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.

would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It was

"Haaa…haaa…"

the sound of Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as

taking a deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone present in

wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care.

others, he calmly halted

forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed Gervis already. You better let me see Jomnuk as

pointed at the people standing behind.

another room, and

Douglas and the others, Randur

time do

need to be told what he needed to do. He understood

perfectly understood his intentions, Orion suddenly

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

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

it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time

the smile wiped away from his

much time here waiting for you

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

was asking for nothing difficult, but

circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at

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

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and

his dimensional space, a powerful

help you guys buy time while we wait

Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

eyes paused on a human standing at

head and staring at everyone who was looking at him, the youth, Ren,

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

no one took away their attention from

air

Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like

"You…You're…"

guy who pretended be Karl

Orion's sentence for

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

in his direction,

same as they all glared in Ren's direction,

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

But now they did.

was all

tricking the elders into thinking

disguised himself as

the blood of some of the

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

they lose several important elders, but they were also forced to retreat from the war because

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

they unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered tremendous losses without

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their attention on

couldn't control himself and