The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 342 False Saviour.

*1 minute prior*

"I thought that we were arriving closer to the base, we've been traversing this ocean for nearly twenty minutes now," Zara looked to her side at Hudor who skipped across the waters as skillfully as she did, both wishing that they had the ability to fly like Cecelia and the others.

"Oh, so you have not noticed then?" He queried, looking above them at the ones who lead and then staring at her again. "I am many times older than you are and I have seen many more places," Hudor gestured to the skies above them and then the water they tread on.

"This is the biggest planet I have ever seen, it's absolutely humongous!" He laughed out. "Imagine, this place could hold trillions of people and have enough space for their extended families!"

"Mhmm," Ikaris agreed. "I know Dina would have a field day here, in fact, any of us would," She hummed and Dina hearing her chuckled as she swayed a little to the side. "I thought Arkadia was a rather large planet, but this mass is easily the size three Arkadias, what a monstrous Celestial body."

"It is the perfect place to have a good fight," Dina continued to sway, doing a loop around Ikaris and Arla and then closing her eyes and releasing a small burst of her mana around them, disturbing the waters beneath and the clouds above. "The setting couldn't have been better." Her face went dark with animosity after she saw the glimpse of land on the horizon.

Arla would have added to their conversation, but all twelve of them stared ahead when they collectively felt the distinct presence of Vatui energy like a wave of wind crashing into them, it swept into the air and spread across the skies like the shockwave of a bomb and yet it carried no weight, to everyone else it might have been undetectable.

It was at the same moment that Curt had grown agitated at Rem for his adamant warning and underestimations.

"What the heck was that?" Shar-Khan blinked in surprise, while Deja who was keeping pace closer to him as the odd two out rubbed her eyes. "I have never felt that level of power coming from anyone in our race aside from the princess!"

"I expected that they would have powerful allies amongst their ranks, but I was not expecting our greeting to immediately reveal them," Adonai closed his eyes grey and opened them revealing hazel irises with slitted pupils as he rapidly underwent transformation into [PREDATOR EVOLUTION]

Similarly to the god of creation, S'mael began cackling, summoning his blades in his two hands and then arching his back allowing a second pair of arms with blades to grow from his side when he assumed [BLACK JACKAL].

Renia in contrast did nothing flashy, she was about to engage in what might have been the first proper fight since she returned to the frontlines, so she remained reserved and focused on keeping her appetite at bay; the last thing she wanted was another incident like the one with the Captains.

"Gaarhh!

I am all pumped up and ready to..." S'mael took a reserved gasp when he started sensing more and more Vatui after the first outburst, there were thousands of them, millions, most of which had power scaling closely to the weakest among them Deja, who by his standards was a fair warrior, not just him, but the mentioned woman and the man at her side also showed hesitance when their skill [Perception] began feeding them information on the power of their opposition.

"Dina, Arla," Ikaris's smile was gone in in instant when she finished summing up everyone before her. "After me," She ordered them and in a rush of speed vanished fromn their sights appearing at the epicentre of the outburst she had sensed before slowly descending from the air towards the tallest building in the middle of a city full of skyscrapers.

At the same time that she was descending her mana began spreading across the metropolis causing the sun which had already started descending to seem majestic as her mana captured and bent the rays of light, this phenomena also alerted the entire city that an intruder was present sending everyone into emergency mode resulting in the alarms all going off simultaneously.

"Ikaris is here," Rem stood on the highest floor of the tallest building staring out the window when her shadow was cast over him.

"Rem," Ikaris acknowledged his presence and that of the two men and the woman at his sides. "I am disappointed," She huffed a golden mist of mana inching closer with ever breath she took until her hand was rested against the glass.

"I gave you all ample time to decide, I have tried on multiple occasions to reach you, but my warnings and pleas had all fallen on deaf ears, so now there is only destruction awaiting you all."

"If you wanted to..." Rem's words dwindled and fell off into the abyss of thoughtlessness when he saw Ikaris's hand easily pass through the glass as she entered the office with them, standing before him as he an the three of them, the glass did not even woddle, there was no disturbance at all.

"Princess Ikaris, do you have any Idea what you are doing?" Curt stood from his seat, slightly lowering his head in mock welcome.

"I imagined that the princess of the past would have gained some senses after her incompetence lead to the downfall of her house, but once again you demonstrate why it is that it did," He spoke through the wraps gesturing with his body rather than his expression as one usually would.

"If you have come to surrender, I will gladly call off the full force of the Resistance which is narrowing down on you, but elsewise you are unwelcomed here, you are a traitor to the resistance and to the Godslayer and Vatui races and will be executed for deserting the army, titles mean nothing anymore-"

"I have no recollection of what happened back then, just as I have no interest in the title of princess amongst my people, Curt, I am a deity, not a princess, and as far as I know, Gods only bow to those who they respect as the strongest," Ikaris narrowed her eyes, taking another step inside of the office while the four blocking her path took steps in retreat.

"Rather than bring up something as trivial as a title long outdated, I am here to execute you, Curt," She gestured to him and summoned a blade out of thin air pointing it at Rem. "I came here solely to destroy this entire place, I am going to wipe out you and every last one of your collaborators for siding with the Emporium and selling your people as resource!"

"What proof do you have?" Curt lowered his head in defiance, reaching on at his side and unsheathing a blade which caused her to almost gasp when she saw it.

"The sword you so willingly sport is proof enough, that blade is built using the pressurised bodies of Vatui as ore, mixed with the Emporium's favourite; Araculite."

"There is no point in arguing, I have access to all of your systems, I have evidence of every recorded wrong you have ever committed, you are beyond redemption, today, you will be judged beneath my hand." Ikaris added and the man was silent for a moment thinking of how to respond to that.

"Proof-"

"The proof is being delivered to every able citizen of your fake utopia, all those lies you have told, all the lives you have ended in the name of your greed, everything you have ever done for the Emporium, it is already being broadcast to them all, I would not come here starting a fight without reasonable ground."

"Kill her."

"And that reasonable ground, is that YOU, Curt, formerly of the Ikaris House have delivered on average seven times the number of your people to the hands of the Emporium as they have killed!" Ikaris raised her voice and stood still, feeling the rush of wind crash into her as Rem and the other three attacked her simultaneously only to be blocked when Dina, Arla, Renia and Adonai burst through the glass behind her shielding her from each of them.

"Come on, think about this," Curn made a nonchalant shrug.

"What will this accomplish, you say that you have evidence but the people here worship the ground I stand on, they would never believe something that outrageous no matter how true it seemed to them, all it will look like is the jealous princess returning to claim a throne that no longer exists and bullying me her former subservient into giving her the power I have amassed over these long years of her absence," Curt chuckled.

"What... the Godslayers and Vatui that I sacrificed all died so that this place could be built, we have existed here for aeons without the Emporium finding us, are you willing to sacrifice revealing the location of our base to satisfy your ego, Ikaris?" He asked, and chuckled when he saw her hand holding the sword falter.

"There is no version of this encounter where you do not lose, Ikaris, if you fight me and win, you will lose the trust of the people, and if you fight me and lose, you will be outright rejected and ridiculed as an imposter.

"If it means you pay the price for the billions that have died because of you then losing the faith of everyone is worth it, you were supposed to protect, but you have used that power to destroy with malevolent deeds born of the greed of the Emporium, even if the entire Grand Collective hates me after this day, I will persist." She answered him calmly.

"As long as the loyalty and love of my kin remain, I can endure even the depths of hell for them."

"Then you have forced my hand, false saviour," Curt's white hair began glowing menacingly and the light from his crimson eyes shone through his wrappings.

"Today will finally mark the true death of the house of Ikaris."