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.

over the room as Karl stabbed Jomnuk

"Huh?"

pained and desperate scream, Karl

ran

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of

looking up and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear,

Pui-!

spat towards the right

"Oh?"

shook his head and shrugged off the cowardice

still got some grit in

Karl lifted

hand was the helmet-like

while looking at your face. Where are

"..."

Karl, Jomnuk

turned his attention towards the helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the

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

Clank-!

helmet

help me extract the memories in your head. Although it is still in the development stages, I should be able to extract some information regarding the

he spoke, Karl

device was one of his latest inventions and had the

had been successfully kidnapped,

he knew that they would task

of looking through the memories of one of

the war nor for the information to disable

no longer contain his excitement and pressed on

-Ding!

pressed onto the top

extract all

should just about be

"Huh?"

Karl's shock and horror,a thin white

mana was supposed

took a

they were supposed to

last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

towards Karl's direction. His speed was unbefitting that of a dwarf as he reappeared right in front of Karl.

"Khh.."

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

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

turned

his attention away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

to make this

pulled forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's

was none other than Ren, who was considerably shorter than his real

he took

"Huuu..."

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

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

"Done."

a while, Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

quite yet. He was

Clank-!

put the helmet on his face and turned to

not so far from Ren, was

room with her finger pressed on a small device that stood at

"You done?"

"Yes."

as she took her finger away from the small

not hurt, you

"Good," He smiled.

paid close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could see

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

that the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he knew that he couldn't have Angelica turn into