The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 282: First of his kind.

"Take my hand," Sol extended his hand to Cecelia and the woman paused with her breath hitched and stiffened, she stared at his fingers hesitantly praying that this was not some elaborate and deviant trap to kill her, and then she reached out and took his hand.

"You..." Captain Stark finally found the courage to breathe after being too stunned to speak when she came face to face with the being who had earned the fear of the very foundation she existed for. "You won't win!" She snapped, standing from her seat in a similar manner to how General Flint had rushed from his and drawing her sword. "The Emporium-"

"-Is not even my greatest concern currently," Sol chopped into her declaration, releasing Cecelia's hand and looking at her. "I know this'll be hard for your one-tracked minds to grasp, but currently there is another like myself who seeks to destroy everything the light touches."

"How is that any different from what you're doing?" The captain queried doubtfully regarding his words like poison she dared not ingest. "That's exactly what you're doing!"

"No, my goal is to destroy the Emporium that threatened my wife and child, my goal is to wipe you the Emporium, off the face of the Collective once and for all leaving nothing but whispers of your existence, the one I speak of doesn't intend to spare anyone from the grand, his goal is to destroy everything under any form of light and plunge everywhere in perpetual darkness, bare with me for a little and try to understand..."

Sol scratched his chin, giving the woman an awkward glare of pity. "He's a threat to everything even more than I am, so I need the Emporium to fuck off for a little bit until I can determine how to get rid of him."

"Are you... are you out of your mind!?" Captain Stark snapped with an irrational amount of shock mixed in a cocktail of misplaced rage and rushed at Sol, but he needed not raise a finger when Cecelia stood before him and easily caught the sword being swung with a casual pinch of her fingers.

"I don't know what's happening but I think what Master is saying is...

The Emporium isn't a threat to him as much as they're an annoyance that he'd rather destroy in his leisure, there's an imminent and very present enemy out there which he faces for the sake of us all, so you need to know your place and stay in line until he's prioritised you once more," Cecelia explained, watching the fight escape the woman's body once more when she saw cracks rupture across her blade from it simply being casually held by someone she had believed she was more powerful than moments prior.

"Is that correct?" Cecelia asked and Sol hummed and rested his hand on her shoulder.

"Then..." Cecelia looked around at the others who were staring, and toward the direction she could feel the two generals rapidly approaching from, she saw General Flint break through the final wall, stopping to catch a glimpse of everything before locking on to Sol again. "Goodbye-"

They vanished in a flash right before his hand could reach them.

"Cecelia!!"

***

"..." The Vatui woman, after an endless servitude to General Flint stopped breathing when she was greeted with a gentle breeze, she stood still and slowly observed every detail of her surroundings:

Cool air and an evening sunset, it was not the most beautiful she had ever seen and yet somehow she couldn't recall seeing anything as beautiful as that evening-kissed sky before, she could hear people chatting out of sight, speaking not of things related to the emporium but of trivial matters, getting their hair done, system points, festivals, who has a stronger skillset; she did not understand anything that was happening, but it sounded amazing to her.

"I'm... Free," She whispered, staring into the skies above and smiling at the racing clouds painted over with the twilight blush of dusk. Stay updated through mvl

"Oh my," Arla commented, expecting Cecelia to react since it seemed to her and the rest that the seemingly confused woman had yet to notice anyone, but her and everyone else who had gathered warily reclined in shock when the woman looked at Sol with her eyes watering and then passed out while still standing up.

"The hell?" Dina lowered her hand with her brows furrowed. "She's out like a light."

"I have seen this before," Ikaris looked at Sol and he nodded with a frown, folding his arms and walking off toward her while Alpha waved her hands and an invisible telekinetic force swept Cecelia off her feet and gently held her to float along with them.

They had all gathered in the backyard to greet Chey and Jenifer, and the two had been present for Cecelia's arrival as well, they were terrified of her, Jenifer who had boasted of her new strength was shocked when she found out that this monster was going to join them; Cecelia; the Vatui traitor from hell known for her ruthlessness toward her own kind and anyone who crossed the general.

With an unwavering loyalty she had served that man for almost as long as the Emporium itself existed, she was now the most powerful ally under Sol and Ikaris, her presence shook the entire dynamic of their power tree.

"So... Why'd she pass out?" Usami walked next to Cecelia staring at her while she was suspended in the air.

"Fatigue."

Both Ikaris and Sol answered simultaneously. "Sol was like this as well, I guarantee that attacking her would be unsuccessful in this state, her battle senses have been sharpened to the point that she passed out from exhaustion as soon as she tried relaxing, but at the same time she is more dangerous than her usual self while aware," Ikaris completed the sentence and looked at Sol.

"How did you know?"

"I knew as soon as I met her for the first time, I know what someone surrounded by enemies looks like, I could have even offered a hand that day if I wasn't so ensnared in my own rage, but after what the Emporium did I was reluctant to spare anyone at all," Sol's gaze lowered into a grimace, and he sneered with all the malice he felt surfacing in an invisible wave of mana.

"I can't escape myself, it seems."

"Once a hero..." Ikaris smiled at him warmly, locking her arm with his and resting her head on his shoulder as the two of them entered their estate's main building.

"Always a hero," Dina finished her statement with finality, causing Keele along with Jenifer who accompanied them to glance at each other while they walked side-by-side.

"Hero?" Jenifer asked, and Arla hummed and nodded in front of them glancing over her shoulder.

"Correct," Arla waved her fingers casting the door shut after everyone had entered.

"Master, Dina, Lady Ikaris and Usami, they are all the true definition of heroes, summoned to another world granted power, and then let loose on the forces of evil, they have defended the powerless and the innocent without so much as a whisper of reluctance, I never mentioned it but the true reason they were summoned is because deep down they had all the traits that qualified them for the role, the summoning was never random."

"And thus, I got summoned not once; but twice," Sol scoffed.

"It turned out to be for the best." Ikaris chuckled taking a seat at his side and comfortably cuddling against him with her legs across his lap and her cheek against his side. "Don't you agree, dear?"

"I do," Sol nodded.

"If we hadn't been summoned again, Umbra would have escaped on his own, he would have probably been the one in my position right now with full control over the Collective, there's no telling if any of us would be alive, Arkadia would have been destroyed, sure; we'd have been happy for a while, but with your powers limited and mine being sub-par, we wouldn't have been able to protect what was important to us."

"Umbra?" Cecelia peered an eye open all of a sudden, regaining consciousness as she looked at Jenifer, and Jenifer looked at Keele who then looked at Dina for permission, to which the latter nodded with a gesture of her hand as she lazily laid her head against Arla's thighs and sighed in relief when the elf began stroking her hair.

"Here on earth, inside of Sir's Collective, the word Umbra, represents total darkness, a lack of light, perpetual Void," Keele explained while Cecelia was set down and immediately fell to her knees before Sol and Ikaris resting her forehead on the floor and clasping her hands before her, submitting to the two of them totally.

"Umbra is Sir's alter-ego; the true enemy of the Grand Collective, birthed from the same soul, he is a being with unfathomable powers just as sir has.

He is evil's own incarnation, he wants nothing but ruin and destruction for all who have allied themselves with light which is every living being, sir as a Godslayer has allied with The Grey seizing control of The Beginning; an imaginary space where all power across all realms converge into one infinite singularity.

Umbra is the advocate of The End; a similar space inverse of The Beginning where nothing exists but infinite darkness, he is the first of his kind."