With many doubts, Angor picked up the Expedition into Endless Planes published by Moonfrost Union to read.
This was a centenary periodical. A volume would be published every hundred years, and there had been a total of 16. This was also the existence period of Moonfrost Union. Sixteen centuries ago, Moonfrost Union was established at the Everfrost Iceland in the Northern Kingdom. It contained 13 wizard organizations and was a major force for plane expeditions in the south. In every century, they would publish various information about their new expeditions.
Angor began from the first volume.
He followed the index and kept going until he reached the 14th volume which was published 200 years ago. Here, Expedition into Endless Planes officially recorded the Nightmare Realm.
Next, Angor found out that the book described the Nightmare Realm in only two pages! Two pages, in a book volume that was several thousands of pages thick! This absolutely contradicted against Moonfrost’s core business which was “plane expeditions”. For the other planes, whether the expedition was successful or not, there were always overstated details. Even a small encounter between several people would be described like two nations were fighting an all-out war.
Angor went straight to the two pages that talked about the Nightmare Realm.
He finished them soon.
His expression became even more puzzled.
According to the book, the Nightmare Realm was a “roving” plane. There was no stable tunnel that led to it. The only method to enter the Nightmare Realm was to wait for the plane to move closer to the wizarding world on its periodical path, then open a space wormhole randomly and stumble into the place by chance.
The unstable plane, random tunnel, and enter by chance… These three uncertain definitions flagged the Nightmare Realm itself as something unsure.
Apart from the unstable plane tunnel, the Nightmare Realm was also an extremely dangerous plane. The book said that because of the uncertainty of the tunnels, less than ten wizards had ever gone into the place and came back in one piece.
Even more confusing, those who came back from the Nightmare Realm all refused to say anything about it. Even if someone occasionally slipped out a word or two, they were only something vague. Those people’s fear of the Nightmare Realm was plain on their looks. However, at the same time, they all showed great greed towards the Nightmare Realm. Every time there was a rumor about the appearance of the plane, they always rushed to the spot quickly as if they wanted something really bad.
Such strange behaviors only deepened people’s doubt towards the place. What in the world was inside the Nightmare Realm, that could make people both terrified and greedy?
Of course, the records were from 200 years ago. Angor did not know if things had changed.
Next, Angor opened up the book written by the Archwizard Fein Werder. Compared to the “academism” books he just read, Fein Werder appeared more like an educated traveling bard.
Instead of scientific articles, his book was more about traveling diaries, or rather, folklore tales.
For example, Wonder Worlds was completely describing Werder’s sightseeing records. From the elf world which was full of giant and green vegetations to the heaven of oceans where the waves had rainbow colors… If not for Fein Werder’s authoritative identity, Angor would have believed that the book was a collection of fairy tales.
Also, Fein Werder used really literary languages. There was nothing about blood or violence in the book. While he enjoyed his noble verbal techniques, Angor also admired his great wording arts.
Soon enough, Angor finished Werder’s book.
Even though the book did not record the Nightmare Realm, Werder expressed his intention to travel the Nightmare Realm many times. He only had one single comment about this plane:
“The reality is projected into imaginary and gives birth to the truth.”