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

"Haaa…haaa…"

hall

calmed down and looked at

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 I care. At the end of the day, to me, you're

Orion and the others, he calmly

"Have I proven myself enough? I've killed Gervis already.

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

locked in another room, and the portal needs a few

and staring at Douglas and the others,

much time do

he needed to do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted him to do

Randur had perfectly understood

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

they were currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport

already been setting it up before the attackers came.

frowned, the smile wiped

wasted too much time here waiting for

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

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

extremely powerful individuals ready

short minute, anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind

out a large axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst out from his

while we wait for

words, Orion

"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

from, everyone's eyes paused on a human standing at the end of the

at him, the youth, Ren, realized

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

no one took away their attention from

air

Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish,

"You…You're…"

pretended be Karl if that's what

Orion's sentence for

skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him later, all they'd have on him would be an image of his fake

direction,

same as they all glared in Ren's direction,

not understood how the whole situation had

But now they did.

all that human's

it not been for him tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them,

them had disguised himself as Karl and

blood of some of the elders

they had managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven

but they were also forced to retreat

pleased by the development at

only were they unable to conquer the city, but they

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the duergan elders focused

couldn't control