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
Oh…. oh no….
I just binged your entire comic in one sitting. I’m caught up to the updates….
Abbadon, I love you friend, and im definitely here till you finish. Amazing amazing BEAUTIFUL work.
As emotional as this page is, I’m here for the little tidbit that old bastard Zoss genuinely hated being worshipped as a god.
Wonder if there’s room for two in coughin-angel’s shell, in hoping that White Chain fully exited the body that she was already half-way out of? I was also rather hoping Allison was going to chuck her cubits at Solomon instead of White Chain tho.
Everybody knows that it has not been a proper epic showdown until you have been able to see the finishing attack from everywhere in the city.
This has not been the first time White Chain has gotten blasted out of her shell but I am sure she will be sore and with a lot to think about once she recovers.
Well, look at that. Attacked without discipline, but with unintended consequences.
Man, somebody should have told her.
@ everybody thinking that White Chain is ‘dead’ (as dead as angels can get anyway), they aren’t, they’ve simply been banished from the material realm due to loss of integrity of the suit.
There’s still the question of how WC will get a new angel shell since word of Abbadon (I believe) is that there haven’t been any new ones made in something like 400 years because of some disagreement or other (I forget the specifics).
…Well Knights of Thorn did made new armour suits for their recruits
Metatron even has one on standby, if White Chain wants to sign up.
Maybe it’s just me, but this fight felt a little bit too shonen and one-sided..still fun, hough
Yeah, that’s my feeling too. After all we’ve heard about how unbeatable Angels are supposed to be, this feels like White Chain didn’t really want to win.
No angel can stand up to the power of God. God combined with a Devil? White Chain was foolish to bring her high horse to this fight.
Angels aren’t completely unbeatable. It’s just that 99.9% of people can’t take them on and even when you can they tend to explode when you beat them. Zoss meanwhile singlehandedly took out all of the Prime Angels by himself. And that was before he forced Metatron to tell him all the names of God so he could make the Key of Kings. You know, that thing currently stuck in Allison’s forehead.
Though the speculation about White Chain not wanting to when could also be a factor. Though it might more be a case of not wanting to hurt Allison and Cio more than needed. And probably underestimating just what Allicio could dish out if pressed too hard.
White Chain looks hollow.
She never stood a chance against a demiurge
Seriously, THOSE BLUE THIGHS, the curves!
White Chain, blazing into battle, playing Pat Benatar at full volume:
“Hit me with your best shot!”
Alicio: “OK.”
White Chain: “Oh…shit.”
THOOOOMMM!!!
Don’t worry friends, White Chain’s shell may be smoking wreckage, but he/she/they will soon be greeted by the headless dog thing with eyes on its collar “What ho! Coming or going?”
White Chain: “Neither. Just bumming. Really, really bumming.”
I wonder if the Thorne Knights & the flaming Juggernaut guy (with the sick ride) will offer White Chain a spiky suit to expedite the regeneration process. No doubt Michael the arrow stuffed bird-boy will have a few sage comments too, like “Well I told you so…”
And Metatron, well Metatron lives. If you call that living.
Looked more like a sphinx variant to me, possibly a Gopat.
Knocked right out of her shell
Now, did Alison win…or did White Chain _duck_?
I mean, do they really _need_ that shell of a body?
White Chain needs it while outsidde the Void. Having armour destroyed means she was forced back into Void. I’m however worried for her angel form, becouse being killed outside armour means Angel is forced into reincarnation and she was manifesting half of their angel form just now…
what if alison/cio’s speech helped white chain grasp some royalty and so she’s able to leave her shell and break the rules for angels?
Has White Chain shed her stone cocoon or has she returmed from whence she came? Time will tell
Just in case I’m right, I want to make a record of my theory.
White Chain threw the fight. White Chain can’t go against their kind’s wishes, and cannot justify not killing/capturing Allison, so White Chain deliberately used a very obvious pattern of moves so Allison could “kill” them, thus satisfying angel-kind without killing/stopping/capturing Allison.
I’ve thought this since White Chain first attacked Allicio.
Yeah, that’s what I’ve come to believe as well.
I don’t know, they look plenty surprised at Allico doing their version of Goku’s Kamehameha.
They may not have expected such an epic level thumping.
That guy in the third panel looks like he just won big by betting on Allicio; Princess Jack Daniels is clearly enjoying seeing an Angel get pummeled and Solomon David looks like he’s bored with the whole thing.
While White Chain had done her best to make this inevitable outcome justified, I am saddened to see her empty shell.
She will return as a full on Thorn Knight now, I fear.
I am still thinking White Chain ain’t banished yet. Her (crest) hat didn’t come down with the body. Maybe a sneak attack with her form wearing the crest. Is an ash hat enough to let an angel hang around a little while outside the void?
I don’t think WC has the same kind of setup as Juggernaut Star does with the main suit actually being the wheel while the thorn suit is the proxy. Juggernaut Star’s setup is likely unusual among angels.
Her crest is in the very last panel, also empty.
Oh my. My empty brain just processed that as a cloud. Never mind that theory.
Some poor schmucks half a universe away will have their day ruined by what they will never know.
“Was that a gamma ray burst? Must have been.”
Ol’ Salami looks like he’s having a nap.
Like I’ve been thinking for the last 4 pages, I hope Allicio can handle an imminent sucker punch from XX Rusty Lungs, and avoid a subsequent ring-out, lest she become known as the King of Jobbers.
I think we’re all someone in the top right panel right now, I find myself smiling along with the man on the right, though the woman to his left’s expression is no less accurate. No matter the tragedy, it is one hell of a show.
My fellow cinders, I feel that the words of a great sage may be pertinent here; “it’s a trap!”
“Incandescent”
Once, a Shard of the Divine Emanation of Um.
Thence shaped to defend the Sacred Seat of Creation.
For eons of Kalpas so held we fast to this pure land.
With the Sacred Seat of Divinities invaded – thence cast down.
Rising up Once more, I agreed to Uphold the Law.
Swallowing Anger, Subduing Fury, Conquering my Rage.
Better by far – thought I, to accept once more the role of Protector.
Wearing a body of stone, in likeness of the Perceivers,
Though Bitter it is to wear forever a corpus which in each moment
– reminds of our defeat.
For this is not our ’True’ form.
Canst thou see me ?
My spirit fills this armor as blood fills your sinews.
Canst thou hear me ?
Teaching, cajoling, chiding, guiding.
Your wavering flame is so unlike my brethren.
How often you fall, and yet you persist.
Canst thou FEEL my intention ?
Yes, here in the exchange of strikes,
I sense you begin to understand.
Burdened with my burdens ( which are not yours ).
Driven to distraction with your reckless nature.
Must I be parent to you ?
I who cannot beget, yet I do love humanity,
at times despairing of it.
My own master tries to break my heart,
my loyalty, my oath, though my nature will not give in
to the call of despair.
The call of duty and law fastens me to the worlds.
I resist, I persist.
One day, I may be the very last
of the Concordant Knights.
Yet being the last, shall not make me waiver.
I will fight all the more to preserve what I can.
Oh yes, you and others sense a feminine nature
through my fierceness.
My spirit is my own.
I am as I am.
Let my brethren manifest as abstractions, non-humanoids.
Crystalline, transcendent, symbolic.
Symmetrical as frozen water, or as perfect trapezoidal forms.
They claim to be untouched, clinging to ideals of purity.
Yes, Once – a stellating polyhedra was I, yes so long ago.
It is longing which led me to my present
spiritual manifestations.
So do you yet perceive the boundaries
of what I am, long for – and yet must be ?
No ? Then I remain a mystery.
Return we then to arenas of stone,
where a godling awaits our gambit.
Show me true power this very hour.
To achieve our ends, I will show you my heart.
Though I must strike fair or foul, high or low.
I’ll give all I have in this attempt to right
the upset Wheel of Creation.
Fire I am – at the core.
The rest is ash.
:c