Evelyn didn't realize at that time she had underestimated Nathan a little too much. Just a few minutes after Bella walked away, she noticed Nathan was doing something weird.
Nathan was clutching and scratching his head as though he were frustrated. Evelyn knew it would take a while for Nathan to reach the answer.
But little did she know, Nathan was so frustrated that he had to seek all kinds of inspirations.
'What am I going to do? The ena flow is complicated, so I can't really use it. Should I control it better? How?
'I don't know. Evelyn hasn't given me any clues, so I have to think about it myself. At the same time, my knowledge about the power in this world is shallow.
'Still, a lot of explanations from the novels, whether they're well explained or in the form of bullshit, are actually working in this world.
'In that case, is there anything I can use as inspiration?
'This world's energy is called ena. However, the concept itself is similar to Mana for those magicians, or even Qi in the cultivation world.
'Is there something I can use? Maybe a cultivation world technique? I don't even know if they can work, but if I just take the concept and apply or adjust it to this world's standard, would it work?
'So, what? Qi? Sword Qi? Dantian? Maybe a technique name? Sword Intent? How about others? There are multiple factions in cultivation stories, such as Dual Cultivation, Demonic Cultivator, Demon Clan, Beast Clan, Buddha Sect?
'Or should I use Sword Intent, Spear Intent, Array, Formation, Alchemy, or Refining technique?'
Nathan's eyebrows twitched, wondering if there was anything useful.
'There's nothing I can do about it yet. How about other worlds? For example, Murim World? Orthodox Clan? Namgung, Tang, Jaegal? Unorthodox Clans? Northern Ice? Or maybe sects such as Mount Hua? Plum Blossom or something?
'I can't really think of anything. Mutants? Zombies? Apocalypse? Or maybe I should go for the magician stuff, especially their mana? Mana heart? Magic Circle?
'Is there even something I can use? Or maybe the Isekai novel is like I return to my home and find my sister transported to another world, so I have a truck hit me so I can bring back my sister from Isekai or something?
'Is there a power system that I can use to actually utilize this? No. What if I combine the knowledge of this world and knowledge from two different worlds instead of one? There's no one telling me I can't do that.
'Even in the mythologies, there are often gods or goddesses with similar names who are said to be the same person but just in a different mythology, like Jormungand and Ouroboros, if I remember correctly…'
Nathan fell silent. When he thought about it, there was one memory that particularly stood out.
It was when he and Evelyn visited Revon to ask for his help.
Evelyn said Revon was honing his hand to the point where it was stronger than steel.
'Hmmm…' Nathan crossed his arms. 'Now that I think about it, I have read a story where a certain MC is given a task of opening an unbreakable box that is said to contain a treasure.
'Rather than opening the box and using the weapon inside, I have once asked myself why the MC is not using the box itself as a weapon. An unbreakable box is the same as having unbreakable armor if used correctly…
'That's right. If Revon's arms have become harder than the steel, those arms have become a weapon on their own.
'In that case, what if I add Sword Intent into the mix? No, it's not the Sword Intent. It's more like the Sword Body.
'The concept of having one's body as if it were a sword. If my arms or my fingers are a weapon, can't I just discharge it by applying the same method as my current method?
'My current method is to create a bullet right in front of my fingertips. That bullet will explode and release a beam. However, it's still an outside bullet.
'On the other hand, what Evelyn showed earlier was releasing her ena directly from within her body.
'What if I use my body as a weapon and form that bullet inside my own body? Or at least, make that bullet inside my fingertip.
'Ah. There's also Daoist Han's overpowered middle finger, where he slashed his enemies solely with his middle finger.
'What if I combine all of them into a single technique to discharge my ena?' Nathan blinked a few times.
Nathan fell silent for a moment before standing back up.
He closed his eyes, fully concentrating on his ena.
'First… I have to treat my hand like that of a weapon. Just like the gun… The fingertip is the barrel of my gun or… maybe the muzzle.
'If I treat it according to my current technique, which is summoning the bullet, I need to isolate it from the rest of my ena flow.'
Nathan controlled the ena in his body, especially around his hand, to go back to the heart, leaving behind a concentrated lump of ena in his middle finger.
"!!!" Evelyn widened her eyes in shock, noticing this one was different from what he had tried so far.
'Having Revon's strong arms as the basis, using my current method, utilizing the advantage of the Sword Body's concept, taking inspiration from Daoist Han's middle finger, and improvising it to suit this world's concept…'
Nathan raised his hand as the ena in his middle finger was about to burst out.
Previously, Nathan would create a sphere in front of his finger and turn it into a beam, which acted like a pistol. But this time, Nathan formed that bullet inside his finger.
"Fucking Gun!" Nathan lifted up his hand and pointed at the lake with his middle finger, releasing his ena in one go like he usually shot.
There was no need to care about the flow anymore since the ena in his hand had been isolated from the ena in his ena vein.
The compressed ena suddenly burst out and shot out a massive beam.