The Author's POV

Chapter 362 - Everything coming together [1]

"Gervis…"

Staring at Gervis's lifeless corpse, Douglas shuddered slightly, his voice strained.

What followed his words was an intense chill that shrouded the entire hall.

It didn't take a genius to understand what had happened, especially with Randur standing not so far from Gervis with a dagger in his hands, dripping with blood.

Lifting his head, Douglas's eyes paused on Randur.

"Why have you decided to betray us?" Douglas asked in a tone bereft of emotion.

His voice was calm and composed, but everyone in the room could feel the anger hidden within. The air around him trembled.

"Why did you do that…Randur?"

"…"

Silence.

Douglas was only met with silence. Randur just kept staring at him in the eyes.

After a while, raising his small, bulky hand, Randur pointed it at Waylan who was standing next to Ren.

"This is all your fault, human. If not for you, I would've never been forced into such a situation." Randur mouthed as he turned his head to face Douglas.

"If not for your companions' negligence, Jomnuk would've never have found himself in such a situation!"

His voice thunderously rang throughout the whole hall.

It contained all sorts of different emotions, with pain and agony being the primary ones as Randur mourned for the kidnapping of his friend.

Lowering his head and staring at Gervis's dead body, Randur's expression turned to that of disgust.

"And him… Despite the fact that Jomnuk had been kidnapped, one of the most important members of the city, he failed to punish the human responsible for the blunder and instead give him the power to take control of the operation because of some flowery words he spoke through the use of a mana contract?"

Walking up to him, Randur kicked his lifeless body.

Thump—

"Bullshit, I say! In the first place, the war could've been won with Jomnuk's barrier alone." Randur shouted as he glared at each and every person present in the room.

"The barrier could've lasted for at least six more months. If Jomnuk was with us, we could've figured out a way of extending it for even longer…yet you chose to give up on him and even supported the one responsible for his loss!"

Spit flew from Randur's mouth as his face turned red the more he spoke.

Everyone could feel the deep-rooted anger he had within him from just his voice alone.

"You call me a traitor? What bullshit?! The only traitors here are those who gave up on Jomnuk and chose to follow this human who has made nothing but mistakes…"

No one disrupted him as he spoke. A deafening silence enveloped the hall.

Everyone quietly listened to everything he said.

Some of the dwarven elders lowered their heads in shame as they heard Randur's words. They knew just how close he was with Jomnuk. They understood where he came from.

They felt a little bit of sympathy for him.

But whether they agreed with him or not, that was a different argument.

would've been able to win the war with

"Haaa…haaa…"

heavily resounded across the hall as

deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone present in

about what you guys thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call

towards Orion and the others, he calmly halted

forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself

pointed at the people standing behind. More

a bit difficult right now. He's locked in another

at Douglas and the

much time

what he needed to do. He understood

had perfectly understood his intentions, Orion suddenly

much. A portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be

were currently trying to set up a portal that

attackers came. Therefore, the

the smile wiped away

here waiting for you to

fingers, he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want

for nothing difficult, but that

a minute's time would've been nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute

minute, anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet it

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion and the

from his dimensional space, a

you guys buy time while we

Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

Orion mid-sentence was the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the whole hall, catching the attention

eyes paused on a

who was looking at him, the youth, Ren, realized

just doing my thing. You guys keep doing your thing. I was just thinking of

despite his words, no one took away their

very air

his hand and pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth

"You…You're…"

I'm the guy who pretended be Karl if that's what you're trying to

Orion's

also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have on him would be an image

in his direction, Orion slowly stood

duergan elders did the same as they all glared in Ren's direction, with

the whole time, they had not understood how the whole situation

But now they did.

was all that

it not been for him tricking the elders into thinking that

opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl and created

thought caused the blood of some of the elders present to boil as their jaws clenched

though they had managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven

they were also forced to retreat from the war because of what had

development at all.

they also suffered tremendous losses without even being

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their

couldn't control