The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 294: Fight for Me.

"Aaargh!"

His teeth all sharpened and his golden irises started shining brightly as mana began pouring out of his mouth when Sol clenched his teeth in the moment of impact and caught the sword with his mouth, then very slowly turned his gaze towards Nine once more.

"With his teeth!?" Nine went mum from shock as he saw a golden crack appear across the surface of the blade.

Sol made no fanfare of it, he didn't try to be flashy and he had no intention of covering his actions, with his teeth locked on the sword, he balled his fist and slowly raised his hand, and then punched Nine right in his nose breaking it as well as his skull as he vanished into the dark of the cavern causing massive stumbles and cave-ins.

"Hundreds of millions," Sol held on to the handle of the weapon and took it out of his mouth, watching it heal itself of the cracks his teeth had left.

"Now in his grasp he could feel the malice the weapon possessed, but something strange began happening the longer he held on to it; the sword began calming down, rather than the endless river of acres and voices it had been prior it started quieting, their voices one after the other became whispers.

"I'm not sure how it works, I know that I'm not truly like the rest of you who were born Godslayer; I was chosen to be a part of your people, but even then," Sol stared at the sword with a sad expression as the voices continued to quiet. "You are my people, and what happened to you is unforgivable; I'm sorry."

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"You have a choice," Sol continued speaking to the sword as he dodged Nine who had launched himself back like a projectile.

Sol ducked beneath the man a second time and grabbed him by the back of his head by his hair when he tried reaching for the sword.

"I can destroy you," Sol's fingers and forearm that had been sliced through healed in an instant as he folded his fist and broke Nine's jaw with a single punch, catching him by his leg before he was launched away and slammed him into the ground beneath them attempting to step on him again.

This time though, the Ninth General dodged Sol's foot and flipped away escaping within the dark of the cavern with a chuckle.

"You're a powerful weapon, that won't change, I can't free you from your current form without killing you, so I give you an alternative option," Sol stared at the sword which floated near him following his every move after he tethered it to his mana.

"Princess Ikaris has returned as the Queen of Divines, and she's more powerful than ever before; she's going to undo the Emporium and destroy them thoroughly, her path is vengeance," Sol crossed his palms holding them to his chest just fast enough to block Nine's enraged uppercut which sent him tunnelling back upwards to the surface, breaking through and flying directly into the face of the star which lit that area, and right there with him was the sword, now completely still.

"I wanted to do the same-" Sol launched himself back towards Nine, landing and blocking several fast jabs before the man spun out of his last counter-punch and grabbed his hand spinning midair with him and tossing him into the ground causing it to compress and explode like a volcano sending fire and debris in every direction.

"I'll just keep getting stronger, I AM stronger!!" Nine roared grabbing at Sol's arm a second time but getting parried as Sol leapt to his feet and dropped his heel in his shoulder then spun out of his reach while simultaneously delivering a powerful kick to his temple which stunned him just long enough that Sol could stack clockwork on his arm for a few seconds.

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"I have a different purpose, though," Sol ignored Nine as he continued speaking to the sword slipping through the General's defences and stopping an inch short of his stomach with his fingers slowly approaching him.

One.Inch.Death.Punch.

Nine's spine turned to powder, and his large intestines before it, along with a small portion of his pelvic bone and his lower ribcage, when Sol's fist slammed into him.

The terrain shook as the man was blasted clear from one side to the other spanning the full length of the universe in a flash and slamming into the barrier Sol had set up flying through it and appearing above Sol again only to reel in shock and horror when Sol positioned himself perfectly beneath him stopping him an inch above his straightened hand pointing at his chest this time.

"Wait-"

One.Inch.Death.Punch.

Nine lost the ability to speak, breathe or even think when the second attack hit him shattering and grinding everything beneath his flesh and sending him into the star above them like a needle through a balloon, he flew so fast and so hard that the star had a visible hole torn through it when he collided into the barrier and appeared inverted cascading down towards The Plane once more as a ball of fire.

"I want you to become a part of that purpose," Sol stood upright and stared at the sword once more. "Rather than be extinguished and die forever, angry, anguished and in pain, Join my fight against the real enemy which hides in the shadows, what will soon become the most powerful and most dangerous enemy of the Grand Collective, my alter ego, Umbra," He explained.

"He has allied with darkness itself and found an emissary to strengthen him in an inverse Beginning within five years he already became powerful enough to challenge me despite my being several hundred times stronger than he is, I could use the help, will you fight for me?"

Sol looked at the silent sword and then at the ball of fire descending.

"As I expected from someone of the highest tier in the Emporium," Sol stared at Nine as he burst from the fire, screaming at the top of his lungs. "You'll be a cockroach unless I atomise you."

Sol took a moment once more when he felt another great release of strength come from Nine.

This was going to be a clash of strengths, the man was still getting stronger even having his bones vaporised beneath his flesh and his organs boiling proved to not be enough to kill him, "Think about it," Sol glanced at the sword and then balled his fist, sending it to a different location Via teleportation as his and Nine's attacks clashed onto each other.

*Shhhhhh-BOOM*

A raw explosion unlike anything they'd ever seen; it wasn't charged with mana, there was nothing but pure physical force behind it yet a gaping hole opened up inside of The Plane Ikaris's fight despite being the equivalent of galaxies away was caught up in the explosion, Dina shielded Arla from the concussive force that followed the cosmic eruption of fire and wind, Dr'ul's siblings all sought shelter inside of her mana when they nearly died, being even closer than Ikaris was, and Cecelia stuck her cannon in the ground and rode out the waves of destruction while Keele and Jenifer who were farthest away sought shelter from the storm.

A majority of those who had been hiding died instantly as more than sixty percent of the surface of The Plane was destroyed by the force generated between Sol and Nine's punches colliding onto each other; in a sense; all the weakest ones had been purged.

"Are you okay?" Dina lowered her shield exposing herself and Arla to more strong winds after a few minutes had passed.

"That was scary," Arla placed her hand over her heart with a huff. "Being within Master's range while he fights; I have forgotten how scary that was," The elf admitted with another huff and a sigh. "The ones we were fighting all died from that concussive wave that you shielded us from."

"I didn't think my barrier would hold, but it's like you keep saying; I underestimate myself a lot, but this won't change, I'll remain the underdog and keep giving it my all, humility is better than overconfidence," Dina hummed as she looked around at the destruction.

"There's not a single person left near us after that." She opened up the augmented map Alpha had given them, staring at the location of everyone and seeing them all in good health. "Only the vice-captains and above remain; the real fight is about to begin."

"I am ready," Arla nodded, and Dina did the same as the two of them took flight towards the closest one.

"Remember what Alpha said, they're all pretending to be weak so we drop our guards, don't fall for their trickery; the sooner we take them out, the sooner we can be done here."

"I am well aware," Arla's smile remained as she raised her mana to the max internally, preparing for the sudden emergence of an enemy from any side at any moment, and their caution paid off when seemingly out of the blue they were attacked by a group of nearly a dozen Vice-Captains.

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Both Dina and Arla utilised their techniques in different ways to evade their enemies, landing next to each other as the vice-captains above them scrambled to reach them a second time. "Arla,"

"In one fell swoop!" Arla released her charged mana like an explosion, forming a triangle in with her palm and catching four inside of the space while Dina took a deep breath accumulating mana in her throat and clenching her jaws tightly.

[Divine tier ability; COSMIC SCREAM]

[Pseudo-Divine tier magic; MAXIMUM PULSAR]