Yeah, but it didn't seem to be pure strength that did it, whereas Lung has nothing but pure strength. Then again, who knows what his strength transforms into later on.

 

He got blasted out of the sky by a tinker made weapon. Eidolon managed to inflict some superficial wounds on him. In the immortal words of Dutch, "If it bleeds, we can kill it." Therefore we just need something or someone powerful enough to do it.

Of all the characters in Worm so far, only Lung and Phir Sē have managed to take on an Endbringer single-handedly. That puts Lung on a scale that rivals Scion, Eidolon and Glaistig Ulaine.

Also, Lung has pyrokinesis that becomes more powerful as he does. He doesn't have to rely on brute strength alone.

 

Well it was an explosion inside of his ear, but if that can tear his head up there's no reason to believe a strong enough force couldn't tear him up from the outside just as easily. Not saying this is what I expect to happen, but it could.

 

The tinker blast really only pushed him, don't think it harmed him. Fair enough on the bleeding part, but as impressive as Lung seems, I really don't see him doing all that much in the end. His powers are too unreliable, imo. Take too long to get to the level of strength needed and until he gets there, I don't doubt that Scion can take him out.

Of course, it would be an interesting strategy to have Lung go a few rounds against an Endbringer and then immediately teleport him to Scion or something.

 

I called that they would recruit the Simurgh in 28.1. She's sitting around not attacking, and is also the only thing in setting I can think of (besides minimaxing!Tohu) to stand a chance against Scion.

I'm eagerly looking forward to negotiations.

 

Well now I can't get the idea that immediately upon arrival the Simurgh will say I agree since she saw all arguments they would do out of my mind.

 

And thus Worm ends in a Dancefight, with Simurgh doing the most perfect rendition of "We Are The Champions" ever made.

 

Lung has been building up for the past two years

And when he unleashes his transformation, it should be pretty rapid.
This is from the Leviathan fight he did:

I think Lung won't really be able to kill Scion- because his power probably comes from Scion (though it could have been from Scion's partner, before it died), and he should have some of the built in "limitations" - but I think he'll be capable of killing an Endbringers, because I don't think his power will be as limited in that case.

Unless Teacher did end up removing some of Lung's limitations (as he wanted to do in Lung's interlude). Then he might be able to fuck Scion up. It's been hinted several times that Lung will be able to fly when transformed enough.

 

I think Lung's power comes from the dead entity/Cauldron. He was dying from a massive OD of Cauldron-produced narcotics when he triggered. If Cauldron's goal was producing capes, then it's likely that those narcotics weren't ordinary ones.

 

All of this talk about Lung's power has me thinking, did he get his from the 3rd entity like Contessa? If not, then would not Scion have access to the same abilities in some fashion? By that I'm really asking if Scion has the "grow stronger over the course of the fight" deal going for him in some way.

heh, I'm still a little confused about who has what shard from which entity and what the implications are in a fight vs. Scion. To be revealed in due time, I suppose.

 

Did I miss something? I didn't think it had been confirmed, or even strongly implied, that the third entity had empowered anybody.

 

Scion sees Contessa in his interlude and thinks: "It looked at the female, and it saw a shard that wasn’t its own, but wasn’t dead."

 

I assumed that came from the second entity before it died.

 

Lung is charging up his po- Scion laser, Lung dead. Lung needs to charge up his power without dying and I seriously doubt he can survive the laser beam that has destroyed britain. He's fast, he dodged out of Kaisers restrains in their fight, but Scions lasers are also fast, Lung can't teleport and he can't fly at the beginning of a fight.

That said the Lung scenes were amazing in this chapter. Loved his interaction with Shadow Stalker and the overall clout he carries. The very first villian is back in the endgame. Though the circle is complete with Lung and Shadowstalker. The scene were Tattletale mentions the Yangbang was pretty cool too.

The Triumvirate seems dead for real, a pity I liked Legend. Also a mental hit, the've been around for the big fights since forever, both in universe and out.

 

I think it's the third entity.

I also think the third entity is the creator of the End bringers.
Though- if they are projections for Eidolon like other people were theorizing- we should find that out at the start of next chapter. Tattletale will fill us in if there's a hidden meaning to Scion's words.

 

The third entity creating the Endbringers makes sense, but Contessa as well? I don't think the third entity evolved in the same way as the twinned entities, and likely doesn't even use shards.

Either way, we'll get some answers four hours now.

 

Didn't the second Entity lose a substantial amount of itself tot he Third? Could have been some learning then.

 

Well, lots of information revealed this chapter.

It's pretty clear why Eidolon gave up. Being responsible(probably anyway) for the Enbringers and all that jazz.

I'm not sure what the Simurgh hearing and replying to Taylor implies. Was that intentionally left vague?

Also, By “she heard me and responded” I think Taylor is talking about when she told the Simurgh to not injure civilians.

 

Or not. Dammit.

 

It's fun to see Shadow Stalker's reactions to this, knowing how outclassed she is with her choice of enemies. Taylor has become someone who siccs Endbringers on her enemies and takes huge gambles with extremely dangerous enemies.

Probably the same for Lung, only he is a bit more unstable and irrational.