The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 243: Herald of Destruction.

"I reject the thought," Ikaris stared at Lumi with her brows furrowed, as did Dina and Arla. "He will not die, he is Sol Vestic, my chosen-"

"Not even the great Ikaris can avoid fate forever," Lumi smiled at her remaining calm under the pressure of her hostility that made everyone else feel like ants in het presence. "The fact remains that he is irrefutably powerful, but what is before him is an army of captains that fought against his kind in the great war, if he defies them he will die."

"Are you saying he only has the option of giving up?" Arla asked with a scoff as she incredulously glared at the emissary of Fate. "Clearly, you do not know Master Vestic at all."

"I mean no offence little Arla, I understand that you all have great faith in him, I understand that you are all devoted to him, I know you all love him dearly, I know he will not surrender, it is not his nature, but you must understand; this was always where his journey would end."

"What?" Dr'ul stood abruptly and summoned her sword, leaning as the weight it produced bared down on her shoulder revealing just how weakened she had become from constantly losing chunks of herself.

"Do not raise your weapon against me, goddess of war, you will not be afforded a pleasant death," Lumi glanced over her shoulder at her and a crack appeared across her forearm.

"Dr'ul, stand down," Ikaris stared at her with tired eyes. "Lady Light, it doesn't matter what you think-"

"My thoughts are irrelevant, I wanted to see if he could change fate but despite his declarations and clear attempts, the Godslayer has remained under the thumb of fate the same as us all," Lumi smiled at her.

"He will not die."

"He is destined to die fighting the army he now faces, fate cannot be wrong-"

"Fate can suck my left nut." Dina scoffed and stood walking over to Lumi and staring down at her surprised expression. "If we left everything up to fate we'd all be the same as you, Lumi."

"I beg your pardon?" Lumi raised a brow at the mage. "Fate is absolute."

"Strength is absolute," Dina argued. "Do you expect him to lie down and take it because some unknown entity said so?"

"My point is-"

"Dina!" Ikaris snapped shocked when Dina rested her hand on Lumi's shoulder and pushed her index finger against her cheek. "Dina, do not antagonise her," Ikaris warned her knowing that she didn't have the strength to face Lumi whether she was in her best condition or not.

"I'll leave it up to fate," Dina disobeyed Ikaris for the first time, staring at Lumi whose eyes widened after she was put in a predicament of choices. "You're an emissary of Fate, so you're aware of a lot of things both past, future and present, did your precious Fate tell you I'd do this?" Dina asked conjuring a tiny splash of water from the tip of her finger onto Lumi's face.

"Go ahead, answer," She stared at her unblinking.

"No," Lumi held her hand and lowered it calmly. "Fate is not something physical which interacts with the environment-"

"Then that means I have my own free will, I make my own choices, they're not dictated by anything fated, it's all consequences brought by actions, I'd rather believe and have faith than rely on something as shady as Fate, and right now my faith in Master is telling me that he will live, he won't concede and he won't die, I know him by heart and nature I'm not just an observer like I once was and I k ow that he will always find a way; nothing is impossible for him!" Dina dragged her hand out of Lumi's grasp and sat on the opposite side next to Ikaris.

"Fate didn't make him, and it sure as hell won't undo him, he's the Godslayer, one who yields to none."

"Good heavens," Adonai commented. "We should pay closer heed to that little one, she knows how to inspire hope."

"She always did." Usami chuckled while Lumi stared at Dina at a loss for words; how this weak little creature found bravery where even the strongest had shown humility was beyond her, but Dina had managed to do something even greater than inspire hope, as the emissary of Fate closed her eyes and started watching Sol's fight against the emporium she started feeling doubt in the foundation she had existed upon.

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Their eyes black and endlessly empty, and veins full of corrupted black veins, the army at his heels had all been drugged to the bone with PowerPoint.

"Haah~"

"Haah~"

"Haah~"

"Yield, Godslayer, you alone cannot face the might of the Emporium, you alone cannot win against us." The bald captain cradled his bloody side and took a deep breath staring at Sol who was paces away from him with his hands hung low and his breath shallow as he continued panting.

"My army has the power to easily destroy your entire collective, but we are reserved of the thought because that would harm the newborn and her mother Vatui, you are of no importance in comparison, a mere hindrance in my way!" He waved his hand and on his order, his officers started attacking again.

"Buy me a minute to catch my breath," The Captain looked at his Vice-Captains and all three of them rushed in as well.

"He's the real danger here...!" Sol blocked attacks from every angle sending them all galaxies away with a series of fast snaps and then rushing after the captain, but a moment before he reached him, with his fingers inches away from touching him the vice-captains returned crashing into his back and sending him spiralling towards the edge of their current reality where he spun and landed before raising his hands blocking a triple axe kick that sent him crashing through the borders and back into the Passage again.

"They're all immensely stronger than Jedrek, it's pointless destroying everything because they'll survive that too, so I am forced into hand to hand because that's the only method which works without fail... But this...!" Sol scowled when he righted his crash and found himself surrounded from all angles by thousands of enemies again.

"I have to find a way to kill them all at once!" He thought watching them fall into a spherical formation around him and then Sol's eyes widened in horror when all of the enemies surrounding him twisted their jaws and swallowed.

The roots of their hair changed from black to white and their void eyes became alive with crimson casting red in the endless darkness of the passage only contrasted by the flickering shards of a shattered reality passing by.

"I can't," Sol lowered his hands and huffed a cloud of cosmic mana from his nostrils as his golden hair subsided to brow and began flickering gold while the rings on his chest and back began spinning and humming. "I can't do this..." He spoke again straightening his posture and rubbing his head with a chuckle. "There's no way I can beat all of them like this." He sighed. "I just can't."

"As I said," Lumi commented. Drawing Ikaris's attention after she started watching Dina, Arla and her sigils dimming and blinking. "Fate decides what moves and what does not, it decides who dies and who lives, it is all by design -when faced with overwhelming odds any creature would give up."

"Finally giving up?" The Head Captain slowly approached. "Here I expected you to try your hardest, even as thousands of warriors as strong as Jedrek challenged you, where did that confidence go, Godslayer?"

"Where did your fighting spirit run off to?" He chuckled floating through the formation and stopping before Sol and reaching out to him. "Where is Ikaris and the little shit-"

He stopped and slowly withdrew his hand, looking at his palm as a cut slowly opened up in it causing his golden blood to squirt out into the void between them before it healed.

By the time his eyes could leave his hand to look at Sol again his vision was elsewhere and his nose was smashed halfway in his face.

"I have been thinking of you as people, that's my mistake, after so many warnings you just kept coming back, I even tried making deals, that was my next mistake, I have been on the defensive giving my all to protect the Collective, THAT is my sin, I should have been more heavy-handed!" Sol's hair flashed brightly gold and along with it the sigil on his hand which connected him to Ikaris and the others began shining as it grew up his arm and across his exposed chest and stopped beneath his left eye across his nose. Stay connected through m-v l|e-NovelFire

"No more!"

"No more holding back!"

"No more code of honour!"

"No more... No more..."

"NO MORE SOL VESTIC!!" He roared extending his mana across the Passage like a veil and incinerating a majority of the enemies as he burned through his powers like gasoline in open fire. "I just need to destroy every last agent of the Emporium and then it'll all be fixed, right!?"

"I'm not giving up," He caught one of the three Vice-Captains and broke his hand before he could break free. "I just need to be stronger, I'll break my own collective if that's what it takes to get rid of you all, I'll be the Godslayer you used to fear, I'll be the golden death you all despise so much, I'll herald your destruction!!"

"What is this?" Lumi stood abruptly and turned to the door. "This is not in accordance to fate!"

"Would you intervene and cause his death to prove the will of your fate?" Ikaris asked with her eyes gently locked onto her child who had fallen asleep after being fed. "Would you kill my husband for trying to survive?"

"If it is fate's will, then I would."

"How is that any different than what HIM Above All did?" Arla asked and Lumi stopped at the door and looked around at her with wide almost frantic eyes.

"I act according to fate," She argued. "He acted against it."

"If you're so driven by fate then why haven't you thought that the reason you were able to stop him is because fate has more in store for the Godslayer, aren't you just doing this to prove a point? Isn't this just your personal belief clouding your judgement to prove a point that fate is absolute!?" Dina snapped standing and pointing at her.

"You're no different than HIM you're just as blind, you preach on fate and call yourself an emissary but you're just like the rest of us!"

"Lumi, you're blind!"