Summoners War: Only I Summoned Divine Beasts

Chapter 922: Worry

Nathan looked at the mountain range outside his tent while squinting his eyes. ”There doesnʼt seem to be any anomaly. If thatʼs the case, we should be able to get another seven or eight hundred thousand ena in the next couple of days from this mountain alone.

”Can you see anything, Jinwu?” Nathan asked.

Jinwu shook his head. ”Not at the moment. The mountain might not be as dangerous as we originally thought. Yes, there are a lot, but with enough summoners, itʼs not that dangerous.

”Then again, according to the book, itʼs that kind of mountain, so there might not be anything youʼre hoping for.” Jinwu shook his head.

”I see.” Nathan pondered. ”How about the palace?”

”I canʼt see it yet. Weʼre still too far. If only I didnʼt get the limitation of this link…” Jinwu sighed.

”It canʼt be helped. I have asked Melissa for the inscription, but it can only increase about 30%, so she wants to improve it a bit more by using the new knowledge regarding summoner and familiar mutual connection.

”We can only wait for her to finish before using it.” Nathan smiled wryly.

”Yeah. Right now, our range is about 1,100 meters (0.68 miles). Are you going to skip a part of the mountain by using Peng?” Jinwu asked.

”I might ask Peng on the last day if nothing is happening.” Nathan nodded. These alien attacks couldnʼt be considered a ʼproblemʼ that could lead to a ʼbig problemʼ in Nathanʼs mind.

Hence, he was going to create that ʼproblemʼ by using Peng. If Peng flew across the remaining mountain range, he would definitely attract a lot of aliens.

Of course, Kun might be more effective for this, but there was one thing that Peng had that was necessary for Nathanʼs plan.

It was speed. By using speed, he wanted to cross the last bit of distance as quickly as possible so that the aliens that had been gathered by him turned into a ʼproblem,ʼ but the time was not fast enough for it to lead to a ʼbig problem.ʼ

And once they arrived, they would simply take down the aliens while preparing for the summoning ritual. During that time, Noel would search for the ʼbig problemʼ and trigger it so that they could reset his luck and save Selenaʼs father.

This was Nathanʼs original plan if there was no big problem coming from this mountain.

Still, they had several days to go, so they could only observe the situation for the time being.

Nathanʼs expression turned solemn.

”It looks like youʼre concerned about something.” Mae squinted her eyes. ”Is it because of fate again?”

”Yeah.” Nathan raised one finger. ”In the past few days, I have been thinking about it. My time element is something that might mess with fate, right?”

”…” Mae contemplated. ”Yes and no. I believe you are more knowledgeable than me about the time element.”

”Well…” Nathan scratched the back of his head. He had thought about it a lot. Since he had a time element, he might be able to turn back time.

However, time didnʼt work that way. If he went to the past, that past would become the present.

There were also other time paradoxes he had heard. The dream he got was most likely linked to one of those paradoxes, the bootstrap paradox.

It was a time travel paradox where an event is both the cause and effect of another event, creating a closed loop.

He sent the piece of information back in time, which turned into the cause of its own existence. He sent that dream so that it influenced Nathan to take the time element.

At the same time, it couldnʼt explain the reason Nathanʼs original soul disappeared, which allowed him to inhabit this body.

In addition, there was a multiple timeline theory. So, if he went to the past, that timeline might reach a certain ending, but not his timeline or other timelines.

According to Charlotte, magic was essentially controlling nature. Whether it was flame, water, light, an absolute element, or even space and time, it was the living way to control nature. They were using the ena to mess with what nature already had.

In other words, while he might be able to alter something in a certain way, he couldnʼt completely cause nature to go beyond what it was supposed to have.

That was why, as a time ability summoner, he should be able to peek at the future by using time, but he didnʼt know how it worked yet. He didnʼt know if what he saw was only applicable to his own timeline and now that he had taken a peek at it, he would find another timeline that changed because of that information.

Nathan scratched the back of his head. ”Maybe I should study time a bit more.”

”Indeed.” Mae nodded. ”Although nature is the one whispering to you how to wield them, studying about that particular element will allow you to understand which one you should follow and ultimately create that magic.”

”Well, magic is an extremely complicated topic. I guess I will ask Charlotte a lot of questions once weʼre back.” Nathan crossed his arms. ”Or maybe Evelyn, since sheʼs a space element user, which is known to have the same rarity as time element. She uses gravity too.”

”Thatʼs probably the best. While Charlotte needs to have a certain amount of knowledge to make her illusion look real, having someone with space and gravity will be much more beneficial than her.” Mae agreed.

”In the end, itʼs all the accumulation of my past, present, and future, huh?” Nathan muttered. ”I wonder if the soul contract has anything to do with the dream? Or is it purely because of the time element?”

It looked like there was no relevance between the topic and what they currently were doing. However, there was actually one link that connected them.

Why did that person send the dream? Was it to warn him about the alienʼs invasion? But in the second dream, it contained the death of three people. If that was the case, did the girl leave him? Was there a crack in their relationship between them because Nathan didnʼt know his bad luck actually killed the count?

Nathan needed to know how much he could alter with the time element. And the way he manipulated the timing of his own fate, specifically the problem and big problem, he might be able to come up with magic using this incident as an inspiration.