The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"This is the foretold beginning of the end." A tall man dressed in white robes resembling that of a priest holding a sceptre stood at the edge of the crater staring down at the ring of fire that Sol had created upon impact. "It is truly happening in our time, your Majesty."

"An arrival from the heavens; the prophesied Sun." An even taller man stood next to him clutching a sword and staring as well, he had a crown atop his head made of gold and silver, and he was wearing light fantastical armour.

"I never imagined I would live to see this day." He patted the other man\'s shoulder and leapt into the crater, waving his sword and creating a powerful gust of wind that blew out the flames as he slid along the edge, stopping right next to Sol who sat cross-legged biting his nails, completely unaware that he too was on fire.

"What the-" The king halted his advance and lowered his sword, casting another gust of wind on Sol dousing the fires again and taking a knee next to him. "Ahem* excuse me, chosen-"

"That crazy bitch, what the fuck do you expect me to do here, so what if I have magic now how am I supposed to fight off an entire demon army, I\'ve never even held a sword in my life I don\'t know how to use magic, what good is my imagination if I\'m just gonna die as soon as I get into a fight, I\'m fucking weak..." Sol continued mumbling to himself whilst biting his nails.

"Isn\'t this just another form of hell?"

"Pardon m-" the king tried appealing his attention again.

"I gotta find a way out of this, I need to..." Sol\'s mind slowed when a hand rested on his shoulder, and he turned to find a large man with pitch black hair and grey eyes staring at him with a confused and concerned smile. "Who the hell are you?"

"Welcome chosen one, to Atla." The king answered with a welcome first after clearing his throat again. "I am Griffon, King of this land." He stood and extended his hand toward Sol while the latter just stared at him, the sword clutched in his grasp, the armour, the glow of his grey eyes; the man seemed like the embodiment of what a king was supposed to be.

He personified power.

"King..." The young Sol mused, reaching up and taking Griffon\'s hand.

"If I may... Who were you speaking of previously?" The king asked, and Sol made a face akin to constipation as he recalled his abrupt dismissal from the heavens.

"Ikaris, I was talking about Ikaris, I get that she saved me from what was most likely damnation, but isn\'t this supposed to be hell as well?" He asked finding the king\'s face contorted in shock and fright.

"You have personally met the goddess?"

"Yeah, she\'s meh though, going by just her looks I can tell she\'s a real bitch, beautiful is only skin deep with women like her..." Sol murmured.

"This-"

The king\'s retort was interrupted by the sound of a horn sounding off, and Sol looked up when he saw millions of thin projectiles soaring above the crater, lighting up the sky. "What\'s going on?"

"The next wave of demons has arrived, quickly, we must join the fight!" Griffon raised his blade and Sol stared stiff with terror as nightmarish creatures started pouring into the large crater from one side while a multitude of people and beasts poured from the opposite end.

"W-wait not yet..." Sol dropped to his knees and covered his head causing the king to take a stand before him. "I don\'t want to be here, I\'m not ready!" He started screaming as the shouts and roars and thunderous footsteps of the two parties approached.

"What are you doing?!" Griffon snapped. "Stand up, you are the prophesied hero of our-"

"Aaaaaaah!" Sol continued crying out when the ground under his knees started getting displaced by the weight of the opposing sides. "This isn\'t happening, I\'m still dead, it was a lie, I\'m still in hell aren\'t I?"

"Jun!" Griffon shouted and created an arc with his hand and conjuring a shield made of majicul just as a behemoth with a large tree trunk for a weapon leapt into the air and dropped the full weight of its muscular body with the weapon on top of them, shattering the trunk when the barrier repelled it back where it was coming from. "Protect the boy!"

With the attack being what it was the entirety of the ground around them rumbled and erupted and both Sol with the king ended up airborne from the impact.

Sol in the air started flailing and screaming but a moment later he was in a woman\'s embrace and falling to the ground again.

"Hold still and stop struggling!" The woman snapped at him.

She had golden eyes and Auburn hair with freckles across her cheeks, and if he knew his fantasy right then she was supposed to be a mage by her attire. "What is your name?"

"I don\'t know!" Sol continued flailing in her arms resulting in her plummeting with him and cushioning his impact with her own body, falling unconscious as a result.

At the front the king held his own against multiple opponents as the horde thickened, but with them arriving before his army he had to start retreating.

Panic shook Griffon when he realised that the creatures were never targeting him to begin with, many faster than himself zoomed pass him approaching Sol with a certain level of urgency.

"Save him!" Griffon started targeting the creatures he could catch up to while several people created a blockade of sorts around Sol who was on the ground again cradling his head with his hands in a state of shock and fright. "NO... Sol!!"

Blood; blood everywhere, one moment there were feet all around him, and the next Sol began screaming when all those feet fell and he was showered in blood and guts as the people around him served as fodder for a particularly strange demon, it had swords for hands, and no eyes, its face was shaped like the tip of an arrow, and its body was skinny and framed like a skeleton, the creature screeched with a sick smile as it made short work of everyone before turning to Sol.

"This is the one master warned us of!" The demon shrilled kicking Sol in his ribcage and sending him airborne before skewering him and holding him there while the rest of the reinforcements scampered to try and rescue him. "Hero of Atla, no, dead hero of Atla hahaha, disappointment indeed."

"This... is..." Sol held on to the blade and stared at his blood racing toward the smiling creature, feeling his strength quickly slipping away again as his punctured lungs burned and his breath failed with his heart being split in two; pain he had never felt, terror he had wished never existed. "Hell..."

The last thing he heard was Jun\'s voice before he passed out. "Ikaris... why did you do this to me?"

...

"Aaaaaaah!!" Sol leapt out of the embrace of Jun a second time screaming on top of his lungs with his hands flailing and his chest bound with a tourniquet, but a moment later he was grabbed by the magician who covered his mouth and held him closely in a hug of sorts.

"We are hidden, be quiet." She whispered to him, and sure enough as his eyes darted around he found himself in a shallow cave with just her.

"I\'m not dead?"

"I saved you."

"Why?" Sol fell on his ass when she released him, shaking and hugging himself. "I can\'t help anyone, I shouldn\'t be here."

"The goddess chose you-"

"She chose wrong, I\'m nobody\'s hero!" He snapped again, and upon doing so Jun reached forward and slapped him so hard he went into a small cascade and hit the wall of the cave.

"I told you to be quiet!" She also snapped then held her mouth when she heard a roar from the outside. "Shit."

Jun hurried over to Sol and cast a healing spell on him and then picked him up on her back running out of the cave just before a large demon emerged from under it, outside she was surrounded by a guard unit of soldiers who again lost their lives as the same sword demon from before came along with several other weaker ones.

"Sol!" Jun leapt high into the air and continued using the air as a stepping stone running across the sky and gaining more speed as she went. "Sol, wake up!" She spun and stopped as she started slowly descending. "Damnit."

"This is hell..."

"Of course it\'s hell!" Jun grabbed his head which rested on her shoulder and yanked his hair waking him up. "If you don\'t fight, you\'ll die, I can\'t protect you forever, you\'re supposed to be a hero; our saviour!" She stared down as once again King Griffon abandoned the front lines and came to deal with the sword demon. "I\'m sorry, I am, you don\'t want to be here, but you are, you have to fight!"

"Just kill me..." Sol loosened his grip on her and fell backwards. "Just let me die."

"Your Majesty!" Jun spun and missed catching him when she was bombarded by several demons who could temporarily utilise flight like she could.

"Sol!" The king tried averting the demon, but it was relentlessly attacking him.

Sol fell, but just before he hit the ground instinct took over and a shield materialised in his grasp, cushioning the fall and saving him from any injury, as the dust cleared, everyone watched in shock as more armou mraterialized out of thin air around his body and a sword appeared in his other hand.

"Kill the hero!" the sword demon shrieked and tried averting the King\'s attack to finish what it failed to do the first time, but there stood Griffon like a wall preventing it from advancing.

"Fight Sol!" The king called to him, suffering a slash across his arm as he fought the demon one on one. "You do not want to die here, follow your heart, FIGHT!!"

Sol looked up, Jun was occupied in the air, and Griffon was being held back by the sword Demon, leaving him with dozens of demons around him while more soldiers averted from the barracks and medical units because of him again.

"Fight!"