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.
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.