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 been able

"Haaa…haaa…"

Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all

taking a deep breath, Randur calmed

on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a

the others, he calmly halted his steps

muttered, "Have I proven myself

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

in another

and the others,

much time

he needed to do.

perfectly understood his

to function. We should be able to bring

a portal since they were currently trying

had already been setting it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to waste was

the smile wiped away

time here waiting for you to

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

for nothing difficult, but that would

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

happen. It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

before walking behind

large axe from his dimensional space,

time while we wait

words, Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

disrupting the hall and cutting Orion mid-sentence was the sound of a subtle

from, everyone's eyes paused on a human standing at

staring at everyone who was looking at him, the youth, Ren, realized his mistake and quickly shook his

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

words, no one took away

air chilled

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

"You…You're…"

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

Orion's sentence for

there was no point in keeping it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even

in his direction, Orion slowly

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

time, they had not understood how the whole situation had happened. The situation that led

But now they did.

all that

been for him tricking the elders into thinking

opposite to them had disguised himself as

mere thought caused the blood of some of the elders present to

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

were also forced to retreat from

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

to conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous

Their rage was understandable.

stood up, all of the duergan elders focused their attention

Orion, who couldn't control himself and muttered out