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.

merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've been able to win the war

"Haaa…haaa…"

hall as he poured all of his resentment

while, taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone

on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the end of the day, to

he calmly halted

on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed

Randur who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the

locked in another

head and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur

time do you

to be told what he needed to do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted

that Randur had perfectly understood his intentions, Orion suddenly

much. A portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within a couple of

portal since they were currently trying

before the attackers came.

frowned, the smile wiped

much time here waiting

his hand and lifting one of his fingers, he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do is help me stall them for one minute. Can

asking for nothing difficult, but that would only

given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was

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

"Okay."

before walking behind

dimensional space, a powerful energy burst out from his

help you guys buy time while we wait

Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on a human standing at the end

was looking at him, the youth,

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

no

air

Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, struggling to form a

"You…You're…"

guy who pretended be Karl if

Orion's sentence for

a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they

his direction,

other duergan elders did the same as they

room the whole time, they had not understood how the

But now they did.

was all that human's

thinking that he was one of them,

disguised himself as Karl and created

caused the blood of some of the elders

they had managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in the city,

also forced to retreat from

demons were not pleased by the development at all.

were they unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the duergan elders focused their attention on

who couldn't control himself and muttered