From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 445 Kill
While the battle was raging in Winter City, in the turbulence of time and space, the Erebus was calmly floating on the edge of the material world.

Inside the Netherworld, the Necromancer was watching the situation in Winter City through the screen in front of him.

On the left and right sides, the left screen is showing the life force within the Northland Life Network and the visualization icon of the concentration of divine power in Winter City. On the right screen, on a miniature map of the Northland, densely packed red dots are being marked on the map.

The Necromancer is waiting for the best opportunity to enter the battlefield, and the entry of the Netherworld will be the decisive factor.

At this moment in Winter City, after a long battle with the Jackdaw, Grom finally realized the problem.

While he continued to move and engage the Jackdaw, he was also checking the situation.

Although the process of transforming the life network into the faith network was interrupted by the Shadow Dancers, even if it was interfered with, the life network still had the characteristics of a faith network. Therefore, Grom, like Kan'ozu, had the highest authority over the life network.

He no longer needs to control the life network through the green-skinned Fourth Prince, he can now interfere directly.

Through the life network, he also realized that something was wrong. The legionnaires on the ground seemed to have been prepared. When they killed the green-skinned orcs with their swords, the green-skinned orcs' vitality did not return to the life network, but was forcibly plundered by the legionnaires' weapons and escaped from the control of the life network.

At the same time, as the number of believers decreased, he clearly noticed that the speed of recovery of his divine power was decreasing.

Grom dodged the main gun of the Jackdaw and looked around. The entire Winter City had been almost razed to the ground by the Jackdaw.

He raised his head and looked towards the Jackdaw, and then his entire body disappeared from the spot.

Seeing Grom disappear, the Jackdaw seemed to hesitate for a moment and stopped where it was.

And inside the Jackdaw.

"The false god entity is expected to break away from Winter City and launch a strong attack. The shield core has been overloaded!"

"The space anchor is ready."

While the Jackdaw hesitated in place, Grom appeared above the Jackdaw, stretched out his hands and whispered.

"Holy Inquisition."

Following a leisurely and sacred voice, a beam of light filled with dazzling and seemingly endless divine power suddenly slammed into the Jackdaw.

Under this fierce attack, the Jackdaw could no longer float in the air and was continuously descending under the attack of the light beams.

"The shield capacity is rising!!!"

“50%60%80%90%100%”

"Overloaded! Shield capacity 110%115%."

The Jackdaw issued numerous warnings, and when Grom's attack ended, the Jackdaw was less than ten meters from the ground.

However, even so, the Jackdaw's shield remained strong. The shield core that entered the overload state provided a full 300% shield capacity. Even Grom's full-strength attack was unable to penetrate the shield capacity.

After withstanding the attack, the Jackdaw also began to fight back.

"Throwing the space anchor."

On the Jackdaw, space anchors were quickly formed one after another, reinforcing the surrounding space.

"Current standard space stability: 30."

"Main guns ready."

The Jackdaw's main gun was aimed at the green-skinned orcs on the ground.

The spatial stability of the battlefield doubled directly, and because of the increase in spatial stability, Grom's rejection from the world became stronger.

The energy consumption for this attack was already high, and coupled with leaving Winter City, Grom would have needed a lot of strength to fight against the world's rejection. Now that the intensity of the world's rejection has increased again, Grom can only draw out more strength to fight against the rejection.

And at this moment, the opportunity that the Netherworld had been waiting for finally arrived.

In the turbulence of time and space, the necromancer of the Nether immediately began to warp.

"The induction coordinates have been locked, and the forced jump is in progress!"

The Netherworld flashed slightly, quickly left the space-time turbulence, avoided the space anchor of the Jackdaw, and jumped directly to the highest altitude on the battlefield.

After returning to the material world, the Evil Dead immediately launched an attack.

The Netherworld locked onto all the green-skinned orcs scattered across the North. The dark element core in its heart activated the undead array and launched an attack on those green-skinned orcs who were not in Winter City.

A black beam of death shot out from the second-level array of the Netherworld, then turned into countless droplets and shot towards various places in the north.

All over the North, crazy green-skinned orcs were wandering in the wilderness. As they walked, a trace of the breath of death shot into their bodies, and then their bodies quickly stiffened and fell down. Their life force was quickly contaminated and returned to the life network.

At this time, the Netherworld began to continue to exert its strength, the first-level undead array was activated, and the attack began.

A gray aura mixed with the dark elemental world slowly emerged above the undead array, disappeared on the spot, and invaded the life network of the north.

The polluted life force resonated with the gray breath and began to frantically erode and destroy the life network.

With the death of a large number of believers and the destruction of the life network, Grom would naturally be affected, but before he was affected, the Jackdaw also moved.

The first and second level main guns all opened fire, and the deep blue beams swept directly across the group of green-skinned orcs on the ground. A large number of green-skinned orcs died directly under the main gun attack.

At the same time, the legion on the ground, under Tula's command, launched a legion attack that had been prepared for a long time but had not been released.

A large number of legion attacks swept the green-skinned orcs, and countless green-skinned orcs were crushed into slag without any preparation.

At the same time, the Ice Knights' Primarch Legion, which had not been on the field, also began to move. Under the leadership of the Primarch, the Ice Knights shuttled through the Legion's attacks, constantly shuttling back and forth on the battlefield, trampling and slaughtering all living green-skinned orcs. At the same time, they also used strange mechanical devices to frantically absorb the scattered vitality.

In the blink of an eye, more than four-fifths of the green-skinned orcs on the ground who had just been able to fight back and forth with the committee’s army were directly killed. A large number of green-skinned orcs were turned into powder. Even if they had strong vitality, they could not survive in this situation.

The sudden deaths of a large number of believers, the huge amount of vitality lost from the life network, and the attack on the life network by the Netherworld directly destroyed most of the foundation of the life network's existence.

Even if Grom tried to maintain the life network, how could a dilapidated high-rise building with its foundation demolished, blown up and open to the wind, remain standing?

Even if Grom mobilized his divine power, it was useless and the life network collapsed directly.

As the life network collapsed, the surviving green-skinned orcs, after losing the vitality provided by the life network, their bodies, which were stimulated by Grom's divine power, instantly collapsed and decomposed into a pile of rotten meat.

The last believers in Winter City also died.

There might still be green orcs alive in the corners of the North, but there were only a few hundred at most, and a few hundred believers could not support Grom. At this point, Grom's power of faith was completely cut off. Just as Grom tried to return to Winter City and hide in the area covered by divine power, the Jackdaw took off and the Netherworld descended, blocking him.

At the same time, the committee army also shifted its attack target and turned its attention to Grom.

Although Grom withstood the attacks of two aerial fortresses and the army and hid in Winter City, Grom, who had lost his believers, could no longer replenish his divine power. Even if he recovered the divine power of Winter City, he could only survive.

Under the siege of two aerial fortresses and the army, with the false god's wail resounding throughout the north, Grom only held on for one more day before he fell under the main gun of the Jackdaw.

When Grom fell, above the North Sea, spellcasters from the Tower of Truth looked far towards Winterfell.

Although they could not see the battle situation in Winter City due to the spell shielding of the Jackdaw, they could also sense the power coming from Winter City.

A high-level spellcaster raised the container in his hand, looked at the divine power contained in the container with somewhat fanatical eyes, and spoke in an excited tone.

"It works. Littorio's incomplete research report is indeed correct."

Beside him, a high-level spellcaster was also looking in the direction of Winter City. Listening to Grom's wailing, he frowned and said.

"It looks like the Donnar War Council has won. This force doesn't seem as strong as expected."

"No, no, no, this is just a crude work of the orcs. Weakness is the orcs' problem, not the problem of this power. You have also read Littorio's research report. This is a power worthy of in-depth study."

He held up the vessel, the divine power within gleaming in the sunlight, and looking at it, he continued.

"I have decided to promote the [Artificial God] project. Do you want to participate?"

After hearing his words, the high-level spellcaster was silent for a while and said.

"Who is the first experimental subject?"

"Ms. Dawn, what do you think?"

"Ms. Dawn? Aren't you afraid that the knights will go crazy?"

"Heh, I made the gods they believed in come to the world, they should be thanking me."

"Okay, I'll join."

In the North Sea, two high-level spellcasters reached a consensus on the project with just a few simple words.

After reaching a consensus on the project, they also looked toward the north and started chatting.

"What do you think of the situation in the North?"

"What's there to see? The Northern Kingdom is over. The war council of Donnar has fought to this point. Will they withdraw their troops?"

"That's right. The committee has chosen a good time. We don't have the energy to interfere in the North, and the Moon Elves probably won't care either. As for the few high-level transcendents in the North, we can't stop them."

“But this is also an opportunity.”

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"In Ginza, it should be about time to start tonight."

"The Silver Family finally couldn't bear it anymore?"

"Yes, this Silver Emperor is worse than the last one. If I had known, I shouldn't have let her abdicate. After she abdicated, everything became a mess."

Two high-level spellcasters casually discussed the political situation in the Silver Empire.

In Apocalypse City, Roland also received battle reports from the front line.

Roland simply glanced at the battle report and threw it aside.

Roland had already anticipated the outcome. He didn't care whether the person who was crushed to death was called Grom or some other name, Rom. After all, he was just a false god who was crushed to death.

He is currently mainly thinking about how to deal with the North.

The entire Winter City has been destroyed to this extent. Even if the committee wants not to interfere in the civil war in the North, no one will believe it.

Moreover, there are still green-skinned orcs active in the North, and we cannot ignore them. If any of the several civil war factions in the North try to use the green-skinned orcs, a green tide may break out in the North.

But if we want to annex the North, the Silver Empire will not necessarily sit idly by. What if we come into war with the Silver Empire?
Although the War Committee is not afraid of the Silver Empire now, the cold disaster has not been resolved yet. If it really involves the water elemental world, the committee may have to fight on two fronts.

Roland looked at the plans submitted by the administrative and military departments of the committee.

After learning that the military had razed Winter City, the administrative department quietly submitted two different administrative plans for the North.

The first one: Support and establish a puppet state, station troops to maintain the original order in the North, send officials to slowly carry out reforms, and gradually align with the committee. At the same time, you can also use policies to slowly absorb the population from the puppet state. After the puppet state is finally aligned with the committee, you can annex it and integrate it into the committee's province.

The second one: Following the approach to the United Army, directly and radically annex it all into the committee, set up provinces, send a large number of troops to conduct military control, and then send a large number of officials to forcibly integrate the entire North.

The former has low cost and simple maintenance, but the integration time may take a little longer. The latter has high cost, but quick results and relatively quick integration.

The military has compiled and formulated three different combat plans for capturing Jeonbuk, and these three combat plans were formulated based on the degree of confidentiality of the armaments.

One part is invested in the air fortress, one part is a large-scale investment in top-notch equipment and primarch legions, and the last part is mainly composed of regular legions.

As an emerging rising force, the committee's administrative department and military department are both military imperialists and pure iron hawks. Of course, they are not out of control, and Roland still makes the final decision.

The committee army constantly emphasizes order and discipline, and only has loyalty. There is no possibility of taking any action on their own. Without Roland's approval, they will not take any action on their own no matter what.

Just as Roland had thought before, the administrative department and the military department also knew that the capital of the Northern Kingdom had been bombed by the army, and now it was impossible for the War Council and the Northern Kingdom to end the conflict amicably.

Therefore, when it comes to the North, they only think about how to attack and how to govern.

Although they continued to attack the Northern Kingdom, even if the committee was unreasonable and directly invaded the Northern Kingdom with force, this kind of thing was commonplace in this era and no one would think there was anything wrong with it.

A strong country should severely humiliate a weak country.

Roland himself was not so morally obsessed about this. He did not mind annexing the North. He was mainly worried that the Silver Empire would interfere.

However, when Roland was hesitating, he no longer hesitated after receiving a message from the ambassador to Ginza.

(End of this chapter)