KING OF SWORDS 9-118
Chapter: 9
“The old bugger always tried to dissuade his own worship. Hated the whole idea of divinity, matter of fact. But it didn’t matter. The common people worshiped him. The city guard worshiped him, and so did the priest class. Bleeding hells, the demiurges, princes of the world, held him as their king. I’m sure a few o’ them had a little beardy shrine set up somewhere.
I mean, just look at what the bastard could do.”
– Mars Pallatrix, Belligerent knight
Well, I can’t say she wasn’t asking for it.
Reverse soap opera rule?
Either that blow killed White Chain so very hard she didn’t explode like angels typically do when you kill them outside the void or she saw just how bad that was going to be and vacated her shell before the spear hit.
I’m hoping the latter.
As am I
White Chain seemed to be half outside her shell to begin with due to the technique she’s using, which might have something to do with it.
It may also have been because it was a less catastrophic failure compared to Maya splitting Juggernaught Star’s proxy suit in half. That or igneous angels are just way more explosive than liquid angels when it comes to loss of suit integrity.
I don’t blame Allico for this in the slightest.
White Chain simply should have seen it coming.
Let’s just hope Allison did too.
I am deeply worried that Gog Agog is deeply worried, though. Allison might have overstepped.
Captain Imno stood on the bridge of his airship. Recently renovated, it was his pride. His hand firmly on the controls, his crew tending to their various jobs. They were missing the tournament, but it couldnt be helped. Some cargo cant wait.
In the distance below them stood the arena. They all had their work to attend to but everyone occassionally glanced at the arena and wondered at what epic tales of gladiatorial combat their lucky friends were watching right now.
Suddenly, a flash of light from the arena caught the captains eye. Things must be getting quite intense down there to be able to see it from here he thought. It was his last thought. Few survived the impact. None survived the crash.
Always check your backstop before firing your weapon. This too is axiomatic.
Oh man. What a moment. What a cliffhanger. Is White Chain dead? Returned to underworld? Did he shed his stone armor as a decoy and is actually attacking right now in angel spirit form?
Free hat!
Pure comedy gold right here ^
At some future point, I can imagine White Chain saying “I deserved it”. And she’ll be right.
You can see it on their faces. The moment has come where they have realized their mistake. She is not a pawn. She is not a placeholder. She IS the Successor. And she comes for you.
Fear is the appropriate response, Councillors.
Now, if White Chain were a true master of the hidden and deceitful killing arts, as I am, she would be able to animate her discarded armor to obtain a 2-to-1 advantage against Allicio. However, given that she is unable to perform even the slightest misdirection, the chances of such are slim.
White Chain kind of unintentionally proved their own point.
Allison continuing her journey of beating up her friends to convert them into wives
Second best underrated comment of the day.
Putting my bets now:
White chain Jettisoned the stone body, and is currently in full angel form… and PISSED.
Seriously though- yes, White Chain might have been being an ass, but as Nugget points out, anyone who would hit their friends with a 30 cubit spear rather than back down is ummm… well maybe not safe to trust with that much power.
Yay.
I have seen another theorize this. It is…rare, for an angel to hold its form unarmored and free of the void.
Being an ass is really underselling it – White Chain intended to beat Allison unconscious and take her prisoner with the intent of forcibly removing the key from her head as soon as Zaid was confirmed secured, or to at least keep her imprisoned until the Key could be turned over to the “correct” heir.
I.e., White Chain turned on Allison so that White Chain could do exactly what the Thorn Knights were demanding she do.
White Chain betrayed her friend and student, tried to violently subjugate her (I suspect her opening shot would’ve instantly killed an unfused Allison), and lost.
Between to the Thorn Knights’ meddling and Allison’s nature, this was always going to happen (i.e., Mottom passed on the chance when Allison was willing to give up the Key without a fight, and it’s not going to happen again); the only things up for debate were when White Chain’s betrayal would happen and how Allison would defend herself against it.
White Chain just had the extremely poor judgment to attempt this during the exact window where Allison, as Allicio, could actually beat an unstoppable killing machine in a straight fight.
Though, of course, a person who can’t even cheat at cards wouldn’t have even considered waiting for Allicio to unfuse before attacking.
The comic doesn’t seem to bear out your version of events.
Recall that White Chain tries to get Allison to quit the tournament and return home before Zaid’s retrieval was complete.
Ie. they’d be going home empty handed. There would be no Zaid to put the extracted key in, and White chain wasn’t going to take it for herself.
Good for you White Chain. You deserved it, lets hope it won’t bring Allison into some big trauma to do something stupid next. Also there’s one enemy left, it would be funny if that pushed Allicio from the arena and she would lose anyway.
I don’t think we ever established that Rusty Bucket Carries Garden Waste is a competitor.
And now, the student has surpassed the master…
This right here is why most rulers are just plain rotten individuals. Power is sweet when you wield it, but leaves a bitter after taste that lasts a lifetime. You can imagine what most people who lust for it are like.
Looks at hole in White Chains chest… Huh.. They’ll have to rebuild that shell I suppose? Why do I feel like that hole in the chest is going to be replaced by something closer to breasts?
Perfect time for chest reconstruction if White Chain wanted to upgrade to a more feminine stature.
Good point! In fact, two good points 馃槈
Are You stealing ideas from my not-yet-written OCs?
She can even get breasts on her backside too if she wants.
Go big or go home is what I always say.
I am torn between my love of generous curves, and my love of athletic, practical bodies.
They seem somewhat incompatible.
The look on White Chain’s face: “Oh shit, she’s not just a misbehaving kid”.
But really, what else could Alison and Cio do? White Chain wasn’t going to stop, until she was stopped. So, they stopped her.
The Comb.
A corpse of life, a husk of flame, a memory of loss.
But the comb, the comb remained in colour. Tears falls like ash, amber stars down the cheek of God.
The spear broke through the Arena roof, which is supposed to contain all this kind of high-powered stuff.
That’s surely got to make Solomon think.
It might have gone through the area already compromised by Allico smashing into it, given that we can’t see the spot where she shattered a section of roof.
Recall Solomon having a moment when one of his sons seemed to sense him being unsettled and called out to him? Solomon responded telling him to move Zaid to the more secure cells, quietly. That was *before* Allison’s fusion with Cio to go devilskin warrior mode.
WINNER WINNER
CHICKEN DINNER
I call foul!
You’re not allowed to scare the Gogs Agog.
Wow, even unimpressed Gog Agog is worried.
AWESOME
Also I reckon Allison just won a cool new necklace!
From the void we came, and to the void we return.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.