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
I’m interested in seeing what kind of titles the surviving contestants get. For any of the brawlers following Alison around, that’s a possible step towards becoming her de facto royal guard. But more importantly, I think Vigilant Gaze would do a superb job as a town greeter.
Traditionally, the Teacher makes the ultimate sacrifice approximately 2/3 through the story.
As a great poet once said, “Roh roh, fight the powah.”
It’s clear that someone’s failure point is “Seeing my daughter(s) being consumed as things, then discarded on a spike”
So the Purple Emperor is no ruler, but a slave master who’s whip is fear
Hit him when he’s not looking White Chain
I have been to enough rings of power to know that this one is different. I bet my ripest peaches that either this remarkably fiery angel or our white-haired warrior will, after expending everything they have, actually manage to scratch the emperor- and that in that moment his facade falls, his Diamond is broken, and just like with the blood witch before, he will ask, then demand, then beg, for them to take his empire, as the rest of the seven will in turn.
But perhaps not. I have made mistakes before, such as bringing heartfruits to sell, for the novelty of it; now that real hearts are on display, the taste for them is completely gone…
Considering how Solomon fights, I don’t see how this tournament had more than one edition. Surely people would know about this insane fighting technique, right?
I mean, the guy who won the very first Tournament and was admitted to fight with Solomon, was probably annihilated in less than a blink of an eye, soo…why is this thing happening every year?
The ring of power admits people from all over the multiverse, so it’s safe to say most if not all of the contestants have never actually seen Solomon fight before they signed up. Alison certainly hadn’t.
Allison shock is a good indicator of how much she underestimated Solomon. She was proud of her progress, and rightly so. Defeating her opponent, fusing with Cio, actually holding against White Chain.
Then she see her target, the one she hyped herself into challenging, just land in the arena, challenge everyone in it and make some wawe with his arms and a blink latter, every fighter who didn’t surrender (some of which could potentially be actual challenge to her) is a red mess on the ground.
There’s going to be those who just want the challenge to see how far they get and there’s always those tempted by the prize who think they can beat Solomon.
Also, the alt text or below page text a couple pages ago said that it had been some time since the last display of Ki Rata in the tournament, so, maybe the champion on occasion would accept money/prestige/titles (though it wasn’t mentioned in the announcement) instead, or he doesn’t have the opportunity to use it for whatever reason. Or he doesn’t use Ki Rata every single time.
I suspect that the Solomon normally defeats the final challenger, who is nobody special, by just flicking them out of the ring rather than splatting them. This year is different and he’s making a demonstration.
So Stoneyarse be fibrous.?
Well, she do be lookin a bit ropey.
Those in the comments defending Solomon, it’s partly that we the readers know he’s bad news. I don’t buy his smug pious talk at all, I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But also consider this. Just because the other emperors are worse doesn’t change the fact that Solomon is bad. We know he is, there have been references to massacres, and the way the man who moved two suns singlehandedly has his people labour with blood and toil to build his narcissistic ring of power every three years doesn’t exactly scream “benevolent dictator”. Not protesting Solomon’s evil because the consequences of him not being around would be terrible is ethically similar to not protesting an evil authority because if you do they’ll kill your family – a very practical, sympathetic and wise position, but the evil goes on. Solomon doesn’t need to be a jerk to defend his empire or ensure his people’s relative prosperity. He does all that and he’s a jerk on top. The fact that he’s a protector does not excuse doing unnecessary acts of evil on the side.
Even the oathmen of gods may reach heaven through violence!
Makes me curious as to how the other Demiurge can even compete.
Also, top notch commentary.
He can do this without even using his Key, and iet it is strongly indicated that he is no match for Jagganoth.
True, but Jagganoth basically cheats: those spikes he made from angel feathers make him invulnerable. We know that thorn knights are no match for the big red guy: during the Demiurges’frist meeting he tossed one on the ground like a rag doll. Makes you wonder if even Zoss could harm Jagganoth now.
Invulnerability is nigh useless against a foe that could roll the Wheel to a time when you didn’t have it.
“ASSIGNED COP AT BIRTH” Good gods that’s genius.
Love this page so much. Thank you
The foreshortening in panel 5 looks a bit off in a hilarious way.
I thought 9-123 was poster-worthy (Vigilant Gaze’s “Unhand Our Sister!”); you know, something you’d want framed on the wall.
The last panel of this one may be tattoo-worthy. Epic.
Solomon David says he wants a worthy successor, but that’s as much a facade as his youthful muscle-bound body.
Likewise the “benevolent emperor” schtick.
He learned Ki-Rata and then killed those who taught him.
And let’s not have any illusions about how this “contest” was going to end.
It’s gone (so far) exactly as Sol. Dave has wanted.
Now he stands surrounding by the steaming remains of those whom he has slaughtered in the utmost display of violence.
He has shown his true nature.
His subjects live in mortal terror.
He has no intention of relinquishing his empire, ever. He wants the whole enchilada. We’ve been told it takes the 6 demi’s to hold back Jagganoth. But Solomon wants what Alison has in her forehead. If he can’t wield it himself, he wants to wield the one who has it, to overcome Jaggy & the others.
I think that’s his scheme.
I do wonder what Solomon David really looks like.
He’s older than who knows what. He’s outlived who knows how many generations of his sons.
You know, like Mottom and her fruit…is there an internal essence…or a true essence, that’s…not so pleasing to the eye?
He said in KoS 1-3 that 25 generations of his sons had passed, over 300 years. That of course, doesn’t count the thousand years that the Universial war lasted and at what point during that he was born in.
One thing: the way I understand it, he killed the Ki Rata monks because they didn’t protect Rayuba from that other Demiurge, even though they obviously could.
(By the way, it occurs to me that none of the Seven whose origin we know were part of Zoss’ original philosopher kingdom. Mottom started out as teh wife of one of the older Demiurges, Solomon David was a normal guard when the War started, and Incubus was a street urchin around the same time. We don’t know when exactly Mammon bought his first Key, but it’s unlikely the Demiurges were selling their Keys when Zoss was still in charge. Are there even any original Demiurges left alive?
Well, considering that Maya seems to be a fallen demiurge (we saw in a collage along with a young Solomon with hair, someone who looks like a younger Maya), it’s not impossible that there’s a few hiding out on a backwater world somewhere. Allison’s Earths gate hasn’t been opened yet, so, there’s likely many unopened gates, this gives the plausible possibility of some fallen (or falling) demiurge hiding in one of them and closing the gate behind them.
There’s also the fact that the current demiurges would have eliminated anybody that they deemed a threat or worth their attention and Maya is still around.
I regard Maya as retired rather than fallen. I assume that she somehow removed her key (how?) and gave it away: directly to Incubus, or to somebody who Incubus later killed? If Maya had been defeated and robbed of her key then I think she’d be dead.
I’m discounting the idea that Maya still has her key (that silver symbol she sometimes waves before combat) and that Incubus nicked somebody else’s key. This is based on White Chain’s prediction that one missing key would send the other demiurges berserk until it was recovered. If Maya does still have a fallow key, then that’s *very* interesting and probably Chekhovian.
i have returned with my drink- oho, look at this! does the gendered angel now believe herself an anarchist? one who would question authority, rather than uphold it? one who defends those who need defending rather than maintaining a stagnant and rotting status quo?
oh, how delicious, yet how ironic. it will make her defeat all the more tragic.
good luck, pree angel. of course, you and i both know luck to be a tale the foolish tell themselves. take care that you do not become another fool, whether in defeat or victory.
Only those who think themselves unfoolish would believe others to be fools. Luck is very real. But the big secret is, luck doesn’t actually matter.
you are, of course, correct on both fronts, my mysterious compatriot. i thank you for your insight, and wish you many boons on whatever journey you take next
… White Chain can be Best Angel again. Or at least share the title with Vigilant Gaze.
I hope she reincarnates into something happier.
Why is no one here talking about Metia kicking Gods’ Asses?? O.o
And I witnessed the unforeseen; Amidst the marble ruins of the arena, the infant God King stopped her pleading, as Understanding and Royalty graced her head once more. The Master Key of Kings shone bright in her brow, her atum crown even brighter. She had wanted so many things. Aspired to overcome so many trails and tribulations. But in that moment, all she truly wanted was nothing more than to do right by her angelic teacher. And thus she spoke: “It was you who named me Demiurge and challenged me. It is you who challenges another Demiurge still. Well, go forth and teach this Tyrant his lesson as I had to learn mine. Go forth, not only clad in your newfound determination and power, but armored in those of mine as well. Go forth, White Chain Born In Emptiness Returns To Subdue Evil. Go forth as my Cherubim. Go forth, as my Angel Adversary.”
And I witnessed the impossible; and she was Glorious.
I really hope that the narrative choice isn’t to sacrifice her for a noble cause. I love this story and I love White Chain, and I haaaate that trope. Especially since she’s technically in the camp of a trans/agender person who identifies differently from her assigned gender, and though it doesn’t map perfectly, queer folk and women get this trope foisted on them all the time if they’re not fridged or otherwise killed as an example of how things can go wrong.
LET ME FEEL THE WARM KISS OF THESE SWEET LADIES’ FRIENDSHIP AND GROWTH THROUGH THE ODDS, DANGIT, DON’T BE LIKE THE OTHER RUDE DUDE WRITERS PLEASE!
One can only swell with pride when a sibling sees clearly. The Heir teaches her companions well.
preem white chain, noted anarchist
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