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.

knew that 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

a while, taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down

what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor

towards Orion and the others, he calmly halted

I proven myself enough? I've killed Gervis already. You better let me see Jomnuk as

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

in another room, and the portal

his head and staring at Douglas and the others,

much time do you

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

perfectly understood

to function. We should be able to

currently trying to set up

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

suddenly frowned, the smile

waiting for you

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

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

both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at

anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet it was anything but

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion

dimensional space, a powerful energy burst out from

while we wait

words, Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

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

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

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

no one took

air chilled even

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

"You…You're…"

I'm the guy who pretended be Karl if that's

Orion's

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

direction, Orion slowly

other duergan elders did the same as they all

they had been in the room the whole time, they had not understood how the whole situation had happened.

But now they did.

was all that

tricking the elders into thinking that he was

to them had disguised himself as Karl and created this

caused the blood of some of the

strongest dwarven elder in the

they were also forced to retreat from the war

pleased by the development at all. In fact, they were beyond

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

Their rage was understandable.

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

who couldn't control