The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"If i win, I will give a hundred of these artifacts to your ancestor as payment, and you will become my slave."

"My treasure is worth more than High heaven itself, and I have even offered the eternal servitude of my precious student; my own niece, the only wager of equity is a life for a life."

"You have a deal, Sol Vestic, a life for a life is fair, but I have a similar condition." Yu pointed her spear a him.

"If you lose, rather than walk away with your freedom, you will serve the rest of your days as my footstool, you and the two who remain hidden within the vessel will be my slaves, what say you?" She smirked.

"I accept." Sol nodded. "But mere words are easily broken."

"Indeed they are," The woman nodded as well, raising her free hand and conjuring a small crimson flame, at just a glance Sol could tell this woman had just severed a miniscule portion of her soul. "Let us make an oath to the soul," She confirmed his thoughts verbally, extending her hand towards him

"The contract will be unbreakable, whatever happens will be between you and I and the secondary parties involved in this deal, and nobody; not even the great Heavenly Ancestor will be able to break it.

"Hm," Sol Mimicked her actions forging a small golden flame from a portion of his soul as well and then slowly drifting towards her.

Yu took Sol's hand in a shake, and everyone watched her mana of crimson and his golden mana wrap arpund their hands like bands leaving a glowing golden sun shaped crest on her arm and a bright dragon shaped crest on his arm as well. "Should either of us attempt to break this deal, our souls will be torn asunder." She smiled calmly.

"Such a brutal technique should be kept out of the hands of the irresponsible." Sol countered.

"Are you calling me irresponsible?"

"If the dress fits." He retorted with a snort.

"Elder sister, is it a good idea to do this?" One of her fellow guards asked and the woman raised her brow with a glance of disbelief as she looked around at the man.

"You ask me that after standing idly by and watching me make the deal and sign the conditions with my soul on the line, are you retarded?" She snapped at the man.

"But, you are our representative-"

"If I lose then it is my own arrogance that led to my downfall, I am sure I do not need to say this; but it is not all bad, I have never lost a fight in all my life, this is an opportunity I have never been given before, do you understand?" Yu huffed, turning to Sol again and smiling wickedly.

"I look forward to the man who thinks thet the only opponent worthy of defeating him is the Heavenly Ancestor."

"It is not a belief," Sol responded. "It is a fact, nobody here but him and you have the qualifications to oppose me, I could tell as soon as I sensed him, and as soon as I saw you; none else can challenge me."

"Master is amazing is he not?" Fuhua mumbled. "Aside from him wagering my life to ensure he has passage into High Heaven's Pavilion, he has been casually making the strongest cultivators in High Heaven flustered with nothing but casual conversation.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"They understand," Grecia added.

"Understand?"

"Yes, they are aware that Master is strong," The Vatui woman answered, looking out the window rather than at the Systen window. "They took his threat of a forced entry seriously, but they still took no action against him, because he is a powerful adversary easily capable of killing most of them effortlessly, having their strongest most renowned cultivator fight him seems like the best choice.

"You consider their noble act of allowing the strong to fight and not interfere as a wise decision on their part, and yes it in fact is, however I see them all as extremely lucky." Jena chuckled, after the deal had been made she had returned to the carriage, finding the two women inside overly intrigued rather than upset that they had been used in a bet.

"Lucky?"

"Master is the kindest after Milady and Maybe Lady Amastacia, who has the biggest empathetic heart amongst anyone I have had the pleasure of spending time with," Jena smiled. "However, he is by far the most cruel person I have ever come across."

"What?" Grecia seemed more shocked than Fuhua who knew a little more about his character from her use of the Codex.

"Master shines the brightest in two scenarios, the first is when his opponent is overwhelmingly stronger than he is, his power shows an endless cepth for growth and evolution, he is a perpetual engine that never stops moving forward, his mastery and comlete control over the imaginary plain makes him a terrible enemy for those who are superior is power."

"And what of the second scenario?" Grecia asked nervously, looking at Sol again, at how rekaxed he seemed even as he continued idly chatting with the woman he was about to fight.

"Master spent ten years fighting billions of demonkin in a war that saw no rest, no end and that had him alone surviving fot the last three years, no ally, nothing but his wits and his drive to destroy every last one of them, a crusade that ended up claiming the lives of Seven Hundred Billion demons in the end of its lifespan," Jena became serious,

"Good lord..."

"Master is most accustomed to fighting against all odds, and those odds are best stacked when he is facing multiple opponents, if they had all chosen to attack him and awaken his suppressed instincts nothing would have saved them, he becomes a different entity when he fights an army; something dark, something truly evil."

"Where will we fight?" Sol looked around them. "I hate to say it but this is too small a setting, if I let loose here there is a chance your ancestor might attack me out of a misunderstanding."

"This arrogant..." Yu began grinding her teeth. "Follow me,"

"There is not a lot of time before registry closes altogether, we can't go too far away." Sol spoke up again, causing her to be even more flustered and upset when she realised he was only thinking about what happens after he wins rather than the fight itself.

"Damnit, forget about the succession games for a moment and focus!" Yu snapped, causing Sol to recline with a chuckle. "If you manage to defeat me, I will personally escort you into the court of participants and register you myself!"

With her last declaration Sol's expresson grew hard, and his smile turned into a serious frown as he focused entirely on her. "Deal."

"You are an insufferable man, do you know this?"

"As lomg as you don't get any ideas about what I would want you for," Sol huffed. "You will make an excellent fighter, that is all, having someone as powerful as you fighting under me, returning with you alone seems like it would be yet another small victory, that is why I made the wager, Yu, I will have you."

"You bastard, i hope you have said your goodbyes to your loved ones before meeting me."

"No need," Sol countered taking off through the void using his mana while her spear served as her means of transport, she led him into a different galaxy, one full of dying stars and destroyed fields full of astral clouds and shattered space. "After i win, you will understand, you will also be grateful to serve under my hand.

"He does not care one bit that he is making that woman more wroth with every word he speaks." Fuhua emerged from the carriage with Jena and Grecia along with a large system display that everyone could see.

"Gather around baldies, you already knoe that you are incapable of withstanding a single blow from either of those powerhouses, so rather than float around from a safe distance and hope to catch a glimpse of something amazing, I have brought technology that allows detailed observation from a safe distance."

"This kid," One old man had a tick mark in his fhrehead aling with bulging veins in his arms from being called baldy, especially touchy about it because he had a bald spot in the top of his head. "Why do you insist on insulting us?"

"You are all cultivators, therefore, you're a bunch of old baldies, men and women alike, I am permitted to call you so, I am only eight years old, you baldy."

"It seems disciplining the little girl before throwing her into a life of servitude to the Ancestor will be necessary-"

"I dare you to even attempt it." Jena's laid-back expression grew sharp, and the innocence in her eyes grew into hostility as the entire region they occupied began violently shaking from the mana in the surrounding losing stability due to her influence.

"I may only be a child, but I have the knowledge and experience of billions of years of evolution and thousands of civilizations, Master alone has the right to even speak to me in this manner, I will end your life before you can draw your next breath, so watch your tone, Baldy!"

The threatened man froze, not just him but all of the High Heaven Guard, this child was calling Sol Vestic Master, but she was already far more powerful than most if not all of them present. How could an eight year old possess such oppressive mana?

"If a child possesses this much power..."

"Then what of the one she calls Master?"

"You seem to be in a hurry so I will waste no more time," Yu flashed her spear several times. "Where is your weapon?" Find more to read at empire

"I don't need one, come at me, I'll fight you with my bare hands."