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.

over the

"Huh?"

expectations, in what should've been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was

chill ran down

Karl, Jomnuk took note of his

he muttered in a voice completely lacking an

Pui-!

towards the right side

"Oh?"

head and shrugged off the

looks like you still got some grit in

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

hand was the

to say that again while looking at your face. Where are your tough

"..."

at Karl,

hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top of Jomnuk's

my own creation, and what it

Clank-!

locked the helmet on

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

he spoke, Karl couldn't

was one of his latest inventions and had the ability to extract the memories of the

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

task him with the job of extracting his

of one of the greatest dwarven engineers

information to disable

together, Karl could no longer contain his excitement and pressed on the

-Ding!

he pressed onto the top button,the helmet lit

can't wait to extract all of those juicy

just about

"Huh?"

Karl's shock and horror,a thin white hue enveloped Jomnuk's

mana was supposed

direction, Karl took a step back. Fear and disbelief

dwarf that they were supposed

to last at least

Something was terribly wrong.

the helmet from his head. Then, without wasting any time, he explosively shot towards Karl's direction. His speed was unbefitting

"Khh.."

Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already blue face turned a deeper

But, Jomnuk's grip was far

long, his eyes turned white and

away from Karl, Jomnuk

to

it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was a youth with black hair and blue

than Ren, who was considerably shorter

as Jomnuk he took

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes, he

Karl's face. What followed after was a

"Done."

retracted his hand from Karl's

mana quite yet. He was currently low on mana, he needed

Clank-!

his face and turned to

so far from Ren, was

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

her finger away from the small

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

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren smiled,

been slapped in the face, one might think that Karl was the one responsible for the missing tooth. But, in fact, the one

Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he