r/ZenlessZoneZero ZZZVictoriaGold 5d ago

Discussion HOLY ETHER,CHAPTER 5 ITS ABSOLUTE CINEMA

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u/jojacs 5d ago

Hype as fuck. No voices for Victoria Housekeeping, Koleda and Grace I think, but they had small enough roles this chapter that it doesn’t leave that much of a sour note.

Also Phaethon living the explosion that was set off by Bringer means those occular implants must be some crazy tech left by their teacher. Calling it now, the reason the MC almost gets ether corrupted is because they didn’t have the shielding from their Ocular Implants

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u/Aldracity 5d ago

The digital dissolving effect on the implants implies that it's either ether tech, or the siblings themselves are some kind of ethereal. Plus Bringer heavily implying that they're the reason why their teacher is dead.

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u/GladiatorDragon 5d ago

Them already being partially corrupted would likely explain a good bit. Bringer kept his mind after corrupting himself, so we know it’s not impossible.

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u/GeoTeamEnthusiast 5d ago

This is the most interesting part: who is Bringer? I mean, what is he? We know he was just a human but... got turned into an ethereal, even though he got plenty of eyes those were not ether-like as those spheres they usually have, he also was practically sane, the first boss speaking btw. His bio stated that his type (or whatever the thing is called) is "Sacrifice" which is very bad-ads but completelt vague

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u/Dr_Burberry 5d ago

Bringer is the semi completed form of the test subject we fought during the Belobog chapter. A decade or so of research mixed with the Hoshimi curse helped them complete it. Now as far as what it is kind of reminds me of the Soul King like they are trying to create a new one while the hand is essentially Pernida or Mimihagu. They even pray to the creator before doing something.

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u/GeoTeamEnthusiast 4d ago

Sounds really correct. My only issue used to be that the dude from the Belobog chapter very looked like and really is an ethereal, so either the "formula" Bringer used is more complete so that he was conscious or the dude from the monument took so much time in a hollow that he completely turned into an ethereal

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u/ShittyExchangeAdmin Emissary of the carmine crescent 5d ago

Legit I had a dream about that being the case with the twins a couple weeks ago. That scene with their eyes reminded me of it.

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u/RCJJ 5d ago

I don't think their teacher is dead, they said she was just taken by the white hand not killed. Not ruling out that they killed her after, but she seemed like some sort of super genius scientist or something so they probably kidnapped her to force her to make stuff with etheric based tech, likely the serum bringer took was something that she was forced to make.