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.

the room as Karl stabbed Jomnuk in the

"Huh?"

in what should've been a pained and

chill ran down his

off of Karl, Jomnuk

up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice

Pui-!

towards the

"Oh?"

head and shrugged off the cowardice

like you still got some grit in

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

right hand

face. Where are your tough words from

"..."

looking at Karl,

his hand and shoving

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

Clank-!

helmet on Jomnuk's

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

spoke, Karl couldn't contain his

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

Jomnuk had been successfully kidnapped,

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

memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited Karl to no

nor for the information to disable the defensive system, all he cared about was Jomnuk's

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

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the helmet

extract all of those

just about be done by

"Huh?"

shock and horror,a thin

mana was supposed to be

took a step back. Fear

were supposed to have captured,

supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It

to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He couldn't speak at

eyes turned white and

away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

to make

at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was a youth

Ren, who was considerably shorter than his

himself as Jomnuk he

"Huuu..."

didn't waste time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly

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

"Done."

Ren retracted his hand

did not channel his mana quite yet. He was currently low

Clank-!

chair, Ren put the helmet on his face

so far

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

finger away from the small

time, who knows if that's the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you, but

"Good," He smiled.

paid close attention, the moment Ren smiled,

that Karl was the one responsible for the missing tooth. But, in fact, the one responsible for it was

strip him of everything he