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

"Huh?"

been a pained and desperate scream, Karl was met with

chill ran down

of Karl, Jomnuk took note of

up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that all you've

Pui-!

his head, Jomnuk spat towards the right side of the

"Oh?"

head and shrugged off the

still got

by the hair, Karl lifted his head up and stared

his right hand was the helmet-like

to say that again while looking at your face. Where are your tough words from before? Lost

"..."

at Karl, Jomnuk

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

on your head is my own creation, and what it does is something

Clank-!

the helmet

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

Karl couldn't contain his

had the ability to extract the memories of the subject put

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

he knew that they would task him with the job of

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

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

could no longer contain his

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the helmet lit

to extract all of

about be done by

"Huh?"

and horror,a thin

Your mana was supposed to be

Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step back. Fear

supposed to have

poison was supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

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

Jomnuk's grip was far too

eyes turned white

from Karl, Jomnuk

to make

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

figure was none other than Ren, who was considerably shorter

order to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion that

"Huuu..."

out his clothes, he quickly replaced

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

"Done."

Ren retracted his

did not channel his mana quite yet.

Clank-!

chair, Ren put the helmet on his face and turned to face the right side of the

standing not so far from Ren, was

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

away from the small device in the corner

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

"Good," He smiled.

attention, the moment Ren smiled,

think that Karl was the one responsible for

strip him of everything he had, he knew that he couldn't have Angelica