightly between them. Considering his bracelets don’t move but his exhalation does appear to begin to disperse somewhat, I feel confident in the belief that this is not a temporal effect placed on the arena.
the way he move’s is kind of awkward but it makes sense. the faster you move the harder the air resist’s that movement. so when you’re moving so fast that time appears frozen of course you’re going to walk like you’re pushing through liquid concrete.
First you must learn the most dangerous and powerful martial art in all the multiverse, diligently for many years, before slaughtering the head monk and the entire order. Then might you slay the god and steal the fire from his brow.
The slaughtering of all your brothers may not strictly be a necessary step.
At the speeds his body moves, Solomon David is not “punching” things.
Solomon David, of diamond made, is going through things as if they were made of pudding, as if a tank rushed through water balloons, as if a man’s fist willingly crushed his wedding cake, as if a nail was thrust into the naked heart of a beast torn through overwhelming force to shorten its agony, for what does a demiurge when he kills, but shorten a tiny life in a universe where no chance shall come to ever rise to his side as an equal?
Solomon David, whose force is without match, is now overwhelming, rending arms, armor and flesh in the way YISUN would spin a lie about a light in a cave.
I would think the time for cracking the tendons in your neck in an intimidating way would be before you start moving so fast no one will register your actions except in past tense.
Then again, sometimes I get cricks in my neck from sleeping oddly. Then it doesn’t matter if there’s anyone to see me crack my tendons in an intimidating manner.
Yeah, given the vast array of abilities, I seriously doubt he’s the only being capable of moving at supersonic speeds and there’s likely arts out there that specialize in speed.
Whether said supersonic being is named Sonic the Hedgehog remains to be seen.
Though it is clearly the “you are already dead” moonrunes I can recognize now for some reason, the various za warudo folks have a point as well.
Reminds me the first time the missus saw a clip of Dio using it while subbed and misheard it because later playing a game with a timefreeze she blurted out “ED-UARDO” and it took me a long time to appreciate how amazing it really was.
Well, at least now we have a good idea on how his attacks are going to be able to tell the difference between the (moderately) wise, the retreating, and the utter fools:
That tunic of his must be made from a helluva durable fabric to withstand being moved around at essentially E5+ tornado strength movements. Though obviously, if it weren’t, we’d be seeing him buck naked and the rating of the comic shooting through the roof.
Also, I’m surprised nobody is trying to shoot him with some sort of laser or light beam, while he’s moving fast enough to spot it getting triggered and dodge he still can’t outrun it
Two pages ago, we saw the contestants divide themselves into 3 groups of actors: Those who attacked (the majority, I think), those who accepted the option of quietly staying in place, and those who fled from the emperor.
I wondered if those who fled were perhaps wisest: If the emperor unleashed an attack with an area effect, as seemed possible, then their only hope for survival was to try to flee outside the area of effect.
Yet now we see that it looks like Solomon David is providing an extremely personal response to each contestant that is attacking. He presumably will keep his word, and leave the non-attacking contestants alone.
Or will he? He did not specify what he would do to to anyone who fled. I suppose they have the hope that the emperor would scorn to attack anyone fleeing. Surely his bloodlust would be sated by the target-rich environment of attackers he has around him.
Well he’s either manipulating time and space such as he’s frozen these fools and they literally cannot move to stop him. Or he’s manipulating it to move himself so he’s moving so fast they wont have a chance to comprehend he started murdering them. Either way its bullshit as the mortals say I expected him to simultaneously butcher these idiots with some form of spacial control.
Or he is moving so fast that things appear frozen or slo-mo from his perspective. I don’t think any bending of space, time, or space-time is involved here.
I will grind my hatred upon the loved ones.
Despair will be brought upon the hoping childs of happiness.
Wherever there is joy the hordes of the eclipse will pollute
sadness and hate under the reign of fear.
At this moment, ALL of the contestants are following his order to “remain as you are and do absolutely nothing”, and yet he still turns them to pulp. What a farce, to pluck at nothing but stationary targets. I would not expect such a Prideful icon to resort to such low laws to break.
The Emperor is losing his Clothes, and soon he shall have none.
I’m sure at supersonic speeds, he knows what moving and being stationary looks like.
Anyways, the ones attacking have already separated themselves from those actually being stationary and those fleeing, so, that makes it easier.
I’m a little worried for the young swordsman from the previous page as he got startled by an orange ape (not Donald Trump, (un)fortunately) jumping over him and dropped his sword, don’t know how Solomon would interpret him picking his sword back up, though I guess it’d be wiser to just leave it on the ground.
Look, if you feel like you were unfairly pulped, you can always just file a formal complaint. Form 245B. Any of the clerks will be happy to assist you.
Or in other words, the dead cant complain, if he does make a mistake and pulps someone who didnt want to fight him, it doesnt matter.
‘Kill them all and let god sort it out’, he’s both doing the killing and the god that sorts it out. There is no higher authority here. He could kill them all by making them choke on their underwear if he wanted to. Nothing in the universe can hold him accountable for anything. Except the other gods perhaps, but that’s like complaining to Hitler that Stalin unfairly killed your dad. It’s not gonna end well for you.
Is he faster than Allicio fusion?
Maybe to even manage to keep with him we will get triple fusion next, Devil skin outside, human in the middle of layers and Angel essence inside.
Considering Allicio didn’t move so fast time appeared frozen, I think it’s pretty obvious that he is faster.
Solomon is obviously still entires leagues above what Alisson can muster.
I was wondering what Solomon David´s power would look like once it is unleashed. I did not expect this…I got the feeling that this fight will be over very quickly and not much of a great watch as everything explodes within about half a minute.
Ehmmmm. Reading about “five-point attack” called “total life obliteration”, I expected to see all this fools to perish instantly through this one perfect povement. (damn, those Ki Rata bastards ruin cities with ten points, so it seems highly plausible). Well, this short-contact one-by-one superspeed elomination is… frankly disappointing, I would say.
Yet let us hope that we just haven’t grasp the trues scale of events yet.
Still, gourgeusly drawn and composed. nothing to deny.
А ведь он сейчас полный круг сделает, превращая противников в фарш, и вернется в центр в момент когда его накидка упадет обратно ему на плечи, а браслеты вернутся на руки.
Следующий кадр: наши герои смотрят на Соломона сверху как он стоит в центре, а вокруг него хлопьями оседает кровавое кольцо из бывших бойцов.
Те кто струсил, стоят на арене без движения, глядя на это в шоке.
Агог беснуется. Зрители аплодируют.
I did remark earlier that I was surprised nobody was trying to fire a laser at him. However, they should have fired it already at this point, unless they can track and predict Solomon’s movements at that speed.
The mass rush goes a long way towards explaining why there’s no lasers though, there is no line of sight through the crowd.
Nobody’s senses could register the beginning of this attack before it is finished. To an outsider it will look as if all the contestants simultaneously turned to mush.
The Goblins have that supernatural sense of smell where they can literally smell light as if they were seeing it. So, it’s not impossible some servant species exists out there that can register it at that speed.
Thae humans be registerin 50-60 blinks a sec (perceivin frames as seprate tho – 12 or less per sec mostlike; more’d be clunksome anime til smoothlike at 20+).
Fastest none-human on yon Dirtball be Peregrin wi 130 blinks a sec, coza doin more’n twahundert milenhour divin.
Salami’d hafta put ‘is rings on agin afore point o seven sec to avoid the bird noticin summat.
There are creatures with senses and abilities beyond our own, and can seem almost supernatural, but the abilities of Goblins go beyond biology.
There’s servants/aliens with floating things for a head, so, obviously biological constraints weren’t necessarily considered a limiting factor for all servants when forge god Koss created them.
Anyways, if anything does have the ability to see him moving that fast or is able to move at those speeds (whether natural ability, key given, as would be likely during the Universial War, or some martial art), there’s a good bet that Solomon would still be able to handle it. He hasn’t gotten to where he is by not being able to fight something that matches his speed, it just wouldn’t be as easy.
1) If there are 100 fighters remaining in the Tourney,
and the Emperor Solomon Strikes each one with FIVE fingers,
then this is the Round of ____ ? Yes ! Correct : 500 BLOWS.
Here are the Math problem for the Advanced Grades.
2) If each of the 100 fighters facing the Emperor has 1.5 gallons of blood in their body, How large an area of the arena may be painted with their blood ?
3) The Emperor pivots and moves to strike a hapless fighter.
The Emperor’s fist is moving at three times the speed of sound.
( How high / far does the resulting Fountain of Blood travel ? )
4) The Emperor Solomon attacks 100 fighters while moving at three times the speed of sound ( which happens to be the same here on Rayuba as that mythical land called Earth. ) If the emperor annihilates each fighter with one blow in a hundredth of a second, and takes an additional three hundredths of a second to move to the next fighter, how long will it take the Emperor to obliterate all of his attackers ?
*Bonus points awarded for creating your own Tournament math question.*
Ach, what a waste. How ’bout 5600m² – 6800m².
Is dependin on thickness of coverage tha’s wantin, blood solids (us own specialty), an transferrin effcacy. An wether tha’s assumin american or imperial.
About twa metres max (in us experience), oftimes only a few inches. Add half agin fer spread.
Us reckons on less’n a twentith’f a second. Salami doin 1km per sec ‘d be invalidatin any extra time fer blowin thae fighters!
50 guilders says Solomon returns to his initial spot just in time for his robes and bracelets to fall back on him.
Also this page finally clarifies how no one else has managed to learn Ki Rata from Solomons frequent displays. One would need to already have mastered it to even see the movements.
What of those capable of seeing his movements at that speed? Sure, the great majority of sapients won’t be able to, but considering the vast array of abilities and bizarrities, one can’t discount that such an ability does exist somewhere.
That said, they still wouldn’t have full mastery of it and there was a below page text way back saying that the adherents of it searched out and killed anybody who managed to stumble on it. Solomon likely does exactly that.
By Aesma’s screaming tits… I go to feed on some laughsome mortals whilst they be panick-wise an plauged and sickish for a week or a nonce, an THIS us’s do be coming back to?? Cannae help but be droolish a’ te thoughts o all’o’em entrails…
Ae, me! Slackish and loathful ae the sloppish thinkery, us’s. Mae foulen Ebon, gratitudinally full-wise, we! Lackwit, us, ae no do be sharin thus. But…thinks, us; fullsome yet o’en ye black shardies be, a nonce do a two or nil?
(Oops! I can be so forgetful. My fiendish Ebon [Haldis], thank you for due payment of the bet! I’d be remiss if I didn’t share this drink. I wonder; if your pockets are still feeling heavy to you, would you be interested in double or nothing?)
The kunai are traveling at 1000 feet per second. That’s a little less than half the speed of a bullet. Seems reasonable for a fighter who’s made it to this round.
The distance between Solomon and his target is 10 feet.
The kunai have moved a millimeter (.003 feet) from the second panel to the fifth.
If these assumptions hold true, I believe Solomon is moving a cool 3 million feet per second. It could very well be faster, I believe these are conservative estimations.
An astounding attack! Could it be that Solomon can freeze time for his opponents as long as he can hold his breath? I hope the spectators are not frozen as well because it would be a shame for them to miss the pulping of the remaining attackers.
Everybody seems to be assuming that by the time Solomon’s rings descend all the attackers will be gone and Solomon will be standing at the centre of a ring of gore. To me, it would be more impressive if he kills only one attacker (or perhaps one in ten?) and disrupts the rest so that they collide in the centre, covered in giblets, while Solomon sits to one side. Watching these fools realise how deeply they are mired in shit, and then seeing them slink away, would be satisfying.
I picture him moving while everything around him moves in motion so slow it’s almost not moving. His clothing ripples and moves like it’s weighted like it’s resisting the movements though unable to slow his stride. Would be so cool to see in a video… :O
He could just break their necks y’know. Or even their arms. If he splatters all the assailants, the others who sat still will likely drown in blood and guts.
In any case, it will be one hell of a job for the cleaners.
I once faced a tyrant who used a high-speed art for similar effect. However, he would always announce his use of the technique with a shout of “YOU WA SHOCK!” beforehand.
It seems Solomon David’s wisdom has overruled his pride in this specific matter.
Because he chooses to be affected by gravity? Most of the fighters going at him aren’t flight capable, so, he has to be near or on the ground to one-punch them anyway.
There is a scene in The Boys where the Flash parody EXPLODES a girl by accidentally running into her(while high on the drug that gives supes their powers). Death was instantaneous. All that remained was a pile of red jelly. If Flash wanted to…man, he could kill with frightening ease.
It’s not referring to some technique that instantly erases its target(s). It’s a technique that renders the user extreme speed and perception to the point that the world appears lifeless. Nothing moves, nothing breathes, hearts no longer beat, minds don’t even have time to think. All life in the universe stops. Total Life Obliteration.
Personally, I think that the technique is named not for what it does, but merely for what it looks like it does. Consider the perspective of an outside observer. To them, Salami Dave struck a pose, and then everyone around him instantly exploded in a shower of gore. The illusion is enhanced if he then returns to his position prior to using the technique. Total Life Obliteration indeed.
So…it appears Salami Dave is so fast he can turn off the light and be in bed before the room gets dark.
And before we accuse Abbadon of a continuity error – Solomon Dave barefoot on the previous page and shazam wearing sandals in this one – know that SD had time to jog back to the dais, put on his sandals, put the kettle on, have a cuppa tea, sort through some paperwork, then resume his position in the arena in time to slow down a bit to flex a little by cracking his neck (though no one could see him do it, so why does he? Oh just because I suppose), then move forward to wreak mayhem.
The only thing the contestants have going for them is they won’t have time to shit their respective pantaloons before going to their respective afterlives. So there’s a silver lining for them after all.
Let assemble all those who would see him overthrown,
for he will go forth and in a display of blood and gore remove all opposition
and call it a contest for those already subservient or as yet unsure
This reminds me of the alien santa carving up the forces of Halloween in Sluggy Freelance. I suspect the whole competition is something of a red herring, if one actually succeeds in drawing a drop of blood it will be accepted of course but it’s not how he expects it to happen, perhaps someone arguing that, morally and practically giving a drop of blood to the arguer is the right thing to do or an elaborate trap or paying a huge sum. Infact do we know if he even keeps his blood in his body? The main purpose of it is to have most violent, overconfident idiots remove themselves in an entertaining fashion.
Ah yes, I finally understand the essence of Ki-Rata.
The breathing has not much to do with the damage it does, the breathing techniques only enhance the brute strength of the body in such a way that one becomes physically unstoppable.
It is not so much the ultimate martial art as it is the ultimate physical booster, and a man such as Solomon David must have mastered thousands of fighting styles he can combine with said booster, so that a well trained hook or uppercut that would normally be able to break jaws now could effortlessly break mountains.
Doesn’t really account for the 10 point techniques which are capable of leveling entire cities (and I’m going to assume that it has been used in such a way) on their own. Also, while it could plausibly be used in conjunction with other compatible styles, Ki Rata is the only one we’ve seen him use.
The Emperor is cutting out everyone who could become a threat to himself with this tournament. That’s why the ‘winner’ is allowed to fight him originally. No strong people, no strong teachers, no chance for losing his throne. The Emperor is a flawed messiah, full of fear and pride.
Despite his diamond, demigod essence, the ability to breath feels especially important to this Soloman. I recall an old story where a super-humanly strong, indestructible demigod was ultimately drowned in a writhing cloud of worms.
Perhaps a similar fate is in store for our demigod here. Never turn your back on the bearer of Beast.
This casts my mind to the wild talent displayed by Miles Teg on Gammu, and the cost of such displays. I have much clearer memories of the passages describing the increased metabolic and caloric demands of the feat than I do of the feat itself, which feels apropos for a body of work that pays careful attention to energy relationships, and makes me wonder how much of this comes from breath control and how much of it is enabled by Solomon’s role as an apex predator/energy-eater.
Except that Miles Teg doesn’t have 111,111 keys to the universe in his forehead and be immortal and bear only sons through martial arts BS.
Still though, there have been below page and Abbadon anecdotes about some martial arts stuff that require energy buildup or are energy intensive, so, it’s not entirely implausible that Solomon is going to end up pretty drained when he’s done. Though if that’s the case, he probably feels confident that he won’t be so drained as to be vulnerable to an opportunistic Gog Agog or Allison.
Editwhiletyping: The energy drain could be part of the Total Life Obliberstion thing, we just haven’t seen it yet.
I just had a strange thought: Zoss was inhumanly powerful even before he gained the Key; powerful enough to beat all the prime angels all by his lonesome. Yisun is said to have died when They split into Yis and Un; yet in later stories Yisun is stil very much present in the company of the later gods. What if Zoss IS Yisun?!? Could Yisun have created Zoss as an avatar to enjoy the multiverse that would evolve? Whaddaya think?
Intriguing proposition Pr. VGer. Of course Yisun both died, and lied about having died, the cat is both alive and dead. And all are Yisun, it matters not the shade nor temperature of your flame. Zoss as an avatar of Yisun could be one aspect of them perhaps, gods may have several or many avatars – other individuals could be other aspects, and all are needed to play their part, knowingly or no, for the wheel to turn. ?
I’m wondering myself, he was on a roll with updates sooner than usual, it yeah it’s been a while.
It’s possible that it’s a particularly detailed spread like the one with Mammon’s and Mottoms forces going at it at Mammon’s vault, but as you said, he hasn’t given any sort of notice.
Actually, I looked at his twitter and yesterday he said that he ran into some tablet issues, but it should be up this weekend, it’s also a two page spread, which would explain the apparent delay amid the roll.
Fairansquaresome, is just us that likes clicketyclickin zebras crossin an bikle hydrants? Finds it calmsome us. Lets it timeout an does it agin just cos.
Now I can’t help to wonder if Allison is just sitting, meaning she’d get a title ion his empire and no small amount of wealth, or if she’s taking her shot at him.
Hey Abbadon, I get that delays can happen sometimes, but could you put up a notice on the site as well so we don’t have to go to your Twitter to find out?
Thinks, me; much and many delicious giblets of all o’em who do be fool ’nuff to fight, will be splashing hither and y’onst..hmm.. I right cannae ponderthus who’d be useless enough tae think lofty-like them could touch yon demiurge. Aye.. ye tells us all te money an’ things ifn we sit and wait wiv nae effort?? Yes, us’s gladly take a spell.
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Lord of time and space.
Shifting your own movements to a time-stream too rapid for your opponent to register, much less to comprehend, to respond to? Nay, these are odds only cowards would set, and fools to agree to.
Cowardice has its own rewards, I fear! Though I do not know if I would call this action of his by that name. Other deeds he has done, yes. But this? This is a simple disregard for life. Just as disgusting, but what can we expect from a man who cares not even for his kin?
Getting yourself killed in a fight you know you can’t win is not cowardice, especially if the rewards for sitting out the fatal ass-whipping you were about to get are immense
True! Sometimes we must accept inaction as the wisest thing we can do to protect ourselves! And personally, I would rather not give Solomon David the satisfaction of my dying.
Those fighting the Emporer aren’t the cowards, but rather the Emporer himself is the coward in question.
When the last sounds you hear are clinking rings and neck pops.
I think he just obliterated that dude before the sound of the rings reached him.
Remember; Solomon has very little but disdain for his children, who have taken positions and riches within the empire but refused to take their shot at glory. He may kill those who try, but I don’t believe he thinks them cowardly, only fools.
The Word Diamond does not tolerate imperfection.
This emperor displays skill, not cowardice. He has the kindness to display to White Chain his skill, strike after strike. The emperor will strike many times, a different strike for each who has chosen to receive it.
The fighters who chose to delude themselves that it is wiser to draw blood than gold will not learn from the wisdom imparted to them on this day. After all, they didn’t learn from any of the predecessors, either.
What kind of grotesquely sheltered existence have you been living in if you think iife is even remotely supposed to be fair?
The Emperor is enjoying the enormity of his power by virtue of having it in the first place.
Only performers, braggarts and contemptors would consider handicaping themselves in such a situation.
Cowardice? Nay! For as the prophet Pietro of Maximoff himself once asked, “Why should I not avail myself of my power? Should a strong man not use his strength? Should a genius hide away his mind?” Why, then, should Solomon David not use the power of his beard to bend time and space to his will? Search your feelings! You know this to be true!
Salami Dave is a coward, not because of his power, or his will to use it, but because he is afraid that a similar power may exist. For if it does, he is not the most special person in Existence, and If he is not the most special person in Existence, he is (by his own reckoning) nothing.
Thus, he must destroy anything that even slightly resembles himself, holding all other things in contempt.
Cowardly? He competes using his own strength, no more, no less. That others contend with him knowing his power is their folly, not his. That they fall short is their sorrow; Solomon David cares not. His eye is on she who is named Al-Y-Sun and her symbiont spiritual, Cio Cioelle von Maxima VII. They represent a true threat to his hegemony. They must be dealt with.
Ah, a fellow master of the temporal fugue.
Creatures of Light and Darkness arisen…
Roger that. It is the art that passes understanding, and partakes more than a little of the vatras. If deleterious effects on causality and the nature of existence occur, seek help from a deity at once. Nay, from a whole pantheon.
Is your name a Hellboy reference?
My original form was a divine shard, an emanation of the goddess, forged into shape by the silver chisel of Koss, and given form and purpose according to a lost scripture of paradise.
What if the breath that kindled those grim fires,
Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage,
And plunge us in the flames;
or from above
Should intermitted vengeance arm again
His red right hand to plague us?
Nae sae iquitous thasel then poverettino, us’d be a bit mixed up an all. Ifn us already int.
out here just squishing people
ATATATATATATA! TA!
And here we witness the importance of a proper breathing regime for the exercise of martial arts and other civilized pursuits.
Industrial grade meat grinders are also a civilised pursuit.
This is just demolition applied to the sentient body.
There will be blood. Everywhere. EVERYWHERE AND IN THEIR UNDERPANTS.
Are you SURE it’s not an industrial meat grinder we’re about to witness?
Oh, sure, it could be used as one. Is it one? Bare in mind, Big Dave watches you.
We’re also witnessing the appalling results of the lack of a proper skeet training regime. You don’t shoot ’em where they ARE…
He must have practiced his Total Concentration Breathing for centuries…
Hm, he was also trained in Zwee Fighting. I may have to try actually punching and kicking.
Now there’s a reference.
*inserts an image of feces hitting a spinning blade*
Could this be the legendary Go-Time? Show me!
Overlorrrrd…. BUTTBLOW(tm)!
I believe this may forecast an example of the legendary martial art, Ecky-Thump.
Us sees nae black puddn! Lessen tha’s insultin Salami Dave. G’ luck wi that, rinkydinkthink.
OH SHIT HES
HES
HES HAVING A QUICKSILVER MOMENT
Oof, no kidding. Been ages since I read it. Hold onto your asses, ass-holders!
LET US DO BATTLE WITH RIDICULOUSLY HIGH POWER LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE! RAR!
I’ve always said that someone like The Flash or Quicksilver would be 100x more deadly if they practiced martial arts. Even straight and simply karate would cause untold devastation when applied at those speeds.
何？？？
This is the only correct reply.
for those who dont get it yet
“NANI? ? ?”
*High Pitch Screech*
alt text: お前はもう死んでいる aka “Omae wa mō shinde iru”
apparent meaning: you are already dead
N-NANI?!
Nooooo. I never knew there was an alt text. So many things missed
Omae wa mou Shindeiru
何
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Toki wo tomare! ZA WARUDO!
Japanese Language Moment
止まれ (tomare) is the imperative conjugation of the intransitive verb 止まる (tomaru). This cannot take an object, and can only be used when telling someone themselves to stop.
The transitive counterpart to tomaru is the verb 止める (tomeru). This can take an object, marked with the particle を (o). The imperative conjugation is 止めろ (tomero).
(Apparently any post including a link goes into limbo. Reposting without the links to the entries at Wiktionary.)
You have infinitely more grammar knowledge than me, however! I have seemingly more reference knowledge. That’s a Jojo quote, said when the dude *stops time*.
I’m guessing that’s necessary context by which that sentence won’t normally make sense but was deemed acceptable by the Japanese author, perhaps?
Admittedly, Jojo is a series where someone just spoutting gibberish is equally likely as ‘it being a sentence of stopping time justifies it’ but either way, it was a native Japanese speaker that put together that one.
Funfacy, he doesn’t say toki wo tomare but toki yo tomare, yo being in this context a calling suffix added to things like God or Time itself, so there is no grammatical error, he’s commanding time to stop, not saying “stop the time” or something like that.
He fast.
It’s not his speed! He’s using the Word Diamond to warp!
The Emperor inhales time and exhales death.
“Inhale, kill, exhale.”
za warudo, etc.
huh. i would’ve expected ki rata’s first demonstration to be more fla- wait. wait.
oh.
And how anyone managed to learn such an art is beyond me…
Martial arts BS really. I suppose they started at slower speeds and built up going faster and faster.
100 Push-Ups.
100 Sit-Ups.
100 Squats.
10KM Running.
Every Single Day.
My reaction as well, honestly. I got all the way to the bottom of the page, wondered what the “total life obliteration” part of this was, and then my eyes went up to reread it again and FINALLY noticed that Solomon was the only thing moving.
For all it’s anime-like flashiness, Abbadon’s storytelling can be terrifyingly subtle sometimes.
A fearsome display of Ki Rata? Or a fearsome display of being a god of the seven-part world?
Either way, quite a fitting overlay text.
That’s the interesting part, he’s not using his god-power at all. The big square bracket “crown” of purple fire is gone, the glare from the key in his forehead is faint enough I suspect it’s just reflected sunlight. Maybe simply bending reality by the power of entitlement is less fun than exploding people with his fist.
We may be seeing how he won his key in the first place.
Solomon was strong enough to fight and kill gods *before* he ever became one.
The most remarkable feature of this breathing technique is the exquisitely fine control over space and time required to keep an opponent frozen in motion yet also have it explode in torrents of gore upon impact.
This is most certainly a demonstration of skill for third parties gifted with timeless vision.
Oh my. Well, this seems to speak well towards the chances of another tournament happening in a few years.
Allow one to share some poetry from a relatively untouched world, which may give insight to what we witness:
“FEEL MY FIST
ON YOUR FACE
YOU HATE THIS
I FEEL GREAT”
Brutal.
Sonorous prose. This may be the Gilt Devil within me, but I sense such a world–untouched, as you say–would be quite the attractive one; full of sweet treasures. Like an exquisite, unguarded jewel box…
*vigorous snapping*
Wow. What a jerk.
An excellent rendition. Of a jerk. Jerkdition. Kudos to you, Perjurist.
How in the hell is anyone supposed to fight that?!
I believe a technique of the same style is required. A similar stance, or Stand, if you will
I wonder how many seconds his breath will hold him.
I recommend time.
Time kills everything. Time makes poisons, weapons and assassins of the most unsuspected of subjects. Give it time, and it will end.
… of course, it works two ways, and this guy is already immortal thanks to Ki Rata Breathing Techniques, so there is a chance it will kill you first! Ha! Ha! Ha.
Ha.
Um.
So we just sic Barragan on him then?
I’m down to try to find what gate he is from and get him here.
You…aren’t? I mean, yes, technically the winner of the tournament is supposed to have a chance to “fight” the Emperor, but I don’t know where you got the idea that any of them are “supposed to” have any actual chance of giving him a hard time of it. Literally every time for the past 6 millennia or so, the final match of the Ring of Power is basically just “contestant unleashes their greatest moves against Solomon. They are completely ineffective. Splat.”
This is a fucking DEMIURGE, not just some prissy stuck-up king. Other demiurges MIGHT give them an interesting fight on occasion (Jagganoth’s invincibility, Gog-Agog’s sheer mass and regenerative capabilities, etc.), but otherwise, as Allison has proved, the only way to not be killed by an angry Demiurge is to manipulate their flaws enough to distract and/or demotivate them so that you can successfully run away and hide.
Allison just barely survived Mottom because the old woman was still too busy wallowing in self-pity and shame to actually want Allison dead at the time, until just before she teleported out (which nobody knew she could even do at the time, including Allison). She survived Mammon because the aging Dragon was literally too senile to recognize her for who she was at first, and then Mottom came in and they distracted each other long enough for Allison to run away. Allison might have grown a lot since then, but as she herself just remembered a few pages ago, she is BY NO MEANS capable of giving a Demiurge an actual fight.
“…she is BY NO MEANS capable of giving a Demiurge an actual fight.”
…Yet.
Keep in mind that one must attune to the power of their truth in order to use it.
Allison has the Ruling Key, Majesty. She could command Diamond to warp and soften, Ki Rata to disperse rather than focus its power, herself to attain infinite force (the Tower guards and contains, and we have seen her guard her body by the key’s power). But to do that requires understanding that Majesty is not merely a spear or a club: it is a *master*. It is not the Glory that radiates from power and mesmerizes the fool with Illusions and want, it is the controlled force that comes of being in charge of that power. Of knowing the way of rule. It shapes other things and aims them! Majesty used in this way IS the infinite sword of God, both cutting and joining with its power.
To use a mastery requires understanding how to guide and shape it, as well as the nature of its natural opposition. If one has not studied the nature of one’s own gifts… well, then, one has not done the necessary work to attain their true capabilities.
Most everyone (in the story) thinks that Allison’s key is destined for another. But it was placed within HER head by one who understands rule. When she believes that it is truly hers, I think with her hard-gained wisdom and now-better-experienced intuition, she will claim it and learn it for herself. At that time, Allison will be able to choose to acknowledge the true Word and wield it as a Demiurge, rather than a victim.
Perhaps… perhaps I overreach, but… does the key itself want something?
If so… Majesty could get it.
But first, it must be wanted, or it cannot be wielded in full.
Invincibility or unlimited power seem like plausible alternatives.
I was expected a huge explosion, but I guess this is more reasonable to protect the contestants who decided to sit down instead.
Something tells me he’s just gonna one-hit-kill every single poor, foolish bastard who didn’t choose to sit this one out, probably before his rings and fancy scarf even touch the ground.
Everyone will blink, and somehow, the entire stadium will be covered in chunky gore.
The common joke in the Celestial Empire goes thusly:
“Hundreds of opponents arrayed themselves against the Emperor. The Emperor took off his many bracelets. He killed the entire crowd. Then the bracelets hit the ground.”
Truely the horde was mighty, if they prevented the Emperor from catching the rings before they fall.
From the outside this will look like just an explosion.
They will feel nothing.
Can a brain feel when vaporized?
No. No it can’t. Not a thing.
One’s realisation is doubtful. On a good day, one’s conscious brain is not aware of what one’s unconscious has already decided until several seconds later.
Who put the kettle on?
Oh, I did. I’m in your house, making you tea, Cuppa.
I’m sorry, intense night.
Oh thank goodness, one’s not losing one’s mind, it’s just a stalker. That’s all right then, one was worried there for a moment.
😀 No, no apologising necessary, you park yourself in the comfy seat, put your feet up and tell uncle, erm, Cuppa all about it.
One imagines a busy night sneaking into people’s houses, cleaning, tidying up, doing the dishes then slipping quietly out again. It can so take it out of one.
I once was on the receiving end of brain pulverization via kick and let me tell you, it hurts a lot. Now, it might be true that i had a spare brain reserved for such an occasion, and they probably dont, but the principle still stands.
If I could save time in a bottle…
…the first thing that I’d like to do…
…is to save every day…
…’til eternity passes away…
It’s always a jojo reference.
Except when it isn’t. Like, when it’s a Fist of the North Star reference.
WRYYYYY
The Emperor chose to disdain shoes in the previous moment, yet still have them now.
Still, hail the Emperor!
Clearly the Emperor has mastered the red art and has simply manifested sandals as per his will
Hail the Emperor
He must know the secret Clothes Beam technique
His most metro attack.
Solomon’s capacity for slaughter and for mercy are equal and rarely seen without the other.
It’s all in the reflexes.
A great many people are going to feel immense yet short sadness about their life choices in a very little while.
Diamond really is unbreakable
In Mother Empire, you do not break Diamond; Diamond breaks *you*
An edge of sufficient hardness, turned to the right angle and given a firm tap, will break a flawed diamond. Or you could use a grinder or cutting wheel inlaid with diamond dust. Not all diamonds are pure, and like can cut like.
Ki Rata made Solomon David pure. Diamond made him solid. But these things did not make him safe.
And so the wolves rush to slaughter.
It is little wonder the sheep of the celestial empire feel so very well kept with such a shepherd.
Biblical David was no warrior, yet he slew giants along with the wolves. Death at the hands of this shepherd seems a foregone conclusion.
The shepherd protects his sheep, yes, but it is not for their love that he does it.
Well put. As the ancient prayer would have it, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, he makes me down to lie. Through pastures green he leadeth me, the silent waters by. With bright knives he releaseth my soul. He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places, for Lo! He hath great power, and great hunger.
Truer words were never spoke! Religion is red in tooth and nail.
Any shepherd should also a butcher be.
One of Solomon’s greatest achievements is that when he opens his grand abbatoir every 3 years his sheep fight and maim one another for the chance to be first to slaughter.
Punched that guy so hard he blew up!
“He blew up good!”
“Real good!”
*makes the call of the Great White North*
Poor sod got hit right in the bangcreas.
This will be a slaughter.
Methinks the challengers will need some milk.
A swift and brutal death. In this, the essence of Ki Rata is revealed – it is not a fighting art. It is a murder art. And these fools are the canvas.
Hrmm… Reckon that Time isn’t actually frozen. See all those little vapor trails he’s leaving? He’s moving so fast he’s condensing the moisture in the air around him. Figure him being at or near sea-level makes it even harder to generate contrails, cuz of the temperature and density of the air. Which means he’s moving crazy fast. Think jet-aircraft speeds, by a humanoid creature, on the ground. Wonder if he’ll go super-sonic?
I pray not. Mortals going beyond such limits run the risk of tearing through reality and getting sucked into the nothingness beyond. It leaves such a mess upon the ashen heaps of the Void.
I suspect that he is at least pushing Mach 1.
Time is relative. By moving fast, you slow down time. By moving fast enough, you slow time down to the point it might as well be frozen.
Though you would become infinitely massive, which may hinder somewhat.
Infinitely massive biceps seem not to hinder the tyrant one whit.
That’s in real-life physics. Things are different in the wheel: even the metaphysics is significantly different. Allison’s Earth is not our Earth.
The local speed of light may not be finite.
Moving at a large fraction of c would slow down time for *him*, not the world around him (as well as increase his mass, mentioned below, plus flattening him in the direction of motion). It would also cause fusion reactions in the air around him via compression (ie – the air not being able to move out of his way in time), releasing a lot of energy in the arena, including gamma radiation.
Mach speeds + shockwaves, sure. Time dilation via high c velocities, not in this case (or, at least not yet).
Pree/m e-to-the-i-pi-bringing-a-guest, tha seems physikcyst.
Us hears dom dom dom dom dom when him be halfways to us viewpoint. That mean Salami half soundspeed?
re: half soundspeed
Doubtful. Assuming atmosperic conditions and local physics are similar to those we find on worlds inhabited by humans (and human analogues) throughout the multiverse, as well as using both SI units and 24/60/60 timekeeping methods, 0.5 Mach 1 would be ~171.5 m/s, or 617.5 km/h; you should be able to convert those figures to your preferred method(s) of measurement and timekeeping, if necessary.
Notice that in addition to the dom-dom-dom (almost-but-not-quite doom-doom-doom, interestingly), the clouds of dust raised by his passing; yet the knives thrown at him have not visibly moved (neither have his armbands or purple garment, still suspended in the air). Also, others have noted the explosion of gore from what remains of the overly enthusiastic gent in the last panel. More like artistic license, I suspect. Of course, the Big Salami can presumably alter space and time at will, so he may be playing with local physics, moving within one frame of reference while objects he physically touches (the ground, the air in contact with his body, the exploding no-longer-a-head) move in another. Just a hypotheses, of course; we’ll need to observe more before attempting to draw further conclusions.
re: bringing-a-guest
Nope, just me I’m afraid. Do the math properly, and it’s even less than that. 😉
All be ever un wheel yey mightisome elegants.
Or un pissedup i Yorksha.
eeee’s pie-eyed an then sum.
One suspects not many would be left to hear the boom! But the vapour should show up the shock wave nicely if he were to go supersonic.
I suspect the shock waves from such high speeds would make it hard to not mistify the contestants who decided to stay still.
Maybe that’s why he breathed out – so that he doesn’t have to move the air in his lungs. It’d only slow him down.
If you look closely, you can see the breath he released in the first panel throughout the rest of the page. First just past his forehead while he stretches, then left behind with his bracelets and robes as he moves to attack. As far as I can tell, it’s basically the only thing that changes at all other than what Solomon directly interacts with.
So I don’t really want to accuse Abaddon of cheating and claim they used the same background like, 4 times in a row….
But I kinda feel like this page is cheating.
Cheating is only possible when there are rules.
Artistic work is great that way.
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist
— Pablo Picasso
On the contrary; it is the only way to properly render something like this.
Do you accuse those who employ high-speed cameras to observe the passage of bullets of cheating?
I’m a little surprised Abbadon didn’t do stuff like having the thrown daggers moving further away each frame. They aren’t moving at bullet speeds, but it still should be noticeable at the speeds Solomon is moving if a jumping warrior is seemingly frozen in midair.
Don’t know if it’s asking too much of Abbadon, who is already awesome with details, to make it the same but slightly different position which would give a better impression of moving extremely fast.
How do you know what speeds Solomon is moving at and that the apparent slowdown is caused by relative speeds and not a temporal effect?
What would be the difference? :p
You can see the breath he released from panel 1 in the other panels, and it does change slightly between them. Considering his bracelets don’t move but his exhalation does appear to begin to disperse somewhat, I feel confident in the belief that this is not a temporal effect placed on the arena.
Unworthy accusation.
the way he move’s is kind of awkward but it makes sense. the faster you move the harder the air resist’s that movement. so when you’re moving so fast that time appears frozen of course you’re going to walk like you’re pushing through liquid concrete.
I made it all the way to the final round of Solomon David’s ring of power and all I got was this removal from existence
Solomon David has entered SNK Boss mode.
In the world of Kung Fu, speed defines the winner.
NANI!?
oh sweet fools, you are up against a God! how can you hope to kill a God? what a grand and intoxicating innocence
First you must learn the most dangerous and powerful martial art in all the multiverse, diligently for many years, before slaughtering the head monk and the entire order. Then might you slay the god and steal the fire from his brow.
The slaughtering of all your brothers may not strictly be a necessary step.
I see what you did there 😉
Strange, this outcome I did not foresee. Was I naive?
H-he’s fast!
Pity the Emperor; Who, alone, sits upon his throne.
Never forget: The last Emperor, is the worst Emperor.
MUDA!
N-NANI!
hope atleast one of these goobers has human colored blood
oh wait nvm the color palette just is grayer on this page for some reason O_O
Is that a motherfuckin JoJo reference
No, actually, it isn’t.
Tide and time wait for no man.
Except Solomon David.
At the speeds his body moves, Solomon David is not “punching” things.
Solomon David, of diamond made, is going through things as if they were made of pudding, as if a tank rushed through water balloons, as if a man’s fist willingly crushed his wedding cake, as if a nail was thrust into the naked heart of a beast torn through overwhelming force to shorten its agony, for what does a demiurge when he kills, but shorten a tiny life in a universe where no chance shall come to ever rise to his side as an equal?
Solomon David, whose force is without match, is now overwhelming, rending arms, armor and flesh in the way YISUN would spin a lie about a light in a cave.
That is, as if it wasn’t there at all.
Wait, time stops when he holds his breath?
At least he does them the honour of not toying with them. For long.
Weeeeeelll hell.
I would think the time for cracking the tendons in your neck in an intimidating way would be before you start moving so fast no one will register your actions except in past tense.
Then again, sometimes I get cricks in my neck from sleeping oddly. Then it doesn’t matter if there’s anyone to see me crack my tendons in an intimidating manner.
He’s Joseph Joestar and DIO in one!
The Emperor? More like ZA WORLD!
Waiting for that one guy who looks like he is standing still but his eyes can follow Davys movements….
Yeah, given the vast array of abilities, I seriously doubt he’s the only being capable of moving at supersonic speeds and there’s likely arts out there that specialize in speed.
Whether said supersonic being is named Sonic the Hedgehog remains to be seen.
Though it is clearly the “you are already dead” moonrunes I can recognize now for some reason, the various za warudo folks have a point as well.
Reminds me the first time the missus saw a clip of Dio using it while subbed and misheard it because later playing a game with a timefreeze she blurted out “ED-UARDO” and it took me a long time to appreciate how amazing it really was.
…ok in all seriousness, where does solomon get his sandals cuz daammmmnnnn!~
Well, at least now we have a good idea on how his attacks are going to be able to tell the difference between the (moderately) wise, the retreating, and the utter fools:
The good ol’ Mk-1 eyeball.
Ken Shiro? More like Dio Brando…
ZA WARUDO! TOKI WO TOMARE
I didn’t realize Ki Rata had an answer to Deja Fu.
Now that’s a good one. All heil Lu-Tze!
Prees are well-read.
Pah. Is justa buncha bunny hops.
That tunic of his must be made from a helluva durable fabric to withstand being moved around at essentially E5+ tornado strength movements. Though obviously, if it weren’t, we’d be seeing him buck naked and the rating of the comic shooting through the roof.
Also, I’m surprised nobody is trying to shoot him with some sort of laser or light beam, while he’s moving fast enough to spot it getting triggered and dodge he still can’t outrun it
Ah.
Two pages ago, we saw the contestants divide themselves into 3 groups of actors: Those who attacked (the majority, I think), those who accepted the option of quietly staying in place, and those who fled from the emperor.
I wondered if those who fled were perhaps wisest: If the emperor unleashed an attack with an area effect, as seemed possible, then their only hope for survival was to try to flee outside the area of effect.
Yet now we see that it looks like Solomon David is providing an extremely personal response to each contestant that is attacking. He presumably will keep his word, and leave the non-attacking contestants alone.
Or will he? He did not specify what he would do to to anyone who fled. I suppose they have the hope that the emperor would scorn to attack anyone fleeing. Surely his bloodlust would be sated by the target-rich environment of attackers he has around him.
Wouldn’t it?
I mean, one page ago.
Pages fly at superspeed when you’re having fun, and it sure looks like Solomon David is.
And I forgot to mention: it looks like Solomon David will Pass Over those who are as meek as lambs.
Solomon David is moving so fast that you didn’t see the hidden page in between.
Well he’s either manipulating time and space such as he’s frozen these fools and they literally cannot move to stop him. Or he’s manipulating it to move himself so he’s moving so fast they wont have a chance to comprehend he started murdering them. Either way its bullshit as the mortals say I expected him to simultaneously butcher these idiots with some form of spacial control.
Or he is moving so fast that things appear frozen or slo-mo from his perspective. I don’t think any bending of space, time, or space-time is involved here.
I will grind my hatred upon the loved ones.
Despair will be brought upon the hoping childs of happiness.
Wherever there is joy the hordes of the eclipse will pollute
sadness and hate under the reign of fear.
In the name of the almighty Emperor….
Feh.
At this moment, ALL of the contestants are following his order to “remain as you are and do absolutely nothing”, and yet he still turns them to pulp. What a farce, to pluck at nothing but stationary targets. I would not expect such a Prideful icon to resort to such low laws to break.
The Emperor is losing his Clothes, and soon he shall have none.
I’m sure at supersonic speeds, he knows what moving and being stationary looks like.
Anyways, the ones attacking have already separated themselves from those actually being stationary and those fleeing, so, that makes it easier.
I’m a little worried for the young swordsman from the previous page as he got startled by an orange ape (not Donald Trump, (un)fortunately) jumping over him and dropped his sword, don’t know how Solomon would interpret him picking his sword back up, though I guess it’d be wiser to just leave it on the ground.
Do we really have to bring Trump into this? Tired of hearing about him tbh
It was sort of an anti-joke joke, but yeah, perhaps it was unwarranted I’m sorry.
Edit: comma between ‘unwarranted’ and ‘i’m’
Look, if you feel like you were unfairly pulped, you can always just file a formal complaint. Form 245B. Any of the clerks will be happy to assist you.
Or in other words, the dead cant complain, if he does make a mistake and pulps someone who didnt want to fight him, it doesnt matter.
‘Kill them all and let god sort it out’, he’s both doing the killing and the god that sorts it out. There is no higher authority here. He could kill them all by making them choke on their underwear if he wanted to. Nothing in the universe can hold him accountable for anything. Except the other gods perhaps, but that’s like complaining to Hitler that Stalin unfairly killed your dad. It’s not gonna end well for you.
It’s easy to scoff and jeer and pretend towards a grand position of sanctimonious moral rectitude when safely on the sidelines.
Perhaps one in ten thousand will grow the gonads to put actions to words.
I’m sure their pretense was much use against his fists as well.
I wonder how our Emperor would act if some contestant managed to burn part of his beard off.
That might be the only thing to set him off.
Is he faster than Allicio fusion?
Maybe to even manage to keep with him we will get triple fusion next, Devil skin outside, human in the middle of layers and Angel essence inside.
Considering Allicio didn’t move so fast time appeared frozen, I think it’s pretty obvious that he is faster.
Solomon is obviously still entires leagues above what Alisson can muster.
Omae wa mou shindeiru!!!
If you can catch the hanker’d spy
the lion’s face but miss the lie
I come back to him, but why?
I was wondering what Solomon David´s power would look like once it is unleashed. I did not expect this…I got the feeling that this fight will be over very quickly and not much of a great watch as everything explodes within about half a minute.
I can’t run; I’m wearing flip-flops!
Vibe check
Ehmmmm. Reading about “five-point attack” called “total life obliteration”, I expected to see all this fools to perish instantly through this one perfect povement. (damn, those Ki Rata bastards ruin cities with ten points, so it seems highly plausible). Well, this short-contact one-by-one superspeed elomination is… frankly disappointing, I would say.
Yet let us hope that we just haven’t grasp the trues scale of events yet.
Still, gourgeusly drawn and composed. nothing to deny.
That should be “movement”, of course.
this bitch is using hamon
А ведь он сейчас полный круг сделает, превращая противников в фарш, и вернется в центр в момент когда его накидка упадет обратно ему на плечи, а браслеты вернутся на руки.
Следующий кадр: наши герои смотрят на Соломона сверху как он стоит в центре, а вокруг него хлопьями оседает кровавое кольцо из бывших бойцов.
Те кто струсил, стоят на арене без движения, глядя на это в шоке.
Агог беснуется. Зрители аплодируют.
Hmmmm. Seems probable.
Впервые вижу тут такой длины камент по-русски %)
Вот она, настоящая мощь Думгая.
Are those clouds coming off of him air trails or smoke trails?
Because if it’s smoke, it implies he’s moving fast enough to ignite the air, which is a nice touch that you never really see in quicksilver scenes
I think its the moisture in the air condensing as he moves through and pushes it past him body
his*
Damn, he’s fast. But is he faster than light? One of the contestants has a laser.
I did remark earlier that I was surprised nobody was trying to fire a laser at him. However, they should have fired it already at this point, unless they can track and predict Solomon’s movements at that speed.
The mass rush goes a long way towards explaining why there’s no lasers though, there is no line of sight through the crowd.
Nobody’s senses could register the beginning of this attack before it is finished. To an outsider it will look as if all the contestants simultaneously turned to mush.
Nobody human at any rate.
The Goblins have that supernatural sense of smell where they can literally smell light as if they were seeing it. So, it’s not impossible some servant species exists out there that can register it at that speed.
Thae humans be registerin 50-60 blinks a sec (perceivin frames as seprate tho – 12 or less per sec mostlike; more’d be clunksome anime til smoothlike at 20+).
Fastest none-human on yon Dirtball be Peregrin wi 130 blinks a sec, coza doin more’n twahundert milenhour divin.
Salami’d hafta put ‘is rings on agin afore point o seven sec to avoid the bird noticin summat.
There are creatures with senses and abilities beyond our own, and can seem almost supernatural, but the abilities of Goblins go beyond biology.
There’s servants/aliens with floating things for a head, so, obviously biological constraints weren’t necessarily considered a limiting factor for all servants when forge god Koss created them.
Anyways, if anything does have the ability to see him moving that fast or is able to move at those speeds (whether natural ability, key given, as would be likely during the Universial War, or some martial art), there’s a good bet that Solomon would still be able to handle it. He hasn’t gotten to where he is by not being able to fight something that matches his speed, it just wouldn’t be as easy.
Math Problems in the Rayuba Grade Schools…
1) If there are 100 fighters remaining in the Tourney,
and the Emperor Solomon Strikes each one with FIVE fingers,
then this is the Round of ____ ? Yes ! Correct : 500 BLOWS.
Here are the Math problem for the Advanced Grades.
2) If each of the 100 fighters facing the Emperor has 1.5 gallons of blood in their body, How large an area of the arena may be painted with their blood ?
3) The Emperor pivots and moves to strike a hapless fighter.
The Emperor’s fist is moving at three times the speed of sound.
( How high / far does the resulting Fountain of Blood travel ? )
4) The Emperor Solomon attacks 100 fighters while moving at three times the speed of sound ( which happens to be the same here on Rayuba as that mythical land called Earth. ) If the emperor annihilates each fighter with one blow in a hundredth of a second, and takes an additional three hundredths of a second to move to the next fighter, how long will it take the Emperor to obliterate all of his attackers ?
*Bonus points awarded for creating your own Tournament math question.*
This is ridiculous. I can’t see how anyone could use this in real life.
Conveniently, those who fail to learn these lessons have no need of it either, for their lives are ended.
Pass/Fail has a certain clarity to recommend it as a grading system. Like diamond.
Ach, what a waste. How ’bout 5600m² – 6800m².
Is dependin on thickness of coverage tha’s wantin, blood solids (us own specialty), an transferrin effcacy. An wether tha’s assumin american or imperial.
About twa metres max (in us experience), oftimes only a few inches. Add half agin fer spread.
Us reckons on less’n a twentith’f a second. Salami doin 1km per sec ‘d be invalidatin any extra time fer blowin thae fighters!
Us off t’get a bucket fer the scraps.
5. If’n Salami takes ‘is shirt off, how much harder’n yon quiz gets halfa thum fighters? Ha, if that thinks us devisin maths tha’s dreamin.
CONTINUITY ERROR: in this page the emperor has sandals, but in the previous page he is barefoot.
50 guilders says Solomon returns to his initial spot just in time for his robes and bracelets to fall back on him.
Also this page finally clarifies how no one else has managed to learn Ki Rata from Solomons frequent displays. One would need to already have mastered it to even see the movements.
What of those capable of seeing his movements at that speed? Sure, the great majority of sapients won’t be able to, but considering the vast array of abilities and bizarrities, one can’t discount that such an ability does exist somewhere.
That said, they still wouldn’t have full mastery of it and there was a below page text way back saying that the adherents of it searched out and killed anybody who managed to stumble on it. Solomon likely does exactly that.
A continuous cutting motion indeed.
As a famous gun-maker/Scarlet Wizard says
EXPLOSION
By Aesma’s screaming tits… I go to feed on some laughsome mortals whilst they be panick-wise an plauged and sickish for a week or a nonce, an THIS us’s do be coming back to?? Cannae help but be droolish a’ te thoughts o all’o’em entrails…
Ae, me! Slackish and loathful ae the sloppish thinkery, us’s. Mae foulen Ebon, gratitudinally full-wise, we! Lackwit, us, ae no do be sharin thus. But…thinks, us; fullsome yet o’en ye black shardies be, a nonce do a two or nil?
(Oops! I can be so forgetful. My fiendish Ebon [Haldis], thank you for due payment of the bet! I’d be remiss if I didn’t share this drink. I wonder; if your pockets are still feeling heavy to you, would you be interested in double or nothing?)
He…
He did a neck crack before doing anything else.
I’d say that’s just showing off, but given that I don’t think anyone traveled a millimeter…
Assumptions:
The kunai are traveling at 1000 feet per second. That’s a little less than half the speed of a bullet. Seems reasonable for a fighter who’s made it to this round.
The distance between Solomon and his target is 10 feet.
The kunai have moved a millimeter (.003 feet) from the second panel to the fifth.
If these assumptions hold true, I believe Solomon is moving a cool 3 million feet per second. It could very well be faster, I believe these are conservative estimations.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Omae wa mou shindeiru
I know it might not happen, but I kinda hope at least one of them goes, “Ehh, I was already getting my ass handed to me, I’ll just take the paycheck.”
I love how we can see the air being compressed in front of him as he moves around.
An astounding attack! Could it be that Solomon can freeze time for his opponents as long as he can hold his breath? I hope the spectators are not frozen as well because it would be a shame for them to miss the pulping of the remaining attackers.
I guessed what it means before even translating. For the ones who wish to copy:
お前はもう死んでいる
Everybody seems to be assuming that by the time Solomon’s rings descend all the attackers will be gone and Solomon will be standing at the centre of a ring of gore. To me, it would be more impressive if he kills only one attacker (or perhaps one in ten?) and disrupts the rest so that they collide in the centre, covered in giblets, while Solomon sits to one side. Watching these fools realise how deeply they are mired in shit, and then seeing them slink away, would be satisfying.
Chapter 5: The part where he kills you
Synopsis: This is the part where he kills you
Summary: This is that part.
Pocoloco: Hamon user and current owner of The World Over Heaven
ZA WARUDO! TOKI WO TOMARE!
NANIIII?!?!?
I picture him moving while everything around him moves in motion so slow it’s almost not moving. His clothing ripples and moves like it’s weighted like it’s resisting the movements though unable to slow his stride. Would be so cool to see in a video… :O
KSBD animated series when, right?!?!
He could just break their necks y’know. Or even their arms. If he splatters all the assailants, the others who sat still will likely drown in blood and guts.
In any case, it will be one hell of a job for the cleaners.
U TRIED
I once faced a tyrant who used a high-speed art for similar effect. However, he would always announce his use of the technique with a shout of “YOU WA SHOCK!” beforehand.
It seems Solomon David’s wisdom has overruled his pride in this specific matter.
Drown?what about the high speed droplet cuts?
…oh.
OH.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.
Took me a moment to notice.
That poor bastard in the last panel probably doesn’t even know he’s been killed.
Next page will be nothing but innards.
It’ll take Abbadon weeks to draw all of that. On the bright side, we should learn a lot about the anatomy of the various races of Throne.
Giblets! Giblets! Get yer luuuurverly giblets here!
Why is he still affected by gravity?
Because he chooses to be affected by gravity? Most of the fighters going at him aren’t flight capable, so, he has to be near or on the ground to one-punch them anyway.
S’cuse me, coming through.
This is why The Flash should be utterly terrifying.
There is a scene in The Boys where the Flash parody EXPLODES a girl by accidentally running into her(while high on the drug that gives supes their powers). Death was instantaneous. All that remained was a pile of red jelly. If Flash wanted to…man, he could kill with frightening ease.
I didn’t think you or anyone here is old enough to know Hokuto no Ken…
He’s so fast, he makes fast people look not fast – Wise Man Unger
Oh, I just got it. “Total Life Obliteration”
It’s not referring to some technique that instantly erases its target(s). It’s a technique that renders the user extreme speed and perception to the point that the world appears lifeless. Nothing moves, nothing breathes, hearts no longer beat, minds don’t even have time to think. All life in the universe stops. Total Life Obliteration.
Personally, I think that the technique is named not for what it does, but merely for what it looks like it does. Consider the perspective of an outside observer. To them, Salami Dave struck a pose, and then everyone around him instantly exploded in a shower of gore. The illusion is enhanced if he then returns to his position prior to using the technique. Total Life Obliteration indeed.
I think my boy Dave is going to work off a lot of repressed emotions in these next few panels….. good for him
Hope he won’t get bored after the first hundred or so kills…
So…it appears Salami Dave is so fast he can turn off the light and be in bed before the room gets dark.
And before we accuse Abbadon of a continuity error – Solomon Dave barefoot on the previous page and shazam wearing sandals in this one – know that SD had time to jog back to the dais, put on his sandals, put the kettle on, have a cuppa tea, sort through some paperwork, then resume his position in the arena in time to slow down a bit to flex a little by cracking his neck (though no one could see him do it, so why does he? Oh just because I suppose), then move forward to wreak mayhem.
The only thing the contestants have going for them is they won’t have time to shit their respective pantaloons before going to their respective afterlives. So there’s a silver lining for them after all.
Finally a worth sensei for One Punch Man
Let assemble all those who would see him overthrown,
for he will go forth and in a display of blood and gore remove all opposition
and call it a contest for those already subservient or as yet unsure
This reminds me of the alien santa carving up the forces of Halloween in Sluggy Freelance. I suspect the whole competition is something of a red herring, if one actually succeeds in drawing a drop of blood it will be accepted of course but it’s not how he expects it to happen, perhaps someone arguing that, morally and practically giving a drop of blood to the arguer is the right thing to do or an elaborate trap or paying a huge sum. Infact do we know if he even keeps his blood in his body? The main purpose of it is to have most violent, overconfident idiots remove themselves in an entertaining fashion.
Ah yes, I finally understand the essence of Ki-Rata.
The breathing has not much to do with the damage it does, the breathing techniques only enhance the brute strength of the body in such a way that one becomes physically unstoppable.
It is not so much the ultimate martial art as it is the ultimate physical booster, and a man such as Solomon David must have mastered thousands of fighting styles he can combine with said booster, so that a well trained hook or uppercut that would normally be able to break jaws now could effortlessly break mountains.
Truly a brilliant employment of this skillset.
Doesn’t really account for the 10 point techniques which are capable of leveling entire cities (and I’m going to assume that it has been used in such a way) on their own. Also, while it could plausibly be used in conjunction with other compatible styles, Ki Rata is the only one we’ve seen him use.
I imagine that effect would just be the byproduct of the air blast generated by a punch or a kick enhanced to the maximum.
Is that Maya in the background in that last pannel? stood where Davy was in the prior one?
I sense a twist a comming.
Mostly Mayas gonna draw blood and take the key so she can lay the smackdown on incubus.
The only one that even vaguely resembles Maya appears to be wielding a full length sword, so, no.
The Emperor is cutting out everyone who could become a threat to himself with this tournament. That’s why the ‘winner’ is allowed to fight him originally. No strong people, no strong teachers, no chance for losing his throne. The Emperor is a flawed messiah, full of fear and pride.
Thus the emperor spoke:
“Parry this, you filthy casual.”
Despite his diamond, demigod essence, the ability to breath feels especially important to this Soloman. I recall an old story where a super-humanly strong, indestructible demigod was ultimately drowned in a writhing cloud of worms.
Perhaps a similar fate is in store for our demigod here. Never turn your back on the bearer of Beast.
This casts my mind to the wild talent displayed by Miles Teg on Gammu, and the cost of such displays. I have much clearer memories of the passages describing the increased metabolic and caloric demands of the feat than I do of the feat itself, which feels apropos for a body of work that pays careful attention to energy relationships, and makes me wonder how much of this comes from breath control and how much of it is enabled by Solomon’s role as an apex predator/energy-eater.
Except that Miles Teg doesn’t have 111,111 keys to the universe in his forehead and be immortal and bear only sons through martial arts BS.
Still though, there have been below page and Abbadon anecdotes about some martial arts stuff that require energy buildup or are energy intensive, so, it’s not entirely implausible that Solomon is going to end up pretty drained when he’s done. Though if that’s the case, he probably feels confident that he won’t be so drained as to be vulnerable to an opportunistic Gog Agog or Allison.
Editwhiletyping: The energy drain could be part of the Total Life Obliberstion thing, we just haven’t seen it yet.
Edit: Meant as a reply to Jehanne Butler, but I guess it didn’t stick.
a panoramic “cast of thousands” battle scene that for once doesn’t require drawing the entire sistine chapel four times in a row
and yeah, is there anything more “OP” than time stop?
(astonishing comic as always)
I’ve Luther Strode vibe in this moment, and I love it 😀
The wise would wait until the end of combat, then congratulate Salami Dave and shake his hand- it might count as touching!
I just had a strange thought: Zoss was inhumanly powerful even before he gained the Key; powerful enough to beat all the prime angels all by his lonesome. Yisun is said to have died when They split into Yis and Un; yet in later stories Yisun is stil very much present in the company of the later gods. What if Zoss IS Yisun?!? Could Yisun have created Zoss as an avatar to enjoy the multiverse that would evolve? Whaddaya think?
Intriguing proposition Pr. VGer. Of course Yisun both died, and lied about having died, the cat is both alive and dead. And all are Yisun, it matters not the shade nor temperature of your flame. Zoss as an avatar of Yisun could be one aspect of them perhaps, gods may have several or many avatars – other individuals could be other aspects, and all are needed to play their part, knowingly or no, for the wheel to turn. ?
new page when
Hrmm… Reckon I’m ready too! Maybe we just aren’t moving fast enough to keep up with Dave, and we missed it?
Checked his twitter and he had some tablet issues yesterday, plus it’s a two page spread, which would explain the delay. Should be up this weekend.
Two page? That’s going to be bloody then!
God level Street Fighter V-ism with infinite gauge. Excellent effect!
Is our esteemed creator ok? He hasn’t updated in a week nor given the sort of notice he usually does when he gets delayed.
I’m wondering myself, he was on a roll with updates sooner than usual, it yeah it’s been a while.
It’s possible that it’s a particularly detailed spread like the one with Mammon’s and Mottoms forces going at it at Mammon’s vault, but as you said, he hasn’t given any sort of notice.
Actually, I looked at his twitter and yesterday he said that he ran into some tablet issues, but it should be up this weekend, it’s also a two page spread, which would explain the apparent delay amid the roll.
Edit: reCaptcha is being a POS today…..
Fairansquaresome, is just us that likes clicketyclickin zebras crossin an bikle hydrants? Finds it calmsome us. Lets it timeout an does it agin just cos.
Abby only mentions delays on Twitter these days.
Now I can’t help to wonder if Allison is just sitting, meaning she’d get a title ion his empire and no small amount of wealth, or if she’s taking her shot at him.
Hey Abbadon, I get that delays can happen sometimes, but could you put up a notice on the site as well so we don’t have to go to your Twitter to find out?
Cull the Treacherous. Disarm the Kingslayer. Behead the ambitious.
Not a fight. Only a cleansing. Brought by disappointment.
Thinks, me; much and many delicious giblets of all o’em who do be fool ’nuff to fight, will be splashing hither and y’onst..hmm.. I right cannae ponderthus who’d be useless enough tae think lofty-like them could touch yon demiurge. Aye.. ye tells us all te money an’ things ifn we sit and wait wiv nae effort?? Yes, us’s gladly take a spell.
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