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.

the room as Karl

"Huh?"

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

ran down his

of Karl, Jomnuk took note of his

in a voice completely lacking an

Pui-!

towards the right

"Oh?"

and shrugged

looks like you still got

Karl lifted his

his right hand

while looking at your face. Where are your tough words from before? Lost

"..."

Karl,

his attention towards the helmet-like device in his hand. Raising his hand and shoving the device on top of Jomnuk's face, Karl spoke

on your head is my own creation, and what

Clank-!

locked the helmet on Jomnuk's

still in the development stages, I should be able to extract some information regarding the defensive

spoke, Karl couldn't contain his

had the ability to extract the memories

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

would task him with the job of

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

nor for the information to disable the defensive

no longer contain his excitement and pressed

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the helmet

can't wait to extract

about be

"Huh?"

to Karl's shock and

Impossible! Your mana was

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

were supposed

supposed to last at least a couple of

Something was terribly wrong.

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, that Karl had no

"Khh.."

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

But, Jomnuk's

his eyes turned white

from Karl, Jomnuk

to make

face, Jomnuk grabbed at it and pulled forcefully. In a fluid

than Ren, who was considerably shorter

as Jomnuk he took a potion that

"Huuu..."

out his clothes,

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

"Done."

Ren retracted his hand

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

Clank-!

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

far from Ren,

the corner of the room with her finger pressed on a

"You done?"

"Yes."

as she took her finger away from the small

that's the secret to your skin. Getting a little warmer might not hurt, you know. I know I annoyed you,

"Good," He smiled.

paid close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one

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

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