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

"Haaa…haaa…"

Randur panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured

a deep breath, Randur calmed down and looked at everyone

thinking about me from now on. I've already said what I wanted to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the

Orion and the others, he calmly halted his steps in front of

palm of his hand on the table and leaning forward, he muttered, "Have I proven myself enough? I've killed

standing opposite him, Orion pointed at the people standing

locked in another room, and the portal needs a few seconds to set

at Douglas and

much time do

to do. He

that Randur had perfectly understood his intentions, Orion

should be able to bring you to Jomnuk within

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

before the attackers came. Therefore, the time they needed to waste was a

the smile wiped

wasted too much time here waiting for you to get rid of

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

nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable under

but given the current circumstances where both sides had extremely powerful individuals ready to fight at any moment, a minute was

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

"Okay."

walking behind Orion and the other

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

guys buy time while we wait for the portal to

Orion suddenly burst out

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

sound of a subtle laugh that quietly sounded throughout the

everyone's eyes paused on a human

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

don't mind me. I'm just doing my thing. You guys keep doing your thing. I was just thinking of

despite his words, no one took away their attention

air chilled

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

"You…You're…"

pretended be Karl if

finished Orion's

and he was also wearing a skin mask, so even if they did

his direction, Orion

elders did the same

the whole time, they had not understood

But now they did.

all that human's

elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of

them had disguised himself as Karl and created this whole

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

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

also forced to retreat from the war

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

the city, but they also

Their rage was understandable.

they stood up, all of the duergan

Orion, who couldn't control himself and