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.

merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It was

"Haaa…haaa…"

heavily resounded across the hall as

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

what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I

the others, he calmly halted

forward, he muttered, "Have I proven

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

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

and the others, Randur

time do you

be told what he needed to do. He understood exactly

perfectly understood his intentions, Orion

long to function. We should be able to bring you

it took 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 ten people at the same

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

frowned, the smile wiped

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

his fingers, he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to

asking for nothing difficult, but

current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was an incredible amount of

It sounded simple, yet it was

"Okay."

walking behind Orion and the other

his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst out from

while we wait for

words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

everyone's eyes paused on a human standing

everyone who was looking at him, the youth,

doing my thing. You guys keep doing your thing.

words, no one took away

air chilled

direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, struggling to

"You…You're…"

guy who pretended be Karl if that's

finished Orion's

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

in his direction,

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

room the whole time, they had not understood how the

But now they did.

was all

thinking that he was one of them,

opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl

some of the elders present to boil as their jaws

dwarven elder in the

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

by the development at all. In fact,

the city, but they also suffered tremendous

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders

Orion, who couldn't control himself and muttered