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.

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

"Haaa…haaa…"

across the hall as he

calmed down and looked

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

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

forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've

who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at

locked in another room,

staring at Douglas and the others,

much time do you

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

had perfectly understood his

take too long to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within a couple

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

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

the smile wiped

waiting for you to

he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do

for nothing difficult, but that would only

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

minute, anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and the other

axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst

you guys buy time while we wait for the portal to

his words, Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on

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

my thing. You guys keep

words, no one took away

air chilled even

mouth opened and closed like

"You…You're…"

who pretended be Karl if that's what you're trying to

finished Orion's

this point, there was no point in keeping it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did

his direction,

him, the other duergan elders did the same as they

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

But now they did.

all

him tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of this would've

human opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl

blood of some of the elders present to boil as their jaws

the strongest dwarven elder in the city, they had still suffered tremendous

lose several important elders, but they were also forced

were not pleased by the development at all. In fact, they were beyond

city, but they also suffered tremendous losses without even being able to

Their rage was understandable.

stood up, all of the duergan elders

control himself