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

"Haaa…haaa…"

the hall as he

calmed down and looked

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

Orion and the others, he calmly halted his steps

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

Orion pointed at the people standing behind. More

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

Douglas and the others, Randur

time do

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

had perfectly understood his intentions,

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

to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport more than ten people at the same

before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they

the smile wiped away from his

time here waiting

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

for nothing difficult, but that would only

circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight

anything could happen. It sounded simple,

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion and the other

out a large axe from his dimensional space, a powerful

you guys buy time while we wait for

Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

where the sound came from, everyone's eyes

who was looking at him, the

my thing. You guys

Ren, despite his words, no

very air chilled

his hand and pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth

"You…You're…"

I'm the guy who pretended be Karl if

finished Orion's sentence for

was no point in keeping it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look

direction, Orion slowly

elders did the same as they

had not understood

But now they did.

was all that human's

into thinking that

disguised himself as

of some of the elders present to boil as their jaws

dwarven elder in the city, they

also forced to retreat from the war because of what had

not pleased by the development at

the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses without even

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their

couldn't control himself and