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.

all over the room as Karl stabbed Jomnuk in the

"Huh?"

his expectations, in what should've been a pained and desperate scream,

chill ran down his

his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his injured

voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that all you've

Pui-!

Jomnuk spat towards the right side of the

"Oh?"

shrugged off the cowardice in

still got some grit

Jomnuk and grabbing him by the hair, Karl lifted his head

his right hand was

that again while looking at your face. Where

"..."

Karl, Jomnuk did not

Raising his hand and shoving the device

see…the device on your head is my own creation, and what it does

Clank-!

locked the helmet on Jomnuk's

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

spoke, Karl couldn't contain

had the

that Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't

that they would task him with the job of extracting his

of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl to

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

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

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the

can't wait to extract

should just about be done

"Huh?"

to Karl's shock and horror,a thin

was supposed to be

hand toward Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a

were supposed to

poison was supposed to last at least a couple

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already

times Karl struggled. To retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He couldn't speak at

long, his eyes turned white and

away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked

to

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

Ren, who was considerably

Jomnuk he took a potion

"Huuu..."

Ren didn't waste time.Taking out

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

"Done."

while, Ren retracted his

his mana quite yet. He was currently low on

Clank-!

his face and turned

not so far from Ren, was

her complexion was pale, she stood in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small device

"You done?"

"Yes."

away from the small

so 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,

"Good," He smiled.

Ren smiled, one could

might think that Karl was the one

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