King of Swords 9-90
Chapter: 9
“Learn this – Amris – Learn – the best and truest way of killing. The blade that tastes without striking, like a snake sampling the air. It sheathes only in flesh, and hides until then, not moving a muscle.”
– Shadow Art Tome
How quickly the suns fade on Rayuba. DIAMOND he may be.. but infallible he is not.
Solomon David will quickly find why Zoss made the decision he did.
It could be he alreaady knows, and wishes for the metaphorical steel to be truly tested.
One can’t cheat his way into vetting an emempire by fighting weaklings and truly call oneself a king. The path to true royalty must be watered with the blood of those strong enough to contest of the king’s right to rule.
Ah yes, the garden of royalty is watered with the blood of critics who would be so bold as to question the divinely gifted right to rule.
As the Cimmerian King of Aquilonia would tell you (over a bowl of grog no doubt), “There is questioning, /questioning/, and !questioning! The first earns my disdain, the second an ignoble death, while with the third I commemorate your bravery and greatness with a statue!”
Know well the differences before you challenge the King.
“Say, what is the punishment for questioning the king again?”
“Death.”
“And what’s the punishment for rebellion?”
“Also death.”
“Well then.”
Oh boy, that’s not ominous at all.
To the death! All!
Gog Agog is playing with action figures of Allison!
This is my third re-read, and I’m only NOW noticing that! Adorable!!
Mortal Kombat brackets.
The main character fights every other character sequentially. Best two out of three.
I suppose that shark ganger has a pompadorsal fin.
Pomadorsal!!! You win today’s comments, sir.
Seconded.
Thirded.
he’s mean and i don’t like him
He’s a right stickler and a snore
Are those little Allison action figures on Gog’s podium?
Gog did claim to be Allison’s #1 fan, of course she’d have her action figures
Yes, and they are Delightful.
They are prototypes for when her plan to have Alison win rigged matches makes her famous, and she can cash in with merchandising.
It would be a couple months later that the Beast that Gnaws on the Cosmos would start the manufacturing of Funkos in Throne, creating yet another powerful arm on the quasi cephallopodian monster that is Its empire of entertainment.
Okay I’m going to be really honest here, if Abbadon put out KSBD figures I would sqwee like a tiny child. That would be fucking awesome, to put it mildly.
And it’s not at all ominous that she is…
I imagine there’s a dramatic chipworm going “Doop Doop Doop” somewhere.
1 page from 9 pages from page 9-99! 1+9-99=990
Also who is to the bottom right of Gog?
One of the Allison action figures seen in the previous panel. Took me a while, too.
It’s a little figurine of Alison. You can see it in the panel before too. It seems she truly is Alison’s biggest fan.
“I collected 64 cool original characters to fight instead, everyone else can leave now.”
Oh my me! He’s literally making them all fight inside his own halo.
The arrogance!
I think that that particular fighter only ever stands on pots. So they have to go around throwing pots on the ground just to walk places, picking them up again after stepping off of them in a non-stop ballet of gymnastic balance and pot throwing.
Also there are some emergency pots on ropes so they can quickly be retracted, if a sudden emergency exit is necessary. But they’re small pots, since they’d need to be carried at all times, whereas the weight of the big pots can be staggered because the majority would be on the ground at any given time.
That is stupid, but I believe you.
Those jars are a bit mysterious aren’t they. Are they full of Spicy Demon Kimchi ? Are they Corpse Jars for the disposal of diced fighters ? Are they full of Industrial cleaning products ? “Removes blood AND Demonic Ichor ! Sanitizes, Purifies, and leaves a Purple lilac scented Fighting Ring !”
“And it really catches fish!”
“I am altering the tournament. Pray I do not alter it any further.”
Your casting has failed me for the last time, Gog-Agog
The Key of Kings is with you, young Allison.
But you are no God yet.
The big question is – did Allison propose a change of the tournament to Solomon or to his clerks? So this is part of her plan? Or is it NOT part of her plan, which may or may not survive contact with Solomon?
“A king consumes men simply by existing;
He has sublimed the act of killing.”
Im sorry, what were you saying, I was gazing at that Clowny worm rear.
Oh, worm butt~?
You mean wormy clown butt.
Gog is what happens when a colony of sentient worms with deific power crawls up the butt of a hot clown and adopts it’s whole style.
Dude please!
I just drank the blood of all flesh, don’t gross me out like that.
That is indeed a very plump dumper
Disk Head spotted at far right, panel 2! And is that some kind of tiny elf warrior lower left panel 1?
God how I love these alien pantheon scenes.
I too crossed the plains at night
Tinted glass into twilight
Leather and augmented sight
I’m loving the Wayne Barlowe Hell tribute, right of Al-ys-un in panel #2.
I’m pretty sure the masked, pointy-hat immediately to the left of Allison is a reference to the recently released Blasphemous game.
And behind Allison is some kind of snail warrior – I wonder of his moves are lightning fast, or maybe he’s got a slime distance attack?
“WHEN GASTROPODS ATTACK !”
“AAAEEEIII ! RUN ! RUUUUNNNNN !”
Or maybe WALK, yes walk away for your lives !
( Don’t make eye contact ! )
I’m betting she puts her opponents into a passive state – so she can slug ’em !
Really love panels one and two. Wonderfully vivid sunset. Love the diverse array of beings who are bold enough to enter this Tournament !
Shunka Warakin, you’ve spotted an Eidolon. I believe the Eidolons to be one of Abbadon’s original creations. Where he found the inspiration for those beings – ah – that would be interesting to hear !
“Few changes….”
Few, yes, but monumental to both plot, strife, and glory.
Nothing suspicious about your tournament mc playing with multiple action figure copies of the bearer of Zos’ key, who’s coincurrently fighting In your tournament. No, nothing suspicious at all…
Doop.
Doopdoopdoopdoopdoopdoopdoopdoopdoopdoop.
‘twould be fun if Allison took off now and half the participants just went after her
DoOP?
i was very confused about Alice’s sudden mastery of teleportation given her presence in the last panel before I noticed a certain worm-based cutie’s action figure collection in the previous panel. it ended up looking like Al Ysun was like, leaning on a wall in the background, forced perspective wierd
Oh god he’s going to fight them all right now? 😉
He knows.
He knows.
He knows.
The clever money is on Run Like Fuck but we are but fools in the gods.
As the Cimmerian King of Aquilonia would tell you (over a bowl of grog no doubt), “There is questioning, /questioning/, and !questioning! The first earns my disdain, the second an ignoble death, while with the third I commemorate your bravery and greatness with a statue!”
Know well the differences before you challenge the King.
Does !Questioning! involve burning questions? =P
I am perplexed by the existence of the smol warrior there.
It’s not a doll, it’s an action figure!
Pray he doesnt alter the deal any further. Time to steel one self