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.

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

"Haaa…haaa…"

the hall as he poured all

breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone

don't care about what you guys thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all

the others, he calmly halted his

and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I

who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the

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

head and staring at Douglas and the others,

time do you

do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted him to do

perfectly understood

to function. We should be able to bring you

set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up

came. Therefore, the

suddenly frowned, the smile wiped away from his

much time here waiting for you to

All I want you to do is help me stall them for one minute. Can you

sound like he was asking for nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable under normal

both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at

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

"Okay."

walking behind Orion and the

axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst

while we

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,

eyes paused on a human

staring at everyone who was looking at him, the youth, Ren, realized his

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

his words, no one took away their attention

very air chilled even

Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish,

"You…You're…"

who pretended be Karl if that's what

Orion's

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 they'd have on him would be

direction, Orion slowly

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

understood how the whole situation had happened. The situation

But now they did.

all that

the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of this

to them had disguised himself as Karl and created

caused the blood of some of the elders

had managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in the city, they had still suffered

also forced

pleased by the development at all. In fact,

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

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the

Orion, who couldn't control