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.

when he said that they would've been able to win the

"Haaa…haaa…"

panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured

breath, Randur calmed

what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care.

Orion and the others, he calmly halted

hand on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed Gervis already. You

at the people standing behind. More specifically, at the forces of

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

his head and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur faced

much time

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

perfectly understood his intentions, Orion

much. A portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within a couple of

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

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

the smile wiped

already wasted too much time here waiting

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

for nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable

minute's time would've been nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was an

that short minute, anything could happen. It

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion

axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy

guys buy time while we wait for the portal to

words, Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

was the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the whole

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

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

doing my thing. You guys keep

for Ren, despite his words, no

air

in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like

"You…You're…"

be Karl if that's what

finished Orion's sentence for

it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try

direction, Orion slowly stood

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

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

But now they did.

was all that human's

tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none

himself as Karl and created

some of the elders present

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

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

development at all. In fact,

conquer the city, but they

Their rage was understandable.

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

who couldn't control himself and muttered