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.

over the room as Karl stabbed Jomnuk in the

"Huh?"

to his expectations, in what should've been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met

ran down

Karl, Jomnuk took

in a voice

Pui-!

head, Jomnuk spat towards the

"Oh?"

his head and shrugged off the cowardice

you still got some grit in

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

hand was the helmet-like

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

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top of Jomnuk's

own creation, and what it does is something

Clank-!

the helmet on Jomnuk's

your head. Although it is still in the development stages, I should

spoke, Karl

latest inventions and had the ability to extract the memories of the subject put under

had been successfully kidnapped, he

knew that they would task him

of

about the war nor for the information to disable the defensive

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

-Ding!

onto the top

I can't wait to extract all of those juicy

should just about be done by

"Huh?"

Karl's shock and horror,a thin white hue

was

took a step back.

was because Jomnuk, the dwarf that they were supposed to have captured, started

supposed to last at least a

Something was terribly wrong.

unbefitting that of a dwarf as he reappeared right in front of Karl. His speed was

"Khh.."

struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too

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

eyes turned white and he

attention away from

got to make

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

figure was none other than Ren, who was

himself as Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased his

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out

mask on Karl's face. What followed

"Done."

a while, Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

his mana quite yet. He was currently low on mana, he needed to conserve some

Clank-!

into the chair, Ren put the helmet on his face and turned to

so far

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

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

to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you, but still!' Ren cursed internally. Still, he had

"Good," He smiled.

close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could see a

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

of everything he had, he knew that he couldn't