King of Swords 9-127
“FIERCE HORSE SOUL
A peculiar internal style with very narrow application, and one almost solely focused on defensive techniques. Practiced by most angels, it is almost entirely focused on getting close enough to a foe to subdue him without harming him, with maximal speed, safety, and precision. The movement techniques in this style are very popular and often borrowed by other schools, such as the Unlimited Chariot Sprinting technique which, when practiced properly, allows running at incredible speed over long distances without tiring. The student of this school is taught to endure all kinds of harm, hardship, and exhaustion in the pursuit of his quarry, and in doing so develops a truly unique constitution, resiliency, and ability to channel internal force.
Though it is commonly perceived to have no offensive applications, a quirk of this school is that due to its energy conservation techniques, a trained master who has practiced them for an extremely long time is capable (or so I have heard) of unleashing attacks of staggering power, aimed at felling dangerous or impossible to subdue foes. Such an technique must be delivered at extremely close range and can take a phenomenal amount of concentration and cultivation of internal force. Only the oldest extant angels proficient in this style are said to be capable of this ‘ten thousand year evil-quelling fist’ style – those that have been alive for an age or more. If any of them truly exist and can be roused to action, it would be a most terrible sight indeed.”
-Manual of Hands and Feet
This is so delightfully anime OP. Gogagog had better be enjoying the spectacle.
KA! ME! HA! ME!
GIGAAAAA
DORILLUUUUUUU
BREAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I’ll pierce the heavens!
That canon blast looks like a big Tylenol. Which is good, since Juggs is gonna need it.
DRAMATIC FINISH!
Hrmm… I have to wonder at the names of the strikes. They sound like something out of an Abulafia generator.
What’s an Abulafia generator? I only know Abulafia the 13th-century mystic.
That makes more sense than Abulafia the goblin running the corner store grocery round the corner from where Allison has her pad on Throne.
Abulafia was / is a page for randomly generating various things such as items / names / features / etc. Useful for RPG-related “fluff”. Has a wiki page, quite old, and likely no longer moderated (like the goblin running the corner store near Allison’s place). I did the herb generator a decade or so back so I didn’t have to think when the Rangers & Druids would go out foraging. Boom – you find some Judges Ear. What’s it do? Make an herbalism check…
To clarify, I did the D20 Herbal Treasures (which draws from the various Herb lists).
Francisco in the mud walks far
enough to protect the tools of war.
Can you beat him, mighty Shaw?
and in case you’re a riddle beater
Shaw is Brian, F is Peter.
Know this and the rhyme gets sweeter.
Do not be enthralled by fact that the venerable angel can fire great beams of energy. Look closely, and see that the motion is simply a right haymaker. Practice that motion for a decade or five, and you won’t need the laser.
Fire the wave motion gun!
Hopefully this bought some more time for White Chain to talk to her. There is a powerful bond to be found in Sisterhood.
is this stronger or weaker than the X-cubit spears? The unsurpassable bolts of pure WANT?
Measuring power scales when angels and demiurges fight is a peculiar task. In this case however, one might note that the 30 Cubit Spear is known to blast a whole clear through an angel’s armour; conversely, the Fierce Horse Soul 10,000 year punch (long thought to be rumour only) is observed to blast a hole large enough to completely vaporize the armour of a smaller angel, and looks to be of a scale capable penetrating even the armour of even a Prime Angel, were they still in operation.
Whatever means by which the Conquering King slew the Primes was surely on a scale beyond what we in this current age have witnessed. With violence in his self of selves, he was able to smite angels whose sole task was cultivation of power in defence of throne. It defies reason to think the Blade of Want capable of such feats, and makes the 30 Cubit Spear seem small indeed.
“If any of you doubt the hunger of man, look to the time when Zoss wrestled with beings of stone and fire, and won.”
That story about Zoss slaying the Prime Angels sounds less and less believable to me, the more I see how powerful angels really are. If Zoss was that powerful even before he got the Key, why didn’t he simply beat some sense into the demiurges when they first went to war? By the looks of it, there’s no-one in all the multiverse who could stand up to him.
One can be all powerful and yet tire of war.
Yeah, he could have simply chosen not to intervene. Zoss’s throne was vacated at some point, which could explain how the war started, it was to fill a power vacuum and a massive one at that
No matter how strong the man, it is impossible to “beat some sense” into people. Sense cannot be beaten, it must be carefully cultivated, and in all cases, is far more easily lost. Far easier to conquer the world than civilize it, and it would be rare indeed for one with a talent for violence such as Zoss to also have a talent for teaching.
I expect that Zoss in his esoteric reclusion is now seeking a way to establish sensible rule in the cosmos that does not depend upon the vagaries of power-hungry demiurges. Wish him luck, for not even YISUN could sensibly rule the multiverse.
Mortality clarified in a single strike.
This is the kind of strike that sends your opponent flying into the next county in that general direction.
BACK TO THE PIT
I feel like, on account of the fact that this is aimed more towards the stands than other attacks of late, this is probably where Solomon steps in.
That’s going to leave a mark.
… on my psyche.
I like to believe this is the same as unleashing a Noble Phantasm. That’s gotta hurt.
YO, WHAT THE FUCK
MISTAKE
I’m somehow reminded of old Muten Roshi performing the very first Kamehameha in the original Dragon Ball to put out a raging fire.
Pew.
Or as Ralph Kramden used to say: bang, zoom!
Certainly Solomon David and Gog-Agog, along with any surviving spectators, are getting the show of the Epoch.
If they aren’t being vaporized by that beam tright now… (JK)
That is one helluva Horse
Methinks that the Colosseum has a new express gate added to the architecture.
Methinks that Solomon’s crowd-safety barrier is going to get a proper test. I’d expect JS to survive the attack in open ground, but caught between that and an “impenetrable” wall? Nasty.
KAAAAAAAAAAA-
Falcon punch!
But no, seriously, that cannon effect is stunning!
I bet a mortal starting to gather energy for this at age 20 would have… a very pathetic one at age 60 compared to this
-CHOW!