The World's most Overpowered Side-Character

"One hour..." Fuhua was running as fast as she could towards the Capital City, five minutes had already passed if the small timer in the corner of her vision was accurate and she was less than halfway out. "Can I do this in only an hour?"

[It is best to n

ot doubt yourself in times like these, Ling Fuhua].

She heard Jena's voice in her head and nearly missed her footing.

[By the scaling of your Heavenly graded power system, you have advanced at least three tiers, yet you are still treating your body as if you were the same, you are a cosmic being capable of destroying entire stars if you apply your mana appropriately].

Jena informed her.

"I do not know what that even means!"

Fuhua continued running.

[Indeed, knowledge applied without clarity and action is useless].

Jena replied.

[Then I will grant you a little perspective of the power which now lays dormant within you].

She added and then left an option before the woman.

[Master has instructed me to give you this one advantage, he may seem unreasonable, but you are the first person he has ever even considered directly teaching, he is expecting good results].

[You have learnt a new technique:

Godspeed

]

[Would you like to activate Godspeed? Note; (Godspeed) consumes a large amount of mana overtime it is advised to use it in bursts until your reserves are filled and stable].

[Activate Godspeed].

Fuhua didn't even think twice about the warning; this was a chance to get her ahead she thought, but when the mana within her erupted ans strengthened her legs her eyes bulged in horror when her next stride decimated an entire mountaintop and sent her crashing across several peaks.

The crash itself took several seconds, but the woman was shaken when she arose and found herself on the last peak of the range with the Central City on the horizon before her.

[Godspeed Deactivated].

She stared at the message, and then looked behind herself in disbelief. What kind of cultivation is instantaneously learnt and mastered like this?" She stared, but then the timer before her reminded her of her mission.

"Nevermind that Ling Fuhua, you are going to follow Master Vestic, everything you need to know can be asked at a later date." She berated herself for getting sidetracked and went into a running pose, digging her foot into the mountaintop and angling herself towards the City on the horizon.

[Activating Godspeed]

She grit her teeth and took a breath, feeling the mana within her explosively surge before she made a leap with all her strength. The goal was to land outside of the City barrier and work her way in, that was her goal.

However, Ling Fuhua immediately understood the broken nature of this new skill thatshe had been granted after she crashed through the barrier as well as the large decorated gates of the city, breaking down a section of the outer walls and leaving a crater in her wake on the front lawn belonging to the mansion of what seemed like a noble house.

"Enemy attack!!" One of the guards who had been completely blitzed by her speed and crash came running inwards while a small army of inner soldiers and guards also came charging in her direction.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Alarms began wailing all across the city, the barrier that had been broken was already in the process of being repaired. "Surround them!" The Guard waved his hands raising his spear and lowering it with a grunt. "Reveal yourself intruder or face the fury of the..." He slowly stopped speaking when he realised that the crater was empty.

"Where did they go?" Another guard asked, lowering his weapon and scratching his head. "Was it a false alarm?" He asked again, but only a moment later there was another crash on the far side of the city and then a giant pillar of Green flames shot into the air, colliding into the barrier and spreading like fireworks.

"That is near Lord Shalba's residence!" The first guard hefted his spear and looked to his second. "Alert the Elders, something is fishy about this-" Once again he was obstructed from speaking when another distant part of the city exploded in flames. "What the devils is happening?!"

He needed no answer to that question, mere seconds after he asked, Fuhua landed before him grabbing his spear and disarming him in a matter of seconds, resting the blade on his neck and raising her free hand towards everyone else in a warning that she would end him if they acted against her.

"Where is Shalba?" Fuhua asked. "Be warned, I am in a rush, if you fail to answer my question I will kill you and move on to someone else."

"You- kuek!" The man shuddered when his weapon pierced his skin and he began bleeding beneath it.

"Where is that backstabbing bastard?!" Fuhua snapped, she had not noticed because she was equally in a rush as she was enraged, but her mana had caused a pressure to invade the grounds of the noble mansion that had sent most of the soldiers to the ground as well as several guards and bystanders.

"I don't know!" The man shrieked, dropping himself on his back and spreading his arms in a gesture of surrender.

"Is he in the City at least?" She asked.

"I do not know!" The guard shook his head. "Believe me, I do not know!"

"Do you have anything from him that can track his mana?" She asked one more question and the guard shook his head once more, causing her to hiss and release the spear, closing her eyes in an attempt to calm down.

"If he is not here then I do not know where he would be, I cannot detect his mana no matter how hard I try." She looked to the side at the system window.

[You said he was the strongest person on this Star, correct?" Jena asked.

"He should be, there are guests that are somewhat near the peak of his tier but he remains the strongest amongst them, then again, it has been a long time since we had contact with the outside world, we were too busy fighting off the Direfreak..." She growled.

"Direfreak?" An old woman asked. "Young miss are you perhaps a member of the Everstorm Clan?" She slowly walked over, using a walking stick for support with her other hand pressed against her back bypassing the aura that had established a safe zone around fuhua. "You managed to escape that dredful beast?"

[Be careful, this woman is hiding her power]. Jena warned.

"I am Ling Fuhua of the Everstorm Glades, yes. I have come seeking revenge on the behalf of my people who have suffered because of that man's greed-"

Fuhua ducked beneath the stick the old woman was casually wielding and summoned her blade, swinging it with a roar and then dodging again when the old lady blocked the attack and reached for her arm.

"Who is this old hag?" Fuhua leapt several more times leaping high and falling into a perch atop the gate of the residence when the ground beneath her tried grabbing hold of her legs, rising with four fingered rocky arms.

"Princess Ling Fuhua of the Everstorm Clan," The old woman straightened her back and raised her staff. "How foolish you are to come willingly into the arms of the enemy after finding out what they did to your people."

"I don't have time to deal with you either, where is Shalba?" Fuhua scoffed, standing and staring at the dent in her blade, caused by their clash.

"You are far stronger than I imagined a backwater princess to be, did you recieve outside help?" The old woman began creeping towards Fuhua again in the same unassuming innocent walk as before. "Did you seduce some old passer-by into helping you escape the storm?" She pressed.

"I want to kill her," Fuhua leaned in an offensive gesture, ready to attack the old woman again. "But..."

[I found him, according to the texts in the treasury, he is on his way to mineral city]. Jena interrupted the enraged woman and then appeared at her side, pointing in the direction of the city she had mentioned while she continued to use her split consciousness to learn more about the world they were on as well as the languages they spoke through a copy of herself in their library.

"I see," Fuhua looked at the old woman who was shocked at the sight of the little girl who not only appeared out of thin air without any warning or artifact, but also flew without the aid of one. "You were stalling for time." Fuhua drew her attention again.

"You will not-"

[Godspeed]

Fuhua disappeared as suddenly as she had arrived, and a few seconds later there was a great emerald explosion against the barrier sending waves of green mana crashing across the City and leaving mayhem an its wake like a tidal wave while she broke through on her way towards the Mineral City.

[Time remaining: 45 minutes]

"Curses!" Fuhua clicked her tongue in frustration, landing on the outskirts of the city territory with a single glance behind herself before she broke into another full sprint; that entire ordeal only served to waste her time.

"I will find you, Shalba."