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.

Randur was merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've been able to win the war

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

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

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 halted his steps in

the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I

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

now. He's locked in another room, and

his head and staring at Douglas and the others, Randur faced Orion once

much time do

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

understood

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

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

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

suddenly frowned, the smile

here waiting for

All I want you to do is help me stall them

nothing difficult, but that would

been nothing, but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any

It sounded simple, yet

"Okay."

nodded before walking behind Orion and the

large axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst

time while we wait for

words, Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

the sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the whole hall, catching the attention of

attention towards where the sound came from, everyone's eyes

him, the youth, Ren, realized his mistake and quickly shook his

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

despite his words, no one took away their attention

very air

his hand and pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, struggling to form a

"You…You're…"

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

Orion's

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

in his direction, Orion slowly

the same as they all

not understood how the whole situation had

But now they did.

was all that human's

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

human opposite to them had disguised himself as Karl and created

the blood of some of the elders present

to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in the city,

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

by the development

but they also suffered tremendous losses without even being able to

Their rage was understandable.

all of the duergan

Orion, who couldn't control himself