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 they would've been able

"Haaa…haaa…"

across the hall as he poured all

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

now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the end of the day, to me,

towards Orion and the others, he calmly halted

forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself

was standing opposite him, Orion pointed at

now. He's locked in another room, and

his head and staring at Douglas and the others,

much time do you

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

had perfectly understood

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

that to set up a portal since they were currently trying

been setting it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to waste

frowned, the smile wiped

waiting for you to get

and lifting one of his fingers, he solemnly said, "One minute. All I want you to do is help me stall them for one

he was asking for nothing difficult, but that would only

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

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

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and

axe from his dimensional space, a powerful energy burst

guys buy time while we wait for the portal to

words, Orion suddenly

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the whole

eyes paused on a human standing at the

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

guys keep doing your thing. I was

for Ren, despite his words, no

air chilled even

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

"You…You're…"

pretended be Karl if that's what

Orion's sentence

also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did try to look for him

direction, Orion slowly stood

elders did the same as they all glared in Ren's direction, with undisguised

not understood how the whole situation had happened. The situation that led to the current

But now they did.

was all

elders into thinking that he was

himself as Karl and created this

thought caused the blood of some of the elders present to boil as their jaws

they had managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven

did they lose several important elders, but they were also forced to

development at all. In

city, but they also

Their rage was understandable.

stood up, all of the duergan elders focused their

Orion, who couldn't control himself and muttered out