The World's most Overpowered Side-Character-Chapter 466: Great Calamity

"What is your identity?" Lumi landed next to Xie and raised her hands in an aggressive stance, creating a spear of light in her grasp pointed at Sol. "What master do you serve?"

"Master?" Sol’s eyes slowly panned across the field of opposition facing him and then settled on her form while his brow found his hairline in an almost comical raise. "What kind of question is that?" He asked her and collectively everyone let out a sigh of relief, especially Ikaris who came crashing between Xie and Lumi into his arms.

"Dear," The goddess whipered, holding him tightly and almost sobbing. "You are still you."

"I most definitely am." Sol answered her statement whilst hugging her. "was there ever a doubt?"

"Indeed, this time, there was, or rather, there should be." Lumi nodded putting her weapon away entirely and looking at Xie who shared the same gaze as he stared at them. "Sol Vestic, how are you entirely different yet unchanged?"

"The power of calamity, this is pure heretic madness," One of the Emissaries of light mused equally fascinated as he was scared.

"Somehow I always end up in the middle, it makes sense why this specific force sought me out." Sol let go of Ikaris and turned fully to the hosts before him. "I hope that all of you seeing my current state has put your minds at ease for the time being, my goals are the same, my drive is the same as it has always been." He announced seriously and then turned to the nexus.

"Was your goal to become an Emissary all along, Sovereign?" Xie asked, staring at a swirling mana ripping and mending itself within him. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Of course not, the Emissaries are far too restricted, Giza cannot touch light without being "corrupted" by it, and Lumi and the others can’t interact with dark mana at all or they die," Sol chuckled, watching the Emissaries slowly retreat without a word having failed to stop him and knowing better than to attack him with the current power he had unless they intended to start another war there and then.

"Then, does this mean you too have been placed under restrictions?" Xie asked with his brows furrowed.

"Quite the opposite," Sol countered with his finger raised in teaching. "These powers, this pure mana is someting that was sealed away by the will of fate, while I don’t know why it was sealed, I know that just like Light and Darkness, it possesses will to some extent and wishes to see reality warped to that will."

"Which would be?" Lumi, as the only remaining Emissary of Light asked taking a more reserved posture while Dina and several other allies gathered closer at the absence of any immediate threat.

"Balance," Sol answered, and watched the blue woman narrow her eyes in disbelief.

"That is impossible, you have inherited the powers of chaos and calamity-"

"Which is the perfect balance." Sol answered her. "Light created everything, and darkness represents nothingness, we’re all just different densities of light, but you have to consider the process that happens between these two forces that cause creation in the first place, the balance between light and dark, the grey.

"When light and dark meet...." Ikaris mused.

"Destruction." S’mael interjected with a bright grin. "Beautiful destruction! The convergence between the two laws of our reality!"

"Through the merging of Light and Dark, we need chaos, calamity and destruction before life can be created, if we skip or overlook any of these forces we are left with abominations that go against the natural order of all that is and will be; beings like the Makkan race that were wiped out by Umbra and Giza on their way to the Nexus." Adonai added. "Beings that should not dwell amongst the living nor the dead."

"Then, our concerns before...?" Xie turned to Sol again. "The will this entity of Origin possesses?"

"-Won’t interfere with what I’m doing, in fact, my goals align, Chaos seeks a balance between light and dark, I seek to remove Giza’s consciousness and return the dark to what it was in the Beginning, an entity that does not seek interference."

"What if that proves to be impossible?" Dina asked out of the blue and saw Sol’s eyes ignite with light and crackle as lanes of golden electricity erupted from his back, baring with them an overwhelming pressure accompanied by rich mana as he tried to maintain his composure when the entity now free from one of the four chains binding it began revolting at her words.

"Nothing is impossible, not even the defeat of Giza and Umbra, but should the reality come to be where their darkness consumes what I hold dear and I am left with naught, then there will be no light, there will be no darkness, all of existence will return to total Chaos."

"How is that any better than what Giza is trying to do?!" Lumi, for the first time since anyone knew her snapped in what seemed like outrage, clenching her teeth while the mana under her command shook and fizzed. "We are on a crusade to prevent the destruction of the Grand Collective and all that lay beyond it, my whole purpose for defying Fate and aligning under your cause is to prevent a single power of origin from consuming everything, how dare you spit in the face of my faith?!" She ground her teeth.

"Lumi, calm down." Sol who had been startled back to awareness by her outburst gave her an assuring smile pointing his thumb to his chest. "Right here," He tapped the area. "If I lose all control, use every last ounce of your power and plant a spear right here." He continued tapping his chest, looking at his friends and then at Xie who had an expression of horror, Dina who was already halfway to tears at his words.

And finally, he looked at Ikaris who took his hand and slowly removed it from his chest. "Do not jest, my love, you will not lose..." Her voice slowed to a soft sob when Sol’s hand slowly raised to press against a small circular crest in the middle of his chest again.

"If I cease to be myself at any moment, then I will need your help, Ikaris, you’re the only being in existence who knows my soul’s every corner, if this flame that I have held on to ever dies, do not hold sentiment to this body, I need you to promise that you won’t hesitate."

"I can not-"

"Promise."

"Master," Dina rested her hand on Ikaris’s shoulder when the woman began weeping, aside from her, everyone else held an expression of agony and defeat, the message was a simple one, but its weight held their entire universe within it. "You can’t say th-"

"This is an order to the Sol Collective, the Emissaries, to my friends, my allies, my loved ones; I am at risk of losing control and becoming a great calamity not dissimilar to the one we seek to eradicate, though it is not imminent, the threat is still very present.

If the time comes that I can no longer maintin myself as your leader, dispose of me without restraint."