KING OF SWORDS 10-146
Chapter: 10
Your hand, wrought in killing fire, its fell weight
must be felt by the arm, the strong shoulder,
then in turn the heart, turned inwards quickly
in reflection. Think on its awful weight,
oh beautiful soldier, and tremble rightly.
– Psalm 565, often attributed to the goddess Prim
WITNESS
WITNESS!!!
WITNESS
WITNESS
WHITE CHAIN RIDE ETERNAL!
She will lose, but hopefully someone can forge her a new body.
SHE RIDES, BURNING AND BEAUTIFUL!
Oh, what a dAY, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!
Sky falls, it feels like it’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
WITNESS!!!
Witneeeeeeeeeeeess!!!!
Witness
witness the angels who rise against the tyranny of gods
RIDE ETERNAL, SHINY AND STONE!
“Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!”
Unfortunately for White Chain, Solomon knows what is best in life.
That bit always annoyed me a little. It’s a great moment, but Crom doesn’t *do* prayer. From ‘Queen of the Black Coast’, speaking of Crom:
“What use to call on him? Little he cares if men live or die. Better to be silent than to call his attention to you; he will send you dooms, not fortune! He is grim and loveless, but at birth he breathes power to strive and slay into a man’s soul. What else shall men ask of the gods?”
Who is crom? Where is this from?
“Conan, The Barbarian”. Crom is the deity the Cimerians pray to. Or not.
Can’t believe this had to be explained.
This is basic history taught in schools.
Anyway, although Conan was in a world ruled by Mother Om, old Jagga would have liked him.
WITNESS!
WITNESS
WE WITNESS!
WITNESS!
WITNESS!
WITNESS
WITNESS!!!!!!
WITNESS
WITNESS
WITNESS
WITNESS
WITNESS.
WITNESS, SISTER!!!
At least she can come back? Hopefully. If Beardo doesn’t have a super special angel-killing move :/
I think… She may be gone quite a long time…
Her name, 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil, bears the highest numeric part of all angels because she dies so often. This means it shouldn’t take her long to return.
Doesn’t it take longer each time for an angel to reincarnate?
No. The length of reincarnation depends on the length of the preceding incarnation, which is why the primes are still waiting.
I suspect all the Seven can teleport to the Void and finish the job, if they are so inclined.
I think it was mentioned if the destruction of their physical shell is violent enough, the angel “dies” too instead of just returning to the void.
I didn’t know about that. Thanks for mentioning it.
I don’t think Solomon will go there.
I think he expect to just go nuke on White Chain with proper decorum and all, and call it a day. That’s what he’ll intend of course. Reality still have a word to say
The Angel dies, but they aren’t lost. They simply enter the long sleep of rebirth. In essence, the individual dies, but they will return in another age, in another way. Though White Chain might be lost to us, she will not be lost to all.
If anyone has such a technique, I expect it to be him.
It’s impossible.
Abbadon has said angels are true immortals.
For the angel’s might has been stirred, and even the gods may not stand against her.
I still maintain that she should have covered herself in spikes and let Solomon do the rest as he tries to hit her. She needn’t win, only make him bleed one drop of blood, and she’s better equipped than most to do that.
My tongue is mostly in my cheek on this one.
Unrelated, but it sort of looks like Solomon’s copying her move for move, right down to her sound effects (albeit with a brief delay)?
He’s so prideful that he’s going to let her dictate what moves he does and still win?
It is the ancient but seldom-used “I’m rubber and you’re glue” tactic.
I have used this to my advantage on several occasions.
Few things are as dangerous as someone who has surrendered the falsehood of ‘victory’ and sees with unclouded eyes.
It is the fate of every flame to die, be they white or black, hot or cold.
And yet, it is the same hope of every flame, that the instant before they are snuffed out, will be the moment they burn brightest.
Embrace your fear, cast aside doubt, and make one last, glorious strike against the great enemy called I.
Reach Heaven Through Violence.
Having read every comment on every page of this epic struggle, I am struck with the realization that these are the truest and most Godly words yet expressed outside the margins of the Original Work.
Indeed every flame dies, but that hasn’t slowed Zoss down much, has it?
Praise be to the idiots, the arrogant, the ones who think their life, their death means something. Josh to their shattered skulls the stories of worms, the stories of great and powerful men torn asunder, left rasped to dust that chokes your throat and makes your eyes water. Poke fun at their highness, drunk on life, drunk on wine, drunk on the idea they can change something. Pour them a bottle, when you’ve given up on the idea that they might come back. Praise be to the idiots, and let’s hope for a savior for their smarter friends.
They asked for a Witness not a song. Shut up and watch.
lmao fair
WITNESSED
WITNESS MEEEEEEE!
Witness White Chain! Shining eternal, through the gates of Heaven!
WITNESSED
GIVE EM THE OLD ” I RIP YOUR BEARD OFF!”
Witnessed.
WITNESSED
WITNESSED
WITNESS!!!!!!!!!
And here I thought Solomon David only knew Ki Rata.
But if I’m right, it looks like he just took up the Empty Palms fighting stance.
There really isn’t anything stopping him from learning other styles, which is useful so that he has other methods available so that he only has to use Ki Rata when he actually needs it, especially in a public setting where he risks someone trying to copy it.
Also, Incubus has those studs in his head, which I think means he is a Head of John follower.
Yeah, Abbadon confirmed that Incubus uses Head of John on Tumblr.
Noted.
However, also there is some differentiation from his execution when compared to White Chain’s.
White Chain’s footwork describes a circle as she takes her stance in the first panel. Her right hand is palm towards the ground, fingers splayed.
In the last panel, Solomon comes to almost the same stance, but his foot shifts in a very linear, straight fashion, and his palm is outward towards her in a warding gesture curiously reminiscent of the bong sau from wing tsun.
This is kind of an ‘oh shit’ block, to my understanding: it’s not a preferred stance, it’s something you do when you have to, because it is inherently placing your hand in a position where it will go under the opponent’s strike which prevents you from maintaining ‘hands on top,’ which is your preferred position. It’s a kind of a ‘sacrifice arm’ in many ways.
It’s likely that Abaddon is just drawing from a vast library of MA moves he’s seen that look cool.
It’s not impossible that he IS aware and this is Solly baiting the angel into a trap via an early extension of a ‘weak bong sau.’
That fit in wi Stoneyarse lookin as gonnae take Salami’s legs? Pespective just it might be.
I wouldn’t have noticed, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. Everyone “knows” ki rata is stupidly powerful, so if he stomped White Chain with it nobody would really be surprised or impressed after the previous day’s ludicrous gibs.
But if he completely destroyed her using her own style? To show that, even without his lolhax he’s still undetectable? I imagine that would tickle his pride bone.
Unbeatable. I meant unbeatable.
… now I’m imagining Solomon as a creepy stalker, and we never see him creeping in the comics because he’s that good.
copy?
ZERO FRAME STARTUPS AND KFC COMBOS!
No matter who you are, the gods will witness your death. But will they approve?
Salami Dave’s weakness is not a physical one. His image– His cloying need to be adored and worshiped. That is where he is weak, and where you must make him bleed.
Nothing does that more terribly, than to transform how his public, his literal children, collectively perceive him.
Strike there white chain. Strike there. He will bleed; Not a sanguine ichor– but with a wounded heart, and that can fell the powerful most effectively.
Her most powerful strike may simply be in not-striking, her most powerful, and only, weapon may simply be her weakness compared to the foe before her.
If she simply sat and refused to actually strike, one wonders how he would–*could*–react?
The trick when fighting an opponent that copies your moves, is to make a move that would be suicide for anyone but yourself.
Alt text: “There’s a little progression with how White Chain has said the prayer each time in the comic. I hope this won’t be the last time.”
Okay, now I have to go back and read the entire archive… AGAIN
It may not be much of a consolidation but very few can claim of themselves that they have fought a god one on one. Even the fact that this match will most probably end in earth shattering defeat won´t diminish the fact and maybe even inspire some people to take on that god themselves.
Oh the Gods cry: When angels deserve to die.
When even the demons wield the same tools.
A mirror of nothingness gazing upon eachother, a wheel of infinity.
A god dance, invitation to plea, death staring you in the face.
Dressed in WHITE, with a halo, bearded, trained in now forgotten martial arts… the most destructive martial arts…