The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"He knew what?" Fuhua asked Jena.

"He made a promise a few years ago that he would never leave Milady's side ever again; wherever he goes, so too does the Goddess of Balance, and if they move, then his family, the Arkadian Universe as well as the Sol Collective and all its inhabitants will follow, if Master had taken them with him, then he would have never returned to save the Grand Collective."

"He left them knowing he would never abandon them..." Jena mused.

"He deliberately left everyone behind to always tempt himself into returning, Source in comparison to the state of war in the Grand to us, has felt like a getaway resort, that is why he will not lose, the stakes, his wife and child, his entire life is in danger of annihilation."

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Sol emerged from the light, battered and bleeding.

Opposite of him was Yu, her tail had been severed and three of her four horns had been broken, while most of her scales were bloody or missing. "Let's keep going," He urged her.

"You crazy bastard, you can barely move anymore, same as I, this fight is a draw-"

"I refuse to accept that!" Sol shook his head, raising his hand high and snapping his fingers, conjuring another [Heaven Piercer] spear, significantly larger than the one he had just used to counter and nearly kill her. "I can still fight, this is nothing to me, wounds are superficial, I am untethered by the shackles of fatigue!" He roared.

After his exclamation, Sol's wounds began steaming and closing. "Raise your hand and continue this fight Yu, or concede defeat and become a slave!"

"No... I would never..." Yu tiredly righted herself, opening her mouth again while the missing parts of her tail and horns were replaced by crimson mana and her left eye was entirely consumed, replaced with a pure draconic eye. "I would rather fight you to my last breath than become your slave!"

"Then we have made a consensus!" Sol raised his other hand and the spear doubled in size as he poured everything into it, sensing the building mana in Yu's attack surpass the first one she had attacked him with as well. "If you don't yield Yu, you will cease to exist, because no matter what, I have to return to the Grand Collective!"

"his rationality has suffered a hit because of the stress he is under, I have seen this through Mom's eyes once; it was before my creation, when he was a mere demigod fighting against the goddess of the sun, Sorath." Jena stared intently. "If this fight does not conclude with the next attack, master's suppressed darkness may take hold of his mana."

"Suppressed darkness, what are you talking about?" Fuhua who had not seen that part of the history of Sol and Arkadia asked shocked.

"Master defeated a demon-god and absorbed all of his skills and quirks, gaining an abominable power that we have still not been able to find any information on, by essence he is part demon, if he manages to deplete his mana to a certain degree then his demonic mana will surface and he will go wild with manic rage.

"The Primordial Chaos Demon-God Transformation."

"What kind of title is that?" Grecia asked, it sounded like a villain's great final card, not something associated with a hero like Sol Vestic.

"Master is a complex individual with many different faces," Fuhua commented, seeing the spear in Sol's possession grow larger still, expanding and shrinking over and over again, condensing until it became a blob of light, bending the space around itself from the incredible amount of mass it was generating.

"It should not be possible though," Jena countered herself. "Master has infinite mana, and I mean that literally, he can produce as many of those spears as he pleases."

"Then he was destined to win from the start," Grecia hummed. "If he is this kind of being then why would he seek the help of the outside to defeat the darkness that threatens your home?" She asked, and Fuhua looked to the little girl curiously as well.

"Umbra is gaining power on a ridiculously fast path, soon he will be able to match master's output, this is fine, master has assured us that he will still hold an advantage, it is the darkness which calls itself Giza, she is the true issue, her power is also infinite."

"If they are both infinite in power then they should be equal in power, no?" Fuhua asked, this was math that she had never thought of before, scholars and cultivators took different paths in Source, but the path of evolution seemed to be a fusion of both along with other mysterious elements and theories of power.

"Master is not her opponent, he knows it, we all do," Jena answered. "Their infinity, while being infinite is also finite-"

"That makes no-"

"Let me explain," The little girl pouted. "Sol Vestic is a superpower that can challenge the entire grand Collective on his own, he is a Primordial of the highest degree, a god among gods, but he has an ultimate limit, imagine that his infinity is one to a hundred, constantly repeating in a loop, endlessly, that is his infinity.

"He can grow it, he can increase that number, but there is a limit to the current infinity he possesses which makes him unable to challenge Giza."

"So what you are saying is that her infinity is much larger than his..." Grecia spoke up. "Was this always a concept or did you create it to gauge their power?"

"Her infinity is many times larger than his, and no, the science of infinite loops has always been a topic of debate among various scientific communities."

"Giza is a Primordial Deity, the only of her very specific kind, there are few beings in the Grand Collective that have such a title, throughout the cosmos, she may be one of, if not the most powerful being in totality, but even the strongest fall if the masses gather against them, as was the case with the Vatui who were nearly wiped out."

"Then, do you believe that the Heavenly Ancestor of Drifting heaven will be enough to oppose Giza?" Fuhua asked.

"Honestly, I do not, Master requires help, not a saviour." Jena chuckled, watching Sol continue to pour more mana into hsi attack. "Master will evolve again as he always has, he will rise to the occasion as he always does."

"You have such high faith and praise for him, it is admirable, but also rather annoying." Fuhua rested her hand on Jena's head. "I understand though, I have only known him for a few days and I already have the impression that he will be able to do many great things, that he can do anything."

"Compared to my few days, I can only speculate the high regard and praise that those who have known him for years carry, they must worship the ground he walks on." She chuckled.

"Of course, this is the reason Master is seldomly arrogant." Jena nodded in agreement. "He needs to meet the expectations of those who have placed all their faith in him, he hates being regarded as a hero, he loathes the thought of being a hero, but the light chose him because there is none more qualified to carry the mantle.

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[Heavenly Spear]

"Tianlóng Mei!"

"Both attacks began warping and tearing the fabric of reality around them apart, but just an inch from colliding a finger came between them stopping them completely, Sol stumbled forward, landing on his hands and staring up in disbelief, Yu stumbled backwards and fell unconscious while her body regressed into a human once more.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Goodness me, any later and the very star cluster and the worlds we call home here in the Drifting Heavens would have been destroyed," A tall man had appeared, he seemed just as young as Sol was, but the power that was being manipulated to prevent the tips of their attacks from colliding was undoubtedly that of the Heavenly Ancestor.

"Young people these days are so impulsive, imagine, I try to relax and see the fruits of everyone's labour and I am immediately beseeched by an intruder on the brink of killing my finest disciple, all to prove a point..." His head slowly turned until he was staring at Sol who could feel a lump forming in his throat.

"This is bad, he seems hostile." Jena disappeared in an instant and appeared at Sol's side, holding his arm and helping him to stand again before he shook himself when his mana began rapidly replenishing itself thanks to the collective within him turning its gears and sacrificing the newest expansions.

In just a few seconds, Sol was almost at full strength again.

"Hm..." The ancestor narrowed his eyes and then looked on the opposite side where Yu was also standing, albeit much slower without the aid of another, and her mana recovery, while fast was nowhere near the impossible speed of the man she had been fighting. "Curious," He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, causing the two powers clashing to vanish.

"Ugh..." Sol made a crooked smile, seeing firsthand the difference in their power. "That's pretty annoying."

Yu lowered her head and clasped her hands as soon as she was spacially aware again. "Master Zhang-"

"Annoying, is you disturbing the peace and thinking that there would be no consequence!" The man turned his back to Yu and summoned a war-hammer from thin air, while Sol conjured a Shield and braced himself.

"I didn't come here to cause trouble, I need your-"

Zhang snarled in rage, swinging the hammer.

"Save your words for the afterlife!"