The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

[Divine Cast: Lightning Retribution]

"What is this?!" The Godslayer swung himself free of the impact zone of the attack, landing severel feet away and then diving again when several more bolts crashed from the blue at him, ripping into the ground and then vanishing.

"Huh... it was a lot less effective than I exp-" His smirk stiffened, growing ripe and turning into a shocked grimace when the entire area around himself and Dina erupted in purple and white lightning tearing its way back into the skies above and then exploding a second time, blowing him off his feet while he was bombarded with bolt after bolt.

"Raiden is it?" Dina walked harmlessly through the destruction and stood with her hands folded, staring at him while he struggled to stand as the lightning continued to grow stronger beating him until his knees hit the ground andhis hands pressed down after them. "As far as Godslayers go, you seem unimpressivem even By Rem's standards, I was sure I sensed more power from you berofe..." She hummed.

"Maybe I was wrong after all, this fight will wrap itself up before it even starts if this is all you have to offer."

"This witch...!" The man ground his teeth, balling his fists while on the ground and launching himself at Dina, driving his hand through her stomach only to gasp when he flew right through her after she vanished in a puff of smoke and dust.

"What the hell is going on h...!!!" His thoughts this time were interrupted when his already wobbly trajectory was flipped and his head sunk through the molten sand as he crashed making a ditch.

"Gaah!!" Raiden arose swinging his fists wildly, but everything had come to a standstill, the sands stood vertically, the lightning was frozen in place, the only thing that moved was Dina, and she did so with blinding speeds, blitzing him as soon as his eyes landed on her and placing her palm against his stomach before he could even react.

[INCINERATION!]

He had never witnessed anything like it before, he knew that there existed several members of the Vatui race who had strange and arcane powers which could be outwardly projected like Curt and Ikaris while others had powers that needed conductors like Cecelia did, he knew of Godslayers who could do the same like Rem could, but this woman was different.

There was no lightning he had ever encountered that could harm him, yet he had received second degree burns on his arms and back from the attack, she had summoned lightning from the clear day sky with just a wave of her hand.

And now... she was summoning destructive fire with that same hand.

Dina's Incineration attack tore across his abdominal flesh like a projectile had hit him at point blank and launched him into the sky, there was nothing he could have done to avoid that attack because of the constant shock he had been receiving over the short course of their fight; he thought he was going to hand,e her easily because he had overpowered her in the office, but now that was proving to not be the case, she had control over the weather and elements, how was amelee fighter supposed to counter that?

"She keeps using the same hand," Raiden shook his head, staring at dina below when he finally began descending, it almost felt like she was toying with him, her attacks had the power to harm him but nothing she had hit him with had been enough to inflict any mortal wounds they were just surface abrasions at best, painful as they were they weren't doing him any harm he couldn't immediately heal over with a little focus.

"There must be something special about her hand, which means if I can remove it she will be powerless!"

Raiden came to the conslusion after seeing Dina ready the same hand again, while her palm started glowing with that same pink light, this to him would be her tell; right before she launched an attack her hand glowed.

"I'll put all my focus on that then!" He craned himself and stopped descending using the atmosphere itself as a foothold and bending his knees while the last of his burns healed. "I have to calm down and approach her rationally!"

"I'm still too close to the city to launch any attack that can kill him in one go, it's meaningless if I don't do that though," Dina furrowed her brows and thought to herself. "But," She contradicted herself. "Inside of the Beginning there is still that one Godslayer that Master has been trying to revive for the longest time, If I want to kill him I guess I have to destroy his body entirely."

Dina watched Raiden with her hand held towards him, "He is physically stronger many times over than I am, he's all the way up there with the likes of Jenifer... no, he may be stronger than keele is when it comes to raw strength alone so I have to control the pace of this fight," She narrowed her eyes when she saw his grin from earlier return.

"He thinks he has the upper hand, right now that is exactly what I want him believing-"

Dina's train of thoughts derailed when through sheer speed the man vanished from her sights, her fingers twitched when his silhouette appeared in her peripherals, and her head snapped in his direction just fast enough that she could erect a barrier when she saw his fist descending towards her face with so much force that the air around it was twisting and deforning the atmosphere.

"Luckily..." Dina's mind began racing beyond what her body could process. "I have the [Awareness] time skill, even if I can't move, I can still plan out everything I will do, every step I want to take and every trap I want you to fall into," She stared at the name hovering over his head. "For every foot you gain, I will take a leap, Raiden!"

Dina's barrier broke from his fist crashing into it and she took the punch watching it come in slow motion and leaning her body in the opposite direction allowing most of the attack to only glaze across her skin while her hand was in the process of swinging, everything happened slowly for her, but had there been anyone else observing then they would have seen Raiden's fist connect solodly in the mage's face and her tanking the blow and returning a punch of her own, breaking his nose as she was sent flying while he staggered and grabbed his face in shock.

[Mana Spear]

With her eyes still closed from the knockback and her body soaring above the molten and cooled sand tirned to black glass, Dina managed to release one of her less effective casts, using it as a screen when thousands of them landed between her and him exploding in bright blue and white flames and allowing her to hit the ground and cast [Heal] on herself undisturbed by him.

"I underestimated her again, she never showed that speed before...!" Raiden shook his head, blowing the blood out of his nose and adjusting it. "But," The Godslayer grinned watching the smoke and dust clear and finding Dina on one knee holding her arm. "She is weak, this will be my win!" He began cackling when his victory seemed within reach once more.

"You know my name, and you seem to know who I am, but I have never seen nor have I ever heard of you before," Raiden began walking forward warily staring at Dina as well as the neat round craters of glass created by her [Mana Spear] bombardment to buy herself some time earlier.

"Who are you, witch?" He asked, and Dina scoffed and stood upright allowing her hand to fall to her side as she began gathering and storing mana in her palm again.

"I am Dina Levina, Right hand of Ikaris Vestic and her bonded Kin," She answered proudly raising her chin and looking at him down her nose.

"You, kin to the War Angel?" Raiden furrowed his brows in disgust. "A mere human dares try to place herself on the same pedestal as the highest of vatui royalty, are you serious?" He asked, scrunching his nose even more.

"I have already said it, Godslayer," Dina began raising her hand. "I am Divinity!" She leaned forward the same as he did, and then the two of them vanished and the beach of glass and sand between the vanished when he parried her [Incineration] downwards and grabbed her hand.

"Then die with that in mind!" Raiden raised his other hand and in a swift motion he swung dina slamming her into the molten ground and then swinging his free hand chopping off her arm in one quick motion and then kicking her in her stomach causing her to slouch over his foot, unable to make a sound. "With that hand out of the way you have no means of conjuring your sorcery, farewell, Divine Dina-"

Before he could strike her, Dina vanished from before him, landing several paces away and staring at her stump of a hand with a shallow and stoic expression, she could feel nothing once again utilizing her awareness of time and slowing everything by thinking faster than anything was happening she had numbed her arm when she realised what he was after.

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"So, that's what you were after, I allowed you to grab my hand on purpose to see what you were planning," Dina began chuckling as she passively cast [Greater Heal] on herself instantaneously healing her arm and flashing it causing the Godslayer to gawk in shock. "But you are far more simple than I gave you credit for!" She raised her hand showing him the brand new limb and then clenching her fists.

"If you had tried killing me I would have escaped, but instead you went after my arm because you thought it was some kind of weapon granting me power?" Dina's hair became wholely pink and her eyes inverted. "It takes a lot more than what you have to kill me," Dina declared standing her ground when reinfircemengts in the thousands started arriving at their location.

"If you refuse to believe, then I will send you to your grave as a sinner, Godsayer."