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.

of blood sprayed all over the room as Karl stabbed

"Huh?"

a pained

ran down his

Karl, Jomnuk

and staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely lacking an ounce of fear, "Is that

Pui-!

his head, Jomnuk spat towards

"Oh?"

and shrugged off the

looks like you still got some grit

the hair, Karl lifted his head up

hand

that again while looking at your face. Where are your

"..."

looking at Karl, Jomnuk

helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top of Jomnuk's

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

Clank-!

helmet on Jomnuk's

in the development stages, I should be able to extract some

Karl couldn't contain

one of his latest inventions and had the

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

that they would task him with the job of

of one of the

information to disable the defensive system, all

longer contain his excitement and pressed on

-Ding!

pressed onto the top button,the helmet lit

I can't wait to extract all of those

about be

"Huh?"

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

Impossible! Your mana was supposed

Karl took a step

that they were supposed to have captured, started emitting mana from his

was supposed to last at least a

Something was terribly wrong.

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,

"Khh.."

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

But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He

eyes turned

attention away from Karl, Jomnuk clicked his

got to make this

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

Ren, who was considerably shorter than his real

as Jomnuk he took a potion that decreased his

"Huuu..."

out his clothes,

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

"Done."

Ren retracted his

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

Clank-!

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

so far from Ren,

room with her finger pressed on a small device that

"You done?"

"Yes."

as she took her finger away from the small device in the corner of the

tsk. Being so cold all the 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 still!' Ren cursed internally. Still, he had to give credit where it is

"Good," He smiled.

moment Ren smiled, one could

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

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