When the blade cuts, it transforms what it cuts into something new. A swordsman who wishes to change need not fear the blade, only that it may be wielded in a manner that isn’t aligned to the swordsman’s will.
Or rather, just because something is a lie doesn’t mean it lacks POWER. States, money, and gender are all real, but only in the sense we make them real by treating them as such. They are useful fictions, but fiction nonetheless.
Both Het and the Stave are no different. We would do well to remember when such things are lies, and when such lies nonetheless hold power.
Did not Allison give her hope? And the courage to fight for what she believes in, even in the face of insurmountable odds and tho it may seem totally futile? Is hope not one of the major things she is currently displaying?
Ah, things are unfolding as I had predicted, with both the control needed for Ki Rata and White Chains’ use of Krayu Mat being unreplicable from the emperor. Satisfying.
The simple act of being in two places at once is an incredible boon. Even the emperor’s time stopping power is merely the illusion of it. Whether or not White Chains succeeds in actually drawing a drop of blood from the emperor, I think she has come closer than anyone else in a long, long time. Perhaps ever.
Rare and–I’d imagine–difficult. Though of this art I can confidently say Thorn Knight 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe is a master of the highest degree. She doth teach the herrings to be red.
Indeed, even one’s Igneous brother is expressing surprise at seeing it. One fears for one’s sister’s umbilicus; Juggernaut Star may not have had one between her vessels, but she was inhabiting those 2 or 3 vessels, whereas White Chain has only one.
Rare for it to happen at all, completely insane for one to actually FIGHT with both at once in the middle of a deathmatch. There’s a reason Allison is actually reconsidering Solomon’s invincibility right now.
Also, can I just say how much I love that White Chain has basically just weaponized her own dysphoria into a lethal and unheard-of martial art?! Abbadon will never cease to surprise me with his creativity.
This would be the natural spot in Abbadon’s storytelling for Solomon to, like a proper fighting tournament antagonist, to feel momentarily pressed and perhaps even show a sign of weakness before explosively dealing a setback to our hero. White Chain may or may not continue fighting after that point.
I pray however, for a subversion where Solomon’s concentration is broken by a single drop of rain, allowing White Chain to score that blow that shatters his already bruised ego.
If you punch your enemy ten times and draw not a drop of blood, punch eleven times.
If you punch your enemy one hundred times and draw not a drop of blood, punch one hundred and one times.
If you punch your enemy one thousand times and draw not a drop of blood, punch one thousand and one times.
If you punch your enemy ten thousand times and draw not a drop of blood, punch ten thousand and one times.
If you punch your enemy one hundred thousand times and draw not a drop of blood, punch him one hundred thousand and one times.
If you punch your enemy one million times, punch one million and one times.
If you punch your enemy ten million times and draw not a drop of blood, punch ten million and one times.
If you punch your enemy one hundred million times and draw not a drop of blood, punch one hundred million and one times.
If you punch your enemy one billion times and draw not a drop of blood, punch him one billion and one times.
I wonder how much is known about Ki Rata by those other than its practitioners. I wonder if there are any angels that know it. I would think it a difficult secret to keep from ones so long-lived, and that someone might consider an angel trustworthy enough to learn it. Vigilant Gaze apparently knows some about it, the question is how much.
Know of, perhaps, but not know. Angels are great and terrifying practitioners of violence, but ki rata depends almost wholly on the breath and the particularities of a living body forever outside the experience of angels.
User: Solomon David, god Emperor of the Celestial Empire and Grand Master of Ki Rata, Bearer of the Word Diamond and god of the 7 part world
Subject: 82 White Chain Born in Darkness Returns to Subdue Evil
Complaint: Player Cheating
Further Details: Player is using an alt body to attack me twice, is punching way harder than the game allows(killbot), is using aimbot, is floating several feet above the ground(flybot), and exploiting glitches so that I can’t counter attack. They should be banned!
The complainant who types out and submits such a well-written and detailed ticket while at the same time continually pressing the block button has truly mastered keyboard-fu.
I cannot imagine this technique being used on anything but a demiurge or an insanely powerful entity. Imagine fighting an angel (an already difficult prospect) and all of a sudden they summon their soul to double team you into oblivion.
I once knew a clan of warriors, versed in taking their battle aura and manifesting it into blasts of energy. For some odd reason, whenever they were desperate and facing a foe that could shrug off their strong attacks, they would respond with a flurry of weaker blasts, even though the nature of their techniques meant that those who could ignore a stronger blast would also be immune to a lesser one.
For some reason, I am reminded of this odd cadre of warriors upon seeing White Chain’s newest technique.
It seems that their defensive arts also relied on constant focus, and attempting to negate hundreds of lesser blasts means hundreds of chances to fail.
Alas, if the gamble fails, it does leave one exhausted, while their foe walks out of the smoke and rubble unscathed.
Foolish Last-of-Pen, Favored of the Impure Snow Wolf
It is an unfortunate truth that this technique is something of a double-edged sword; just as many attacks open many opportunities for a defensive technique to fail, so too do many attacks invite many opportunities for catastrophic failure by the attacker.
Then again, as a pit fighter I knew fondly once said: “I don’t know why people say a double-edged sword is bad. It’s a sword. With two edges.”
I once knew a master who practiced a curious art of turning one’s own weaknesses into strengths. Unfortunately, she told me, the technique was nearly useless to her as her complete mastery meant she made few mistakes, and as such had few weaknesses to turn into strength.
Never have I seen such a technique! Sure, there are arts which create doubles, illusory or otherwise, and techniques to control multiple puppets asynchronously, but this is neither puppetry nor doubling. Truly, only something an Angel could do, shame that this is also the explanation as to why this hasn’t happened before.
But perhaps it will allow simultaneous use of Empty Palms and Krayu Mat? A more splendid a combination I couldn’t Imagine!
But what shall this new technique be called? If I had to be the one to name it, it would be… hmm, I’m afraid I need to read up on my lore, for I’m afraid I don’t know the proper name, of when Angels Reveal their Souls to the worlds of the wheel, for it would most ASSUREDLY be based on that!
It’s called KRAYU MAT: TWIN SOUL FORM. Seriously, I love WC’s soul form. It shows just how badly her shell fails to do justice to her. Of course, her current shell is a slapup job courtesy the Thorns. Her original one (ie the one she was wearing in Book 1) was much more elegant.
Ah, yet again life proves that the answer is not complex or far away, rather, you saw it and didn’t consider it.
I suppose that’s why it’s always better to hide in plain sight, you’ve already “Looked” there, so why do it again? For the same reason you would do any OTHER thing twice, my friend!
My heart is breaking for White Chain already. This formidable attack, though courageous, cannot penetrate the Emperor’s defenses. His reply shall be terrible.
Oh yeah, that’d be *such* a bummer for her to go and get herself a new clay pot that better represented her spiritual self. Gosh, can you imagine? Getting punched so hard by a Morally Dubious Godly Hot Dad that you instantly transition?
Alright, on second thought, I’ll take that over my current medical plan.
White Chain ultimate smack down! Punching him so hard he’s being pounded into the ground! Hooray White Chain! Double down, baby!!!
But…as much as I would love to see it, I still don’t see her winning the bout. Salami Dave just has too much ass in his pants for that. She’s likely done more than anyone else ever has…but my guess is she will soon have a name beginning with 83…
White Chain has the power of anime and at least one god on her side.
Well, maybe not quite a god. Yet. Or ever? Regardless, this is Chain’s big moment and I’m very proud of her, no matter how hard she’s about to get shitmixed in the next update.
Fair is the flip of the coin. Upon heads, she would win. A coin is flipped and settles on heads. Instead of victory, she is handed defeat. She knew the game was rigged and played anyways because there is a moment when victory seems possible even if the outcome has been already determined. That moment of maybe held more hope than all the certainty of loss at all other times, and for this reason, she would choose to play.
I’m wise to you Mr. Comic. After getting my hopes up, It’s about to all come crashing down.
::looks at ceiling with the hole Allicio put in it::
Something’s gonna come crashing down…
Oh! Did they ever patch that up before the rain started falling?
Anyone else think it’s weird Gog-Agog has been absent so long?
Gog Agog hasn’t been absent. She lives rent-free in my head.
Literally.
They live among us.
A reminder, Vajra can be both translated as “Diamond” and as “Thunderbolt.”
Vajra is both immovable object and unstoppable force.
A blade sharpened on both edges leaves twice as many places for one to cut oneself. Caution.
When the blade cuts, it transforms what it cuts into something new. A swordsman who wishes to change need not fear the blade, only that it may be wielded in a manner that isn’t aligned to the swordsman’s will.
A tool which makes new things from what it cuts is a chisel, or a file, or a saw, not a sword.
A sword does not transform anything into a new form, it turns the living into the dead, a very old form indeed.
a sword is a tool which builds kingdoms, states and empires, all of which are founded primarily on their capacity to end lives
the sad truth of civilization is that dead bodies have proven to be very useful to our masters.
Violence is the supreme authority, from which all other authority is derived. – Jean Racszak
A banana peeled from both directions leaves twice as many opportunities for one to slip.
That is what you sound like.
wink and smirk
hets mighty stave was that big ass stick that was as long as a planet is wide right?
were the heck is that thing laying?
is it a tripping hazard?
if it is, is there appropriate hazard warning signage?
Trick queſtions.
Het poſſeſsed no ſuch ſtave, for Het was never real.
yes, but plenty of fictional objects are tripping hazards. that is no reason for negligence.
Tripping may be hazardous but sometimes the reward is worth the danger.
We appear to have tripped on the staff already.
Just because it’s a lie doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Or rather, just because something is a lie doesn’t mean it lacks POWER. States, money, and gender are all real, but only in the sense we make them real by treating them as such. They are useful fictions, but fiction nonetheless.
Both Het and the Stave are no different. We would do well to remember when such things are lies, and when such lies nonetheless hold power.
Neither is anyone else here, but that doesn’t stop us from doing much.
It is in hiding somewhere, much like a rake in long grass.
Never trust a rake in the grass.
ABADDON PLEASE DO NO GIVE ME HOPE I CANT HAVE IT RIGHT NOW
*Hawkeye thousand yards stare intensifies*
…you aren’t going to let this angel’s trick get a drop of your blood, right Solomon?
(…Seriously, this ice contract is the best business deal I’ve had in years…)
White Chain casually inventing a new technique for a martial art long since stagnant and completely. Oh, we stan.
White Chain sent Solomon from mocking to blocking, we do stan
She has no hope of winning, but she gave up hope a while ago
Did not Allison give her hope? And the courage to fight for what she believes in, even in the face of insurmountable odds and tho it may seem totally futile? Is hope not one of the major things she is currently displaying?
She found a new hope, of something more substantial than martial victory.
ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA
*DOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOMDOM
MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA
ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA
ASTRAL VISION
SHADOW BLADE
SHADOW BLADE
SHADOW BLADE SOUL FIST
T.K.O.
“Does she actually have a shot at this?”
Ha ha, no.
Depends on how you define a “shot.”
Could she possibly survive? No.
Could she achieve something worthwhile? Yes.
I desperately hope it is, yet I doubt even this will be enough to chip Solomon’s Diamond.
Ah, things are unfolding as I had predicted, with both the control needed for Ki Rata and White Chains’ use of Krayu Mat being unreplicable from the emperor. Satisfying.
The simple act of being in two places at once is an incredible boon. Even the emperor’s time stopping power is merely the illusion of it. Whether or not White Chains succeeds in actually drawing a drop of blood from the emperor, I think she has come closer than anyone else in a long, long time. Perhaps ever.
THE SURPRISE “DOUBLE MUDA-MUDA”
Voyage, Journey, both warriors of eachothers path.
One throws it’s fishing net, the other its fishing spear, but both throw their heart in the lake.
The blood flows either way. Always. Forever. In the lake.
Journey, Voyage. So cold is the blood in the lake.
The waves will devour both boat and man, by and by.
Is it rare for an angel to manipulate their shell and their soul independently?
Rare and–I’d imagine–difficult. Though of this art I can confidently say Thorn Knight 6 Juggernaut Star Scours the Universe is a master of the highest degree. She doth teach the herrings to be red.
Indeed, even one’s Igneous brother is expressing surprise at seeing it. One fears for one’s sister’s umbilicus; Juggernaut Star may not have had one between her vessels, but she was inhabiting those 2 or 3 vessels, whereas White Chain has only one.
I am of two minds about your previous statement…
Rare for it to happen at all, completely insane for one to actually FIGHT with both at once in the middle of a deathmatch. There’s a reason Allison is actually reconsidering Solomon’s invincibility right now.
Also, can I just say how much I love that White Chain has basically just weaponized her own dysphoria into a lethal and unheard-of martial art?! Abbadon will never cease to surprise me with his creativity.
I’m still not confident White Chain is going to win. There is a reason why these seven have ruled for this long.
Honestly we would be fine if Solomon ended up replacing Allison as the main character. Just imagine it – Kill Six Billion Dissidents.
Ni hao, Kill Six Billion Dissidents! The “Two Systems, One Empire” is no more on Throne
This would be the natural spot in Abbadon’s storytelling for Solomon to, like a proper fighting tournament antagonist, to feel momentarily pressed and perhaps even show a sign of weakness before explosively dealing a setback to our hero. White Chain may or may not continue fighting after that point.
I pray however, for a subversion where Solomon’s concentration is broken by a single drop of rain, allowing White Chain to score that blow that shatters his already bruised ego.
One floor house, call enemy pilots.
Look for Dick, the rolling silence.
Morning Wood unleashes Violence.
Folly is the use of force. Recall that heat and pressure immense are from whence diamonds arise.
If you punch your enemy ten times and draw not a drop of blood, punch eleven times.
If you punch your enemy one hundred times and draw not a drop of blood, punch one hundred and one times.
If you punch your enemy one thousand times and draw not a drop of blood, punch one thousand and one times.
If you punch your enemy ten thousand times and draw not a drop of blood, punch ten thousand and one times.
If you punch your enemy one hundred thousand times and draw not a drop of blood, punch him one hundred thousand and one times.
If you punch your enemy one million times, punch one million and one times.
If you punch your enemy ten million times and draw not a drop of blood, punch ten million and one times.
If you punch your enemy one hundred million times and draw not a drop of blood, punch one hundred million and one times.
If you punch your enemy one billion times and draw not a drop of blood, punch him one billion and one times.
Punch 6 Billion Times
So if the king is Kill Six Billion Demons, and her white flame is Punch Six Billion Times, what’s her black flame six billion of?
6 billin fanfi- I mean, 6 billion Legends.
Satisfy 6 billion maidens
Crush 6 billion foes and hear the lamentations of their women.
Seduce Six Billion Young Nubile Human Women.
Ne’er underestimates Cio’s predilection.
That’s a lot of broken clocks.
Upvote Six Billion Puns
Or perhaps, more wisely, grab a knife.
It would be WISE to give up, but instead we will punch another time.
The hand is a sword and it thinks not but to cut
6 Billion punches to Sol
6 Billion punches to Sol
Take one down
Pass it around
6 Billion punches to Sol
Nice trick but without some kind of more damaging attack… I don’t think this will work
Improvisation
“…Improvising is Wonderful.
But the Thing IS, you Cannot IMPROVISE – Unless you Know EXACTLY
What You’re Doing !”
– Christopher Walken, American Actor.
I wonder how much is known about Ki Rata by those other than its practitioners. I wonder if there are any angels that know it. I would think it a difficult secret to keep from ones so long-lived, and that someone might consider an angel trustworthy enough to learn it. Vigilant Gaze apparently knows some about it, the question is how much.
Know of, perhaps, but not know. Angels are great and terrifying practitioners of violence, but ki rata depends almost wholly on the breath and the particularities of a living body forever outside the experience of angels.
I’m not so sure of that. Vigilant Gaze was coughing up a storm when he had dust in his armor.
OH NO!
OH NO!
OH YEEEEEEEES
Yes! Yes!Yes!
She may not get a drop of blood from Pride, but she has transcended her angelic limitations and is master of her fate. She is already victorious
Omae wa mō shinde iru
Nani?!
Prediction: White Chain falters, Solomon believes this is the opportunity to counter attack, but it’s a faint. White Chain delivers the single wound.
And then nonsense occurs. That one isn’t so much a prediction as it is a pattern.
Arivadarci
I’m worried we’re gonna break the idea of of ‘oh angels can’t be PERMANENTLY hurt!’ here somehow.
Even the ones Zoss slew are on their way back. I doubt that sollymlon can surpass that level of kill.
“Ki-rata requires total concentration. Any break and the practitioner may become vulnerable”
In B4, Ciò flashing boobs to Solomon: “Oi! Ya muddlebrain! Oogle dis!”
This is not Grrrlpower.
Correct, this has way more nipples. Less abs though.
That’s my secret. I’m always concentrating
Go, White Chain, go!
Punch him all the way down to the planet’s core!
WHITE CHAIN THE ABSOLUTE GOAT
Complaint Ticket 12873905548
User: Solomon David, god Emperor of the Celestial Empire and Grand Master of Ki Rata, Bearer of the Word Diamond and god of the 7 part world
Subject: 82 White Chain Born in Darkness Returns to Subdue Evil
Complaint: Player Cheating
Further Details: Player is using an alt body to attack me twice, is punching way harder than the game allows(killbot), is using aimbot, is floating several feet above the ground(flybot), and exploiting glitches so that I can’t counter attack. They should be banned!
The complainant who types out and submits such a well-written and detailed ticket while at the same time continually pressing the block button has truly mastered keyboard-fu.
He uses a block-bot.
I cannot imagine this technique being used on anything but a demiurge or an insanely powerful entity. Imagine fighting an angel (an already difficult prospect) and all of a sudden they summon their soul to double team you into oblivion.
I once knew a clan of warriors, versed in taking their battle aura and manifesting it into blasts of energy. For some odd reason, whenever they were desperate and facing a foe that could shrug off their strong attacks, they would respond with a flurry of weaker blasts, even though the nature of their techniques meant that those who could ignore a stronger blast would also be immune to a lesser one.
For some reason, I am reminded of this odd cadre of warriors upon seeing White Chain’s newest technique.
That did actually work one time.
It seems that their defensive arts also relied on constant focus, and attempting to negate hundreds of lesser blasts means hundreds of chances to fail.
Alas, if the gamble fails, it does leave one exhausted, while their foe walks out of the smoke and rubble unscathed.
It is an unfortunate truth that this technique is something of a double-edged sword; just as many attacks open many opportunities for a defensive technique to fail, so too do many attacks invite many opportunities for catastrophic failure by the attacker.
Then again, as a pit fighter I knew fondly once said: “I don’t know why people say a double-edged sword is bad. It’s a sword. With two edges.”
I once knew a master who practiced a curious art of turning one’s own weaknesses into strengths. Unfortunately, she told me, the technique was nearly useless to her as her complete mastery meant she made few mistakes, and as such had few weaknesses to turn into strength.
White Chain has become Jolyne Cujoh.
And her stand is made of stone.
Never have I seen such a technique! Sure, there are arts which create doubles, illusory or otherwise, and techniques to control multiple puppets asynchronously, but this is neither puppetry nor doubling. Truly, only something an Angel could do, shame that this is also the explanation as to why this hasn’t happened before.
But perhaps it will allow simultaneous use of Empty Palms and Krayu Mat? A more splendid a combination I couldn’t Imagine!
But what shall this new technique be called? If I had to be the one to name it, it would be… hmm, I’m afraid I need to read up on my lore, for I’m afraid I don’t know the proper name, of when Angels Reveal their Souls to the worlds of the wheel, for it would most ASSUREDLY be based on that!
It’s called KRAYU MAT: TWIN SOUL FORM. Seriously, I love WC’s soul form. It shows just how badly her shell fails to do justice to her. Of course, her current shell is a slapup job courtesy the Thorns. Her original one (ie the one she was wearing in Book 1) was much more elegant.
Ah, yet again life proves that the answer is not complex or far away, rather, you saw it and didn’t consider it.
I suppose that’s why it’s always better to hide in plain sight, you’ve already “Looked” there, so why do it again? For the same reason you would do any OTHER thing twice, my friend!
Second time for the lolz?
“No-one could survive that much dust.”
Haw! He is obviously finished.
(well played)
Getting some HxH vibes from this scene
They promised me serious series serious punches, and instead he is getting ora ora ora oraed.
Yeah, this is clearly Saitama’s famous Normal Punch Series: 1000 Rapid Normal Punches.
An impressive feat in it’s own right.
Well, I’ll be ! She’s weaponizing her gender dysphoria.
Quite a strong force. :V
One does not simply freeform Krayu Ma-
Oh, well, nevermind then.
Body and soul are not often on the same page but when they are wonderous things can happen.
And now he has her.
BLEED, YOU GREAT, PURPLE BASTARD! BLEED!
The legendary Hundred crack fist.
Only 1 may fight, but the rules didn’t say anything about distractions.
Man, it looks like with every new panel Allison’s scars fade even more…
My heart is breaking for White Chain already. This formidable attack, though courageous, cannot penetrate the Emperor’s defenses. His reply shall be terrible.
HIT HIM LIKE THE FIST OF AN ANGRY GOD WHITE CHAIN!
Wouldn’t it be *terrible* if White Chain’s body got destroyed and she needed to get it reforged/another one made when she inevitably gets dunked on?
Oh yeah, that’d be *such* a bummer for her to go and get herself a new clay pot that better represented her spiritual self. Gosh, can you imagine? Getting punched so hard by a Morally Dubious Godly Hot Dad that you instantly transition?
Alright, on second thought, I’ll take that over my current medical plan.
So Allison distracts him, goes for Zaid, shouts, something, white chain kills Solomon, ends the demiurge truce. Enter Jaganoth. Next booook lmfao
this is a test
this is a test
this is a test
is multipul choys?
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Of rain we pray, as clouds abreast, all hope dies, old and new. The ground will swallow all that comes, until it’s born anew.
Oh SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
White Chain ultimate smack down! Punching him so hard he’s being pounded into the ground! Hooray White Chain! Double down, baby!!!
But…as much as I would love to see it, I still don’t see her winning the bout. Salami Dave just has too much ass in his pants for that. She’s likely done more than anyone else ever has…but my guess is she will soon have a name beginning with 83…
White Chain has the power of anime and at least one god on her side.
Well, maybe not quite a god. Yet. Or ever? Regardless, this is Chain’s big moment and I’m very proud of her, no matter how hard she’s about to get shitmixed in the next update.
Fair is the flip of the coin. Upon heads, she would win. A coin is flipped and settles on heads. Instead of victory, she is handed defeat. She knew the game was rigged and played anyways because there is a moment when victory seems possible even if the outcome has been already determined. That moment of maybe held more hope than all the certainty of loss at all other times, and for this reason, she would choose to play.
Vajra can be both translated as “Diamond