Chapter 878 - 7: The Ability to Precisely Activate Dungeons?
Worldline deviation rate.
It is a deviation value calculated by comparing the observation of parallel worldlines, taking the main world one inhabits as the "reference point".
Its significance lies in the ability to quantify the space-time fluctuations of different parallel worldlines on a macro level, allowing one to understand the degree of deviation this worldline has compared to the reference worldline without in-depth knowledge.
When the worldline deviation rate is merely 0.0000001, or when there are more zeros after the decimal point—
Then the corresponding parallel world is often a mirror space-time, where no major changes or turning points in historical progress occur, at most there are some discrepancies in details... For instance, if a major historical event occurs in the real world, it is very likely to happen in such parallel worlds as well.
It’s just that there might be some differences in timing, or variations in processes and outcomes, things like that.
Perhaps Kennedy was not mind-blown but rather overjoyed, one can never say for sure, but regardless of where it was aimed, that shot was pretty much inevitable.
—These are just small discrepancies in details...
As the worldline deviation rate gradually increases, the direction of the parallel world becomes more magical, starting to resemble an Anomaly Zone, and when it reaches its peak, even the parallel world theory would be abandoned, affected by pruned events...
Hmm, only the Fate Dungeon World has such a setting? Then it’s alright.
Just a very small fluctuation in deviation rate can bring about various bizarre "IF" storylines, like the Third World War, a global wasteland era, or the United Humanity unifying Earth...
And with a deviation rate fluctuating around another decimal point, it often implies that the worldline process will take a detour from a much earlier historical point. On this point, Gu Mo also has substantial input, having experienced worldlines where the Qin Dynasty stood firm since 221 BC, and worldlines where the dinosaurs did not go extinct—
He even experienced a worldline where a highly civilized reptilian Empire evolved from the Jurassic, established by serpent-like people...
This left him marveling at the endless possibilities in the real world; regarding a worldline deviation rate that further increases, it could lead to a result where Earth might cease to exist, indicating a significantly large deviation value.
—This is not even reaching a single-digit deviation rate...
—Just a minute fluctuation with an unknown number of zeros behind the decimal point...
By analogy, he thinks the Gem Elder probably doesn’t have the means to calculate space-time deviations like him, but certainly has accumulated valuable experience in magic, possessing similar methods for observation and judgment.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to navigate accurately in endless parallel worlds.
This also explains why, in the Fate Dungeon World, the Gem Elder is sometimes absent during major events. In the face of infinitely branching possibilities in infinite time, endless "IF" storylines, watching them all is overwhelming, let alone getting involved in every situation...
The Gem Elder would exhaust himself to death and still not manage even one-thousandth of them.
Hmm, thinking like this, one can understand the old man a bit. The old man probably isn’t slacking off, just simply overwhelmed.
Likewise, in these countless traversals, Gu Mo unknowingly assimilated hundreds and thousands of parallel worldlines, uniting each of his isotopes. Although this doesn’t carry any significant meaning nor bring substantial improvement to him.
Because Gu Mo in parallel worlds is essentially just an ordinary person.
And just like no matter whether it’s ten thousand ordinary people, or adding another hundred thousand ordinary people together—
It’s hard to compare to the mass of the Sun, where increasing such a trivial amount of mass would hardly offer any improvement.
But...
Some deeper changes are indeed happening imperceptibly.
Or perhaps it should be considered a form of complementarity, Gu Mo can feel his existence becoming more complete, like a circular pattern being drawn out, as the strokes sketch it, it becomes more rounded gradually, the lines fill in bit by bit.
The saying, "One is all, all is one"...
Once identical yet completely different individuals are now being synchronized with properties beyond time and space, maintaining uniformity in parallel space-time, naturally becoming a type of complementarity. Despite not increasing a single basic attribute, the overlapping records and life experiences have no significance to someone with vast knowledge and memory like him.
However, Gu Mo feels his existence is seemingly becoming more complete little by little.
And during this process, the proficiency in Second Magic is also slowly increasing...
Until reaching that final progress bar.
...
...
The world shatters in an instant, then reconstructs anew.
As if blinking, returning to the dimension of reality.
Just like when the plan initially started, Gu Mo quietly appears at the center of the Moon, in a boundless domain of pure white, surrounded by emptiness, indistinguishable between up, down, left, and right, also deserted, with only the presence unique to himself.