From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 441 Lurking
In Winter City, the Ice Knights' thousand-man team successfully killed their way through the entire Winter City and successfully met up with Hyacinth and the other two.

Although there are more than 10,000 survivors in the stronghold, most of them are ordinary citizens, with only a small number of royal soldiers and extraordinary people.

Even a thousand-man squadron composed of ordinary legion soldiers would be enough to crush everyone in the stronghold, let alone a thousand-man squadron composed of primarch soldiers.

After the thousand-man team arrived at the stronghold, looking at the ice cavalrymen emitting cold frost and the frozen blood on their bodies, the eyes of all the orcs and half-orcs with bad intentions in the stronghold suddenly became clear.

After the reinforcements arrived, Hyacinth and the other two did not stay here.

According to the latest instructions from the military, Hyacinthus and the other two took less than a hundred people in the stronghold who were willing to go with them. Under the protection of the Ice Knight, they left the stronghold and quickly ran out of Winter City.

Roland's prophecy would naturally not be hidden from the military. After Tula knew that there were still experts in the North, he decisively chose to let Hyacinth and the others rescue the people first. At the same time, he also commanded the army to advance steadily. After stabilizing the passage between the committee and the North, he also led the army and subsequent support to attack Winter City.

Although the greenskin orcs in the north are somewhat different from those in Donnar, they both have a network of life.

As the force in the world that is most adept at dealing with the Green Tide, the War Council naturally discovered the life network of the North.

By observing the life network, the committee can see that a large amount of vitality is constantly being extracted and transferred to Winter City.

Therefore, when Tula ordered the Ice Knights of a thousand men to rush in to rescue people and leave, she also asked the Shadow Dancer to lurk in Winter City to collect intelligence in advance.

As assassin-type Primarch soldiers, Shadow Dancers are more flexible than other Primarch legions. They rarely attack as a whole legion. Most of the time, they are active in various legions in the form of teams of ten or one hundred.

Naturally, Shadow Dancers also participated in this battle against the North.

After the Ice Knight protected Hyacinth and the others and left, the Shadow Dancers also began to search Winter City secretly.

As the capital of the Northern Kingdom, Winter City would not necessarily fall so quickly. What about the four princes in the Northern Palace and the mid-level extraordinary people who were loyal to him? Why didn't they show up at all?

There is definitely something wrong here in Winter City, but who is the real mastermind behind it? This is a question worth sending someone to.

While the elite Shadow Dancers were infiltrating the palace, the rest of the Shadow Dancers were also active in Winter City, searching for useful intelligence.

In the previous base of Hyacinth and the other two, a shadow dancer squatted on top of the granary, looking up at everything around him.

He played with the pocket watch on his hand, thinking about where to search next. As for the infighting and power struggles among the more than 10,000 survivors in the stronghold below him, he didn't care at all.

That's how it should be.

Sensing some sudden strange changes below, Shadow Dancer frowned slightly and looked down at the situation in the granary.

Inside the granary, more than 10,000 survivors in the stronghold have been divided into several teams. They each control different areas in the granary and are wary of and hostile to each other.

In the center of the granary, soldiers and extraordinary people from various teams were fighting, using force and fighting to decide the final leader.

Shadow Dancer didn't care about their fight. His eyes were directly on an orc who was huddled in the corner of the granary.

Unnoticed by anyone in the granary, his body was shaking uncontrollably, and dark green spots appeared on his skin, spreading throughout his body.

This is in.
Transformed into greenskin?
Shadow Dancer raised his eyebrows slightly and silently turned on the recording function of his pocket watch, recording the entire process of this unknown orc's transformation into a green-skinned orc step by step.

While he was recording, other green-skinned orcs from Winter City came from all directions, interrupting the fighting inside the granary.

Faced with the pressure from the green-skinned orcs, the various groups in the granary had to temporarily put aside their disputes and start fighting against the green tide.

However, compared to the previous time when Hyacinthus suppressed them and unified command to fight, this time they all divided the area and chose to fight on their own.

Relying on the fortifications that Hyacinth had forced them to build, they were still able to stop the attacking green-skinned orcs.

Until the orcs hiding in the corner completed their transformation.

Under the gaze of the Shadow Dancer, the green-skinned orcs who had completed their transformation in the corner opened their mindless eyes. They were so frenzied that they were almost unresponsive and pounced directly on the other nearest orcs and orcs.

Under attack from both inside and outside, one team immediately ran into problems. The extraordinary person who sensed the danger did not hesitate and decisively abandoned the team and chose to escape independently.

After the extraordinary person escaped, his team quickly collapsed, resulting in a loophole in the defense line, through which countless green-skinned orcs poured into the granary.

The Shadow Dancer put away his pocket watch, raised his head and looked into the distance. Ignoring the survivors who were being slaughtered below, he jumped and quickly left.

At the same time, Shadow Dancers in various parts of Winter City also discovered the situation inside Winter City. Some survivors who had been hiding well were now captured and killed one by one by the influx of frenzied green-skinned orcs.

In the quiet palace of Winter City, a few elite shadow dancers who were responsible for palace reconnaissance also headed deep into the palace with a clear goal.

With the spell blessing provided by the pocket watch, the shadow dancers followed the flow of life force and continued to go deeper.

The fifteen shadow dancers came to a floor. The life force was constantly flowing under the floor. However, according to the shadow dancers' perception, under the floor was thick soil and there was no hollow space.

They quickly checked the room and found no secret passage or mechanism leading downstairs.

Finally, without wasting time looking elsewhere, the fifteen shadow dancers looked at each other and nodded in tacit understanding. They held their pocket watches, dived into the shadow world, and began to sink into the ground.

They sank rapidly, and it took them more than ten minutes to sense the hollow deep underground.

After a few more minutes, the shadow dancers stopped ten meters away from the ceiling of the underground dark room.

The fifteen shadow dancers communicated quickly through hand gestures, and after reaching a consensus, they decided to disperse and each chose a location to sneak into the dark room.

A shadow dancer bypassed the place where the vitality gathered, ran to the corner of the dark room, and moved from the ceiling of the dark room to the wall.

He then went deeper into the shadow world, and only when he reached his limit did he carefully poke his head out from the wall.

After sticking his head out, he saw a large number of orc transcendents kneeling on the ground, dark green blood covering their bodies and the floor, and a mysterious altar in the center of the dark room.

The moment he saw the altar, the pocket watch in his hand quickly exerted force, forcibly cutting off the Shadow Dancer's line of sight, and the Shadow Dancer immediately retracted his head.

He hid in the wall, holding his pocket watch tightly, and stopped thinking silently.

The pocket watches equipped by the Shadow Dancers have many functions, but their main function is to assist the Shadow Dancers' actions.

Just now, when they were about to see a high-level extraordinary person, it was the pocket watch that pulled them back. Now, stopping thinking is also one of the functions of the pocket watch, which can help the shadow dancer avoid the perception of high-level extraordinary people. After an unknown amount of time, the pocket watch on his hand shook slightly, bringing him back from the state of stopping thinking.

After regaining his composure, Shadow Dancer saw that he had not been attacked. He silently glanced at the pocket watch on his hand, and after confirming that he was fine, he quickly returned to the ceiling.

And when he returned, all the other shadow dancers returned to the ceiling.

Through hand gestures, the fifteen shadow dancers shared everything they had seen and summarized it. Then, they formulated a new battle plan.

As the elite among the Shadow Dancers, they are not only responsible for intelligence reconnaissance, but also beheading enemy leaders is one of their jobs.

After quickly formulating a battle plan, they split up once again. This time, the fifteen shadow dancers were divided into three teams of four and one team of three.

Three teams of four formed a triangle, placing the altar in the center of the triangle, while the other team of three hid in the outermost corner.

Although they couldn't see each other, as the pocket watches on their hands reached the agreed time, all the shadow dancers moved at the same time.

The four-member team formed a small magic circle, and the power of the shadow world was drawn by the magic circle and quickly gathered.

Afterwards, three teams of four people dropped down from the ceiling in an orderly manner. As they dropped from the ceiling, their figures also left the shadow world and emerged from the virtual to the real.

At the same time, the three-person team on the edge also appeared in the secret room. They quickly took out military communication equipment and uploaded the relevant information to the military.

When the four-man team went from virtual to real, their combined power also hit the border between the material world and the shadow world, directly creating three gaps. The three gaps resonated with each other, and the power of shadow appeared in the material world through the gaps.

Within the triangle formed by the three gaps, the materialized shadow matter covered and fell onto the material world.

The surging power of dark elements quickly swept through the entire dark room, and the extraordinary person kneeling on the ground waited to be swallowed by the shadow with almost no resistance.

Damn, where did the enemy come from?

On the altar in the secret room, the orc priest raised his head and looked at the falling shadow power, his whole face turned dark.

After the Ice Knight took Hyacinth and his party away from Winter City, he focused all his attention on the control of the life network. At most, he paid some attention to the advancement of Tula's army and the Moon Elf Embassy in Winter City. He never thought about the possibility of being attacked again.

Looking at the falling shadow force, he closed his eyes again indifferently.

It's not the best time yet, but there's nothing we can do about it.

The bodies of the four princes under his feet turned into a green light and merged into his body. Then, the altar under his feet was fully activated and the dark green blood began to boil.

The extraordinary people covered by the dark green liquid also melted quickly. Before they were swallowed by the shadow, the dark green blood devoured them all completely.

Countless dark green blood rushed madly towards the orc priest above the altar.

The Shadow Dancers naturally couldn't just sit back and watch as the shadow power poured into the real world and devoured the liquid.

Due to the interference of the Shadow Dancer, nearly one-fifth of the dark green blood was swallowed up by the shadow.

As the remaining blood flowed into the body of the orc priest, the shadow power summoned by the Shadow Dancer completely covered the entire underground dark room. Except for the orc priest and the altar where he was located, which were protected by a green shield, everything else fell into darkness.

The distinction between the shadow world and the material world has become extremely blurred at this moment.

In the underground dark room, the orc priest and the altar where he was were like a small boat in a storm at sea, being constantly attacked by the eroding force of shadows coming from all directions.

In the shadows, the shadow dancers were like fish in water and quickly charged towards the altar. After sending the message, the shadow dancers on the edge also quickly rushed to the battlefield.

Faced with the green shield blocking their way, the four shadow dancers who arrived outside the altar first decisively joined forces to mobilize the thick shadow power around the environment.

Technique - Shadow Thrust.

The materialized shadow power turned into a sharp blade, and under the control of the Shadow Dancer, it flew out from the shadow and slammed fiercely into the green shield.

The seemingly indestructible shield was eroded by the attack, leaving a small gap. Although it was quickly repaired, due to the ubiquitous penetration of the shadow power, a large amount of shadow power seized this opportunity and madly poured into the altar.

After the shadow power surged in, the shield protecting the altar lost its function. Under attack from both inside and outside, the shield only lasted for a few seconds before it instantly collapsed and shattered.

Afterwards, endless darkness spread rapidly, madly devouring everything from the outside of the altar to the inside.

Although the altar, which was made of unknown material, became rusty in an instant under the erosion of the shadow power, it did not completely collapse. It still maintained its appearance as an altar and resisted the devouring of the shadow power.

After realizing this, the Shadow Dancers did not land on the altar, but directly rode the surging shadow power to kill the orc priest on the altar.

When the shadow force was less than ten meters away from the orc priest, fifteen figures rushed out from the shadow and launched an attack on the orc priest in tacit coordination.

The orc priest who had closed his eyes finally opened them.

"Who gave you the courage?"

"You dare to assassinate a god!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge force burst out from the body of the orc priest. The fifteen figures were all interrupted and stuck in the air one meter away from the orc priest.

"boom!"

As the power dispersed, all fifteen shadow dancers were knocked away and merged back into the shadows. At the same time, the shadow power that was rapidly engulfing the greenskin altar was also dispersed out of the altar area.

The orc priest felt the power surging in his body and the situation around him. He smiled, stretched out his right hand, clenched his fist in front of his eyes, and spoke softly.

"I feel good now."

When he was a little careless, fifteen shadow dancers rushed out again. Although most of them were knocked away again, two of them still left two scars on his shoulders.

Looking at the two scars on his shoulders, the orc priest's eyes gradually turned blood red, and his skin color began to darken because of anger, gradually changing towards dark green.

"You actually attacked God! Get down on your knees, you beasts!"

(End of this chapter)