Seeker of Thrones 9-113
Chapter: 9
“Preserve my corpse within the necropolis!
Let no force turn against me in the earth!
And any false god who trespasses my tomb,
Let he be punished by the Wind of Akaroth!”
– Ya’at Death Prayer
Kill Six Billion Demons
Seeker of Thrones
You went full Yabalchoath Cio. You never go full Yabalchoath.
That’s going to leave a mark on their friendship…
“Remember that time you left me for dead, and I came back in a feral rage and tried to murder you? Yeah, good times.”
Or at the very least, on Allison’s body.
Drop in the bucket, though. What’s one more scar earned today?
Among other things…
Y I K E S
It sucks when the worst part of you is right
This is getting very interesting. I think this bloody journey will probably have a clear ending, but I will nevertheless enjoy the ride.
Cio seems to enjoy the ride too
Regicide
What a marvelous horror it is
Oh hush, we all know that the fate of Allison is not that of death by some mere demon. So, in the immortal words the Lord of Cubic and Iced Water, ‘Check thyself before thoust wreck thyself’.
Wow, you weren’t kidding around when you said these next few pages are going to be a journey
i diagnose you with incubus possession the only treatment is forceful surgery right now immediately
Hark! the seed has been sown.
The fields will grow bare.
A warm sun awaits.
🙁
On the bright side, I’m fairly certain she ain’t -dead- yet. Ain’t like she hasn’t had worse, if I recall. What with the lacerations and exsanguinatin’ after the palace incident.
p sure she was holding her rucksack. oldest trick in the book 😀
Here we see the interplay of sex and violence, and of love and betrayal.
Or at least of “we’re kinda friends and your hot and then you blew us up you bitch.”
Relationship Status: Complicated
Don’t think I don’t see that heart.
I know, right? And this one of alpha-numeric designation just so happened to have read up on “Bathos” earlier this evening.
What is love?
Devil don’t hurt me
Don’t hurt me
No more
This comment shows true mastery of the Art.
R.I.P
We all thought this was Allison’s redemption arc.
We were wrong.
Hang in there. Cutting out whinging takes some harsh medicine.
Probably not what you want in a friend, to be honest
Neither is being left to die under a pile of rocks. Me, I call this fair play.
Not really. One is not actively help, that’s a bit different then mauling/disfiguring then impaling. If someone watched you get hit with a stick you don’t burn their house.
I mean, a knife is problematic in anyone.
Well, a knife is problematic in anyone, regardless of your relationship.
On the contrary, I think a sword can be a very useful thing to have in a friend
I see your cheeky Valentine’s Day update heart shaped blood splatter you hopeless romantic, you!
Abbadon did… Did you just make a huge troll-14-valentines?
Blood hearts, the love interest penetrating the protagonist and showing a face of Le petit morte…
Ny’sgoth Ill Volja.
None of this seems to be a coincidence.
“None of this is a coincidence because nothing is ever a coincidence.”
Well…….frack.
MFW: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/211/045/d84.jpg
“Leave no wounded. Either finish your wounded and mourn them, or tend their wounds and save them. A corpse following your footsteps is not an easy curse to break.”
— an old thieves’ proverb
Ah, the classic armpit-sword-grab technique. Should have seen it coming.
Beware the Ides of… February?
Unfortunately, the Ides of February are on the 13th rather than the 15th: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides
We always hurt the ones we love.
Bruh what
Well pack it up boys n girls, she ded.
I can’t believe Allison is ded.
Ouch.
Oh.
Oh no.
Well, confident Allison hands wrote some checks normal Allison’s ass just can’t cash.
Un-Alice can only cash this kind of check with her ass.
That, or she’ll need to remember that Yis-Alice has not stopped being a part of her, either.
Rebuilt the tower.
Wew thats the face of a demon having fun
You know, I hear death can be a great job opportunity.
Oh well, confident Allison wrote some checks usual Allison’s ass just can’t cash.
I’m hoping she’s still holding that backpack.
The writings of Ciocielle will yet be read.
Was going to say the same thing. Beat me to it.
This makes me feel strangely happy.
Well damn.
Hot.
Well at least Cio is having a good time.
It kind of looks like she blocked it with her backpack
I’m pretty sure she did.
It kind of does, doesn’t it?
If so, that would be great. However, the viscera-looking splotch right underneath Cio’s knife looks discouraging.
Also, you know, the entire knife is red. :/
Just because the knife drew blood, doesn’t mean it went that deep. The bag may have blunted the stab, preventing it from penetrating as deep as Cio intended.
oh no
Cio you in hell
To catch a blade is to desire life. To catch a blade is to put your life at risk.
No mas.
A travelling wise man once found himself beset by brigands and placed in a similar situation, and had the following words of wisdom to say: “Ouch.”
Darkest of hells rise again when disturbed.
Nice block, Allison.
Yab best goat
I suspect that this will not work out very well for Cio
Well, I guess that’s it! Not the ending I expected, I’ll admit, but this webcomic was a wonderful journey all the same.
That last panel is so fuckin’ beautiful
oh no.
Oh Illustrious artist why do you torture us so?
That last panel should be a Valentine card.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Cio’s pissed off
and stabbed you
Beautiful. So poetic. *She’s one big manly tear.
In the court of the blind idiot god, what is dead my never die! All hail the Rising King!
ee ( ._.)
One should always beware of those with uncontrollable natures that judge you as meat.
Hey, nobody’s perfect.
Well, that’s gonna leave a mark or six. Thinkin’ Cio’s gone a lil’ bit nutty, what with her bein’ betrayed by her only friend in the multiverse so readily.
That’s why you don’t do deals with fancy talkers.
GG WP
Gg no re
Now let us see if the King can overcome this challenge. *steeples fingers*
Concurred. *Mirrors Finger Steepling*
Zoss survived without a head. Surely Allison could survive without a spleen.
The great vault was meant to protect the most precious of things. Admission into the vault asks a personal price. No one every truly leaves the vault; one way or another.
The lesson that Devil’s make poor friends is a hard one to learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONnE4VIzum8
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
ooouch, that’s the final stab in the alison/cio ship 😉
How do you mean? As far as I’m concerned, this seems to be the FIRST stab in the ship!
Don’t forget your name, Cio.
Well, this story ended abruptly. I guess the only think to do now is move on to the endless prequels about Cat Master.
Just like DC would have wanted it.
😛
The blade didn’t go all the way through so…yay? 🙁
Did Cio stab herself in the fanfic?
Just morbidly curious.
Damn Cio, don’t look so cheerful about it. Stabbing her, I get that, but la-di-da! yippee! is way harsh.
And I think she might have blocked it with the backpack. I hope so.
Wow.
Allison is having the second worst comedown I’ve ever seen.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Omae wa mou shindeiru
Oooh, dat’s gotta hoit!
HAHA! WHAT IS ROYALTY, IF IT IS NOT YOUR IRON TONGUE SOAKED IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR LOVERS?
What a time for the “tk” onomatopeiae to return.
I never liked Allison anyway.
Now we can have all the Cio all the time.
Get skewered.
ah-h-h the sharp edged peace treaty,
it lasts until the king heals.
Nyxx’s dark industrial song “Nightmare” covers the IMPACT of this moment for me.
https://youtu.be/4ber5Dd6KFY
Looks pretty gay to me tbh
Methinks Miss Cio/Yabalchaoth just cut her remaining lifespan down to a few minutes, tops.
*grabs popcorn*
Interesting that she continues to use the dagger. Even more interesting that it did not punch through Alison with ease, given the force applied.
Perhaps the Rising King is gaining back her footing after initial moments of weakness…
…par for the course, really.
Alison, Heir of the Key, witness the first casualties of being a King: close friends and the comfort of Death.
Hear the bite of steel
on rib, on stone, and feel
it in your neck, and reel.
Truly Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned– least of all when that woman in Ciocie Cioelle.
Now we just need to hang her from Yggdrasil for 9 days and 9 nights and the powers she once wielded so often uncertainly will be dwarfed by her mastery of the Runes.
Well, so long as she doesn’t die, anyways.
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Pay your respects, archon.
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God damnit Alisson you need to not get stabbed. Not getting stabbed is an extremely important skill for royalty.
Damnit I want to know what happens next. I should have stopped reading for like two months or something and then I could have just gone trough this part immediately.
CALL TO ADVENTURE: your paramour is trapped in the Treasure Fortress of Yre.
SUPERNATURAL AID: Incubus’ gift.
THRESHOLD GUARDIAN: Himself.
THRESHOLD: The entrance of the fortress.
CHALLENGES AND TEMPTATIONS: The death labyrinth, Incubus’ gift, Cio’s transformation into Yalbachoath, sacrificing the heist crew. (HELPERS: The heist crew. MENTOR: Cio & Incubus.)
REVELATION: Incubus’ gift is not worth it, Mammon is an old fool and the inmates run the asylum.
DEATH: Rejection of Incubus’ gift.
REBIRTH: Unholy fusion.
DEATH (REPRISE): The literal variant.
TO BE REVEALED:
REBIRTH (REPRISE)
TRANSFORMATION
ATONEMENT
CROSSING THE THRESHOLD
GIFT OF THE GODDESS
RETURN
By the power of Monomyth, AL-YISUN survives.
And so as The Wheel turns, do all wheels follow.
It must be true, because YISUN is a brilliant liar.
Not 100% sure the boyfriend (remember him?) was worth all this.
yeah he was a creep. However, I’m looking forward to when AL-YIS-UN actually rescues him, because then her stated reason for being there is done, so how will she justify this to herself then?
She’s gonna roll up to him in like 50 years with her demon wife and Starbucks all like “Oh hey bruh s’been a while.”
There you go. Now you have a piercing. I think Abbadon read to much GoT and let Al-is-un being killed.
That’s what I’d call tough love.
I suspect Cio is going through the same thing Allison was earlier. She’s in there, but she’s not driving.
Hrmm… I agree. But y’know, it’s tough being a Devil sometimes. Especially one that’s been under a lot of stress lately and fighting against her basic nature for quite a while now. Kinda like sending an alcoholic on a mission to steal booze from a distillery.
So what you’re saying is that Ciocie and Yabby need to smooch inside her head.
Very well put!
Yet, even without the third insight, it’s not like we didn’t see this coming
The laws of fanfiction are terrible in their majesty and not lightly to be broken. First hurt, and only then comfort.
And so perished Allison. Bad ending. Undo? Reload? Restart?
Uhhh, grandpa dragon, please separate these fighting children.
Well, I see Cio’s having a great time. Good for her. 🙂
Happy Valentine’s
And thus our king to be has learned a valuable lesson about demons.
And so it begins with the one thought of as “friend” and will henceforth end with the extermination of all of their kind for not one will be suffered to exist .
To be fair she was the one who betrayed Cio first
I guess old Yab’s the new protag. Alright then.
Unless Alison can regain the ‘ignore wounds’ ability she had while under the influence of Incubus, that looks lethal.
Yabal either switched hands or switched grips between panels 4 and 6.
Switched grips. It’s reverse-grip in her right hand in panel 4, going by the arrangement of her fingers.
In retrospect, this seems like it was very foreseeable. But then again, everything always does.
Even when warned by the mercurial demons themselves, it is a hard lesson to learn that devils cannot be befriended. Violence and betrayal are the only coin they value, and they spend that currency freely.
I’m doubting the backpack is in there. If it is, it shrunk. It was wider than Alison’s torso and I don’t see how it could be hidden from this angle if it was blocking the knife.
Well. Alison was wrong. She said Cio wanted to stab her in the back. It’s very clear she wanted to stab from the front.
Hrmm… Now, y’all probably know this, but the proper way to slip a knife between some ribs is to keep the blade parallel to those ribs. That way it kinda slips naturally right between them, piercing the important bits much more effectively. A perpendicular blade is gonna have to have a lot of force behind it to either cut the ribs or spread them enough to slip past – not an easy task… except maybe for a really pissed off Devil chick >.>
To become Royalty, one must destroy the enemy called I. Or in this case, have I be obliterated for you.
I’m starting to think that this may not be really happening… it might be a power of that one woman, and it could explain why everyone else failed in their assassination attempts and stuck around.
yeah I think we’re about to see Sociopath Alison go all Uma Thurman Bride in a second….
I normally go for fancy-sounding words but…
Aw, Cio, no…
Now see there? Everybody always said Cio would stab her in the back. They should have had more faith in the power of friendship!
You can’t probably kill anyone in that vault. That’s why dragon’s still alive, and alyson will be too.
“‘Tis but a scratch.” — The Ebon Knight
Herzallerliebst!
(beautifully outdated german expression for: Supercute!)
Tiny heartlings are flying, even, in the splattering gore!
Abbadon, you’re the greatest (as of today 🙂
RIP Allison, it’s been a trip.
I see an error. Last strip, Cio’s horn was broken. Here, it is restored. Will this error be fixed, or shall we take it as it is?
The daughters of Yis warred for seven years. And after, made love for seven hours. All observing this event did with indifference.
Ship: wrecked.
Cio you silly bastard that’s royalty not a scabbard
Allison was holding a backpack, which is not visible in the last frame… I’m betting on it taking the brunt of the blow.
I think the only thing Cio successfully skewered this round was a backpack.
“Okay, you’ve killed me. Are we even now? Can I relax for a second?”
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