The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

Chapter 298: Extermination.

"Why is it like this?" Viktor Flint huffed, staring at his shaking hand while he clutched his other arm which bled black blood, he hissed and shook his head and spat to the side visibly disgusted by himself. "The Ikaris of the past would have long been killed by this power, and yet..." He trailed from his mental breakdown and stared up at Ikaris.

"How?" The man asked.

"How, Ikaris!?" He roared, flashing his hand free after it had healed completely and stood from his crouch staring at Ikaris who had quietly waited, aside from himself the other six generals had already been killed off, but true to her word she had continued to torture him, after all; his arrival was the reason they had to hide for two months, he was the one that chased Sol into the Khalla-Nova Collective, she held nothing but a deep loathing towards the man before her.

"The means of my growth is unimportant, Flint, what matters is that you are weak, you're a pathetic existence, that much is obvious," Ikaris answered him in a monotone so sharp it wiggled itself through his walls and attacked his pride with a knife resulting in him wincing from the insult.

For him this was twice the insult, his fleet had been destroyed by Ikaris once before, back in the last days of the war, like Nine who had personal history with her, Flint's fleet was a subdivision under the same general as Nine, she was strong back then, but the Ikaris of the past was incomparable to the being before him.

If Cecelia's growth over the millennia had been an exponential one by his assessment, then Ikaris's growth wasn't even on the chart, it was completely vertical; only ascending as more time had passed.

"I have given my everything to this battle; to this cause, and yet-"

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"And yet you're drastically lacking," Ikaris finished his statement, holding out her hand as a small portal appeared next to her.

"Pretending to be strong has never made the weak strong, you are a living facade, Viktor Flint, with all the power you have boasted I expected more, but not only are you weak and pathetic with that weakness; you're also a sad excuse for a warrior, I should tell you that the only reason Sol ran was because I had just given birth and we had injured among us, even his strength back then; though much lesser than what he possesses now would have still been enough to destroy you if he had steeled in his mind to do so."

"General Viktor Flint," Ikaris slowly pulled her hand from the portal, revealing the sword that she had taken from the 1789th General. "What happens next; happens because you're too weak to protect yourself and too cruel to those weaker than you are."

She unsheathed the sword causing the general's eyes to widen when he saw the blade slightly glowing after coming into contact with her. "This is your final moment; stand and fight me with everything you've got; die like a man and not like a worm."

"...Die, like a man?" He asked, unsheathing his sword as well and staring hatefully at her. He wanted to at least refute her power, but their battle had been well over an hour long, and it was clear to see that his power was inadequate, his skill in comparison to hers was subpar, and his experience, despite being active for so much longer than she was had proven to be severely lacking.

"I'll die like a warrior on the day I choose to die!!" Viktor abandoned everything, the Emporium, his title, his pride, his greed; he threw it all away in an instant and threw himself into the pits of hell, using his thumb and puncturing a blood vessel in his forehead, another in his right shoulder and then one in his chest right next to his heart.

"Ever since I discovered you and that damned Godslayer, my life has been nothing but misery and chaos- I've had enough!" He bent his body abnormally and threw the sheathe of his sword at her with all of his strength causing the rocks, the soil and everything else in his surroundings to get disintegrated as the sheer force of the projectile's speed passed over them.

Ikaris who had not expected this sudden boost of power reclined and caught the thing after dodging it and luckily too since the weight it carried dragged her away just as he appeared in its wake with a swing destined to chop her head off had she not moved.

"I won't let you live!!" He screamed flashing his blade a second time as the restrictions set upon his body began burning away and his skin began turning black from the blood overflowing in his body while a portion of it burned on the surface of his skin like a smokey miasma giving him the appearance of black flames while he huffed more black burning blood through his nostrils.

"I won't let any of you live!!"

It was painful, extremely painful, so brutal in fact, that he couldn't even tell that he was in pain, his goals had all been streamlined to killing Ikaris and then whatever came after her.

Flint caught up with her in an instant and swung his blade again; the attack was basic and easy to predict because of his loss of control, but the power behind it couldn't be ignored, after she had avoided it she was sent skipping across the terrain trying to regain her balance when the wave of shock it generated ripped through the ground like a hot knife against butter leaving giant cracks and one canyon so massive the sides were out of sight.

"Stop running!!" He came again, this time with an audible sound like an explosion beneath water, he made to swing again but Ikaris regained her footing before his cycle was completed and slammed her hand against his chest, sinking beneath the sword and digging her feet in the ground when the landscape behind her disappeared from his attack.

[Creation Tier Magic;]

Ikaris's eyes began glowing brightly as she ground her teeth, tanking the punch that he swung as a counter in the side of her head after missing his initial attack and then hissing out a gigantic cloud of white mana as her mana surfaced once more. "Running? Me?!"

[INCINERATION MAXIMUM]

Point blank, Flint had never seen anything like this outside of Sol's attacks, the first one and the second one she had caused that they all thought was him, in a moment the general was in the canopy of The Plane and the land was too dark and too far away to even be seen as the great white explosion stole his balance and ripped a hole through his torso.

"Keep at it!" Ikaris grabbed him by the hair on his head and spun several times causing the void itself to warp when she sent him tunneling through the air back towards The Plane.

[Creation Tier Magic;]

Ikaris landed before he reached and began running generating heat and electricity as each step she made left a burning indenture in the ground, she sped from one side of the plane to the next in a single flash causing several thousand tornadoes to form from the atmosphere being changed because of her actions, she waited a second more and then made a straight dash again, passing Sol's fight against Nine which was as one-sided as hers, passing Cecelia who had pinned Lana to the ground and rested the mouth of her cannon over her face, she passed Dr'ul and the others, as well as Arla and Dina, blighting the land when she came to a stop with her fist clasped and her sword dismissed.

"I had no idea of the grand collective and I was happy enough to keep living in ignorance, I've lived a terrible life and I had finally started making an effort to change my ways, I have a family, a beautiful daughter whom I cherish more than myself, and a doting husband who would destroy every plane of existence to keep us from harm, but you have forced him to fight again, you tried killing him on the day of his daughter's birth!" Ikaris roared as her hair turned completely white and her mana suddenly stacked on itself.

[Creation Tier Magic;]

[Unknown Tier Magic;]

"You don't get to declare anything, you're not allowed to threaten us, you're not allowed to breathe a moment more, Viktor Flint, enemy of the Vestic household and stain on my past-"

"Oh, shit!" Sol snapped his fingers summoning everyone to his location and giving Nine a side glance after they'd all stopped when Ikaris blitzed past them twice leaving apocalyptic phenomena in her wake.

"Master!" Dina snapped releasing a man she had been holding by his arm and looking up at him. "What's happening?"

"I can sense her rage, she isn't holding back, you lot aren't safe here," Sol responded sending them all back to earth just as Alpha connected their vision with The Plane and began watching the moment Ikaris's fist made contact with Flint's forehead.

"Disappear; disappear with everything and everyone; vanish into the depths of hell and let them know it was I who sent you; remember my name and seethe in the abyss, forever tormented by my face, Flint!"

[EXTERMINATION]