Chapter 1021: Nathan vs Iskar
â!!!â Iskar was quite surprised that Nathanâs familiars were actually strong enough to fight his familiars.
It was clear that there was a gap between their ena, but Fenrir, Nidhogg, and Jinwu looked like they had an elemental advantage that could ignore that gap.
Meanwhile, Peng, Mae, and Orochi would still have a hard time against their respective opponents.
Nevertheless, there was still Qilin and Anubis, who had yet to make their move.
Qilin could use his power to neutralize the opponentâs attack, and Anubis was able to heal everyone and protect them from all kinds of curses, illnesses, or other related stuff.
Since their familiars had begun their fight, Iskar and Nathan were staring at each other.
Nathan was the first one to make his move. He took out the sniper rifle and fired a massive beam.
Iskar snapped his finger as black hands emerged from the ground and touched the beam, causing it to disperse.
â!!!â Nathan raised his eyebrows. âDisperse? No. It grew extremely weak to the point where it couldnât maintain its form anymore. The Demon Lord seems to have curse ability, so I guess he is his lifebound familiar.
âThe humanoid fly has parasites or maybe an illness⊠The specter is like a ghost that wields the power of shadow, while the arachne has the web and poison. The ancient troll looks like a martial artist, but that drum can hurt Mae⊠I donât even understand his power.
âLast but not least, the orc shaman seems to have an ability related to the soul. I guess this is his strength.
âAll his familiars have such devious elementsâŠâ Nathan squinted his eyes.
Nevertheless, he still had the chance of winning, even if he was weaker. Nathan charged forward as Anubis boosted him with the Synchronization.
Meanwhile, Qilin had activated his hexagram to assist not only Nathan but also others.
âHmph! Lowly trash.â Iskar lifted up his finger. A surge of black waves emerged from the ground like a raging wave, trying to swallow him.
âI will give you a line better than that. Donât know the immensity of heaven and earth.â Nathan grinned as he also snapped his fingers, creating a green-colored shock wave.
When this shock wave clashed with the raging dark wave, the dark wave suddenly crumbled and returned to the surface.
âWhat?â Iskar was startled, not knowing why his wave even disappeared. In fact, he didnât know Nathanâs element. âWhat did he do to erase that power? That wolf looks like a physical type. That dragon and bird have fire elements, while that huge whale has water and wind elementsâŠ
âHow about that fox? Sheâs weird⊠Maybe like an illusion? The serpent has water and poison⊠How about the two that hide on the back? That weird dragon-looking horse doesnât seem to have this power, while the black dog has a healing ability⊠None of them can explain how heâs able to erase my powerâŠâ
Iskar was baffled. It wouldnât be just him. If they didnât know the true nature of Nathanâs element, it was normal for them to get confused. After all, it was the norm that a person could only have an element by forming a lifebound contract.
Nathanâs time element, on the other hand, wasnât reflected on the familiars. This was actually the reason for him not to attack Nathan right away. He wanted to use his familiars to assess his opponentâs power.
Nathan took this opportunity to release two bullets and split them into 256, splitting what he used to have one more time.
Each bullet was also much more robust than the previous one. With this, even Iskar would have a hard time stopping it.
Iskar clapped his hands, the sound wave he produced black in color. It traveled toward the bullets and dispersed them upon impact.
If these were normal bullets, they would definitely disappear easily.
However, Nathan activated the Save Magic Circle, which made the bullets return to several seconds in the past.
In other words, the bullets re-manifested and fell on Iskar.
âWhat?â Iskar panicked, not understanding how the bullet regained its form back. Besides, he wasnât in a position to destroy these bullets.
As a result, Iskar jumped away, but the bullets curved, chasing him.
âTsk!â Iskar extended his hand. âHand of Darkness.â
His hand formed an even bigger hand made of darkness. The moment the bullets touched these hands, the ena disappeared instead of dispersing, so Nathan couldnât turn their time back anymore.
In addition, this hand moved toward Nathan like a snake.
A golden light manifested and formed a shield that stopped this hand. Behind that barrier was an ankh.
Still, even with Anubisâ power, it didnât look like he would be able to stop it completely.
âHeaven!â Qilin activated his hexagram to borrow the power of heaven to punish this darkness. Thanks to his help, the energy balanced out as all of them neutralized each other.
Then Nathan moved forward while taking out his rifle, firing in rapid succession.
Instead of blocking the attacks coming from the front, Iskar actually stomped the ground. In an instant, the ground withered and became dry, as if the life within it had dissipated.
This action surprised Nathan because he had secretly sneaked some bullets to the ground, but it looked like Iskar noticed them.
After stopping these bullets, Iskar pushed forward with his right hand.
The black energy started swirling around his arm as if it was about to form a tornado. Noticing this power, Nathan activated the Acceleration magic circle to speed up, reaching Iskarâs position in almost an instant.
He countered Iskarâs palm with his own, releasing the ena that he sped up by using his magic. As a result, his ena and Iskarâs dark energy clashed around Iskarâs arm instead of in between their palms.
To his surprise, it wasnât enough. Iskar still overwhelmed his energy, forcing Nathan to blast him with the remaining energy, causing both of them to get pushed back at the same time.
âAs expected of an arcane level summoner⊠I guess I donât know if I can win against him or notâŠâ Nathan squinted his eyes.
Meanwhile, Iskar noticed what he didnât want to believe. âYou⊠have a time element?â