Inside that guard is like “please, please, please don’t say something along the lines ‘go take care of her'”. (To be fair I don’t think Dave is the kind to throw the lives of his people at something that is clearly above their level without a reason)
Also, I’m not sure which panel I’d like framed more, the second or the third.
I mean, if Solomon REALLY wanted her to be put down he could just do it himself. For all the strengh Allison gathered since her arrival, she is still far bellow the Demiurge, Solomon is a sun-moving, thousand of years of experience old demi-god of super-Hokuto after all. She just can’t beat him upfront.
Except … Solomon erasing Allison breaks the balance among demiurges and they all move against Solomon. He doesn’t want that. In fact, it’s hard to see an outcome of this tournament that doesn’t kick off the final war, which is probably why White Chain is in such a foul mood. Allison going home (with or without Zaid) is Solomon’s only hope now. If he’s thinking clearly he might just *let* her capture Zaid and escape.
His chosen form of martial arts is a *weapon of mass destruction*. He could beat up Alison without using any god power. He has the “one punch* half of Saitama’s powers, while Jagganoth has the “doesn’t take damage” half.
In any fight whomever flinches shows fear. Fear leads to doubt. Doubt leads to mistakes. Mistakes lead to an early grave. The Purple Emperor has shown his fear by moving the boy to a higher cell
Abbadon has given us such an absolutely kick-ass work of art and adventure.
Alison’s display states that she is the queen in this game of chess – whether she is or not – a vision of Al-Yi-Sun springing from the lotus blossom, multi-dimensional arms akimbo.
The display seems to have worked, as Solomon David shows doubt (diminished power aura/halo), and his response is to castle his king accordingly, not realizing some of the pieces of his castle are hers (or so she plans).
Alison is bluffing her ass off, as revealed in her last panel thoughts. Sol Dave (so far) hasn’t engaged her in battle. As SomeGuy pointed out above, if he REALLY wanted to he could whomp her.
Or could he? More than once in this journey she has tapped the raw power embedded in her forehead as an extreme stress response, for example escaping Mottom, when Cio urged her to “just do” instead of think.
It seems even though she has learned much and grown mightily as a warrior, she (so far) hasn’t shown the ability to tap the massive power of the key through will alone. She’s needed the equivalent of an adrenaline response in an emergency to unleash it. I mean the mega-watt big time ka-blooey power of it.
We know that (or at least I think we do) but the Demi-urges don’t (or at least I think they don’t)
So fear of such a consequence must be what prevents any of them from simply taking the key from her. If any of them could just take it, or thought they could, they would, or they’d try, wouldn’t they? They don’t because they fear they’d get blowed up real good.
Or…can the Key of Kings only be given, and not taken?
Speaking of Cio, methinks she might be the teacher (and the devil on the other end of the red calling card) Alison referred to. Cio is, after all, quite the bluffer, is she not?
As far as we know the key can be taken. There was that whole going to see Cio about getting it removed bit in the first book. Good point about bluffing, Allison has so many teachers it’s hard to tell which she means (well maybe not “so many” but at least three).
The keys certainly can be taken; that was the point of the whole war between the demiurges. And I still think Solomon Dave would have no problem crushing Allison like a fly. She’s been doing this for only a year; he’s been a demiurge for ten thousand years, and he got his first key by killing a demiurge. Allison really is bluffing her ass off, and she knows it. But perhaps Solomon Dave now has the slightest doubt about it?
In this case, it’s call out of of the sevenfold gods when surrounded by many of the multiverse’s most powerful warriors.
Though Aesma probably wouldn’t plan around doing so.
Indeed. Because if Allison is indeed YISUN then she has subconsciously convinced herself she is not until she awakens as YISUN the right time (perhaps when fighting Jagganoth). That would be the greatest lie YISUN has managed to conceive – to have lied to himself/herself/themselves about his/her/their own identity. Interesting eh? I wonder if Abbadon reads these comments.
It would be great if she were. Or if when she united with her boyfriend they would awaken as YIS and UN. It makes sense for YISUN’s pathologically lying personality to have schemed everything since the dawn of time for events to play out like that.
Great display of taletelling, great Abbadon, have your heroine make smart use of what’s currently in her arsenal. Rather than, let’s say, having a new competence be discovered through which the seemingly unsolvable hardship is in fact solved. As did my opponent-teller Leetsh Fraunrig in the Tournament and wON when CLEARLY I should’ve won with my Brilliant Twist but the judges were BIASED because of their relation to the PATHETIC, MISERABLE, INIQUITOUS CHEAT as is the ONLY explanation
Our rising king has failed. Her last statement confirms this. Unless perhaps she is lying. But why allow such a pernicious lie root in ones mind? Is she deliberately holding herself back?
This seems a bit too convenient. She’s placed her allies within the guards, so she already must have suspected Zaid is in some sort of cells. But for the most part he’s looked more to be a pampered guest-slash-hostage, not someone locked up somewhere, so he could be anywhere. And if he was locked up somewhere, surely you’d naturally assume he’d already be in the most secure location.
For him to now be actually moved seems … like an oddly fortunate coincidence. To the point where I’m wondering whether Solomon wants Alyson to get to him for some reason.
“But for the most part he’s looked more to be a pampered guest-slash-hostage, not someone locked up somewhere, so he could be anywhere. And if he was locked up somewhere, surely you’d naturally assume he’d already be in the most secure location.
For him to now be actually moved seems … like an oddly fortunate coincidence.”
Correct, this is a disappointing retcon of SD’s intelligence and ability if it turns out he can be played this easily. And there is no reason for Zaid to not be in a palatial VIP residence, he is one man without powers who can just as easily be guarded securely elsewhere than a prison. For instance, in SD’s own private sanctum, or the Imperial Treasury and Mint, etc.
“To the point where I’m wondering whether Solomon wants Alyson to get to him for some reason.”
I also hope so. Perhaps he thinks this will settle the issue of who the True Heir is.
I think the idea is that he was previously being kept as a pampered “guest” in a moderately secure location, and apparently the high security cells are the only highly secure location nearby. That last part is a bit of a stretch, but not enough to convince me personally that Solomon must be an idiot or have some sort of other agenda.
Well, yeah, I get Allison’s idea, if you know all this, but how would she? Why would she assume that Solomon’s super-valuable hostage would be in a moderately secure location and then have to be moved elsewhere? Why isn’t the natural assumption that he’s somewhere as safe as it can be?
I guess she might have just wanted to bluff Solomon into doing something – anything – as the current situation couldn’t get worse anyway (ha!), and anything he did might give her some sort of advantage.
But that seems a bit at odd with the clear plan of getting allies into the guard. And again that might also just be to actually gather some information or some other contingency planning, but then, as I said, it seems like a huge coincidence that it all (for now) seems to work out so wonderfully.
It’ll probably become clearer over the next strips who planned what (if anything) and how it all makes sense (or not) but right now my first reaction is … skepticism.
All Hail to Al-Yis-Un! Maker of Bad Decisions, Aesma’s Second Coming! Hail to the Redemption of Zoss! Hail to She Who Stands, upon the effulgent lotus!
I can’t help thinking how inefficient Solomon’s arena is. He’s using Octagons, which require squares to complete the pattern and make a solid floor. If he had just used Hexagons from the start he would only have needed to program one shape but could still have a raised-platform with no gaps.
Maybe the ability to make 0-45-90 degree angles appeals to S-Diddy’s OCD; because you know he’s totally the kind of guy who would have a fatal flaw like that.
Knowing David Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Deathmatch Dimmadome, all the stones are handcrafted anyway. So having two basic shapes wouldn’t be a drop in the bucket in his terrible building protocols.
Joubes Draco, CEO of the Bank of the Degraded Thief
This whole gambit is a nice throwback to the card game they had near the beginning of the chapter. White Chain wants to retreat from their opponent’s overwhelmingly strong position, while Allison is trying to bluff her way to victory.
The problem is, Solomon has been playing this game a LOT longer than Allison has, and the effect is somewhat ruined by Allison getting the shit kicked out of her for the past twelve hours.
But that isn’t the biggest issue. The real problem is that Allison has challenged Solomon David’s pride, and whether or not he fears her, he can’t let that go unchallenged in the heart of his domain. And Allison has NEVER left a direct confrontation with a demiurge unscathed:
– Mottom crippled her
– Number One would’ve executed her if it weren’t for Mammon’s direct intervention
– Incubus still has influence over Allison’s mind
– Gog-Agog successfully baited Allison into entering the tournament
if everything goes like a typical story, the unspoken plan that also calls back to a previous moment of wisdom would mean that Allison’s plan would go off without a hitch before she teleports herself out of the tournament and escapes. But I hope that isn’t what’s going to happen.
And, well, this answers the question of which teacher she’s been listening to.
Inside that guard is like “please, please, please don’t say something along the lines ‘go take care of her'”. (To be fair I don’t think Dave is the kind to throw the lives of his people at something that is clearly above their level without a reason)
Also, I’m not sure which panel I’d like framed more, the second or the third.
I mean, if Solomon REALLY wanted her to be put down he could just do it himself. For all the strengh Allison gathered since her arrival, she is still far bellow the Demiurge, Solomon is a sun-moving, thousand of years of experience old demi-god of super-Hokuto after all. She just can’t beat him upfront.
Except … Solomon erasing Allison breaks the balance among demiurges and they all move against Solomon. He doesn’t want that. In fact, it’s hard to see an outcome of this tournament that doesn’t kick off the final war, which is probably why White Chain is in such a foul mood. Allison going home (with or without Zaid) is Solomon’s only hope now. If he’s thinking clearly he might just *let* her capture Zaid and escape.
His chosen form of martial arts is a *weapon of mass destruction*. He could beat up Alison without using any god power. He has the “one punch* half of Saitama’s powers, while Jagganoth has the “doesn’t take damage” half.
In any fight whomever flinches shows fear. Fear leads to doubt. Doubt leads to mistakes. Mistakes lead to an early grave. The Purple Emperor has shown his fear by moving the boy to a higher cell
So, on page 10 Allison was a terrified skeleton floating in a marketplace. She really has come a long way.
Abbadon has given us such an absolutely kick-ass work of art and adventure.
Alison’s display states that she is the queen in this game of chess – whether she is or not – a vision of Al-Yi-Sun springing from the lotus blossom, multi-dimensional arms akimbo.
The display seems to have worked, as Solomon David shows doubt (diminished power aura/halo), and his response is to castle his king accordingly, not realizing some of the pieces of his castle are hers (or so she plans).
Alison is bluffing her ass off, as revealed in her last panel thoughts. Sol Dave (so far) hasn’t engaged her in battle. As SomeGuy pointed out above, if he REALLY wanted to he could whomp her.
Or could he? More than once in this journey she has tapped the raw power embedded in her forehead as an extreme stress response, for example escaping Mottom, when Cio urged her to “just do” instead of think.
It seems even though she has learned much and grown mightily as a warrior, she (so far) hasn’t shown the ability to tap the massive power of the key through will alone. She’s needed the equivalent of an adrenaline response in an emergency to unleash it. I mean the mega-watt big time ka-blooey power of it.
We know that (or at least I think we do) but the Demi-urges don’t (or at least I think they don’t)
So fear of such a consequence must be what prevents any of them from simply taking the key from her. If any of them could just take it, or thought they could, they would, or they’d try, wouldn’t they? They don’t because they fear they’d get blowed up real good.
Or…can the Key of Kings only be given, and not taken?
Speaking of Cio, methinks she might be the teacher (and the devil on the other end of the red calling card) Alison referred to. Cio is, after all, quite the bluffer, is she not?
As far as we know the key can be taken. There was that whole going to see Cio about getting it removed bit in the first book. Good point about bluffing, Allison has so many teachers it’s hard to tell which she means (well maybe not “so many” but at least three).
The keys certainly can be taken; that was the point of the whole war between the demiurges. And I still think Solomon Dave would have no problem crushing Allison like a fly. She’s been doing this for only a year; he’s been a demiurge for ten thousand years, and he got his first key by killing a demiurge. Allison really is bluffing her ass off, and she knows it. But perhaps Solomon Dave now has the slightest doubt about it?
*Poses provocatively*
Remember to ask yourself, friends, WWPAD?
What Would Pree Aesma Do?
In this case, it’s call out of of the sevenfold gods when surrounded by many of the multiverse’s most powerful warriors.
Though Aesma probably wouldn’t plan around doing so.
Hell yeah, Mouth of Kala is a trans anthem.
Could it be that Allison is YISUN?
“The universal art is violence!” said Aesma, hotly.
“Truly, but the second and far greater is lying,” said YISUN.
Indeed. Because if Allison is indeed YISUN then she has subconsciously convinced herself she is not until she awakens as YISUN the right time (perhaps when fighting Jagganoth). That would be the greatest lie YISUN has managed to conceive – to have lied to himself/herself/themselves about his/her/their own identity. Interesting eh? I wonder if Abbadon reads these comments.
Everyone is YISUN.
Everything is YISUN
All-Is-Yisun
All-is-one? Have we cracked the code? Was this entire religion based on a terrible pun? Thosed dastardly theists and their mischievous pranks.
It would be great if she were. Or if when she united with her boyfriend they would awaken as YIS and UN. It makes sense for YISUN’s pathologically lying personality to have schemed everything since the dawn of time for events to play out like that.
She made him sweat. That’s good.
Great display of taletelling, great Abbadon, have your heroine make smart use of what’s currently in her arsenal. Rather than, let’s say, having a new competence be discovered through which the seemingly unsolvable hardship is in fact solved. As did my opponent-teller Leetsh Fraunrig in the Tournament and wON when CLEARLY I should’ve won with my Brilliant Twist but the judges were BIASED because of their relation to the PATHETIC, MISERABLE, INIQUITOUS CHEAT as is the ONLY explanation
King checks king.
Ohhhh I know what’s going down here. Clever girl, Allison.
UNLEASH!!!
Our rising king has failed. Her last statement confirms this. Unless perhaps she is lying. But why allow such a pernicious lie root in ones mind? Is she deliberately holding herself back?
Not lying, it’s all she’s got – right now. Look at how fast she develops, she couldn’t do any of those godly things two days ago!
This seems a bit too convenient. She’s placed her allies within the guards, so she already must have suspected Zaid is in some sort of cells. But for the most part he’s looked more to be a pampered guest-slash-hostage, not someone locked up somewhere, so he could be anywhere. And if he was locked up somewhere, surely you’d naturally assume he’d already be in the most secure location.
For him to now be actually moved seems … like an oddly fortunate coincidence. To the point where I’m wondering whether Solomon wants Alyson to get to him for some reason.
“But for the most part he’s looked more to be a pampered guest-slash-hostage, not someone locked up somewhere, so he could be anywhere. And if he was locked up somewhere, surely you’d naturally assume he’d already be in the most secure location.
For him to now be actually moved seems … like an oddly fortunate coincidence.”
Correct, this is a disappointing retcon of SD’s intelligence and ability if it turns out he can be played this easily. And there is no reason for Zaid to not be in a palatial VIP residence, he is one man without powers who can just as easily be guarded securely elsewhere than a prison. For instance, in SD’s own private sanctum, or the Imperial Treasury and Mint, etc.
“To the point where I’m wondering whether Solomon wants Alyson to get to him for some reason.”
I also hope so. Perhaps he thinks this will settle the issue of who the True Heir is.
I think the idea is that he was previously being kept as a pampered “guest” in a moderately secure location, and apparently the high security cells are the only highly secure location nearby. That last part is a bit of a stretch, but not enough to convince me personally that Solomon must be an idiot or have some sort of other agenda.
At the very least Solomon would rather she wreck the high security cells than the nice place full of civilians he had been keeping Zaid.
Well, yeah, I get Allison’s idea, if you know all this, but how would she? Why would she assume that Solomon’s super-valuable hostage would be in a moderately secure location and then have to be moved elsewhere? Why isn’t the natural assumption that he’s somewhere as safe as it can be?
I guess she might have just wanted to bluff Solomon into doing something – anything – as the current situation couldn’t get worse anyway (ha!), and anything he did might give her some sort of advantage.
But that seems a bit at odd with the clear plan of getting allies into the guard. And again that might also just be to actually gather some information or some other contingency planning, but then, as I said, it seems like a huge coincidence that it all (for now) seems to work out so wonderfully.
It’ll probably become clearer over the next strips who planned what (if anything) and how it all makes sense (or not) but right now my first reaction is … skepticism.
All Hail to Al-Yis-Un! Maker of Bad Decisions, Aesma’s Second Coming! Hail to the Redemption of Zoss! Hail to She Who Stands, upon the effulgent lotus!
Alice Neason?
Seems like Pree Allison has learned from Nadia Om, how demiurges ask for something from each other. (See 10-121)
I always think of Immigrant when I watch the action scenes in this comic. They are appropriately epic.
“Trigram Mantra Precept One”
“That’s all I’ve got”
Okay, Allison, yeah, sure
I know it’s a little off topic, but….
I can’t help thinking how inefficient Solomon’s arena is. He’s using Octagons, which require squares to complete the pattern and make a solid floor. If he had just used Hexagons from the start he would only have needed to program one shape but could still have a raised-platform with no gaps.
Maybe the ability to make 0-45-90 degree angles appeals to S-Diddy’s OCD; because you know he’s totally the kind of guy who would have a fatal flaw like that.
Knowing David Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Deathmatch Dimmadome, all the stones are handcrafted anyway. So having two basic shapes wouldn’t be a drop in the bucket in his terrible building protocols.
That’s all you got? Pathetic. I do that every time I make a deposit at the bank, and I only scream at 120 decibels.
This whole gambit is a nice throwback to the card game they had near the beginning of the chapter. White Chain wants to retreat from their opponent’s overwhelmingly strong position, while Allison is trying to bluff her way to victory.
The problem is, Solomon has been playing this game a LOT longer than Allison has, and the effect is somewhat ruined by Allison getting the shit kicked out of her for the past twelve hours.
But that isn’t the biggest issue. The real problem is that Allison has challenged Solomon David’s pride, and whether or not he fears her, he can’t let that go unchallenged in the heart of his domain. And Allison has NEVER left a direct confrontation with a demiurge unscathed:
– Mottom crippled her
– Number One would’ve executed her if it weren’t for Mammon’s direct intervention
– Incubus still has influence over Allison’s mind
– Gog-Agog successfully baited Allison into entering the tournament
if everything goes like a typical story, the unspoken plan that also calls back to a previous moment of wisdom would mean that Allison’s plan would go off without a hitch before she teleports herself out of the tournament and escapes. But I hope that isn’t what’s going to happen.
that was close to be the 1º impact