The Author's POV

334 Infiltration (2)

"I propose for Waylan Roshfield to be exiled from Henlour."

A rough voice echoed inside of the hall.

The owner of the voice was a dwarf who sat on the right side of the semi-circular table. He had light grey hair, a long beard, and his face was filled with wrinkles. His bushy thick brows were currently locked into a tight frown as he glared at Waylan who was standing in the middle of the hall.

The more he looked at Waylan, the darker his face became.

Raising his hand, he pointed at him and looked towards the other dwarfs sitting on the table.

"Because o' his incompetence we now have a huge liability on our back. In fact, we may very well have lost tha war!"

Spit flew from the dwarf's mouth as he spoke.

Everyone in the hall could feel the anger in the dwarf's voice as he spoke.

Leaning back, he threw a disdainful look towards Waylan.

"I'm already being generous enough by nae proposing his execution!"

After he finished speaking, the hall was enveloped in a brief moment of silence.

However, the silence did not last for long as it was soon broken by another dwarf.

"I concur with Givor."

The dwarf was a female, and she too sat on the right side of the table. A couple of seats away from the dwarf that had just spoken, Givor.

Nodding towards Givor, she continued.

"I believe that exiling him would be the best decisio-"

"I disagree."

But before she could even formulate her sentence, she was promptly cut by someone.

With bushy fiery red eyebrows, the dwarf had a sturdy and muscular build.

BANG-!

Banging his fist on the table, he raised his voice.

"By exiling him yer basically exempting him from all o' his crimes."

"What crimes? He did not commit any crime, Randur."

Givor spoke up from the side.

Turning his head to face Givor, the red eyebrowed dwarf, Randur glared.

"His crime was his negligence! Had he been more attentive, We wou"ve never been under such a situation!"

"He can't be blamed for the insiders."

The dwarven lady from before spoke up.

"Although it was indeed his negligence that caused all o' this, we're also at fault here. One for trusting him an' two for being unable ta realize that there was a spy among us."

"Hmph"

At her words, Randur's face sank.

Crossing his back and leaning back on his chair, Randur shook his head.

"Naive. You're too naive. It's because of dwarves like you that we're currently suffering this much."

"What did you say!"

stood up and also violently pounded

BANG-!

Randur she

say that again!

interested. I want ta see how rusty ye got ever since our last fight,

looked at the dwarven lady, Alga, with a provoking

"You d-"

"Enough!"

was about to heat up, a powerful voice shook the room, all forms

individuals in the room focused on an elderly

revere was present in the eyes of many of the dwarves present as they looked at the elderly

minding the stares, the elderly dwarf

nae argue amongst ourselves.

and everyone present, calming them down,

arguing, Randur and Alga, calmed down and sat down

"Fine."

"Alright."

"Good."

slightly, the elderly dwarf turned his attention towards Waylan who was standing in the middle of the

of seconds, he soon

heard, there be many who wish for ye ta either be

dwarfed interlocked his hands on the table as his calm voice drifted across the hall.

me ask ye, what do ye think we should

the elderly dwarf spoke, the eyes of many of the dwarves present opened

human they were supposed to

the hall as each dwarf looked at the elderly dwarf with growing

was

composed face, Waylan looked at the elderly dwarf and bowed

finally

in

Lasfront, also known as the Metropoliskeeper; the

Waylan looked at Gernis

your question. Are you asking me what sort of punishment I should

"That's correct."

Geris flatly replied.

fearlessly looked

to give me

he spoke those words, heavy silence distended

long as it was soon broken by the sound of a table

BANG-!

"What nonsense is this!"

shouted; he was

at Waylan, Randus's face was

"Y-you!"

so angry that he had trouble finding the right words to say. It was only

what ye've done? Be ye sure yer nae trying

"Randus calm down."

raised his hand towards Randus,

"But-"

"Later."

head and cut him

to protest, Genis had long forgotten about him and focused his attention back

had

Elaborate more

locked with Genis's, Waylan suddenly

I told you that I have a way to

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level,

want me to

said as he held onto a pale

he analyzed the flute in his

the outside the flute looked ordinary, in fact, there were a couple of cracks around it, signifying that it was

of artifacts,