The more the Ranking of Kings reveals about Bosse’s power, the more it becomes clear that this power comes from dark forces.
Kodoani.com – During his lifetime, King Bosse was ranked seventh among all kings. His successor, King Daida, ranks 90th. While the new king craves power and desperately wants to improve his pitiful situation, in Ranking of Kings episode 5, Daida discovers how he can achieve his father’s powers – and it’s just too terrible to go ahead. The more revealed about Bosse’s power, it seems that the people at the top cannot survive as they thought.
So how to get Bosse’s power? First, Bosse’s frozen corpse was ground into goo. This Goo is formed into a ball, which when heated by the sun will harden to form an egg inside. When this egg was hatched, a huge bird appeared and was quickly decapitated. The bird’s body was burned so that the ashes formed a green crystal, while the blood oozing from its severed head was collected in a chalice. The crystal fell into the cup of blood, and the new king had to drink the water to gain the old man’s strength.
Every aspect of this feels out of place. Daida has so far been easily manipulated by his magic mirror, but upon seeing the process unfold, the young king actively refuses the mirror’s instructions and refuses to drink the potion. Although Bosse’s backstory is yet to be revealed, it seems that he actually drank such a potion, or engaged in other dark magic, because of his power – the demon emerged from the corpse. His death in Volume 3 is proof of that.
Ranking of Kings Volume 5 also implies that the dark magic associated with Bosse’s power was also the cause of Bojji’s curse. After a dramatic rescue from the Gate to Hell by the Kage, who was secretly in Bojji’s backpack to protect him all the way, the prince and shadow lost consciousness as the cursed gas spewed from the Gate. . The two are dragged to another king’s castle, who reveals that the cursed gas cannot hurt them since they are already cursed.
The king described Bojji as “a giant stripped of his power”. If Bosse’s strength and greatness is something that is channeled through demonic curses, it seems that his son has become weak and small as part of the trade-off. The Kage’s curse is more mysterious; He appears to have had a “changed form” and was “met with divine disdain.” Ranking of Kings continues to introduce more interesting aspects of mythology and new dimensions to its characters each week.
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