The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Winds more terrible than the ones that had been ravaging the planet kicked off massive tornadoes made of mana, carving trenches through the land with every rapid turn they took, cleaving their wat through mountains as easily as hot iron through butter, leaving molten rock and diagonal flames raging from the fierce winds.

Although they had both adapted to the same mindset now; a fight for their freedom, both Sol and Yu could not help but smile while they fought each other, Sol had not met an evenly matched opponent since he fought Sorath back on Arkadia, while Yu had never met someone who she could go all out against aside from her teacher; the Heavenly Ancestor.

"I thought he was jesting but..." Yu's fellow guard, an old man with a bald spot in his head and a short beard of white hairs rubbed his head with a handkerchief in disbelief, he had never seen an opponent that Yu could not overpower in a few minutes, but these two had been at it for nearly an hour now; a complete slugfest where they barely dodged or blocked a single attack.

The two of them were tanking every blow to make sure that the one they landed next came with as much force as they could conjure, of course, this was no good for Sol, he needed to win otherwise he would be stuck here in Sorce for the rest of his life which was close to forever.

That was without even thinking about what Umbra and Giza would eventually do to the Grand Collective.

If the Grand fell into total darkness then they would find Source, and the most likely outcome of that discovery is that they would attack them next.

Fu on the other hand was a master, she was a sect leader in charge of tens of thousands of students, some of which were in the guard, from the way Sol spoke of his issues it was clear to see that he did not intend to remain there in source.

The way he fought told her that he was not going to back down no matter what, she had her reputation and her master's honour to uphold. "I have to find a way to-"

"Forced Sun!" Sol exclaimed, interrupting her distracting thoughts when a sudden golden sphere appeared between the two of them, rapidly expanding and crashing into her while she raised her guard to shield herself from it.

"What kind of power is this? It feels like a supernova!" Yu hissed in shock and pain when the attack began eating away at her flesh while simultaneously expanding at such speeds that she could not escape the radius fast enough.

"I made a mistake," She thought. "I assumed that because of the way he fought he was onoy capable of melee attacks!" More scales began growing along her skin when she began exerting herself. "I could have lost in an instant if he had used this in the beginning!"

Catching up un the opposite side using the mana he had tethered to her to teleport, Sol slammed his hand in Yu's lower back and ground his teeth, conjuring a second crimson [Forced Sun] which countered the first and created an explosion that tore the world they had been fighting on into a perfect halves, sending one side exploding ontwards as debris while the other began rapidly drifting in the opposite direction.

"I survived that," Yu was on her knee with a hand rested on the other while her tail slowly swung with episodic spasms behind her, there were burns on her forearms and a large burn on her back from getting blitzed.

"I barely managed to escape the explosion in time..." She winced, standing and watching her hands heal, and then staring ahead when she sensed Sol approaching from the field of debris, it did not take her long to fing him with the way he was glowing, but to the woman's shock the moment she could see Sol Vestic he was already right before her.

"This speed-" Yu raised her hands, frightened and just in time to prevent her throat from getting crushed by a Lariat that sent tremors of pain through her bones, she yelped when the world became a blur after Sol's attack left her spiralling in one space, and then once more when he returned with his hand coated in golden lightning catching her with a punch to her jaw.

Before Sol could move himself again, Yu's foot passed through the lightning and slammed into his shoulder causing him to crash in the ground next to her, and before he could raise himself she grabbed his arm, contorting herself wildly and raising him off the ground with what he could only describe as newfound strength.

"Do not treat me as yiu have your enemies of the past!" Yu slammed Sol into the ground and then flipped over his counter kick and dropped her heels in his chest before he could attack again. "I am not to be trifled with!!"

"I am well aware!" Sol crossed his arms and blocked her heels when she tried to repeat the same attack, flashing his hands open and giving the two of them space.

"Yu above had almost entirely been consumed by her scales of crimson, the only remaining skin on her body was on her face aside from under her eyes, which had small protruding scales.

[Your opponent is about to-]

"Stay out of it!" Sol grabbed the system window with his bare hand and crushed it, flipping to his feet and staring up at the woman above when her wings suddenly grew massive and spread, and her tail swelled and became thicker with a blunt club at the very tip.

"I am the one you are fighting, not that yellow box!" Yu exclaimed, raising herself higher with a single flap and opening her mouth abnormally wide while two pairs of horns grew from the sides of her head.

Two pointing upwards and two pointed ahead.

"She saw the system window?" Sol began sneering. "She is starting to surprise me now," He chuckled, causing that villainous expression to return to his face when he saw the buildup of mana she had before her, ready to blast him to kingdom come without a doubt.

Rather than interrupt a powerful attack he could possibly analyse and copy, Sol decided to challenge it head-on; he planted his feet into the ground for balance, then with a long sigh, he raised his hand and held on to his wrist for good measure.

[Unknown Tier]

"I am sorry Yu, but no matter what you do here today, I have decided that I will not lose."

"And I the same, Sol Vestic, I have the honour of my master and the pride of Source to defend, I will keep my freedom!"

"Tianlóng Mie(Heavenly Draconic Annihilation)!!" Yu from above released her attack, a great crimson beam with a core of gold that illuminated the entire half planet as it descended like judgement was upon him causing all the hairs on his neck to stand on end and the halo on his chest to vibrate in agitation and warning, releasing a low humming sound only he could hear.

[Heaven Piercer] Seemingly from nothing, with no buildup, Sol created a gargantuan spear out of thin air crackling with black and red lightning and burning with the intensity of a thousand suns.

"Pride is of Ill concerm, I have the fate of a quintillon lives resting on my ability to return, nothing no god nor devil can stop my crusade!" Sol retorted just before their attacks clashed into each other and everything went white.

"What the-" Fuhua sgielded her eyes when the light that was supposed to be several galaxies away washed across the Drifting Heaven Pavilion's Mother World alerting every soul of the fight as it encompassed boty sides of every celestial body it passed, leaving most people temporarily blind and sending the others into panic at the thougth that the world was about to end.

"What is a quintillion supposed to mean, I have never heard that number before..." One spectator commented.

"it is a rarely used number," Jena answered, gone was her snark, and gone was her attitude. "A Quintillion is One Billion multiplied a Billion times, it is a billion billions, do you understand?" She asked looking across the crowd at the man that had really been asking himself.

"What?" The Grand is that Vast?" Grecia gasped.

"It has eighteen zeros, obviously there are more than a single quintillion about thirty estimated, but that is just to make the infinite seem finite, the Grand Collective has never stopped growing, there is a new universe every three seconds, a new collective explodes into being approximately every three to five thousand years, compared to the simple state of a universe, a collective is the incarnation of chaos..." She explained.

"Master is doing this for the survival of our home, an infinitely expanding collection of places like source, A multiverse that holds smaller multiverses within it, this is not a vacation for us, if he fails to return everyone, his family, our loved ones, entire civilizations, species, and realities will be destroyed by an enemy that not even he can face alone."

"Master Vestic..." Grecia mused. "That is too much of a burden to bare alone."

"He did not ask for this, he was chosen by the light to guide our people," Jena sighed, watching the light from Sol and Yu's clash begin to receed.

"Heavy is the King's crown, the enemy is a direct descendant of his flesh, blood and mana, guided by the hand of the first sentient being in existence; total darkness who wishes to turn all of reality into waste devouring it all, I think master knew..."

"Huu," Sol emerged from the last receeding light, the halo on his chest cracked and his nose and mouth stained with golden blood.

"Let's keep going," Sol began grinning again.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"You crazy Bastard!"