Rewind the clock to the summer of fifty-five years ago.

Born into a family of academics, Wendal had just graduated from Cambridge University, the most famous university in the Duchy of Dunling, and because of his excellent grades and performance, he was invited to join the archaeological operation in the Dublin colony initiated by the Stuart family.

Such archaeological activities have been carried out many times by the Stuart family.

At first, everyone really thought that there was some treasure or some ancient ruins in this colony, and even the Duchy of Gaul even planned to take action against the colony of the Duchy of Dunling to obtain something of value that might exist.

As a result, the archaeological team did it several times, and the archaeological team found nothing.

On the contrary, because this event attracted a large number of nobles and young talents to join, and it became a social platform and an opportunity for talents to be wooed.

This event has slowly become a gathering of powerful people to socialize, and archaeology has become a name for some auctions to auction cultural relics.

However, Wendal arrived in Dublin Colony on a cruise ship, and when he went to the archaeological site, he really thought that there would be something here, but it had not yet been excavated.

So while everyone else is just perfunctory and a new thing to play, Wendal is studying it carefully and carefully.

This anomaly was soon discovered by the Stuart family, who began to hire him as the head of the colony's archaeological team.

Wendal was well suited for the job, to what extent he was suited, and in the fourth year after he became the head of the archaeological team, he personally led the team to find an ancient and strange altar.

That's what the Stuart family was looking for.

Speaking of the Stuart family, this is also a family with an ancient heritage.

As a family of chroniclers during the war years, the Stuarts are most powerful not in the Knights of the Round Table and an ancient dragon, but in their terrifyingly deep historical record.

And one of the most mysterious records is a wordless book.

Yes, as a family of recorders, there was a record of any historical information that indicated its location, such as a number, general summary, recorder, time and place, etc., among the batch of materials they were ordered to protect.

This is very intriguing.

After the end of the war, the Stuart family, who had survived the cataclysm and stabilized their homes, initially did their duty, guarding the records rather than reading what they shouldn't.

But as the times changed and the ancient contracts were discarded, the Stuart family increasingly needed self-preservation to defend themselves against careerists who might snoop on these records.

Whether for the survival of the family, for the continued preservation of these records, or for their own benefit, the Stuart family began to use these ancient records.

It was at this time that the first archaeological teams were established.

Their goal was to search for some of the surviving war machines, various precious resource reserves, and various technical reserves recorded in the records kept by the Stuart family.

However, after a long period of time, and the fact that the Stuart family is not the only one who knows the location of these things, the results of the archaeological team are not too much.

On the eve of the founding of the Duchy of Dunling, they had only unearthed the Knights of the Round Table, an ancient dragon, Bradley, now the largest vein of red mercury in the South, and enough resources and knowledge to help the Stuart family transform into a powerful alchemy family.

The Stuart family was the first to establish towns on both sides of the Thames, and the Tunling area was the core territory of the Stuart family.

It is not difficult to understand why the Duchy of Dunling wants to defend Dunling City, if Dunling City is lost, then it is likely to bring a devastating blow to the ruling family of Dunling Duchy, the Stuart family.

Then all kinds of power struggles, both overt and covert, will turn the principality upside down.

Later, the Great Expedition of the Kingdom of Bolitais forced nine other families in what is now the Duchy of Dunling to unite with the Stuart family to fight against the forces of the Great Expedition.

In this way, the Duchy of Dunling was slowly formed.

However, because it was originally a united nation, the Stuarts were the rulers of the Duchy of Dunling, but the actual lack of power was not possessed by a single ruler.

The other nine families have a high degree of autonomy, and the joint council composed of ten families is the right authority in the Duchy of Dunling, and the Duke of Dunling is often the same as the decoration.

This is also one of the reasons why the Kingdom of Augustus did not talk about the Duchy of Dunling after it became an empire.

A seemingly one-nation federation was not much of a threat to the Empire.

But who wouldn't want to concentrate all the power in their own hands?

So faced with this situation, the Stuart family let their archaeological team continue to dig through the ancient records to find more power to seize more power.

By the time Wendal joined the archaeological team, they had found a weapon, or controller, that could restrain the ancient dragons, and faced the powerful Stuart family, and the remaining nine families temporarily succumbed and handed over most of the military power and management.

But the Stuart family knew that the people of these families would inevitably look for every opportunity to suppress them, so in order to continue their position, the archaeological team must continue to carry out archaeology.

At this time, the Stuart family set their sights on the record with the wordless cover. There must be something good about such a special record.

So, there is the place Dublin Colony, and the origin of the name is a place name in that record.

Of course, it was not appropriate to conduct such a clandestine archaeological operation in this part of the colony, so the Stuart family set up a bureau.

They organized several costly and fruitless archaeological operations, recruited outstanding people from all walks of life in the archaeological team, and succeeded in turning this archaeological activity into an aristocratic social and talent recruitment activity, dispelling the doubts of many forces.

As more forces invest in this event to carry out family displays, negotiations and cooperation between families, and recruitment of talents, some people even forget that this is an archaeological activity.

The Stuart family selects a few of the talents they recruit to carry out real archaeological operations. People from other forces will think that this is just a formality.

There were already more than a dozen people before Vendal, and the Stuart family was about to give up what was written on the wordless cover record when he found the ancient and strange altar.

According to the wordless cover record, it was a device capable of summoning a projection of some kind of being, which was used by someone to emancipate Middle-earth.

Although I don't understand what kind of liberation is this, at least from the point of view that this individual object is civilization, this device is very powerful.

Upon learning that Wendal had found the device, the Stuarts immediately went into action, destroying all of Wendal's archives and then sending absolutely loyal personnel to transport the altar back from the Dublin colony.

Then in the secret research institute built underground in the industrial area of Dunling City, Dr. Wendal conducted research on the altar.

That's more than 40 years of research.

Although he had not figured out how to use this for all these years, it was still possible to use this altar as a medium for some things.

For example, the famous "Jack the Ripper" was created.

Through the power of the altar, the time and space are disturbed, and the assassination of important people is carried out in the Wudu Dunling City, and then because of the difference in time and space, not only can no clues be found, but even if the alchemy puppet is used for fishing law enforcement, it is not clear whether the assassin really exists.

The record of the alchemy puppet was only fine one second, and the next second it was destroyed by the worthless video.

Relying on this, the Stuart assassins began to carry out all kinds of assassinations against important or potential figures of the other nine families, causing them to decline more and more for a while.

During this period, the Stuart family certainly could not show that only their own people had not been assassinated.

So some people in the Stuart family who needed to hide their identities followed this opportunity to "die".

There is no evidence and the Stuart family is also "dying", so even if there is suspicion, the other families do not confront the Stuart family.

In addition to "Jack the Ripper", there are all kinds of strange events that are true and false.

For example, the Mosmug Lake Monster, the Midnight Bloods, the Death Warbler in the Dark Alley, the Mechanical Monster in the Steam Pipes, and so on.

During that time, even the detectives in Grand Field had to be equipped with rifles when they went out to the police, and they had to work with four people.

Sometimes on the outskirts of the city, there are also army armored vehicles for cover tasks for safety.

And it's not just in Dunling City, but also in the core areas of the other nine families.

In addition to using altars to create these strange events, the Stuarts also used the spiritual effects of the altars that Wendal had researched to drive some family patriarchs or important senators crazy.

After more than a decade of various actions using the altar, most of the power of the Duchy of Dunling eventually fell into the hands of the Stuart family.

The United Council of Dunling existed in name only, and even the Wilkins, Scottlands, and Wingoland were in such a bad decline that the three ancient dragons belonging to their families were taken over by the Stuart family.

There are some who suspect that the Stuart family is responsible for all of this, but they either become victims of the "Jack the Ripper" case or go insane.

And those who publicly questioned the Stuart family and had a certain prestige were brought down and thrown into prison in the battle of public opinion because there was no evidence.

Then they are either bought or die unexpectedly.

Doesn't Wendal know this? He knew, after all, the people who controlled the altar were all trained, wouldn't he know what the Stuart family was going to do? Apparently it is impossible not to know.

However, he had long since lost interest in how the world on the ground would develop, and through his study of the altar, he discovered that the device was not actually an "altar", but a mechanical device that he couldn't figure out what it was.

After the Stuarts completed full control of the Duchy of Dunling, they also did not want Wendal to leave their control.

Killing him is a good option, but you need to take the risk of not killing him.

So after Vendal said that he would continue to study the altar, the Stuart family gladly agreed to his request.

For more than two decades, Wendal worked day and night to analyze the device.

He flipped through various ancient books and the wordless cover records provided by the Stuart family, hoping to find more clues.

During this time, the archaeological team conducted several more secret archaeological expeditions in the Dublin colony, and finally he found a clue to a "stone statue".

However, it is likely that this is not a simple "stone statue", but a special mechanism like the altar.

After more than a year of excavation, the archaeological team finally found a broken cube in a cave, and inside this cube was the stone statue that Wendal wanted.

But this stone statue is indeed very strange, not only its appearance.

Most of the people who came into contact with it went crazy shortly after the statue left them.

Will Wendal not touch this stone statue? How could he not touch it, he had already gambled his all in order to study this altar, and how could he retreat when a new clue appeared.

Maybe by chance, he wasn't crazy, but no one came back to the lab to study the statue with him.

From that day on, he began years of independent research, eventually obtaining information about the board and the player, and then became more and more obsessed with the idea of pulling that player down.

It seemed incredible, but not long after the Battle of Dunling City began, he was able to figure it out.

However, before the chess player could be seen, various effects had already passed through the protection of the laboratory, turning the entire industrial area into a space-time dislocation area.

There are also all kinds of strange phenomena that have not been detected in this area.

So, the people above did not allow the defenders located here to enter the interior of the industrial zone under any circumstances.

This is not only to protect the soldiers, of course, but also to allow Army Group South to test how the industrial zone is now and to delay the time for Wendal to succeed.

Because as long as Wendal succeeds, it is equivalent to bringing immeasurable variables to this defense war, then it is likely to be able to change the tide of the war and allow the Duchy of Dunling to win.

No matter how bad it is, the Stuart family will not be liquidated for the time being after withdrawing from their core area.

Yes, the Stuarts had known for a long time that the coalition would not defeat Army Group South, even though the Duchy of Dunling had already invested most of its forces and was still investing.

It's just that the Stuart family wants to see a turnaround from the variables.

But now the commander of Army Group South's core industrial zone has been warned by the purge regiment to cordon off the area and not let anyone enter.

But Wendal's experiment has been successful.

The "Altar" and "Stone Statue" were originally a set of equipment used by Eshur to cut off the control of living meteorites from the pre-Middle-earth civilization, but after the being found it interesting, it became a set of altars used by some later civilizations in their early days.

However, this being didn't care about this thing anymore after it turned into a set of altars after playing with this device, who would have known that after countless years in this world, a person named Wendal would use this thing to stimulate that being in reverse.

Of course, it is not really stimulating that being, but letting that being inadvertently project its own gaze here, and expand the influence of its projection through these things.

Soon, the entire core industrial area began to change.

The first is the appearance of strange things.

This strange thing is different from the beasts that have no reason and only know how to kill everywhere, it is a true civilization of humanoids, who rely on the projection of that being to make it possible to jump from different dimensions to different dimensions.

It was their advance party that had arrived now.

Soon, the remnants of the Seventh Division, which had few sane remnants, were slaughtered by them, and the core industrial area was occupied by them.

Vental's lab exploded due to overload, and the experimental apparatus leaked and uncontrollably transformed, resulting in the creation of numerous subspace rifts.

There were enough soldiers killed on the battlefield of Dunling, causing even if it wasn't for the subspace rifts that appeared on the battlefield, all kinds of erosion had begun to spread to the buildings outside the laboratory.

This is not something that the convoy sent by the purge regiment can handle.

The convoy of the Clearance Regiment, which had entered the core industrial area, immediately withdrew.

Even after only spending more than 20 minutes in this core industrial area, the purge group, which has a number of security protection measures, has lost three members of the team, and two others

According to the current situation of the war, Army Group South did not have the energy to care about the situation here for the time being, so it was blocked.

This increasingly bizarre-looking core industrial area was temporarily abandoned by Army Group South.

The humanoids in the core industrial area are gradually emerging from the shadows. It was a group of creatures that resembled the silver humanoids in Kimchi's bloodline.

After emptying the core industrial area of all living creatures, they began to establish a bridgehead base here.

This is to provide positioning conditions for the follow-up troops. With two-way positioning, those huge shuttle ships were able to break through the limitations of the speed of light on time and space and get here.

Now this planet is fun.

There are not only living meteorites, war machines built by the alien civilization of Aishuur, but also the Zerg and this silver-humanoid civilization, which is really lively.

But now the stage of the planet is still a world war of natives.

The forces used to attack the core industrial area turned around and began to attack the coalition defenses in the inner city of Dunling.