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.

would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It was far

"Haaa…haaa…"

hall as he poured all of his resentment on the

calmed

what I wanted to say.

and the others, he calmly halted

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

at Randur who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing behind. More specifically, at the forces

right now. He's locked in another

and the others, Randur faced Orion

much time do you

do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted him

understood

much. A portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk

currently

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

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped away from

much time here waiting for you to get rid of

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

asking for nothing difficult,

nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely

It sounded simple, yet it

"Okay."

behind Orion

his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst

you guys buy time while we

his words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

the sound of a subtle

came from, everyone's eyes

at everyone who was looking at him,

me. I'm just doing my thing. You guys keep doing

words, no one took away their attention

air chilled even

Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and

"You…You're…"

Karl if that's what you're

finished Orion's

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

his direction,

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

the room the whole time, they had not understood

But now they did.

was all that

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

human opposite to them had disguised himself as

some of the elders present to

strongest dwarven elder in the city, they had still suffered

also forced to retreat from the war because of what

the development at

city, but they also suffered

Their rage was understandable.

of the duergan elders focused their

who couldn't control himself and