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.

fountain of blood sprayed all over the room as Karl stabbed

"Huh?"

should've been a pained and desperate

chill ran down

taking his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk

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

Pui-!

head, Jomnuk spat towards the right

"Oh?"

head and shrugged off the cowardice

still got some grit in

the hair, Karl lifted

hand

face. Where are your tough words from

"..."

looking at Karl,

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

head is my own

Clank-!

helmet on

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

spoke, Karl couldn't

latest inventions and had the ability to extract the memories of

had been

they would task him with the job of extracting his

of one of the greatest

actually care about the war nor for the information to disable the

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

-Ding!

he pressed onto the top button,the

wait to extract all

about

"Huh?"

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

Your mana was supposed to be

Jomnuk's direction, Karl took a step back. Fear and disbelief dyed his

were supposed to have captured, started emitting mana from

last

Something was terribly wrong.

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

"Khh.."

much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before

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

long, his eyes turned white

his attention away from Karl, Jomnuk

to make this

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

figure was none other than Ren, who was considerably

he took a potion that decreased

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced

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

"Done."

a while, Ren retracted his hand

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

Clank-!

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

not so far from Ren, was

her finger pressed on a small device that stood

"You done?"

"Yes."

finger away from the

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

"Good," He smiled.

moment Ren smiled, one

in the face, one might think that Karl was the one

of everything he had, he