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.

blood sprayed all over the room as Karl

"Huh?"

been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met with two

chill ran down

eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his injured

up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that all

Pui-!

spat towards

"Oh?"

shook his head and shrugged off the cowardice in

like you still

him by the hair, Karl lifted his

hand

say that again while looking at your face.

"..."

Karl,

in his hand. Raising his hand

head is my own creation, and what it does is something

Clank-!

locked the helmet on Jomnuk's

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

Karl couldn't contain

and had the ability to extract the

since he heard that Jomnuk had been

task him with

of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl to

care about the war nor for the information to disable the defensive system, all he cared about

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

-Ding!

he pressed onto the top button,the helmet

to extract all of those

should just about

"Huh?"

Karl's shock and horror,a

Your mana was supposed to

his hand toward Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step back. Fear and disbelief

supposed to have captured, started emitting

last at least

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

in the air. No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was

retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He couldn't

his eyes turned white and

his attention away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked

got to make

a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was a youth with black

who was

to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes,

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

"Done."

while, Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

channel his mana quite yet. He was currently low on

Clank-!

helmet on his face and turned to face the right side

far from

room with her finger

"You done?"

"Yes."

her finger away from

knows if that's the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I

"Good," He smiled.

someone paid close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could see

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

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