King of Swords 9-114
Chapter: 9
“The Princes of the World wielded many secret fires, for which there are many terrible and powerful names. None of them save the Ruling King were able to wield the bolts with which he smote his foes. It was such a dread power that it was rarely seen in even the ancient ages, and never again after the Universal War, where Zoss himself vanished.”
– Yubam Bartoph, Jund Vatra
Prediction: This book ends with David Solomon getting sniped by one of the other Demiurges while he’s distracted (maybe Gog-agog?), and the rest of the multiverse quickly learning why this is a *bad thing*.
Salami David may be a patronizing and arrogant…but fundamentally he is one of the few great powers in the universe that actually desires for it to be a *good* place…. and the only Demiurge whose worlds I would want to live in.
We’ve got all the set up for a new universal war to break out, and Currently Solomon is holding the line (or at least, trying). He’s going to die, and then things are going to *really* head south.
Jadis just falls out of the sky and lands on him like a Backdraft Group judge.
Hmm… a process of dialectic, no? Two opposite ideas that must battle, expend themselves and reach synthesis.
You have a Healers eye.
Someone get out a mirror.
Oh Angel, what intends thy hand, she cried,
Against thy only student? What fury, Oh child,
Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart
Against thy teacher’s head? And know’st for whom?
For him who sits above, and laughs the while
At thee, ordained his drudge to execute
Whate’er his wrath, which he calls justice, bids,
His wrath, which one day will destroy ye both!
10 cubit spear…. isn’t that one of Sun Wukong’s moves? I swear I’ve read that somewhere.
The princess wore a coat of Davidian mail, and had an ancient helmet of brilliant gold on her head; she wore three turbans and had a sword of Indian steel, with a ten cubit spear in her hand. She rode out into the center of the battlefield and called out: “So where is your leader? Where is Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik?”
— 35th Night, from “The Hundred and One Nights”, translated by Bruce Fudge
Why would you want to wear three turbans? The rest sounds pretty cool, but three turbans is definitely over-accessorising.
Well, unless you have three heads.
Hector of Troy famously wielded an eleven cubit spear.
Seems like all Allicio has to do is run out the clock. :believes:
Seems like the clock should have run out already by now.
Will is nothing without understanding.
Oh White Chain, you let one of your old friends lead you astray.
I can’t parse what is supposed to be happening in the first and second panels. What’s going on? The end of the last page showed a lot of simultaneous attacks from White Chain
I believe Alicio managed to ward off most of those blows with some kind of barrier (the white circles show where they hit), but one got through and punched her in the gut.
Indeed. Alicio stopped the whole barrage, but she took her eyes (all four) off the ball. Then White Chain closed and knocked her flying with one punch.
Ten Cubit Spear is an act of desperation here. Not the sort of thing to use on a friend (she’s managed to cut Incubus with it in the past), but it’s the only move she knows that can work while she’s flying backward out of the arena.
“…and power is shit, if it turns you into a monster.”
… is what I’m expecting him to retort.
Go back to your The Three-Headed Wyrm, Dancer
They are one with me.
How can one return whence has never left?
Words worthy of a king. Let us worship this god of destruction.
Discipline is good but it narrows your view. It is hard to be flexible if you concentrate on one thing all your life.
Te~~n Cu~ Bi~t SPEAR!
How big IS that platform anyway? Allicio cut off part of it when she attacked the Buckethead angel, but the way they’re going now, it’s suddenly the size of a football field!
It’s small enough that Alicio is off the edge in the last frame, or at least will be when she lands; technically, she’s out. If White Chain retires hurt, Rusty Bucket wins the tournament. And what would a conservative angel ask of Solomon, should he scratch him a little?
“Technically, she’s out”…
Well… it might be a tad difficult to find a species dim enough to mention it to her…
She is not out. People are only out when they touch the floor somewhere. While still in the air no one is out.
Plus she got that propulsion of her, so she’s going to return asap.
Each of them is yelling at themselves- Alico wants a life with purpose, while White Chain’s orderly ways keep her trapped.
They fight mirrors.
White Chain makes some good points here, but even the most cursory of glances at the greater Wheel will reveal a universe that cares nought for disciplined restraint of power, let alone “rightful heirs”. Power may corrupt, but I’ll buy a hat for the express purpose of eating it if you find me a person who would happily surrender the power to bend the universe to their liking on the basis of the chance they will become corrupt later
Never thought of it that way before. Funny how Lord of the Rings was overflowing with characters who refused the Ruling Ring for fear of becoming the next Dark Lord. Not bloody likely, in hindsight.
Power without discipline may not be much. But to seize power one must break discipline. Time will tell who is in the wrong
This is what happens when your shoulder angels are corporeal.
Kudos for truth.
Just noticed, Allison blocks with her eyes closed, but Cio keeps them open. One of the two has probably been in more scraps in her life.
Discipline is a rod used to control others. Sort of like how White Chain is being used to do someone else’s fighting. Or how we helped set up the whole Demiurge thing. Most of the things the Aeons have done, really.
Ten Cubit Spear > Ten Foot Pole
This too shall lead to woo.
This one asks when the story will continue as the day of continuation has come and gone
This.one.needs.the.story.told.this.one.knows.not.when.story.will.continue.this.one.requests.input.brothers.
Hey Abbadon, would be nice if you could mention on the site that the page is going to be delayed rather than only on Twitter.
Ahh…this one forgets of the birds…this one will seek answers there. This one thanks you for the re-memory.
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