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.

the room as Karl stabbed Jomnuk in

"Huh?"

pained and desperate scream, Karl

ran

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk

voice completely

Pui-!

head, Jomnuk spat towards the right side of

"Oh?"

shrugged off

looks like you still got some grit

hair, Karl lifted his head up and

right hand

your face. Where are your tough words

"..."

at Karl,

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

own creation, and what it does

Clank-!

locked the helmet

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

he spoke, Karl

of his latest inventions and had the ability

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

would task him with the job of extracting his

prospect of looking through the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl

actually care about the war nor for the information to

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

-Ding!

the

to extract all of

about be

"Huh?"

shock and horror,a

was supposed

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

because Jomnuk, the dwarf that they were supposed

was supposed to last at

Something was terribly wrong.

head. Then, without wasting any time, he explosively shot towards Karl's direction. His speed was unbefitting that of a dwarf as he

"Khh.."

lifted Karl in the air. No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already blue face

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

long, his eyes turned white and

away from

to

it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath,

was none other than Ren, who was considerably shorter

disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased his

"Huuu..."

Ren didn't waste time.Taking out

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

"Done."

a while, Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

on his face, Ren did not channel his mana quite yet. He was currently

Clank-!

Ren put the helmet on his face and

far from

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

back as she took her finger away from the small device in the corner

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

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could

in the face, one might think that Karl was the

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