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

"Haaa…haaa…"

Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all of his resentment on the

Randur calmed down and looked at everyone

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

Orion and the others, he calmly halted his steps in front of

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

Randur who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing behind. More specifically, at the forces of

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

staring at Douglas and the others,

time do

he needed to do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted

had perfectly understood

should be able to bring you

took a bit longer than that to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport more than ten people

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

the smile wiped

time here waiting

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

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

the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was an incredible amount

could happen. It sounded simple, yet it was

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and the

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

you guys buy time while we wait for the portal

words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

a subtle

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

everyone who was looking at him, the

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

no one

very air chilled even

mouth

"You…You're…"

the guy who pretended be Karl if

finished Orion's

also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look

direction,

him, the other duergan elders did the same as they all glared

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

But now they did.

all that human's

not been for him tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of

disguised himself as

mere thought caused the blood of some of the elders present to

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

they were also forced to retreat from

the development at all. In fact, they

unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses

Their rage was understandable.

of the duergan elders focused their

who couldn't control himself and muttered