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 stabbed

"Huh?"

pained and desperate

chill ran down his

eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took

voice completely lacking an ounce

Pui-!

towards the right side of the

"Oh?"

head and shrugged off the cowardice

you still got some grit

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

his right hand was

you to say that again while looking at your face. Where are your tough words from before?

"..."

looking at Karl,

his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on

own creation, and what it

Clank-!

the helmet on

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

spoke, Karl

his latest inventions and had the ability

heard that Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he

he knew that they would task him with the job

the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever

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

his excitement and pressed on the top button of

-Ding!

the top

to extract

about

"Huh?"

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

Impossible! Your mana was supposed to

Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step

the dwarf that they were supposed to have captured,

supposed to last at least

Something was terribly wrong.

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 Karl. His speed was so

"Khh.."

much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too

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

turned

attention away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

to

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

other than Ren, who was considerably shorter than

Jomnuk he took a

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes,

followed after

"Done."

Ren retracted his hand

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

Clank-!

put the helmet on his face and turned to face the right

not so far from Ren, was

finger pressed on a small device that stood at the

"You done?"

"Yes."

took her finger away from the small

the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you,

"Good," He smiled.

paid close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one

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

the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he knew that he couldn't