"There, it's okay now." Sol was kneeling before Ikaris with his hand on her belly as she sat in one of the kitchen chairs. " That was too close, any longer and you could have..." He shook his head. "How is she?"
"Resting again, Sol, I'm sorry." Ikaris sat forward now that she was able to freely move without unbearable pain again. "If I was able to hold on for just a while longer you would need not expose yourself and us like this, but she reacted to your presence disappearing." She took his outstretched hand and watched him rest his cheek in her palm.
"Don't bla yourself, Ikaris, this isn't sothing either of us can control, we can only nourish her until she's ready to see the world." He closed his eyes and smiled for a mont, and then went serious again when the air around them started shaking, visibly vibrating after the ship returned through a breach the size of the moon next to earth and stopped while 79 stared and his analysts easily pinpointed their location.
"Now that it's co to this though, I'm not going to be staying my hand or exercising any more caution, I killed one of theirs to get back and I can sense the other one's grief and anger, not that it matters."
"Go." Dina held on to Ikaris's hand while Arla took her other side, both standing guard over her ready to use whatever ans necessary to defend her as best they could, but Sol had already decided the mont he returned that not a living soul aboard was living past this day.
All across the world simultaneously everyone's radios and other forms of communication were hacked, and the Captain's face ca clear across all monitors.
[I am the seventy-ninth Captain under the Emporium's fleet and I do not co in peace; I don't know why you returned here, Godslayer, but hiding amongst your people is a waste of ti, surrender the Vatui woman and yourself and we will leave these people unhard, fail to do so in the next few seconds and we will tear this little world apart and pry her from your cold hands, I am extending the sa rcy you gave to us.]
"I have a captain to kill." Sol stood properly from his loom over Ikaris after kissing her forehead and resting his hands on Dina and Arla's heads. "I'll be back." He turned causing his crimson cape to fan around before he vanished in a violent flash of golden light leaving a foot-deep hole in the marble ground.
"Captain, no response."
"He is a Godslayer, and she is Vatui, nobody else matters, they are both easily capable of surviving the destruction of this tiny world." He responded coldly. "Destroy it."
The ship didn't get to fire a single shot at earth, one mont it was there, and the next it was a cosmic pile of parts being shot out into deep space when Sol attacked it seriously, unlike the first ti; with a single strike of his palm he was able to completely obliterate the entire thing instantly killing most of the crew on board while the captain ca rushing at him roaring in outrage.,
Sol could tell this man was strong, not as strong as Dr'ul or even Orion, hell he wasn't even as strong as Saleos, but strong enough that any kind of fight near the planet they were by would cause irreparable damage, so with a single swipe of his hand he scanned the observable and sent him to a dead galaxy full of blue stars.
"What is your na?" Sol appeared before him, he had yet to even use his Godslayer powers and was acting solely with his divine mana, but since they had identified him as Godslayer with his white glow he had refrained from using any unnecessary power, especially when he realised that there was an unknown entity observing him from the outside, sothing that for whatever reason had yet to take action; sothing with the sa formidable power that Lumi possessed.
It was his hope that he wouldn't have to fight that being yet, he needed to get stronger before he even attempted it.
"How are you so strong?" The Captain asked, ignoring Sol's question when he realised that he was soplace completely different again. "Godslayers are on average able to manipulate an entire system, but you've casually sent us to another verse entirely, and now you still have enough power to do this!?"
"I'm different." Sol regarded him closely. "Your entire crew is dead now, and your ship is nothing but junk floating in deep space-"
"If I die, more will co!"
"You were so confident in killing a mont ago weren't you?" Sol narrowed his eyes. "What was all that about having a Godslayer to kill, or was it all dependent on your ship?" He asked.
"Your Vice Captain was stronger than you are, and look where that got her, I was able to send your ship an entire universe away, why did you think you stood a chance against ?" He asked, inching closer with every word he spoke.
"What makes you think I'm afraid of you, number seventy-nine?" Sol asked again. "Go ahead, I want you to fight back and fully understand who you've fucked with, give everything So I can tear that last bit of hope from your fingers before I kill you." He stared at him with his eyes wide and with a promise of unavoidable death.
"Co on, Captain, say sothing, do sothing, why are you just standing there?"
Sol watched droplets of sweat escape the man's face and float off as he began breathing heavily and placed his hand against a crest of a crescent dragon on his right chest plate.
"-mpire.."
"Hm?" Sol asked when the man began mumbling. "Speak up, corpse, I don't want to go back entirely empty-handed."
"For the Empire!" The captain slamd his hand against his chest and Sol's eyes widened when all the stars in the entire galaxy began swelling with ten tis the power they were supposed to possess swallowing up their systems and rapidly expanding until they started colliding into each other.
"So this is your answer?" Sol raised his hand and stopped the star behind him from advancing any further, watching the man heave as blood escaped his eyes and mouth. "Suicide?"
"More will co, greater than I, stronger than you, Mark my words Godslayer, this is far from over, you and that Vatui whore will both die miserable deaths-" He stopped talking when Sol's spear tore through his face taking his mouth and a half of his head.
"Even if you're dying, how dare you regard my wife with such a vile term in my presence?" Sol seethed, already calming down and collecting his spear as the body floated away from him.
"Alpha, did you manage to get anything?"
[I collected all the personal belongings I could scan aboard the ship, however I was still unable to hack into the mainfra, there was so kind of barrier in place much like the one in your mind, that ship was likely sentient in so way.] She answered.
"Scan through the wreckage and let know when you find sothing useful to us." Sol picked at his nails with one hand and stared upward again when the presence from earlier which observed from outside stopped watching and left.
[Understood.]
"How did a being with no cosmic mana cause the stars to explode like that?" He looked around at the massive stars forming one giant anomaly and then vanished observing it all from the outside and still being unable to learn anything useful as it was nothing but chaos as an entire galaxy vanished in a bright explosion.
"Where did such a scary power co from in a man who had no mana to begin with, how was he even able to survive in the void?"
Sol's mind now that the threat had been lifted was riddled with questions. "He was human-" He appeared next to Arla staring at them waiting in the living area for him. "-completely human, no mana at all, and yet he could survive the depths of space, his vice-captain was human as well, but she was almost as strong as I was when I fought Orion, before I awakened..."
"What?" Ikaris mused, shocked. "That monstrous strength was rely human, how is that possible?"
"That's what I'm saying." Sol sat next to her and relaxed his body leaving his armour to vanish and be replaced by casual clothes again. "It goes beyond the concept of superhuman, this is the realm of gods, no wonder they don't fear ..."
[It is technology unlike anything I have ever seen, from all the advanced civil actions you have exposed to in the last five months of brief travel, it is the first ti I have co across sothing that confuses , I need more information to even begin comprehension.] Alpha answered, appearing before him with a small book in her grasp.
"What's this?"
"A journal, I found it on one of the bodies of the crewn, currently I am probing his brain for language in order to translate, I know you have a taste for learning new languages so I will deliver an alphabet and manual as soon as I have completed studying him."
"Good, until then I have to go again." Sol sent the journal into a storage space and stood again with a sigh.
"You just got back." Dina protested.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm gonna go pick a fight with an emissary of Fate."
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