Nanatsu no Taizai 107 Review: More Power Levels

Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 107: Find the Truth

It's a bit more filler-y, but not quite as bad as the last chapter because we get some more foreshadowing about future arcs and whatnot. We get even more power levels shown this time around, and a good chunk of the chapter is just Hawk freaking out at just how high the power levels of the Seven Sins are (every Sin has a total of over 3000 it seems). Hawk is just all freaked out about how everyone is over his own pretend-3000 power level before seeing the Holy Knights we know and noting that they are lower, which appeases his mind.

Anyway, we get a bunch of power levels, which I might as well write here. I still think it was introduced rather suddenly, but oh well. Meliodas has 400, 960, 2010 to a total of 3370. Gowther has 1300, 500, 1300 to a total of 3100. Diane has 900, 1870, 480 to a total of 3250. Merlin has 3540, 70, 1100 to a total of 4710. Hauser is 1910, Griamor is 1520, Gilthunder is 1970. Hawk has 0, 25, 5 to a total of 30. The King is 530. Dogget has 290, 470, 100 to a total of 860. Dogget's tall friend is 1690 and his midget friend is 1710.

It's mostly just power levels and some more elaboration from the part of Gowther and Merlin. I'm surprised just how high Merlin's power level is, especially her Power, which if I remember correctly is magic. Also I'm surprised Gilthunder isn't above 2000 or something considering how powerful he was during his fights against Meliodas. There are some interesting breakdowns that show how cripplingly overspecialized Merlin is -- presumably King has a pathetic strength level as well.

Not overly interested about the whole power level thing. We get the revelation that Gowther has Balor's Eye 'loaded' into him, that freaky robot dude, and I do like how he just doesn't 'get' Hawk's feelings about power levels and just candidly tell him that he's a 30 and goes 'I believe sir Hawk is oscillating'. Gowther is hilarious.

Anyway, the chapter starts with the Knights of the Azure whatever acknowledging Meliodas' strength, picking up their fallen comrade and just walking away, and then Hawk freaks out over power levels.

The Sins meet Griamor, Gilthunder and Hauser, who are apparently known as the 'Three Misfits' in the past. Griamor and Hauser in particular are conflicted regarding Dreyfus, and they're confused on why Dreyfus would attack Hauser, while at the same time risking his life to save Griamor and Elizabeth, and they are just confused on Dreyfus's true alignment. And since Dreyfus is dead and not really revealing any answers to just what Gowther found within his mind... Merlin does this little speech about telling them to think and consider everything from different perspectives and whatnot (which doubly refers to her apparently attacking Meliodas ten years ago or whatever), before the Sins leave the three misfits.

Griamor recalls how the three of them often got into trouble and get scolded by Dreyfus, while Hendricksen would defend them. And we get a nice little juxtaposition of the extremely kind-looking younger Hendricksen and the cold-blooded psychopath he had become. They resolve to find the truth and we get an unnecessarily large page spread of Gilthunder asking them to accompany him to Dreyfus' room.

Meanwhile the King has apparently forseen something else (according to Gowther his predictions are 100% accurate). There's the omen of war upon the kingdom to the South, Camelot, where a beast with the likeness of a mountain shall awaken, three heroes shall stand up to defend it, and darkness will make a great hole upon the land. The final page shows a giant Goron-like figure that indeed looks like a mountain bearing upon Camelot, and King Arthur is wearing some kind of sleveless shirt and he's surrounded by soldiers and whatnot.

A great hole made by darkness... I wonder if that'll refer to Meliodas going berserk and making another city disappear into a gigantic hole? And the three heroes could either refer to Gilthunder, Griamor and Hauser or Ban, King and Jericho or... Arthur and two others? I wonder.

So we have three plotlines going on, which is interesting. We have Ban, King and Jericho in the fairy forest doing whatever the hell they are doing. We have the Sins who I assume will head out to help out Camelot against the mountain dude... at least I'm assuming Merlin will go. And we have the three misfits trying to dig out the truth about Dreyfus and Hendricksen and why they became corrupted. All are interesting, and I hope we pick up on one of these plot lines in subsequent chapters, because this and the last one have been pretty filler-y.