The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"All of this was done in just a few hours?" Fuhua stared at what she imagined was going to be a sloppily done grave site.

She expected a large hole full of bones and then filled with dirt or rocks, but what she found instead were individual unmarked graves for as far as the plains stretched, lined in one giant circular formation with a tower in the middle at the top ow which stood a small pedestal with the sword of her recently killed brother stuck in it.

"This..." Fuhua continued running, slowing down when she reached the tower and then ascending it slowly step by step, she wanted to question how Sol had done so much, but her focus shifted from how he had done it to what he had accomplished for her people.

It would have taken her months to bury them all, yet this stranger who had no connectin to anyone here did such a marvellous job of paying respects to her fallen bretheren.

Fuhua stood at the top of the tower across the horizon, she wanted to cry but for some reason the sight of their bodies being respected as she had wished made her smile instead.

"I will take you to the closest star, you can visit here if that's possible in the future, but for the time being, let the dead rest in peace, I still have a lot I wish to discuss with you." Sol seemed to appear at her side and begin speaking. "Fuhua." He called.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Master Vestic," The woman turned to him with a clearly sad, yet optimistic smile. "The deed you have done here today, how can i ever repay this debt?"

"There is no need for such a thing," Sol answered. "I did it for myself as much as I did it for you, the dead deserve respect, laying on a barren battlefield is unbecoming of a deceased warrior." He looked across the horizon once more and then turned his back. "We will leave in a few minutes, if there is anything you wish to get off your chest, now is the time."

"Thank you," The woman smiled once more and raised her hand with the pendant.

"Brothers and sisters, you all died without knowing the truth of the storm we revered as an ancient deity, I pray earnestly for every soul it devoured, and for all those who fell at the hands of the Direfreak that you all find happiness in the thereafter."

The pendant in her grasp slowly floated above their heads and began glowing in resonance to Fuhua's mana surging through it, casting a bright light across the plains like a lighthouse, turning in circles without the aid of either her or Sol.

"I was lucky, I was found by Master Vestic," She looked around at the mentioned with the little girl sitting on his shoulder. "This is where the Everstorm Clan dies forever, I will follow this man from now on, I thank you all for giving me the best life I could have asked for." She smiled and then turned fully to Sol.

"Is that all?" He asked, and she smiled once more and nodded, lowering her head.

"YOu saved my life, and you even dirtied your hands with the corpses of my people, Master, I am eternally in your servitude, whatever you ask of me is within reason, I swear my undying loyalty to you."

"You don't even know who I am," Sol raised his brow with a smirk. "What if I'm a devil in disguise?"

"Then I will give you my soul, watever you are and wherever you are from matters not, you have given me the chance to live after my life was to be forefeit, I will spend this life serving you, Master." She kept her head low and then properly prostrated herself before him. "Please, accept my loyalty."

"Uncle, she is speaking the truth." Jena looked dowm at him, tapping his head when he did not respond right away to the woman.

"The last thing I need right now is a distraction," Sol turned his back and sighed. "Don't you have someone you want to avenge or something?" He asked.

"Seeing my people rested, Master, I have already let go of those grudges, you have destroyed both the storm that fooled us and the Direfreak that killed my people, I have only grattitude and my loyalty to you, please," She raised her head, worried that she would be rejected.

"I suppose every hand is a helping one, huh?" Sol looked up at Jena who chuckled and nodded. "She isn't weak either, I'd say she's about as strong as Renia's fully released potential, that can handle most of the Emporium aside from the top fifty or so."

"I will make the heart oath you mentioned before, if binding my soul is what it takes to convince you completely-"

"I was never serious about that." Sol turned to her chuckling. "I have only used it once before and that was purely to mess with someone as well, there is no need to use a heart oath." He explained extending his hand towards her.

"But, what if I betray you later on?" Fuhua asked him unable to grasp what seemed like a childlike innocence to his character as she took his hand and stood upright.

"Will you betray me, Fuhua?" Sol asked.

"No, never, I swear it!"

"Then that answers that, I don't have time to dawdle any more so we will leave right away." He gestured to the sky. "There is not a single living being left on this small world other than the critters and a few leviathan beasts hidden in the seas.

"Where is your vessel?" She asked, thinking of how he had gotten there in the first place.

"Vessel?" Sol asked realising he never used such a thing before. "Never needed one, I travel the cosmos as is." He looked at her extending his hand again. "You have the capabilities of interstellar travel, how else do you get around?" He asked and she seemed genuinely concerned by his question, staring at his hand hesitantly.

"We usually use a ship, or we travel with a teleporter... but all the ships were destroyed, and the teleporter was broken..." Fuhua went quieter with each word after dawning on the fact that she was stranded on the Everstorm Glades. "You can bare the full brunt of the void with your body alone?"

"Of course, it's how I got here."

"Crashed." Jena corrected him, to which he pouted and shook his hand again gesturing to Fuhua. "You crashed on the closest celestial body as soon as you arrived."

"Nobody cares about the specifics," Sol raised his hand to her forehead and flicked his finger causinf her to comically flip off his shoulder only to start floating before she hit the groung.

"Uncle!" Jena pouted, rubbing her forehead.

"What? You want another one?" Sol looked around at her and she went silent, pouting again and continuing to rub her forehead. "That's what I thought."

"She can fly... Whaa!"

[Ling Fuhua, Congratulations. You have been granted access to the secondary System, all of your data is being analysed and stored].

"What is this sorcery?" Fuhua swung her hand at the System window several times trying to swat it away, but found the glowing box intangible. "Where did it come from?!"

"It's not sorcery, it's technology from beyond your collective." Sol corrected her, letting go of her hand now that she had been granted access to the system. "Jena will explain anything you need answered while we travel." Sol closed his eyes and very carefully released just divine mana, causing his hair and eyes to change while everything else remained the same.

"Jena," He looked to the little girl and she pouted once more and raised her hands causing a massive ring of light to appear in the sky.

"What is that?" Fuhua stared in awe, from her perspective it looked like a portal directly into heaven.

"An acceleration gate, using these will get you to the neighbouring star in as little as three minutes, time around you will slow to a crawl as you are shot far beyond the speed of light." Jena responded right away while Sol cast a barrier over his new follower just to be safe.

"This is farewell to your home, Fuhua," Sol glanced at the woman once more as they started floating towards the gate. "You can access the system whenever you wish and pour your memories into it to gain vivid images of your past... hey," He stopped speaking when he noticed her passed out on the floor of the spherical barrier housing her.

"She fainted from shock, my diagnosis is that she was completely overwhelmed by the new information being directed onto her by both the system and yourself, Uncle." Jena suggested and Sol shrugged.

"Well, considering what we plan to do, and who we will meet, she has a lot more fainting in store for her future." He sighed. "She has no idea what her own collective is capable of."