Chapter 588: Secret of the Mountain (2/2)

”These things weren't here before!” Raven uttered with his voice filled with incredulity, ”These grass, these trees...the crickets! Heck, these crickets shouldn't even be able to survive that blizzard, yet here they were! Not a single star was visible earlier, yet now the sky is literally filled with them. Heck, the moon wasn't even remotely visible anywhere yet it's glaring down right now! That doesn't make sense!”

It truly doesn't make sense for him to be able to see these things right now when just mere moments ago, everything was covered in a thick, thick blanket of snow. These plants didn't just magically bloomed when the snow disappeared, they just popped out of existence as soon as the climate changed. That's completely unnatural!

Raven was too focused on his failure to grasp the source of that spiking fluctuation that he was caught completely unaware of these things.

He felt like he was onto something, yet for some reason he just can't grasp it. It's like on the tip of his tongue but he's on the verge of swallowing it.

'These plants, even with them appearing right after the climate change, will surely take some time to grow. However they didn't, I am sure of that since I would surely notice something like vegetation growing too fast at a speed visible to naked eye.'

'They just popped out of existence, as if they've always been here all along. And if I'm not wrong, that should be the case for this vegetation. So then why...'

”Unless...” Raven's eyes suddenly sparkled brilliantly. He then closed his eyes and released some kind of gray tendrils from his body.

These tendrils were like feelers that allowed Raven to sense his surroundings. They landed onto things near to him and suddenly, Raven started seeing some visions while his eyes were closed.

After quite sometime, Raven's eyes snapped wide open. His pupils were gleaming with understanding and clarity, there was even an ecstatic expression on his face.

”I knew it! Haha! I finally understand!” Raven exclaimed as he slowly made his way back to the formation.

”Parallelism! That's the answer!” He exclaimed once more. ”It's not like the climate change, no. What changed is the world itself, not just the climate!”

Indeed. It is just as Raven said.

The reason why Mount Olympus' climate changes very abruptly isn't because of some weird enchantment place within the mountain itself. It is because the challengers are being transported in different Parallel Worlds where Mount Olympus itself is located in a different place with a different environment, hence upon their transfer, the climate they have to face would similarly be different as well.

This is why hikers of the mountain hardly encounter each other on the journey. Even though there's quite a number of people who challenged the mountain, the number of Parallel Worlds are almost infinite so their chances of meeting someone was drastically lowered.

That spike of fluctuations that he felt was in fact the sign that they will be transported in another parallel world, which also means that they'll be transferred on a different Mount Olympus as well.

In short, the challengers are conquering different Mount Olympus at the same time.

The reason behind Raven's joy is because Parallelism is another concept of Spacetime Laws. It's the third one to be precise. Upon reaching this stage, once could slowly sense their Parallel World identities and interact with them. They could do so much more past this but still, that remains an absolute advantage since unless all of their Parallel World identities are destroyed, they'll just return from the jaws of death.

Who would've expected that Raven would encounter this concept here? He'd be a huge idiot if he didn't take advantage if this situation!

No, Raven isn't going to learn the Spacetime Concept: Parallelism just yet, he didn't want to die. What he wanted to do was to at least get some insights about it and slowly incorporate it on his foundations, that way when it's time for him to breakthrough to this stage, it'll be more easier for him.

Raven returned to the formation and began meditating. He opened up his senses and began interacting with the Laws around him. At first he found it quite difficult to grasp traces of the concept yet with his persistence, he eventually sensed them and began etching them to his memories.

He felt quite bloated even with his mental fortitude but Raven remained steadfast and patient, he did things in moderation and integrated the insights he absorbed carefully.

Morning eventually, came and the group all simultaneously woke up from their rest.