The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"With a name like Jedrek, how can you be so weak new kid?"

A mist of a forgotten memory from hundreds of years past torn away by Sol's claws tearing flesh and breaking bone.

"You're going to be strong, son you are destined to be the strongest," A woman held his hand leading him to the gates of a primary Emporium academy, and he smiled at her, but her face was hidden behind a bleeding red sun and the skies had rings of gold and black clouds; another hazy memory abruptly torn apart by Sol's claws tearing into his skin.

"Fight back, don't give up, don't die to this savage, your wife, your family, your mother, they're all waiting for you..." Another thought manifested his memories of years long forgotten.

A Vatui attack destroyed his house, hundreds of white heads shading crimson eyes pouring across the city, an apocalypse, billions dead, trillions injured.

Once again torn apart by Sol's glowing golden eyes and his hands ripping them apart revealing blood of black and bones of yellow.

"That's why I've been killing them that's why I've dedicated my eternity to their demise, these savages, these terrorists, these monsters, what family, what wife, what mother!?" His crimson eyes and white hair a reminder of his vengeance and of his greatest enemies, those same crimson eyes and white-haired demons that stole his homeworld, stole his family, killed and destroyed and ravaged an entire planet in the name of revenge for years of being hunted.

"What garbage!!"

"You all deserve to die...!" He thought.

Images of his past, of his old mother bleeding out on top of him and a steel rod driven through their abdomens, visions of being pinned to the ground as fire and chaos spread around them, his wife and children decapitated and set atop crucifixes turned upside-down, his house torched and Vatui Rebels laughing as they beat his neighbours to death, Godslayer rebels laughing around campfires with young maidens across their laps, tied up and begging for mercy.

"MONSTERS."

"BASTARDS!"

"DEMONS, DEMONS ALL!!"

"I'LL KILL EVERY LAST ONE!"

His vision fixated on Sol once more and he raised his hand and blocked another of the Godslayer's punches that left his ribcage rattled as his hand slammed into his chest, breaking it and sending him further out into the emptiness between one collective and the other, he could see the veins of gold the branches reaching out, and he could feel the pressure it produced now that he wasn't inside of a protective vessel.

"I won't lose to the likes of you savages!!" Jedrek screamed flashing his head and tearing his suit open causing a dozen little glowing white pills to pop out. "I'll kill you, I'll kill you all, every last one, dead, dead and gone, you don't deserve life!" He grabbed them all before Sol could reach him again and swallowed them all.

How eyes flashed and blinked and then vanished in white and he screamed again as his veins began bursting, spewing out black blood mixed with gold.

"No matter what it takes, I will always, ALWAYS win, I will never lose to the likes of a Godslayer, NEVER!!" he cradled his stomach and vomited up more black and gold blood and Sol watched the black get washed away by gold as his body underwent a mass transfusion of Vatui cells.

"At whatever cost, I'll kill you all, even if it means selling my soul to Hades itself I'll kill you and harvest every last one of those Vatui cockroaches you serve!"

"Good," Sol stopped his advance and quickly tied his hair.

"Very good, that's the spirit, that's the monster I want to destroy, not some Emporium brat, but the real enemy here, the greed that was installed in the Emporium has come to my doorsteps and I'd be damned if I didn't feed it an overdose of my hatred for what they've been doing!" Sol clenched his fists again also flashing his golden hair and then cradling his head.

"If you are justified then you will win this fight, if I am then I will tear you apart and devour your soul whole, you hear me, you want us for sustenance well I'll treat you the same, you want us all dead well I want the same for you, Emporium waste!"

Neither truly cared about titles, nor did they want to bother with the politics of it all, Sol wanted to make a point, to make an example out of the Emporium about where he stood by destroying everything they sent his way and then destroying them, and Jedrek wanted nothing but revenge for his homeworld for his home and his people that had been annihilated by Vatui and Godslayer Rebels, neither side was entirely right, just as neither side was in the wrong, it was simply an opposition based on protecting what one deemed most important.

"Out here where there is nothing to destroy..." Sol's ears grew taller and a pair of horns grew from the sides of his head protruding backwards. "I have nothing to worry about.

"Out here where there is nobody to stop me," Jedrek hissed and breathed mana from his nostrils and throat. "I will gain a step of evolution that nobody has ever witnessed, I will kill the strongest Godslayer and achieve godhood, I will destroy his collective and everything in it, seizing all Vatui for myself and harvesting them as the resource they deserve to be!"

"The only thing you will find out here-" Sol snapped and closed the distance between the two causing a deep humming like the sub-sonic whistle of an engine when he gritted his teeth and swung his fist. "-is my wrath!!"

"Raaaagh!" Jedrek punched as well.

Their fists collided and a wave of white traversed the emptiness and crashed into the barrier of Sol's collective shattering that small area again as he was sent flying through it and Jedrek went sailing away from it.

"Master, what is happening, I have no reach in that place!" Alpha connected and spoke to him immediately, but as Sol had unleashed his full powers for the first time, the entire universe he was inside of collapsed without resistance and imploded, severing itself from the collective and dying with everything in it.

"Master!" Alpha called again, but Sol ignored her entirely as he disappeared a second time appearing on the outside and severing their connection once more as he and Jedrek clashed fists and butt heads as soon as they met each other causing light to appear where none had ever before.

"What kind of monster is he fighting?" Dina asked holding Ikaris's hand and looking across at Arla who did the same with Usami wiping her sweat away and Sara kneeling before her and focused.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Dr'ul rushed through the door behind them and then froze when Ikaris's crimson eyes landed on her, that oppression she had no power to resist now made sense, if by the Emporium's standards she and her siblings were purebred Vatui of royal status then Ikaris must have been the real deal, the actual royalty, she wasn't just any purebred, she was a true Celestial of the highest Order.

"-are you listening!?" Dina snapped at the dazed goddess and she shook her head and looked at her.

"Pardon?"

"Do you have any more power to spare?"

"I am already in recovery-"

"Lend me your power, Dr'ul!" Dina stared over her shoulder.

"Right now, aside from Master, I have the strongest connection with Ikaris because of the divine trees within us born of him, I have the means to lessen the load of her and the baby's power, but I do not have the output of power I need to do it, I need a conduit that can take the strain off me," She explained, and although Dr'ul hadn't understood a word she nodded and closed the door behind herself.

"What do I need to do?"

"Hold on to my mana, seek my soul, I'll guide you to the Garden, all you need to do is channel my outpouring mana and widen the gateways for us, your job is to tank the load and not let it overflow on either side."

"Dina that sounds like it could kill you," Arla spoke up, since she had yet to receive the tree she had spent a great deal of time observing Dina and Ikaris's mana channels and one thing she had figured out fairly early on was that their dormant mana was incapable of control, it needed to be slowly let out or they would both face fatal consequences, the fact that this applied to Ikaris as well spoke volumes since aside from Sol no soul in their collective was as strong as hers.

"It could kill all three of you-"

"Do it!" Ikaris snapped holding Arla's hands a bit tighter and staring her in her eyes. "I trust Dina, put some faith in her as well, Arla!" She held a burdened expression as she stared at the elf, and Dr'ul nodded and took a seat behind Dina, pressed her palm against her back and closed her eyes as everything else faded to white.

"Sir the destination disappeared!" A man wearing a white battlesuit looked up from his dashboard."

"What do you mean it disappeared, a universe doesn't just cease to exist," A bald man wearing a cape over his suit with eyes of crimson scoffed and stood from his seat walking towards the smaller man and staring at the screen. "What happened to it?" He asked as three others behind him stared at the Emporium crest on his cape.

"It imploded after a sudden spike in Celestial activity," The man answered, staring at what looked like a tree of golden branches in the distance. "Have you ever seen a collective look so... alive, sir?" He asked timidly and his superior shook his head.

"Focus on getting there before..." he was interrupted by an alarm going off. "What could survive out in the passage?" He asked staring through the warnings at the screen as lights flashed. "Are you scanning those?"

"S-sir, it's Vice Captain Jedrek who went ahead against your orders, his suit's almost entirely destroyed, there's barely any reading, he's also showing elevated signs of brain and bodily activity, brain-killing levels of stress, he's locked in a fight... but these numbers ...sir, this is above the Celestial Order, this is above the Grand Celestial Order!" The man wiped the sweat from his face.

"Are you saying Jedrek is currently as strong as myself?" The caped baldy asked with a raised brow. "That is impossible unless-"

"No, sir, these aren't his readings, I'm only getting his reading from his suit, all the energy we're picking up is... my god, it's a Godslayer!"

"What!?" The man leaned forward and almost broke the dashboard. "Set a course now, send a request to the Grand Emporium and take us to this rebel, if these readings are indeed from a Godslayer then we have a serious problem on our hands!"

"W-wait there's a second signature coming from the collective, two more, three more!" A woman called their attention to herself. "We haven't seen Vatui readings like these since the war, since the royals!"

"There's no way, did we find their leader?"

"No sir the weakest is an infant reading; unknown as is another, but the strongest reading amongst them is one I think you've met before," She pulled up a locked and confidential file of the highest security, one he had seen before and the leader furrowed his brows and quickly opened it out of pure curiosity.

He found himself staring at a white-haired woman with a crimson gaze and a silver crown atop her head and the caped leader's eyes registered shock as he began cackling with himself.

"Hahaha, this is even better than their leader, send an urgent alert to His Majesty the Emperor and request the immediate deployment of every armada within the closest sectors to us."

"What message, sir?" The woman asked timidly seeing a trickle of sweat roll down the man's bald head to his chin.

"We found Ikaris."