King of Swords 10-154
Chapter: 10
Heed this well: the princes of the world are no strangers to iron. You may wish it bite them but it will merely kiss their skin. It is an old friend of theirs, and they pull it from the blood of their enemies. Your own sword will leap from your hand and spitefully impale you. You shield will break at the slightest brush of their fingers. Your armor will crumple and fall away as they approach. They are the kings of iron, and it swears fealty to none but them.
– Red Swallow, Tithe of the Cliffs
Hmm…
Seems Solomon Dave really likes getting pounded.
And double-teamed, no less!
Yowie! Who woulda thought it? Those “all muscle” guys…you just never know.
But perhaps White Chain has learned something special.
(Cue treacly Disney movie trailer voice)
“White Chain was an angel with an agenda, and finally found herself face-to-face with the man she loved to hate. She thought she found the key to defeating him. but one crazy mixed up tournament later, she may have discovered something special…the key…to his heart.”
(Cue music: “Because looooove is a many splendored thiiiing…”)
We come closer to those two kissing with every single page.
Magnificent! It is quite auspicious that I am wearing baggy pants!
Next Panel, We See Solomon David From The Front.
His Ribcage Is Open, His Heart Missing. He Declares White Chain Winner.
As a wise rogue once said…. Beware the smiling dungeon master.
“Magnificent.”
“You are still standing! How can you enjoy this?”
“No, White Chain, you do not understand. This is the closest that I’ve ever come to defeat in millennia. Whatever else happens, from this moment on, I swear that you will be remembered for this moment in glory. However it ends, you will never be forgotten and never be set aside as long the tale is told, the legends spread.
“You have made every step to turn this little fight into a legend that will reverberate through this age and the next. And, I am honored to be a part of your legend.
“Now, face me again! If this battle is to become legendary, then let us end it as legends!”
Is it remotely possible the Solomon might be so impressed that he will offer White Chain his empire? We keep expecting him to beat her to a pulp, but this might be another moment of inversion?
Offering her the empire at this moment would put all of White Chain’s statements about what a cage Solomon has built for himself to the test and could be intended to make her second guess her new perspective in light of how the other demiurges might treat the empire with her instead of Solomon to protect it.
I’m probably overthinking this.
if the end of the story were not neigh, it would be feasible as a turn of events… otherwise White chain is stuck decolonizing 1/8 of the known universe
on second thought, that would give Alison enough people to start the anti-jihad to end all jihads… odd to imagine Soloman just standing by to watch his former empire crumble. Unless he could be convinced to fight… and thus far he doesn’t appear to give women roles of authority
Decolonize Six Billion Worlds.
SUBARASHII.
YOUR RESISTANCE ONLY MAKES MY PENIS HARDER!
That last panel is me when I have a really good muffin.
I wonder… is it actually possible to make a sword or any other usable object out of the iron drawn from blood? How would you attempt to do that? By boiling it?
Do not worry, I have no intention of creating such evil weaponry. I am just interested in technical aspects.
There is lots of methods by which you could do this, but they all would quite frankly be a huge pain in the ass and the ammount of iron you’d get would be next to nothing.
But, if I were to take a stab at it, I’d guess I’d start with burning the body to ash. Maybe use a filter to seperate some of the organic material from the metals Afterwards use sulfides to precipitate the metals from the ash. Maybe use electrolytic refining to get a solid metal mixture and then use difference in melting points to slag away the different metals until I got pure iron.
Granted, this is a very obtuse, innefficient and expensive method and you’d be better of just mining for the stuff. But hey! You’d get some serious cool points if you made a sword out of like 500 dudes. Since you have about 4 to 3,5 grams of iron in your body.
Thank you.
Don’t forget she must need only wound him once, those are the terms of the tournament.
It may sound reasonable, yet her opponent is functionally invincible.
I imagine the King’s grin comes partly from knowing that said divine invincibility is the only reason he’s still alive right now.
Prediction: Leg weight moment in 4 pages.
Of note that previously Dave of SalamĂ©se fame was fighting purely technically. Now however, he’s slowly coming aflame. It’s clear that White Chain is starting to push him, but who will falter first is the real question.
Dare I ask what exactly Solomon is standing on there? Because it’d be a shame if he were pummeled so far into the ground that his feet technically touched the ground outside the ring…
I imagine the rule only counts horizontally. Looks like the same material that the ring itself and the arena floor are made of. Based on the color, it could be limestone, though that would make cratering that area and smashing up the Battle Royale floor somewhat less impressive than if it were say, marble.
Think not to trip up a demiurge with technicalities in his own house. The rules are what the king says they are. This too is axiomatic.
This needs to be turned into an animation. The character designs and world building are amazing. I wish adultswim would pick this up and give the creator total creative controll.
If you hard. Then you hard.
It would have been so easy if this was an anime: all Allison would have had to do was pulling up her shirt and flash him her boobs and voilá: blood would spout out of his nostrils!
This has never happened in any anime I’ve ever watched. And I’ve watched like, five, so I’d know~
Oh gods, no! Solomon isn’t grinning over the fight or admiring White Chain’s effort or technique, it’s because she’s left herself open!
He sees her thread! She has to move, _now!_
Mentos: The Freshmaker
It makes me happy that we’ve collectively decided to call him Salami Dave. Makes him seem far less threatening.
Emphasis on *seem*. To paraphrase Morpheus: jeer all you want. But at the end of the day, a king is still a king, and a clown only a clown.
Our fiction is reality. To argue otherwise is simply to attempt to force your reality upon us, but we won’t listen! We believe he is a weak fool, and so he is.
If the world is a lie, it may as well be my lie.
How tough is that umbilicus? Perhaps it’s metaphysically unbreakable while the armour survives? Perhaps they can strangle him with it?
I’m thinking it’s ethereal more than anything.
For anyone who doesn’t check Abbadon’s Twitter: the next update is coming on 14/7.
This isn’t anything new but I am loving the color symbolism between White Chain and Solomon David in them both having purple blue aesthetics, but where Solomon David is purple with touches of blue, White Chain is blue with a touch of purple, like how they’re similar but have diverged paths in irreconcilable ways
How do I get a “MAGNIFICENT” T-shirt with that grin?
A screenshot of that panel is now my phone’s wallpaper for the foreseeable future.