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.

of blood sprayed all over the room

"Huh?"

a pained and desperate scream, Karl was

chill ran down his

off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his

looking up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that all you've

Pui-!

towards the right side of

"Oh?"

and shrugged off the cowardice

looks like you still got some grit

by the hair, Karl lifted his head up

hand

face. Where are your tough words

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk did

attention towards the helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and

see…the device on your head is my own creation,

Clank-!

locked the helmet on Jomnuk's

still in the development stages, I should be able to extract some

spoke, Karl couldn't contain his

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

Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped,

was because he knew that they would task him with the job of extracting

of the

didn't actually care about the war nor for the information to disable the defensive

his excitement and

-Ding!

the top button,the helmet

to extract all

about be done by

"Huh?"

shock and horror,a thin white

mana was

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

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

to last at least a

Something was terribly wrong.

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 his hand and grabbed him by

"Khh.."

he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too

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

long, his eyes turned white and he passed

from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

to

face, Jomnuk grabbed at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped

who was considerably shorter than his

he took a potion that decreased

"Huuu..."

loud, Ren didn't waste time.Taking out his

What followed after was a

"Done."

Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

face, Ren did not channel his mana quite yet. He was currently low on mana,

Clank-!

on his face and turned to face the

far

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

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

secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you, but

"Good," He smiled.

the moment Ren

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

knew that the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he knew that he couldn't have