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

"Huh?"

a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met with two

chill ran

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note

a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear,

Pui-!

his head, Jomnuk spat towards

"Oh?"

and shrugged off

still got some grit in

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

his right hand was the helmet-like

your face. Where are your tough words from before?

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

the helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving

is my own creation, and what it does is something

Clank-!

the helmet on Jomnuk's

in your head. Although it is still in the

Karl

was one of his latest inventions and had the ability to

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

would task him with the

memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl to

war nor for the information to disable

no longer contain his excitement and

-Ding!

the top button,the helmet lit

to extract all of those juicy

about

"Huh?"

Karl's shock and horror,a

Impossible! Your mana was supposed to be

Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step back. Fear and

supposed to have captured, started

to last at least

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

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

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

turned white and he passed

attention away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked

got to make

In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath,

than Ren, who was

as Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased his

"Huuu..."

out loud, Ren didn't waste time.Taking out his clothes,

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

"Done."

retracted

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

Clank-!

put the helmet on his face

standing not so far from

stood in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small device

"You done?"

"Yes."

back as she took her finger away

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 I annoyed you, but still!' Ren

"Good," He smiled.

Ren smiled, one could see a missing

think that Karl was the one responsible for the missing

everything he had, he knew that he couldn't have Angelica turn