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
“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
White Chain is finally learning that to obtain freedom, the price is usually the blood of the oppressors and the oppressed.
Solomon, on the other hand, has long since learned that freedom is just another shackle to wear, as are crowns.
In that one panel it looks like he is playing a really screwed up version of chess.
I don´t see this going well for White Chain but I hope that, as an angel, she is able to survive her body getting blasted into shards.
Cells divide and grow like this:
break the single, take the piss.
Do they call it Mitosis?
Angel, bloody but unbowed
Makes repentance sorely owed
White Chain apes the Light Brigade
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Woah! Kanarazu!
Ore wa ore wo koeteku ze!
Woah! Ki wo atsumete!
Unmei wo tobase!
I long for the day that White Chain forgives *herself* and stops apologising. And over-compensating. I fear that we may run out of comic before that.
^ upvoted. never even noticed those tendencies in her until reading your comment.
still, she’s made astounding progress: she smiles, she wears nyave’s gift, she is learning to do right by her friends and embrace her individuality. no reason to think that she won’t get there sooner rather than later.
The real irony here is that White Chain is exactly what SDave says he is looking for: a strong, just, capable leader whom can be trusted with SDave’s kingdom, so he can ditch this responsibility-of-rulership crap and hit the road again. If King David was wise, he’d “accidentally ” cut his finger on a sharp edge of White Chain ‘s pottery, dump the throne on her, and head for the hills.. he will never see a better chance.
On the other hand, can an angel wield the Key of Kings? The Key reacts to Want; do angels, being made of immutable Law, have the Want required?
He’s not looking to get rid of his Key, is he?
I thought he was just intent on giving away the empire?
His inheritor would need to be able to contend against the other Demiurges, so either they’d need to be as strong as him on their own, or have a lot of potential and be given his Key.
What Wayward Paladin said. I don’t think you can realistically pass on the empire without passing on the key as well.
Is White Chain a capable leader? She certainly hasn’t shown it thus far.
Can an angel be a leader? That’s what I’m asking.
Oh myyyyy *_____________* Completely out of words right here, so astounding this page is.
Is no-one going to comment how Vigilant Gaze is such an adorable martial arts nerd?
You speak true. As DBZ teaches us, a fight is nothing without astonished onlookers to provide commentary.
Honestly, part of me just wants to have someone go wandering up to the Emperor through the gore, bow to him, and politely challenge him. It wouldn’t be sporting to attack him as part of the initial rush, after all.
I bet after that display that Solomon David can’t do it again as well as the first time. He might even risk getting brain damage.
“I asked the wisest man in the universe ‘How may I become like God?’ He pondered this for the span of one breath and replied ‘God is reflected in the image of Man, thus you must become the opposite of God.’
‘God creates life, must I then destroy life?’ I asked.
‘That will get you only half the way,’ he replied ‘To reach your goal you must learn to destroy death.'”
– 1st Sutra of the Kadmonic Fist school
I am Thou, Thou art I…
A basic moral instruction goes “Get busy living, or get busy dying”.
A wise or powerful creature might ask how she can apply this to the world outside herself.
Speaking of survivors, it looks like the whiskered person who turned to
runstrategically retreat also made it! I know we weren’t sure just how literal Davey was going to be about not moving. Looks like he’s not gonna be a complete dick about it. Well, he wouldn’t have a reason to be, so it makes sense.Solomon David dreams of a different world and is currently the epicenter of a massacre.
Perhaps there is a lesson here, but angels are bad at learning.
[ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER INTENSIFIES]
…are those corpses STEAMING because of how hard Solomon hit them?
Holy shit.
Or it’s because how warm they are. Considering that a good deal of the combatants were human and that some of the servants/aliens are going to be warm blooded, it’s not surprising that the corpses are steaming.
I feel like this might be the event where sister White Chain is “sent away” so that she can later return to Subdue Evil.
Vigilant Gaze may Scour the Horizon for her return moving forward.
At last the questing root has broke free of its container. I pray thee flourish, 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil.
Hrmm… She would fight against the system called Life, as we all do in our own way. Unfortunately, nobody gets out of Life alive, and change is such an impermanent thing. Good luck, Kid.
This. This is what it’s like to be transgender and look upon the world.
Yes.
It’s not just Trans folks. This is what it’s like to be Human and look upon the world.
Any hume, certainsome; praps nae all humans tho be thinkin us. Un fair selection mebbe so. Un grandisome oodle ne’er seems come to yon realization, nor conclusion, nor praps wish to.
When KSBD is finished can we get a short offshoot about what happened to the four survivors in panel four? They look like an interesting bunch.
I am so proud of her: I see you, I see us.
Yess… Yess… let the idealism course through you! Embrace it’s unnatural power!
The final principle of Spear Law is thus: When all roads lead to your death, make sure your demise comes back to destroy the one who destroyed you.