Discussion Ragna Crimson

Episode 15 was good. The aura that flows through everything in the world, doesn't flow through dragons, magic does. Magic is a power from beyond that alters the world, which is why silverine was born, to resist the magic's transformative powers. Ragna draws the dragons in, before honing his silverine's freezing power, before attacking. That's why he only swings once to kill them, because it's all the silverine. He learnt this from his future self's experiences. Ragna just continues mowing down the dragons.

Starlia was about to be devoured by dragons, but thankfully Christopher arrived in time to aide her and help her escape. Starlia suffered a bad wound on her stomach, but is determined to keep fighting and ordered them to head northwest. Olto Zora and Taratectora noticed both Platinum Tiara and Ursh-Gauram being dead and Olto Zora is getting annoyed that they keep outplaying his expectations. In another five minutes, Taratectora will blow things up.

Despite doing well, Ragna still isn't up the par with his future self. Shin sensed the change in Ragna since their last words. Ragna was greatful for them, and apologised for his prior actions/words regarding not fighting dragons. Ragna gave a call to battle to Shin and Garm. Ragna thinks he needs to go through hell like his future self to fully gain the power of his future self. Shin is a bit annoyed at how Ragna's words riled him up. The trio push on to keep eliminating dragons when Olto Zora unleashes mature dragons, but was shocked when Ragna took them out like instantly instantly. 6 mature dragons and dozens of inferior and medial dragons only lasted a minute. Olto Zora also realised someone else is giving the order, with the civilians also being abandoned from protection and fighting on the frontline with guns.

Crimson has made his move to take over the magic circle. He brainwashed all of the team and the only one not currently affected is Fuwe. Crimson doesn't plan to take any civilians, only those deemed useful and ordered those under control to shoot Fuwe's arm to weaken him.

Of the aerial squad, seems like only the twins survived. Hazella and Glea both seem to be in a bad state, but one seemed to have their foot taken off. They ended up devouring dragons. to keep going.

Crimson took drastic measures to get Fuwe under hypnosis. It works by basically having people fall for him. The reason for his androgynous form, is it works in his favour for getting people to fall for him. He kissed Fuwe which started having an effect. Majorca revealed t hat she is apparently Fuwe's sister, telling him to not listen to Crimson. One of the people shot his Majorca, seemingly by accident, which broke the hypnosis. Fuwe didn't want to cooperate, so Crimson began setting up to kill one civilian for each 10 seconds he refused, which eventually had Fuwe giving in before the first person died. This is when Majorca seemed to transform almost into a dragon hybrid, with different coloured hair and eyes. She stopped bullets and told them all to get out, which had Crimson and the civilians there teleported away.

 

Episode 16 was good. So Voltekamui can get to the battle in just under 2 seconds, if required. But, Olto Zora can't relay the message directly, it has to go through several medial dragons as relays due to the distance, which alone would take at least 40 seconds. But, it seems like Olto Zora doesn't intend to summon Voltekamui. He can't figure out exactly if the unknown enemy Crimson/Ragna can teleport and need the magic circle to get away, or if they are pretending to get at Ultimatia. Either way, he's decided the highest priority is the kill the princess, as it's a battle between killing her and the magic circle being used, whoever gets their goal first, should win. With Crimson having been teleported away, he can't do anything.

The Argentum Corps on the front line lead by Christopher carrying Starlia continue to do their best taking out the dragons, while advancing and swapping out as needed. Crimson did give out the suspected location of Olta Zora to the Argentum Corps, which is within one kilometre of the base on the border side. Crimson also estimated that Olto Zora will be able to see about 2km with his abilities. The twins were able to spot him, and relayed the location to Starlia.

Olto Zora is growing a bit desperate and cranked the dragons' madness up to 200%, causing them to frenzy on the people, with the downside being their flesh disintegrating within 10 minutes. Starlia using her power launched their group to their 10 o'clock towards Olto Zora.

Olto Zora seems to be regressing mentally and is seeing bits and pieces of his past, specifically the woman he used to serve, Lakucia due to the likeness Starlia shares. During this moment, Nazarena striked as an assassin crushing his heart and brain, almost taking him out, but she failed due to Olto Zora being a fake body. Nazarena fled with her job being done, and relayed the truth the Starlia, and she pins the real one 100m underground and starts pulling him out.

While being pulled up, Olto Zora has some more thoughts about Lakucia, but is snapped out of them by a rampaging dragon. This signifies that Borgius the older dragon in the capital, has regained his prime's power as Borgius,the Verdant Sea Dragon. Taratectora fired off six shots off hoping to wipe out the enemy and when he asked Olto Zora how things were going there, he lied to Taratectora.

Despite seemingly being defeated, Starlia continued to attack Olto Zora and almost killed him.

 

Episode 17 was good. Starlia projected her thoughts to everyone and took control of the silverine weapons she made and turned it into a weapon that Ragna wielded to attack Taratectora.

Shin is frustrated that he stopped fighting to continue living, and needed Ragna's help to do that, while Ragna continues forward.

Ragna hit Taratectora straight on with the spear, which had Olto Zora in a panic, but Ragna realised something was up. When Olto Zora first heard Taratectora's words, he thought it was fine, but Taratectora blew himself up to survive instantly being killed, but he will die from his injuries regardless. They spoke briefly about their run as comrades, and how when Olto Zora was human, he actually loved Lakucia. Taratectora asked Olto Zora to make a decision as commander, and he ordered Taratectora to blow himself up and take the enemy with him.

In what can only be described as an homage to the Gohan vs Cell Kamehameha, Ragna held back the explosion with silverine as well as he could, one handed. Starlia realised he was holding back due to the weapon, so she lend him power to strengthen the weapon. Ragna unleashed the silverine battle arts with the reinforced weapon and completely froze the blast.

While this was going on, the other Argentum Corps left continued to kill dragons, even while basically having nothing left to give.

In the end, they barely pulled through. Ragna and Starlia had some touching words, it seems they both like each other. Starlia also saw about his future self, which is what had her in tears about Ragna as he was fighting. Starlia said they'd meet again after the teleportation spell, which had also activated. Slime seems to have been left alone while the others are teleporting.

This is when it seems like everything goes to utter shit. Voltekamui arrives and instantly decapitates Starlia and kills one of the twins with his arrival. Ragna is just shocked and Voltekamui kicks him in the face, raring to fight. Voltekamui knows Ragna has used up all of his power at this point, and is rubbing it in. Ragna seems to put up a decent fight, despite his dire state.

Crimson shared some interesting information with Ragna previously. Followers of the Clawed Monarch don't share blood. They teach "favoured" ones combat arts regardless of their species. Their monarch gives the ones that reach a certain proficiency one of their demonic swords. There are six "claws" and one pair of "fangs" that make up the weapons and are the 8 most powerful demonic swords in the world. Each of those possessing a weapon are called the Clawed Bloodline. When Voltekamui was human, he killed one of them and stole the sword. Kamui is an anomaly and always has been, so Crimson warns that he should only fight voltekamui after Ultimatia is dead.

The end is a confusing cliff-hanger. Ragna can't move due to exhaustion, but he "wakes" up after teleporting with Starlia being fine. I can only assume that this is an illusion or imagination.

 

Episode 18 was good. It was a bit strange, Ragna seemed to have a conversation with Starlia, and she even confirmed their teleportation. She was thankful to Ragna for pushing Shin and Garm further. She also had some good words about her other comrades. However, by the end of the conversation, it was obvious she was already dead. But she said about having one final thing she wanted to do, which was create a sword for Ragna with either her head or heart, or soul. The sword is named the Silver Comet, after the Silver Star that birthed all silver and she views it as the reason she was born. This is when Ragna woke up.

Going around, a lot of the people are understandably depressed at Starlia's death. Isaac has taken charge, and Shin has gone off training not being able to stand the atmosphere. Isaac lead Ragna off to some place to show him something. Along the way, it's noted they teleported 600 civilians.

A woman approached calling out Ragna as the reaper, and he instantly killed her due to her having the same appearance and voice as Ultimatia, and it's not just her, there are multiple clones(?) that all have the same body, and one of them is "in charge" until they die then another assumes control, which is spooky. She's the Dragon Scourge of the Solarian Church, and even has the same time-based abilities as Ultimatia. What is going on?

I thought this might be a glimmer of hope for Starlia being revived, but her head wasn't transported so they couldn't do anything. Apparently, they didn't bother helping too, because while Starlia was a candidate she never demonstrated herself as "worthy". They requested Ragna to become a Dragon Scourge, but he refused so they refused to take in the refugees. Ragna struck a deal to hunt and kill Ultimatia in exchange for them to take the refugees in. After this, Ragna met back up with Crimson.

 

Episode 19 was good. Crimson fully healed Ragna. They're on Crimson's base on the moon it seems, Crimson fixed it and reconnected it to the moon's surface. Crimson plans their next move to be within 3 years, after readying a new fighting force. Ragna interjects about not being done due to Ultimatia still being alive. Starlia being dead was actually a red hearing after all, she is somehow not dead even though her head was cut off. Ragna still feels the connection to her. Ragna regrets not telling the Crops, but begs for Crimson's help to save Starlia, but Crimson refuses and cites needing time to deal with time manipulation. Ragna pleads that he'll deal with Voltekamui while Crimson helps with Ultimatia, but Crimson points out he needs time to prepare and give that help.

Crimson views Starlia as not worth the risk and warns Ragna he'll lead the Corps to their death after just barely escaping. But Ragna has faith they'll want to and it's not on him if they die trying. He goes to leave, but Crimson warns him, but Ragna doesn't listen. This triggers the toxin and Crimson laments Ragna's death, but plans on experimenting with his body, understand his powers, and maybe even turn him into a loyal zombie, only for Ragna to wake up, with the powers having not worked. This shocked Crimson. When Ragna returns to the Crops, turns out they also realised that Starlia was still alive, and were planning on heading out anyway.

We finally see Starlia, she is indeed still alive and is with Voltekamui. She apparently survived due to him placing her head back fast enough for it to reconnect. Seems fishy. Unfortunately, a mark was left on Starlia, that will trigger if she leaves the capital or Ragna and the Corps enter the capital, and will kill her instantly. I presume it was put on her by Olto Zora. Interestingly, Ragna tried to shatter Voltekamui's very being and left scars on him. It seemed like it was these "Scars" that started freezing over before he had to rebuild his body. Voltekamui just wants to fight Ragna at his best, which is why he has kept Starlia alive so far, which requires Starlia to make a perfect sword for him, which won't shatter when they cross blades.

Borgius' new younger form sure looks better. It seems like it's for a very limited time though, maybe a month, but he's stronger than he was. Crimson did previously occupy Ultimatia's spot, and seemed to not give attention to his underlings.

The Crops and Ragna are planning to teleport into the Capital, but don't have the magic power. When they requested help from the Dragon Scourge, and she agreed, but if they have a 0% chance of victory, she'll stop them.

Crimson was sulking before realising that Ultimatia must be without her time magic, due to how her group is acting, so he plans to join the attack.

 

Episode 20 was good. The Corps have all rested up, and with Ragna fully healed, they're in a pretty good spot. Nazarena scouted out the capital for them, and relayed to them that the citizens are all dead with a tree absorbing nutrients from their veins and the city is in ruin, but the Palace District is ok, which is where she felt Starlia's power. They goals are to rescue Starlia and slay Ultimatia. They do conclude it's likely a trap, but want to go anyway.

Carla, the Dragon scourge points out that if they target and kill Ultimatia, then the superior dragons will die off as her limbs. Ragna is still intent on fighting Voltekamui with the others hunting Ultimatia. The church agreed to take in the civilians. The surviving twin was Hazella.

Garm requested to speak with Ragna privately. He requested a training match, similar to Shin, which allowed him to confirm he's grown stronger, and seeks to unlock further power like Ragna has. He picked up that Ragna's power isn't specifically his own, which made Ragna happy. Garm requested that Ragna keep fighting as he does, because it motivates others.

Carla executed a countermeasure against time control magic on the crops, minus Ragna which allows 3 minutes where time magic will not work. This seemingly killed her reducing her to bones.

When they arrived, Starlia was almost killed by the poison and she also seems to be blinded by it. Seemingly there's no way to save her, and she's on death's door. she apologised to Ragna for being unable to forge him a good enough weapon, but he vowed to show her him crushing Voltekamui and was very thankful to her. Voltekamui and Ragna exchanged blows, but Ragna seems to have the upper hand. The battle will continue now that Voltekamui has transformed.

Olto Zora has also started fighting with the Crops, with the goal of killing them all. Crimson is happy that seemingly Ultimatia can't use her magic, so has also entered the battlefield.

 

Episode 21 was good. Crimson's underlings haven't done too well. Ragna vs Voltekamui continues while Nazarena retreats while carrying Starlia. In the head of combat, Ragna deals a pretty good blow to Borgius, but it ultimately only slowed him down for a moment.

The Corps lead by Garm were doing very well against Olto Zora, getting a good number of blows. It seems like they have Olto Zora on the ropes, even with Garm alone. Unfortunately, Olto Zora he powered up and transformed more. Then Garm was cleaved in half, and a lot of the others started dying or being badly injured too.

It seems that Starlia succumbed to the poison. She even begged Nazarena to flee as her own life wasn't worth it. Nazarena had fond memories helping her from a young child. I assume Nazarena will rejoin the fight.

Crimson managed to break into Nebulim's space and Slime devoured him. Crimson's assault on Ultimatia began at this point with a gun and Ultimatia transformed. It seems that Crimson revoked his immortality and retrieved his own heart, giving him a bit of his own power back after some deliberation with other versions of himself. Crimson likewise transformed, and continued his attack with the 12 bullets that were created to kill himself. Due to the similarities in their magic, they should also kill Ultimatia provided they strike her heart. Ultimatia seemingly pulled the same spell that Majorca did, yelling "get away" which seemingly triggered Crimson to be teleported away.

Olto Zora continues his overwealming assault on the remainder of the Crops. Fuwe unleashed his own full transformation, but was ultimately taked out by Olto Zora, but he did hold up for a little bit. Even Shin has lost a leg and an arm, but is prepared to go beyond his limits in a final assault.

 

Episode 22 was good. The fighting against Olto Zora continued. Shin came in and gave him a large wound on the head, which seemed to have saved Hazella who was about to be eaten after her own attack. Fuwe has just been sliced clean in half, well, it's just half of his torso and up that has remained. Issac begged him to heal himself, even if he had to find the lower half, but Fuwe resolved to gather the magic he absorbed from Olto Zora to deliver a final attack while having the others stall. Christopher agreed and has to buy 20 seconds.

Seeing a bit of a flashback of Christopher and it's a bit sad. His mother was overbearingly obsessive with his education, who he associated with, etc, expecting the royal palace to summon him some day. His mother was a maid that worked in the palace and ended up as the King's mistress, thus Christopher was born. It seemed that it ended up driving her mad. She was just obsessed with him acting like a royal, at times even wishing he wasn't born. It's hard to say if she truly loved him, but she did say she did, but it seemed like to her it was more about getting status from him. Interestingly, he ended up becoming a mercenary and would do whatever. He ended up being picked up by Starlia, which ended up good for him. I suppose they are Siblings or at least related. Still, he never told her of his royal ties it seems.

Christopher did very well with his assault and buying time. In Fuwe's final moments he opened up to Isaac about making and selling drugs all over the country, and that he was caught be Starlia. Ironically, Isaac was cast out of the corps due to failing to catch the mastermind, who he now knows was Fuwe. Fuwe launched his final attack while Christopher held Olto Zora down. With Olto Zora defeated, Isaac gave the killing blow.

Crimson and Ultimatia's fight is still ongoing. Ultimatia is the weakest of the monarchs, but her reserves are the largest, so she can ultimately overpower most superior dragons. Crimson resulted to some mental attacks as he knows her past. He mocked that she became a monster just to be unique. It seems that the dragon god has no true form, and is just whatever the beholder can't ignore. In Ultimatia's case, a child, a little girl with her own face shared by her "sisters".

Some time ago, Ultimatia was one of those "clones" all being Carla. Only 14 months after her "birth" she is seemingly fully matured and healing people on the front lines of war. She was called away from healing someone to heal a "more important" person as they are ranked as classes (second-class, forth-class) subjects of god. Unfortunately, this has the person she was healing die, which had her feeling something. It seems that Carla was brought out early. When she saw the current leader growing old and drying, she also uncharacteristically had emotion.

Looks like Nebulim seemingly "gave up" and asked Borgius to help Ultimatia as Borgius was about to be killed. This saved Borgius and seemed to cost Nebulim his life. It also allowed Borgius to break into Crimson's space.

 

Episode 23 was good. Interesting, Snake is always with Chimera, and when Chimera was wounded, they "swapped". Interestingly, Snake also knows Crimson better than Chimera, despite it seemingly being her tail, but it's not. Snake has a humanoid dragon form and is a male, and is actually known to Borgius by the name Ferbigot. Snake used Darkness Magic World Collapse which destroyed not only Borgius, but it also fucked over Crimson critically wounding him and also dragged Ultimatia out. The remaining Corps continued to kill Borgius and attack Ultimatia.

Ragna vs Voltekamui continued, with Ragna having the upper hand. However, Voltekamui pulled out a trump card, which was a massive power up.

Ultimatia did defend herself to the attackers, but Nazarena landed a critical blow straight into her head. Even still, it didn't kill her.

Voltekamui powered up with Lightning God Battle Arts which moves into a bit of backstory for Voltekamui. He attacked "death" the Clawed Monarch, Gilzea, and was cut down despite her moving slower than him. Just like Voltekamui had cut off Starlia's head, Gilzea had cut Voltekamui's off. Gilzea's power reverses cuts. Those who cut her, end up just being cut themselves. She urged him to keep growing stronger by fighting strong opponents before challenging her again. Voltekamui's power has him completely overpowering Ragna now. Voltekamui decapitated Ragna, but then somehow he reattached his head and landed a huge blow on him.

We get a bit of a look at Ultimatia having matured and become the "leader" of the Carlas playing out exactly as it did before for her, and the other leader back when she was young. A young kid Voltekamui smashed into the building, causing damage and killing some of the "sisters". He had verbally beat down Carla a bit and she fled terrified. Eventually she stormed back utterly livid and sick of everything, and did what she wanted. That's the point they started working together from. The final clash is up next, with Ragna using an anti-Monarch move.

 

Episode 24 was good. The final clash continued. Voltekamui powered up again, but going dragon form on top of his lightning god battle arts, and his demon sword. With that, he believes himself capable of crushing even Gilzea. Ragna also powered up in tern, feeling that Hunting Flash alone wasn't enough, and he needed to hone it even further. Faster than sound, lightning and instantaneous at the speed of light. Gilzea did confirm that they reached the level needed to kill her. Ragna killed Voltekamui with his superior speed and double striking attach, with his Twin Hunting Flash. That technique did impress Voltekamui.

Voltekamui regretted not getting to repay his debt to Ultimatia, but wanted to ensure her survival, so with the last of his power and a remaining arm, he blasted his weapon at Ragna, but Ragna's weapon deflected it. Ultimatia was in despair and her powers returned. She was about to rewind time, but was shot by Hazella, even though she wanted time to revert and intended to not shoot her, but she couldn't hold back. This left poor Hazella in despair too.

Voltekamui's promise and way of repaying his debt to Ultimatia was to free her from god. The sun appeared and starting hurting her, but Ultimatia started walking shade to survive. We get a glimpse of the Sun God who seems like just an old man's head/face on a ball of fire, kind of spooky. He commented that she greatly reminded her of the original, and her increased power if replicated over many clones, would increase the church's power tremendously. But, all of the maass produced immature ones ended up "losing their mind" and killed. They disobeyed which caused a lot of lost battles. Voltekamui as the lightning beast also caused a lot of damage, and the connection to her was found out. Right when punishment was to be dealt, the dragon god appeared giving her the dragon powers.

In the current time, Ultimatia kept dragging her burning body to shade, and then begged for the dragon god's help, but was ignored. She finally reached shade, intent on recovering and then turning back time, only for Crimson to kill her.

Ragna despite being down, doesn't regret how things played out, but is sad. After being healed on Crimson's base, Crimson took Ragna to show him something. There, he's greeted by the survivors along with Starlia who was somehow cured miraculously. Ragna and Crimson set out on their next hunt, and Shin vows to catch up.