The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 274: Amazing.

"Viktor, are you sure this is the place?" A question was asked, and the general looked to his captain for confirmation.

"Are we, Cecelia?" He asked.

"The readings indicate he's here, Sir." She nodded staring warily.

"There's nothing here but an empty space," Viktor stood on the top of his ship staring at the empty space before him. "There's never been anything here, this is one of the only places in Khalla-Nova where nothing resides yet it still exists inside of a sector as if it is its own universe, it'd be too obvious for the Godslayer to hide here." He stated.

"After all this time, is it a wise assumption to say he does not hide for his own sake?" Cecelia asked standing on his left with her weapon at the ready while his sword was also drawn.

On the General's right was another General with her sword at the ready just as he was and to the right of them there was another ship with the number 95 on it; the first of the 99 had arrived just in time to catch on to Sol's readings, and at her side was the first captain of the 95th fleet.

She was blonde at the roots of her hair with silver eyes and blue highlights that almost seemed to glow behind her as her hair flowed weightlessly, and her left eye was patched while her Emporium Generals' uniform neatly fitted over her battlesuit without crush or wrinkle, and the Captain at her side looked almost identical to herself, being her younger sibling, with the only thing separating them being the Captain's green highlights rather than blue, and the fact that she wore a Captain's uniform instead of that of a General.

"So this Godslayer, I've seen his face and I've heard of what he's done, but you're the only one who's met the bastard, what is Sol Vestic like in person?" the 95th General looked at Viktor with a smile, but shook her head and stared ahead again when she saw the focus on his face; he was ready at a breath to attack the first thing that showed up and she could feel it from just a stare.

"General Stark, he has been named most wanted, most dangerous and has caused an entire collective to be put under martial law until his capture or death, what do you think that means?" Viktor asked and she nodded and tightened her grasp on her sword.

"He is beyond being reasonably powerful at this point, he has shattered every known record or scaling he's in a whole other dimension, I hate it but something as obvious as a sneaky attack is the only way we're gonna defeat him if it's just us," Viktor admitted, and Stark stared at him with her brows furrowed and her eyes slightly narrowed.

[Generals, the readings are intensifying; something is about to happen!] Sal pointed out as the leading analyst. [It may be wise to retreat several-]

"Yes, take the ships away from this location and stay on standby," Viktor answered before she even finished speaking and as his ship slowly retreated from what they assumed would be ground zero, Stark's ship also began retreating with them.

"If this goes bad, it won't change anything, you'll just have to keep looking for another way, you hear?" Sal spoke directly into Cecelia's Comms and the white-haired woman nodded and held her weapon firmly.

"Something is happening!" Cecelia raised her gun and pointed directly at the part of the void where she could see energy escaping the most. "There are massive amounts of energy coming from that point, Sir, I think we're too close!"

"She may be right," Stark agreed with her. "I'm not able to sense power, I'm not some Vatui freak like she is but I can easily tell that something isn't right here, it feels like I'm gonna die if whatever is inside of that emptiness catches me; that's what my gut is telling me!" She sheathed her blade and turned her back.

"Flint, I know you're a stubborn man, but know your limits, don't die a pointless death." She glanced over her shoulder at Viktor while her sister sheathed her sword as well and turned to leave.

"How many more chances like this will we get?" Viktor looked at her.

"None, you won't get another chance because you will be dead, Sir!" Cecelia began panicking when she started feeling the waves of invisible Godslayer mana pouring out of a small rift. "This is beyond terrible; there will be nothing left to salvage if we stay here; this entire sector is about to disappear!" She cancelled her weapon and grabbed Viktor's arm. "Retreat, now!"

Viktor stared at her for several seconds, he had never seen Cecelia behave like this, not with him privately or with anyone.

Her usually rounded canines had sharpened, and the hair atop her head was beginning to glow in resonance with Sol's power, she felt safe, but for every living being that was neither Godslayer nor Vatui what happened next would be fatal; she knew this.

"Get us out of here..." Viktor sheathed his sword and turned as he and Cecelia were summoned back to their ship while the Stark sisters were summoned to theirs.

"How far away do you think we should retreat?" Viktor stared at Cecelia sceptically as soon as they were behind the screen of their vessel.

"As far as possible, within the next sector," She answered without even batting an eye.

[Flint, what's that woman saying?] Stark asked from her vessel and he sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose as he contemplated.

"Sir, please listen, the thousands who serve you will die if you stay here-"

"If it's a matter of fighting Sol Vestic I am overly qualified -"

"This has nothing to do with a fight," Cecelia shook her head, looking at the space outside while the ship rapidly retreated while they requested a breach to the neighbouring sector.

"No, it does, he is already fighting someone, within all the power I see and sense, there is something ominous that has warranted him to exert the power to destroy an entire universe within the span of a few seconds, that's why... we'll all die if we get caught in the crosshairs of this battle!"

"Did you hear all of that, Stark?" Viktor asked removing his hand from his ear.

[Loud and clear, I also streamed it to the other generals so they wouldn't carelessly enter upon picking up the same signals I did; let's retreat for now and observe from a safe distance; I suppose you had some level of foresight, having a Vatui on our side capable of sensing and reacting to powers we don't understand can have its uses after all.] She scoffed and then ended the transmission.

Cecelia stared out and gasped as the first shred of light appeared in the void, and with its appearance the alarms of both ships went off and broke almost immediately as a massive tear across their current plain spanning several galaxies tore the void in three directions and began exponentially expanding.

"Quickly!" Viktor snapped when he finally started feeling the danger Cecelia had been sensing from the start.

"This is the power of a Godslayer!?" Stark snapped just before her ship was whisked away by a breach that quickly closed before the mass of energy could reach them. "What the fuck!?" She snapped as soon as they were on the other side of the breach.

"He is beyond reason and reality!" She pressed her hands on the screen of her cockpit staring into the void as the entire expanse of a universe was swallowed in golden light right before her eyes. "It's impossible to hold this much power within any singular vessel!"

"My god," Viktor stared from his cockpit as the void above them was encompassed by golden light spanning from one edge of reality to the next and spreading golden roots towards the universe they had retreated into. "What have I done?"

"Sir?"

"If I'd left him alone, he would never have come to the Khalla-Nova Collective, he'd never have waged war against us, this is the might of a sole being; he is a singularity, if all the Emporium combined its power we'd be able to do the same, but that's as a whole, there's no living or dead member of the Empire who could do something so..."

"...Amazing," Cecelia finished Viktor's sentence staring in awe while he was too distracted to even hear her as was anyone else.

"Beyond the legends, beyond reason and belief, he is... Amazing," She fully acknowledged Sol's power, placing her hand against her chest and releasing a short breath of frosted air which caused the entire cockpit to change by several degrees.

"If someone like this had shown up during the war we'd have won, but it also makes sense; Ikaris, the most powerful Vatui warrior, the most feared enemy of the Emporium...

the war Angel; it makes sense that she would be the catalyst that ushered the rise of such an unbelievable being as her Godslayer, has she been in hiding all this time plotting her revenge against the emporium for killing the king?"

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