The Author's POV

330 Inferno 1

Inside of a dark room, a loud slap echoed.

-Smack!

"Oy, wake up."

With a bald head, a white beard that was so long it felt like it hadn't been cut in months,and bluish-purple skin, a creature resembling a dwarf spoke in a hoarse tone.

"If yer don't wake up within a minute's time, I'll make you feel something worse than the previous smack."

A vicious aura revolved around the blue-colored dwarf as he looked in front of him. A frail old dwarf sat there.

Bald head, braided hair, and wrinkling face;the dwarf was none other than Jomnuk.

The only dwarf that knew the access code of the security system. At the moment, he had both eyes closed shut and his hands were strapped on top of a large metallic chair. He wore a one-piece grey clothing and all of his beard hair was unbraided.

Since artifacts were hard to identify, they decided to strip Jomnuk of everything.

Although his mana was sealed because of the poison, it was still best to remove all of the items that he was wearing.

-Smack!

The blue dwarf once again smacked Jomnuk in the head.

"Yer finally coming to your senses?"

This time, the blue dwarf finally managed to get a reaction. Jomnuk's eyes twitched slightly.

It wasn't long before he finally opened his eyes.

Upon opening his eyes and staring at the blue dwarf in front of him, a frightened and bewildered look appeared on Jomnuk's face.

"Huh? Where am I? What is going on?"

Moving his body, Jomnuk found that he was bound to the chair he seated.

"What the-?!'

"Haha, you finally came to your senses."

Taking pleasure in Jomnuk's struggle, The blue dwarf flashed a sadistic smile.

Hearing the blue dwarf's words, Jomnuk finally came to his senses. He looked at the duergar and asked in a worried tone, "W-Who are you?"

"Hehe, let me introduce myself..."

Plack! Plack!

Tapping onto something, the dark room was instantly lit up by bright white lights.

Once the lights turned on, Jomnuk was finally able to see his surroundings.

But upon witnessing what was inside of the room, a look of horror flashed in his eyes.

Because the whole room was one massive device connected to a helmet.

"Y-you're insane!"

Bam-!

Smacking onto the metal armrest of the chair,the blue dwarf leaned closer.

"My name is Karl Kullam and as you can probably tell, I am a Duergar."

Walking towards the back of the room and taking the helmet, Karl flashed an evil smile.

"Although I'm not exactly famous among you dwarves, amongst us Duergars, I'm extremely well known."

Walking back towards Jomnuk, he dangled the helmet in his face.

"If you want to die peacefully, tell us how we can access the main defensive systems. If you refuse to do so..."

-Spurt.

fountain of blood sprayed all over the room as Karl stabbed

"Huh?"

been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met

chill ran down his

of Karl, Jomnuk took note of

he muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is

Pui-!

towards the right side

"Oh?"

his head and shrugged

looks like you still got some

grabbing him by the hair, Karl lifted his head up

hand was

at your face. Where are

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

attention towards the helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on

head is my own creation, and what it does is

Clank-!

locked the helmet on Jomnuk's

help me extract the memories in your head. Although it is still in the development stages, I should be able to extract some information regarding the defensive barrier from

he spoke, Karl couldn't contain his

inventions and had the ability

since he heard that Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't

knew that they would task him with

of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited

to disable the defensive system, all he cared

no longer contain his excitement and pressed on the top button

-Ding!

the

I can't wait to extract

should just about

"Huh?"

shock and horror,a thin white hue

was supposed

a step

the dwarf that they were supposed to have captured, started

poison was supposed to last at

Something was terribly wrong.

head. Then, without wasting any time, he explosively shot towards Karl's direction. His speed was unbefitting that of a dwarf as he reappeared right in front of Karl. His speed was so fast, that Karl had no time to react

"Khh.."

much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already blue face

times Karl struggled. To retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's

long, his eyes turned white and he passed

his attention away from Karl,

to make

pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was

none other than Ren, who

disguise himself as Jomnuk he took

"Huuu..."

Ren didn't waste time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced them with

mask on Karl's face. What followed after was a subtle blue glow that enveloped the

"Done."

retracted

channel his mana quite yet. He

Clank-!

put the helmet on his

not so far from

in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small device that stood at the top

"You done?"

"Yes."

she took her finger away from the small device in the corner of

Being so cold all the time, who knows if that's the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you, but still!' Ren cursed internally. Still, he had to give

"Good," He smiled.

moment Ren smiled, one could see a missing

face, one might think that Karl was the one responsible for the

the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he