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

"Huh?"

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

chill ran down

his eyes off of Karl, Jomnuk took note of

voice completely lacking

Pui-!

spat towards the

"Oh?"

shrugged

still got some

lifted his

right hand

looking at your face. Where are your tough words from

"..."

Karl, Jomnuk

Karl turned 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

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

Clank-!

locked the helmet

the memories in your head. Although it is still in the

he spoke, Karl

had the ability to extract the memories of the subject put

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

was because he knew that they would task him with the

of looking through the memories of one of

to

Karl could no longer contain his excitement and

-Ding!

he pressed onto the

to extract

about be

"Huh?"

his head, to Karl's shock and horror,a thin

mana was supposed to be

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

was because Jomnuk, the dwarf that they were supposed to

supposed to last at least a

Something was terribly wrong.

direction. His speed was unbefitting that of a dwarf as he reappeared right in

"Khh.."

No matter how much he struggled, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. It wasn't long before Karl's already blue

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

eyes turned white and he

attention away from

got to

forcefully. In a fluid motion, Jomnuk's face ripped apart. Underneath, was a youth with

who was considerably shorter than his real

to disguise himself as Jomnuk he took a potion that

"Huuu..."

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

that, he put the mask on Karl's face. What followed after was a

"Done."

retracted

the mask on his face, Ren did not channel his mana quite yet.

Clank-!

his face and turned to face the

so far from

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

away

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

"Good," He smiled.

moment Ren smiled,

face, one might think that Karl was the one responsible for

the Duergars would strip him of everything he had, he