WHEEL SMASHING LORD 1-13 to 1-14
Chapter: 1
“Here is a cut I call the Life Cut. It is adapted from my ancient master, who roamed the world when it is young, and taught it to me in a different and weaker form. Listen, whelp. I have improved upon her fragile schemes. Where once my sword hand was held by my master, this cut has a secret art that can roam and strike him. It is the most important thing I will teach you – the blade that cuts its own wielder.”
-Great Blade Hermit Ryam to his student Ryo
“how do i defeat myself?”
Oh hey we caught up! :V
Very fun hero journey with lots of great references and characters. There’s so much here, and I’m sure I’ll read it more than once. Very inspiring and intriguing. Thank you!
Welp, I’m in love.
i wonder what kind of training makes your tits so big in so short time…
i absolutely love the mamon-dragons-in general(i adore their insect-like designs)but especially with the swords in their mouths. it’s adorable! their adorable! and they would probably murder me, which sounds like a big deal, but i already live with several cats, so im used to it. what does this have to do with anything? it doesn’t, i just like the mamon-dragons
Do they have a giant barrel of wine?
Is there a wine shop nearby?
Does someone come by with wine and noodles every day, or week?
Magic gourd?
One imagines Auntie Maya is a practicioner of the Red Arts, and so makes her own (possibly modelled on a Ribera Crianza, who can tell (full disclosure: not one’s liquid sustenance of choice)), from ‘thin’ air – much like when Allison transubstantiated air into a peach under Cio’s tutelage.
Maya appears to now be Royalty (as indeed was Meti). She says the correct question ruined her. Perhaps she fought her own ego, prodded by Meti’s voice, and that directly lead to her relinquishing her throne and empire, to become to all intents nought but a penniless wandering drunken soul – with but one purpose left, to save the rat.
Actually, she probably had no purpose at all if she was truly successful. One suspects that her old friend Zoss may have subsequently inspired her to her current purpose, the same time as he gave her his bag of accoutrements, (as in every previous cycle of the wheel as well of course – but this cycle the rat itself is different).
Quite surprising that Incubus looks so content in that flashback, despite clearly being Maya’s subordinate.
I wonder what the Pit King thought of his blood-sister before their paths diverged so radically. Was he always just waiting for a chance to usurp Maya at the height of her Mastery, or is it possible that one upon a time she was the only soul he was proud to call his leader?
Maybe he’s following his strategy of waiting for everyone to tire themselves out, only to strike when they’re weak.
Hey, Orbital Abbadon. Circling the Earth like a sequel to Asura’s Wrath. I have read your little web comic for a while, and I respect your fantastic endeavour. Understand you likely work in rasters lines for speedy output. If you choose to upgrade to vectors line is up to you, respectfully. Wanted to also say that you should consider publishing your first volume on WebToonz, or maybe Bili Bili, to claw back some income your way. I would like to see you start a brand new work, (in vectors) besides, KSBD. I too, have my own creative works independent and fun to create and earn from. I say my goodbyes for now. Have a nice day. Don’t stop creating your awesome works. Your writer, and artist friend, Kevin.
This comic is absolutely amazing
*punches cliff angrily*
i can see how “what is the right question?” could drive one to ruin.
also she finally drank the wine!
The question would likely be… “how do I break the wheel”, methinks…
The first time these two met (KSBD 2-34), the question asked was “what do you think about death?”.
And 2-35 has the first time she is called a mouse.
So, Allison’s hair is growing back, but not Maya’s.
Was the teacher supposed to keep shaving in this master-apprentice lineage?
So… She ripped off prosthetics that had been integrated with her, including one that was replacing her missing eyeball. Just to strap on crappy prosthetics? Wtf. Talk about pain for pains sake.
They come with the job of Wheel-Smashing Lord.
It’s only proper she’d wear them.
The prosthetics Allison received from Jadis were too close to her ‘original copies’- she was hiding from her pain instead of confronting it, which is the only way she could truly heal from it. Allison says so herself. The ‘crappy’ ones don’t hide the trauma she went through, and I don’t think they have any internal mechanics, meaning Allison has to control them with her key (the invisible limbs we saw during the fight with Maya), thereby training & strengthening it as one would a muscle.
The question one must ask is “How do I free him?” Because he will be born anew again, slaying or beating Jagganoth is inadequate. To stop him one must break the wheel he straddles. Only then can can one claim victory.
hello all friend
“I don’t _have_ to defeat you.”
(big kiss)
“Don’t think, fight.” – advice from my Gold Medal Paralympic Fencing coach. Got me 12 Gold medals.
When I was about 6, my father told me that the most important thing I could learn to do is destroy my enemies.
He then clarified that ‘destroy’ in this context meant ‘render unable to harm’.
This makes me think of that.
The truth is that I don’t understand Allison’s behavior as she behaves now saying derogatory things like “old woman” “I want now”. He has been on the verge of dying a thousand times, lost and regained friends, has learned that respect is forged and has confidence in himself. What is the need to be nasty and behave like an impatient child? It is one thing to thirst for revenge and another to become impertinent and unpolite who is protecting you from day 1 and now helping.
i think allison is trying to harden her heart right now. shes all beat up n sad and achey every day and maya keeps taaaalking and talking n its important talk so shes taking it super seriously for sure and focusing and training properly whatever but maya still talks soooo much and is always doing her riddles and you cant even get mad at her cuz at the end of the day shes a warm old lady and makes good noodles and has a seemingly supernatural ability to procure alcohol from thin air or something. and she has been getting allison stronger n smarter than she’s felt in a long time. ally feels like shes starting to get it, and is probably right. i mean, shes getting close to asking the right question after all, but shes not there yet. so its long days and getting up early and going to bed early and getting called mouse all the time so she starts grumbling old woman back in the same tone. its like that. its like the first few chuckles over dinner in that lean-to. but ally’s stiff. stiff in a strong way, but still stinging and raw. shes ready for hard work and wants to do things efficiently and right. so i think they respect each other a lot. i think allison’s doing her best to be exactly the kind of student maya wants her to be, because maya convinced her it would be a good thing to be, and allison realizes that maya treating her like she does means something pretty real compared to maya’s contentious one with meti. i think they already understand each other very well, and have a very healthy master-student respect. i think its really cute
So, was she the previous Orange King? Or not? The Witch looked very old, so it is strange.
These pages really hit home just how utterly incomprehensible Allison would be to any one in her old life. And yet a lot of her core is still there… I can honestly see a fraction of my own life trajectory in that.