The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"Save your words for the afterlife!" Zhang snapped, waving his hammer once and then swinging it mercilessly intent on ending Sol's life on contact.

"Fuck," Sol activated [Clockwork], staring at the weapon swinging towards him in slow motion, he wanted to move but he already knew that it was pointless, if he dodged this first attack then the following one would outpace his trump card and end up killing him without fail.

"This wasn't meant to happen, I got carried away!" He thought, clenching his teeth and bracing himself while the entire collective within him dimmed and almost went black as he siphoned all of his availible mana a second time.

"Zhang knew that Sol was strong, but when his hammer which had never left a man or woman alive collided into the large shield this man had conjured and was totally repelled he stood there in total shock and silence for up to a minute.

Sol on the other hand had fallen to his knees, choking up blood since despite avoiding the initial blow his body had reached its limits.

"Master, should we use the beginning and flee?" Jena who had remained by his side the whole time asked, staring at Zhang rather than Sol since she too could find ways to deter the second attack, unsure of the third.

"No, he's the whole reason I came here, or rather, someone like him, if I run now he will spread word, I will be outcast regardless of who I seek out, this whole trip will have been for naught." Sol retorted, standing again with her help and staring at the Ancestor, absent of hostility.

"Heavenly Ancestor Zhang Yu," I have come from afar seeking your-" Sol ducked when a spear from nowhere came flying at his head, it still managed to leave a scar across his forehead, but at the very least he was making good use of [Godspeed] being indefinitely active.

"I do not care, why would i the Heavenly Master of this great plain listen to the words of an usurper!?" Zhang withdrew his spear and summoned large red staff, swinging it several times and watching in confusion each time when Sol was able to barely avoid each attack, leaving a scar that was easily healed.

"I am no usurper, I am not a challenger, I need your-"

"Silence!" The man roared in outrage, catching up to Sol in a flash and grabbing at him; this was it, another unavoidable attack.

"F-"

[CLOCKWORK; DOMINION]

Zhang saw everything around him slow to a crawl, while Sol alone began skipping away rapidly, but with a smirk the man exerted a small fraction of his mana and caught up a seconf time, seeing the shock on the fleeing intruder's face when he caught his arm and held on to him.

"What now, usurper?" Zhang asked with a grin, he had to admit, it had been a while sinsce someone made him this interested, but at the same time Sol was a man after his power and throne, he couldn't just let him go no matter how amusing he was. "What other trick do you have to show me before your death?"

"I am no usurper!" Sol snarled, watching Jena fall from the air between them swinging her his sword as if she was attacking the Ancestor, but when the man just barely moved his head and grabbed her by her neck the girl finished the swing, severing Sol's arm and then vanished from his hold.

"He sacrificed his arm without a second thought!" Grecia who was still by the great sustem window with Ling Fuhua stared in disbelief seeing Sol roll away from the Heavenly Ancestor and fkip to his feet.

"Would you please just listen to me?" Sol asked once more, closing one eye and using [Greater Heal] to close the wound rather than instantly regenerate a new arm. "I am not here to challenge-"

"This cockroach..." The Master threw the severer hand to the ground, watching Jena appear bext to Sol once more. "He just refuses to die..."

"Cockroach," Sol made a disturbed face, wearing a crooked smile as the nickname he hated the most found its way back to him after such a long time. "No... listen I made a deal with-"

"Nothing you say can persuade me!" The arrogant man roared, catching Jena out of the air as soon as she attempted to disappear again and trapping her in a ball of mana.

[System Offline...]

"What?" Sol snapped, looking to his side just fast enough to see the fist before it descended into his jaw, leaving the piece of debris they were floating on cratered when he was sent ripping through the large hard body, breaking thr surface on the other side and landing on his feet with his jaw dislocated and his eyes and ear bleeding.

"The system!" Grecia held her mouth in horror when the feed they had been watching disaster unfold from disappeared with a loud pop, and then her and Fuhua saw the same notification that Sol had seen before their connection was severed.

"Master-" Fuhua decided there and then to take whatever action she could, but found herself and the other woman opposed by hundreds of cultivators, staring them down and blocking their path. "What are you doing?" She asked.

"The Heavenly Ancestor has marked you all as enemies, this means we need not listen to Master Yu's directive, we are free to act as we please now. "The old man that had been closest to them answered. "All without fear of repercussion from that bastard you call master!"

"What should we do with them?"

"We should just kill them!"

"Their master wanted to make a slave out of our beloved dragon heiress, we should make them slaves and sell them in return!"

"Sell? are you blind? We should keep them as personal slaves instead!"

Hearing all these awful conflicting ideas, fuhua looked at Grecia, held her hand tightly, and then in one fast motion, vanished from their sights."

"Where did she go?!"

"Over here, she is fleeing towards her master!" On of the guards on the farthest end of the collection of people called out, pointing towards the Void in the direction of Sol.

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"Master taught me one of his exclusive skills, although the system is offling, I am still able to use the power granted to me by her!" Fuhua answered Grecia. "The ony reason this is possible is because I evolved into a cosmic being, master says that I can become a demigod whenever I choose, nut with the system offline I cannot do it at the moment, so this is as fast as I can carry you."

"This is plenty fast, even with my current power, I am not this quick while traversing the Beyond!" Grecia looked behind them at her feet straightened and dangling while Fuhua continued using the Void as a foothold and running, burning through her mana with [Godspeed]

With the laws of a vaccum in effect, every motion that pushed her forward left her hurling faster than she was before, no friction, nothing hindering her, within the space of a few seconds Fuhua had achieved near light speed, but this was her limit.

Shs didn't know how to manipulate space to break that barrier, and Sol was an entire galaxy away, even at her top speed it would still take her hundreds of years to get there.

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"I may enjoy killing you, after all!" Zhang came through the hole next to Sol who had remained stationary the whole time after landing on his feet, unconscious and slowly bleeding. "You have caused enough issues for one lifetime!" The man summoned a greatsword and dropped the blade with a wide grin.

"Yu...?" Zhang asked, halting his strike when his attack nearly cleaved through Yu's forehead on its way to Sol, who was still unresponsive. "What are you doing?" he asked again, watching her stand defiantly betweenhim and Sol with her arms spread wide and her eyes shut tight. "Little girl, move-"

"Lord Zhang Yu, father, I wanted to sit idly by and allow it to happen, but if I stay on the sidelines and watch as you Kill this man, I would end up taking my life later on out of shame..." Yu shook her head. "Please, do not kill Sol Vestic, he and I made a deal-"

"What kind of deal would lead to you ending your own life?" The man asked, slowly lowering his greatsword and leaving it to rest next to him. "What did he do to you?"

"He did nothing, father, he came here seeking to enter the games as a master in order to seek an audience with you upon winning, I denied him entry, so he offered r=treasures worth lifetimes of cultivation in exchange for that chance, I still denied him, so he offered his flesh and blood, the little girl, and wagered a challenge, if he loses he would become my slave, I would attain all of his treasures as well as his eternal service."

"Why in High Heavens would you make such a ridiculous deal, child?"

"If he won, then in exchange I would become his slave." She finished the rest of the deal.

"Move aside, this man has to die, how dare he?!"

"Father!" Yu snapped. "We made a binding vow, a Soul Contract!"

Zhang began shaking, slowly removing the blade from Sol's neck and looking at her again, eyes wide and draconic with black scales slowly forming across his forehead and arms.

"...You did what?!"

"We are bound by contract, if anyone aside from one of us kills the other before a victor is decided then we will both die!"