What you can do is use an async/await function and a loop to make sequntial requests
async function lots_of_messages_getter(channel, limit = 500) {
const sum_messages = [];
let last_id;
while (true) {
const options = { limit: 100 };
if (last_id) {
options.before = last_id;
}
const messages = await channel.fetchMessages(options);
sum_messages.push(...messages.array());
last_id = messages.last().id;
if (messages.size != 100 || sum_messages >= limit) {
break;
}
}
return sum_messages;
}