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.

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

"Haaa…haaa…"

the sound of Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as he

taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down and

said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the end of the day, to me,

he

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

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

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

his head and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur faced Orion once

time do you

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

Randur had perfectly understood his intentions,

We should

they were currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport

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

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped

here waiting for

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

was asking for nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable under

a 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, a minute was an incredible amount of

short minute, anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet it was anything

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion

his dimensional space,

while we

his words, Orion

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the whole hall, catching the attention of everyone

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

him, the youth, Ren, realized his mistake and

doing my thing. You guys

his words, no one

very air chilled

in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened

"You…You're…"

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

finished Orion's sentence for

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

his direction,

elders did the same as they all glared in

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

But now they did.

all that

for him tricking the elders into thinking that he was

opposite to them had disguised himself as

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

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

they lose several important elders, but they were also forced to

pleased by the development at

to conquer the city, but they also

Their rage was understandable.

they stood up, all of the duergan elders focused their attention

control himself and