I Arrived At Wizard World While Cultivating Immortality

Chapter 592: Parallel Worlds

What exactly did we do?

To cause such a huge commotion?!

Both Jie Ming and David’s faces twisted slightly.

Fortunately, Dean Avery Knight did not share Viola’s mischievous sense of humor.

“Do you two still remember the illegal wizard you tracked down back then?”

Dean Avery Knight’s words instantly transported Jie Ming back nearly a thousand years.

Back when Noren Plane No. 147 had not yet been subjugated, there was a sage among the native inhabitants of that plane.

At the time, it served as a trial plane for the elite combat units of wizard apprentices.

The reason the wizards had been able to secure victory, aside from Jie Ming stuffing “shit” into the faith of the local gods, was that David had convinced the sage and carried out a decapitation strike on the native leadership.

It could be said that he had contributed significantly to helping the wizards take control of the main plane of the Noren No. 147 cluster.

Everything should have proceeded smoothly afterward. After all, the wizards had no intention of violating the agreement David had made with the sage.

The local natives continued to reform and integrate into wizard civilization, accepting new rules and beginning new lives.

But what no one expected was that the sage himself would be the one to cause problems.

He became an illegal wizard and attempted to open a spatial channel through sacrifice, summoning destructive demon gods from another civilization to destroy wizard civilization. Of course, although he was considered a sage among the natives, he was still limited by his own knowledge.

Given the sage’s cognitive limitations, he did not know that even if he succeeded, the so-called “destructive demon god” and its plane’s army charging in would at most cause minor damage to Noren Plane No. 147.

And in reality, that was exactly what happened.

After Jie Ming and David tracked down his plan, they chose to go with the flow.

Only after the other party actually opened the spatial channel did they appear with high-ranking wizards and capture him.

As for the opened plane channel and the civilization on the other side, they naturally became Dean Avery Knight’s spoils of war.

“I remember,” Jie Ming nodded.

Although it had been a small, unremarkable matter, opportunities like this where the enemy delivered themselves to the doorstep were extremely rare, so Jie Ming’s memory of it was quite clear. David also nodded; after all, the incident had left a rather deep impression on him as well.

But then confusion appeared on his face. “But what does this have to do with today’s gathering?”

Avery Knight did not answer directly. Instead, he continued asking, “Do you still remember the reaction that so-called destructive demon god had when it first invaded and heard the word ‘wizard’?” (Chapter 232)

Jie Ming frowned as he recalled.

The creature that had been summoned had shown an expression of extreme terror the moment the sage referred to them as wizards…

“It became extremely terrified upon hearing the word ‘wizard,’” Jie Ming said. “It probably means its civilization had clashed with wizard civilization before but was lucky enough to escape.”

Avery Knight nodded, then shook his head.

“Correct, but not entirely.” 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Jie Ming and David exchanged a glance, both equally puzzled.

“The power of a ninth-ring wizard needs no further explanation from me,” Avery Knight said calmly. “No matter the method, any civilization that learns of the concept of wizard civilization will be placed on the observation list. If the opposing force is truly strong enough to have fought wizard civilization and survived, then a ninth-ring wizard would definitely take personal action to deal with it.”

He paused. “Since none of the ninth-ring wizards actually took action, it means that plane’s strength was not particularly formidable. And indeed, that was the case—the strongest beings on their side were merely a group of eighth-ring creatures.”

David looked thoughtful. “Could it be that this civilization had contact with other civilizations and learned about wizard civilization through them?”

“That was what I initially thought as well,” Avery Knight said. “But after examining all the knowledge from that civilization, I discovered that wasn’t the case.”

Both Jie Ming and David showed expressions of confusion.

Avery Knight looked at them and spoke word by word, “Strictly speaking, this was a misunderstanding. Although the other side shouted ‘wizard,’ pronounced it as ‘wizard,’ and the meaning they conveyed was also ‘wizard,’ what they were referring to was not our wizard civilization.”

Jie Ming was stunned.

What did that mean?

His mind spun rapidly, trying to sort out Dean Avery Knight’s logic.

According to what he was saying, did that mean the civilization where the destructive demon god came from had once encountered another civilization whose written language, spoken pronunciation, self-designation, and even combat methods were identical to those of wizard civilization?

Only then could the “wizard” they referred to not point to this wizard civilization…

David had also caught on, but for a moment he didn’t know what to say. “This…”

“Is it really possible to encounter such a civilization?” Jie Ming frowned.

David couldn’t help but let his thoughts wander further. “Could wizard civilization have scattered factions? After leaving the starting plane back then, did other wizards develop somewhere else?”

Avery Knight smiled. “When wizard civilization left the starting plane, it was under the protection of ninth-ring wizards, so naturally there could not have been any scattered factions. As for the other possibility… of course it’s possible. In this world, there can indeed exist groups that call themselves wizards but do not refer to our wizard civilization.”

“…”

Jie Ming and David slowly formed a question mark in their minds.

He looked at the two of them and slowly uttered four words: “Parallel worlds.”

Jie Ming and David were momentarily dazed. After understanding Dean Avery Knight’s words, they both sucked in a sharp breath of cold air.

Parallel worlds.

This concept was not unfamiliar to Jie Ming from his previous life. Whether in fantasy or serious science, related ideas and settings appeared endlessly. But in wizard civilization, where the essence of transcendent power had already been thoroughly analyzed, the concept—or rather, the term—for parallel worlds had completely become a mathematical probability problem.

This mathematical problem was somewhat similar to a variant of the infinite monkey theorem: given a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard, if given enough time, it would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare.

Similarly, planes were composed of particles, and particles were composed of elements.

Theoretically, if there existed a plane where every element’s arrangement, and even their operational trajectories, were identical to another plane, then the external manifestations of those two planes would also be identical.

That was what was known as a parallel world.

Jie Ming had encountered similar theories in his previous life, and the mathematical concepts were comparable.

However, for him, such parallel world theories in mathematics mainly served to explain the difference in scale between the real universe and the observable universe to those who did not understand it.

In the wizard world, within the endless chaotic void, the arrangement of all elements was likewise random.

Theoretically, as long as the endless chaotic void was large enough, such a situation was indeed possible.

And according to the current mathematical models of wizard civilization, there was a very high probability that parallel worlds existed within the endless chaotic void—and their number would not be small.

“Yes,” Avery Knight nodded. “It was precisely because of this discovery that I later mobilized all the mentors of Noren No. 147 Academy to carefully comb through every piece of knowledge from that civilization. In the end, we confirmed that the other side had indeed interacted with ‘another’ wizard civilization.”

He turned his gaze toward Jie Ming and David, his eyes deepening.

“In other words, wizard civilization has once again discovered a parallel world. More importantly, from that knowledge, we obtained the spatial coordinates of another wizard civilization.”

Jie Ming felt his heartbeat skip a beat.

The noise of the crowd in the square seemed to vanish at that moment. Only Dean Avery Knight’s words continued to echo in his mind.

However, he had caught a key phrase in Avery Knight’s words.

“‘Once again’ discovered…” He stared at Avery Knight. “Has wizard civilization discovered other parallel worlds before?”

Viola’s lazy voice drifted over from the side.

“That’s right. And it has happened twice.”

She raised three fingers. “Including this time, it would be the third. However, one of those discoveries was not a wizard world, but a parallel world of another civilization.”

Jie Ming sucked in another sharp breath of cold air.

His first reaction upon hearing this was… just how vast was the territory of wizard civilization?

Although the existence of parallel worlds was merely a matter of probability, the fact that they had encountered them twice in succession meant that wizard civilization’s current territory was frighteningly large!

But soon, Jie Ming thought of a rather troublesome issue, and his expression turned serious.

“If it really is a parallel world, then wouldn’t the wizard civilization on the other side also have ninth-ring wizards?”

If they were merely ordinary ninth-ring creatures, wizard civilization would not fear them.

But if they were ninth-ring wizards…

It was precisely because they were also wizards that they knew just how terrifying a ninth-ring wizard could be.

Viola shook her head.

“There’s no need to worry about that. Ninth-ring wizards can constrain their own probability and will not produce counterparts.”

Jie Ming’s pupils shrank slightly. “Ninth-ring wizards can even do that?”

Avery Knight took over. “Not exactly. According to the intelligence from that other civilization’s parallel world, only ninth-ring wizards can constrain their own probability. Ninth-ring creatures seemingly cannot achieve this.”

Jie Ming pondered for a moment.

If there were no ninth-ring wizards, then the developmental trajectory of the other wizard civilization would likely be completely different from theirs.

For example, the most important protective contract for wizard knowledge came from the Star Orbit Tribunal.

And the Star Orbit Tribunal was composed of the only nine ninth-ring wizards in wizard civilization.

Without this contract, how much slower would the entire wizard civilization’s development speed be?

During this line of speculation, Jie Ming decisively established one premise: the wizard civilization on the other side had no ninth-ring wizards.

Because even with wizard civilization’s current resources, those who could not advance to ninth-ring here would be even less likely to do so in another parallel world.

“Correct,” Avery Knight nodded. “Based on our deductions, parallel worlds of wizard civilization are generally more backward compared to ours.”

Jie Ming breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

When both sides shared the same combat system, if the other side was more backward than their own, the difficulty of battle would be greatly reduced.

In that case, there was no need to worry about combat issues…