KING OF SWORDS 10-140
Chapter: 10
“Remember, oh student, this above all other laws: the grip of a sword is suffused with a deep and powerful poison that rots to the bone. It can never be rid of once touched, no matter how much you wish otherwise.
The sword does not kill. The hand kills. The hand is the most beautiful part of a human being, and is capable of nearly infinitely other things than parting men from their ghosts. Once you touch the sword, a terrible tragedy will occur, and your hand will slowly lose this ability. Over time, it will cease to be a hand, and become a sword.”
Ryo-ten-Ryam
CALLING IT NOW – Zoss is going to tell her to let her lose, and then teach her to reforge her body!!!! AAAAA yes!
(the following opinions are not mine, nor are they meant as a criticism of this fie webcomic)
“Curse you Zoss!” cried Amphy the Amphibian Girl “an’ you too, Incubus, you honorless pimp! I was a soldier an’ I accepted the poison of the sword to defend my country an’ my people, when Gods like you deserted us, with yore high-flown talk!
These, in the days when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and the earth’s foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.
“Ol’ Houseman knew” she shouts “People of Throne! To hell with them who call themselves gods and kings! Follow me, soldiers of revenge, to freedom an honor! Bring them all down, every one!”
+2
Philosophical and metaphysical debates aside, I like how the only somewhat heraldic device on Zoss’s attire is a golden tree. Makes me think of Yggdrasil, the tree that connects Heaven and Earth and all the Realms 😛
Incubus: “You’re supposed to be dead!!”
Zoss: “And you’re supposed to be dumpster-diving for ham scraps, you six-piece chicken McNobody.”
*How can I
not how I can
“YOU cannot save her. So be someone else.”
Blood is easily spilled. Any fool can cut the flesh.
The true test is victory without bloodshed.
I just realized that Zoss is wearing arm bands like we’ve seen on SD. Fashion? Function? Both?
huh, i just noticed this but is zoss’s body just an angels body with his decapitaded head stuck on? its got the holes in the hands and elbows like angels seem to have and the armor he had at the very start looked a little different
So it just struck me those golden studs in Zoss’ head look like nailheads. Does he use that one martial art that makes your head indestructible?
That’s very likely the case, well observed!
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Yay for more Zoss! Petition to have him voiced by the late Sir Christopher Lee. It is a fan cast, after all – I can bring back the dead if need be!