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 able to win the war with Jomnuk. It was far from

"Haaa…haaa…"

across the hall as he poured all of his resentment on

calmed down and looked at everyone

what I wanted to

towards Orion and the others, he calmly halted

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

was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing

He's locked in another room, and the portal needs a

head and staring at Douglas and

time do

need to be told what he needed to do.

understood his intentions, Orion

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

portal since they were currently trying

the attackers came. Therefore,

frowned, the smile wiped away from

time here waiting for you to get

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

nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable under

but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals

anything could happen. It sounded simple,

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion and the other

his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst out from his

help you guys buy time while we wait for the portal to

words, Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

everyone's eyes paused on a human standing at the

head and staring at everyone who was looking at him, the

me. I'm just doing my thing. You guys keep doing your thing. I was just thinking of something

Ren, despite his words, no

air chilled even

mouth opened and closed like a

"You…You're…"

Karl if that's what you're

Orion's sentence for

even if they did try to look for

his direction,

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

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

But now they did.

was all

tricking the elders into thinking that he was one

to them had disguised himself as Karl and created this

of some of the elders present to boil as their

dwarven elder in the city, they had

were also forced to retreat from the war because of what had

demons were not pleased by the development at all.

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

Their rage was understandable.

all of the

couldn't control himself and