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

"Huh?"

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

ran down his

off of Karl, Jomnuk took

staring at Karl, he muttered in a voice completely

Pui-!

head, Jomnuk spat towards the right

"Oh?"

his head and shrugged off the

looks like you still got some grit in

hair, Karl lifted his head up and stared at him in

hand

want you to say that again while looking at your face. Where are your

"..."

at Karl, Jomnuk

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

your head is my own creation, and what

Clank-!

locked the helmet

still in the development stages, I should be

Karl couldn't contain his

his latest inventions and had the ability to extract

been successfully kidnapped, he couldn't hold

that they would task

of looking through the memories of one of the greatest dwarven engineers ever excited

information to disable the defensive system,

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

-Ding!

moment he pressed onto the top button,the helmet

can't wait to extract all of those juicy

just about be done by

"Huh?"

and

Impossible! Your mana was supposed to be

direction, Karl took a

because Jomnuk, the dwarf that they were supposed to have

supposed to last at

Something was terribly wrong.

Jomnuk broke free from his restraints and took off the helmet from his head. 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, that Karl had no time to react before Jomnuk reached out his hand and grabbed him by

"Khh.."

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

struggled. To retaliate, to beg. But, Jomnuk's grip was far too strong. He

long, his eyes turned white

from Karl,

to make

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

Ren, who

Jomnuk he took a

"Huuu..."

time.Taking out his clothes, he quickly replaced them with

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

"Done."

Ren retracted his hand from Karl's

not channel his mana quite yet. He was currently low

Clank-!

into the chair, Ren put the helmet on his

standing not so far

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

"You done?"

"Yes."

she took her finger away from the small device in the

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

"Good," He smiled.

close attention, the moment Ren smiled, one could see

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

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