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.

when he said that they would've

"Haaa…haaa…"

sound of Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all of his

calmed down and looked at everyone present

about what you guys thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to

he calmly halted his steps in front of

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

at Randur who was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing behind.

in another room, and the portal needs a

Douglas and

much time do you

to be told what he needed to do.

perfectly understood his intentions,

portal doesn't take too long to function. We should be able to bring

bit longer than that to set up a portal since they were currently trying to set up a portal

it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they

the smile wiped away from

waiting for you to get rid of

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

nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable

the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to

happen. It sounded

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and the other

his dimensional space, a powerful

time while we wait for the portal

his words, 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, catching

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

was looking at him,

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

no one

very air

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

"You…You're…"

Karl if that's what you're

Orion's sentence for

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 of his

his direction, Orion

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

they had been in the room the whole time, they had not understood how

But now they did.

was all

thinking

human opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl

mere thought caused the blood of some of the elders present to boil as

Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in

but they were also forced to retreat

not pleased by the development at all. In fact,

only were they unable to conquer the city, but they

Their rage was understandable.

of the duergan elders focused their attention on

Orion, who couldn't control