Returning to the forward base, Richard had three foot knights march west with their troops, trying to traverse the mountains and find a secret passage to Duke Wolf's territory, while he and Reilly studied Essien's diary.

Half an hour later, Richard carefully inserted a magic needle into the magic lock on Essin's diary, and then injected a wisp of magic into the needle. Suddenly, the magic lock lit up, and a burst of cyan flames erupted. When the flame is extinguished, the magic lock makes a soft sound and pops open automatically.

Richard smiled, pleased with his findings. In the process of cracking this magic lock, he not only reviewed some theories of special magic arrays, but also had a clearer understanding of the magic level of the Faro plane.

There is not much content in the diary, and it is basically related to the plane and time and space. The more Richard reads, the more he senses the magnitude of Essien's ambitions.

Fifteen years ago, Essien experienced a depraved event, and since then he has been in the habit of keeping a diary.

In order to save his terminally ill illegitimate daughter, an elderly priest secretly learned the forbidden art of summoning and built an altar to summon demons in the basement of his home. But as soon as he gave his soul to the devil, the temple noticed about it. Eventually, the old priest and his family were all burned at the stake.

While people were trying to destroy the altar, an accident happened. The devil summoned by the old priest was very powerful, and although he himself failed to pass through the summoning door, he threw two little devils over. It took the Knights Templar six lives to wipe them out, and Essien, who was present, was bitten.

After this incident, Essien wrote down his concerns in his diary. The Little Devil is only the lowest creature in the Hell plane, and the Templars are already considered elite in the Pharrow plane. But in that two-on-ten battle, the temple side played a tragic result of six for two. If, one day in the future, Hell and Pharo build a real dimensional passage, wouldn't humanity usher in a catastrophe?

There will always be times when the gods fail to take care of believers, let alone satisfy everyone's desires. Essien believed that there were many more people in this world besides the old priest who would sell their souls to satisfy their desires. This is not the beginning, let alone the end.

Since then, Essien has been very concerned about the affairs of the Alien Plane. Not only did he consult a lot of information, but he also used his identity to read a lot of forbidden books. In addition, Essien summarized and analyzed the oracles over the years.

Historically, there have been more than one incident of an alien invasion, causing a lot of turmoil, and the posture of the enemy is also strange, and the number of times the invader is a human is not too much or too little. The oracle of the god of courage, though as vague and intrusive as most of the gods of Farro, is traceable.

According to Esin's analysis, oracles involving invaders usually have two key messages, the first is the number of invaders, and the second is the average strength of the invaders. In terms of strength, a team like Richard, with an average rating of less than ten, can only get a "negligible" evaluation. In comparison, the number of invaders is not so important, anyway, the largest group of invaders in history is only more than a hundred.

For the gods of the Pharo plane, most of the invaders in history were trivial diseases that were basically solved by the local lords. However, there was also a time when an extremely powerful invader appeared: three star beasts from the astral plane.

After an earth-shattering battle, almost all of the top powerhouses of the Faro plane were killed, and even a god fell. The northwest corner of the Qihui Continent broke away from the main body of the continent and became an isolated island in the sea. After paying a huge price, the three star beasts were buried in Faro, and the dimensional passage connecting the astral plane was also destroyed.

The true circumstances of the great battle had been mysterized in the silence of the gods, and only a few words had been preserved in the classified archives of the major temples.

At the end of the diary, Essien wrote, "Is war the theme between planes?"

After reading this diary, Richard realized that Essien's wisdom was far beyond his imagination.

Judging by his diary for the last year, Essien has begun to purposefully search for places where strange events have taken place. And the reason why he was willing to go to the edge of the White Rock Principality to preside over a small temple was also because it was close to the turbulent land.

The so-called turbulent land is a vast land with an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers. The terrain is quite treacherous, with mountains everywhere, and the Akmund family's forward base sits in a corner of the turbulent lands.

Located between the Plains of Abundance and the Redstone Highlands, the Land of Turmoil is named after the frequent turmoil of time and space. Essien's focus here is to find the ruins that have weathered the turbulence of time, and through which he wants to explore the true mysteries of the planes.

Essien's ambition is great, he wants to understand the nature of the plane and plane, and get out of the Pharotic plane. Because he found that with the invasion of the alien plane again and again, the overall strength of the Faro plane was slowly decreasing.

After the Star Beast War, Farrow still hasn't recovered. The legendary powerhouses have long faded out of people's sight, the sixteenth-level "Sanctuary" powerhouses are one-third fewer than in their heyday, and the Church of the Gods has also declined a lot compared to before the war.

In the thirteenth year of writing his diary, Essien came up with the hypothesis that Farrow was not the only plane that gave rise to gods. This conjecture has contradicted the teachings of most of the Farro gods, and if Essin's diary leaked out, he would have been burned at the stake.

In Essien's view, since the theme between planes is war, resources and power become two indispensable elements. In order to break the impasse in front of him, Farrow must find a way to open a path to the Alien Plane and win the war, plundering the Alien Plane's resources and talents in order to grow and strengthen the Plane.

Seeing this, Richard was deeply shocked.

Judging from the contents of the diary, the Faro plane has not experienced a real dimensional war, and the invaders it has encountered before are only expeditions that came here by chance through the rift in time and space.

And in Norland, dimensional warfare has long been a deeply rooted concept. Any wealthy family that stands tall has more than one rich plane behind it that supplies its blood. Richard still remembered the last time he saw Gordon, the Marquis had been on a mission to encroach on a plane.

However, in Faro, who had never experienced a real dimensional war, Essien was able to discover the importance and urgency of the dimensional war, and his strategic vision could no longer be described as a genius. If the timing is right, Essien has a good chance of becoming a key figure in shaping the course of history!

(It's a pity, he's just a priest)

Thinking of this, Richard couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"What do you think, Reilly?"

"Essien's personal strength is too weak, and this is a hard injury that cannot be bypassed. On the other hand, the short-sightedness and stupidity of the Faroese gods also led to the fact that such geniuses could not find a stage to show their strength. Reilly thought for a moment and said, "For Essien, it is necessary to at least become the Pope of the God of Courage in order to realize his ideals. More importantly, he must have the support of the god of courage. ”

"But I don't see that possibility at all. Richard shook his head and said, "The pope of the God of Courage is usually held by an eighteenth-level archpriest. Most of the cardinals have the strength of level seventeen, and the minimum is level sixteen. If a seventeenth-level high priest becomes the pope, he can barely control the situation, but Essin's words ......"

"There is a question mark over whether he can reach the fifteenth level in this life!" Reilly continued, "The Farro gods have obviously adopted the practice of closing the plane, while Aesin is secretly studying the knowledge of the plane and time and space, and the divine favor he has obtained will inevitably be reduced as a result. Therefore, this genius who has cast his eyes beyond the plane can only become an obscure little person. Essien wrote down his true thoughts in this diary, probably because he saw his future end. ”

Richard sighed again and said, "Perhaps, Essien will activate the self-destruct device attached to the magic lock before he dies, so that this diary that has condensed a lifetime of hard work will accompany him into eternal sleep." ”

"Anyway, are you interested in making Essien our ally?"

This sentence was slightly more informative, and Richard couldn't react for a while.

"Do you think Essien will compromise with the invaders?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own way. Reilly smiled mysteriously.