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.

blood sprayed all over the room as Karl

"Huh?"

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

ran

his eyes off of Karl,

Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an

Pui-!

head, Jomnuk spat towards the right

"Oh?"

shook his head and shrugged off the

like you still got some grit

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

hand

face. Where are your tough

"..."

at Karl, Jomnuk did not

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

my own creation,

Clank-!

helmet on Jomnuk's

helmet will help me extract the memories in your head. Although it is still in the development stages,

he spoke, Karl couldn't contain

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

Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold

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

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

the information to disable

hands together, Karl could no longer contain his excitement and pressed on the top button

-Ding!

he pressed onto the top button,the helmet lit

to extract all of those juicy

just about be done by

"Huh?"

his head, to Karl's shock and horror,a thin white hue enveloped

Impossible! Your mana was supposed to be

direction, Karl took a step back. Fear and disbelief dyed his

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

supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

then lifted Karl in the air. No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too

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

eyes turned white and he

his attention away from Karl, Jomnuk

to make

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

none other than Ren, who was considerably shorter than

himself as Jomnuk he took

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out

the mask on Karl's face. What followed

"Done."

while, Ren retracted his hand

did not channel his mana quite yet. He was currently low on mana, he needed to conserve

Clank-!

on his face and turned

so far

in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small device that stood at the top left corner

"You done?"

"Yes."

she took her finger away from the small device in

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

"Good," He smiled.

close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could see a missing

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

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