KING OF SWORDS 10-137
Chapter: 10
“In that moment, Metia discovered that the weight of a god was slightly less than that of an empty welk shell.
She hurled her opponent ten leagues with the flick of her finger, and that was that.”
-Psalms
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
Ah, there are survivors. I was not sure there would be. The emperor is not as merciless as I thought he would be. I suppose even the deepest bloodthirst must be slaked by the oceans he has unleashed on the arena.
Congratulations to White Chain, though. An angel who can admit that they were wrong and strive to change is a rare angel indeed.
Although I must admit the heroic quality of dying for a belief is lessened when you have died over 80 times before.
80 Deaths to hold up the system. 1 to fight against it
well he did lay it out pretty clearly that anyone who chose to stop fighting wouldn’t be retaliated against. I dunno why you’d be expecting the man to lie now of all times.
That perspective is not doing Davey boy any favors.
Manlet Salami.
This is what Jadis beheld when she saw the true shape of the Universe.
Ten tiny teeny toes.
Ten points strike.
TOTAL HEIGHT OBLITERATION
I’m sure I read somewhere that Solomon is one of only two living practitioners of Ki Rata.
I’m not sure who the other one is. Anyone have any ideas ?
No clue either. I thought Solomon was the only living practitioner of Ki Rata.
Seeker of Thrones, Chapter 5, Pages 43 and 44, the big spread of the Red City. You’ll find him there.
One of the last living. Interesting to contemplate how many others there may be among the living, dead and never-were-alive.
Answered that’n un page back. Elsewise follow Ashton d’rections o Caymun. An mebbe others an all, but unyetknown.
And so sparks the match. Revelation is realized. We begin the windup of the cosmic dice-roll and the Celestial prepares to face the Tyrant. Will she perish? Most certainly. Will she fail utterly? Maybe not. Only time will tell the melody of her Swan Song. Be it a bitter dirge or a valiant Requiem.
Roll the bones, rosin the bow. The true dance begins.
WHITE CHAIN! SNAP OUT OF IT WHITE CHAIN!
preemptive F’s in the chat
And the Mantis is OK! I hope we see more of them. Looks like Allison’s group is going to have an opening soon… I’m not saying, I’m just saying…
phew, preem warrior Mantis just got covered in gore. Thank Yisun.
*sniff* *sniff*
Sorry, Solomon punched a bowl of onions in half right next to me…
Ys Myra’s skull an Aesma’s tits, us spies Angel tears!
Hopes the WC got summat cunningsome up ‘er sleeve, us.
Oh. She don’t got no sleeves. Sees tha in th’void.
To defeat his faster-than-fast moves, she might need to chase him down to the quantum level and freeze him with a hard stare; and that is truly enough to make an angel weep.
Nae un bein in creation neer endure suchalike! Thum Musko Reeve must’as suresome waxed on’t !
Blue Steel or Magnum?
Looks like David is going to die.
White Chain may feel she has done something unforgivable in this moment. But she doesn’t realize – it’s a far harder path to live for redemption than to die for it. I’m hoping Alison will call her out for being dumb.
She is in the somewhat unusual position to do both.
This is such a powerful page. Those words have really revealed the core of what David’s rule is.
I’m so proud of how much White Chain has grown. I hope she survives this.
*queues up Anime fight music*
abbadon, i LOVE this comic, but i have always felt that the dialogue aspects of characterization is one of its few shortcomings.
THIS page, however, is MASTERFUL. the emotive force of white chain’s epiphany here is FLOORING. and the fact that it will likely coincide with the physical destruction of her shell as she strikes out against that system as embodied by solomon — additional layers of symbolism — is the hallmark of great writing.
thank you and congratulations. it’s been a privilege and an honor to watch you develop.
Live to fight another day, Chain. How can an individual hope to fight tyranny like this? Plan. Organize.
One of the point of being an angel is that death is merely an inconvenience. If they don’t get chased and slaughtered in the void, it’s just a matter of getting another shell.
I don’t doubt mr. salami’s ability to casually inflict true death on an angel. Especially one that’s dissing him on live television.
An Gog’s got yon close-up o Chain’s movesome sliloquy, in splitscreen wi un smugsome Salami. 313th givin her the bestest ratings ever!
The thing about authoritarian is that to play their games on their terms is to have already lost. The tournament is a lie; if you could touch Solomon, you can kill him and his empire is tours.
Diamond cannot be scratched, but is easily shattered.
A while back near the end of the heist someone left a comic saying that this is without a doubt the best webcomic they follow. I agreed then, but partially because of how badass it was. This is deeply inspirational as well.
This is without a doubt the best webcomic I follow.
A Teacup is observant.
One does heartily concur.
Is it just the angle or is White chain’s head thing getting widder/more open?
I think we’ve seen this happen before, it seems to open up more, when White Chain is doing more intense things.
And the Angel said unto them, “FIGHT THE SYSTEM”.
RIP White Chain
t’was nice meeting you
Powerful is he who may defeat any opponent.
More powerful still is he who defeats his opponents without lifting a finger against them.
White Chain has taken this greater power from Solomon. To take power from such a man is the first step towards an impossible victory. None have taken this path to its conclusion yet, but White Chain has the luxury that she gets to die trying.
I’m glad that White Chain’s had their epiphany and all, but I’m rooting for Salami Dave. Beyond believing in a (likely) misquoted prophecy, the guy seems pretty great for an absolute ruler. Meanwhile the main cast has just made everything worse the more they get involved.
Yes, let’s smash authority – kick his ass and uh… leave everything on fire? Destroy the prosperity of billions causing horrific civil war and invasions from the other demiurges just to work out your authority issues. Yeah, that sounds great and not terrible at all.
lol, better the megalomaniacal dictator you know…
Order has value. Order can be planned for, against, around, and in the long term. Prosperity of the many is possible when we have order.
Chaos and strife render any planning efforts short term by practical necessity. Prosperity of the many is impossible, and while a very few may prosper to incredible extents, they too are likely to be consumed by the chaos as time goes.
In this world, we could ask if the denizens of the region known as “Iraq” are happier and more prosperous, on the whole, now in the current instability, as compared to before under a despot.
Despots and dictators can be awful. But if they are at all competent, and at all stable, their rule may still present — in the aggregate, general case — a positive contrast to “anything goes”.
Your analogy is intriguing. Is Rayuba happier under Solomon David than during the war, with an invading imperial enemy that it could not hope to oppose burning and raping it, murdering its people, and taking everything of worth until there was nothing left but dust? Certainly.
This seems more an argument against the imperialist brutality of the demiurges than an argument for having a dictator in the name of “order”.
A stray apostrophe snuck in.
To elaborate, it should be “its cruelty” instead of “it’s cruelty” in the bottom-left speech bubble.
I can understand how White Chain came to that conclusion, but it’s half formed (no fault of her own, since she doesn’t have the audience’s perspective). The goal of the tournament is that anyone who spills Solomon David’s blood will have anything they wish.
Solomon isn’t looking to crush anyone who stands out, he’s looking for the one who’s risen above him. “The key was won by blood, and through blood it will be won,” I think it was?
But on second thought, even this may be disingenuous of Solomon. He won the key after decades, perhaps centuries of training in Ki Rata, in a battlefield setting. It was never clearly stated how Solomon took the key. Maybe he assassinated it’s previous holder, or caught him off guard during a chaotic moment. In a tournament setting, where Solomon can clearly see the direction that his opponent is coming from, odds are reduced that he’ll get caught off guard. And slimmer odds that someone has trained in their arts enough to surpass Solomon’s skill.
Solomon, like Sauron, may not properly understand that someone would overthrow him and wish nobody in his place. This would seem to be his weakness.