From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 440 Sky Fortress
In Winter City, in the base of the three Light Swordsmen.

After more than ten days of struggle and hard work, the three of them have rescued all the survivors from a large area nearby and brought them back to their base, nearly more than ten thousand people.

Compared to other cities that have no power to resist, Winter City, as the capital of the Northern Kingdom, has citizens who are much stronger than those in other cities.

Moreover, there are still some defeated royal soldiers in Winter City. Even if they are defeated, they can still fight with the green-skinned orcs under the threat of life and death.

In a house inside the stronghold, Light Sword, Heavy Sword and Hyacinthus were gathered in the house.

Hyacinth frowned and whispered.

"The situation in the stronghold is getting a bit out of control. If we delay any further, we will have to kill people to suppress it."

"Kill them if you want. They are a bunch of people who have no idea what morality is. We were the ones who saved them, but not only do they not know how to be grateful, they are also trying to cause trouble."

Light Sword held the weapon in his hand and cursed under his breath.

"I should have known I shouldn't have saved these bastards."

As a land that has been ruled by orcs for a long time, the orcs and half-orcs in the North have developed a barbaric, greedy and cowardly attitude. The kindness of the three people was of no use to them, and they even regarded them as weakness.

To the orcs and half-orcs of the North, the three men as leaders and rulers were undoubtedly too weak; they didn't even hang people.

Even though the three of them were nominally of the same race, the same was true for the Northern Orcs. The Northern Orcs who had accepted the Northern culture and they who had accepted the Donar culture were completely unable to understand each other.

Perhaps mid- and high-level half-orcs and orcs still have some rationality, but ordinary and low-level half-orcs and orcs are basically barbaric and ruthless, and any kindness and goodness will be regarded as weakness.

In their eyes, a weak leader is incompetent, and an incompetent leader is not worthy of leading them.

In their view, only tyrants who wield whips and exercise cruel and bloody rule are monarchs worthy of their true loyalty.

Kindness and goodness may be able to attract the northern humans who still retain human culture, but they cannot make the half-orcs and orcs who have absorbed the northern culture obedient, nor can they attract the northern humans such as Winter City who have completely accepted the orc culture.

Of course, there are exceptions. There are still some people who are grateful to the three for saving their lives and obey their orders. However, there are less than a hundred of these people, and there are only two orcs and a dozen orcs, and the rest are humans.

"What's next?"

After cursing under his breath, Light Sword said in a low voice.

Hyacinth sighed and said.

"Let's wait for news from the military. Maybe the military will have a better solution. Before that, protect those who choose to follow us."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Heavy Sword did not speak, but silently wiped the weapon in her hand. She did not understand these things, so she just did whatever Light Sword and Hyacinth said.

While the three of them were silent, Hyacinth's communication device lit up.

When Hyacinth placed the communication device on the table, Light Sword turned his gaze towards the communication device.

"A direct message from the Chairman."

Hyacinth said with some surprise. She quickly opened the message and carefully read the news and orders from the Chairman and the military.

Qing Jian's eyes lit up slightly, and he came over and asked.

"Chairman? What did he say?"

Hearing this, Chongjian stopped what he was doing and looked at Hyacinthus.

Looking at the message on the communication device, Hyacinth took a deep breath and said.

"The chairman said that if these guys still don't know how to be ashamed, they should be killed without mercy. The committee is short of people, but we don't want garbage either. It doesn't matter if we kill them all now."

"In addition, the military has also sent a message that the War Marshal has learned of our situation and has sent a team of 1,000 people to support us."

Hearing Hyacinth's words, Heavy Sword silently tightened his grip on his weapon.

She seldom spoke, so she was very sensitive to all kinds of sights and emotions. Heavy Sword was more aware of the malicious looks in the stronghold than Light Sword and Hyacinth.

She was the first to discover and alert the other two, and the first to keep her weapon at hand, alert to the orcs and orcs in the stronghold.

Heavy Sword was the first orc among the three to accept the concept of committee citizenship. In her opinion, even the orcs in the stronghold could not be considered her compatriots.

If they were to fight against them, perhaps the light sword and hyacinth would show mercy, but the heavy sword definitely would not.

Listening to Hyacinthus' words, Qingjian sighed slightly and said.

"This is the only way. Don't go out again until the thousand-man team arrives to support you."

After saying that, Qingjian looked at Hyacinthus and asked.

"Is the magic circle set up?"

"Everything is ready. Don't worry. There will definitely be enough. Moreover, according to the military, this thousand-man team will be able to reach us tomorrow at the latest."

Hyacinth paused and continued.

"As soon as the Thousand Man Team arrives, everything will be fine."

Qing Jian nodded, and her tense spirit relaxed a little. She leaned back in her chair and said helplessly.

"Hey, we thought we could attract tens of thousands of people to the committee, but in the end, less than a hundred people are willing to go with us."

"It's not a small amount. Once the Thousand Man Team arrives, everything will be fine."

Hyacinth whispered.

After the words were spoken, the three of them fell silent.

At the same time, deep inside the Winter City Palace, the orc priest also saw a team of a thousand people rushing towards Winter City through the life network.

Through the green-skinned orcs' sight, he saw a team of cavalrymen with their feet on frost fearlessly crashing into the wave formed by countless green-skinned orcs.

The sharp weapons pierced through all the enemies in front of the cavalry. The bodies of the green-skinned orcs were cut into several pieces, wrapped in ice, and fell to the ground.

No matter whether it was ordinary green-skinned orcs or orc transcendents, they could not stop the cavalry's charge. The orcs who blocked the way were ruthlessly slaughtered, and the orcs who approached were turned into ice sculptures in the wind and snow around the cavalry, and all heat was taken away, and they lost their lives due to the cold. As the cavalry charged, the biting cold wind swept across the entire battlefield, the icy cold penetrated into the flesh, the cold was piercing, and thin ice appeared on the bodies of the green-skinned orcs.

In the cold environment, the green-skinned orcs' movements gradually slowed down.

Even though the number of green-skinned orcs that came to stop the Ice Knight was dozens of times theirs, they still did not have much of an effect in stopping him. The Ice Knight had no intention of taking a detour, and based on the attitude that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, he directly killed through all the forces blocking his way.

Looking at the thousand-man knight team galloping rapidly in the life network, the orc priest calmly opened his eyes. There was no joy or sadness in his eyes, just indifferent and calm.

The altar under his feet had been opened at some point, and dark green blood flowed out from the altar, soaking the entire floor of the secret room.

The orc transcendents kneeling on the ground were also covered with dark green blood. Their vitality was constantly decreasing and then rising again, repeating the process over and over again.

And when they cycle through this process, the life force drawn from their bodies is also absorbed and plundered by the priests through their decent dark green blood and injected into the bodies of the orc priests.

When their vitality dries up, these orc transcendents connected to the life network will also receive vitality injection from the life network and restore their vitality.

The orc priest does not have the power to directly mobilize the vitality of the life network, so he can only choose this indirect means to plunder the vitality stored in the life network.

At the same time, the extraordinary people kneeling around were also silently reciting something rigidly. As they recited, strands of the power of faith flowed into the body of the orc priest.

Power, more power, more and more powerful power.

As the force of life and the power of faith continued to flow into his body, the orc priest felt the power in his body and clenched his fists.

"I feel good now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange dark green divine seal appeared on his face, and a strange divinity emanated from his body. Even the extraordinary people on the ground who had lost their wisdom, when they felt this strange divinity, their controlled bodies trembled instinctively in fear.

In Apocalypse, the capital of the War Council, Roland stopped what he was doing, raised his eyebrows slightly, turned his head and looked towards the window, looking towards the north.

"what happened?"

Hela asked softly from the side.

"My spirituality is reminding me that things in the North are not that simple."

Roland clicked on the communication device thoughtfully, and several complicated design drawings appeared in front of Roland.

Hela followed Roland's gaze and looked at the design drawings on the communication device.

During the past ten years of development, the Committee of Mechanical Industries has developed a weapon of war after several rounds of research and iterations: the Sky Fortress.

The Sky Fortress is a new type of war weapon developed by the artificers based on the situation of the committee. Its design concept is mainly to take on the war functions of the committee when it lacks high-level extraordinary people.

As the committee's top war creation to date, the Sky Fortress did not have too many concerns during the design phase. It applied a variety of top technologies on a large scale, including the most advanced spell models, the most advanced mechanical creations, the unscrupulous application of undead technology, and the application of botanical mutations.

In addition to various cutting-edge technologies, in terms of materials, all the core components of the Sky Fortress are basically made by mid-level machinists themselves in the silver forge. Moreover, in order to solve the energy problem of the Sky Fortress, the Sky Fortress also uses a large amount of Tears of the Moon Goddess.

Even though a poor mine of Tears of the Moon was dug in the buffer zone before, the Committee's reserves of Tears of the Moon could not support the Committee's abuse. Therefore, every step in the construction of the Sky Fortress was confirmed in advance through prophecy.

In addition, due to the instability of technology and material deviations caused by artificial materials, the committee's current air fortresses are basically based on prophecy. They are inevitable in chance and are unique and difficult to replicate.

Although the design drawings have been preserved, the committee is now basically unable to replicate them completely.

At present, the War Committee has built a total of four, or five different air fortresses, namely: Jackdaw, Embers, Ethereal, and Gemini.

These sky fortresses are different from each other. The Jackdaw is a product of the fusion of traditional magic and mechanical magic, and uses a large amount of mithril and Tears of the Moon Goddess.

The Embers is a special aerial fortress that focuses on botany and is supplemented by other technologies. It is covered with gray vegetation that looks like it has been burned.

The Netherworld is mainly based on necromancy, with other technologies as supplementary. It has established extraordinary connections with the dark elemental world and has been hiding behind the material world for a long time.

The Gemini is a special air fortress that was recast using materials from two failed air fortresses. Unlike other air fortresses, the Gemini is composed of two air fortresses that are integrated but divisible.

Each of these four aerial fortresses possesses power comparable to that of high-level transcendents.

Although they are not as good as high-level extraordinary beings in terms of mobility and flexibility, the sky fortresses have more advantages than high-level extraordinary beings in terms of destruction and war.

"Are we going to deploy the Sky Fortress?"

Looking at the highly confidential design drawings on the communication device, Hela asked in a low voice.

Hearing Hela's words, Roland nodded slightly and said.

"There will probably be more incidents in the north. Let the Jackdaw and the Evil depart. The Evil will remain silent. If the Jackdaw can handle the situation, that's great. If the Jackdaw can't, let the Evil take action."

"clear."

Hela nodded and passed on Roland's order.

As the order was transmitted through the intranet, higher up in the Dragon Spine Mountains in the north, the Jackdaw Sky Fortress floating high in the sky was floating peacefully in the air like a sleeping dragon.

When the military order was conveyed to the air fortress, the sleeping air fortress slowly moved.

As the aerial fortress operated, a large amount of elements were also affected by the fortress's intake and output. Driven by the internal core, the Jackdaw slowly moved and headed towards the north.

The soldiers and artificers on the Jackdaw also began to move, preparing for the Jackdaw's first actual combat.

In the turbulence of time and space between the material world and the dark elemental world, in the looming Netherworld, the necromancers and other spellcasters who were conducting research in the Netherworld also received orders.

The necromancers responsible for controlling the Wraith also quickly returned to the control center of the fortress and started the Wraith.

The silhouette of the Netherworld became even more faint, and after entering a virtual state of movement, it slowly moved in the dangerous space-time turbulence, heading towards the coordinates of the North in the space-time turbulence.

At the same time, deep inside the Netherworld, the dark element core inside was also roaring and starting up, and pure dark elements were pouring out from the core to the surroundings.

In the command room of the Cerberus, a necromancer was looking at the screen inside the command room, activating the fixed spells on the Cerberus and observing the situation in the material world.

Under the order of the committee, these two war weapons, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources to build, are heading to the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)