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

"Huh?"

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

ran down his

eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his injured

a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear,

Pui-!

spat towards the right

"Oh?"

shook his head and shrugged off the cowardice in

looks like you still got some grit in

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

right hand was the

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

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

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

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

Clank-!

helmet

the development

he spoke, Karl couldn't contain

the ability to extract the

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

that they would task him with

through the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited

the war nor for the information to disable the defensive system, all he cared about was

together, Karl could no longer contain his excitement and

-Ding!

pressed onto the

wait to extract all of those juicy

about

"Huh?"

his head, to Karl's shock and horror,a

Your mana was

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

supposed to have

supposed to last at least

Something was terribly wrong.

anything out, Jomnuk broke free from his restraints and took off the 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 speed was so fast, that Karl had no time to react

"Khh.."

much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too

to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was

long, his eyes turned white and he passed

his attention away from Karl,

to

his hand on his face, Jomnuk grabbed at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was a youth

than Ren, who was considerably

Jomnuk he took

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out

that, he put the mask on Karl's face. What followed after

"Done."

while, Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

his mana quite yet. He was currently low

Clank-!

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

not so far from

was pale, she stood in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on

"You done?"

"Yes."

as she took her finger away from the small

skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you

"Good," He smiled.

the moment Ren smiled, one could see

the fact that Ren had been slapped in the face, one might think that Karl was the one

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