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

"Haaa…haaa…"

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

Randur calmed down and

to say. Call me a traitor for all I care. At the

others, he calmly halted his steps

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

pointed at the people standing behind. More specifically, at

another room, and the portal needs a

and the others, Randur

time

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

understood his intentions,

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

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

it up before the attackers came. Therefore, the

frowned, the smile wiped away

already wasted too much time here waiting for you

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

nothing difficult, but that would only be applicable

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

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

"Okay."

before walking behind Orion

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

while we wait for the

Orion suddenly burst

"Hahah, That's all I—

"Pfttt…"

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

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

staring at everyone who was looking at him, the youth, Ren, realized his mistake and quickly shook

thing. You guys

Ren, despite his words, no one took away

very air chilled

pointing it in Ren's direction, Orion's mouth opened and closed like

"You…You're…"

be Karl if that's what you're trying to

Orion's sentence for

skin mask, so even if they

his direction, Orion

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

the whole time, they had not understood how the whole situation had happened.

But now they did.

all that human's

elders into thinking that he was one

had disguised himself as Karl and created this

mere thought caused the blood of some of the

Gervis, the strongest dwarven elder in the

lose several important elders, but they were also forced

pleased by the development at all. In fact, they were

they unable to conquer the city, but they also suffered

Their rage was understandable.

the duergan elders focused their attention on

couldn't control himself and muttered