Nanatsu no Taizai

Figures as much.

Yep, it's a pretty good site. Though there are just a few pages about Nanatsu no Taizai they haven't updated in a while. Mainly the character page that they edit.

Still, considering Vivian (her apprentice) couldn't react to her teleportation magic and that the sins themselves mistook it for something else at first when Vivian kept getting ported, it's pretty clear that it still is pretty fast to activate. That Galan could jump clear of its entire radius and then jump right back shows how fast he is too.

Oh yeah.

I read some spoilers about this chapter before it got released and some were hoping they were April Fools jokes. Unfortunately for those hoping they weren't, they are not.

Galan could resist Threader's Overpower and Merlin got petrified when she tried buying time with him. Even without magic power he could pull those off but resisting Overpower could be due to his ruthlessness and the petrification could be an innate ability like Full Counter and Snatch. Meliodas also willingly tapped into his demon power while still retaining his human psyche. Unfortunately, it's still not enough to take down Galan. Even using the attack that killed the female vampire and created the deep crater in the Escanor side story just angered him. I'm worried about the outlook of the current team since Galan struck some rather nasty blows on them but considering that Gowther is back to his original size and one of his arrows can be seen sticking out of Galan's neck, maybe he had an illusionary spell cast upon him? That's what some fans who saw the spoilers are hoping for and the fact Merlin's spell is still protecting Elizabeth, Hawk, and Arthur might mean she's still alive but we don't know yet. The next chapter is called Attack of the Demons so we might not know their fates for a while.

The side text said there will be another gaiden. Not sure who it will be for but I think since we already got some new info on Meliodas' past, it could either be Gowther's or Merlin's turn.

Illusion or not, Galan has proven his power and skill and now everyone knows how screwed they are.

I wonder how the other demons will react to what Galan did. Zeldris does have some odds with Galan since he blamed his arrogance on getting them sealed and he wanted to get back at Meliodas so if Galan tells him he killed him, Zeldris will probably get vexed.

Maybe. Zeldis strikes me as the kind of guy who'd be pissed he himself didn't kill Meliodas, but would let it slide since he's 'dead.'

That said, it's interesting to see the author literally weaponize the Ten Commandments from the looks of it. So if Galan's passive ability is to turn to stone anyone who lies to him, just how will the author twist the other commandments to be actual powers?

Do you mean that he would take Galan's word even if Meliodas is still alive?

Yeah, I wonder how punishments for coveting, stealing (Ban will be guilty of this one if he uses Snatch), cursing the Lord's name in vein, and killing will play out.

Maybe. Galan seems to detest lies based off the glare he gave Merlin, so maybe Zeldris wouldn't think the demon capable of telling a lie himself.

Yeah. But if they're just as overpowered as Galan's...

As I thought, it'll be a while before we know what happened to the Sins since the focus has shifted to the Holy Knights trio. We also learn that female demon who likes to say "ass" can absorb souls and so can the red demons. I guess the female demon who looka like Elaine can bypass the seal or maybe it's easier for lower level demons to get through it just like how it was in YuYu Hakusho. That red demon was no match for Gilthunder, Hauser, and Griamor but Hendricksen claims they'll need his help in taking out the gray demon.

If they can absorb souls than the other demons can too in all likelihood.

Possibly. To be fair, they pretty much came in, ready to fight. But this gray demon will be much tougher though.

It didn't take much to get the souls from normal humans but ones like the Holy Knight Trio will probably take more effort.

If a gray demon was able to get through, that probably means demons above that one but lower than the Ten Commandments in power could be out as well.

I wonder if their presence will make the Giants and Fairies come out of hiding. Their numbers might be fewer than they once were but they still exist. Probably why humans outnumber them is because those two races age slower than humans do so they don't need to reproduce as often as humans do.

Maybe. But if one of the TCs step in, I doubt the difference between civilians and Holy Knights will make much of a difference.

And that'd be bad, considering a red demon alone could burn the fairy forest to ashes.

Most likely, given how destructive and violent the demons are.

The fact it took just a finger poke on a normal human shows how fragile normal humans are in this universe. No wonder they get looked down upon by the demons.

That was a pretty strong showing for a demon that is considered low leveled. They look to be around C Class YuYu Hakusho demons in power though their intelligence seems to be more of an E Class since they behave more instinctually than the Ten Commandments so using the YYH ranking system is probably not a good way to guage them. An S class demon in Darkstalkers can destroy a solar system while an S class in YYH is a country buster at best!

King also redeemed himself in the fairies' eyes so I don't see why they wouldn't fight along with him now.

Yep.

As far as we know, anyway. It did get killed off pretty quickly before it could show much more of its power. We have to remember how much damage the red demon did to the fairy's forest when it went for the fountain of youth in Ban's backstory.

For now. Hard to tell with these guys...

In the recent chapter too... think maybe whatever this flashback is going to be about, is what got Dreyfus possessed in the first place? And considering Hendricksen is a Druid, he's clearly more spiritually sensitive than others... maybe he came into contact with something that corrupted him.

Yeah, maybe Faudrin was able to use the demonic energy from that attack Meliodas did to slip out from the seal.

The gray demon was tough to take down but Hauser, Gilthunder, and Griamor have certainly improved since the last major arc. They aren't on the levels of Hendricksen and Dreyfus but they have potential to get there. The way Griamor used his Barrier ability to shield the others also made me think of how the G-Self from Gundam Reconguista in G shielded its allies with its energy shield.

Nah, it's clear this guy has been possessing Dreyfus for a long time now. Must've slipped out somehow way earlier...

Yeah. Gil at least is just a step below Dreyfus and Hendricksen while Howser and Griamor are a level below him.

Well, he did tell the Ten Commandments he had been "awake" for the last ten years.

Gilthunder's definitely more serious than Hauser and Griamor. They tend to be goofs but they still know how to throw down.

I've been trying to think of a good match for Galan. I imagine he would give UQ Holder a run for their money as well as the Straw Hats. I don't mean to sound likr a broken record when it comes to YuYu Hakusho but he's definitely above the Dark Tournament demons in power.

True.

Also true, though Howser is more of an actual goof than others.

If not for immortals like Karin, I would say he could stomp just about anyone short of the high and top tiers.

Chapter came a little later due to Golden Week.

Even though Hendricksen learned druid magic, he was expelled by them for his Acid ability since he hated waiting for the dead to decay into skeletons naturally.
I guess Purge is utilized with positive energy while Acid is fueled by negative energy.

We also learn that Fraudrin took over Hendricksen's mind first before Dreyfus offered himself to him to save Hendricksen's life but Fraudrin cast a spell on Hendricksen to make him go along with what he wanted.

So Liz was killed by Fraudrin? Now we know why Meliodas destroyed Danafor.

I wonder how strong Escanor is, really? Said to be the most powerful by far of the sins, so I bet he's at least pretty close to Galan level himself, if not the others commandments.

And who keeps him in check when the sorcerous isn't around? The power fluctuation happens every single day?

The Sins certainly need all the help they can get but I hope it doesn't turn out that Galan is weaker than the other Ten Commandments. That would be too much like how Raditz almost killed Goku and Piccolo but he was actually weak compared to Vegeta and Nappa. There's already enough Dragon Ball influences in this manga.

I don't think anyone keeps Escanor in check. Perhaps he's dormant or something after the Sins scattered?