King of Swords 4-44
“KI RATA
An internal/external discipline, widely respected as the most dangerous Fist Art in the multiverse. It’s core technique is a breathing method that allows internal force to be cultivated extremely rapidly and focused on a point smaller than a pin-prick, giving blows absolutely phenomenal power. Blows using this technique are named by the number of points they contain – one point blows are strong enough to crack stone with a touch. Two point blows can decapitate a man with the air pressure created by flicking a finger. Legends about of old masters of Ki Rata using ten point blows to level cities but I find the claim highly dubious.
I have found nobody willing to train me in this art and none who will grant me observation. Improper use of a Ki Rata technique will literally tear a man’s own body into pieces, so I have not attempted to study it myself. The only living masters live in the (remarkably pretty) land of Rayuba and are staunch pacifists, having, according to legend, culled their order to a single community. Reportedly the only time they ever use their considerable talents is to kill someone who somehow manages to learn a Ki Rata technique without being trained by them first. They only take apprentices to replace an old master when he dies, so that someone will always be around to make sure Ki Rata does not exist in the wider world. Many supplicants flock to Rayuba in the hopes of being trained by the masters, who sometimes are forced into self defense when they are challenged to unwanted duels.
When I arrived there hoping for some insight, I witnessed such a duel between a low-ranking monk of the style and a well-known master of Pilgrim fist. Within three moves, the monk, a rather short fellow, use a two finger one-point technique to completely vaporize the bones in both the master’s arms.
I am strongly dissuaded to continue pressing my study of this art and will write no further on it.”
-MANUAL OF HANDS AND FEET
If you are on a perpetual cycle of violence, you just aren’t using enough of it.
As the size of an explosion increases, the number of problems it is incapable of solving approaches zero.
*captain america i get the reference dot gif*
“And that would be bad”
Pow! Gangster shit!
~ From the Dhammapada, Chapter XII “The Self”
159. If a man make himself as he teaches others to be, then, being himself well subdued, he may subdue (others); one’s own self is indeed difficult to subdue.
160. Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.
161. The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
162. He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it surrounds.
163. Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.
164. The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (Arahat), of the elect (Ariya), of the virtuous, and follows false doctrine, he bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka reed.
There’s a lot to appreciate here so I’m just gonna continue to say that Incubus’ faces are exquisite every time
Atomized
Through void he flies
The whole belies
Further proof that this isn’t Ki Rata (or even the more advanced Pro Rata) but is twenty years of no deodorant. God-level martial pits.
Foolish of the monks to think that because the city no longer exists there is no wish for revenge. Time doesnt heal all wounds
How do you know he still wants revenge? Maybe he just wants to rule, and knows that the monks will get in his way.
The monks didn’t realize his desire for revenge also extended to themselves, who could have stopped the destruction but did nothing.
You know, reading the writeup on Ki Rata. … Are we sure that Solomon isn’t the End of Century Savior? Because for real this looks like a description of Hokuto Shinken. Solomon is the inheritor of the Fist of the North Star.
It’s sun destroyed, he moved two more to take its place.
VIOLENCE IS INESCAPABLE, SCRUBLORD
Solomon gave the man a parting gift.
At the very least. A vaporizing gift.
Peace is difficult to give, and often painful to receive.
“Peace is suffering without expression.”
Twentyninth student of Bagoret – FBC 052
Hard to argue with Solomon here.
“Honour is just pride without her makeup on.”
Methinks tha has it wards-back
His head wans’t in the game.
Without ever exercising your own strength you seek the death of others at the hands of someone else. The justice you refer to smells pretty rotten to me, the stench of a bloodbath. Don’t you agree?
This is a helluva comic to end an archive binge on.
Fuck yo inner peace
Gad. He totally missed the point. Also, you can’t WIN. Nobody WINS. That’s the ultimate truth of life.
Sounds like quitter talk to me.
Detachment from desire and the anguish they cause is the path of the human that desires to be happy. It is not the path of the one that desires to be angry, that desires to desire more than they desire to be content. Apathy is a poor substitute to the fulfillment of righteous anger.
Life is not a game like Chess that you can win or lose. Life is a game like Tetris where eventual failure is practically inevitable but you can still care about the score.
So, Solomon is a cultivator isn’t?
Inhuman strenght? Check
Trained by perverted old taoists? Check
Immortal lifespan? Check
Indestructible body? Check
Lookin’ very like it, son. Body cultivator kind.
Like they say, to get ahead through life you need courage, and two strong fists. A lack of things to hold you back probably helps too.
His mentor’s mind is now truly empty.
Ah the failures or pure pacifism. These masters were capable of stopping the death of this world. But sat aside as cities and bodies burned and did nothing cause they think their clever cause they think engaging in any violence even to protect live is some kind of massive crime.
It’s not. Standing aside and doing nothing isn’t some kind of noble endeavour it’s idiocy and cowardly. Remember these wise words: Apathy is death.
A technique so dangerous, its masters work not to advance it or preserve it but just contain it, like a disease. Funky.
I’m not entirely sure but I’m starting to suspect that he hasn’t given up on the cycle if violence and revenge at all? We will see if my hunch turns out to be correct!
Revenge is a dish best served at the heat death of your star system.