Fairy Tail: Collapsing Stars

”And at present, after all, there are too many uncertainties with the Eclipse Gate. The fact that we could cross over to the timeline where the magic power has been gathered is already a miracle!”

Zeref nodded with a smile and answered Evan.

In fact, although the Eclipse Gate could travel through time, it was not as useful as Zeref had imagined. He had discovered that the Eclipse Gate had many drawbacks, and Zeref currently had no good solution to these drawbacks...

In fact, using the Eclipse Gate to travel to the future was still fine. As long as it was operated properly, one could generally travel through successfully...

But once someone tried to use the Eclipse Gate to interfere with the past timeline, the Will of the World would intervene. In order to prevent the history of their own timeline from changing and consequently causing the collapse of space-time, these Wills of the World would interfere with the Eclipse Gate, thereby sending those who wanted to travel into the past to a parallel universe extremely similar to the past they came from, thus ensuring the normality of their own timeline...

Therefore, in order for them to return normally to the world they had come from, Zeref could only choose to travel to a future timeline. At the same time, Zeref felt that since they could only travel to the future, they might as well go all the way and directly travel to the point in time when the Kingdom of Fiore had gathered the magic power they needed to open the Eclipse Gate...

In other words, although Evan and the others had returned to the timeline they belonged to, they had not returned to the exact point in time when they had used the Eclipse Gate to leave. Instead, they had arrived at a somewhat more distant future.

”So what year is it now?!”

After hearing Zerefʼs words, the corner of Evanʼs eye twitched slightly. He discovered that Boss Zeref was truly somewhat impatient to deal with Ankhseram, but Evan could also understand Zeref. After all, anyone who had been toyed with and played around for more than four hundred years would not have a good temper. Once they had an opportunity to take revenge, they would definitely be impatient.

”If my deduction is correct, the current year should be X793...”

”In other words, we have been away from our original world for about seven and a half years.”

Zeref thought for a moment before answering Evanʼs question.

”X793, seven and a half years?!”

Upon hearing this, Evan slightly raised his eyebrows. The Will of Seven really was everywhere!

In the original story, the main forces of Fairy Tail were sealed away for seven years because of Acnologiaʼs surprise attack on Tenrou Island, as a result of Mavis using Fairy Sphere. Now they had once again been directly brought seven and a half years into the future by Zeref using the Eclipse Gate. Evan could not help but wonder in his heart whether Zeref and Mavis becoming husband and wife was perhaps not an accident...

Perhaps Ankhseram was also an old otaku god who shipped couples, and discovered that Zeref had been born too early and was afraid that Zeref would die before meeting Mavis, so he cursed Zeref. Then, after Zeref met Mavis, he was afraid that Mavis would be killed by the aftermath of Zerefʼs actions, so he simply cursed Mavis as well. That was possible too...

Thinking of this, Evan could not help laughing, because no matter what purpose Ankhseram had for cursing Zeref and Mavis, it did not prevent him from making up his mind to go to the Divine Realm and slap Ankhseram across the face. In short, Ankhseram absolutely had to take this big slap...

”An irresistible force...”

At the same time, Evanʼs thoughts returned to the matter at hand. Recalling what Zeref had said, he continued to fall into thought. He was considering whether the reason they had crossed into the timeline where the Eclipse Gateʼs magic power had been completely gathered was truly an irresistible force?! Or whether Zeref had already been impatient to make a move against Ankhseram...

After all, speaking of the future, if they traveled to just one second after the moment when they used the Eclipse Gate to leave their world, would that not also be the future for their world?! Or perhaps Zeref really had not interfered after all. Although Boss Zeref was impatient, he had already waited for more than four hundred years, so he could certainly endure another seven and a half years!