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

"Huh?"

should've been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met with

chill ran down

off of Karl, Jomnuk

in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that all

Pui-!

his head, Jomnuk spat towards the right side of

"Oh?"

shook his head and shrugged off the cowardice in

still got some grit

and grabbing him by the hair, Karl lifted his head

hand

at your face. Where

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

his hand and shoving the device on top of Jomnuk's face, Karl

is my own creation, and

Clank-!

the helmet on

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

spoke, Karl couldn't contain his

of his latest inventions and had the ability

heard that Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold

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

of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever

to disable the defensive system, all he cared about was Jomnuk's

Karl could no longer contain his excitement and pressed on the top

-Ding!

pressed onto the

I can't wait to extract all of those

about be

"Huh?"

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

was supposed

took a step back. Fear

Jomnuk, the dwarf that they were supposed to have

supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

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 right in front of Karl. His speed was so fast, that Karl had no time to react before Jomnuk reached out

"Khh.."

Karl in the air. No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already

To retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip

his eyes turned white and

from Karl, Jomnuk

got to

his hand on his face, Jomnuk grabbed at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was a

was none other than Ren, who was considerably

order to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a

"Huuu..."

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

face. What followed

"Done."

while, Ren retracted his hand

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

Clank-!

the helmet on his face and turned to face the right side

far

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

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

little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you,

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren smiled,

was

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