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.

that Randur was merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It was far from the

"Haaa…haaa…"

heavily resounded across the hall as he poured

a deep breath, Randur calmed down

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 of the day, to me, you're the

towards Orion and the others, he calmly

I

standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing behind. More

right now. He's locked in another room, and the portal needs a few

staring at Douglas and the others, Randur faced

much time do

need to be told what he needed to do. He understood exactly

understood his intentions, Orion

A portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk

to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a

attackers came. Therefore, the time they

frowned, the smile wiped away from

much time here waiting for you to get rid

All I want you to do is

made it sound like he was asking for nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable

nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful

anything could happen. It

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion

out a large axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy

time while we wait for the

Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

and cutting Orion mid-sentence was the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded

everyone's eyes paused on a human standing at the

his head and staring at everyone who was looking at him, the youth, Ren, realized his

doing my thing. You guys keep doing your thing. I

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

very air chilled even

hand and pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, struggling to

"You…You're…"

who pretended be Karl

Orion's

and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him

his direction, Orion

elders did the same as they all glared in Ren's

had not understood how the whole situation had happened.

But now they did.

all that

the elders into thinking that he was

human opposite to them had disguised himself as

some of the elders present to

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

they were also forced to retreat from the war because

the development at all. In fact, they were

conquer the city, but they also suffered

Their rage was understandable.

stood up, all of the duergan

control himself and muttered