To consider a strike to kill the laws of nature is as short-sighted as the ogre who’s eyes are on the inside of his skull. To master Cutting is to define nature, and Tenet 5 of Meti’s guide to Mastering the Sword reveals, it is far better to write, to write new laws for nature as the parer of potentials that excises infinites.
You think too much to consider nature a part of a Cut. You must not cling to your action, or its result. Clinging is the great error of men. A man who strikes without thought of his action can cut God.
A fact forgotten by almost all but the students of natural law, is that there are none. All natural laws are conjecture at the universe’s mechanisms not yet disproven. The goal of those students is to destroy that conjecture until only truth remains,in that regard the sciences are rather like cutting.
Love how the guards give an awkward silence in the first panel. Like they were listening to Ten and waiting for her speech to be over so they could continue their attack.
“…she was juggling them like a pair of circus balls. When our correspondent asked he ‘How it’s even possible?’, she gave him an answer that caused his brain to short-circuit with explosive results. He survived by a…”
Witness well the mark of a true master of her craft, my lovelies.
There is no childish glee or smug satisfaction, as there was in Mother Om. That is the mark of the practiced journeyman. There is not the terror barely contained with exultant power, as there was in Allison. That is the mark of the apprentice.
On the face of Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones is the resignation that lies beyond boredom. It no longer wears at her that she must perform this most simple of tricks. It matters not to her that to the uninitiated this seems the greatest of Arts. It is simply a chore.
Diagnose the patient’s illness from seemingly unrelated causes. Determine what the customer desires before they themselves know. Weave the names of a demon that has yet to be born. Strip the char from cherry-red iron. Strike the stone in the place that it will shatter. Magic so simple its practitioners recognize it as magic not at all.
But oh, how the peasants gape in awe at their performance.
Uther "Chaos Angel", Least of Jagganoth's Foreservants
Yes, it all looks very impressive, but any knight worth their oath could do as much.
Well, perhaps not quite so casually, nor with so clean a cut, nor with a blade that was fully sheathed at the time the weapon was fired. But as I’ve argued with Layla in the past, guns are all well and good, but a true knight will not be so easily defeated.
Mmmmhhh, she not only deflected the projectile… but also sliced right through. Most interesting, many either edge through, or edge away. She didn’t choose but instead cut both ways in 1 strike. Clear proof of a talent for cutting.
Kind of sad to realize that — when the Mobile Oppression Palace inevitably falls from the sky — the world will lose a lot of priceless antique masterwork furniture.
I mean, an almighty cosmotyrant will also be deposed before she can plunder another universe for fruit and tribute and wives, so I consider the whole affair a net gain, but still.
Often I have encountered the sort of combatant that can catch and/or deflect bullets, and I find their arrogance tiresome. An automatic shotgun has silenced many of their boasts. That said, I am somehow gripped with the impression that such methods might not work on this particular swordswoman. Best move for long-term survival is the avoid the fight entirely.
I vote nay, older brother, for while the principal Art of Cutting is truly an impressive Art, when Allison has come to master the terrible Blade of Want, the Art of Cutting and all other martial forms shall seem as meet children’s toys before its terrible desire.
I love how the Sarge is like “Fire, you fools!” and they’re just like “Is he fckin serious?” “Ralph, do it!” “No, you do it!” “Okay, lemme handle that. At such distance, I can’t miss.” *fires* “Did… Did you just miss?” “I… I swear I aimed for the head!” “Gosh, Damian, you’re useless!”
The muzzle flash of the rifle doesn’t seem to match up with the rest of the rifle. I’m not sure if that’s a deliberate thing, but it means that one frame is a little confusing. Just so it’s been said if it hasn’t already.
It was for some time a great disappointment to me that my Craft did not interest the highest Students of Cutting. Each seemed resigned to carry any old, dull table knife that fit their grip. I understand that they believe sharpness is a quality of the cutter, not of the blade.
I have since learned that I need not mourn their naivety; You cannot hear them speak in any case.
Probably not – a high Master of Cutting as herself would sever the projectile without mishap. I worry for whatever is behind her, as the fineness of the cut will make the weapon unstable in its passage
I suspect Ms. Murder the Thrones and Topple Their Gods cut rather more than just that bullet. I wonder, do any of those soldiers still live?
Also, cutting the bullet in half without exerting the lateral force necessary to separate the halves really shouldn’t do anything to change the trajectory of the halves. Which means cutting the bullet wasn’t the thing she did that actually defended her. And yet she took the time and effort to divide the bullet, among the actions effected by that single cut.
No, I suspect one or more of those guards have been divided.
So did she cut it once and deflect it once, or are be going to still see a hole in her head in the next panel (if she only cut it once, leaving it’s path unaltered)?
I’m guessing she pulled out a hidden weapon and cut the bullet, but for a second I thought the bullet hit her in the face, but bounced off and cracked in half due to her sheer badassery.
That bullet is strange. An earthly bullet would have a lead core, to match that lead tip. This one has a black substance at the tip, but no lead core.
What is it?
Erudite thought leads us to: This bullet is not made of lead and brass. This bullet is made of rose gold, which is an ideal bullet material if cost is no object.
What then of the black tip?
Given that the armies of the Demiurges are not bound by such niceties as the Geneva Convention, it is likely their bullets are tipped by a fatal dose of poison. Arsenic is a classic, Polonium-210 a more high-tech and lethal possibility.
Just because these soldiers LOOK old-fashioned does not mean they are not incredibly lethal.
Bullets of gold and poison! Appropriate for the Demiurges.
Muskets? MUSKETS? An immortal demon-slaying Blade of Want was used by the wielder of the Key of Kings to undermine the bearer of the Word GLORY, not to mention White Chain and Juggernaut Star undoubtedly closing in fast, and let’s just throw in the one and only Meti too.. and they brought muskets. Those guys are gonna have a bad time.
Technically, these look like bolt-actions. Specifically, they look sort of like Gewehr-98’s, the classic German WW1-era rifle chambered in the brutal 8mm Mauser cartridge.
If so, that is a very sophisticated armament indeed.
Can any of the sages here deduce the reason that Mother Om’s soldiers use copper core bullets with soft tips?
Throne’s laws banning advanced firearms won’t apply out here in Mottom’s turf, out of her 111,111 universes, surely someone has invented lead core soft tips and surely money is no object, so why choose these?
If I had mastered smiling in the eighth way, I might be so impertinent as to wonder if these are easier to draw, such that a laymen can still tell what it was before.
Its probably a little difficult to keep up with the cutting edge of munition technology from 111,111 worlds all at once. Plus depending on the methods of production it might just be easier to make copper core instead of tearing down the previous system of manufacturing to get a small boost to shot power. Mottom seems like the type of overlord to have entire worlds dedicated to the production of a single type of bullet.
The technology itself is anything any primitive metalsmith can create and I doubt it would run afoul of any of the laws even in Throne. Such bullets penetrate deep which can be advantageous when trying to pierce the skulls of larger beasts. Because they do not use lead, they do not foul the weapon as quickly and the soft tip forces the bullet to deform into a shape similar to a mushroom which makes it more lethal.
“Yes. This is a good idea. Shooting at her will definitely work and will ensure that I have a long, prosperous life ahead of me. I am glad that I am such a smart person.”
…wait a minute, why didn’t the impact fuse the two sides together? It’s like she cut it mid-flight and then it got cut again after it impacted the dresser.
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Ryūjin no ken wo kurae!
Ryūjin no ken w~oh well.
Play of the Game: Mathangi Ten Meti
A beautiful demonstration of the art of Cutting.
I wonder if she will both destroying them when they scatter.
..bother. bother destroying them. I must write more carefully.
“A man who writes without thought can misspell Dog.”
Or other less important words.
“When we fight, our swords can kill the laws of nature itself.”
To consider a strike to kill the laws of nature is as short-sighted as the ogre who’s eyes are on the inside of his skull. To master Cutting is to define nature, and Tenet 5 of Meti’s guide to Mastering the Sword reveals, it is far better to write, to write new laws for nature as the parer of potentials that excises infinites.
You think too much to consider nature a part of a Cut. You must not cling to your action, or its result. Clinging is the great error of men. A man who strikes without thought of his action can cut God.
A fact forgotten by almost all but the students of natural law, is that there are none. All natural laws are conjecture at the universe’s mechanisms not yet disproven. The goal of those students is to destroy that conjecture until only truth remains,in that regard the sciences are rather like cutting.
Congratulations on the Hundred Pages, Abbadon!
And to another 5999999900!
Prozit!
Abbadon’s in for the long haul it seems!
Love how the guards give an awkward silence in the first panel. Like they were listening to Ten and waiting for her speech to be over so they could continue their attack.
Of course, decorum is important. It just won’t due to interrupt the lady now would it.
Or they knew they were screwed and were trying to prolong their painful deaths for as long as possible.
Let it not be said that good manners are impractical
“Ancient mystic found with two bullet holes”
“…she was juggling them like a pair of circus balls. When our correspondent asked he ‘How it’s even possible?’, she gave him an answer that caused his brain to short-circuit with explosive results. He survived by a…”
“Moose?”
Witness well the mark of a true master of her craft, my lovelies.
There is no childish glee or smug satisfaction, as there was in Mother Om. That is the mark of the practiced journeyman. There is not the terror barely contained with exultant power, as there was in Allison. That is the mark of the apprentice.
On the face of Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones is the resignation that lies beyond boredom. It no longer wears at her that she must perform this most simple of tricks. It matters not to her that to the uninitiated this seems the greatest of Arts. It is simply a chore.
Diagnose the patient’s illness from seemingly unrelated causes. Determine what the customer desires before they themselves know. Weave the names of a demon that has yet to be born. Strip the char from cherry-red iron. Strike the stone in the place that it will shatter. Magic so simple its practitioners recognize it as magic not at all.
But oh, how the peasants gape in awe at their performance.
I like it when she cuts things.
Such a beautiful cutting, and done by pure instinct at that!
Yes, it all looks very impressive, but any knight worth their oath could do as much.
Well, perhaps not quite so casually, nor with so clean a cut, nor with a blade that was fully sheathed at the time the weapon was fired. But as I’ve argued with Layla in the past, guns are all well and good, but a true knight will not be so easily defeated.
Its unfortunate Layla has never gotten her hands on some of Jagganoth’s tech. I’m sure she could persuade thy otherwise.
Once you are involving Jagganoth in any capacity to make your point, you have already lost your argument for something being ‘easy’.
To strike at god is the ultimate crime. If you wish to be pardoned, kill god and pardon Yourself.
Sturdy cabinet right there. Nothing but the best for Mottom!
This, truly, is a mark of reading.
Plot creates duration, which in this mode is paradoxical.
Such attention, however, unpicks the world.
Mmmmhhh, she not only deflected the projectile… but also sliced right through. Most interesting, many either edge through, or edge away. She didn’t choose but instead cut both ways in 1 strike. Clear proof of a talent for cutting.
Kind of sad to realize that — when the Mobile Oppression Palace inevitably falls from the sky — the world will lose a lot of priceless antique masterwork furniture.
I mean, an almighty cosmotyrant will also be deposed before she can plunder another universe for fruit and tribute and wives, so I consider the whole affair a net gain, but still.
The loss of history and art is always a bit sad no matter the context.
Often I have encountered the sort of combatant that can catch and/or deflect bullets, and I find their arrogance tiresome. An automatic shotgun has silenced many of their boasts. That said, I am somehow gripped with the impression that such methods might not work on this particular swordswoman. Best move for long-term survival is the avoid the fight entirely.
Did she glare the bullet in half?
“Beware the swordsman who carries no blade.”
SEE ANGELS FIGHTING MATHANGI AND MOTTOM
ALLISON STARRING IN THE FORBIDDEN PALACE
ALL NIGHT 20 PAGES FEATURE NON-STOP VIOLENCE SHOW
Ys and Atun, double feature
Allison will kill some creatures
See beggars fighting
Demi-urges and guilds!
At the late night, prophetic cosmic show!!!
The eyes of instant, unbridled violence haunt onlookers long after the end of battle.
Glory to the hundredth page.
Glory to the hundredth page!
Cleave Heaven in twain.
Those eyes! they certainly see more than I do.
My father speaks of ‘being, not doing’ and thinks himself wise.
My mother speaks of creating and control and thinks herself good.
Endeavour now, not to speak, and not to think of myself at all.
Liar! None of what you said rhymes.
much is lost in translation from the original cranicular cant that so impresses our most learned poet-adepts.
Thusly you are defeated by your own words.
Through firmer investigation, you might discover that My Name Rhymes.
But I am not willing to elaborate, for in doing so I demonstrate much vanity
This is axiomatic.
Rhymes? Not in your language, no.
…Well, time for Maya to become the protagonist. All in favor, vote aye.
I vote nay, older brother, for while the principal Art of Cutting is truly an impressive Art, when Allison has come to master the terrible Blade of Want, the Art of Cutting and all other martial forms shall seem as meet children’s toys before its terrible desire.
This one believes that a very comprehensive lesson on the anatomy of the human body is about to be delivered by our lowly soup vendor.
斬
殺神
Why do they use guns?
Do they not know that a gun is useless against the sword?
What if it the guns have little swords at their ends?
or Punishers gun that shoots swords?
http://ci.memecdn.com/194/1502194.jpg
What if the bullets have little swords at their ends?
super
hot
“*Gains Achievement* Game of the year.”
-Vegeta, on Super Hot
super
HOT
I love how the Sarge is like “Fire, you fools!” and they’re just like “Is he fckin serious?” “Ralph, do it!” “No, you do it!” “Okay, lemme handle that. At such distance, I can’t miss.” *fires* “Did… Did you just miss?” “I… I swear I aimed for the head!” “Gosh, Damian, you’re useless!”
The muzzle flash of the rifle doesn’t seem to match up with the rest of the rifle. I’m not sure if that’s a deliberate thing, but it means that one frame is a little confusing. Just so it’s been said if it hasn’t already.
I think this was done to demonstrate the recoil of the weapon. I don’t think it’s muzzle flash, it’s smoke/dust/residue from firing the weapon.
It’s showing where the projectile emerged while simultaneously showing you the powerful recoil of the weapon.
It’s the recoil.
“Do you feel anything when shooting people?”
‘Certainly.’
“…and that would be?”
‘Recoil.’
It was for some time a great disappointment to me that my Craft did not interest the highest Students of Cutting. Each seemed resigned to carry any old, dull table knife that fit their grip. I understand that they believe sharpness is a quality of the cutter, not of the blade.
I have since learned that I need not mourn their naivety; You cannot hear them speak in any case.
The Death Korps prepare to do what they do best… die.
“It doesn’t matter whether your blade, in actuality, is always out of its sheathe, though you will look like an idiot if it is.”
She’s terribly mysterious!
Plus, she can cut guns in half with her mind!
Did you hear that?
I hadn’t heard that.
And always speaks in chiasmus.
Are those Maia Lead slugs?
possibly
lorimar
iron
instead
(spoilers for Foundation here)
“A man who strikes without thought can cut God.”
oh hey that’s exactly how a godlike character was killed in Foundation. Is this a reference?.
Power through ignorant want is a recurring theme in K6BD, and that line is an excerpt from Meti’s Sword Manual, which deals with similar matters.
In foundation, it’s more of a clever workaround. In K6BD, it’s a fundamental property of the omniverse.
It only took her ten years to learn how to cut bullets.
Anti tank missiles, that was a challenge.
I’d wager my skin that I could cut an anti-tank missile. Well, one anyway.
Question is: will it detonate while cutting it?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably not – a high Master of Cutting as herself would sever the projectile without mishap. I worry for whatever is behind her, as the fineness of the cut will make the weapon unstable in its passage
cleaver girl
Certainly, she has a sharp mind.
I suspect Ms. Murder the Thrones and Topple Their Gods cut rather more than just that bullet. I wonder, do any of those soldiers still live?
Also, cutting the bullet in half without exerting the lateral force necessary to separate the halves really shouldn’t do anything to change the trajectory of the halves. Which means cutting the bullet wasn’t the thing she did that actually defended her. And yet she took the time and effort to divide the bullet, among the actions effected by that single cut.
No, I suspect one or more of those guards have been divided.
It does seem she both cut the bullet, and deflected it, when the former was not quite required.
I personally suspect the guards have until next page to be divided, but we shall see.
Oh, I get it. She cut space as well as the bullet. That’s why the bullet changed course (and maybe teleported?), even though the cut was so perfect.
So did she cut it once and deflect it once, or are be going to still see a hole in her head in the next panel (if she only cut it once, leaving it’s path unaltered)?
I believe she Cut as the bullet passed through her head, and left the bullet the worse off for it.
I’ve cut god. Well gods. Well they were worshipped as gods.
If this works as it looks she’s about to cleave people apart with her forehead. Headbutt chop if you will.
Not very impressive a bullet will shatter even when it strikes water
I’m guessing she pulled out a hidden weapon and cut the bullet, but for a second I thought the bullet hit her in the face, but bounced off and cracked in half due to her sheer badassery.
Is it just me, or do two of those soldiers resemble the Techno Washingtons from the party with a different uniform and a helmet?
That bullet is strange. An earthly bullet would have a lead core, to match that lead tip. This one has a black substance at the tip, but no lead core.
What is it?
Erudite thought leads us to: This bullet is not made of lead and brass. This bullet is made of rose gold, which is an ideal bullet material if cost is no object.
What then of the black tip?
Given that the armies of the Demiurges are not bound by such niceties as the Geneva Convention, it is likely their bullets are tipped by a fatal dose of poison. Arsenic is a classic, Polonium-210 a more high-tech and lethal possibility.
Just because these soldiers LOOK old-fashioned does not mean they are not incredibly lethal.
Bullets of gold and poison! Appropriate for the Demiurges.
No rifling grooves on the bullet? Are these smooth bores?
This is a trifle unusual.
It is possible the rifles use some magnetic or magical mechanism to induce spin in the projectiles.
Or maybe they simply use polygonal rifling, which is much harder to see on a fired projectile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_rifling
Muskets? MUSKETS? An immortal demon-slaying Blade of Want was used by the wielder of the Key of Kings to undermine the bearer of the Word GLORY, not to mention White Chain and Juggernaut Star undoubtedly closing in fast, and let’s just throw in the one and only Meti too.. and they brought muskets. Those guys are gonna have a bad time.
Technically, these look like bolt-actions. Specifically, they look sort of like Gewehr-98’s, the classic German WW1-era rifle chambered in the brutal 8mm Mauser cartridge.
If so, that is a very sophisticated armament indeed.
“I hope she’s on our side” – Allison, probably.
I have that same expression swatting at flies
Can any of the sages here deduce the reason that Mother Om’s soldiers use copper core bullets with soft tips?
Throne’s laws banning advanced firearms won’t apply out here in Mottom’s turf, out of her 111,111 universes, surely someone has invented lead core soft tips and surely money is no object, so why choose these?
If I had mastered smiling in the eighth way, I might be so impertinent as to wonder if these are easier to draw, such that a laymen can still tell what it was before.
Its probably a little difficult to keep up with the cutting edge of munition technology from 111,111 worlds all at once. Plus depending on the methods of production it might just be easier to make copper core instead of tearing down the previous system of manufacturing to get a small boost to shot power. Mottom seems like the type of overlord to have entire worlds dedicated to the production of a single type of bullet.
The technology itself is anything any primitive metalsmith can create and I doubt it would run afoul of any of the laws even in Throne. Such bullets penetrate deep which can be advantageous when trying to pierce the skulls of larger beasts. Because they do not use lead, they do not foul the weapon as quickly and the soft tip forces the bullet to deform into a shape similar to a mushroom which makes it more lethal.
Lead isn’t lavish enough for Mottom, even when it’s clearly more practical.
Works better against wendigos.
That projectile was not cut.
It was merely presented with a logical fallacy and found itself of two minds on the matter.
‘Sword brains are the best brain’
-Nhill Bii, The Science Lord of the Silent Peaks of Om.
Puzzling. You brought such ineffective weapons to combat the Master of Cutting, despite the containment protocols.
Thought process of the guy with the gun:
“Yes. This is a good idea. Shooting at her will definitely work and will ensure that I have a long, prosperous life ahead of me. I am glad that I am such a smart person.”
…wait a minute, why didn’t the impact fuse the two sides together? It’s like she cut it mid-flight and then it got cut again after it impacted the dresser.
Are you talkin’ physics here? Really? That’s madness!
Woman found dead with two bullet holes
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