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 they would've been

"Haaa…haaa…"

sound of Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as he

deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked

to say. Call me a traitor for all

the others, he calmly halted his steps in

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

staring at Randur who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing

He's locked in another room, and the

and staring at Douglas and

time do you

he needed to do.

that Randur had perfectly understood his intentions,

too long to function. We should be

currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport more than ten

the attackers came. Therefore, the time

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped away

here waiting for you to get rid of

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

made it sound like he was asking for nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable

extremely powerful individuals

It

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion

space, a powerful energy burst out

buy time while we wait for the

his words, Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

from, everyone's eyes paused on a human

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

thing. You guys keep doing your thing. I was just thinking of something

for Ren, despite his words, no one took away

air chilled

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

"You…You're…"

who pretended be Karl if that's

finished Orion's sentence for

a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have

his direction, Orion

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

the whole time, they had not understood how

But now they did.

was all

tricking the elders into thinking that

himself as Karl and created

mere thought caused the blood of some of the elders present to boil

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

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

the development at

only were they unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered

Their rage was understandable.

all of the duergan elders

control himself and