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.

they would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It

"Haaa…haaa…"

the hall as he poured all of his

a deep breath, Randur calmed down

what I wanted to say. Call me a

he calmly halted his steps

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

pointed at the people standing behind. More specifically, at the forces

difficult right now. He's locked in another room,

and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur faced Orion

much time do you

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

had perfectly understood

should be

bit longer than that to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a portal that could

before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to

frowned, the smile wiped away

already wasted too much time here waiting for you to

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

he was asking for nothing difficult,

been nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at

It sounded simple, yet it

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion

space, a powerful energy

help you guys buy time while we wait for the portal

words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

a subtle

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

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

guys keep doing your thing. I was

his words, no one took

very air

Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish,

"You…You're…"

who pretended be Karl if that's what

finished Orion's

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

direction, Orion slowly stood

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

room the whole time, they had not understood how the

But now they did.

was all

thinking that he was one of

opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl and created

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

managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder

only did they lose several important elders, but they were also forced to retreat from the war

development

conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses without even

Their rage was understandable.

all of the duergan elders focused their attention on

control himself and muttered out