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

"Huh?"

to his expectations, in what should've been a pained and desperate scream,

ran down

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk

up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking

Pui-!

towards the right side of the

"Oh?"

shook his head and shrugged off the cowardice in

looks like you still got some grit in

Jomnuk and grabbing him by the hair, Karl lifted his head up and stared at him

his right hand was the

while looking at your face. Where

"..."

Karl,

his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top

your head is my own creation, and

Clank-!

helmet on

help me extract the memories in your head. Although it is still in the development stages, I should be able to extract

spoke, Karl couldn't contain

his latest inventions and had the ability to extract

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

they would task him with the job of

of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited

war nor for the information to disable the

his

-Ding!

onto the top button,the helmet lit

extract all of

should just about

"Huh?"

to Karl's shock and horror,a thin white hue

Your mana was supposed to be

Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step back.

supposed to have captured, started emitting mana from

poison was supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

Karl could figure anything out, Jomnuk broke free from his restraints and took off the helmet from his 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

"Khh.."

he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't

Karl struggled. To retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far too

turned white

away from Karl, Jomnuk

to make this

a fluid

figure was none other than Ren, who was considerably shorter than

Jomnuk he took

"Huuu..."

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

followed after

"Done."

Ren retracted his

did not channel his mana quite yet. He

Clank-!

Ren put the helmet on his face and turned to

not so far from Ren, was

complexion was pale, she stood in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small

"You done?"

"Yes."

her finger away from the small device

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

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren

slapped in the face, one might think that Karl was

would strip him of everything he had, he knew that he couldn't have Angelica turn into a