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.

himself when he said that they would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It

"Haaa…haaa…"

heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all of

deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone present

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

walking towards Orion and the others, he calmly halted his steps in

muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed Gervis already. You better

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

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

Douglas and the others, Randur

much time

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

had perfectly understood his

function. We should be able to bring

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

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

smile

wasted too much time here waiting for

"One minute. All I want you to do is help

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

minute's time would've been nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment,

happen. It sounded simple, yet it was anything but

"Okay."

behind Orion

his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst out

guys buy time while we wait for the portal

words, Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on a

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

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

words, no one took away their attention

air

hand and pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened

"You…You're…"

guy who pretended be Karl if

Orion's

so even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have on

in his direction, Orion slowly stood

elders did the same as

had not understood how the whole situation had happened. The situation that led to the current

But now they did.

all that

tricking the elders into thinking that

disguised himself as

the mere thought caused the blood of some of the

Gervis, the strongest dwarven

also forced to retreat from the war because of what

pleased by the development at all. In fact, they

conquer the city, but they also

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their

Orion, who couldn't control himself and muttered