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.

fountain of blood sprayed all over the room as Karl stabbed Jomnuk in the

"Huh?"

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

ran down his

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk

voice completely lacking

Pui-!

spat towards the right side of

"Oh?"

shrugged off the

like you still got

lifted his head up

his right hand was the

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

"..."

looking at Karl,

attention towards the helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top of Jomnuk's face, Karl

is my own creation, and

Clank-!

helmet on Jomnuk's

your head. Although it is still in the development stages, I should be able to extract

he spoke, Karl couldn't

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

been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold

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

the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited

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

longer contain his excitement and pressed on the top button

-Ding!

the top

wait to extract all of those

should just about be done by

"Huh?"

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

Your mana was supposed to

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

that they were supposed to have

last at least

Something was terribly wrong.

Karl could figure anything out, Jomnuk broke 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

"Khh.."

was far too strong. It wasn't long

beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far too

long, his eyes turned white and

his attention away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

I've got to make this

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

Ren, who was considerably shorter than his

order to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a

"Huuu..."

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

he put the mask on Karl's face. What followed after was a subtle blue glow that enveloped the

"Done."

a while, Ren retracted his hand from

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

Clank-!

on his face and

not so far from Ren,

with her finger pressed on a small device that stood at the top

"You done?"

"Yes."

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

that's the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could see

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

he had, he knew that he couldn't have