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

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

while, taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down

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

he calmly halted his steps in front

his hand on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed Gervis already. You better let me see Jomnuk as we've

who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at

another room, and

and the others, Randur faced

time do

he needed to do.

that Randur had perfectly understood

take too long to function. We should be able to bring you

fact, 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

it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to waste was a lot

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped

wasted too much time here waiting for you to get

solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do is help me

nothing difficult, but that would

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

minute, anything could happen. It sounded

"Okay."

before walking behind

from his dimensional space,

guys buy time while we wait for the portal to

words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

mid-sentence was the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the whole hall, catching the attention of everyone

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

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

guys keep doing

for Ren, despite his words, no one

very air

pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, struggling

"You…You're…"

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

finished Orion's sentence for

even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have on him would

direction, Orion slowly

same as they all glared in Ren's direction, with undisguised

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

But now they did.

was all

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

to them had disguised himself as Karl and created this

caused the blood of some of the elders present to boil

the strongest dwarven elder in the city, they had

also forced to retreat from

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

were they unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses without even being

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the duergan elders

control himself and