The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"How do you want to go about this, Master has left us in a place where we are able to fight as freely as possible," Dina spoke first after Keele and herself appeared in a great snowy valley with several mountains littered around them forming a range.

"Where is this?" Keele asked, and Dina shrugged.

"I don't really are, if this is where he's sent us then that means I don't have to worry, I can fight to my heart's content," She admitted and Keele frowned, from the way Dina carried herself she didn't seem like the combat type at all, but simultaneously she had been the one to utilize strange powers from her hands and heal her eyes.

"Are you sure you belong on the battlefield?" The former general asked and Dina paused in thought for a few seconds and then regarded her with a smirk. "With the power to heal you could be a great doctor or-"

"I asked about the Khalla-Nova Collective earlier, Keele, what place would I have here other than that of an outcast hunted and killed by frightened and ignorant people?" Dina's smile was smeared away as she issued a serious question to the woman. "Long ago, the collective experienced a purge that killed nearly everything that wasn't human."

"You are human, though."

"No," Dina closed her eyes as the roots of her hair lit up and light travelled through every strand like pipes, igniting pink across her scalp while her nails turned black and her lips were shaded by her transformation, Keele's eyes narrowed when her eyes and Dina's inverted gaze met for a second time. "I'm not human, I am a demigod, I am a divine," She declared taking a fighting pose. Read new chapters at m_v-l'e|-NovelBin.net

"I have never heard of a race called divine before," Keele also went into a stance as she prepared to fight.

"The gods were all killed by the emporium at the beginning of the purge and with their deaths their divine powers scattered across your collective, all that remains of their once great thrones are debris in a place in the heavens you can't even reach." Dina inched closer by sliding her feet, and Keele did the same, the cold winds howled around them and the snow turned sideways until a cloud of white rushed through and blocked their visions.

"After fighting Dr'ul, Dina has become quite eager to prove herself in battle," Arla stared at the fight through Alpha's eyes while Sol and Ikaris observed directly.

"She wants to fight alongside me, if she doesn't keep up and keep getting stronger, she'll have to sit on the sidelines more, she doesn't want to give up so she's putting in the work, hm?" Sol smiled at the elf and she closed her mouth with her lips folded in thought, aside from her stagnation everyone else seemed to have grown many times stronger already.

Arla's thoughts were halted when Sara exclaimed and intrigued, "Oh!" From Ikaris's side when the cloud of snow that had been obscuring their vision evaporated after Dina used an infernal skill against Keele melting everything within a mile of them and turning the ground into molten rock and steam from the ground up.

Keele was in retreat with her eyes narrowed in surprise; this wasn't like any skill she had seen Sol use, he was more of a melee fighter, but after her initial clash with Dina the woman had immediately turned their surroundings into hell and then pressed to do it again when she exhibited an incredible amount of speed, catching up to and attacking her before her feet touched the ground a second time.

"Interesting..." Keele thought with a half-smile.

"She is a different class of fighter, I'll have to assume that being too far from her will yield more destruction than being close...!" She parried Dina's hands after she tried grabbing her sending one upwards and the other downwards with simple motions and landing a blow in Dina's chest with her palm stopping their momentum and sending the mage crashing back through the burning ground she had created.

"Don't underestimate her, Dina, she might have been weaker than her rank demanded because of refusing the drugs but Keele is an extremely skilled fighter who has made up for her lack of power with extraordinary skills and endless training, as far as her fighting ability extends, there's not another like her in the ranks, I heard it myself; with her level of skill if she had taken either of the drugs she'd easily be above the 500th rank, considering she was 2990th that's an amazing leap," Sol spoke causing Ikaris and to look at him along with Sara and Arla, he'd left that detail out before.

"She is skilled beyond her rank to that degree?" Arla asked.

"That's right," Sol nodded.

"Keele was weaker than all of her Captains and a lot of her Vice-Captains again, but until she met me the woman had never suffered defeat at anyone's hands, not even once, not even to General Viktor Flint; she's a fighting machine that's honed every skill that ever landed in her lap to perfection, she's a monster in her own right." Sol smiled, knowing that Dina couldn't hear him.

"If she's never lost, then how does Dina who isn't even stronger than her going to fare?" Ikaris asked Sol with her brows furrowed in concern.

"Have you set her up for another losing bout like you did with Dr'ul?" She queried seriously and Sol shook his head watching Keele run circles around Dina and deliver several fast jabs at her joints taking her down like a robot, only for Dina to hit the ground and then explode with a wave of power flipping back to her feet and grabbing the woman's leg with a roar and tossing her clean out of their battle zone and chasing after her.

"Dina is an adaptive fighter, that's why she's been able to evolve so rapidly," Sol watched Keele crash into a mountain range and fold in shock when Dina's fist collided with her jaw immediately and sent her ripping through three mountains in a flash of pink that ruptured the third mountain as she hit the ground beneath it and bounced free of the avalanche her crash had made.

"Her mind is clearest when she's in the middle of a fight, she evolves at a scary pace, far faster than I ever did, she already achieved the same level of power I had against Sitri in a year when it took me ten years of endless fighting to get even close to that power, she's the perfect mage, facing off against the perfect warrior," Sol held on to Ikaris's shoulders kneading them slowly as they observed together.

"A match made in hell!"

[Mana spear]

Keele dodged a sudden blue projectile set to skewer her and then leapt away from it when she felt fluctuations of energy coming from it, a moment later the spear that had dug itself halfway into the ground exploded with brilliant white flames rupturing everything in a hundred metres of itself like a landmine and sending Keele spinning out of control from the wave of force it produced.

[Mana spear\\s]

"What the-"

Dina was going to cast a multitude of spears but lost sight of the former general for a brief moment and then watched the world around her turn upside down when the woman grabbed her leg from beneath the ground and spun her, slamming her into the ground and catching het by her face and slamming her into the ground a second time compressing and causing the solid ice beneath her to explode from the pressure of her impact.

Keele intended to attack again but arched her body on instinct, dodging a sudden rush of flames that came from Dina's mouth and then grabbing her chin and smelling her jaws shut only to retreat when Dina's eyes lit up and she shot off a Lazer-like blast from her pupils ripping the land in half and slicing the mountains around them apart as she tried getting it under control again.

"She just created another [pulsar] variant in the middle of a battle!" Arla gasped, shocked.

"Dina's instinct is to improvise, to cancel her enemy at any cost, to win regardless of how she weaponizes herself, Keele's technique works specifically to counter someone who relies too much on their skill by neutralising that person's defences, they're complimenting each other and raising the stakes without even realising it," Sol chuckled in amusement when Dina's erected barrier was smashed and she and Keele clashed fists several times leaving indentures in the snow.

"Slowly, Dina will stop using magical attacks without even realising it, at least the conventional ones we're used to."

On queue with Sol's explanation to Arla, Dina blocked nearly a dozen of Keele's attacks directed to disorientate her and roared out a great pillar of pure mana fire forcing the fighter to retreat from her again.

"This is fun!" Dina grinned, locking her teeth with a snap and shutting off her flames as the magenta fire seemed to ignite her inverted irises and make them blaze brighter as her hair which had only glowed to that point, began flying about like wild flames.

"I always get paired with unrealistic enemies, it's been a while since I fought someone who only uses melee!" She exclaimed, ripping the coat off her shoulders and imbuing her body with mana seemingly catching her feet and hands aflame.

"She noticed, then," Sol chuckled, and Ikaris nodded.

"Not a single one of my magical attacks has hit you, the only time I've made contact is when I attack you with my fists!" She slammed her fist into her palm and vanished causing Keele to pause for a moment and then duck when a foot came swinging at the back of her head.

"If you've finally decided to drop your fancy tricks and fight, then I can stop avoiding you," Keele spun and leapt out of Dina's range landing and falling into a fighting stance." I get a vague idea that my new job revolves around teaching you some of my hand-to-hand skills; I won't be holding back; experience is the best teacher, so I'm going to beat you down to build you up!"

Keele and Dina clashed at their elbows and then the aforementioned parried Dina's fist and delivered several punches in the blink of an eye sending Dina cascading with her arms in a guard after she'd somehow managed to block them all, the blazing hair atop her head seemed to fan brighter and grow taller in response to the woman's taunt, Dina was falling into a zone, and Keele could sense it, her senses were sharpening and it was getting harder to connect a hit.

"This sensation..." Keele mused, watching Dina slowly flash her head from side to side and then angle her torso sideways, exposing her shoulder as she took an unusual stance that she recalled seeing someone else use, she didn't see a weapon but somewhere in Dina's stance Keele could almost envision a massive hammer in the girls grasp.

"It feels like I'm fighting Mr Vestic again...!"

"She's simulating every time she's seen me use my hammer; Dina is a natural at this," Sol mused, discarding his humour and staring with his brows furrowed as he hadn't expected to see her do this either.

"Ikaris, I think she's gonna surpass me someday, she's a reservoir of untapped potential."

"What?"

"Dina has the potential to become as strong as we are, she's on her way to becoming a Celestial Deity."