The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"Is she implying that after everything she has done, she has been holding back?" Hudor looked at Keele, and without fanfare the woman nodded with her eyes narrowed and an expression of worry etched on her face, more than her, Jenifer looked like a child that had witnessed the death of their parent, surely she believed Dr'ul was stronger than this, but to see the ever-smiling goddess of war grow perplexed to the boiling point of rage filled her with unease.

None of them though, had the same expression as S'mael or Adonai, the two gods were visibly worried with the latter clenching the staff in his hand as he watched intently. "Do you think we should intervene, after all?" Adonai asked his brother, glancing at him briefly with a knowing gaze. "She might actually kill the woman if she attacks her in that state."

"I refuse to fight Dr'ul when she is like that, unless I have no choice, I would rather fight Sol." S'mael shook his head; like his brother his smile had also been erased.

"She is exactly halfway as powerful as the goddess of balance is, when we were on Arkadia Ikaris was able to tear the heavens in half with only a single percent of her power, have some perspective Adonai, it may look like a normal fight but I am sure as night turns day; if we get caught between her now we will die, nobody weaker than her should be anywhere near there."

"I would mock the god of destruction for saying something so cowardly, but I understand and agree, I would rather fight a stranger with power greater than hers than my sister," Adonai sighed and crossed his legs, sipping his tea again. "I hope your commander lives through this."

"You two..." Zara thought of berating them, but reconsidered immediately.

Cecelia started a fight because she insulted the goddess of war, before her were the gods of Destruction and Creation, she would not make the same mistake her sister did, she was fully aware that these two, along with Renia who had left and Dr'ul could singlehandedly destroy the entire Éloén clan if they wished it, she chose preservation over pride.

"What was the point of saying all that then?" Zara changed her tune when she found them both staring at her.

"We considered, but the risk outweighs the reward." Adonai huffed.

"Yeah... I don't feel like dying today." S'mael agreed.

"If it gets out of hand, I will handle her," Alpha responded to the theme and all eyes fel on her. "Do not underestimate the system, only Master is my superior." She added, not even turning to meet anyone's gaze as she carefully watched the fight entering it's final stages.

"...Right," S'mael chuckled nudging Adonai's arm, but the god of creation remained still, staring at her with suspicion and awe.

***

"You think I fear you, just because your hair glows and you can take a beating, but you're wrong!" Cecelia crossed her arms and guarded her face when the winds began picking up and pushing her against the ice.

"You think that because you have mastery over mana, that will be enough to best me, but you are wrong!" She ground her teeth, pulling energy from deep within and pointing her fingers at Dr'ul in the form of a gun. "My weapon was a conductor meant to channel my power, I can do it all on my own."

[Unknown Tier; Ballista Pistol]

"I don't need your approval, I don't care what you think or say, what matters is what Her Highness thinks, and right now she has been corrupted by you and those parasites who surround her, She is Vatui, the likes of divinity are beneath us, as they always have been the only equals we have are Godslayers!!"

"Even in the face of my wrath she refuses to see reason and delusionally sticks to her ways..." Dr'ul stared at her hands as the last of her mana returned and she assumed a burning form, though unlike before the flames that had been a part of her only seemed to hug her, what remained of her armour had been obscured beneath the heat and glow.

"It matters not, Ikaris is not here to discipline this child so I will take responsibility, even if it leads to complete discord between the Divine and the Celestials." She sucked in a breath and closed her eyes. "I do not have a choice, someone like this does not qualify to be at the side of Divine Royalty."

"Disappear!" Cecelia launched her attack and as she had mentioned, her weapon had indeed been a conductor, the raw power coming from her was so many times more potent that it took an entire digit of her index finger and sent her flying backwards.

The attack came with so much speed and force that not even Dr'ul could dodge it in time, at least, she was not able to move fast enough, but with her coverage of Arla's teleportation technique the goddess appeared at Cecelia's side with her fist cocked and launched an overcharged punch obliterating everything they had stood on sending her towards another solid object out in the void.

"I have to thoroughly break her in order to get through to her, even if I could, this fight has no room for enjoyment, I have to focus on not getting hit by her raw power, one of those is enough to incinerate me." Drul admitted to the power she was sensing inside of the attack which had missed her.

"Burn away!!" Cecelia after crashing through another solid body righted herself and aimed her hand again, pointing as she drew on even more power stored within her.

[Unknown Tier, Buck Barrage]

The void lit up with bright objects billions in numbers, spreading across Dr'ul's field of vision before they began racing towards her, the previous speed had been sacrificed for quantity, but Dr'ul could still feel the power they held and could tell that getting hit was not in her best interests, unfortunately for Cecelia there was a seal on her back, left there after Dr'ul had last struck her with a cast, so she was shocked a second time when all of her attacks failed because the goddess appeared at her side, striking her again and following up with another punch towards the body she had just crashed through.

"How is she doing that?" She wondered, but before she could even begin to think of why she was so easily being outpaced the goddess caught up again aiming her hands above her head and her heels toward Cecelia. "How-"

[Imaginary Tier Technique]

Dr'ul's feet made contact and the two of them vanished in a streak of crimson, tearing through the planet and reaching the other side in a third of a millisecond. "Extreme Fajin!" The goddess announced her technique after using it and then turned again when an extra glow appeared on her arm, watching Cecelia catch ablaze from exiting the atmosphere of the breaking planet beneath them.

"Release!" She vanished once more appearing at Cecelia's side with her glowing fist in the punching motion, but like a snake, Cecelia's arm slid around hers and locked at her elbow and then the woman fully avoided the punch and locked her legs around Dr'ul's torso with a wide grin.

"This, is my win, mongrel..." Cecelia bore an expression of victory when she pressed her arm against Dr'ul's chest and pointed her disjointed finger at her. "Death is your only mercy, you flawed existence!"

Dr'ul held an expression of shock contempt after hearing those words, her wrath subsided, and her emotions seemed to shut down entirely; she became a husk and then the entirety of that husk turned into killing intent.

Cecelia felt her body begin to shiver, but pushed through the sensation and released her attack making a clean hole right through the goddesses torso, but something was off; Dr'ul had made no attempt to attack, deflect, or even escape her hold, she just quietly allowed herself to be blasted through, she understood why a few seconds later when her face caved in from a punch coming from behind Dr'ul.

"I cloned myself at the last moment and let you release your technique there, well done, Éloén Cecelia," Dr'ul watched her crash onto the surface of the unknown body.

"Y-" Cecelia was shut up when Dr'ul's fist plunged into her stomach and she folded over her arm, she had moved so fast that the flames accompanying her lagged several seconds behind, covering her once more as she picked Cecelia off her hand and held her by her face.

"You tried killing me purely from malicious intent." Dr'ul released her into another punch and then caught her before she could even move slamming her into the ground and sighing over her, releasing divine mana so dense it was nearly black from her nostrils, similarly, the mana coating her lost the beauty it had and was shrowded in a dark miasma.

"You refuse to repent," Dr'ul stepped on her arm directing a surprise shot to the side and then kicking her in her jaw with her other foot before straddling her. "It seems that the Emporium did poison you after all; for you to go this far." She fought the woman's arms until she had pinned them to her chest with one hand, overpowering her.

"This is beyond repair," Dr'ul's eyes widened and her pupils shrank as she balled her other fist and aimed to punch.

"If your death keeps the others in check then I will be the vile being you are trying so desperately to make me into..."