The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 299: Inconceivablely Cruel.

"By the light..." Dr'ul stared, mouth agape and her eyes wide in horror.

Next to her Renia had an expression of disbelief as well while her, her sister and everyone else stared at Sol who wore a complicated smile with his hands spread wide and his mana rapidly spreading as he tried to catch up to Ikaris's [Extermination].

This made three times in recent history where someone had caused such a phenomenon; first was Dr'ul's attempt to overpower Sol which had led to her breaking the fabric of reality and almost destroying the Arkadian universe, and next was Sol who had generated power comparable to an entire universe exploding a dozen times over, and now they all bore witness to a fully released Ikaris; she hadn't been joking when she said that although powerful, Dr'ul's power was still leagues lesser than hers.

"This is absurd...!" Sol ground his teeth and spread his arms wider watching as the great white light coming his way evaporated everything in its path.

"The Plane; she's gonna destroy all of it," Dina stared in horror, alongside her, Arla gasped as well as they watched from the safety of The Grey as Sol struggled to contain her power until he abandoned the idea of preservation entirely and ejected the entire universe out of himself by force leading to him coughing up golden blood as he sealed everything shut once more and watched and held his chest.

"I considered the possibility that this would happen, but I never expected that Ikaris would lose her temper this badly," Sol huffed and righted himself as he watched every inch of The Plane get swallowed by Ikaris's mana in a great sphere which then rapidly subsided and underwhelmingly popped at the epicentre of the explosion.

"haah¬" Ikaris huffed another great cloud of glowing white mana and turned in Sol's direction after she sensed his approach towards her, but just as Sol's eyes narrowed and his fangs gnashed in irritation, Ikaris's eyes widened when she was almost blindsided by Nine attacking her from out of the blue.

Viktor Flint had been erased without a trace and the ninth General had withstood the full impact of her attack which had done so, demonstrating that though his strength was not a match for Sol's, it was simply because the Godslayer was freakishly powerful, even as someone who was already overpowered from the start.

Ikaris raised her hand on instinct and blocked the strike coming from above her, diving to the side and spinning around as she summoned her sword again, and then Viktor's sword in her other hand as her and the only remaining enemy faced off.

"I have determined that you should be exterminated at whatever cost, Ikaris Vestic," Nine glared at her, his hands and legs were burnt almost to the third degree, but had already begun healing, his hair had been singed and there was a trail of blood sticking to his chin coming from his nostril.

"Has that not always been the case, or are you only showing your face so boldly because you think you stand a finer chance against me than you did against my beloved?" Ikaris queried nonchalantly whilst adjusting her blouse. "Shameless."

She would admit, seeing Nine alive after the feat she had just accomplished was quite the surprise, even if he was empowered by LAW and had Godslayer and Vatui implants within himself; no creature that considered themself human was supposed to have walked away from that attack, even if he didn't walk away unharmed, the fact that he was alive at all concerned her greatly when she thought of what those of a higher ranking than himself were capable of.

According to Cecelia, the nine Generals were all powerful beyond reason, and the real reason she had surrendered was because one of them, the fifth, was en route to her location after she had struggled to fight Viktor and his fleet on her own.

They were all strong, and each ascending rank was exponentially more powerful than the previous one, which was to say; though strong in his own right, Nine was nowhere near powerful enough to hold his own against the eighth-ranking General, and the same sentiment stood true for all the others until the first General of the Emporium, someone who had not even been present in the war and was rumoured to be a celestial of the highest degree; a god of origin who served the Empire selfishly for the alure of greed.

"The outcome of this fight has already been decided," Ikaris huffed.

"Indeed, it has," Alpha observing from The Grey nodded in agreement with Ikaris's words.

"She has accomplished not one, but two perfect Unknown Tier casts simultaneously, if my calculations are true, which I am sure they are, then her current output of power is near equal to Master's, there is no version of that confrontation where the man who calls himself Nine will survive, his only option remaining is a retreat, but with Master overseeing their exchange that leaves his chances of escape at 0%."

"What is that?" Cecelia asked, finding it hard to believe that anyone could ever match Sol's power aside from the First General and Umbra; his alter-ego and polar opposite.

"A magical term," Arla answered. "It speaks of her current state of mind and battle prowess, in short, although she shows no signs of it Milady has entered a state of total concentration, if you recall, she just parried an attack which she should have had no way of countering, yet she did..." She trailed off when Dr'ul looked around at her and then sucked in a breath and continued.

"Achieving a state of heightened awareness, her instincts are sharper than usual, and her output of mana should be upwards of 300% since every successful Unknown Tier cast raises it by a hundred percent and she achieved a double-cast, negating the drop in percentage, that is the truth behind an Unknown Tier cast."

"Correct," Alpha nodded. "At current, nobody in their right mind should be attempting to piss her off, Master included, with the power they both possess at this moment the entire collective could potentially be destroyed if they fought without holding back."

"That's never happening, though," Dina scoffed. "Master and Ikaris fighting is an impossibility, neither would ever raise their hand against the other under any circumstance."

"Nothing is impossible, Dina," Alpha raised a brow. "But I can at the very least agree that they are likely incapable of fighting each other," She responded and then looked at Ikaris's expression of nonchalance again. "She knows that she has won, she simply wishes to trample on that man's pride and steel her victory as flamboyantly as she usually does."

"That is uncharacteristic of the Princess; she ought to conclude the fight before someone else arrives," Cecelia creased her brows, but her remark elicited scoffs from not only Arla but also Dina and Alpha, as all three considered Ikaris's notorious temper.

"He's really in for it, huh?" Dina mused.

"Yep, he's cooked."

"You don't get it," Arla stared at the Vatui woman with her brows furrowed as well. "Ikaris, is inconceivablely cruel to her enemies."

***

"I am waiting," Ikaris looked up from her clothes at the General who despite his declaration had hesitated after seeing her reaction to what he considered a serious and dire situation for her.

Sol Vestic had disappeared along with all of her allies, likely in retreat after she unleashed her attack, she was alone, so why was she this confident?

He was confused, but after minutes of pondering the General gave up the hope of understanding what she was doing and shifted to attack her, but like a phantom, Ikaris disappeared from his sights, and it was only after a few seconds that he realised there was an extra weight on his shoulder.

Slowly that sensation drew Nine's attention, and when he finally raised his head, he found Ikaris's folded fist rested against his neck with her finger preventing him from looking around completely when it poked his cheek.

"You-"

[Pulsar]

An explosion at point-blank right in the side of his head that sent him reeling and spinning uncontrollably through the starless darkness, halted only when Ikaris raised her foot causing his forehead to collide with her heel as she aimed her hand down her leg at him.

"Y-"

[Pulsar]

Ikaris cast another directly at his face again, and then vanished once more before the end of the cast catching the back of his head and pressing him against the attack until it exploded into rays bursting off in every direction.

Before Nine could regain his focus Ikaris pressed her sword against his back with a sadistic grin across her face, chuckling at his helplessness.

[Pulsar]

She already knew [pulsar] couldn't kill him, but she knew it hurt like hell from the way he screamed each time the concentrated beam tore into his flesh.

"What was that about exterminating me earlier?" She asked holding onto his neck and firing off the same attack every few seconds, preventing him from being blown away while she spoke. "Where did all that effort fall off, you're only screaming here, aren't you?" She asked pressing her hand against his back after sending the sword away and digging deeper into her mana.

"Come on now, put your back into it!" She released him with another [Pulsar] blowing him into and through the wall of another sector in the Khala-Nova collective.

"Not yet!" She snapped, summoning him back before her and grabbing his face as she crashed into the barrier again, slamming his head against it until it broke and then spinning and tossing him back where they were coming from.

"Master said he wanted your head as a gift to the Empire, right?" Ikaris summoned her swords again, waiting as the Ninth General floated until he regained his senses and righted himself weakly staring at her as she followed him.

"You wench!!" The man snapped as soon as he realised there wasn't an attack coming from behind or next to him again, balling his fists and charging towards her madly.

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Her swords were coated with golden mana as she tapped into the [Godslayer] power which resided within her, amping her already heightened mana several more times as she closed the distance and made an X with them.

[Skill has reached its final form]

[Upgrade available]

"Cross impact!"