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

"Huh?"

pained and desperate scream, Karl was met with

ran

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took

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

Pui-!

towards

"Oh?"

shrugged off the cowardice

still

by the hair, Karl lifted his head up and

his right hand was the helmet-like

looking at your face. Where are your tough words

"..."

at Karl, Jomnuk

hand. Raising his hand and

own creation, and what it does

Clank-!

helmet on

is still in the development stages, I should be able to extract some information regarding the

he spoke, Karl couldn't contain his

the ability to extract the memories of the subject put under

had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold

knew that they would task him

of looking through the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl to no

information to disable

could no longer contain his excitement and pressed

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the helmet

I can't wait to extract

should just about

"Huh?"

shock and horror,a thin

Your mana was supposed

direction, Karl took a step back.

they were supposed to have captured, started emitting

was supposed to last

Something was terribly wrong.

was unbefitting that of a

"Khh.."

air. No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It

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

turned white

from

I've got to

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

figure was none other than Ren, who was considerably

order to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion

"Huuu..."

out his clothes, he

put the mask on Karl's face. What followed after was

"Done."

while, Ren retracted his hand from

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

Clank-!

the helmet on his face

not so far from Ren,

with her finger pressed on a small device that stood

"You done?"

"Yes."

back as she took her finger away from the small

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 smiled, one could see a missing

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

knew that the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he