WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-58 to 3-59
Chapter: 3
“When man is young and bares his teeth and holds his head held high,
He stands astride the mountaintop and lays claim to the sky;
I am god, proclaimeth he, the lord of all I see,
And every beast and fish on earth shall bow and scrape to me;
But when man is old and cold of bone and grey and long of hair,
His flesh shall feed the rich black soil
The mountains do not care.”
-Old Uvur Rhyme
It seems to me that Solomon has reached the peak of his power
He got that NNN arm and can’t use Goku powers anymore, how the hell do you figure that?
The Word is stronger than the Sword.
A sword’s use is solely to kill. It cannot heal wounds, makes for a poor plow, cannot create art, produces no music. Its only power, as a symbol, is to rally those who crave violence.
Solly is now at that point. He is a man who is the living embodiment of what happens when the sword is seen as the only solution.
“I held aloft the sword, and look at me, in all my frailty when it broke! Use the Word! Speak to the People! And lead!”
Word dude
How do you.. Plow using a word?
You describe a plough and how to use it. You talk of food and how to grow it.
How do you plow using a sword?
How do you plow? Using a sword, no less.
Verry poorly
Remove the “s” and go back one post.
Very easy to use a sword as a plow…
With some difficulty but it’s possible, the sword will be blunt and little use as a sword afterwards but that’s no loss.
this why we have whetestones to sharpen the plow blades and blades of swords as well
Simple: You cut rows in the earth the same way you cut through rows of people.
Find a good blacksmith and a good carpenter.
Have the carpenter make a plough frame and hove the smith make a plough blade. Attach blade to frame and find something or someone to pull it and you have a functional plough
Using the Art? The magic thing that people can do in this universe that is explicitly based on speaking things into existence.
You may plow using a word in two ways.
First by teaching. By explaining the making of a plow and its use and operation you may have students who learn to plow and who will plow land for fields. Yours or their own. In this way you may have hundreds plow fields for generations.
Second is by commanding. If you are someone who’s facilities have led you to place of leadership you can turn to your subordinates and command them to plow. In this way you may have as many people as you can command plow under your word.
Plough
…
There you go.
After reaching a peak, you can only go down.
But those who have only ever lived in the valley only know of the valley. Once you climb a peak, yes, you have to go back down,. But you have seen further from the peak, you can remember, and that can guide what you do and how you live once you’re back in the valley.
The God should fiercily introduce His Holy Peak down The Angel’s Throat.
Reaching the peak is how some learn to fly. Some Higher, some, not so much.
Ice fishing is a lot more eventful than I remember.
And it looks like it’s going to get intense.
I forgive you for barfing and gagging, by the way. Now u gotta change ur name
And I forgive you for forgiving them for barfing and gagging, as well. Now you must change your name, as well.
XTREME ICE FISHING
maybe Solly will teach someone Ki Rata
It seems to me that he will not. Had he the intention to, he could have done by now.
In the face of Jagganoth, Ki Rata is found to be no more than a delaying tactic. Solly used the most powerful skills, yet … here he is, a broken man, and Jagganoth will be free soon.
They need something new. And White Chain is that new.
I mean, to be fair, a large enough order of monks at Solomon’s level could have kept Jagganoth sealed indefinitely, and policed the rest of the Demiurgi besides. This is very much the fault of the Enforcement of Ki Rata Nonproliferation Through Murder group, which was always completely unconscionable.
of course, that does raise the question of whether or not the ki rata demiurge police would turn evil somehow- the last superpowered ki rata user who tried to keep jagganoth in check caused some problems when he was in power, after all.
Obviously we just have a second group of superpowered martial artists using an anti-ki rata martial art to keep the ki rata practitioners in check.
“Who watches the watchers?”
“The Watcher Watchers, duh.”
It’s watchers all the way down, is it?
It’s a circle, actually
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with Ki-Rata is a good guy with Ki-Rata.
That just sounds like demiurges with extra steps
My thoughts exactly. The answer to god-tyrants can’t be more god-tyrants.
Honestly, when you get to the scale of multi-world leadership these god-tyrants operate at, I think it’d be fair to say there just isn’t a “good option.”
Consider for a moment trying to coordinate the many cultures and peoples of earth. Now try doing that a hundred thousand times over. There simply isn’t a good way for any single organization to govern that many people.
It’s probably why all the demiurges tended to settle on one world and just tax/pillage all the others. They probably couldn’t even name a fraction of the planets they supposedly ruled.
In the upcoming fight Solomon will realize that he can, in fact, still use Ki Rata. Also, that toes count for Ki Rata techniques, leading to the 15 point attack… the Chaos Dunk.
I think it’s the “Breathing Technique” part of Ki Rata that he can’t use, based on the cough.
> “[Ki Rata’s] core technique is a breathing method that allows internal force to be cultivated extremely rapidly and focused on a point smaller than a pin-prick, giving blows absolutely phenomenal power.”
— Manual Of Hands And Feet
I’ll always love that Ki Rata is just Hamon taken to its logical and very funny extreme
If humans could harness more energy than their bodies are capable of producing through technique, Ki Rata WOULD be the logical conclusion.
The hardest part would actually be managing an attack’s stopping power.
For context, a Russian scientist once got shot in the head with a particle accelerator, and was basically fine. The beam was so thin and its energy so immense, it zapped right through his skull and kept going.
I could see a similar thing happening in Ki Rata, where your extremely-refined attack blasts a pin-sized hole through someone, making it effectively less impactful than a handgun. The alternative is you have the energy release too soon and blow your own arm off.
It’d be tricky to get right, is what I’m saying. A Ki Rata master would need to be durable enough to withstand a portion of their own attacks, and a sufficiently resilient opponent (like Jagganoth) would demand attacks that put the user’s own body at risk (as we see here).
Thinking about that time Akaza turned himself to swiss cheese with his own attack.
While I get your point, that Russian scientist was not fine. Though he was extremely lucky and survived, he lost hearing in one ear and suffered from tinnitus and epileptic seizures. If the beam had hit something like the hippocampus or brain stem, things most likely would’ve gone way worse.
Solomon uses the Purple Stone of Rayuba to channel Jagganoth’s Key Energy into a beam of light that causes a volcanic eruption, launching him into a black hole.
It’s certainly possible, but as the Chaos Dunk reference might have alluded to, I wasn’t making a serious prediction.
Yeah i kinda just wanted an excuse to quote the manual
To be fair. There’s been a lot of Space Jamming going on, and anything with ‘Chaos’ in it is a likely target for a vedic-inspired/daoist fantasy/xianxia-based universe to use as a technique.
There’s always a bigger fish, I’ve been told.
this is the way.
I love how the fishes look similar, too. Maybe they just have a common ancestor, but I want to believe that the fry and the whale are the same species.
(Sadly next I cannot bring myself to believe that the big one has a parental instinct because it’s still a fish. That feels like a missed opportunity.)
I am concerned about the ecosystem of that lake
Perhaps it is like Lake Baikal and is very deep
Perhaps the fish merely looks big to scare off prey.
It is the Jaggafish and has consumed its entire universe and only waits to be unmade.
In its time of slow ending, it was outraged to discover a world beyond the eternal ice far great than its own.
I am guessing that one lives pretty deep inside the lake and only came up to see who was knocking the dinner bell when our angel friend kame-hame-footslammed the lake’s frozen surface like an idiot.
He was a pillar. Now he is but rubble. But broken stones can be used to build new things, and even grains of sand can be forged into tempered glass.
That is, if it doesn’t become aquarium gravel first.
Now THAT is a monster whale-narwhal!
What happened to Solomon’s arm?!
Solomon had a fight with Jagganoth. It’s likely he got seriously injured.
That’s the arm he did the Technique of Relief with, to seal Jagganoth. I’m guessing that it’s the kind of technique that takes a toll on the user (‘s arm)…
It’s also the arm he used to pass his Key to White Chain, and that panel showed it cracking with energy as he did it. Maybe it was both events combined that did it in.
Might also have been a delay in the events, a dead arm taking time to atrophy.
He burned his very soul to seal Jagganoth, doing the work of the Seven combined, and it cost him.
His arm broke from carrying the Seven so hard.
oh shit it’s El Lago
Maybe White Chain can recruit the whale instead of Solly D since he apparently broke his arm jerking his black chain
Is the narwhal not Jagganoth himself? Or at least, a splinter of him? Has a bit of the look
Funny enough, I took it to be an enormous whale-aesthetic pallid devil!
Bravo Abaddon, interrupting the battle between these two popular characters by springing a mutual threat on them! Fighting together could resolve the differences between them, or one of them (likely Solomon rather than White Chain) could die causing a major change in the survivor’s outlook. Either way, it’s marvelous storytelling – so satisfying.
One actual God and one former God and what is the problem? Fish? Really?
fish will surprise you sometimes.
Yes, it can be tasty or not
If it were a mere fish, even a particularly large one, I think the former bearer of the word Diamond would not be so concerned.
This guy literally has shattered reality with his bare hands. Like, three times. Also we’ve got here a transmutated angel who is also – as You said -bearer of the word Diamond.
On the opposite side we’ve got fish.
Sorry m8, I don’t buy it
Assuming it is a fish at all, and not a particularly old and ornery devil.
Yeah, the glowing red eyes made me think that SOMETHING was up but this makes the most sense so far. The boney-face-plates aren’t actually bone, that’s it’s mask.
Or maybe it’s just a new kind of monstrosity who knows!
The feesh is bigger which means it’s stronger.
Also it’s actually not a fish but a mammal, which means it’s capable of great treachery.
I wonder if it’s a devil? Its face could maybe be a mask.
Maybe White Chain sinks!
Dense bones (ceramic)
“Trouble” doesn’t necessarily mean “Danger”. It could mean that the fight will, say, destroy a couple of nearby villages, or force Solomon to seriously fight, a thing he super doesn’t want to do.
If you find bones in the forest, sit a bit and listen. They are old and have some good stories to tell…but if you find bones by the ocean, run away. Don’t look back. Run. However fast you’re running, run faster. The sea may be beautiful, but it knows neither mercy nor compassion, and the bones warn you only once.
The same seems to apply to this lake.
boi if you find bones call the police i hate this website so much
Not all bones belonged to humans it’s okay
Never underestimate what comes from Water. Water is sisters with Time itself, constant and weathering to any object. Fish are born of it, just as we are born of land. For all we know, this beast of the lake possesses its own Key, and bears the word Drown.
You humanoid supremacists are fools. Complete ignorance of those whose form is different, and then laud your ignorance as strength. Is it not the worm God, who persevered? That which impersonated you for entertainment – like a zoo to them.
May you come to know your folly in time.
And who is to say this is the only different form within those deep, cold, waters?
Their ignorance does not beget imagination.
Humdum.
You underestimate fish at your peril, my friend.
Well, that certainly explains Solomon’s earlier refusal to White Chain’s demands. Can’t help but feel that he could’ve explained his inability to join the fight against Jagganoth back then and saved himself a kick to the face or two, though. Perhaps even now, he struggles to escape the Sin of Pride that once defined him.
Solly played the fishing minigame so much that he unlocked a hidden boss.
“In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.”
The formulation ” hold his head held high” bother me,
why not just “hold his head high” or “with his head held high”?
It would have to be “holds his head up high” to scan properly.
Me and…
ALL
MY
FRIENDS
Funny how ancient rhymes on other worlds still rhyme in modern English.
That’s professional translation for you. If you have a rhyming poetry, you must strive to render both rhyme and metre faithfully, least you want to offend Hermes with utter blasphemy.
SIZE 2 FISH!
Hello Leviathan, come to have some thematic relevance?
Just give him Tree Fiddy. He’ll leave.
i warned you about leviathan bro
would be shocked if a big fish could seriously threaten an angel who is also a demiurge who is also whatever happened to her when she became human. it’ll probably be a cool action sequence though
BIG. FISH.
The eyes are disconcerting. The Red-Eyed God might have had a pet goldfish.
Hot take, but this tantrum by Chain has been exasperating and illogical.
ice cold take
Ice Cold LAKE*
Hot take I think you and people who think this are kind of just fucking stupid ngl
I don’t agree with exasperating, but illogical is the whole point. Pree White Chain isn’t here to sway Noodle Arm Dave with logic and facts, she’s pissed and tired of being stuck with a key and a crowd of followers she didn’t ask for.
Wow, you noticed a character who’s been struggling with numerous internal existential troubles and external deadly threats behaving emotionally? Truly you have a dizzying intellect.
SHe is human now, of course she is being illogical and driven by emotion.
I know you’re getting a lot of heat, so, while I disagree, I’ll just say that White Chain’s whole character is that she recognizes “Wrong”, and she will do anything and everything to fight “wrong”, but she herself knows that defining wrong is so bogglingly difficult and she yearns for someone who knows better than her. Everytime she has been cool and broken the rules was out of a conflict of two “what is wrong” rules. She wants to be good and wants someone to tell her how to be good,but more importantly, she knows all the WRONG she has committed (be it her wrong leaders, her wrong friends, and her wrong judgements) and while she can handle these wrongs with herself, she refuses to play hot potato with someone who 1.) insisted on right and wrong, 2.) refused to concede with her even when she proved her point and 3.) again literally played hot potato with her on a subject he won’t admit he’s wrong about. She doesn’t tell people what to do. Quite the opposite, all comic long everything she said to do, somone ignored it, and everything was better for it. SHe has strength for not just accepting she’s wrong but holding her critics accountable for that label. Big man didn’t want to give her shit until his ki Rata withered, HE can deal with the crown of fire until, in his words, someone takes it from him. Again, he literally is playing hot potato to not get hurt more, the prideful bitch he is
lol @ all you dorks getting so outrageously triggered by my benign opinion. Y’all have personality issues.
Anyway, you hair-trigger Chain stans aren’t getting that what’s silly about this event is much simpler than a point about her motives or feelings — ‘you won’t accept this item of ultimate power, so I’ll beat you up. That’ll convince you!’ That response itself. It’s just dumb. It’s toddler-brained.
Wow, why would an ex-cop try to solve every problem with violence?