King of Swords 5-49
Chapter: 5
“Many fools admire the Gods, thinking them admirable and wise, praising their virtues, and asking for their boons.
I’ll tell you one thing friend, there ain’t nary a pious farmer who comes up short when it’s time for burnt offerings. He’s always got a lamb ready. He may not know it, but he remembers why the Gods are Gods in the first place.
You can ask for harvests all you like, but never forget they sup on fire and blood.”
– Mars Pallatrix, Belligerent Knight
Finally! Some solid Solomon action! And poor Gog needs another head, tsk.
I am beginning to look forward to the event when Mottom gets her head exploded by Gog-Agog. That would be pretty satisfying.
Gog is eventually going to do something more than sit there and get her head sploded and I AM SO READY FOR IT!!
Excellent composition, that first panel
Oh yeah. I am reminded of “Promethea” again in a strong way. A pity I don’t currently have time for proper rereading.
God the Father, God the Son and God the Allison-So-Not-Actually-God-Also-The-Only-One-Who-Can-And-Will-Kick-Your-Ass-All-Twenty-Ways-To-Monday.
God’s act high and mighty, yet they do not see us ants that scurry below. Take this to heart and burrow deep. The gods’ harvest comes swift. A rare piece of advice from a friend.
Dude, talk about yourself, I’m the one that makes the guest list and booooy are these guys invited.
A simple yes would suffice, Lord David
Yes you can destroy a table everyone in the room can do that. Now please answer the question. Can you keep them apart?
It’s not that he can destroy a table. It’s that he can effortlessly destroy a table *with his pinky finger*.
Betcha if he gets riled he can’t break nothing. Like in White Chain’s lesson to the Sorority Girl. A true definition of “lose it”.
And that is just a ONE point strike. A full ten-point would easily neutralize … well, they weren’t using that city, nor the surrounding districts, properly anyways.
It’s like banging a gavel in a courtroom. A call to order.
Solomon: Come again, bitch?
Indeed, old Solly sure does love his power moves. All the better for him that dread Ki Rata seems to consist of such in its entirety.
With every flex of his pride, a thing that is somehow balanced between being entirely earned and dipping into impossibly overweening arrogance, I long for the Circle of Strength more and more. More than any lust for blood, I await the day that I get to see the Conquering King relieve the Emperor Celestial of long held delusions of superiority.
I
HUNGER
for that glorious moment when we see the God of the Frozen Form realize that a young woman from Los Angeles has spilled just,
A Bit,
more than a drop of his blood.
And yet of the Demiurges he seems the most reasonable so far. Why do you hunger for the blood of one who could settle issues with discourse? Who seems to have the concept of honor, order, and self-expression through hard work and relative virtue? Of all the mad gods he seems to be the closest to the human ideal. He is a man confident, and rightly so, not some arrogant blowhard who deserves to be unseated for daring speak words he cannot possibly have earned. Surely confidence is not worthy of hatred?
Confidence is what lead to Infinite Worlds being raped, Throne becoming a shell of the concept of glory, and the current issue of the multiverse being ruled by a seven-part gang of bloodthirsty fools.
Confidence lead to the universe being humbled, is what made a barista from the City of Angels the only hope we have.
Heaven was reached through violence, and we find it strange when all we found was a nightmare and a hell.
He has the fairest appearance and the most peaceful subjects, but there can be no doubt that his heart belongs to violence the same as all the rest. His appeals to culture and sophistication nothing more than a well constructed facade.
I get the feeling that he will be the LEAST open to negotiation with Al-Yisun, perhaps for reasons we have yet to see.
Confidence is one thing. He has sat untouchable, save perhaps by his peers in the early years of peace when such a notion as peace was tested more earnestly, for ages and ages. Confidence has fossilized into contempt, in the case of Emperor Solomon.
The weak often despise the strong and confident. Insecure about their own lack of strength, they spend their time fantasizing about tearing down those they perceive as their betters. It has always been so.
Did I STUTTER?
Yes. The table is built very poorly but you haven’t answered the question dude.
Flex on em
Weird flex, Solomon David, but I can dig it.
ONEPUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH
Prana Of The Utmost Mystery: You Know I Had To Do It To ‘Em
Hail to the King.
good question nadia, but you see… the thing is i’m healthy and swole without pillaging and murdering thousands and thousands of people and also my pinky finger can do this
any other questions?
A theory of Gog. It isn’t as powerful as the others but it is nigh indistructable. A singe worm and it will survive with its key. So it’s less that they fear to reach for Gog’s key and more that they realize the impossibility of obtaining it.
Yeah, I’ve been assuming that since they first got their head destroyed. None of the others could be hurt by an attack so easily, if it were any more lasting harm than a cut fingernail then they would have lost their key long ago.
Abbadon mentioned she would be one of te most powerful if she weren’t so damn crazy
Not one of, in fact, but THE strongest demiurge. That plus the appearance of her court is what makes me suspect the avatar she sends to these meetings isn’t her only body. If she’s countless worms in myriads of bodies, that would go a long way to explaining how she could compete with Jagganoth.
Also suggests that one of these days Mottom is going to do something that _really_ pisses Gog off, and then will be (briefly) surprised.
This is his unspoken answer. All of them are powerful but he is very powerful indeed and sees himself as superior to them.
Blood and fire are all well and good, but personally I prefer noodles.
Mmmmmm, noodles…. *insert Homer Simpson’s open-mouth drooling here*
In which Solomon David demonstrates the Wuxi finger hold.
Dark legends are told of when he once to performed the forbidden Thousand Years of Death technique
The Wuxi Finger Hold?!? NOT THE WUXI FINGER HOLD!!!
(Skadoosh.)
Incubus must be secretly laughing his ass off at Solomon’s assumptions
Yes, your comment resonates with me. I believe that, for ALIS-YUN to pose as an effective pawn of Zoss, she represents a threat, a disruption beyond what is conventional. The Demiurges face something that brute strength and raw power, alone, cannot overcome.
Looks like the Lord of the Pit is not very happy about Solomon’s show of power in that last panel. After all, his plans do revolve around the Rising King’s success. It would put a real dent in those plans for Solomon David to split every atom in her body with a single blow.
Like his dream self doesn’t have the biggest shit eating grin at Solomon’s arrogance right now. Salami Dave doesn’t know that he’s got a dud stashed in Rayuba while Inky has a direct mental link to the True Heir.
Though it is uncharacteristic of him, I suspect Solomon Dave is not so naive, and is in fact concealing his suspicions that AL-YIS-UN is indeed the true Heir. He seemed to imply as much when speaking to Zaid at the beginning of this book.
Given his decision to produce only sons as potential heirs to his empire, it is perhaps no coincidence that Solomon finds it easier to believe in a heir to all creation the consider Zoss chose a Heiress.
His lack of female progeny is not a show of disdain for women, but that in his past life he only had daughters. None will ever replace the ones he lost, and none will ever compete with the memories he holds or the affection that drives him still.
Unlike the others, he doesn’t let himself forget why he took his key.
Despite his world being rebuilt, he keeps a corner of it empty to remind himself.
These things are not incompatible. To revere dead women wile disrespecting living women is not uncommon, especially for Solomon and his like, who poison sincere feeling with ego. Would his daughters wish that he keep his family empty of women in their memory?
People here, dear Paladin, are as corrupt as those courtiers who feast on the ankles of the Demiurges. Rather than parse the good and evil of each, viewing them as people, they choose to believe each one to be some edifice of evil and arrogance beyond their allotment, even though they themselves cannot understand what the Demiurges are or what it took to get there.
You are right, but few are those who will agree with you. They prefer the likes of Solomon to be a monumental devil, full of vice and undeserved hubris. When, compared to his fellow mad gods, he is the most reasonable. He acts no different than any great man we pay homage to in our history books, but on a greater scale.
The greater the man, the more people refuse to see him as a man, and instead as something they wish would topple, simply because they cannot stand the sight of something greater than themselves.
i imagine its not so much that solomon is sexist as that if Zied is the heir and allison is the carrier solomon has outplayed zoss and is winning, but if Allison is the heir and Zied just a decoy than zoss has outplayed HIM, and i think he just cant fathom losing like that
As you say, though, it’s uncharacteristic of him. Vanity and naivety go hand in hand.
Practically every other demiurge has alternative plans and schemes and whatnot- makes sense that Solomon-David is lying to the rest of them as well.
It wouldn’t be the first time he betrayed a group of allies.
I would like Salami now.
I have none.
FATAL FIFTH FINGER
That table will never threaten the heir again. Great job, Salami Dave!
Yes that was a very dangerous table.
Actually, it was an angel.
Or a mimic.
It is very dangerous and can attack at any moment.
So we must DEAL with it.
Solomon David pinky finger win, and table lose.
Salami Dave should do a video series where he shatters various things with his pinky finger.
It wasn’t a table, it was a gazebo in disguise!
Luckily I have this +3 arrow.
Gog-Agog: Do it again, I wasn’t looking!
I feel like that was a Fist of The North Star reference. and I get the feeling this is the first time in a long time any of them has seen Solomon actually back up his talking with a display of his power.
I seem to recall someone actually held a city aloft with their mind power alone for a period of years before driving it into a vastly secure multidimentional vault full of gold – and I am meant to be impressed at a god-like & tough fingernail tap? Well,I am impressed (because it is seriously attractive artwork and pacing) but seriously, in comparison with other actions, it’s merely a reminder of power not actually convincing of the capacity to protect from someone with a key (the 8th key I think?) to the universes.
But that tiny finger tap is but the merest unveiling of Solomon’s power, and it apparently scales up from there super-linearly by at least nine further levels. He was a most formidable opponent even before he gained his key.
She has the *first* key. These bozos (and the red god) share evenly between them keys number 2 through 777,778.
Nope, she has the first-the Master Key- and they collectively have one exact copy that can be split 777,777 ways, but has been amalgamated into 7.
Wait, I read your comment wrong, shoot
That power of will derived from magic. Ki Rata is not magic.Ki Rata is breathing so good you can break tables with your finger. This is a subtle display of mastery. Solomon David does not seek to impress them by breaking a paltry table. Rather, he seeks to remind them of what he *is*, and how he obtained dominion of a seventh part of the universe.
Magic is indirectly applying your will by lying to the universe do it does what you want. Ki Rata is channeling one’s will directly through oneself. With the Art, Mottom have broken the table by convincing the universe that their Will’s are aligned towards the table being broken. With Ki Rata, Solomon David unmade the table because his will was stronger than the universe’s will to keep it intact. He could have unmade more but the pinky finger is a terribly restrictive channel for applying one’s will.
SD is showing that he equates power with kinetic energy. Several of the big guys here do. The sneaky little Bowie guy does not. So, whose definition of power will win out in the end?
Mayas?
In a manner most sycophantic, I very much hope the next page is of the entire Tower of Zoss nearly cracking in two, just to counteract all the snide commentators daring to deny the power of Salami Dave’s ultimate swolness
No doubt he’s swole.
The question, however, is he smart enough to realize when to use his finger and when his threats need to be backed up by something other than force.
And such was the land within a half mile of the table as well
One finger to the table.
One fist to Mottom’s city.
The results would be the same.
Message received.
The way I see it there are two options for Zaid. One he’s a footnote, almost everyone has assume he’s the true heir but hilariously his ultimate fate will be to either get killed or maybe dumped back on his and Allison’s homeworld or something. Two he becomes a powerful ally or enemy to Allison with perhaps Solomon teaching him Ki Rata or something. And while I absolutely do not want him to become Alison’s love interest I personally like the ally option, the comic has subverted certain cliches and for some reason I can’t explain the idea of Zaid going through character development of his own feels like a subversion of sorts.
“Like the ‘damsel in distress’ trope except with the genders swapped” is very much a trope of its own which can be subverted. I hope as well that Zaid gets to do something and isn’t just an irrelevant red herring. The first chapter of this book suggests to me that he’ll be important somehow.
My crack theory is that all the demiurges have Zoss’s plan wrong; he didn’t choose Allison as the heir, or mistakenly give her the key instead of Zaid. He chose both of them to rule together, mirroring the divine division of YISUN into YIS and UN. I think it no coincidence that their names start with the beginning and the end of the alphabet respectively.
Quite interesting. Waiting to see if any of the abundant theories gets confirmed sooner or later makes the wait a little more excruciating, as should be.
I’ve had the exact same thoughts myself. This would indeed be an interesting twist, I think.
My theory isn’t any more backed up by anything than anyone’s else’s, but the situation reminds me a lot of the Twelve Kingdoms anime (not the novels), where the heroine’s love interest is taking along with her to their new world. In the beginning, their goals are aligned in that they want to return home, and in various ways hope to rescue the other/each other, but by the end Youko realizes her destiny is “here” and comes to terms with it, while he can’t let go of his “Earth/Japan” views and ultimately dies a meaningless death for it.
Boy’s named after Henry’s town
will pick you up and let you down
Wear a belt in place of crown
Shit, excuse the grocer’s apostrophe folks
So, that’s “boys” plural instead of “boy is” contraction? Or [i]Henrys'[/i] ‘s with an apostrophe to shew that town is in possessive relation with a group of Henrys instead of a Henry singular? Or “Henrys” is just the town’s name, as in “the town of Henrys”?
It’s the boys that form a pair
named for a town with Henry there
but frankly I’m impressed you care
I hiss at thee, Purple Man! Using those profane, barbaric arts of wanton destruction in the presence of the Gilded One, Lord Mammon! Have you no pity for the Dragon, whose wisdom demands solemnity before Him? Fuckword upon fuckword I put on your name!
If it were not for your righteous display of divine power towards the Hag whose swords desecrate the Coin, I would spring forth from my elevator doors and haul my piteous flesh before your palace to deliver a curse from the depths of my vocabulary.
You’re just jealous that the Celestial Empire’s currency wasn’t dented while the Grand Dragon Guilder’s value plummeted, and that [I], The Pontifex of Locusts, used that to extract labor from you at a pittance
At this point, even a pittance would suffice. However, seeing as I am a shattered pulp in a moldy elevator corner, the only labor I am able to perform is writing long-winded Mammonist apologia on my Hulton Industries K6BD Super Deluxe terminal I stole, and calculating compound interest down to the eighteenth decimal in my head. I am unable to convince anyone to trust me with any money, since I make my current income from theft, and my last lower jawbone is now powder on a Thorn Knight’s knuckles.
Would you like to open an account with the Bank of the Degraded Thief?
An account? No, but i’d like to purchase several shares of stock…
Get in while the elevator is on the ground level.
Looks like Allison’s got a big fan already. Nice!
Tiny tap huge boom
How does he have children withou wrecking the poor girls? LOL
Restraint is a form of godliness.
With so many descendants restraint ain’t something Salami seems capable of
Also makes me remember Barbados Slim, that black guy from Futurama who has medals in both limbo and sex
I absolutely read “Asking for their Boobs”
“Yes, I think I can confidently say I can.”
One thing I still don’t get is why Incubus is the only one to have worked out that Allison is the real heir. Seeing as three of the Demiurges are female (four, if you count Maya) why is everyone so ready to just assume that Zaid must have been the one Zoss was looking for?
To err is to human, while they are definitely not.
The cruelest trap of divinity is to see yourself perfect, and therefore – unerrable.
Which will cease them all in the end, I guess…
Jadis’ interpreters kept referring to the heir as “he” back on 4-78. I am personally not sure if that was the fault of the interpreter, or Jadis deliberately causing confusion.
Or a hint at an indifference between YIS and UN within her when she becomes true usurper
Jadis can’t be wrong…but AFAIK there’s nothing to indicate that she can’t lie.
Jadis sees all, yet can hardly speak at all.
First she tried to reason, but gave up after a season.
Now it is the fool’s fault when doom betides their impatience.
We don’t know the grammatical rules of Universal Metaconstant, but it could be as simple as the old sexist generic “he” in English to refer to someone whose gender is unknown, irrelevant or hypothetical. The prophecy isn’t exactly clear and specific, after all.
Maybe Allison is not the heir – it would make a suitable twist in the end for her to give up her key in return for a domestic life. With Cio, of course.
The entire point could be that you can’t be a designated heir, or that such a designation is meaningless; whether by any king or a prophecy or any other fancy method – you can only be what you take for yourself.
“Ohhhh……His….POWER…. it’s….UNBELIEVABLE !”
Prince Vegeta ( witnessing Cell’s power-up )
– Dragon Ball Z –
So this is Solomon’s version of a pinky promise.
That was MAHOGANY!
Nah, I’m sure that was stone 😛
The fact that Ki Rata’s weakest attack is named “Certain Death” is so badass! Wonder what a ten point strike would be called….
End all nine lives of a cat at once!
(takes a ten point strike)
Serious Series: Serious Punch
In the words of a legendary master…
“Skadoosh.”
Show us the merchandise or you’re gonna lose another head, Gog.
We’re reaching levels of smug that shouldn’t be possible!
Quickly! What does the scouter say about his smugness level?
Don’t know! It exploded before I could get a good reading!
No matter how many times I see Ki Rata in action, it still sends a chill across my being…
Solomon’s use of Ki Rata may well be a reminder that he got his Key by taking its prior holder head-on in a fist fight and killing him. With nothing to shield him from the instant death that demiurges can inflict but his own pure strength.
Solomon was a peer of the other demiurges in straight combat before he ever even became one.
It’s saying something that he himself still fears Jagganoth.
Aw man, Jadis is one calm cookie- she didn’t even flinch when Solomon cracked that table like it was nothing.
One might say she’s a cool character. Icy, even.
She just knew he would do that.
I see that Robert’s Rules of Order are not in operation at this little soirée.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Trinity, unmarked and unremarkable.
Solomon David – God Emperor of the Celestial Empire; Grand Master of Ki Rata; Bearer of the word Diamond; Splinterer of Tables
FOOOOOOOOOOLS
Solomon David really is badass. And he took on and defeated a demiurge using only his mastery of Ki Rata. But of course even he fears Jagganoth, because old Elephant Mask cheats. Those nails from angel feathers make him invulnerable. It’s like playing a game in God Mode: no matter how strong your enemies are, the can never defeat you.
BTW: I really hope Zaid gets more of a role to play. Don’t know why everybody thinks he’s a creep; he seems perfectly normal, fairly sympathetic guy to me. Hopefully, while White Chain and Cio were training Allison, Solomon David was training Zaid in Ki Rata. And hopefully, he will become Allison’s ally… though he was conspicuosly missing from the picture Jadis showed during that first meeting of the Demiurges on the head of that dead god.
I both agree and disagree with you. I think he is a little bit of a creep, a lot of his dialogue in the first chapter or his texts to Allison that are briefly seen in the second chapter are pressuring her to have sex with him, which is kinda creepy. But I think rather than the common and cliche thing of having him be nothing more than a creep it would be interesting if he undergoes self reflection and character development and becomes a better person. I’d also like it if this goes hand in hand with him becoming a practitioner of Ki Rata and becoming a legitimate friend and ally to Allison.
Early Zaid was (and likely still is) a flawed individual; however, so was (and still is) our protagonist. The impression I got from his brief appearance at the start of this book was that much like Allison his experiences of the wider universe had made him develop into something more than “kindof a jerk”. He didn’t act cowed by Solomon’s obvious power, and criticised him openly yet in a measured manner. I feel there’s more to him than a simple inverted damsel in distress, and will be interested in seeing how the story develops.
Please recall that the reason Allison was dating him to begin with was that she was trying to lose her virginity. Somewhere between irony and foreshadowing, considering she wound up with Cio instead.
True, though my impression of their encounter was that Allison had agreed to have sex with him (she even scheduled it in her agenda) and that he was trying to put her at ease. He wasn’t very good at it perhaps, but he’s still young, and under the circumstances it’s understandable he was over-eager. In my view, that doesn’t make him a creep so much as a normal young man. But yes, I would really like it if he became a goodfriend and ally for Allison. He really seemed to care about her.
I also hope zaid’s role in the story will be more relevant in the future, i believe he deserves it. About him being a creep, well, we can only judge him by the comic’s first pages and he is not the most considerate partner. But those flaws don’t make him evil yet. He has been living among demiurges for a year and i’m sure he is as well informed about the world as Allison, if not more. It will be interesting to see how Solomon’s influence has affected him
Considering the training that Cio was giving Allison, wouldn’t it be ironic if Solly was giving Zaid more than his pinkie? But seriously, I don’t think that Zaid has done enough of anything thus far to sustain any speculation. I mean, it’s been more than three books already and we know almost nothing about him.
Maybe Alison will end up agreeing with Solomon’s plan to have Zaid take position as the Celestial Empire’s head of state, to protect it while Solomon’s out doing whatever he thinks will let him out-badass Zoss? It’s not like that would actually get in the way of Alison beating Solomon herself at a later date.
Oh! so the OTHER kings needta learn sum respect for the speakin’ house, but Salami Dave over ‘ere can destroy things will-a-nill? I calls bullshit!
Didn’t he JUST lecture the others on the sanctity of this place? Now he’s breaking the ancient conference table of the gods with his pinky.
BECAUSE HE IS CARELESS FOOOOOOOOOL
He was just getting their attention. And now he has it, methinks.
Breaking a table is not a very interesting feat for a guy who put a sun in the sky or came out on top in a war that extinguished suns. Mottom levitating a city without visible effort is way more impressive.
That’s the challenge of translating omnipotent power into practical terms: you either end up making the characters look silly or you end up as DBZ. And arguably DBZ “pulled punches” as well. Why is punching a guy through a rock impressive when you can casually delete a planet?
It’s like slamming the table when you’re annoyed.
Anyone else find it amusing that the shriveled, corpse-like sorceress is constantly attacking the living mass of worms/maggots.
Like a mouse continually coming up and biting a cat.
Perhaps Gog-Agog reminds her too much of her own death? Because you’re right Mottom really seems to have it in for the poor worm.
Makes you wonder what will happen when Gog-Agog tires of it… We haven’t seen her DO anything yet.
I wonder if any of Solomon’s offspring know Ki Rata. Did he try to teach it to them or did her prevent them from learning it? Did any of them trail and fail, which is S-Diddy doesn’t think any of them are worthy of inheriting his empire?
I doubt he’d ever give up Ki Rata’s secrets. After all he knows what happened to his masters when they took on an apprentice.
S-Diddy! Heeheeheeheehee!
Now I got to wonder what would have happened if he used two fingers.
😉
The Salami man has a good point.
Okay, terrified again.
None of your are surprised I wager.
in “i see satan fall like lightning” Rene Girad states that gods might developed from scapegoat-victims and their carthaic influnece in societies. Might be a fun little influence for our amazing pantheon. keep up the goodwork, love every spread of it.
He would feel pretty foolish if he came back from his trip to find the ladies hadalready abducted the lad.
Finger breaking stone means little if the target is already gone. 😉
“You’re paying for the new table, Solomon.”
One thing I find odd here is how Mottom phrases it as keeping him *safe* from her. What does she mean: Just keeping him safe in the sense of preventing him from getting his hands on the key, or that Alison is taken as a threat to Zaid’s life for some reason?
Ok, why do these idiots still think the runt is the heir? Hasn’t Alison proven by now she is way more competent than that boy? Clearly the King intended to make her his their.
one reason may start with m, and rhyme with progeny
(and is, funnily enough, an all-inclusive game)
I had to go back to the very beginning and read it again. It goes like this: Allison and Zaid are about to make it when the King shows up and whips out his Key. Then the thorn knights enter, and one of them grabs Zaid and splits.
Why? Could it be that the King was about to stick Zaid with the Key and the thorn knight foiled that plan? In any case, only Allison is left with the King and she gets Keyed. Could he have just settled for second best? Maybe he needed to ditch the Key and she was the only one around at that point.
Actually, that sounds fairly plausible. The one thing Zoss said at the time (in normal English anyway) was the word ‘king’. Then the Thorn knights appeared, beheaded him and abducted Zaid. It was only then that Zoss, even without his head, grabbed Allison and rammed the key into her forehead. Makes you wonder what would have happened if the Thorn Knights had been a few seconds later.
Exactly. If you can imagine that Zoss was looking for the least likely receiver for the Key – poor, hapless Zaid – then whimpering virgin Allison might not seem like a bad alternative.
However, it is Zoss himself that names allison “kill six billion demons” and encouraged her to become king while storming Yre. Perhaps the Conquering King’s plan is more complicated than we think
All of them aside from Incubus make the assumption that Allison is just the delivery girl and not the heir herself, but from what I can tell, Zoss already tried giving Zaid the key right out the bat in another timeline and it did not work out.
Jadis’ prophetic image back in 4-78 clearly showed White Chain and Cio but mysteriously had the heir shrouded. Me thinks Jadis knows but is stringing the others along so she might achieve her most sincere wish.
I don’t know, I mean did you see the shorts the heir was wearing? Not many men wear shorts like that.
It looks like Allison to me. Even the skin color matches hers better than Zaid’s. And if that is Zaid, then where is Allison in the whole picture? What are Cio and White Chain doing next to the new King if it’s not Allison?
Fella must be REAL fun at parties.
Somewhere in the vastness of the cosmos, we see a dining table of fine pedigree being decorated by the finest artisans in that bejeweled city it inhabits. The table has begun to weep, much to the confusion and dismay of the artisans, unaware that it weeps for the kindred that it will never know. Also unaware are they of the precise mechanism by which a table may weep, and may they never be so unfortunate as to learn.
So I’m going to cycle around to a theme surfaced in the comments a couple of pages back, the pecular resemblance to incubus that Alyson seems to be turning into, right down to the scar paterns. This seems ominous considering when she is languishing in the window after sex with Cio, she says ” I feel weird…oh, I dunno, like my body is not my body” I’ll just say Dun-Dun-Dunnnnn, and leave it at that for now…
Is it just weird coincidence that even the very first time Allison rolls into Throne and gets knocked out she ends up with a faint version of those scars?
Indeed. Abbadon is playing the long game. Reaaaaaaaaal long.
Demiurge ‘discussions’ are a bit hard on the furniture. And landscape. And world.
A remodeling team with the right contract could make a fortune following them around. From a really long distance behind of course.
Should have also said:
Everyone is saying how the little finger strike is nothing to the powers of the demiurges. While that is true, I think he is reminding them that he beat a demiurge with that power. And thereby gained even more power.
I don’t get it, why is it supposed to be impressive that Solomon destroys a table by touching it with his pinkie when Mottom fucking blows up heads with pointing her finger?
It’s like banging a gavel in a courtroom. A call to order.
Because heads are such frail, mushy things when compared with enormous pieces of stone. Especially when the head is really just a bunch of worms.
well yeah but my point was really that Solomon seems to have to contact with the object he wrecks but Mottom blows shit up remotely
Consider that before he was a Demiurge, he was just a man with martial arts powers.
He then killed a Demiurge with JUST those martial arts powers, becoming what he is now.
The sea may also do such a thing. The only difference is the length of time required.
Gog-Agog is 100% the in-universe stand-in for K6BD fans.
Agree. I personally like how her court is clowns with balloons. HONK
Nobody actually exploded her head that time, she did it herself as she could see what was coming and if anybody appreciates a running gag it’s GOG