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.

was merely deceiving himself when he said that they would've been able to win the war with Jomnuk. It was far

"Haaa…haaa…"

panting heavily resounded across the hall as he poured all of his resentment on the

deep breath, Randur calmed down

from now on. I've already said what I wanted to

the others, he calmly halted his steps

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

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

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

and staring at Douglas and

time

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

had perfectly understood his

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

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

it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the time

smile

here waiting for you to get

said, "One minute. All I want you to do is help me stall them for one minute. Can

it sound like he was asking for nothing

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

It sounded simple, yet it

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion and the other

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

guys buy time while we

Orion

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

their attention towards where the sound came from, everyone's eyes paused on a human standing at the end of

everyone who was looking at him, the youth,

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

for Ren, despite his words, no

air chilled

Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and

"You…You're…"

Karl if that's what you're trying to

finished Orion's sentence for

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

his direction,

same as they all

not understood how

But now they did.

all that

tricking the elders into thinking that he was one of them, none of this

had disguised himself as Karl and created this

the blood of some of the elders present to boil as

managed to kill Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in the

were also forced to retreat from the war because

the development at

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

Their rage was understandable.

up, all of the

who couldn't control himself