KING OF SWORDS 10-171
The thirty strong men of Yem Yeddo drew their beating staves and started to approach Intra, slavering and yelping at the thought of snapping his legs like dry twigs and the food they would get as a reward after. Intra was a handsome man who did not have the look of a warrior about him, and the men were very stupid. His eyebrows were thin and delicate, like a woman, and he had lashes like a spider lilly. This made the men laugh uproariously at his effeminate appearance.
Intra, for his part, merely took the rock and raised it high. After all the work he had done with it, it had become quite small, dense, and sharp. Then with a flick of his wrist, he skipped the rock off the air so fast that it cracked like a whip. A sound like thunder rippled across the valley.
Intra was extremely good at skipping rocks, as it had become his famous pastime in his sobriety. He could skip rocks off anything, be it god or man. In this particular case, he skipped the rock off the ribcages of all thirty men in half a second. They blew open like an old basket and the wind whistled merrily through the empty and sputtering spaces where their chests had once been.
‘Behold the air,” said Intra.
Intra : “And for our next trick we need volunteers with murderous intent”
“And thank you for your participation!”
More Wishes! Always ask for more wishes.
“Request your boon and get the fuck out of my domain.”
Imagine how fucking funny it would be to run through the competition, fight this hard, and be the first person to ever win against Saucyman D JUST to ask him to magic up a third sun.
Pretty sure ‘getting the fuck out of his domain’ is the only right wish with that display he’s got going.
Oh man, Allison’s biceps when she pick’s up Zaid! Is he ever going to get pegged.
I think she’s more interested in infernal seafood at this point, not sausage.
It occurs to me that if one constantly-reincarnated angel, already weary from an entire tournament, can get a hit on Solomon David…then any of the higher-level angels could obliterate the most of the rest of the Seven if they really wanted to.
And I would put even money on a fight between Juggernaut and Jagganoth.
Don’t forget that the Seven are disciples of the Conquering King, and you well remember what he did to the angels. Had the angels stood any chance against the Demiurges, I doubt the Universal War would have happened.
One constantly reincarnated angel, yes. An angel that consistently enters into combat-heavy situations, to a point where she likely has significantly more experience than the vast majority of her brothers, and unlike them has not lost her “edge”. She still struggled to actually do anything to him, only managing to make a small bruise, and that only because he was toying around with her.
Make no mistake. If you put quite literally every single angel we’ve seen in this comic (Prime Angels not included) on one side of an arena, and put Solomon David on the other side, then if Dave actually took them seriously then I doubt it would take him more than a minute to completely pulverize their bodies, and the only harm that would come onto him would be from their bodies exploding, if said explosions manage to hit him at all.
As for Jagganoth? Hah! All the other demiurges working together could not so much as put a scratch on Jagganoth. That monster is nigh-invincible. Of course, he likely has a weakness, although we don’t know it yet. Allison will certainly have to exploit that, whatever it is.
We don’t know what happened to White Chain, but it definitely isn’t typical angel behavior. Aside from Metatron, even the Prime Angels are only a little stronger than the devils of the Heretic’s Court. Even the weakest demiurges are a step above them, and Solomon David is one of the stronger demiurges.
Intra’s a demigod tier troll.
Generally wholesale slaughter is not done with the consent of the participants.
Plus the fact that they are attacking him makes it self-defence.
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Intra is a Sword God, he didn’t insert himself into the situation if he wasn’t going to turn 30 men into ghosts.
To quote the legendary Commissar Holt: “Choose your next words with EXCEPTIONAL care.”
“His life.”
I think she’s going to ask him to join her team and train her to fight the other demiurges, it just makes the most sense.
Nick Fury, please report to Avengers’ Administrative offices. Your eyepatch has been found.
And the boon will be FRIENDSHIP.
Actually, I’m surprised Solomon David acepted White Chain’s victory, since she DIDN’T fulfill the stated condition: she didn’t draw even one drop of blood from him. When she touched him, her stone shell was already destroyed. She touched his skin with her true body: a white, extremely cold flame. The resulting wound on his cheek looked like nothing so much as a burn, which is exactly what extreme cold does to skin. The veins were cauterized by freezing cold, just like by burning heath, and no blood was draw. Sure, it’s a matter of details, but Solomon David’s bureaucratic empire is all about such details. So I’m surprised he accepted her victory.
Secondly, he now wants her to choose her prize before she leaves the ring. A condition that was never mentioned before. It might just mean he’s a bad loser, but looking at him these last few pages I get the feeling he’s suddenly no longer interested in the whole tournament anymore.
Thirdly, he told White Chain:”Today I’ve learned something.” What could that be?His entire shtick is Pride, but not just the pride of being an unbeatable fighter. The defininf moment in SD’s life was the murder of his family, the wife and daughters he was supposed to protect and couldn’t. I see his entire empire as an attempt to create a place where people would be safe. His title ‘Paternum’ is particularly meaningful here: it implies that he sees himself as a wise, loving, father to his people, and his people as his loving, obedient children. When he was defeated, Gog-Agog exulted inhis humiliation, but I don’t think she realized what hurt him the most. Inhis own mind, he always was the Hero of his people, their Champion, protecting them from all their enemies. They loved him – or so he thought. But when your beloved champion is unexpectedly defeated, the reaction you’d expect would be stunned silence, or angry booing. NOT sontaneous applause for his opponent! There was one panel a few pages back, where Solomon David was shown very small, with members of the audience who looked strangely grotesque, discolored and far too big. Abaddon’s art is normally quite realistic, so I think that picture had special meaning. IMHO, that’s how the audience looked to Solomon David at that moment. He had just been defeated, if barely, and his people were HAPPY about it! I think that at that moment he realized his entire image of himself as the beloved hero was false. His peole don’t love him: they RESENT him. No wonder he treats the rest of the tournament (White Chain’s prize) as something he wants to get over with as soon as possible: he’s got much more important things on his mind. If a diamond is hit at precisely the right spot it may shatter. SD certainly looks shattered…
When White Chain made the crowd cheer for her, she squeezed blood from his heart.
They forgot rule one “Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man” – or in this case, a man who seems extremely unconcerned in the face of physical danger.
Intra must be royal, he was able to produce a continuous cutting motion from a single throw.
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“You can either have your boon… Or, what’s in this box.”
“The boon, Solom-”
“No, the box, THE BOX!”
in need for a girl to do that to me
Maybe I’m the last to notice, but White Chain’s deepest wish was for a human body, and it was granted the moment after the struck Solomon, for very unclear reasons. Maybe what happened was she stole a little bit of his god-power directly by the act of violence and intuitively used it. If so it’s pretty funny Big Beard made up that law for the tournament some 1000 years ago and then it turns out he was an involuntary wish-granting piƱata all along.