Chapter 183: Chapter183-Multiple Worldlines

"Very well, Your Excellency."

Odelle did not dare delay. She hurriedly began her explanation.

"Hess Continent is a world that has endured through several eras."

"In that world, gods and mortals are separated into two realms. The God Realm lies high above in the heavens, while the mortal realm exists upon the lands below."

"The world I live in is the mortal realm. Many other races also inhabit that world alongside us."

"As for we humans, we have been able to develop to our current heights by relying upon Breathing Techniques, climbing step by step toward the peak."

Hearing this, John could not help interrupting her.

"Breathing Techniques? What are those?"

Odelle patiently explained, "Breathing Techniques are methods specifically designed to temper one’s body and soul. As long as one continuously refines oneself through a Breathing Technique, one can eventually obtain power capable of shaking heaven and earth."

When she reached this point, Odelle suddenly stopped.

She looked at John curiously.

"Logically speaking, given how knowledgeable and experienced Your Excellency must be, you should already be familiar with something so commonplace."

"Could it be that Your Excellency is not a member of our human race, but rather a heavenly deity who resides within the God Realm?"

John coughed lightly twice.

"My identity is not convenient to reveal for the time being. Continue."

He certainly had no intention of exposing the fact that he was an outsider just yet.

Thus, he casually came up with an excuse and brushed aside the subject.

At the same time, he was secretly making his own deductions.

The world Odelle came from likely followed some kind of cultivation system involving magic, battle energy, and bodily refinement.

It was just as he had guessed.

She truly came from a third world.

Judging from this, the background and structure of this game were becoming increasingly complicated.

However, that did not matter.

As long as he slowly unraveled everything, he would eventually discover the truth behind this world.

With that thought in mind, John urged her to continue.

"And then? Continue your explanation."

Hearing this, hesitation appeared on Odelle’s face.

However, in the end, she still continued.

"The humans of Hess Continent are actually divided into two major groups."

"One group consists of players like us, while the other consists of NPCs."

"Players like us only arrived on Hess Continent three hundred years ago."

"As for the NPCs, they had already been living on Hess Continent for a very long time before our arrival."

What?

The moment John heard her refer to herself as a player, he nearly sprang out of his chair.

His fingers trembled uncontrollably, and even his lips opened and closed at an unnatural rhythm.

This piece of information was simply too shocking. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

He had never imagined that players would exist in another world beyond the world of Apocalypse.

Even more unexpectedly, Odelle had spoken of it so frankly, admitting her identity without the slightest attempt to conceal it.

"So there are actually players in other worlds besides Apocalypse?"

"But I don’t know whether they were transported there from Earth as well."

"What is even more bizarre is that she claims the players appeared on Hess Continent three hundred years ago."

"Yet the players in the Apocalypse world only arrived a month ago."

At this moment, John’s heart was in complete turmoil.

He never imagined that the woman in front of him would turn out to be a player from three hundred years ago.

And not only that—she was a player from another world entirely.

John’s gaze flickered constantly.

A question suddenly occurred to him.

"You said that your players descended upon Hess Continent three hundred years ago?"

"Then what was the world you originally came from like?"

Upon hearing this question, Odelle was completely stunned.

She had never expected this mysterious figure before her to care about the world they had originally come from.

In Hess Continent, the existence of players was no longer a secret.

The NPCs treated players no differently from ordinary members of the human race. None of them particularly cared what kind of world the players had originally come from.

Yet the person before her was actually asking about it in such detail.

"Perhaps he truly is some great figure from the God Realm. That must be why he is so interested in something so ordinary among mortals."

Odelle secretly came to this conclusion.

She then answered honestly, "Reporting to Your Excellency, the world we originally lived in was completely different from Hess Continent."

"There was no separation between a God Realm and a mortal realm, nor did there exist any power capable of shaking heaven and earth."

"Everyone lived by relying on technology."

"The name of that world was..."

"Earth."

The moment he heard the word Earth, John felt his vision go black.

Earth.

She was actually from Earth as well!

Unless something completely unexpected had occurred, Odelle had come from exactly the same place as him.

But if they were both players originating from the same world, why had John been sent to the world of Apocalypse while she had been sent to Hess Continent?

Even more inexplicably, why was she a player from three hundred years ago?

Something was wrong.

Everything about this was extraordinarily strange.

Cold sweat had unknowingly appeared across John’s back.

Forcing down the shock surging through his heart, he continued to question her.

"I see. So you came from Earth."

"In that case, according to the timeline of your original world, when exactly did your transmigration begin?"

Odelle answered decisively without the slightest hesitation.

"March 11th, 2060, at precisely eight o’clock in the morning."

"What?"

The moment he heard this point in time, the shock in John’s heart intensified beyond belief.

That was exactly the same moment when he and the players of Apocalypse had transmigrated!

There was not even a difference of a single second!

They had departed from the same place.

They had been transported from the same world at the same point in time.

So why had two different groups of players appeared in two completely different worlds?

The astonishment in John’s heart could no longer be expressed through words.

Because at that moment, he discovered an even more frightening problem.

Odelle had clearly transmigrated at the exact same moment as him.

Even if she had been sent into another world, then according to any normal timeline, that world should also have only been open for around one month.

Yet Odelle had just told him that the players of her world had already lived on Hess Continent for three hundred years.

A full three hundred years of difference!

John felt as though his thoughts had been thrown into utter chaos.

He could not understand how such a situation was even possible.

They were all players.

They had all transmigrated at the same exact moment.

And yet, they had arrived in different worlds, existing along entirely different timelines.

Just then, John suddenly remembered the titles of the books he had seen earlier within the Library Section.

Every single one of those titles had been written from the perspective of a future era.

It was as though someone from the future had delivered those books directly into this space.

Yet not a single trace of any being from the future had appeared.

When exactly had those books been placed within this Holy Grail space?

Could it be that the Holy Grail he had obtained actually came from the future?

Or perhaps the situation was the exact opposite.

Maybe someone from the future had acquired the Holy Grail from his current timeline, causing two separate points in time to overlap within this mysterious space.

Everything had become far too complicated.

John took a deep breath, forcing himself to appear calm so that Odelle would not notice anything unusual in his reaction.

After all, the identity he had created for himself was that of a profound and unfathomable god.

If Odelle discovered that he was also a player, it would become far more difficult for him to extract additional secrets from her.

With this in mind, John did his best to keep his tone indifferent.

"So that is how it is. The world you originally came from sounds rather interesting."

"In that case, why did you appear within this Holy Grail space?"

"And logically speaking, the human race should possess a limited lifespan, correct?"

"Why are you still alive after three hundred years?"

Odelle did not need to think about the answer at all.

She immediately replied, "That is because we players can increase our levels by killing living creatures, and increasing our levels is essentially equivalent to cultivation."

"I was among the luckier players. I managed to continuously raise my level until I reached the absolute peak."

"However, after reaching that peak, I lost every possible method of advancing any further."

"My level became completely trapped at the ceiling. I could no longer make even the slightest breakthrough."

"It was as though some unknown existence had deliberately severed the path upward, preventing players like us from continuing to level up!"