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.

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…"

resounded across the hall as he poured

Randur calmed down and looked at everyone

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

Orion and the others, he calmly halted his steps

his hand on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I

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

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

head and staring at Douglas and

much time do

do.

that Randur had perfectly understood his intentions, Orion suddenly

should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within a couple

were currently trying to set up a portal that could

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

frowned, the smile

wasted too much time here waiting for you to get rid of

hand and lifting one of his fingers, he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do

asking for nothing difficult, but that would

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

minute, anything could happen. It

"Okay."

behind Orion

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

buy time while we wait for the portal to

his words, Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

eyes

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

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

no one took away their attention

very air chilled

Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, struggling to form a

"You…You're…"

guy who pretended be Karl

Orion's

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 an image of

his direction,

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

they had been in the room the whole time, they had not understood

But now they did.

was all

elders into thinking that

had disguised himself as Karl and created

some of the elders present

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

were also forced to retreat from the

by the development at all. In fact, they

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

Their rage was understandable.

they stood up, all of the duergan

control himself and muttered out