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.

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

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

breath, Randur calmed down and looked

to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the end of the day, to me, you're

he calmly halted his

the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed

Orion pointed at the people standing

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

at Douglas and the others, Randur faced Orion

much time do

he needed to do. He understood exactly what Orion wanted

understood his intentions, Orion

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

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

up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they

smile wiped away from his

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

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

question made it sound like he was asking for nothing difficult, but that would only

had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any

anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet it

"Okay."

walking behind Orion and the

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

buy time while we wait for the portal

his words, Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout

towards where the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on a human

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

my thing. You guys keep doing your thing. I

no one took away

air chilled even

mouth opened and closed like

"You…You're…"

Karl if

Orion's sentence

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 they'd have on him would be an image

direction, Orion

did the same as they all glared

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

But now they did.

was all that

it not been for him tricking the elders into thinking that he was

himself as Karl and created this whole

some of the elders present to boil as their jaws clenched

strongest dwarven elder in the city, they had still

they were also forced to retreat from the war because

by the development at all. In fact, they were

but they also suffered tremendous losses without even being able to

Their rage was understandable.

stood up, all of the duergan elders focused their

control himself and