>“From this hour forward the gates of the city will be barred to my kin. Do not underestimate them. Do not commune with them. Do not give them offerings, or give them bread or Ajash if they visit you disguised. Many of them have a sweet countenance and a honeyed tongue. They will say their wish is to be a teacher of men, to spread messages of peace. In an earlier age, this was true. Now dogs and worse have crept into their ranks. Madness has consumed them. Their only passion now is a lust for blood and power.”
i'm glad the flashback is continuing, i want more lil incubus
Hunter Parker
The raw disgust on Meti's face in that last panel is palpable.
Liam Myers
>all of them have shaved heads das kinda cute
Andrew Miller
Au Vam sounds like an all right guy. Also, Incubus in the background looks curious and impressed rather than disgusted.
Kevin Powell
>incubus still has scars and maya has some very short hairs but meti's head is shaved smooth
Hudson Sullivan
unsurprising, considering what he ended up as
what's more interesting is that Maya looks appalled, yet it's currently implied she was a demiurge before Incubus.
Connor Davis
i wanna kiss Incubus
Nolan Diaz
That's how she looks all the time
Aaron Edwards
>Au Vam sounds like an all right guy That's saddening because being an all right guys gets you nowhere in this universe. We know his Yellow City gets destroyed in the end.
Since Intra was definitely active during this time, you think there were some hijinks when he and Meti crossed paths?
Landon Gutierrez
desu at this point I'm half expecting for Incubus to have actually gotten his key all on his own, and the rest of the demiurges just don't like him because they know they /could/ have gotten Maya, but they're stuck with the sword goblin instead.
Cooper Ward
>Meti is the Broken Worlds Master I hope we meet the rest of the Broken Worlds iconics in the comic.
Tyler Adams
user is observant
Adrian Hill
Oh man, wonder who these two asshats were
Also love how Maya and Incubus are clearly learning different lessons here
Jason Anderson
>Since Intra was definitely active during this time, you think there were some hijinks when he and Meti crossed paths? Based gigachad Intra is too cool to be bothered by Meti
I imagine it would have been a lot more anticlimactic than what you're thinking right now. Meti doesn't really give a shit and Intra, while not as course as her, seems pretty much the same.
Ryder Hughes
Incubus is a pure boy
>Also, Incubus in the background looks curious and impressed rather than disgusted. In that first panel he almost looks ready to jump in himself. Look at his hands resting on his sword
Jaxson Reyes
“Dread those with the terrible star on their brow, for they are my kin. They trade in flesh, smoke, and star-knowledge. Their reins of power are made of coursing flame, and their chariot wheels trample the world in any direction they wish. When you see them you will know there are many ways to fill a man with death, and the walls of the world will feel thin to you indeed.” -Au Vam, Pankrator of Vesh, ruler of the Yellow City
I fucking love the background lore/quotes that exist in this world.
Grayson Collins
He looks more apathetic to me, honestly, with his hand on the sword being more symbolism for how much ready he is to engage in violence.
Jacob Hall
Huh, Incubus has two swords while it looks like Maya isn't wearing a sword at all, just has a staff.
Isaiah Kelly
>You are the worst student, here Incubus have ANOTHER sword
Justin Sanchez
“ME AM PLAY GODS” Unknown Demiurge
Jace Butler
I chuckled.
Carson Nguyen
>gee, incubus! how come master lets you have TWO swords?
Brandon Johnson
I really like the idea that Incubus actually did nothing wrong and his inferiority complex and her desire for revenge on him is completely unwarranted.
Bentley Barnes
He is clearly treated that way by the other demiurges. So even if he's just as competent they don't see that.
Luis Powell
what if incubus just has the power to make everyone around him fucking hate his guts and can't turn it off
Caleb Walker
Then if he wants to be Royalty he needs to remove that power from existence, or not give a fuck it out of existence. Either seems like a good step forward.
Tyler Young
>filename
Reach heaven through violence, baby.
Charles Edwards
I totally love that quote though. "Observe how it [the "awesome fires of God"] is used for the same purpose a man might use an especially sharp rock."
Jackson Collins
nah if you look at the top right two panels she has two swords aswell. whats interesting is both the students seem to have two curved blades, while the master only has a single straight and bigger one. id have to look back but i think the singular sword is the one they had to shave their heads with? hard to tell from just the bottom of the scabbard though.
Elijah Miller
Meti can cut with her words as well as with anything.
Seriously though, I've chuckled almost every time she's spoken >"Just look at those beautiful locks" >This page
Blake Davis
Who’s gonna win the fight, blue with red arms or red with blue arms? Place your bets.
Blake Gomez
user, that's green.
Gabriel Edwards
ah, you're right
Connor Young
blue with red arms. he may be injured, but looks to have no slowed down at all despite that. he also actually diversifies his arsenal, showing a preparedness for different scenarios and greater ability to adapt. plus the other girl still has arrows spawned while having no bow and being in melee combat. shows a bad sign of being stuck in thinking to one fighting style, which means she might not do well once she needs to adapt. all the blue with red has to do is keep being able to hold her off til she inevitably give him an opening, which she clearly isnt as prepared for. sometimes being better at lasting and taking hits is in its own right a powerful weapon.
Jacob Jackson
oh, my bad, she does still have a bow, my bad, looked like something else at first glance. still silly to have it in melee though when you can spawn weapons out of magic fire willy nilly.
Jason Reyes
Suck my ass, it’s aqua, it’s close enough to either to be called blue or green
Asher Torres
I don't understand Maya claiming that she and Incubus were once close. She's staring at him suspiciously here in the second panel as if he disgusts her with his affinity for war. Just being students of Meti at the same time does not equal closeness.
Benjamin Martinez
Incubus looks alot older than when he first shaved his head in that image though, so depending on just how long has passed they easily could've grown close then grown apart. would need alot more context on the timeframe though to know for sure, though you dont go from scrawny diseased kid to healthy looking disciple teenager/young adult in a day at the very least.
Dominic Allen
>a fucking sharp rock
Jaxson Mitchell
Au Vam is one of my favourites that doesnt appear directly on the story. His quotes and the way others refer to him project such power and wisdom
Brayden Sanchez
You can be close with someone and still be like ‘oh don’t be a pussy’
Brayden Martin
>when you have the raw fires of creation upon your brow and can shatter worlds but a drooling retard uses royalty and a sharp rock he pulled out of his ass to bash your skull in
Jason Brown
whoever wants to win the most is the one that wins. if you fail then you clearly didn't want it enough. which is why aesma kicked everyone's ass and was able to get so fucking pissed she lifted the entire fucking multiverse and threatened to beat someone to death with it.
Dominic Nguyen
She probably got it for valiant and heroic reasons before abandoning it out of either apathy or guilt. Pre-key Maya has consistently shown a "I'll show them! I'll be different!" attitude with regards to the power and corruption rule.
Juan Johnson
>still silly to have it in melee though Not if you can knock pull and fire multiple arrows in a fraction of a second
Jaxson Parker
If he can do that, it's a clear sign you've become too complacent to wield that amount of power effectively. Being at the top of the rock doesn't mean you can finally quit.
Wyatt Gonzalez
Royalty is a continuous cutting motion, after all. But still, isn't it tiresome to never stop? I'd rather take the Hansa route.
Aaron Brooks
Err... are you angry?
Jordan Rogers
hansa is dead, user.
Brody Hughes
Like death ever stopped Hansa. Until the gods killed themselves, Hansa ignored the whole death thing.
Justin Richardson
>the sharp rock is optional
Adam Morgan
Not even death can keep a grumpy old man from berating his child.
Austin Reed
In the second panel Maya looks pretty annoyed with Inc
Why? is she just dick eating?
Easton Brown
>implying a proper student of the art of cutting even needs a sword Go shave your head user, you still got a lot to learn
Hunter Edwards
She could just be salty at first that after years of begging her master accepted a literal hobo she just met over her.
Jacob Jackson
the more this comic goes on the more I think we'll see that Maya is literally retarded
Samuel Garcia
you should be wary of anyone who holds a sword like that
Samuel Howard
Thats just how older Maya looks all the time though
Ryan Reyes
>Fortnite: Retard Divinity Edition.
Luis Bailey
Isn't that how it always goes?
Think of a pantheon, real or fictional? what exactly happened to the original creator god/ess? Where they killed by their children? yeah, probably.
Justice-is sometimes blind. But ALWAYS carries a sword.
What is the purpose of government? Consolidation of power to defend the borders from invasion. To consolidate power to enforce rule of law.
Even a farmer, prunes plants to yield greater harvest and more healthy growth.
Jordan Rodriguez
The top 5% of Fortnite players are probably Royalty candidates. Mainly the never having been truly happy/being total idiots happy with dumb things part.
Chase Roberts
they also have to be continually playing to keep themselves in those upper ranks, a continuous cutting motion.
thats what royalty is isn't it? striving to be the best fortnite player not for your own happiness but because its who you are
Connor Murphy
Meti's not fucking around. Her hardest lessons are in the philosophy of the sword.
Incubus is a little shit and it's impossible Meti hasn't seen this. Look at the fucker, he's fascinated. Has Meti just gone along with teaching a psycho like that sword law? Or did she actually mean to raise someone who'd be able to kill her?
Carter Butler
>ncubus is a little shit and it's impossible Meti hasn't seen this. Look at the fucker, he's fascinated. Has Meti just gone along with teaching a psycho like that sword law? Or did she actually mean to raise someone who'd be able to kill her? Meti teaches those who just want to learn user, that's all. The student's character doesn't matter.
Brandon Cox
>Meti teaches those who just want to learn Is that from one of the extra texts? Either way, I think that's fair.
Dominic Ward
>Is that from one of the extra texts? No, it's not. That's the vibe I get from her. Meti doesn't give a fuck about anything except the art of cutting, and as long as a student is learning that art, I don't think she'd care about who or what that student is.
Levi Cooper
I like your interpretation, user.
Lincoln Morgan
To be fair, if one can pass her bar for entry she can be assured that they'll be an apt student, if only because she won't take in anyone that is not totally devoted to the art of cutting.
If you even have a moment of hesitation she'll tell you to eat shit, go home, and be a family man.
Grayson Torres
She looks a lot like Mottom.
Carson Thompson
I don't think she cares much for the art of cutting. Certainly not about the swordarts.
She liked noodles. She might like having people listen to her grumbling.
Inc was never going to get around to marry, have kids and grow fat, so becoming a legendary swordmaster wasn't the worst thing that could happen to him. Maya still had a chance to be worth something good.
Caleb Phillips
that's called Teal you dumb ass.
Owen Gomez
That's not what Meti cares about. Meti wants one thing, and it's pretty much the same thing Zoss wants, which is to escape the constraints of power. To have your cake and eat it too.
Which ties into the endless decay of K6BD. YISUN splits himself. YIS and UN mate and have the gods. The gods create things from the flames and commit suicide. Zoss breaks into heaven and is joined by his peers, but the demiurges eventually weaken to the point where the Seven are pretty much all low tier demiurges who managed to survive, etc. Everything is degrading even if you manage to be super strong and that's what Zoss/Meti/maybe Intra are wondering how to escape.
Daniel Hughes
So it seems that being near royalty affords the same mastery over liver spots that it does over nipples.
Jonathan Garcia
she cut 'em
Isaac Sanchez
She cares utmost for the art of cutting, but she has no illusions about what it creates. From the Sword Manual, the 18 Precepts: 10. A man who finds pleasure in the result of cutting is the most hateful, crawling creature there is. A man who finds pleasure in the act of cutting is an artisan.
Blake Scott
I believe it's YISUN/Zoss/Meti found that being at the top is BORING and stagnant, and that's why they all welcome death and change.
I think that's why 2 Michael's and Metatron's plan to kill everything and rule through the Successor will ultimately fail. Not because of the genocide, but because the universes will never be stagnant by nature and what they are proposing is infinite stagnation.
Jackson Collins
YISUN could have existed forever but not without being bored.
Zoss could keep his kingdom intact forever because he's so ridiculously strong that he could have ended the Universal War effectively with his entrance. Same with Meti. But then he will ALWAYS be intervening.
Solomon's masters even told him this. He likes his Empire, right? But even if he could leave, it would immediately begin to falter without him. So he would lose his Empire or be caged by his own power.
Nicholas Garcia
The of K6BD is not decay, it's change. YISUN's suicide is a positive, Gods die because they're inspired by mortals, each iteration starts off better than the last ended. Things only decay when they stay in one form for too long, and when that happens they must be shaken out of their stupor to move forward. That's what Zoss is hoping to bring about - The breaking of the circle.
Nathaniel Turner
>The of K6BD is not decay, it's change I think you a word