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?"

what should've been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met with two cold, emotionless

ran down his

his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took

looking up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an

Pui-!

his head, Jomnuk spat towards

"Oh?"

shrugged

still

him by the hair, Karl lifted his head up

his right hand was the

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

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk did not

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

on your head is my own creation,

Clank-!

locked the helmet

still in the development stages, I

spoke, Karl couldn't contain

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

been

they would task him with the job of extracting

the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever

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

his excitement and pressed on the

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the

wait to extract all of those

about

"Huh?"

to Karl's shock and horror,a thin

Your mana was supposed to

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

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

poison was supposed to last at least a couple

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

the air. No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far

But, Jomnuk's grip was far

eyes turned

attention away from Karl, Jomnuk

to make

hand on his face, Jomnuk grabbed at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid

other than Ren, who was considerably

disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased his

"Huuu..."

out his clothes, he quickly replaced

put the mask on Karl's face. What followed after was a subtle

"Done."

retracted his

the mask on his face, Ren did not channel his mana quite yet. He

Clank-!

put the helmet on his face and

not so far from Ren,

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

took her finger away from the small device in the

little warmer might not

"Good," He smiled.

the moment Ren smiled, one could see a missing

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

knew that the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he knew that