The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"Dear, what are you doing?" Ikaris asked Sol.

He was seated next to the bed with his hands folded and his eyes lazily locked onto the ceiling while the baby clung to his finger and slept soundly in his lap meanwhile she had the shirt he was wearing earlier in the fields sewing a tear in the shoulder.

"I'm looking at them, just as they observe the skies thinking of me," He answered regarding the great tree inside of his soul which flourished and grew, expanding his power and strengthening his body.

"Dr'ul and the other gods and everyone else on Arkadia, Usami and everyone else that went back to earth; every cluster of universes inside of the collective, they now exist as a part of me, I can see everything clearly without any effort, I can see their hearts and desires, I can feel their sadness, their pain, I hear their voices like little whispers asking for guidance and protection...

Little prayers."

"Billions of sentient planets, septillions of lives dependent on me, there's no heavier responsibility."

"It is a responsibility that even I as the first goddess have never shouldered," Ikaris smiled and looked at her work again and then turned her eyes to him once more. "I am proud of you, Sol, proud of the man you have become, although you do not believe yourself so; you are indeed our god, our protector," She smiled once more when he looked at her.

"I remember I hated being called a god, I still do, how can I have two contradicting titles?"

"The Godslayers are gods though, the gods that other gods rely on for protection, isn't that a correct assumption?" Arla who was sitting with Dina and Sara on the other side of the room asked and they all looked at her and then at Sol and Ikaris. "I apologise, but my ears are their organ, I cannot stop their function even if I alter their appearance."

"How are they?" Dina asked.

"Thriving, since I took them with me and my body adjusted to the chronology of the Khalla-Nova Collective, all the dilation disappeared, time flows evenly throughout the collective, even in Origin." He answered and Dina's eyes lit up.

"So it's just been two extra weeks then, not years on earth?"

"That's right, for Eve we've been gone a total of maybe four or five months since departure, for humans that's still a lot, but if the time hadn't adjusted she'd have already been an old lady." Sol hummed, it's safe to meet her whenever you want, I can make this happen," He stared at the roof again.

"No, no, I'm fine, what's happening here is far more important, Master, I don't want to leave your side, not at a time like his."

"If I may, what exactly is happening to us?" Arla asked so with a complicated expression etched across his face, Sol closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"The Khalla-Nova Collective is massive, the rules that this place abides by are strange the very makeup of it is different, it's another case like Origin again," Sol slightly wiggled his finger causing Talia's grip to tighten when he felt like she was going to release him.

"My powers are severely dampened, as are yours, at first I thought it was just the collective itself but there's a high possibility that anywhere else we go inside of the emporium it's gonna be the same," he peeled down at his daughter and began playing with her.

"What do you mean?" Ikaris asked.

"It's the same reason the emporium soldiers are far stronger than the average human should be, I mean think about it, why are we who should clearly be many times more powerful as massively nerfed as we are?" Sol asked.

"At best with all the power I have now, I could destroy a galaxy, just one and it would burn through my reserves faster than gasoline in the open air, there's only one explanation and it's been staring us in the face all along."

"...LAW," Dina snapped her fingers, in realisation.

"Correct," Ikaris answered.

"I don't know what LAW is, but they're spreading it somehow and nobody seems to have noticed, the fact that we're here in a sister Collective that had nothing to do with the original war and are being affected by it is proof of that theory, law tries to even the playing field between gods and men, if we didn't have mana we'd be indistinguishable from the people here in both strength and otherwise.

"Then the Godslayers under the Emporium's thumb-"

"They're barely planetary level," Sol lowered his hand.

"That's why they've been so shocked by what I can do; none of the younger generation has a clue that they've been empowered to this degree, LAW grants power to the powerless and divides the power of everyone else, so humans and other lesser species have gradually gained while the Vatui, Godslayers and Gods have been severely weakened, isn't that right?" Sol stared at the roof leaving an air of confusion to everyone except Ikaris who stared upwards with a smile.

"Lumi?"

"Indeed, you are perceptive beyond the regular and the irregular, Godslayer," Lumi appeared without her glow and landed silently on the floor before him. "I did not intend to poke my nose in matters unrelated so I have been silently watching."

"As usual," Sol scoffed. "What happened to the gods of this collective?" He asked.

"They are all dead; killed by their people, by the emporium, by other gods, when a deity is weak they become the target of greed, Khalla-Nova is no exemption to this rule, they have been through a lot," She answered.

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"The same fate befell the Godslayers and Vatui who once roamed, when their powers dwindled minor wars were waged against them, battles that destroyed many worlds and sent others like Central Province back to their past.

"Ah, so that's the feeling I've been getting," Dina snapped her fingers. "Their technology doesn't make any sense, their buildings are modern, they have electricity to some degree and I've seen traces of modern technology buried or in storage, but there's nobody using that knowledge it's like the smart ones all died and left the strong ones behind."

"There was a war here on Central Province about two centuries ago between a group of rebels and the Emporium which wiped out most of their civilization, they are in the process of recovery." She answered.

"That's all."

Upon Sol's question being answered, Lumi nodded daintily and disappeared the same way she had arrived not even sparing Ikaris or the others a second glance as she went.

"What of light and dark?"

"LAW affected them as well but on a much smaller scale than it did to the others," Sol answered. "They're here too, not in this room or this plain, they're out there hiding somewhere, weakened and vulnerable..."

***

A month of diligently working later and Sol had finally had enough of farm life, he dropped the axe in his grasp and walked away from the forest he and the other workers had been clearing as soon as something rang in his head. "It's time."

"Hm?" Dina stood from picking in a garden and looked towards the forest, at the same time Sara dropped the dough she was kneading in the kitchens and walked out causing the women she was working with to call after her but to no avail, she just ignored everything else and kept on walking.

"Arla?" Halga called to her, but like the others, she seemed almost entranced as she responded to her Master's call. "Oi, I'm talking to you!" Halga snapped again, but the usually reserved and composed woman turned and stared at her hand being held with pure hostility as her sigils began emitting a faint glow.

"Unhand me at once," Arla stared at her, and Halga released her shocked at her appearance as she had never seen or heard of anything other than Vatui or Godslayer possessing power of this kind.

"W-where are you going?" The woman asked.

"Home." Arla dragged her hand away and then turned and burst into a full sprint, vanishing from Halga's sight in a matter of seconds.

"... What the devils?" Halga stared at the door slowly closing and the trail of dust left by Arla's sprint, on Dina's end, it was far more flashy as the women she had been working with sat in the dirt baffled beyond movement and belief after she'd leapt into the air and then flown away like she was riding the winds.

"Finally, I was starting to feel stupid just picking and planting foods and carrying stuff all day every day," Dina swerved and landed before Sol at the entrance of the cabin they all shared.

Arla arrived next coming to a halt and flashing her hands across her body erasing any evidence of herself doing housework.

"I quite enjoyed my stay here, it was peaceful."

"Surely," Ikaris opened the door and looked at them while Sara appeared from inside the cabin.

[Preparations are complete, Master, I have found and mapped every Emporium outpost within this universe and I have finally made contact with my alternate consciousness with Jenifer in another, she is safe, but still being watched closely.]

"Never mind her for now, she knows what to do and when to do it," Sol closed his eyes as black rings appeared beneath them and a pair of horns slowly grew from the sides of his head facing backwards.

He opened his palm and everyone aside from Dina vanished as he took them into the grey and then sent them directly into his vast and open soul which housed his collective.

"What the hell are you?" Olaf came to a halt several paces away from Sol, there was a weapon resembling a gun in his grasp but he dared not raise it against him.

"Sorry about this, but you never saw a thing," Sol raised his hand and squeezed his fingers together. "None of you did, there was no Sol, no Ikaris, Dina, Arla, Sara or Talia, there was no crash in the mountains and forest and there were no strangers, life as you know it has been the same as always, now go to sleep, all of you, and forget."

"What are you talking about?" Olaf raised his brow.

[Divine arts; memory erasure]

*Snap*