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 Randur was merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've been able to win the

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

a deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone present in

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

the others, he calmly halted his

of his hand on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven

pointed at the people standing behind.

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

head and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur

much time do

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

understood his intentions, Orion

should be able

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

before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to waste was

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped

already wasted too much time here waiting for you to get rid

said, "One minute. All I want you

was asking for nothing difficult, but that

had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute

It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

before walking behind

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

while we

Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

the hall and cutting Orion mid-sentence was the sound of a subtle laugh that

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

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

You guys keep doing

for Ren, despite his words, no one took away their attention

air chilled

pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth

"You…You're…"

be Karl if that's what

Orion's sentence for

even if they did try to look for him later, all

in his direction, Orion slowly stood

did the same as they all glared in Ren's

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

But now they did.

was all that human's

not been for him tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them,

opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl and created

blood of some of the

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

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

by the development at all. In fact, they

the city, but they also suffered

Their rage was understandable.

of the duergan elders

Orion, who couldn't control himself and