The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"Haah~"

"Haah~"

"Haah~"

Raiden panted beastly, he had no understanding of what had happened, the attack which collided into him and turned the day to night and back came with so much power that it stole his rationality for a moment, even though it was nowhere close to killing im the attack itself was terrifying, it had forced him to acknowledge Dina, a lesser being, he was wroth.

He wanted to attack her when he first emerged; the first thing he intended to do was attack and slaughter her to reclaim his pride and prove that she was nothing special, but upon seeing the young Goddess a second time, the Godslayer froze before he could attack this was beyond what he had expected. Read exclusive chapters at empire

"Something has changed," Raiden thought even as his eyes were obscured in the light of his own power rising wildly within himself. "What did she do to herself, why does she feel like an entirely different entity from before, and what is that energy, there was no trace of it before...!"

"No, it does not matter," He shook his head. "She has forced me to fight her seriously, a privilege that not even Master Curt was blessed with in the few occurences where we fought in friendly bouts in the past, I will make her pay, this wretched creature-"

"Are you going to keep talking to yourself?" Dina stared down at him, making a comical gesture of "Come at me" with her fingers.

"I can see that you are rearing to go, Godslayer, so come on, your little minions will no longer interfere, from this moment on it is just the two of us," Dina smirked after she witnessed the twitch of his brow, "Or, could it be that you intended for them to distract me so you could continue to fight me like a coward?"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"HUUUUUUUUGHHHH~!" A deep growl begam escaping the Godslayer after he had been taunted atop his clear hesitance after witnessing the change in her mana. "I will absolutely kill-" Raiden appeared behind Dina swinging his fist intent on removing her h ead from her neck with a punch to her temple, to his shock though, Dina blocked the blow with one hand, spinning and placing a well-timed kick above his other fist as it descended towards her.

The kick was an awakener, the blind rage he had been consumed by quickly evaporated into clarity when his brain was rattled and he was sent soaring towards the upper atmosphere.

Dina in contrast held the hand that she had used to block his attack, cradling it with a wince and casting [Heal] over it. As she had expected. [Goddess of Calamity] had made her so many times stronger, and she intended to test the limits of that new strength by irritating him and then tanking the blow without any magical defence.

The results were not disappointing, his physical prowess was as fearsome as she imagined it would be when faced with the wrath of his fist, but it was far from satisfactory, this much power would have placed her closer to the likes of Dr'ul and Cecelia than any of her other peers, yet he had still nearly shattered the bone in her hand with a single punch, and by the way Sol had described it:

"A Godslayer will only grow more powerful the longer they fight, right up until a moment of rupture where their power either fades and collapses on them or they undergo an evolution," She repeated the words of her Master; a sentiment shared by the likes of Keele, Cecelia, jenifer and Chey Law, who had all encountered and fought Godslayers to the death on many different occasions.

Considering how powerful this one already was without truly exerting himself, it was a given that he was the latter of the examples rather than the prior, if he suffered a rupture and lost it would be for the best, but Godslayers were like cockroaches when they became obsessed and invested in any matter, Raiden would definitely evolve, according to Alpha's calculations at least.

"I can't allow that to happen, if he multiplies his power again then it would take the likes of Dr'ul or Cecelia to put an end to him, Ikaris is dealing with the leader and S'mael, Renia and Adonai have their hands full as well. I can't allow this one to interfere with her," She shook her hand and started ascending. "I just have to deal with him on my own, regardless of how I do it!"

"You will not get the best of me!" Raiden initiated a mad descent causing the atmosphere around his body to burst several times upon his approach, he roared in fury and swung his fist with a punch he was confident she would be unable to block or dodge, but for the third time since they began fighting, he witnessed the world around him change when he was suddenly ascending with his fist hitting nothing but empty air.

"Just keep going like that!!" Dina slammed her hand into his back, opening her palm as a chromatic orb appeared between then.

"Let's take this somewhere where we no longer need to hold back!" She slammed her other hand in his back, pushing him upwards so fast that his body arched around her and he became incapable of resisting the compulsion of gravity beneath them as it tried dragging them back toward the surface.

"What's goin-"

[Pulsar]

A massive pillar of cosmic mana erupted from Dina's hands afted she made a triangular formation in his back using it to propel him into the Void at light-bearing speeds.

"Hooooo~" Dina took a deep breath and began gathering mana in the back of her throat, causing a humming sound as the mana within her whirred violently, circulating and making her hair stand on end when he began approaching again, he was strong, this much was obvious, but the most annoying thing about him had to be his tenacity.

That [Pulsar had hurt, it very nearly killed him, and yet the man had already recovered enough that he was returning, she cround her teeth opening her mouth while the accumilated mana began surging out.

"This time she is going to breathe it?!" Raiden mused already caught up and in the process of dodging the attack that was about to emerge from Dina's mouth. "I don't know what she did to get this much stronger all of a sudden, but it is unacceptable, I refuse to take another hit like that again...!"

Her tell this time was too obvious, an attack from the mouth required too many steps to not show itself unless she was going to keep it hidden until the last second as she had planned to, but in her desperation to end the fight Dina had slipped up with a preemptive attack, one she suffered the price for when he bent his form around the initial beam and landed a successful kick in the side of her head much like the one she had caught him with before, the only drawback being that he had rushed his counter as well and failed to deliver a killing blow on impact.

"Good enough to disorient her, at least!" Raiden bent his knees using empty space as a platform and leaping towards her, he caught up to Dina before she could recover and grabbed her hand yanking her back into his other hand and driving it through her abdomen with a triumphant roar, celebrating his first proper blow when he saw her blood flying from behind her after she had not disappeared into smoke like the first time.

"I won't stop here, that power of yours...

I want it!" Raiden having learnt his lesson after getting a feel for her power grabbed her head, locking his fists in her hair ready to snap her neck, but something strange happened, and for a moment the New Goddess lost her will to fight after getting her hair grabbed, the sigils on her body had reacted to mana, except it was neither Arla's or Ikaris's, nor was it Sol's mana.

Raiden had tried copying her mana and partially, he had succeeded in laying his hands on her soul; something that until that point only Sol had ever done; this broke her defences and caused a sense of familiarity that she found revolting to the point of nausea and repulsion, like fragile glass, her rationality shattered, her mana began multiplying explosively in protest, Dina held on to his hands and raised her legs, pressing her heels against his torso as her smooth hair turned sharp and wild again and the hole in her abdomen snapped shut with instantaneous healing brought by her new power.

"Y-you bastard ...Let GO!" She opened her mouth revealing an even more powerful buildup than the fist one. "How dare you put your filthy hands on my hair, how dare you lay your mitts on my mana; HOW DARE YOU LAY YOUR HANDS ON MY SOUL?!" Dina screamed.

[Stack]

The corners of her mouth began tearing as she forced it to open wider, her eyes which had been obscure because of all the light before became obscured entirely from all the mana she began exuding, and her teeth that had remained tame suddenly sharpened as she took on a rather feral and beastly appearance, digging her fingers through his skin and pushing against him so hard that the heels of her boots crackled and exploded from the pressure she was exerting onto them.

[Dina, wait, there's something odd about this Godslayer at the moment—]

[Mana Multiplied tenfold]

"Blast you!!" Dina continued to roar as the skin of her lips began stripping whilst she continued charging the attack, ignoring Alpha's warning and raising her mana to levels she never had before.

"I'll blast you away, all of you, perish for daring to touch that which only belongs to Master Vestic, you impudent FILTH!" The crests and sigils on her body began discharging mana outwards like a reservoir had been ruptured, and Raiden began laughing as he struggled to free his arms from her grasp.

"Is this the limit of your power, false goddess?!"

[Dina wait, he is luring you into-]

The lights brightened like that of a star, and the whirring of her mana broke the void and started creating a small pocket atmosphere around the two of them.

[Unknown Tier: COSMIC SCREAM]