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

"Haaa…haaa…"

resounded across the hall as he

while, taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down and

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

walking towards Orion and the others, he calmly

palm of his hand on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I

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

difficult right now. He's locked in another

and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur

time do you

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

Randur had perfectly understood his intentions, Orion suddenly

to function. We should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within

than that to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a portal that could teleport more than ten people

came. Therefore, the time they needed to

the smile

time here waiting for

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

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

would've been nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to

anything could happen. It sounded simple, yet it was anything

"Okay."

behind Orion

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

you guys buy time while we wait for the portal

words, Orion

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

from, everyone's eyes paused on a human standing

looking at him, the youth, Ren, realized his mistake and

guys keep doing your thing.

words, no

air chilled even

his hand and pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened

"You…You're…"

be Karl if that's what you're trying to ask

Orion's sentence for

it a secret, and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him later, all

direction,

same as they all

understood

But now they did.

was all

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

opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl and

of the elders present to boil as their jaws clenched

strongest dwarven elder in the city, they had still

important elders, but they were also forced to retreat

demons were not pleased by the development at all. In fact, they were

the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their attention on

couldn't control himself and muttered