The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 307: Unlimited Power!

"This is the power to usurp the Emporium, why are you hesitating?" Cecelia asked, standing and gesturing with her hands spread wide.

"If it is a matter of distrust towards me because you believe I do not deserve your trust as one who sacrificed the lives of our kin to keep the Emporium off your backs, then trust the judgement of Zara and Hudor, at least!" She snapped raising her voice to traverse the entire gathering through their links as clansmen.

"Master Vestic saved you for two reasons; the first is because he promised that he would, and the second is because he believed that you are useful to his goal of eradicating the Emporium."

"But he isn't even going to fight with us, who would follow the orders of someone who won't even fight with the people he wants to fight for him?" Another asked, trying to make sense of what Cecelia was saying in contradiction to what Ikaris had said earlier.

"The Godslayer won't fight them, so why should I?"

"How does that make any sense?"

"Ugh, they have gone soft from hiding amongst their enemy for too long," Zara rubbed her forehead as she heard the start of an uproar.

"We have been hiding all this time, it will take a lot more than the empty words of a forgotten era and promises of power to motivate us into fighting them again," Hudor agreed with the protest beneath them while Ikaris watched the anarchy unfolding before her eyes with a disappointed gaze.

"I think we're wasting our time here," Dina looked at Ikaris with a deep frown.

"I know that you're trying to make good on your promises, but I can hardly find a shred of courage within this audience let alone someone with the makings of a warrior, they may be strong, they may have potential; but as it stands, I only see a gathering of tamed cowards, weaklings," She spoke her mind evoking silence as they all stopped to hear the thoughts of Ikaris's supposed Right Hand; a human.

"How dare that human, does she think that her backing the Princess makes her invincible, no matter what power she has a human, she is is ONLY human, still as easy to kill as the rest of them are," The man who had been soliciting the others with his blatant scepticism raised his voice again. "With a fragile body like that I could pick my teeth with her, haha!"

"Go ahead," Ikaris responded, conjuring a seat with a tired sigh and resting in it while Alpha brought her something to drink as she closed her eyes. "Dina is not empowered by LAW like the Emporium warriors are, all she has ever done is practice her skills in mana; and she has not even been a mage for ten years yet...

go right ahead, attack her with as much force as you please, if she fails to defend herself I will withdraw my words and leave you be without another utterance."

"Is that some kind of trap, why would she give him permission to attack her right hand? She is human, she will die if she suffers a single blow from any of us without the power of LAW protecting and enforcing her fragile body-"

"Him?" Ikaris asked while Dina stepped forward and balled her fist staring down at all of them.

"No, I am saying you can all attack her at once and the outcome will still be the same; Dina will win against every single one of you, if you can prove me wrong, I will turn and leave without another word and you will never hear from me again, free to live your lives as carelessly as you want, I will find another way to acquire allies."

Ikaris would have added the alternate of Dina's victory but she already knew this prideful race would never imagine themselves losing against a regular human; there was only one problem with what they had understood of Dina's introduction.

She was human.

"Don't worry Keele," Dina glanced around at her with a confident smile. "I will keep the damage to this area."

"As I expected you would," Keele smiled and huffed. "Just don't kill anyone by accident," She added whilst Dina looked around at the mass again.

"Of course, I know as much," Dina held out her hand stopping the fist of someone who had intended to take her down with a single strike; the man was brave, the bravest being the one who attacked first, but with his fist hovered before Dina's palm unable to reach her and nobody else even flinching at his attack, he and the others stared shocked.

"Cecelia..."

"You have my permission to educate them properly, Dina," The woman sat in a chair offered by Alpha watching the others around her do the same as they accepted Ikaris's parody behavior as normal and gave in to the temptation of acting nonchalantly in the presence of danger and conflict as they had seen her and Sol do over and over again.

"Heaven knows, whatever you do today will pale in comparison to what I will do to those who fail to fall in line in the future; the Éloen Clan is supposed to be directly subservient to the throne above all else, I am already disgusted by their open insubordination."

"Right," Dina looked at the man again with a small smile, watching him sweat as he was suspended in the air before her by her invisible mana.

"I'll keep the injuries to light fractures then," She released her mana and grabbed his fist, pulling him into a punch that broke his nose and sent him cascading through the crowds crashing into and causing several other refugees who failed to avoid his path to go flying as well."

"The other day when Master and Milady came to their rescue I had imagined they were too shaken and that is why despite the enemy approaching nobody had made an attempt or volunteered to join the fight, but I could have never imagined that it was cowardice that had stayed their hand," Dina shook her head, using her mana to stop severa others in their tracks around her and dispatching them each with a single punch.

"The Queen of all Heavens has no need for weakings and cowards; mana is the only way to fight against LAW and win, you have failed in the past, but instead off accepting the hand of mercy being offered to you and showing the grattitude she deserves after breaking her vow of raising her hand in battle...

you show nothing but contempt and disrespect!" She caught a woman by her face and used her like a batton to swat several away before slamming the woman in the ground and resting her heel in her shoulder with a sigh and staring down at her.

"What is the matter here, I thought you said I was just a weak human," Dina narrowed her eyes at the woman as she squirmed beneath her heel in shock and fright. "Where are the Vatui warriors that I was told so much about? What happened to the race of super-powerful beings that used to destroy civilizations for merely speaking ill of their Kings and Queens, where is your pride?" She asked.

"By the standards of those who surround me, I am one of the weakest, can't you at least try to look like you're worth her Highnesses time and efforts?"

"This brings her full circle," Ikaris commented, smiling at Dina's back.

"Indeed, I remember how she was afraid to face the demons on Arkadia, she was too terrified to even raise her staff," Arla nodded. "Han did a wonderful thing awakening the hero inside of her," She added, causing Zara who stood behind her confused at their idle chatter to lean her head as she stared at Dina bullying her people and knocking them unconscious one after the other.

"There is no way that woman is human," She spoke up, and Keele chuckled and looked over her shoulder with a shrug.

"Correct."

"What?" Hudor snapped. "So, you lied?" He asked, looking at Cecelia.

"I said she was human, I also said she evolved into the apex of her species after gaining the ability to utilize mana," She explained with her brow raised. "You all only heard what you pleased because you had already decided that you want nothing to do with Her Highness and the war she saved you from.

"What is she if not human, then?" Zara asked staring and then wincing when Dina made a spear of light [Mana Spear] and began beating her attackers into the ground with it.

"She does not like to admit to the term, but during her last fight with Keele she achieved the title of [Divine], she also has enough mana to encompass more than one universe," Arla answered causing Jenifer and Cecelia who had not been privy to that information to look at her as well.

"Born one of the weakest humans even by human standards, she has undergone hell and survived death many times, evolving as she overcame each foe... Dina is a Divine; she is a god who refused a title, it is for this reason that I refused as well; as her teacher I want the same of myself as she has achieved; to have Master and Milady praise me after witnessing my power."

"Just how strong can mana make you?" Zara asked and Ikaris looked at her with a smile after she had finally asked the right question.

"Master was also once amongst the weakest caste of humans," Ikaris answered, noting how they made strange expressions at her calling him [master] like Dina and Arla did.

"He went from being the weakest to absolute within a decade, he is the peak of Godslayer power, he is the meridian of all evolution, the being I have come to worship as my dearest love and sire of my children, he is the answer the Grand Collective needs; the one who will correct the narrative and usher in the next era."

"The answer is limitless; mana has no limits and it breaks the limiters of whomever uses it, as long as you strive for greater power and walk that path relentlessly, you can achieve your goals, whatever they are."