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.

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

"Haaa…haaa…"

panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all of his resentment on the

while, taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down

you guys thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the end of the day, to me,

others, he

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

pointed at the people

He's locked in another room, and

head and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur

time do you

told what he needed to do. He

that Randur had perfectly understood his intentions, Orion

A portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be

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

attackers came. Therefore,

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped away from

too much time here waiting for you to get

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

for nothing difficult, but that would only

extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was an incredible amount

short minute, anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet it was anything but

"Okay."

walking behind Orion and

large axe from his dimensional space, a

while we wait for the portal

Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

from, everyone's eyes paused on a

was looking at him, the youth,

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

no one

air chilled even

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

"You…You're…"

guy who pretended be Karl if that's what you're

finished Orion's

in keeping it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him

in his direction, Orion

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

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

But now they did.

all that human's

not been for him tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of this

opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl and created this

some of the elders

Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in

several important elders, but they were also forced to retreat

demons were not pleased by the development at

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

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the duergan

Orion, who couldn't control himself and