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

"Huh?"

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

chill ran down

eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his injured

muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that all

Pui-!

spat towards the right

"Oh?"

head and shrugged off

still

hair, Karl lifted his head

right hand was the

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

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

his hand. Raising his

head is my own

Clank-!

helmet on Jomnuk's

still in the

spoke, Karl couldn't

had the ability to extract the memories of the subject put under

Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold

knew that they would task him with

of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl to

to disable

longer contain his excitement and pressed

-Ding!

onto the top button,the helmet lit

I can't wait to extract all

should just about

"Huh?"

head, to Karl's shock and

was supposed to

a step back. Fear

supposed to

was supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

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.

"Khh.."

was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already blue face turned

But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He couldn't speak at

eyes turned white and

away from

I've got to make this

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

none other than Ren, who was

Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased his

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced them

on Karl's face. What followed after

"Done."

a while, Ren retracted his hand

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

Clank-!

on his

so far

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

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

might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you, but still!' Ren cursed internally. Still, he had to give credit where

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren

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

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