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.

sprayed all over the room as

"Huh?"

contrary to his expectations, in what should've been a pained and desperate scream, Karl

chill ran down

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note

at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an

Pui-!

Jomnuk spat towards

"Oh?"

his head and shrugged off the

like you still got some

hair, Karl lifted his head up

his right hand was the

face. Where are your tough

"..."

at Karl, Jomnuk did

device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device

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

Clank-!

helmet on Jomnuk's

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

he spoke, Karl couldn't contain

had the ability to extract the memories of the subject

that Jomnuk had been successfully

knew that they would task him with

looking through the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever

for the information to disable the defensive system, all he

could no longer contain his excitement and

-Ding!

pressed onto the top button,the

to extract all

just about be

"Huh?"

to Karl's shock and horror,a

Your mana was supposed to be

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

dwarf that they were supposed to

last at least a

Something was terribly wrong.

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 his hand and grabbed

"Khh.."

then lifted 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 blue face turned a

But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He couldn't

long, his eyes turned white and he

away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

to make

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

who

he took

"Huuu..."

waste time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced them

the mask on Karl's face. What followed after was

"Done."

a 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

Clank-!

into the chair, Ren put the helmet on his face and turned

far

stood in the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a small

"You done?"

"Yes."

finger away from the small device

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

"Good," He smiled.

the moment Ren smiled, one could see a missing

fact that Ren had been slapped in the face, one might think that Karl was the one responsible for the missing tooth. But, in fact, the

of everything he