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 in

"Huh?"

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

ran

eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his

voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is

Pui-!

towards the right side of

"Oh?"

and shrugged

looks like you still got some

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

hand

while looking at your face. Where

"..."

at Karl, Jomnuk

in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on

device on your head is my own creation, and what

Clank-!

helmet

the development

spoke, Karl couldn't contain

was one of his latest inventions and had the ability to extract the memories of the subject put

since he heard that Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he

knew that they would task him with the

one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited

war nor for the information to disable the

contain his excitement and pressed on the top button of the

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the helmet

I can't wait to extract

just about be done

"Huh?"

and horror,a thin white

Your mana was supposed to

his hand toward Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step back.

the dwarf that they were supposed to have captured, started emitting

last at least a couple

Something was terribly wrong.

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 before Jomnuk reached out

"Khh.."

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 turned a deeper

Karl struggled. To retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far

eyes turned white and he passed

from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

to

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

Ren, who was considerably

order to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced them with

followed after

"Done."

Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

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

Clank-!

his face and turned to face the right

standing not so far from

finger pressed on

"You done?"

"Yes."

she took her finger away from

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 cursed internally.

"Good," He smiled.

Ren

was the one responsible for the missing tooth. But, in fact, the one responsible for it

the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he