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.

said that they would've been

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

calmed down and looked at everyone present

thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call

towards Orion and the others, he

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

Randur who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at

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

and the

much time do you

be told what he needed to do. He understood exactly

perfectly understood

to function. We should be able to bring you

than that to set up a portal since they were currently

already been setting it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time

smile wiped away from his

time here waiting for

and lifting one of his fingers, he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do is help me stall them for one minute. Can

nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable under normal

nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was an incredible

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

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and the

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

time while we wait

Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

where the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on

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

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

words, no

air chilled

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

"You…You're…"

I'm the guy who pretended be Karl

finished Orion's sentence

a 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

his direction, Orion slowly

duergan elders did the same as they all glared

they had been 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

elders into thinking

himself as Karl and

mere thought caused the blood of some of

the strongest dwarven elder in the

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

the development at all. In fact, they

but they also suffered tremendous losses without even being able

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their

couldn't control himself and muttered out