The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

In a large hall of red carpets and flowing black drapes three hooded and cloaked individuals stood facing each other around a small table, one with red eyes, another with blue eyes and the third's eyes were hidden completely under the veil of her hood.

"How strong are they exactly, why was my attention brought to this, we have had several Godslayer incidents surging all over the collective in recent times, what makes this one any different, and why is it this sector again?" She asked, and the red-eyed individual cleared his throat.

"The ship itself was destroyed."

"A lesser realm has a weapon capable of harming one of our fleet's newest models?" She asked raising her head until her lips were visible; plump and soft lips accented by a rosy red highlight. "Did anyone from the vessel survive?"

"It was no weapon that destroyed the ship, it was the Godslayer himself, according to our source this one seems to be stronger than the norm, he completely destroyed the entire ship and killed everyone on board with a single strike of his bare hand, and there is more..." The red-eyed man cleared his throat again, waving his hand above the table causing a hologram of a chart to appear before the other two.

"These readings are beyond anything I have seen before, what kind of being could possibly give off such energy?" The blue-eyed man stared at the spike in energy. "This is the Godslayer of that sector?" He asked and the red-eyed nodded and pulled up another chart showing a slightly lower signature.

"This is completely different, are there multiple Godslayers inhabiting the same space, was that even possible?" The woman asked and the one explaining shook his head.

"Ma'am, that is a Vatui reading, a woman, and from the last recorded log in the ship's data bank before it was destroyed she is with child." The red-eyed man explained and the woman slowly raised her eyes to him until the light from the hologram reflected their greys.

"Impossible, the Vatui do not reproduce biologically-"

"It is and she did though, for whatever reason unknown to us this Vatui woman has conceived, and it was heavily speculated that the father heralding the abomination is none other than the Godslayer himself." He rested his hand on the table and conjured a third chart.

"These are the readings we received coming from the Vatui woman, a third signal, the one that originally alerted us of her presence." He gestured to it and watched the grey-eyed woman's eyes widen.

"Impossible, these are the readings of an unborn child!?" She snapped and the blue-eyed man did a double-check while he stared in disbelief as well. "We need her, we need to find out how she did it and possibly repeat this, if it was through artificial means then we will replicate the technology she used, and if it was otherwise then we ought to capture the godslayer as well."

"We have never spared one of them, the Godslayer species might be obsolete and looked down upon but that makes them no less dangerous, I vote we kill him and gain all the information we can from his blood and bones instead. The red-eyed man shook his head in disagreement, but a glance from the woman silenced him before she was silenced by the stare of the blue-eyed man who barely said a word.

"Make it happen, capture them both and kill anything and anyone else that tries to protect them," The blue-eyed man ordered them both. "This might be worth the attention of the higher-ups."

"How high up are you projecting?" The woman asked.

"As high as we can, a Godslayer destroyed one of our vessels with his bare hands, this has never happened before, and the Vatui woman he protects is conceiving an abominably strong child, another impossibility come true, this might be exactly what the Emporium has been searching for the past years, go on, send scouts ahead this time to properly test the limits of his strength, if he is any stronger than the ninth order kill him without hesitation; blow up the entire system if you have to, I want no repeats of what happened with the first Godslayer that came from that place, send five ships of the seventh order."

"Understood."

***

"Ikaris, I may have found a solution." Sol came running down the stairs excitedly and stopped before her and Arla, smiling at the elf as well and then looking at her again.

"A solution to what, dear?" Ikaris put the book she was reading to the side while Arla who was casually floating in a lotus sitting position peeled one eye open and then closed it again, choosing to listen while she slowly forced her mana pool to expand instead of completely abandoning her progress since Dina was passively doing the same even while she was away in the middle of her final tests for the semester.

"Did you figure a way to prevent intruders from breaching?" Ikaris asked hopefully but sighed when she saw Sol's expression go dull and lazy. "I am sorry, I know you are trying your best, it is unrealistic of me to ask something that big of you so soon." She regarded him with sad and sympathetic eyes after she had almost ruined his mood.

"Tell me, what new discovery have you made my love?" She smiled at him.

It was only a question but Sol's mood had indeed taken a dip, while he was in the middle of speeding up the process of evolution across verses and causing more balances to appear he had a strange idea, so to test his theory out he selected a barren universe that had already existed for a while on a branch that hadn't seen any growth in millennia, and carefully he severed that branch from the main tree to see what would happen.

To his delight the light did not fade, in fact, severing the branch and holding it separate made him more aware of its presence, and then he was able to forge the branch on a different part of the tree causing an instantaneous burst as several hundred new verses and realities from its dead end resulting in his mana noticeably growing for once as the brach's thousands of years of stagnation led to it having pent up energy that released as soon as it found headway to break free.

"Master Vestic, Good morni-" Sara was on her way to greet Sol with breakfast after he had spent all night in his study for the night day that week but stopped when Sol held out his hand toward Ikaris and revealed a physical golden branch radiating so much light it was nearly white, what shook her most was that she had seen this before; a projection of the divine tree he had created to map the expansion of everything that grew within his reach.

"What have you done?" Ikaris sat forward in shock, worried when she began sensing a powerful resonance within the branch floating above his palm. "Sol!" She held his hand.

"It's okay, I admit it did cause a bit of discomfort since it was a main branch, but I already found a way to easily replace it through-"

"What if you had caused irreparable damage to your body or mana?" Ikaris squeezed his hand staring at the large portion of the tree which stemmed from Atla which he now held before her.

"Ikaris." Sol stared at her with a soft smile. "Calm down and take a seat." He ordered her, and slowly she obeyed his direction and took a calming breath. "By doing this I have freed you from relying on my power and granted you even more in the process." He knelt before her.

"While I was studying myself I ironically learnt that the collective doesn't need me to flourish, of course considering it existed before I did that's a no-brainer..." He paused and stared at himself stupidly.

"My point is there are stagnant branches that I can free by simply moving them around, it's safe and it exponentially increases my power when I do it, the mana I lost by giving you this massive branch..." Sol paused and conjured the tree above his other palm revealing that although the area where Atla and its branches were was barely noticeably empty the tree now had a large branch sticking from the top.

"I have gained a dozen times that power already from a single branch being freed, and there are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of dead branches, some as old as Atla and others even older going back as close as their initial creation." He excitedly vanquished the projection and held on to the branch between them.

"If I plant this branch in your soul, Ikaris you will suddenly have the power of over a million universes, infinite energy, you'll almost be as strong as I am again." He stared at her.

"But, if you do this, our link will be severed." Ikaris withdrew her hand and pressed her palm above her breasts on her sigils worriedly. "Even if it is only for a moment, I never want to lose you, Master." She shook her head.

"You won't, these are still connected to me, they're growing and I can feel them, we'll be more connected than ever before," Sol argued her point and took her hand again.

"Ikaris, open your soul and let me plant a new divine tree within you, trust me, it will benefit all of us, not just you either, if I can succeed here I want to do the same for Dina and Arla as well, I know I'm coming on strong, but just think how much stronger you will be if I do this." He closed his hand over hers with a pleading gaze.

"Are you certain?" Arla asked, resting after hearing her mention.

"There's a fight coming, Arla, one I'm not sure I'll be able to win by myself." Sol glanced at her.

"We all need more strength, a lot more strength."