Chapter 50: The Assassination Hour
Gianna couldn't stealth, but she unleashed the Silence Charm and Invisibility Charm on herself, allowing her to move forward silently.
Claudia's stealth relied on the green crystal in her hand, and with Egwen's permission, she went to Karazhan to borrow the crystal known as the Shadow of the Leaves.
The group made their way up the stairs to a hall, all the Assassins running briskly, without making a sound under their feet, but Claudia accidentally stepped on a little gravel and made a little noise, which made her frown slightly, now she was the weakest link in the chain, she was trained very differently than the agents, but fortunately this small mistake did not attract the attention of the enemy.
After stepping into the Hall of the Seven Sages, the agents also entered the most exposed stage, usually staying here are seven powerful mage ghosts, they are the sages of the Black Iron Dwarf, because they are cursed so that they cannot be freed after death, wandering in this gloomy hall day and night.
A mage ghost floated near the agents, and he instinctively sensed that something was wrong.
The agents held their breath, and Matthias quickly popped out some white powder, which the Brotherhood of Thorium had provided him with that was said to be effective against the ghosts here, and sure enough, the mage's phantom's face turned confused, and he drifted away from the rest of the world.
The agents made their way through the Hall of the Seven Sages, making their way down the passageway, no one making even the slightest gasp as a scent wafted into Claudia's nose--- the smell of burning sulfur slowed down, as she saw her teammates.
In the dim light, Matthias gestured to the other Assassins, signaling everyone to stop.
The agents did so, and Matthias drew two short swords and rushed out with an afterimage, and with a barely detectable sound, a few seconds later, Matthias returned with a beautiful and bright red fire elemental core in his hand, motioning for the others to move on.
Claudia quickly understood what had just happened, at the corner of the road ahead, a fire demon assassin more than four meters tall holding a trident was falling to the ground softly, its chest had an additional penetrating wound, and the core was taken away--- which was the reason why it died quietly, the core of the elemental creature is equivalent to the heart and brain, once the core is lost, it does not even have the ability to call for help.
Around the corner was a fork in the corner, one leading to the lecture hall and the other to the depths of the volcano, which made Claudia frown at the fluctuations of energy coming from the depths of the volcano.
"This is a demigod-level fluctuation, how powerful was the fire element that Thorrison summoned in the first place?"
Claudia was terrified in her heart, most people, including most of the Black Iron Dwarves, only knew that their ancestor had summoned a powerful fire elemental creature to enslave them, but it was not clear what kind of terrifying existence they had summoned.
With this concern, Claudia followed the rest of her teammates into the lecture hall, which according to Matthias's plan was the most crucial part of the battle, and once the lecture hall was breached, the operation would be half the battle, which was part of the Black Iron Dwarven Palace, next to the throne hall where Thoresen was.
In the lecture hall in the early morning, there are many fewer people than during the day, only a few forty or so black iron soldiers are responsible for guarding here, and during the day there will be seven or eight times more guards here, and at this moment, not only are the number of guards small, but most of them are defenseless, Claudia can already smell the smell of wine and tobacco.
Madias gestured again, and the Assassins drew their weapons--- daggers, hardened steel cones, and gloves for hidden mechanisms, and they slowly moved forward under Madias's command, Claudia, Tess, and Gianna were not ready to fight, and Madias's command gesture did not include the three of them.
Claudia could see what the nearest handful of black-iron dwarves were doing, and she couldn't believe what she saw, the dwarves sitting on folded blankets with large glasses of wine and leftovers around them, drinking and playing cards.
Matthias raised his hand and waved it down, making a throat-slitting gesture.
The Assassins leapt to their feet.
Claudia wasn't sure how the Assassins communicated, but the battle was like a choreographed dance, and the dwarves had time to gasp before they were each crushed by an Assassin in black leather armor and a mask, and without even a single sound, the entire eight dwarves were killed quickly and silently.
One had his neck broken, one had a deep steel cone pierced in his eye, and the third was foaming at the mouth because of the poison...... The Assassins posed the dwarves' corpses with minimal movement, as if the dwarves were simply asleep, and the Assassins wiped their blades with expressionless faces, as if they were just doing something insignificant.
Gianna was uncomfortable, and she regretted that she had been involved in the operation and mixed with the agents, whose expressions deeply shocked her--- the agents treated the Black Iron Dwarves in the same way that they treated domestic animals such as pigs and dogs.
Madias waved nonchalantly, and the agents exchanged glances, and they began to move towards the next set of targets.
Next, three more groups of Black Iron Dwarves were quietly killed, including a Fire Patrolman, but it was this Fire Patrol who broke the matter, and although the agent's movements were clean, the sudden shaking of the magic torch still alarmed a certain Black Iron Dwarf guarding the gate.
"What's going on, old Woz!"
The dwarves' loud voices resounded in the lecture hall, and the remaining dozen or so black iron dwarves were alert, they noticed that something was wrong, more than half of their companions were now silent, but they quickly understood what was happening, and the assassins no longer concealed their presence, and rushed forward with their weapons brandished.
The battle was carried out neatly, there were few such luxurious assassin regiments in the history of Azeroth, four heroes and seven elites swarmed up, and the dwarves had no power to fight back, so that Claudia only grabbed a prey, but there was also a fly in the ointment, and the strong killing would inevitably make a disturbance after all, and the dwarves' loud cries for help before dying were heard far away in the silent night.
"Looks like we're exposed?" Tess asked as she loaded her enchanted crossbow with ammunition, her voice full of excitement and not a hint of nervousness.
"It's okay," she replied to Madias, a short brunette man lighting a furnace with a torch from the flame bearer, "it's the molten giant Magmus who guards the door to the throne hall, we can't avoid it quietly, and we originally planned to storm it here." ”