Changing Careers to Arms Dealer

"Can this scroll send someone back to a past timeline?"

Moxis nodded. "Yes. Choose the right time and place, and you can return to the past. You might even bring something back from it. It's far more than a dream."

"Does that mean I can change the timeline? Even meet my former self?" William could hardly believe it. Messing with time like that was insane.

Goddess Momo nodded, then shook her head. Clutching the scroll, she said with an emotion he couldn't place, "It isn't that easy. You don't know who made this scroll, so you can't be sure which point in the timeline you'd return to.

"And even if you did return to the past, in most cases, you wouldn't be able to interfere with anything.

"For most Epics, it would feel like a dream. You couldn't change anything you saw or experienced.

"It would be as though an invisible wall stood between you and everything else—unless you were essential to what happened."

"Wait, what do you mean, essential? So I really could change the past?" William's head was spinning. Intelligence was his lowest attribute, and she expected him to understand all this?

"Rather than saying you'd change the past, it's more accurate to say your actions were always part of Destiny. You might think you'd changed something, but perhaps it was always bound to happen. Perhaps that's why the present timeline exists.

"That's Destiny. At some point in the past, you might already have appeared and done something that brought about the timeline we have now." Moxis gave him a long look.

"What the fuck?" The Prince felt as though his head might explode.

"..." Director Mo rolled her eyes. Whenever this fool got confused, he started swearing in the Chosen Ones' language.

Then again, their swear words