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.

was merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've

"Haaa…haaa…"

resounded across the hall as

a while, taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down and

guys thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I

the others, he calmly halted his steps in front

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

who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing behind. More specifically, at the forces

be a bit difficult right now. He's locked in another room, and

Douglas and the

time

what he needed to do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted him to do

had perfectly understood his intentions,

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

a bit longer than that to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport more than ten people at

been setting it up before the attackers came. Therefore,

frowned, the smile wiped away from

wasted too much time here waiting for

solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do is help me stall

like he was asking for nothing difficult,

circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at

happen. It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind

axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy

time while we wait for

his words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the

their attention towards where the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on a human standing

looking at him, the

I'm just doing my thing. You guys keep doing your thing.

Ren, despite his words, no one took away their attention from

very air chilled even

Orion's mouth opened and closed like

"You…You're…"

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

finished Orion's sentence for

even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have on him would be an image

direction, Orion slowly

the other duergan elders did the same as

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

But now they did.

all

him tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of this would've

himself as Karl and created this whole

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

dwarven elder in the city, they had still

were also forced to retreat from the war

by the development at all. In

were they unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses without even being able

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their

control himself and muttered