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.

himself when he said that they would've been able

"Haaa…haaa…"

panting heavily resounded across the hall as he

breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone present in

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

and the others, he calmly halted his

on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed

him, Orion pointed at

bit difficult right now. He's locked in another room, and the portal needs a few seconds to

at Douglas and

much time do

he needed to do. He understood exactly what

perfectly understood

doesn't take too long to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk

it 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 at

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

frowned, the smile wiped

wasted too much time here waiting for

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

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

It sounded simple, yet it was

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion and

dimensional space, a powerful energy

while we wait for

words, Orion

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

Orion mid-sentence was the sound of a subtle laugh

eyes

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

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

for Ren, despite his words, no one took

very air

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

"You…You're…"

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

finished Orion's sentence for

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

his direction, Orion

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

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

But now they did.

was all that human's

into thinking that he was one

himself as Karl and created this whole

thought caused the blood of some of

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

but they were also forced to retreat from the war because of

pleased by the development at all. In

city, but they

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the duergan elders focused their attention

Orion, who couldn't control himself and muttered