The World's most Overpowered Side-Character-Chapter 429: Fate and Light.

Rather than walk or fly as he was expecting, Sol hummed when a rectangular portal appeared before them, reflecting everything like a mirror.

"The Council awaits," Lumi gestured to the portal, smiling at the fearless step Sol took, guiding a clearly more anxious Ikaris with a diffusion of confidence in his every stride.

"Sol, where is this coming from?" Ikaris asked, genuinely curious about what was going on in his head. "I know you are usually confident, but this..."

"Even if they turn us down, Ikaris," He stopped and rested his hand on the surfacem watching his reflection ripple. "Giza and Umbra are inevitable battles we will face, nothing is stopping that, It's not that I'm not nervous," He glanced at her and stuck his hand through.

"I have simply come to terms with my situation and accepted that no matter what happens, I will see it through to the end."

With the last word uttered, Sol walked through, holding on to her and pulling her along while Lumi hesitated at the entrance rather than enter immediately.

"Why battle what you know is inevitable?" A voice called from behind her, and the Emissary turned with a small smile, greeting the figure of light with a curtsy. "Lumi-"

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"Is it inevitable, or have we simply allowed what we believe to prevent change for the better?" She asked the figure. "Council, think of this clearly before you challenge the beliefs of a being that defies fate, Sol Vestic deserves that much from us."

"We will hear his words." The figure answered, and then a moment later he was gone, appearing once again in a large ring of seven seats set upon high pillars with a platform below them in the middle holding Sol and Ikaris.

The scenery was surreal, to say the least, the space they occupied seemed to be between dimensions with fractured realities all around them thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of sceneries simultaneously existing while at the same time not.

Both Sol and Ikaris witnessed countless moments from their lives frozen in time among the endless observatory which stretehed in every direction, even with everything they gone through and what they had become it still managed to make the two of them feel small.

"Speak, the council will hear you," One of the occupied seats spoke; it was the same which had spoken to Lumi just seconds prior before she arrived, taking the final seat while Alpha appeared as a seatless observer, the same as many other entities did.

"You all know who I am, but Council is merely a title.

Respectfully, I came here to address the person, not the power."

"Ridiculous," Another seat spoke, aside from Lumi the other six were all shining so brightly that even with his power being greater than some of theirs, he couldn't make out the figure within the light.

"One who brandishes the role of observer needs no title to be addressed by, we are the Council of Light, that is all we are."

"Even then," Sol's grip on Ikaris's hand slightly tightened, and he smiled towards the one who addressed him. "I came here seeking your help against the singularity which is threatening our very existences, I know you're aware of Giza."

"The force of darkness going by Giza is an entity tied to fate just as the rest of us are, we are meant to watch, not intervene, what happens is pre-ordained by powers even beyond you, Sol Vestic."

"I didn't come here to address the validity of your beliefs, this goes beyond fate alone, the Grand is in danger of total annihilation, I came here to address a serious issue-"

"Heresy!" One of the silent lights snapped, slamming her hand against the side of her seat and pointing her other at Sol. "You should be destroyed, abominate being, you stand in the way of Fate-"

"Then are you saying that fate is guiding the destruction of the Grand Collective?" Sol turned to her just as heated as she had at him. "People, countless billions are dying, trillions even, Umbra and Giza have been on a constant rampage for over two years now, is that the will of fate?" Sol asked. "Are you all willing to watch every precious child of light under your watch be murdered, is that what fate is, is any of this what fate allows!?"

"Isn't the light supposed to protect those who are born of it?" Ikaris asked.

"How dare you with that heretic mouth recite any gospel of Fate?" Another interjected hissing in outrage.

"Fate sees, Fate knows, fate IS, there is no debate to be had, whatever is happening is just as Fate has decided it."

"That cannot be all, if your argument is that Fate is absolute then shouldn't you help regardless?" Ikaris slightly raised her hand when she saw Sol nearly snap.

"Vatui High-Borne, Ikaris, Daughter of Light," The first Emissary addressed her. "You should not even be alive, the same as your husband, you are a defiance of fate, an abomination that has caused catastrophe, you and your family are living heterodoxies, foul fateless aberrants-"

"Don't you dare run away from my question," Ikaris squeezed Sol's hand tighter having been personally attacked and insulted in the same breath. "If fate is absolute then you acting of your own volition should also be the will of fate, right?"

"From my end, the fate you place your faith in is nothing more than a prison."

At her question and opinion, the Council and observers went quiet.

"If your role is predetermined doesn't that mean whatever choice you make is the will of fate?" Ikaris asked again. "Does this not mean that you; any of you, have the capacity to help save the Grand Collective?"

"Our ordinance by Fate is to remain as we are, unsullied by decision, unfettered by sides, good or bad, we are Emissaries of Light born with the single task of observation; to hold record, to judge and never intervene." After a few seconds of deliberation glancing to his fellow Council who all seemed at a loss for words as they mulled on Ikaris's question, the first Emissary spoke again.

"...This is bullshit..." Sol shook his head and pulled his hand away from Ikaris's, placing them akimbo and staring up at the Emissary that had just spoken. "You call yourself followers of fate, believers in the light, children of creation, but you're letting countless innocents die at the hands of Darkness because you're all fucking cowards."

"Sol-" Lumi almost broke character, but paused when Sol's gaze fell on her.

"Emissaries are supposed to be the representatives of light, this means that your job is supposed to be to counter darkness, to oppose darkness, but all I am seeing is a bunch of cowards too afraid to decide anything for themselves."

"Your excuse of fate is nothing more than a prison of your own making designed to keep you from ever acting of your own free will, how am I supposed to heed the words of someone who can't even make a decision for themself?"

"Why should any of us listen to you when you're telling us to lie down and die, death is the end of mortal life, the same life that light is supposed to protect.

"Fate on the other hand is seeming more and more like a set path where everything will ultimately converge into doom and destruction, these are contradictory

Sol pointed to Lumi, then pointed to the first Emissary. "Fate and Light are two separate beliefs; they are opposites, your system is flawed, you Emissaries are all puppets being manipulated by darkness on a scale too great for any of you to see"

"You dare-"

"Do you honestly think that Fate; the linear brute force of absolution, can give way to light, the flexible ever-changing?"

Seconds ticked by; silence gave way to more silence, The coulcil fumed, and those who observed the proceedings did so with disbelief written on their obscured blinding faces.

Alpha's eyes were wide in shock and horror, Lumi's the same, not even Ikaris had any idea that Sol's goal was to challenge the Emissaries' entire belief, exposing the flaws they had never seen.

"How dare you-"

"How dare I?" Sol's mana began surging as he watched the six Emissaries' light brighten and began feeling their hostility at his clear defiance of what they revered, similar to the way Lumi did it when they first met, but much less intimidating because he too was now capable of standing against even them.

"I'm the one risking everything to prevent our total annihilation, I'm the one witnessing these atrocities firsthand while you all hide here shamelessly watching from the safety of your high thrones!"

"We never once made any incline to being or thinking ourselves above anything that is happening, it is ... fate's will that we do not intervene-"

"Fate is a lie designed to trap you into inaction, you're light!" Sol roared, and with his exclamation a bright light emerged from the halos on his chest and back, a light so pure that even they the Emissaries, averted their eyes.

"I can't make the decision for you, all I can do is ask and pray that you heed my call in our darkest hour, I need you, we all do, every little amber of light, those gone and those to come, how much longer will you hide?"

"Will you stay here and be annihilated when Giza comes should I fail?"