The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"She must forever remain Ikaris..." Sol stood in the emoty space after he had been walking aimlessly in thought for a little over an hour. "What exactly does it mean, I should've asked," He began walking once more.

"Was she that different from her people, is she actually Vatui at all?" Sol wondered still. "He said that she was the daughter of the first light, that is definitely what he said, and I've been wondering about that too, who is the Goddess of Balance?" Sol spoke to himself. "What is she?"

He walked in circles, crouched whenever he was tired walked for what seemed like days untill finally he laid flat on his back and began staring at the endless spaceless skies above, something he could see and not see simultaneously.

"What am I, even?" Sol asked. "Godslayers are not made, they are born, so how did I come to be, and why did he say it like that?" He rubbed his temple, confused, intrigued, and afraid all at once.

"We are her Godslayer."

"Is he living inside of me?" Sol sat up and held his chest. "Did he and Ikaris...?" His mind started straying to darker thoughts. "She is the one who came searching for me, everything we know of her history so far could end up being a half truth again, what if before me, there was him?"

"As much as the thought of a personal affair with the Goddess of Balance sounds appealing, I was only ever her guardian, it seems you managed to pass that boundary."

Sol heard his predecessor's voice inside of his head and all around him, bouncing from invisible walls in eight dinensions giving him a weightless sensation while the Grey's visible boundaries began eroding from every direction towards him.

"This is goodbye, Sol Vestic."

"Wait!" Sol called to the Grey when he started feeling the return of his mana. "What am I?"n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Her Godslayer."

"What is she?" Sol asked when he was immediately struck with a conversation-ending wall. "What is Ikaris?"

"You already know what she is, Sol, do not sit on the throne of ignorance, you have always known, since the moment you took the mantle of Godslayer when she chose you, you have the answer, seek it from within." He answered.

"That is all, I can say, unfortunately, my consciousness will not make it inside of the Grey to converse, there is still something I have to do to make sure she finds you someday."

"What are you talking about?" Sol's hair began glowing golden, and the angelic rings on his chest and back emerged violently, pushing him forward and backwards and forcing him to root his feet into the ground. "Hey, say something!" He called. "Hey!!"

"Thank you, Sol, goodbye."

***

"Wait!" Sol snapped, but he was no longer in the Grey, he found himself laying on the rear end of a random asteroid passing through a dead system with his hand extended towards a dying white dwarf star that had captured the object with its gravity.

"Damnit..." He closed his eyes again and dropped his head. "I'll never get another opportunity like that..." He clenched his teeth and bumped his head against the rock several more times and then quickly stood, closing his eyes and checking himself firstly for any abnormalities.

"Everything seems to be fine, except I have no idea of how much time has passed," He stared beyond the system, holding his hand before himself and grasping a small cluster of mana as it flew by. "What is this place?" He asked. "The mana here is way richer than Drifting Heaven's."

"Jena," Sol called, but there was no reply; something that had never happened before. "Jena?" Sol called again, opening his palm and creating a small mana orb, as he suspected, there was no prompt from the system, he could not sense her, and for some reason the system was offline.

"He is awake, at last, the Godslayer from afar." Sol heard a voice behind himself and nearly attacked the source, but a sudden sensation of pending death gripped him by the collar, and he found himself floating away from the asteroid instead.

He searched, but there was nothing there, nobody; no presence at all.

"What do you seek?"

"Who's there?" Sol spun when he heard the voice in his ear again. "Show yourself!"

"Why would I do that, how dare a being as yourself order me into action?" The voice asked, and Sol snapped around again, raising his hand and snapping his fingers, opting to escape rather than confront a presence he knew nothing of, but as soon as he appeared outside of the system and sensed Jena's presence he vanished and appeared standing on the orbit-locked asteroid once more.

"Is everything okay, Jena?" Fuhua asked after the little girl suddenly gasped and raised her head, but then lowered it again with a sigh.

"For a moment, I thought I sensed Master's mana, but it has been so long, I do not know." Jena replied, her usually short and neat hair was tall and pooled around her body onto the ground messily, the same for Fuhua who had asked, and the two of them were chained to a wall with the rock giving off a slight humming sound.

"Master disappeared over a year ago, it was a mistake to enter the Grand Fae Dimension without his protection..." Yu was chained to a wall opposite of them, and at her side was Grecia, all of them had the same ragged look and hopeless expression on their faces, their mana suppressed and theis strength too diminished to even stand.

"We could not have known what this place promised, there is no guarantee that Master's presence would have made any difference to them either, they are wild, barbaric beings." Grecia closed her eyes after listening to them for a while.

"It is my fault, I was given the role of leader and I made the decision to trust these savages," She bit her lips and sucked in a deep breath. "Chained to these walls, they have been using us as fuel for their great tree all this time, having my mana burn in this way hurts more than anything I have ever expericnced in the past."

"At least they have not done anything else, when master returns I would only present myself pure to him, otherwise I will end my own life."

"That is taking it too far, Yu," Fuhua shook her head.

"Is it though?" Grecia asked.

"Why do I feel the same, a woman that has been in so many men's beds, why do I have this disgust for myself whenever I am near him, as if his purity is scrutinising me, as though it wants to cleanse me itself, it made me feel small and unworthy, that is why I devoted my existence to him, I hoped that the feeling would perish with time, that he would raise me out of that pit, but in the end, we did not even stay together."

"Master..." Jena began sobbing "I miss you..."

Even she the System had been suppressed with all the mana she possessed in that moment when the shackles were suddenly locked around her wrist.

Her powers did not work, she could not even sense herself, but just for a moment, the first in a year since arriving there, she thought she sensed Sol's power.

"Where did you go?"

"Be silent, someone is coming," Yu warned them all, and the dark room went mute again.

"Your sustenance for today," An old woman walked right through the stone walls and stood in the middle of the room, raising her hand towards the ceiling where there was a glowing flower bud it was their only source of light in the cave, the vines unwrapped and the flower began slowly descending towards the woman, slowly revealing her in the process.

She had white hair that brushed against the ground, her eyes were consumed by the same light that the flower produced bright and spectral, and she had long ears with a thin frame, she was also as tall as Dr'ul at ten feet.

"Ugh..." Jena scrunched her nose when the sweet scent of the nectar they had been fed for an entire year invaded her nostrils again.

"If you do not drink, you will suffer deviation and die a painful death, we have already been through this, little girl." The woman slowly knelt before her. "You are young, and you have a strange construction, you have no mana pathways, as if your body itself is mana if you lose too much you will fade out of existence, you must drink, stay alive, and serve us longer."

"I don't-"

"Jena," Yu called to her. "Do as she says, keep your mana above the dip."

"You have no idea what this is doing to me..." The little girl tugged weakly at the chains and then raised her chin and opened her mouth.

"Good, listening to your elders is good," The old woman smiled, taking the plant by the stem and resting the bud at her lips.

Jena's eyes slightly widened when the bud kissed her, locking itself around her lips and forcing a meal's worth of sweet nectar down her throat without giving her the chance to breathe until it was done, resulting in her choking and coughing some of it up as soon as the bud pulled itself away.

"I'm sor-"

"How dare you spill sacred nectar!" The old woman flew into a sudden rage, slapping Jena so hard she slammed against the wall, leaving a bloodstain where her head collided into the stone. "I should behead you for this crime, where are your manners?!"

"Th-Thank you, for the meal," The girl continued to cry while the same substance she had been fed worked to replenish her mana and heal her injury.

"You do not sound grateful, you-"

"I am next!" Fuhua next to her opened her mouth willingly, inviting the flower without the aid of the old Fae.

"Hmmm," The old Fae scrunched her nose, watching the woman carefully lick the last drop off her lips and then smile at her.

"Thank you for the meal," Fuhua put on her best smile. "It was as delicious as usual."

"Good," The Old Fae smiled, guiding the flower towards Grecia and then stopping before the bud could reach her.

"The Chieftain requested you, you are strong, but your mana is very disappointing, he has expressed his desire to make you a breeding maiden as an alternative, you are Vatui after all, your offspring will be powerful slaves."