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.

when he said that they would've been able to

"Haaa…haaa…"

heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all of his resentment

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

don't care about what you guys thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the end

the others, he calmly halted

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

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

right now. He's locked in another room, and the

Douglas and

much time

told what he needed to do. He understood exactly what

perfectly understood his intentions,

function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within a

fact, it took 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 the

up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to waste was a

frowned, the smile wiped

waiting for you

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

it sound like he was asking for nothing difficult, but

had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a

minute, anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

behind Orion and the other

his dimensional space, a

help you guys buy time while

his words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

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

his head and staring at everyone who was looking at him,

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

no one took away their

air

in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and

"You…You're…"

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

Orion's

point, there was no point in keeping it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have on him would be

direction,

to him, the other duergan elders did the same as they all glared in Ren's

time, they had not understood

But now they did.

all

elders into thinking that he was one of them, none

had disguised himself

of

dwarven elder in the

were also forced to retreat

were not pleased by the development at all. In fact, they

conquer the city, but they

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the duergan

control himself and